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for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers; yea, for all the joyous houses in the joyful city.

For the palace will be forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust for ever.

O LORD, be gracious to us; we wait for thee. Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble.

The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness;

The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases. Covenants are broken, witnesses are despised, there is no regard for man.

But there the LORD in majesty will be for us a place of broad rivers and streams, where no galley with oars can go, nor stately ship can pass.

For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our ruler, the LORD is our king; he will save us.

For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host, he has doomed them, has given them over for slaughter.

For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have doomed.

The LORD has a sword; it is sated with blood, it is gorged with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up for ever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.

And wild beasts shall meet with hyenas, the satyr shall cry to his fellow; yea, there shall the night hag alight, and find for herself a resting place.

Seek and read from the book of the LORD: Not one of these shall be missing; none shall be without her mate. For the mouth of the LORD has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

He has cast the lot for them, his hand has portioned it out to them with the line; they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.

then shall the lame man leap like a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing for joy. For waters shall break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert;

Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? On whom do you now rely, that you have rebelled against me?

How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when you rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?