Isaiah 14:16

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge.

Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.

‘Yahweh has produced our righteousness: come, and let’s declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.’

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—

Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

For you have trusted in your wickedness. You have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you. You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed. They couldn’t blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. In the time of their visitation they will be cast down, says Yahweh.

The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan. The whole land trembles at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they have come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it, the city and those who dwell therein.”

Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells. No son of man passes by it.

by your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”

At the return of the year, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable vessels of Yahweh’s house, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”

“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.

Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.

“Behold, siege ramps have come to the city to take it. The city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, of the famine, and of the pestilence. What you have spoken has happened. Behold, you see it.

For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also will be taken. Chemosh will go out into captivity, his priests and his princes together.

Because of Yahweh’s wrath she won’t be inhabited, but she will be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon will be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!

Listen to those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance of his temple.

Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they will drag them away, even the little ones of the flock. Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them.

Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon! Make the watch strong! Set the watchmen, and prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

“You are my battle ax and weapons of war. With you I will break the nations into pieces. With you I will destroy kingdoms.

“ ‘To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You will lie in the middle of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. “ ‘This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

Won’t the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.

Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.

The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, “like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh”.

Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”

but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,

Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”

As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn’t find you.

and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers; and the king of Babylon captured him in the eighth year of his reign.

In the time of his distress, he trespassed yet more against Yahweh, this same king Ahaz.

Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’

Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has made may know it.

The arrow can’t make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.

He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

Don’t let the foot of pride come against me. Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.

“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done.

Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!

My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.

Ensure your servant’s well-being. Don’t let the proud oppress me.

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down to make a defense against the mounds and against the sword;

then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, “You speak falsely. Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, ‘You shall not go into Egypt to live there;’

Why do you boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? You trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who will come to me?’

A sword is on the boasters, and they will become fools. A sword is on her mighty men, and they will be dismayed.

The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands become feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, pains as of a woman in labor.

The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

and say, ‘Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that no one will dwell in it, neither man nor animal, but that it will be desolate forever.’

For the seller won’t return to that which is sold, although they are still alive; for the vision concerns the whole multitude of it. None will return. None will strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

They will comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; then you will know that I have not done all that I have done in it without cause,” says the Lord Yahweh.

You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.

Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the man!”

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.

In that day there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

He cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!

saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!