2:13 The Lord 1 will attack the north 2
and destroy Assyria.
He will make Nineveh a heap of ruins;
it will be as barren 3 as the desert.
3:13 The Israelites who remain 4 will not act deceitfully.
They will not lie,
and a deceitful tongue will not be found in their mouth.
Indeed, they will graze peacefully like sheep 5 and lie down;
no one will terrify them.”
3:20 At that time I will lead you –
at the time I gather you together. 6
Be sure of this! 7 I will make all the nations of the earth respect and admire you 8
when you see me restore you,” 9 says the Lord.
1:12 At that time I will search through Jerusalem with lamps.
I will punish the people who are entrenched in their sin, 10
those who think to themselves, 11
‘The Lord neither rewards nor punishes.’ 12
3:5 The just Lord resides 13 within her;
he commits no unjust acts. 14
Every morning he reveals 15 his justice.
At dawn he appears without fail. 16
Yet the unjust know no shame.
3:7 I thought, 17 ‘Certainly you will respect 18 me!
Now you will accept correction!’
If she had done so, her home 19 would not be destroyed 20
by all the punishments I have threatened. 21
But they eagerly sinned
in everything they did. 22
3:11 In that day you 23 will not be ashamed of all your rebelliousness against me, 24
for then I will remove from your midst those who proudly boast, 25
and you will never again be arrogant on my holy hill.
1:3 “I will destroy people and animals;
I will destroy the birds in the sky
and the fish in the sea.
(The idolatrous images of these creatures will be destroyed along with evil people.) 26
I will remove 27 humanity from the face of the earth,” says the Lord.
3:1 The filthy, 28 stained city is as good as dead;
the city filled with oppressors is finished! 29
1:13 Their wealth will be stolen
and their houses ruined!
They will not live in the houses they have built,
nor will they drink the wine from the vineyards they have planted.
2:14 Flocks and herds 30 will lie down in the middle of it,
as well as every kind of wild animal. 31
Owls 32 will sleep in the tops of its support pillars;
they will hoot through the windows. 33
Rubble will cover the thresholds; 34
even the cedar work 35 will be exposed to the elements. 36
2:11 The Lord will terrify them, 37
for 38 he will weaken 39 all the gods of the earth.
All the distant nations will worship the Lord in their own lands. 40
3:9 Know for sure that I will then enable
the nations to give me acceptable praise. 41
All of them will invoke the Lord’s name when they pray, 42
and will worship him in unison. 43
1:17 I will bring distress on the people 44
and they will stumble 45 like blind men,
for they have sinned against the Lord.
Their blood will be poured out like dirt;
their flesh 46 will be scattered 47 like manure.
3:19 Look, at that time I will deal with those who mistreated you.
I will rescue the lame sheep 48
and gather together the scattered sheep.
I will take away their humiliation
and make the whole earth admire and respect them. 49