For you said, "We have cut a deal with Death, and we have made an agreement with Sheol; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, it will not touch us, because we have made falsehood our refuge and have hidden behind treachery."

The couriers traveled from city to city in the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun, but the inhabitants laughed at them and mocked them.

But they kept ridiculing God's messengers, despising His words, and scoffing at His prophets, until the LORD's wrath was so stirred up against His people that there was no remedy.

I never sat with the band of revelers, and I did not celebrate [with them]. Because Your hand was [on me], I sat alone, for You filled me with indignation.

You deceived me, LORD, and I was deceived. You seized me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all the time; everyone ridicules me.

Those who passed by were yelling insults at Him, shaking their heads

In the same way even the criminals who were crucified with Him kept taunting Him.

So beware that what is said in the prophets does not happen to you:

Look, you scoffers, marvel and vanish away, because I am doing a work in your days, a work that you will never believe, even if someone were to explain it to you."

When they heard about resurrection of the dead, some began to ridicule him. But others said, "We will hear you about this again."

So He brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria. They captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze [shackles], and took him to Babylon.

For He has broken down the bronze gates and cut through the iron bars.

Then he blinded Zedekiah and put him in bronze chains to take him to Babylon.

My transgressions have been formed into a yoke, fastened together by His hand; they have been placed on my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has handed me over to those I cannot withstand.

I testify to everyone who hears the prophetic words of this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book.

And if anyone takes away from the words of this prophetic book, God will take away his share of the tree of life and the holy city, written in this book.

Israel, even if your people were as numerous as the sand of the sea, [only] a remnant of them will return. Destruction has been decreed; justice overflows.

For throughout the land the Lord God of Hosts is carrying out a destruction that was decreed.

Look, the LORD is stripping the earth bare and making it desolate. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:

The earth will be stripped completely bare and will be totally plundered, for the LORD has spoken this message.

The earth is polluted by its inhabitants, for they have transgressed teachings, overstepped decrees, and broken the everlasting covenant.

The new wine mourns; the vine withers. All the carousers now groan.

They no longer sing and drink wine; beer is bitter to those who drink it.

In the streets they cry for wine. All joy grows dark; earth's rejoicing goes into exile.

For this is how it will be on earth among the nations: like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.

Therefore in the east honor the LORD! In the islands of the west [honor] the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

Terror, pit, and snare [await] you who dwell on the earth.

The earth is completely devastated; the earth is split open; the earth is violently shaken.

On that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and kings of the earth below.

The moon will be put to shame and the sun disgraced, because the LORD of Hosts will reign as king on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, and He will [display His] glory in the presence of His elders.

Beat your breasts [in mourning] for the delightful fields and the fruitful vines,

For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become barren places forever, the joy of wild asses, and a pasture for flocks,

This whole land will become a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for 70 years.

After those 62 weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the coming prince will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come with a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations are decreed.

He will make a firm covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and offering. And the abomination of desolation will be on a wing of the temple until the decreed destruction is poured out on the desolator."

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.