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Lord , they went to You in their distress; they poured out whispered prayers because Your discipline fell on them.

These also stagger because of wine and stumble under the influence of beer: priest and prophet stagger because of beer, they are confused by wine. They stumble because of beer, they are muddled in their visions, they stumble in their judgments.

For you said, "We have cut a deal with Death, and we have made an agreement with Sheol; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, it will not touch us, because we have made falsehood our refuge and have hidden behind treachery."

For you the entire vision will be like the words of a sealed document. If it is given to one who can read and he is asked to read it, he will say, "I can't read it, because it is sealed."

The Lord said: Because these people approach Me with their mouths to honor Me with lip-service— yet their hearts are far from Me, and their worship consists of man-made rules learned by rote—

everyone will be ashamed because of a people who can't help. They are of no benefit, they are no help; they are good for nothing but shame and reproach.

Therefore the Holy One of Israel says: "Because you have rejected this message and have trusted in oppression and deceit, and have depended on them,

His rock will pass away because of fear, and his officers will be afraid because of the signal flag. This is the Lord 's declaration—whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

Search and read the scroll of the Lord : Not one of them will be missing, none will be lacking its mate, because He has ordered it by my mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.

who said to them, "Tell your master this, ‘The Lord says: Don't be afraid because of the words you have heard, which the king of Assyria's attendants have blasphemed Me with.

Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: "The Lord , the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria,

Because your raging against Me and your arrogance have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will make you go back the way you came.

I will defend this city and rescue it because of Me and because of My servant David."

What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it. I walk along slowly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul,

Lord, because of these promises people live, and in all of them is the life of my spirit as well; You have restored me to health and let me live.

Look up and see: who created these? He brings out the starry host by number; He calls all of them by name. Because of His great power and strength, not one of them is missing.

The Lord was pleased, because of His righteousness, to magnify His instruction and make it glorious.

Because you are precious in My sight and honored, and I love you, I will give people in exchange for you and nations instead of your life.

This is what the Lord , your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: Because of you, I will send to Babylon and bring all of them as fugitives, even the Chaldeans in the ships in which they rejoice.

The animals of the field will honor Me, jackals and ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people.