Isaiah 13Isaiah 14Hebrews 8Isaiah 13
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The word of the Lord about Babylon which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.
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Put up a flag on a clear mountain-top, make a loud outcry to them, give directions with the hand, so that they may go into the doors of the great ones.
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I have given orders to my holy ones, I have sent out my men of war, those of mine who take pride in their power, to give effect to my wrath.
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The noise of great numbers in the mountains, like the noise of a strong people! The noise of the kingdoms of the nations meeting together! The Lord of armies is numbering his forces for war.
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They come from a far country, from the farthest part of heaven, even the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, with destruction for all the land.
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Send out a cry of grief for the day of the Lord is near it comes as destruction from the Most High.
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For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water
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Their hearts will be full of fear pains and sorrows will overcome them they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth they will be shocked at one another their faces will be like flames.
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See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and burning passion: to make the land a waste, driving the sinners in it to destruction.
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For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.
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And I will send punishment on the world for its evil, and on the sinners for their wrongdoing and I will put an end to all pride, and will make low the power of the cruel.
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I will make men so small in number, that a man will be harder to get than gold, even the best gold of Ophir.
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For this cause the heavens will be shaking, and the earth will be moved out of its place, in the wrath of the Lord of armies, and in the day of his burning passion.
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And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land.
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Everyone who is overtaken will have a spear put through him, and everyone who goes in flight will be put to the sword.
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Their young children will be broken up before their eyes their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others.
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See, I am driving the Medes against them, who put no value on silver and have no pleasure in gold.
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In their hands are bows and spears they are cruel, violently putting the young men to death, and crushing the young women they have no pity for children, and no mercy for the fruit of the body.
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And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beautiful town which is the pride of the Chaldaeans, will be like God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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People will never be living in it again, and it will have no more men from generation to generation: the Arab will not put up his tent there and those who keep sheep will not make it a resting-place for their flocks.
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But the beasts of the waste land will have their holes there and the houses will be full of crying jackals, and ostriches will have their place there, and evil spirits will be dancing there.
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And wolves will be answering one another in their towers, and jackals in their houses of pleasure: her time is near, and her days of power will quickly be ended.
Isaiah 14
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For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make Israel his special people, and will put them in their land and the man from a strange country will take his place among them and be joined to the family of Jacob.
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And the people will take them with them to their place: and the children of Israel will give them a heritage in the Lord's land as men-servants and women-servants, making them prisoners whose prisoners they were and they will be rulers over their masters.
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And it will be, in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard yoke which they had put on you,
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That you will take up this bitter song against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the cruel overseer come to an end! He who was lifted up in pride is cut off
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The stick of the evil-doers, the rod of the rulers, is broken by the Lord
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He whose rod was on the peoples with an unending wrath, ruling the nations in passion, with an uncontrolled rule.
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All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song.
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Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe.
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The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.
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They all make answer and say to you, Have you become feeble like us? have you been made even as we are?
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Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.
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How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies!
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For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north.
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I will go higher than the clouds I will be like the Most High.
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But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.
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Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms?
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Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house.
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All the kings of the earth are at rest in glory, every man in his house,
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But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld a dead body, crushed under foot.
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As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.
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Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places.
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For I will come up against them, says the Lord of armies, cutting off from Babylon name and offspring, son and son's son, says the Lord.
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And I will make you a heritage for the hedgehog, and pools of water: and I will go through it with the brush of destruction, says the Lord of armies.
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The Lord has taken an oath, saying, My design will certainly come about, and my purpose will be effected:
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To let the Assyrian be broken in my land, and crushed under foot on my mountains: there will his yoke be taken away from them, and his rule over them come to an end.
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This is the purpose for all the earth: and this is the hand stretched out over all nations.
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For it is the purpose of the Lord of armies, and who will make it of no effect? when his hand is stretched out, by whom may it be turned back?
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In the year of the death of King Ahaz this word came to the prophet:
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Be not glad, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod which was on you is broken: for out of the snake's root will come a poison-snake, and its fruit will be a winged poison-snake.
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And the poorest of the land will have food, and those in need will be given a safe resting-place: but your seed will come to an end for need of food, and the rest of you will be put to the sword.
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Send out a cry, O door! Make sounds of sorrow, O town! All your land has come to nothing, O Philistia for there comes a smoke out of the north, and everyone keeps his place in the line.
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What answer, then, will my people give to the representatives of the nation? That the Lord is the builder of Zion, and she will be a safe place for the poor of his people.
Hebrews 8
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Now of the things we are saying this is the chief point: We have such a high priest, who has taken his place at the right hand of God's high seat of glory in heaven,
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As a servant of the holy things and of the true Tent, which was put up by God, not by man.
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Now every high priest is given authority to take to God the things which are given and to make offerings so that it is necessary for this man, like them, to have something for an offering.
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If he had been on earth he would not have been a priest at all, because there are other priests who make the offerings ordered by the law
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Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain.
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But now his position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better agreement with man, based on the giving of better things.
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For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.
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For, protesting against them, he says, See, the days are coming when I will make a new agreement with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah
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Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand, to be their guide out of the land of Egypt for they did not keep the agreement with me, and I gave them up, says the Lord.
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For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:
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And there will be no need for every man to be teaching his brother, or his neighbour, saying, This is the knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, great and small.
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And I will have mercy on their evil-doing, and I will not keep their sins in mind.
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When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.
