The Message (MSG)

Now You Are Nothing

1-2 But not so with Jacob.Godwill have compassion on Jacob. Once again he’ll choose Israel. He’ll establish them in their own country. Outsiders will be attracted and throw their lot in with Jacob. The nations among whom they lived will actually escort them back home, and then Israel will pay them back by making slaves of them, men and women alike, possessing them as slaves inGod’s country, capturing those who had captured them, ruling over those who had abused them.

3-4 WhenGodhas given you time to recover from the abuse and trouble and harsh servitude that you had to endure, you can amuse yourselves by taking up this satire, a taunt against the king of Babylon:

4-6 Can you believe it? The tyrant is gone!

The tyranny is over!

Godhas broken the rule of the wicked,

the power of the bully-rulers

That crushed many people.

A relentless rain of cruel outrage

Established a violent rule of anger

rife with torture and persecution.

7-10 And now it’s over, the whole earth quietly at rest.

Burst into song! Make the rafters ring!

Ponderosa pine trees are happy,

giant Lebanon cedars are relieved, saying,

“Since you’ve been cut down,

there’s no one around to cut us down.”

And the underworld dead are all excited,

preparing to welcome you when you come.

Getting ready to greet you are the ghostly dead,

all the famous names of earth.

All the buried kings of the nations

will stand up on their thrones

With well-prepared speeches,

royal invitations to death:

“Now you are as nothing as we are!

Make yourselves at home with us dead folks!”

11 This is where your pomp and fine music led you, Babylon,

to your underworld private chambers,

A king-size mattress of maggots for repose

and a quilt of crawling worms for warmth.

12 What a comedown this, O Babylon!

Daystar! Son of Dawn!

Flat on your face in the underworld mud,

you, famous for flattening nations!

13-14 You said to yourself,

“I’ll climb to heaven.

I’ll set my throne

over the stars of God.

I’ll run the assembly of angels

that meets on sacred Mount Zaphon.

I’ll climb to the top of the clouds.

I’ll take over as King of the Universe!”

15-17 But you didn’t make it, did you?

Instead of climbing up, you came down—

Down with the underground dead,

down to the abyss of the Pit.

People will stare and muse:

“Can this be the one

Who terrorized earth and its kingdoms,

turned earth to a moonscape,

Wasted its cities,

shut up his prisoners to a living death?”

18-20 Other kings get a decent burial,

honored with eulogies and placed in a tomb.

But you’re dumped in a ditch unburied,

like a stray dog or cat,

Covered with rotting bodies,

murdered and indigent corpses.

Your dead body desecrated, mutilated—

no state funeral for you!

You’ve left your land in ruins,

left a legacy of massacre.

The progeny of your evil life

will never be named. Oblivion!

21 Get a place ready to slaughter the sons of the wicked

and wipe out their father’s line.

Unthinkable that they should own a square foot of land

or desecrate the face of the world with their cities!

22-23 “I will confront them”—Decree ofGod-of-the-Angel-Armies—“and strip Babylon of name and survivors, children and grandchildren.”God’s Decree. “I’ll make it a worthless swamp and give it as a prize to the hedgehog. And then I’ll bulldoze it out of existence.” Decree ofGod-of-the-Angel-Armies.

Who Could Ever Cancel Such Plans?

24-27 God-of-the-Angel-Armies speaks:

“Exactly as I planned,

it will happen.

Following my blueprints,

it will take shape.

I will shatter the Assyrian who trespasses my land

and stomp him into the dirt on my mountains.

I will ban his taking and making of slaves

and lift the weight of oppression from all shoulders.”

This is the plan,

planned for the whole earth,

And this is the hand that will do it,

reaching into every nation.

God-of-the-Angel-Armies has planned it.

Who could ever cancel such plans?

His is the hand that’s reached out.

Who could brush it aside?

28-31 In the year King Ahaz died, this Message came:

Hold it, Philistines! It’s too soon to celebrate

the defeat of your cruel oppressor.

From the death throes of that snake a worse snake will come,

and from that, one even worse.

The poor won’t have to worry.

The needy will escape the terror.

But you Philistines will be plunged into famine,

and those who don’t starve, God will kill.

Wail and howl, proud city!

Fall prostrate in fear, Philistia!

On the northern horizon, smoke from burned cities,

the wake of a brutal, disciplined destroyer.

32 What does one say to

outsiders who ask questions?

Tell them, “Godhas established Zion.

Those in need and in trouble find refuge in her.”

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Poignant Cries Reverberate Through Moab

1-4 A Message concerning Moab:

Village Ar of Moab is in ruins,

destroyed in a night raid.

Village Kir of Moab is in ruins,

destroyed in a night raid.

Village Dibon climbs to its chapel in the hills,

goes up to lament.

Moab weeps and wails

over Nebo and Medba.

Every head is shaved bald,

every beard shaved clean.

They pour into the streets wearing black,

go up on the roofs, take to the town square,

Everyone in tears,

everyone in grief.

Towns Heshbon and Elealeh cry long and loud.

The sound carries as far as Jahaz.

Moab sobs, shaking in grief.

The soul of Moab trembles.

5-9 Oh, how I grieve for Moab!

Refugees stream to Zoar

and then on to Eglath-shelishiyah.

Up the slopes of Luhith they weep;

on the road to Horonaim they cry their loss.

The springs of Nimrim are dried up—

grass brown, buds stunted, nothing grows.

They leave, carrying all their possessions

on their backs, everything they own,

Making their way as best they can

across Willow Creek to safety.

Poignant cries reverberate

all through Moab,

Gut-wrenching sobs as far as Eglaim,

heart-racking sobs all the way to Beer-elim.

The banks of the Dibon crest with blood,

but God has worse in store for Dibon:

A lion—a lion to finish off the fugitives,

to clean up whoever’s left in the land.

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A New Government in the David Tradition

1-4 “Dispatch a gift of lambs,” says Moab,

“to the leaders in Jerusalem—

Lambs from Sela sent across the desert

to buy the goodwill of Jerusalem.

The towns and people of Moab

are at a loss,

New-hatched birds knocked from the nest,

fluttering helplessly

At the banks of the Arnon River,

unable to cross:

‘Tell us what to do,

help us out!

Protect us,

hide us!

Give the refugees from Moab

sanctuary with you.

Be a safe place for those on the run

from the killing fields.’”

4-5 “When this is all over,” Judah answers,

“the tyrant toppled,

The killing at an end,

all signs of these cruelties long gone,

A new government of love will be established

in the venerable David tradition.

A Ruler you can depend upon

will head this government,

A Ruler passionate for justice,

a Ruler quick to set things right.”

6-12 We’ve heard—everyone’s heard!—of Moab’s pride,

world-famous for pride—

Arrogant, self-important, insufferable,

full of hot air.

So now let Moab lament for a change,

with antiphonal mock-laments from the neighbors!

What a shame! How terrible!

No more fine fruitcakes and Kir-hareseth candies!

All those lush Heshbon fields dried up,

the rich Sibmah vineyards withered!

Foreign thugs have crushed and torn out

the famous grapevines

That once reached all the way to Jazer,

right to the edge of the desert,

Ripped out the crops in every direction

as far as the eye can see.

I’ll join the weeping. I’ll weep right along with Jazer,

weep for the Sibmah vineyards.

And yes, Heshbon and Elealeh,

I’ll mingle my tears with your tears!

The joyful shouting at harvest is gone.

Instead of song and celebration, dead silence.

No more boisterous laughter in the orchards,

no more hearty work songs in the vineyards.

Instead of the bustle and sound of good work in the fields,

silence—deathly and deadening silence.

My heartstrings throb like harp strings for Moab,

my soul in sympathy for sad Kir-heres.

When Moab trudges to the shrine to pray,

he wastes both time and energy.

Going to the sanctuary and praying for relief

is useless. Nothing ever happens.

13-14 This isGod’s earlier Message on Moab.God’s updated Message is, “In three years, no longer than the term of an enlisted soldier, Moab’s impressive presence will be gone, that splendid hot-air balloon will be punctured, and instead of a vigorous population, just a few shuffling bums cadging handouts.”

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Damascus: A Pile of Dust and Rubble

1-3 A Message concerning Damascus:

“Watch this: Damascus undone as a city,

a pile of dust and rubble!

Her towns emptied of people.

The sheep and goats will move in

And take over the towns

as if they owned them—which they will!

Not a sign of a fort is left in Ephraim,

not a trace of government left in Damascus.

What’s left of Aram?

The same as what’s left of Israel—not much.”

Decree ofGod-of-the-Angel-Armies.

The Day Is Coming

4-6 “The Day is coming when Jacob’s robust splendor goes pale

and his well-fed body turns skinny.

The country will be left empty, picked clean

as a field harvested by field hands.

She’ll be like a few stalks of barley left standing

in the lush Valley of Rephaim after harvest,

Or like the couple of ripe olives overlooked

in the top of the olive tree,

Or the four or five apples

that the pickers couldn’t reach in the orchard.”

Decree of theGodof Israel.

7-8 Yes, the Day is coming when people will notice The One Who Made Them, take a long hard look at The Holy of Israel. They’ll lose interest in all the stuff they’ve made—altars and monuments and rituals, their homemade, handmade religion—however impressive it is.

9 And yes, the Day is coming when their fortress cities will be abandoned—the very same cities that the Hivites and Amorites abandoned when Israel invaded! And the country will be empty, desolate.

You Have Forgotten God

10-11 And why? Because you have forgotten God-Your-Salvation,

not remembered your Rock-of-Refuge.

And so, even though you are very religious,

planting all sorts of bushes and herbs and trees

to honor and influence your fertility gods,

And even though you make them grow so well,

bursting with buds and sprouts and blossoms,

Nothing will come of them. Instead of a harvest

you’ll get nothing but grief and pain, pain, pain.

12-13 Oh my! Thunder! A thundering herd of people!

Thunder like the crashing of ocean waves!

Nations roaring, roaring,

like the roar of a massive waterfall,

Roaring like a deafening Niagara!

But God will silence them with a word,

And then he’ll blow them away like dead leaves off a tree,

like down from a thistle.

14 At bedtime, terror fills the air.

By morning it’s gone—not a sign of it anywhere!

This is what happens to those who would ruin us,

this is the fate of those out to get us.

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People Mighty and Merciless

1-2 Doom to the land of flies and mosquitoes

beyond the Ethiopian rivers,

Shipping emissaries all over the world,

down rivers and across seas.

Go, swift messengers,

go to this people tall and handsome,

This people held in respect everywhere,

this people mighty and merciless,

from the land crisscrossed with rivers.

3 Everybody everywhere,

all earth-dwellers:

When you see a flag flying on the mountain, look!

When you hear the trumpet blown, listen!

4-6 For here’s whatGodtold me:

“I’m not going to say anything,

but simply look on from where I live,

Quiet as warmth that comes from the sun,

silent as dew during harvest.”

And then, just before harvest, after the blossom

has turned into a maturing grape,

He’ll step in and prune back the new shoots,

ruthlessly hack off all the growing branches.

He’ll leave them piled on the ground

for birds and animals to feed on—

Fodder for the summering birds,

fodder for the wintering animals.

7 Then tribute will be brought toGod-of-the-Angel-Armies,

brought from this people tall and handsome,

This people once held in respect everywhere,

this people once mighty and merciless,

From the land crisscrossed with rivers,

to Mount Zion,God’s place.

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Anarchy and Chaos and Killing!

1 A Message concerning Egypt:

Watch this!Godriding on a fast-moving cloud,

moving in on Egypt!

The god-idols of Egypt shudder and shake,

Egyptians paralyzed by panic.

2-4 God says, “I’ll make Egyptian fight Egyptian,

brother fight brother, neighbor fight neighbor,

City fight city, kingdom fight kingdom—

anarchy and chaos and killing!

I’ll knock the wind out of the Egyptians.

They won’t know coming from going.

They’ll go to their god-idols for answers;

they’ll conjure ghosts and hold séances, desperate for answers.

But I’ll turn the Egyptians

over to a tyrant most cruel.

I’ll put them under the rule of a mean, merciless king.”

Decree of the Master,God-of-the-Angel-Armies.

5-10 The River Nile will dry up,

the riverbed baked dry in the sun.

The canals will become stagnant and stink,

every stream touching the Nile dry up.

River vegetation will rot away

the banks of the Nile-baked clay,

The riverbed hard and smooth,

river grasses dried up and gone with the wind.

Fishermen will complain

that the fishing’s been ruined.

Textile workers will be out of work, all weavers

and workers in linen and cotton and wool

Dispirited, depressed in their forced idleness—

everyone who works for a living, jobless.

11-15 The princes of Zoan are fools,

the advisors of Pharaoh stupid.

How could any of you dare tell Pharaoh,

“Trust me: I’m wise. I know what’s going on.

Why, I’m descended from the old wisdom of Egypt”?

There’s not a wise man or woman left in the country.

If there were, one of them would tell you

whatGod-of-the-Angel-Armies has in mind for Egypt.

As it is, the princes of Zoan are all fools

and the princes of Memphis, dunces.

The honored pillars of your society

have led Egypt into detours and dead ends.

Godhas scrambled their brains,

Egypt’s become a falling-down-in-his-own-vomit drunk.

Egypt’s hopeless, past helping,

a senile, doddering old fool.

16-17 On that Day, Egyptians will be like hysterical schoolgirls, screaming at the first hint of action fromGod-of-the-Angel-Armies. Little Judah will strike terror in Egyptians! Say “Judah” to an Egyptian and see panic. The word triggers fear of theGod-of-the-Angel-Armies’ plan against Egypt.

18 On that Day, more than one city in Egypt will learn to speak the language of faith and promise to followGod-of-the-Angel-Armies. One of these cities will be honored with the title “City of the Sun.”

19-22 On that Day, there will be a place of worship toGodin the center of Egypt and a monument toGodat its border. It will show how theGod-of-the-Angel-Armies has helped the Egyptians. When they cry out in prayer toGodbecause of oppressors, he’ll send them help, a savior who will keep them safe and take care of them.Godwill openly show himself to the Egyptians and they’ll get to know him on that Day. They’ll worship him seriously with sacrifices and burnt offerings. They’ll make vows and keep them.Godwill wound Egypt, first hit and then heal. Egypt will come back toGod, andGodwill listen to their prayers and heal them, heal them from head to toe.

23 On that Day, there will be a highway all the way from Egypt to Assyria: Assyrians will have free range in Egypt and Egyptians in Assyria. No longer rivals, they’ll worship together, Egyptians and Assyrians!

24-25 On that Day, Israel will take its place alongside Egypt and Assyria, sharing the blessing from the center.God-of-the-Angel-Armies, who blessed Israel, will generously bless them all: “Blessed be Egypt, my people! . . . Blessed be Assyria, work of my hands! . . . Blessed be Israel, my heritage!”

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Exposed to Mockery and Jeers

1-2 In the year the field commander, sent by King Sargon of Assyria, came to Ashdod and fought and took it,Godtold Isaiah son of Amoz, “Go, take off your clothes and sandals,” and Isaiah did it, going about naked and barefooted.

3-6 ThenGodsaid, “Just as my servant Isaiah has walked around town naked and barefooted for three years as a warning sign to Egypt and Ethiopia, so the king of Assyria is going to come and take the Egyptians as captives and the Ethiopians as exiles. He’ll take young and old alike and march them out of there naked and barefooted, exposed to mockery and jeers—the bared buttocks of Egypt on parade! Everyone who has put hope in Ethiopia and expected help from Egypt will be thrown into confusion. Everyone who lives along this coast will say, ‘Look at them! Naked and barefooted, shuffling off to exile! And we thought they were our best hope, that they’d rescue us from the king of Assyria.Nowwhat’s going to happen to us? How are we going to get out of this?’”

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The Betrayer Betrayed

1-4 A Message concerning the desert at the sea:

As tempests drive through the Negev Desert,

coming out of the desert, that terror-filled place,

A hard vision is given me:

The betrayer betrayed, the plunderer plundered.

Attack, Elam!

Lay siege, Media!

Persians, attack!

Attack, Babylon!

I’ll put an end to

all the moaning and groaning.

Because of this news I’m doubled up in pain,

writhing in pain like a woman having a baby,

Baffled by what I hear,

undone by what I see.

Absolutely stunned,

horror-stricken,

I had hoped for a relaxed evening,

but it has turned into a nightmare.

5 The banquet is spread,

the guests reclining in luxurious ease,

Eating and drinking, having a good time,

and then, “To arms, princes! The fight is on!”

6-9 The Master told me, “Go, post a lookout.

Have him report whatever he spots.

When he sees horses and wagons in battle formation,

lines of donkeys and columns of camels,

Tell him to keep his ear to the ground,

note every whisper, every rumor.”

Just then, the lookout shouted,

“I’m at my post, Master,

Sticking to my post day after day

and all through the night!

I watched them come,

the horses and wagons in battle formation.

I heard them call out the war news in headlines:

‘Babylon fallen! Fallen!

And all its precious god-idols

smashed to pieces on the ground.’”

10 Dear Israel, you’ve been through a lot,

you’ve been put through the mill.

The good news I get fromGod-of-the-Angel-Armies,

the God of Israel, I now pass on to you.

11-12 A Message concerning Edom:

A voice calls to me

from the Seir mountains in Edom,

“Night watchman! How long till daybreak?

How long will this night last?”

The night watchman calls back,

“Morning’s coming,

But for now it’s still night.

If you ask me again, I’ll give the same answer.”

13-15 A Message concerning Arabia:

You’ll have to camp out in the desert badlands,

you caravans of Dedanites.

Haul water to the thirsty,

greet fugitives with bread.

Show your desert hospitality,

you who live in Tema.

The desert’s swarming with refugees

escaping the horrors of war.

16-17 The Master told me, “Hang on. Within one year—I’ll sign a contract on it!—the arrogant brutality of Kedar, those hooligans of the desert, will be over, nothing much left of the Kedar toughs.” TheGodof Israel says so.

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A Country of Cowards

1-3 A Message concerning the Valley of Vision:

What’s going on here anyway?

All this partying and noisemaking,

Shouting and cheering in the streets,

the city noisy with celebrations!

You have no brave soldiers to honor,

no combat heroes to be proud of.

Your leaders were all cowards,

captured without even lifting a sword,

A country of cowards

captured escaping the battle.

You Looked, but You Never Looked to Him

4-8 In the midst of the shouting, I said, “Let me alone.

Let me grieve by myself.

Don’t tell me it’s going to be all right.

These people are doomed. It’snotall right.”

For the Master,God-of-the-Angel-Armies,

is bringing a day noisy with mobs of people,

Jostling and stampeding in the Valley of Vision,

knocking down walls

and hollering to the mountains, “Attack! Attack!”

Old enemies Elam and Kir arrive armed to the teeth—

weapons and chariots and cavalry.

Your fine valleys are noisy with war,

chariots and cavalry charging this way and that.

God has left Judah exposed and defenseless.

8-11 You assessed your defenses that Day, inspected your arsenal of weapons in the Forest Armory. You found the weak places in the city walls that needed repair. You secured the water supply at the Lower Pool. You took an inventory of the houses in Jerusalem and tore down some to get bricks to fortify the city wall. You built a large cistern to ensure plenty of water.

You looked and looked and looked, but you never looked to him who gave you this city, never once consulted the One who has long had plans for this city.

12-13 The Master,God-of-the-Angel-Armies,

called out on that Day,

Called for a day of repentant tears,

called you to dress in somber clothes of mourning.

But what doyoudo? You throw a party!

Eating and drinking and dancing in the streets!

You barbecue bulls and sheep, and throw a huge feast—

slabs of meat, kegs of beer.

“Seize the day! Eat and drink!

Tomorrow we die!”

14 God-of-the-Angel-Armies whispered to me his verdict on this frivolity: “You’ll pay for this outrage until the day you die.” The Master,God-of-the-Angel-Armies, says so.

The Key of the Davidic Heritage

15-19 The Master,God-of-the-Angel-Armies, spoke: “Come. Go to this steward, Shebna, who is in charge of all the king’s affairs, and tell him: What’s going on here? You’re an outsider here and yet you act like you own the place, make a big, fancy tomb for yourself where everyone can see it, making sure everyone will think you’re important.Godis about to sack you, to throw you to the dogs. He’ll grab you by the hair, swing you round and round dizzyingly, and then let you go, sailing through the air like a ball, until you’re out of sight. Where you’ll land, nobody knows. And there you’ll die, and all the stuff you’ve collected heaped on your grave. You’ve disgraced your master’s house! You’re fired—and good riddance!

20-24 “On that Day I’ll replace Shebna. I will call my servant Eliakim son of Hilkiah. I’ll dress him in your robe. I’ll put your belt on him. I’ll give him your authority. He’ll be a father-leader to Jerusalem and the government of Judah. I’ll give him the key of the Davidic heritage. He’ll have the run of the place—open any door and keep it open, lock any door and keep it locked. I’ll pound him like a nail into a solid wall. He’ll secure the Davidic tradition. Everything will hang on him—not only the fate of Davidic descendants but also the detailed daily operations of the house, including cups and cutlery.

25 “And then the Day will come,” saysGod-of-the-Angel-Armies, “when that nail will come loose and fall out, break loose from that solid wall—and everything hanging on it will go with it.” That’s what will happen.Godsays so.

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It Was All Numbers, Dead Numbers, Profit and Loss

1-4 Wail, ships of Tarshish,

your strong seaports all in ruins!

When the ships returned from Cyprus,

they saw the destruction.

Hold your tongue, you who live on the seacoast,

merchants of Sidon.

Your people sailed the deep seas,

buying and selling,

Making money on wheat from Shihor,

grown along the Nile—

multinational broker in grains!

Hang your head in shame, Sidon. The Sea speaks up,

the powerhouse of the ocean says,

“I’ve never had labor pains, never had a baby,

never reared children to adulthood,

Never gave life, never worked with life.

It was all numbers, dead numbers, profit and loss.”

5 When Egypt gets the report on Tyre,

what wailing! what wringing of hands!

Nothing Left Here to Be Proud Of

6-12 Visit Tarshish, you who live on the seacoast.

Take a good, long look and wail—yes, cry buckets of tears!

Is this the city you remember as energetic and alive,

bustling with activity, this historic old city,

Expanding throughout the globe,

buying and selling all over the world?

And who is behind the collapse of Tyre,

the Tyre that controlled the world markets?

Tyre’s merchants were the business tycoons.

Tyre’s traders called all the shots.

God-of-the-Angel-Armies ordered the crash

to show the sordid backside of pride

and puncture the inflated reputations.

Sail for home, O ships of Tarshish.

There are no docks left in this harbor.

Godreached out to the sea and sea traders,

threw the sea kingdoms into turmoil.

Godordered the destruction

of the seacoast cities, the centers of commerce.

Godsaid, “There’s nothing left here to be proud of,

bankrupt and bereft Sidon.

Do you want to make a new start in Cyprus?

Don’t count on it. Nothing there will work out for you either.”

13 Look at what happened to Babylon: There’s nothing left of it. Assyria turned it into a desert, into a refuge for wild dogs and stray cats. They brought in their big siege engines, tore down the buildings, and left nothing behind but rubble.

14 Wail, ships of Tarshish,

your strong seaports all in ruins!

15-16 For the next seventy years, a king’s lifetime, Tyre will be forgotten. At the end of the seventy years, Tyre will stage a comeback, but it will be the comeback of a worn-out whore, as in the song:

“Take a harp, circle the city,

unremembered whore.

Sing your old songs, your many old songs.

Maybe someone will remember.”

17-18 At the end of the seventy years,Godwill look in on Tyre. She’ll go back to her old whoring trade, selling herself to the highest bidder, doing anything with anyone—promiscuous with all the kingdoms of earth—for a fee. But everything she gets, all the money she takes in, will be turned over toGod. It will not be put in banks. Her profits will be put to the use ofGod-Aware,God-Serving-People, providing plenty of food and the best of clothing.

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