Study Desk

For Jehovah is our judge; Jehovah is our lawgiver; Jehovah is our king; He will save us.

For the wrath of Jehovah is on all the nations, and fury on all their army; He has devoted them; He gave them to slaughter.

For My sword is drenched in the heavens. Behold, it shall come down on Edom, and on the people of My curse, for judgment.

A sword is to Jehovah; it is filled with blood; it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For Jehovah has a sacrificein Bozrah, and a great slaughter in theland of Edom.

For the day of vengeance is to Jehovah, the year of repayments for Zion's cause.

And thorns shall grow in her palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it shall be a home for jackals, a court for daughters of ostriches.

The desert creatures shall also meet with the howlers; and the shaggy goat shall cry to his fellow. The screech owl shall also settle there, and find a place of rest for herself.

Search and read from the Book of Jehovah; not one of these misses, each not lacking her mate; for He has commanded my mouth, and by His Spirit He has assembled them.

And He has made fall a lot for them, and His hand divided it to them by line. They shall possess it until forever, from generation to generation they shall live in it.

The wilderness and dry land shall rejoice for them; and the desert shall exult and bloom like the crocus.

Then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing. For waters shall break out in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.

And the mirage shall become a pool, and the thirsty land shall become springs of waters, in the home of jackals, in its lair, and a place for the reed and rush.

And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called, The Way of Holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it. And it is for them, the one going in the way; yea, fools shall not go astray.

I say, Are only words of the lips counsel and strength for war? Now, in whom have you trusted that you rebelled against me?

Now, then, please exchange pledges with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to set riders on them for you.

How then will you turn away the face of one commander of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariotry and horsemen?

And Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to the chief of the cupbearers, Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we hear. But do not speak to us in Judean, in the ears of the people on the wall.

So says the king, Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to save you.

Do not listen to Hezekiah. For the king of Assyria says this, Make peace with me and come out to me. Then let each eat of his own vine, and each of his own fig tree, and each drink the waters of his own well,

But they were silent, and did not answer him a word; for this was the king's order, saying, Do not answer him.