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Isaiah 6:11

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Then I asked the LORD, “How long will this last?” The LORD answered: Until their towns are destroyed and their houses are deserted, until their fields are empty,

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Our God, how much longer will our enemies sneer? Won't they ever stop insulting you?

Our LORD, will you keep on being angry? Will your angry feelings keep flaming up like fire?

Help us, LORD! Don't wait! Pity your servants.

How long will the wicked celebrate and be glad?

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

Survivors will be harder to find than the purest gold.

The city will mourn and sit in the dust, emptied of its people.

Jerusalem and Judah, you rebelled against your glorious LORD— your words and your actions, made you stumble and fall.

The palace will be deserted, the crowded city empty. Fortresses and towers will for ever become playgrounds for wild donkeys and pastures for sheep.

Thirsty deserts will be glad; barren lands will celebrate and blossom with flowers.

But the LORD All-Powerful has made this promise to me: Those large and beautiful homes will be left empty, with no one to take care of them.

You were hated and deserted, rejected by everyone. But I will make you beautiful, a city to be proud of for all time to come.

Every one of your towns has turned into a desert, especially Jerusalem.

Listen to what I think about it: the palace of Judah's king is as glorious as Gilead or Lebanon's highest peaks. But it will be as empty as a ghost town when I'm through with it.

An army will come out, like a lion from its den. It will destroy nations and leave your towns empty and in ruins.”

I am the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel. You saw how I destroyed Jerusalem and the towns of Judah. They lie empty and in ruins today,

Every town in Israel will be destroyed to make sure that each shrine, idol, and altar is smashed—everything the Israelites made will be a pile of ruins.

Then one of the holy angels asked another, “When will the daily sacrifices be offered again? What about this horrible rebellion? When will the temple and heaven's army no longer be trampled in the dust?”

I'll wipe out your towns and your places of worship and will no longer be pleased with the smell of your sacrifices.

After I destroy your towns and ruin your land with war, I'll scatter you among the nations.

When that happens, this sorrowful song will be sung about you: “Ruined! Completely ruined! The LORD has taken our land and given it to traitors.”

as well as your cities and your fortresses.

Because of your sins, I will wound you and leave you ruined and defenceless.

Those nations will suffer disaster because of what they did.

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.

The LORD is happy to make you successful and to help your nation grow while you conquer the land. But if you disobey him, he will be just as happy to pull you up by your roots.




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