Isaiah 24:16

²A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.

¹Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed, and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.

¹¹For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,” says the LORD.

²⁰“Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel,” says the LORD.

¹⁰The LORD has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

³He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

⁷God will bless us. All the ends of the earth shall fear him.

^1[+] Give thanks to the LORD, ^[+] for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. ²Let the redeemed by the LORD say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary, ³and gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. ⁴They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in. ⁵Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. ⁶Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses. ⁷He led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in. ⁸Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men! ⁹For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good. ¹⁰Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron, ¹¹because they rebelled against the words of God, ^[+] and condemned the counsel of the Most High. ¹²Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was no one to help. ¹³Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. ¹⁴He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains. ¹⁵Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men! ¹⁶For he has broken the gates of bronze, and cut through bars of iron. ¹⁷Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities. ¹⁸Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death. ¹⁹Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble, and he saves them out of their distresses. ²⁰He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves. ²¹Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men! ²²Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his deeds with singing. ²³Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters, ²⁴these see the LORD’s deeds, and his wonders in the deep. ²⁵For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves. ²⁶They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble. ²⁷They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end. ²⁸Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress. ²⁹He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still. ³⁰Then they are glad because it is calm, so he brings them to their desired haven. ³¹Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds for the children of men! ³²Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders. ³³He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground, ³⁴and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it. ³⁵He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs. ³⁶There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in, ³⁷sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase. ³⁸He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease. ³⁹Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow. ⁴⁰He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste. ⁴¹Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock. ⁴²The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths. ⁴³Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of the LORD.

⁶For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

⁸Yes, you didn’t hear. Yes, you didn’t know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.