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Isaiah 3:25

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The fighting men of Jerusalem will be killed in battle.

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our ancestors killed in battle, but our own children and wives were taken captive.

But if you turn against me, your enemies will kill you. I, the LORD, have spoken.

Your luck will end! I will see to it that you are slaughtered with swords. You refused to answer when I called out; you paid no attention to my instructions. Instead, you did what I hated, knowing it was wrong.

But I will punish them. Their young men will die in battle, and their children will starve to death.

In the fields I see the bodies of those killed in battle. And in the towns I see crowds dying of hunger. But the prophets and priests go about their business, without understanding what has happened.”

There will be more widows in Judah than grains of sand on a beach. A surprise attack at midday! And the mothers in Jerusalem mourn for their children.

But now I am asking you to let their children starve or be killed in war. Let women lose their husbands and sons to disease and violence.

You people of Judah and Jerusalem may have big plans, but here in this valley I'll ruin those plans. I'll let your enemies kill you, and I'll tell the birds and wild animals to eat your dead bodies.

The Babylonian army has surrounded Jerusalem, so if you want to live, you must go out and surrender to them. But if you want to die because of hunger, disease, or war, then stay here in the city.

My people, both young and old, lie dead in the streets. Because you were angry, my young men and women were brutally slaughtered.

Some of you are evil, and you deny that you will ever get caught. But you will be killed.




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