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Ask a QuestionMay my meditation be pleasing to him, as I rejoice in the Lord.
They did not destroy the peoples as the Lord had commanded them,
Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: Wisdom preserves those who have it.
They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
Till your land as they do along the Nile, Daughter Tarshish, for you no longer have a harbor.
"All who rage against you will surely be ashamed and disgraced; those who oppose you will be as nothing and perish.
"But as for you who forsake the Lord and forget my holy mountain, who spread a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
Should I not punish them for this?" declares the Lord. "Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?
My mountain in the land and your wealth and all your treasures I will give away as plunder, together with your high places, because of sin throughout your country.
They think the dreams they tell one another will make my people forget my name, just as their ancestors forgot my name through Baal worship.
I will bring Judah and Israel back from captivity and will rebuild them as they were before.
Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "I will punish the king of Babylon and his land as I punished the king of Assyria.
As I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighboring towns," declares the Lord, "so no one will live there; no people will dwell in it.
"Let all their wickedness come before you; deal with them as you have dealt with me because of all my sins. My groans are many and my heart is faint."
And there before me was the glory of the God of Israel, as in the vision I had seen in the plain.
" 'Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, "Live!"
" 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will deal with you as you deserve, because you have despised my oath by breaking the covenant.
Also I gave them my Sabbaths as a sign between us, so they would know that I the Lord made them holy.
Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, 'Now let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is.'