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Isaiah 24:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The earth is under a curse; its people are dying out because of their sins.

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Jehoiachin immediately surrendered, together with his mother and his servants, as well as his army officers and officials. Then Nebuchadnezzar had Jehoiachin arrested. These things took place in the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar's rule in Babylonia.

Only some of the poorest people were left behind to work the vineyards and the fields.

Your strongest leaders will be like dry wood set on fire by their idols. No one will be able to help, as they all go up in flames.

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

After the sword of the LORD has done what it wants to the skies above, it will come down on Edom, the nation that the LORD has doomed for destruction.

That's why I don't allow your priests to serve me; I let Israel be destroyed and your people disgraced.

You will go up in flames like straw and hay! You have rejected the teaching of the holy LORD God All-Powerful of Israel. Now your roots will rot, and your blossoms will turn to dust.

The LORD All-Powerful was angry and used the people as fuel for a fire that scorched the land. They turned against each other

How long will the ground be dry and the pasture lands parched? The birds and animals are dead and gone. And all this happened because the people are so sinful. They even boast, “God can't see the sins we commit.”

I am the LORD God All-Powerful. Jeremiah, I will tell you exactly what to say. Your words will be a fire; Israel and Judah will be the fuel.

Keep a few of the hairs and wrap them in the hem of your clothes.

I'll send wild animals to attack you, and they will gobble up your children and livestock. So few of you will be left that your roads will be deserted.

You had better take seriously the need to honour my name. Otherwise, when you give a blessing, I will turn it into a curse. In fact, I have already done this, because you haven't taken to heart your duties as priests.

That's why your whole nation is under a curse.

The day of judgment is certain to come. And it will be like a red-hot furnace with flames that burn up proud and sinful people, as though they were straw. Not a branch or a root will be left. I, the LORD All-Powerful, have spoken!

He will lead children and parents to love each other more, so that when I come, I won't bring doom to the land.

Everyone answered, “We and our own families will take the blame for his death!”

But the gate to life is very narrow. The road that leads there is so hard to follow that only a few people find it.

And this is what the prophet Isaiah said about the people of Israel, “The people of Israel are as many as the grains of sand along the beach. But only a few who are left will be saved.

There are as many of you now as the stars in the sky, but if you disobey the LORD your God, only a few of you will be left.

Only a few of you will survive, and the LORD will force you to leave the land and will scatter you among the nations.

The day of the Lord's return will surprise us like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a loud noise, and the heat will melt the whole universe. Then the earth and everything on it will be seen for what they are.




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