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Your dead will live;Their corpses will rise.You who dwell in the dust, awake and shout for joy,For your dew is as the dew of the dawn,And the earth will give birth to the departed spirits.

Come, my people, enter into your roomsAnd close your doors behind you;Hide for a little whileUntil indignation passes by.

For behold, Yahweh is about to come out from His placeTo visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth;And the earth will reveal her bloodshedAnd will no longer cover those of hers who were killed.

Therefore through this, Jacob's iniquity will be atoned for;And this will be the whole fruit of the turning away of his sin:When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones,When Asherim and incense altars will not stand.

For the fortified city is isolated,A haunt forlorn and forsaken like the desert;There the calf will graze,And there it will lie down and feed on its twigs.

When its limbs are dry, they are broken off;Women come and light a fire with them,For they are not a people of discernment,Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them.And their Creator will not be gracious to them.

A spirit of just judgment for him who sits in judgment,A might to those who turn back the onslaught at the gate.

For all the tables are full of filthy vomit, without a single clean place.

For He says,‘Order on order, order on order,Line on line, line on line,A little here, a little there.'"

Because you have said, "We have cut a covenant with death,And with Sheol we have made a pact.The overflowing scourge will not reach us when it passes by,For we have made falsehood our refuge and we have hidden ourselves with lying."

Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh,"Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone,A costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed.He who believes in it will not be disturbed.

As often as it passes through, it will take you;For morning after morning it will pass through, anytime during the day or night,And it will be sheer terror to understand the report."

For Yahweh will rise up as at Mount Perazim;He will be stirred up as in the valley of Gibeon,To work His work, His unusual work,And to labor in His labor, His exceptional labor.

So now do not carry on as scoffers,Lest your fetters be made stronger;For I have heard from Lord Yahweh of hostsOf complete destruction, one that is decreed, on all the earth.

For his God disciplines and teaches him proper judgment.

For dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge,Nor is the wheel of a cart driven over cumin;But dill is beaten out with a staff, and cumin with a rod.

Grain for bread is crushed,But he does not continue to thresh it forever.Because the wheel of his cart and his horses eventually disturb it,He does not crush it longer.

For Yahweh has poured over you a spirit of deep sleep;He has shut your eyes, the prophets;And He has covered your heads, the seers.

The entire vision will be to you like the words of a sealed book, which when they give it to the one who is literate, saying, "Please read this," he will say, "I cannot, for it is sealed."

For the ruthless will come to an end and the scoffer will be finished,Indeed all who are watching out to do evil will be cut off;