Ezekiel 31:4

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.

for his judgments are true and righteous. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the wife, the Lamb’s bride.”

and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.

Their Redeemer is strong: Yahweh of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

A drought is on her waters, and they will be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

I saw another great and marvelous sign in the sky: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them God’s wrath is finished.

The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don’t go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.”

He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many waters.

I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.

After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of the sky, having great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory.

Water shall flow from his buckets. His seed shall be in many waters. His king shall be higher than Agag. His kingdom shall be exalted.

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.

Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners,

How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice. Righteousness lodged in her, but now there are murderers.

who says to the deep, ‘Be dry,’ and ‘I will dry up your rivers;’

“But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.

“For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.

and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar.

“ ‘ “He also took some of the seed of the land, and planted it in fruitful soil. He placed it beside many waters. He set it as a willow tree.

“ ‘ “There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. Behold, this vine bent its roots toward him, and shot out its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it.

It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might produce branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a good vine.” ’

But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the covenant, and still escape?

Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied. Its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it spread them out.

No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,

He said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.

The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.

Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

The children of Israel were mustered and given provisions, and went against them. The children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of young goats; but the Syrians filled the country.

For he didn’t leave to Jehoahaz of the people any more than fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.

The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s father’s brother, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

For through the anger of Yahweh, this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

Joab said, “May Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren’t they all my lord’s servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?”

Under their hand was an army, three hundred seven thousand five hundred, who made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

“Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him.

The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.

He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,

Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.

then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

In the multitude of people is the king’s glory, but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.

for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.

Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows.

Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!

In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.

For Yahweh of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done to themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal.

Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.

Yahweh says: “Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and will become an overflowing stream, and will overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein. The men will cry, and all the inhabitants of the land will wail.

“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity; for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance. He will render to her a recompense.

Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

The sea has come up on Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of its waves.

For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice! Their waves roar like many waters. The noise of their voice is uttered.

He took some of the royal offspring, and made a covenant with him. He also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land;

Your rowers have brought you into great waters. The east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.

Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.” ’ ”

Daniel spoke and said, “I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke out on the great sea.

But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one looks back.

They told me, “You must prophesy again over many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.”

Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

From among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations, people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.

The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.

The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings that come from the sunrise.

Behold, two men were talking with him, who were Moses and Elijah,

They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”

After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.”

He who spoke with me had for a measure a golden reed to measure the city, its gates, and its walls.