^g“The Lord roars from Zion

and utters his voice from Jerusalem;

^hthe pastures of the shepherds mourn,

and the ⁱtop of ^jCarmel withers.”

^k“For three transgressions of ^lDamascus,

and for four, ^lI will not revoke the punishment,³

because they have threshed ^mGilead

with threshing sledges of iron.

4  ⁿSo I will send a fire upon the house of ^oHazael,

and it shall devour the strongholds of ^oBen-hadad.

5  I will ^pbreak the gate-bar of ^lDamascus,

and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of ^qAven,⁴

and him who holds the scepter from ^rBeth-eden;

and the people of ^sSyria shall go into exile to ^tKir,”

says the Lord.

^k“For three transgressions of ^uGaza,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

because ^vthey carried into exile a whole people

to deliver them up to Edom.

7  So I will send a fire upon the wall of ^uGaza,

and it shall devour her strongholds.

8  I will cut off the inhabitants from ^wAshdod,

and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon;

I will turn my hand against Ekron,

and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,”

says the Lord God.

^k“For three transgressions of ^xTyre,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

because they delivered up a whole people to Edom,

and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.

10  So I will send a fire upon the wall of ^xTyre,

and it shall devour her strongholds.”

^k“For three transgressions of ^yEdom,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

^ybecause he pursued his brother with the sword

^zand cast off all pity,

^aand his anger tore perpetually,

^aand he kept his wrath forever.

12  So I will send a fire upon ^bTeman,

and it shall devour the strongholds of ^cBozrah.”

^k“For three transgressions of the ^dAmmonites,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

because ^ethey have ripped open pregnant women in ^fGilead,

that they might enlarge their border.

14  So I will kindle a fire in the wall of ^gRabbah,

^hand it shall devour her strongholds,

with shouting on the day of battle,

^hwith a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;

15  and ⁱtheir king shall go into exile,

he and his princes⁵ together,”

says the Lord.

^e“Strike the capitals until ^ethe thresholds ^fshake,

^gand shatter them on the heads of all the people;²

and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword;

^hnot one of them shall flee away;

not one of them shall escape.

2  ⁱ“If they dig into Sheol,

from there shall my hand take them;

ⁱif they climb up to heaven,

from there I will bring them down.

3  If they hide themselves on ^jthe top of Carmel,

from there I will search them out and take them;

^kand if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,

there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.

4  ^lAnd if they go into captivity before their enemies,

there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them;

^mand I will fix my eyes upon them

for evil and not for good.”

5  The Lord God of hosts,

he who touches the earth and ⁿit melts,

and all who dwell in it mourn,

^oand all of it rises like the Nile,

^oand sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;

6  ^pwho builds his upper chambers in the heavens

and founds his vault upon the earth;

^qwho calls for the waters of the sea

and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—

^rthe Lord is his name.

7  “Are you not like ^sthe Cushites to me,

O people of Israel?” declares the Lord.

^t“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,

and ^uthe Philistines from ^vCaphtor and the Syrians from ^wKir?

8  Behold, ^xthe eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,

and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground,

^yexcept that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”

declares the Lord.

9  “For behold, I will command,

^zand shake the house of Israel among all the nations

as one shakes with a sieve,

but no pebble shall fall to the earth.

10  All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,

who say, ^a‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’

11  “In that day ^bI will raise up

the booth of David that is fallen

and repair its breaches,

and raise up its ruins

and rebuild it as in the days of old,

12  ^cthat they may possess the remnant of Edom

and ^dall the nations who are called by my name,”³

declares the Lord who does this.

13  “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,

^e“when the plowman shall overtake the reaper

and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed;

^fthe mountains shall drip sweet wine,

and all the hills shall flow with it.

14  ^gI will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,

and ^hthey shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;

ⁱthey shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,

and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.

15  ^jI will plant them on their land,

^kand they shall never again be uprooted

out of the land ^lthat I have given them,”

says the Lord your God.

^e“‘In him we live and move and have our being’;¹

“‘For we are indeed his offspring.’²