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Isaiah 47:6

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I was angry with my people; I profaned my possession, and I handed them over to you. You showed them no mercy; you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.

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I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease,  for I was a little angry, but they made the destruction worse.


A prophet of the Lord named Oded was there. He went out to meet the army that came to Samaria and said to them, ‘Look, the Lord God of your ancestors handed them over to you because of his wrath against Judah,  but you slaughtered them in a rage that has reached heaven.


a ruthless nation, showing no respect for the old and not sparing the young.


You will be covered with shame and destroyed for ever because of violence done to your brother Jacob.


For judgement is without mercy to the one who has not shown mercy.  Mercy triumphs over judgement.


As you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and gulp down and be as though they had never been.


who turned the world into a wilderness, who destroyed its cities and would not release the prisoners to return home? ’


I will send him against a godless nation; I will command him to go against a people destined for my rage, to take spoils, to plunder, and to trample them down like clay  in the streets.


For you will be judged by the same standard with which you judge others, and you will be measured by the same measure you use.


Through the abundance of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I expelled you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and banished you, guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.


Say to the house of Israel, “This is what the Lord God says: I am about to desecrate my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the desire of your heart. Also, the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.


Without compassion  the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In his wrath he has demolished the fortified cities  of Daughter Judah. He brought them to the ground and defiled the kingdom and its leaders.


So I defiled the officers of the sanctuary, and set Jacob apart for destruction and Israel for scorn.


Their children will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be looted, and their wives raped.


David answered Gad, ‘I have great anxiety. Please, let us fall into the Lord’s hands because his mercies are great,  but don’t let me fall into human hands.’


It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows. It subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.


They grasp bow and javelin. They are cruel and show no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, lined up like men in battle formation against you, Daughter Babylon.


My transgressions have been formed into a yoke,  ,, fastened together by his hand; they have been placed on my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has handed me over to those I cannot withstand.


People have heard me groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my misfortune; they are glad that you have caused it. Bring on the day you have announced, so that they may become like me.


Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.


Now therefore, my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I, with barbed whips.” ’


So he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans,  who killed their fit young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary. He had no pity on young men or young women, elderly or aged; he handed them all over to him.


He deported those who escaped from the sword to Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the rise of the Persian  kingdom.


But since our ancestors angered the God of the heavens, he handed them over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and deported the people to Babylon.


The Lord himself has scattered them; he no longer watches over them. The priests are not respected; the elders find no favour.


Then the angel of the Lord responded, ‘How long, Lord of Armies, will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah that you have been angry with these seventy years? ’





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