Draw for yourself water for the siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Take hold of the brick mold!
Your guardsmen are like the swarming locust. Your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers Settling in the stone walls on a cold day. The sun rises and they flee, And the place where they are is not known.
“Look among the nations! Observe! Be astonished! Wonder! Because {I am} doing something in your days-- You would not believe if you were told.
-“For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, That fierce and impetuous people Who march throughout the earth To seize dwelling places which are not theirs.
“Behold,
as for the proud one,
His soul is not right within him; But the righteous will live by his faith.
-“Woe to him who says to a {piece of} wood, ‘Awake!’ To a mute stone, ‘Arise!’ {And} that is {your} teacher? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, And there is no breath at all inside it.
Though the fig tree should not blossom And there be no fruit on the vines, {Though} the yield of the olive should fail And the fields produce no food, Though the flock should be cut off from the fold And there be no cattle in the stalls,
-“And I will punish on that day all who leap on the {temple} threshold, Who fill the house of their lord with violence and deceit.
Neither their silver nor their gold Will be able to deliver them On the day of the LORD/’S/ wrath; And all the earth will be devoured In the fire of His jealousy, For He will make a complete end, Indeed a terrifying one, Of all the inhabitants of the earth.
So the seacoast will be pastures, {With} caves for shepherds and folds for flocks.
Flocks will lie down in her midst, All beasts which range in herds; Both the pelican and the hedgehog Will lodge in the tops of her pillars; Birds will sing in the window, Desolation {will be} on the threshold; For He has laid bare the cedar work.
-“Behold,
I am going to deal at that time
With all your oppressors, I will save the lame And gather the outcast, And I will turn their shame into praise and renown In all the earth.
“{You} look for much, but behold, {it comes} to little; when you bring {it} home, I blow it {away.} Why?” declares the LORD/ of hosts, “Because of My house which {lies} desolate, while each of you runs to his own house.
‘The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,’ declares the LORD/ of hosts.
+‘If a man carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and touches bread with this fold, or cooked food, wine, oil, or any {other} food, will it become holy?’” And the priests answered, “No.”
I saw at night, and behold, a man was riding on a red horse, and he was standing among the myrtle trees which were in the ravine, with red, sorrel and white horses behind him.
So they answered the angel of the LORD/ who was standing among the myrtle trees and said, “We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth is peaceful and quiet.”
Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, {there were} four horns.
Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, {there was} a man with a measuring line in his hand.
And behold, the angel who was speaking with me was going out, and another angel was coming out to meet him,
