(A)The land mourns and languishes;
    Lebanon is confounded and withers away;
Sharon is like a desert,
    and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

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it shall blossom abundantly
    and rejoice with joy and singing.
(A)The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it,
    the majesty of (B)Carmel and (C)Sharon.
(D)They shall see the glory of the Lord,
    the majesty of our God.

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(A)He rebukes the sea and makes it dry;
    he dries up all the rivers;
(B)Bashan and (C)Carmel wither;
    the bloom of (D)Lebanon withers.

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10 (A)Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks,
    and (B)the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down,
    for my people (C)who have sought me.

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The Flock Doomed to Slaughter

11 Open your doors, (A)O Lebanon,
    that the fire may devour your cedars!
Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,
    for the glorious trees are ruined!
Wail, (B)oaks of Bashan,
    for the thick forest has been felled!
The sound of (C)the wail of (D)the shepherds,
    for their glory is ruined!
The sound of the roar of (E)the lions,
    (F)for the thicket of the Jordan is ruined!

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14 (A)Shepherd your people (B)with your staff,
    the flock of your inheritance,
who dwell alone in a forest
    (C)in the midst of (D)a garden land;[a]
let them graze in Bashan and Gilead
    as in the days of old.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 7:14 Hebrew of Carmel

19 (A)I will restore Israel to his pasture, and (B)he shall feed on (C)Carmel and in (D)Bashan, and his desire shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in (E)Gilead.

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20 (A)Crash follows hard on crash;
    the whole land is laid waste.
(B)Suddenly my tents are laid waste,
    my curtains in a moment.
21 How long must I see the standard
    and hear the sound of the trumpet?

22 “For (C)my people are foolish;
    they know me not;
they are stupid children;
    they have no understanding.
(D)They are ‘wise’—in doing evil!
    But how to do good they know not.”

23 I looked on the earth, and behold, it was (E)without form and void;
    (F)and to the heavens, and they had no light.
24 I looked on (G)the mountains, and behold, they were quaking,
    and all the hills moved to and fro.
25 (H)I looked, and behold, there was no man,
    and all the birds of the air had fled.
26 I looked, and behold, the (I)fruitful land was a desert,
    and all its cities were laid in ruins
    before the Lord, before (J)his fierce anger.

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24 By your servants you have mocked the Lord,
    and you have said, (A)With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
    to the far recesses of Lebanon,
(B)to cut down its tallest cedars,
    its choicest cypresses,
to come to its remotest height,
    its most fruitful forest.

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19 The earth is utterly broken,
    the earth is split apart,
    the earth is violently shaken.
20 The earth (A)staggers like a drunken man;
    it sways like a hut;
(B)its transgression lies heavy upon it,
    and it falls, and will not rise again.

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(A)The earth mourns and withers;
    the world languishes and withers;
    the highest people of the earth languish.
The earth lies (B)defiled
    under its inhabitants;
for (C)they have transgressed the laws,
    violated the statutes,
    broken the everlasting covenant.
Therefore (D)a curse devours the earth,
    and its inhabitants (E)suffer for their guilt;
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched,
    and few men are left.

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Judgment on the Whole Earth

24 Behold, (A)the Lord will empty the earth[a] and make it desolate,
    and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 24:1 Or land; also throughout this chapter

(A)(B)The cypresses rejoice at you,
    (C)the cedars of Lebanon, saying,
‘Since you were laid low,
    no woodcutter comes up against us.’

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26 And (A)her gates shall lament and mourn;
    empty, she shall (B)sit on the ground.

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13 against all the (A)cedars of Lebanon,
    lofty and lifted up;
    and against all the (B)oaks of Bashan;

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(A)Your country lies desolate;
    your cities are burned with fire;
in your very presence
    foreigners devour your land;
    it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.
And (B)the daughter of Zion is left
    like a (C)booth in a vineyard,
like a lodge in a cucumber field,
    like a besieged city.

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And we took all his cities at that time—there was not a city that we did not take from them—sixty cities, (A)the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

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