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Isaiah 31:9

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Their place of safety will be destroyed. Their leaders will be defeated and leave their flag.

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\{Assyria {\cf2\super [119]} thinks he is great.\} But the Lord All-Powerful will send a terrible disease against Assyria. Assyria will lose his wealth and power like a sick man loses weight. Then Assyria’s glory will be destroyed. It will be like a fire burning until everything is gone.

Israel’s Light (God) will be like a fire. The Holy One will be like a flame. He will be like a fire that first burns the weeds and thorns.

At that time, there will be a special person from Jesse’s {\cf2\super [135]} family. This person will be like a flag. This “flag” will show all the nations that they should come together around him. The nations will ask him the things they should do. And the place where he is will be filled with glory.

\{And the people will be like those waves—\}\par God will speak harshly to the people,\par and they will run away.\par The people will be like chaff {\cf2\super [181]} \par being chased by the wind.\par The people will be like tumbleweeds {\cf2\super [182]} \par being chased by a storm.\par The wind blows and the weeds go far away.\par

\{Warn those people that something bad will happen to them.\} All the people in the world will see this thing happen to that nation. People will see this thing clearly like a flag raised on a mountain. All the people living on earth will hear about the thing that happens to these tall people. They will hear it clearly like the noise from a horn before a battle.

At that time, people will sing this song in Judah:

\{How will the Lord punish his people? In the past\} enemies hurt the people. Will the Lord hurt them that same way? \{In the past\} many people were killed. Will the Lord do the same thing and kill many people? {\cf2\super [250]}

The Lord All-Powerful punished you with earthquakes, thunder, and loud noises. There were storms, strong winds, and fire that burned and destroyed.

Topheth {\cf2\super [287]} has been made ready for a long time. It is ready for the king. {\cf2\super [288]} It was made very deep and wide. There is a very big pile of wood and fire there. And the Lord’s breath (Spirit) will come like a stream of burning sulfur and burn it.

So Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, went back to Nineveh and stayed there.

The Lord will wash away the blood {\cf2\super [39]} from the women of Zion. {\cf2\super [40]} The Lord will wash all the blood out of Jerusalem. God will use the spirit of justice \{and judge fairly\}. And he will use the spirit of burning, \{and make everything pure\}.

\{Look!\} God is giving a sign to the nations in a faraway land. God is raising a flag, and he is whistling to call those people. The enemy is coming from a faraway land. The enemy will soon enter the country. They are moving very quickly.

Look, the Lord is coming with fire. The Lord’s armies are coming with clouds of dust. The Lord will punish those people with his anger. The Lord will use flames of fire to punish those people while he is angry.

Fire must be kept burning on the altar without stopping. It must not go out.

The Lord says,\par ‘I will be a wall of fire around her,\par protecting her.\par And to bring glory to that city,\par I will live there.’”\par

“That time of judgment is coming. It will be like a hot furnace. All those proud people will be punished. All those evil people will burn like straw. At that time, they will be like a bush burning in the fire—and there will not be a branch or root left.” The Lord All-Powerful said these things.

The ‘rock’ of our enemies is not strong like our Rock (the Lord). Even our enemies know that!

Then the Lord will say, ‘Where are the false gods? Where is the ‘rock’ that you ran to for protection?




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