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But if you refuse and rebel,You will be eaten by the sword."For the mouth of Yahweh has spoken.

Your rulers are rebelsAnd companions of thieves;Everyone loves a bribeAnd pursues rewards.They do not execute justice for the orphan,Nor does the widow's plea come before them.

For you will be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired,And you will be humiliated because of the gardens which you have chosen.

For you will be like an oak whose leaf withers awayOr as a garden that has no water.

And many peoples will come and say,"Come, let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh,To the house of the God of Jacob,That He may instruct us from His waysAnd that we may walk in His paths."For from Zion the law will go forthAnd the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.

And He will judge between the nations,And will render decisions for many peoples;And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.Nation will not lift up sword against nation,And never again will they learn war.

For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob,Because they are filled with influences from the east,And they are soothsayers like the Philistines,And they strike bargains with the children of foreigners.

For Yahweh of hosts will have a day of reckoningAgainst everyone who is proud and highAnd against everyone who is lifted up,That he may be made low.

In that day men will cast away to the moles and the batsTheir idols of silver and their idols of gold,Which they made for themselves to worship,

Stop regarding man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils;For why should he be esteemed?

For behold, the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, is going to remove from Jerusalem and JudahBoth supply and support, the whole supply of breadAnd the whole supply of water,

He will protest on that day, saying,"I will not be your healer,For in my house there is neither bread nor cloak;You should not appoint me ruler of the people."

For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen,Because their tongue and their deeds are against Yahweh,To rebel against His glorious presence.

The expression of their faces answers against them,And they declare their sin like Sodom;They do not even conceal it.Woe to their soul!For they have dealt out evil on themselves.

Say to the righteous that it will go well with them,For they will eat the fruit of their deeds.

Woe to the wicked! It will go badly with him,For what he has dealt out will be done to him.

It will be that he who remains in Zion and is left in Jerusalem will be called holy—everyone who is written down for life in Jerusalem.

then Yahweh will create over the whole area of Mount Zion and over her convocation a cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy.

Let me sing now for my well‑belovedA song of my beloved concerning His vineyard.My well‑beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill.

He dug it all around, removed its stones,And planted it with the choicest vine.And He built a tower in the middle of itAnd also hewed out a wine vat in it;Then He hoped for it to produce good grapes,But it produced only worthless ones.