I raised him up in righteousness, and have made straight all his ways. He shall build My city, and he will release My captives; not for price, and not for reward, says Jehovah of Hosts.
this is not the fast I have chosen: to open bands of wickedness, to undo thongs of the yoke, and to send out free the ones being oppressed, and that you pull off every yoke?
So says Jehovah of Hosts, Those oppressing the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah together; yea, all who captured them and held them fast; they refused to let them go.
of whom are given her graves in the recesses of the Pit, and her assembly is round about her grave, all of them pierced ones, fallen by the sword, because they gave terror in the land of the living.
And I will stretch out My hand on them and give the land a to be a desolation even more desolate than the desert toward Diblath, in all their dwelling places. And they shall know that I am Jehovah.
a fire devours before it, and a flame burns behind it. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them is a desolate wilderness; yea, also there is no escape to them.