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But the large bird and the hedgehog shall take possession of it, and the owl and the raven shall live in it. And he shall stretch the measuring line of confusion out over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.

Its nobles—but no kingdom is there—shall call, and all its princes shall be nothing.

And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness. The unclean shall not travel through it, but it is for them, he who walks on the way; and fools shall not wander about.

No lion shall be there, and no ferocious wild beast shall go up it. It shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk there.

But how can you drive back one governor among the least of my master's servants, when you trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

But Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me to speak these words to your masters and you? Was it not for the people who sit on the wall, to eat their dung and drink their urine with you?"

But they were silent and did not answer him a word, for the command of the king was, "You must not answer him."

to set their gods in the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of human hands, wood and stone, and they destroyed them.

Grass withers; the flower withers, but the word of our God will stand forever.

But those who wait for Yahweh shall renew their strength. They shall go up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not grow weary; they shall walk and not be faint.

But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, you, the offspring of Abraham my friend,

You shall seek them, but you shall not find them; your opponents shall be like nothing, and the men of your war like nothing.

But I look and there is no man, and I look among these and there is no counselor, that I might ask them and they might answer a word.

Who is blind but my servant or deaf like my messenger whom I sent? Who is blind like the one who is repaid or blind like the servant of Yahweh?

You see many things, but you do not observe. His ears are open, but he does not hear.

But this is a people plundered and looted; all of them are trapped in holes, and they are kept hidden in houses of imprisonment. They have become like plunder, and there is no one who saves; like booty, and there is no one who says, "Restore!"

So he poured the wrath of his anger upon him and the strength of war. And it set him afire all around, but he did not understand; and it burned him, but he did not take it to heart.

But now thus says Yahweh, he who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: "You must not fear, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name; you are mine.

But you did not call me, Jacob; for you have become weary of me, Israel.

You have not bought me spice reed with money or satisfied me with the fat of sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have made me weary with your iniquities.