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Behold, the Lord, the GOD/ of hosts, will lop off the boughs with a terrible crash; Those also who are tall in stature will be cut down And those who are lofty will be abased.

-“Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; For the LORD/ GOD/ is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation.”

They will be terrified, Pains and anguish will take hold of {them;} They will writhe like a woman in labor, They will look at one another in astonishment, Their faces aflame.

Behold, the day of the LORD/ is coming, Cruel, with fury and burning anger, To make the land a desolation; And He will exterminate its sinners from it.

I will make mortal man scarcer than pure gold And mankind than the gold of Ophir.

Behold, I am going to stir up the Medes against them, Who will not value silver or take pleasure in gold.

The oracle concerning Damascus. “Behold, Damascus is about to be removed from being a city And will become a fallen ruin.

At evening time, behold, {there is} terror! Before morning they are no more. Such {will be} the portion of those who plunder us And the lot of those who pillage us.

For thus the LORD/ has told me, “I will look from My dwelling place quietly Like dazzling heat in the sunshine, Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

The oracle concerning Egypt. Behold, the LORD/ is riding on a swift cloud and is about to come to Egypt; The idols of Egypt will tremble at His presence, And the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.

so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

+“So the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, such is our hope, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and we, how shall we escape?’”

-“Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one said, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; And all the images of her gods are shattered on the ground.”

And you made a reservoir between the two walls For the waters of the old pool. But you did not depend on Him who made it, Nor did you take into consideration Him who planned it long ago.

Thus says the Lord GOD/ of hosts, “Come, go to this steward, To Shebna, who is in charge of the {royal} household,

-‘Behold, the LORD/ is about to hurl you headlong, O man. And He is about to grasp you firmly

Be ashamed, O Sidon; For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying, “I have neither travailed nor given birth, I have neither brought up young men {nor} reared virgins.”

He has stretched His hand out over the sea, He has made the kingdoms tremble; The LORD/ has given a command concerning Canaan to demolish its strongholds.

Behold, the land of the Chaldeans--this is the people {which} was not; Assyria appointed it for desert creatures--they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin.

Wail, O ships of Tarshish, For your stronghold is destroyed.