And now what is to Me here, a statement of Jehovah? For My people is taken for nothing; those ruling howl, a statement of Jehovah. And My name is continually despised, every day.
And Jehovah said, Seeing I have seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their cry from before their taskmasters; for I know his sorrows.
What is to you here? And who is here to you, that you have cut out a tomb for yourself here, as one cutting out his tomb on high, having cut out a dwelling place for himself in the rock?
And Isaiah said to them, You shall say this to your master, So says Jehovah: Do not fear the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
I was angry with My people; I defiled My inheritance and gave them into your hand. You gave them no compassion; you made your yoke on the aged very heavy.
Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of all the outside places, like an antelope in a net, filled with the fury of Jehovah, the rebuke of your God.
But I will put it into the hand of those oppressing you, who have said to your soul, Bow down that we may cross, and, Put your back to the ground, and be as the street to those who cross.
Israel is a scattered sheep, driven away by lions. First, the king of Assyria devoured him. And last, this King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon broke his bones.
They hear that I groan; there is no one comforting for me. All my enemies have heard my evil; they rejoice that You have done it. You will bring the day that You have called, and they shall be like me.
He cut off all the horn of Israel in the heat of His anger. He has turned back His right hand from the face of the enemy, and He burned in Jacob as a flaming fire; it consumes round about.
But I worked for My name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations of whom they were among them, of whom I made Myself known to them in their eyes, by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
And it shall be in that day, a statement of Jehovah, the sound of a cry from the Fish Gate, and a howling from the Second, and a great breaking from the hills.
They were near the household of Micah, and they recognized the young man’s voice, the Levite. And they turned in there, and said to him, Who has brought you here? And what are you doing in this place? And what have you here?