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Isaiah 10:12

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When the Lord finishes doing what he planned to Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will punish Assyria. The king of Assyria is very proud, and his pride has made him do these evil things, so God will punish him.

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A few people will come out of Jerusalem alive; a few from Mount Zion will live. The strong love of the Lord All-Powerful will make this happen.’

You save the humble, but you bring down those who are proud.

You will destroy their families from the earth; their children will not live.

People praise you for your anger against evil. Those who live through your anger are stopped from doing more evil.

The brave soldiers were stripped as they lay asleep in death. Not one warrior had the strength to stop it.

Proud looks, proud thoughts, and evil actions are sin.

Some people have such a proud look! They look down on others.

Proud people will be made humble, and they will bow low with shame. At that time only the Lord will still be praised.

The Lord All-Powerful has a certain day planned when he will punish the proud and those who brag, and they will no longer be important.

At that time the Lord will punish the powers in the sky above and the rulers on earth below.

The Lord has not hurt his people as he hurt their enemies; his people have not been killed like those who tried to kill them.

This is how Israel’s guilt will be forgiven; this is how its sins will be taken away: Israel will crush the rocks of the altar to dust, and no statues or altars will be left standing for the Asherah idols.

So I will continue to amaze these people by doing more and more miracles. Their wise men will lose their wisdom; their wise men will not be able to understand.”

How terrible it will be for you who destroy others but have not been destroyed yet. How terrible it will be for you, traitor, whom no one has turned against yet. When you stop destroying, others will destroy you. When you stop turning against others, they will turn against you.

You have insulted me and spoken against me; you have raised your voice against me. You have a proud look on your face, which is against me, the Holy One of Israel!

Because you rage against me, and because I have heard your proud words, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth. Then I will force you to leave my country the same way you came.’

So the common people and the great people will be brought down; those who are proud will be humbled.

But instead, some of you want to light your own fires and make your own light. So, go, walk in the light of your fires, and trust your own light to guide you. But this is what you will receive from me: You will lie down in a place of pain.

I will punish you for your sins and your ancestors’ sins,” says the Lord. “They burned incense to gods on the mountains and shamed me on those hills. So I will punish them as they should be punished for what they did.”

Then everyone in Israel, even the leaders in Samaria, will know that God has sent it. Those people are proud and brag by saying,

Look! I am already bringing disaster on Jerusalem, the city that is called by my name. Do you think you will not be punished? You will be punished! I am sending war on all the people of the earth, says the Lord All-Powerful.’

So this is what the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, says: “I will punish the king of Babylon and his country as I punished the king of Assyria.

Proud Babylon will stumble and fall, and no one will help her get up. I will start a fire in her towns, and it will burn up everything around her.”

“ ‘So this is what the Lord God says: The tree grew tall. Its top reached the clouds, and it became proud of its height.

So the trees that grow by the water will not be proud to be tall; they will not put their tops among the clouds. None of the trees that are watered well will grow that tall, because they all are meant to die and go under the ground. They will be with people who have died and have gone down to the place of the dead.

He will set up his royal tents between the sea and the beautiful mountain where the holy Temple is built. But, finally, his end will come, and no one will help him.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give praise and honor and glory to the King of heaven. Everything he does is right and fair, and he is able to make proud people humble.

Ships will sail from the shores of Cyprus and defeat Assyria and Eber, but they will also be destroyed.”

“If you want good fruit, you must make the tree good. If your tree is not good, it will have bad fruit. A tree is known by the kind of fruit it produces.

Out of the mind come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual sins, stealing, lying, and speaking evil of others.

But I didn’t want their enemy to brag; their enemy might misunderstand and say, ‘We have won! The Lord has done none of this.’ ”

It is time for judgment to begin with God’s family. And if that judging begins with us, what will happen to those people who do not obey the Good News of God?




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