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Isaiah 1:8

Contemporary English Version 1995

Enemies surround Jerusalem, alone like a hut in a vineyard or in a cucumber field.

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Everyone in Jerusalem, celebrate and shout! Your king has won a victory, and he is coming to you. He is humble and rides on a donkey; he comes on the colt of a donkey.

“People of Jerusalem, don't be afraid! Your King is now coming, and he is riding on a donkey.”

City of Zion, sing and celebrate! The Lord has promised to come and live with you.

Here is what the Lord has said for all the earth to hear: “Soon I will come to save the city of Zion and to reward you.

Today the enemy will camp at Nob and shake a threatening fist at Mount Zion in Jerusalem.

He shattered his temple like a hut in a garden; he completely wiped out his meeting place, and did away with festivals and Sabbaths in the city of Zion. In his fierce anger he rejected our king and priests.

The Lord was angry! So he disgraced Zion though it was Israel's pride and his own place of rest. In his anger he threw Zion down from heaven to earth.

after the Lord sends a fiery judgment to clean the city and its people of their violent deeds.

and I will sing about you at the gate to Zion. I will be happy there because you rescued me.

No homes built by the wicked will outlast a cocoon or a shack.

Enemy soldiers will cover Judah like a flood reaching up to your neck. But God is with us. He will spread his wings and protect our land.

Your country lies in ruins; your towns are in ashes. Foreigners and strangers take and destroy your land while you watch.

Zion would have disappeared like Sodom and Gomorrah, if the Lord All-Powerful had not let a few of its people survive.

and Jerusalem will ask, “Am I really their mother? How could I have given birth when I was still mourning in a foreign land? Who raised these children? Where have they come from?”

Jerusalem is a lovely pasture,

I will surround you and prepare to attack from all sides.

As few as five of them, or even one, will be enough to chase a thousand of you. Finally, all that will be left will be a few survivors as lonely as a flag pole on a barren hill.

Please pray for those of us who are left alive. The king of Assyria sent his army commander to insult the living God. Perhaps the Lord heard what he said and will do something, if you will pray.




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