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Isaiah 24:6

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Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left.

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Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his attendants, his nobles and his officials all surrendered to him. In the eighth year of the reign of the king of Babylon, he took Jehoiachin prisoner.

But the commander left behind some of the poorest people of the land to work the vineyards and fields.

The mighty man will become tinder and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the fire.”

Unless the Lord Almighty had left us some survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.

My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; see, it descends in judgment on Edom, the people I have totally destroyed.

So I disgraced the dignitaries of your temple; I consigned Jacob to destruction and Israel to scorn.

Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.

By the wrath of the Lord Almighty the land will be scorched and the people will be fuel for the fire; they will not spare one another.

How long will the land lie parched and the grass in every field be withered? Because those who live in it are wicked, the animals and birds have perished. Moreover, the people are saying, “He will not see what happens to us.”

Therefore this is what the Lord God Almighty says: “Because the people have spoken these words, I will make my words in your mouth a fire and these people the wood it consumes.

But take a few hairs and tuck them away in the folds of your garment.

I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.

If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honor my name,” says the Lord Almighty, “I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me.

You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me.

“Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire,” says the Lord Almighty. “Not a root or a branch will be left to them.

He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.”

All the people answered, “His blood is on us and on our children!”

But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved.

You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the Lord will drive you.

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.




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