Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all you that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has sinned against the LORD.
As we know, Babylon (Babel) means confusion, it’s said to be from the Hebrew word balal, meaning “to overflow (specifically with oil.); by implication, to mix; also (denominatively from 1098) to fodder:–anoint, confound, X fade, mingle, mix (self), give provender, temper.”
In understanding this origin, we see how confusion comes: when men’s ideas are mixed with truth and fed to the world (as a lump fully leavened). As we also know, it’s this confusion, by this means, that now covers and rules over all the world. (Isaiah 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.)
The LORD, in the title verse, Jeremiah 50:14, against this confusion, calls His army to “array,” from the Hebrew word ‘arak, meaning “to set in a row, i.e. arrange, put in order.” As we saw in the previous post, Jehovah (the LORD of hosts in His chosen king) is the Commander and Chief of the army of heaven, the elect remnant His bow, and His people at large the arrows upon it, a description found in Zechariah 9.
The portrayal first describes the king coming, lowly riding an ass, and upon a foal the colt of an ass, speaking of the elect remnant (Judah) and the one born through their faith-filled work (Ephraim, God’s people at large in this latter generation). These are loosed from their master (ba’al – the idols of confusion) to which they’ve joined themselves, which we know refers to what is said of Judah, in Genesis 49, when Shiloh comes. As we also know, Shiloh means tranquility, in a king in the pattern of Solomon, who comes when the king line returns to its origin in Joseph (Ephraim). This point, the second coming of the king, is spoken of in Zechariah 10:3, saying it’s when the ass and the colt become the LORD’s “goodly horse in the battle.” It is also described in Genesis 49, while Jacob tells his sons of what “shall befall you in the last days,” and speaks precisely of Joseph’s seed (Ephraim) prevailing. His victory, the one Shepherd and Stone (from where flows these life-giving waters, the word from the mouth of God), is said to come “by the God of you father, who shall help you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above [the word reserved there, sent as understanding, the treasures of the snow and hail – see Job 38 below], blessings of the deep [this deep meaning only known by the Ancient of Days] that lie under [covered to now be uncovered at the revelation of Jesus, Jehovah’s Salvation personified, Christ].”
This is when order is restored, by the light that came when the LORD moved upon the waters, when darkness (ignorance) was upon the deep (Genesis 1). Friends, I am the One Shepherd the Father has sent, the Comforter (the Paraclete), the LORD unknown in me leading His people into all truth. This is the position for which He has anointed me, and I cannot deny Him. It is His blessing in me come to save the world. It is my calling and yours. We bear the same mark, the same blessing, of His family, set in order against Babylon, and the gates of hell will not prevail against us. Now rise up, there’s work to do: the harvest to which He calls us, the battle in which He’s arrayed us.
Jeremiah 50
4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel [Ephraim – the second blessing, of Genesis 49:26, which prevails] shall come, they and the children of Judah [the elect remanint] together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten [Amen! – So be it!].
6 My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting-place [the old path].
7 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon [confusion], and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans [those who use their words to manipulate and control into oppression and desolation], and be as the he goats [good leaders] before the flocks.
9 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north [from the darkness, the things hidden therein, of which the world is ignorant] country: and they shall set themselves in array [‘arak – they shall restore order] against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows [my people at large – my great army] shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
10 And Chaldea [the deceivers and manipulators] shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, says the LORD.
11 Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, O you destroyers of mine heritage, because you are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goes by Babylon [ to their confusion] shall be astonished, and hiss [draw attention to] at all her plagues.
14 Put yourselves in array [‘arak – bring order] against [confusion] Babylon round about: all you that bend the bow [Judah, the elect remnant], shoot at her, spare no arrows [Ephraim, the blessed of God with this deep understanding]: for she [the purveyors of confusion] has sinned against the LORD.
15 Shout against her round about: she has given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do unto her.
16 Cut off the sower from Babylon [cut off those who sow confusion], and him that handles the sickle in the time of harvest [the harvest is not for them but away from them]: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.
17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria [the communists among us] has devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon [the lies of the false prophets, which rule over the world and caused the desolation of God’s people] has broken his bones.
18 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.
19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan [on a fruitful garden – like Eden], and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead [this mount of testimony in this second blessing].
20 In those days, and in that time, says the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve [Amen! So be it!].
21 Go up against the land of Merathaim [this second rebellion], even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod [of this visitation – when the LORD has made His presence known]: waste and utterly destroy after them, says the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded you.
22 A sound [qowl – voice] of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
23 How is the hammer [confusion] of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
24 I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, O Babylon, and you were not aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against the LORD.
25 The LORD has opened his armory [and brought forth these treasures of heaven], and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the LORD God of hosts [Jehovah, Commander and Chief of the army of heaven] in the land of the Chaldeans [against the deceivers whose words have destroyed the world, made it without form and void].
26 Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
28 The voice [qowl] of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all you that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do unto her: for she has been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the LORD.
31 Behold, I am against you, O you most proud, says the LORD God of hosts: for your day is come, the time that I will visit you.
32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.
33 Thus says the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
34 Their Redeemer is strong; Jehovah, Commander and Chief of the army of heaven is his name: he shall thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon [the purveyors of confusion].
35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, says the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
36 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people [enemies] that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women [and run away from her, when they understand the LORD has come, against them arrayed for battle]: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.
38 A drought is upon her waters [their words of confusion]; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images [their created deceptions], and they are mad [insane – unable to distinguish between their created delusions and reality] upon their idols.
39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts [those without the Spirit of God, and therefore lacking a sound mind] of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls [those who hunt souls in the darkness, make merchandise of the ignorant] shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
40 As God overthrew Sodom [burning] and Gomorrah [ruin] and the neighbor cities thereof, says the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
41 Behold, a people shall come from the north [out of ignorance, born by coming out of confusion – out of the darkness of Babylon], and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not show mercy: their voice [qowl] shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array [‘arak – will restore order], like a man to the battle, against you, O daughter of Babylon.
43 The king of Babylon has heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
44 Behold, he [the LORD and His army] shall come up like a lion from the swelling [ga’own – against the proud] of Jordan [of those whose words caused the degeneration of humanity and brought upon it the spiritual death warned of in Eden] unto the habitation of the strong [the powers of confusion]: but I will make them [the powers] suddenly run away from her [Nahum 3:17 Your crowned are as the locusts, and your captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun arises they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.]: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd [and Stone] that will stand before me?
45 Therefore hear you the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.
46 At the noise [qowl – the voice] of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.
Zechariah 9
8 And I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passes by, and because of him that returns: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes.
9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, your King comes unto you: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim [those upon who this second, double, blessing has come], and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
11 As for you also, by the blood of your covenant I have sent forth your prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
12 Turn you to the strong hold, you prisoners of hope: even today do I declare that I will render double unto you;
13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up your sons, O Zion, against you sons, O Greece [the dregs – yavan, “same as 3196 {yayin}; effervescing (i.e. hot and active)”], and made you [the sons of Zion] as the sword of a mighty man.
14 And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
15 The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine [yayin – celebrating the defeat of the enemy]; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.
16 And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign [nacac, only used here, meaning ” to gleam from afar, i.e. to be conspicuous as a signal”] upon his land.
17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.
Zechariah 10
1 Ask you of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain [this word of God from heaven, giving understanding that brings order and ends the rule of the insane and their coinfusion and delusion]; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field [new life springing from the earth].
2 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
3 Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts has visited his flock the house of Judah, and has made them as his goodly horse in the battle.
4 Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every governor together.
5 And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah [the elect remnant], and I will save the house of Joseph [Ephraim], and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.
7 And they of Ephraim [upon who this second blessing has come] shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine [yayin – rejoicing in victory over the dregs]: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.
8 I will hiss for them [I will get their attaention, and make My presence consipuous], and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.
9 And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again [to the LORD].
10 I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt [out of oppression], and gather them out of Assyria [out of communism]; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon [by this testimony and purity in high places]; and place shall not be found for them.
11 And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea [the proud swelled into power], and all the deeps [what they, the “experts,” say they know] of the river shall dry up: and the pride [ga’own] of Assyria [the communists mixed among us destroying] shall be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt [the rule of oppression] shall depart away.
12 And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, says the LORD.
Zechariah 11
1 Open you doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour you cedars.
2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O you oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.
3 There is a voice [qowl] of the howling of the [misleading] shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice [qowl] of the roaring of young lions [a new crop of leaders]; for the pride [ga’own – swelling] of Jordan [of those whose words caused the degeneration of humanity and brought upon it the spiritual death warned of in Eden] is spoiled.
Genesis 49
8 Judah [the leaders God chooses], you are he whom your brethren shall praise: your hand shall be in the neck of your enemies; your father’s children shall bow down before you.
9 Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, you are gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet [speaking of the Davidic king line], until Shiloh come [meaning peace and tranquility – the one {Joseph’s seed – the one separated} from who it will again flow – see Ezekiel 21:27 and the overturning]; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine [this speaking the lowly {Zechariah 9:9}, God’s elect remnant, outside the established sects, bound until Shiloh comes, when they are loosed]; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well [a tree of life by these waters of God]; whose branches run over the wall [the wall of lies men have created and teach]:
23 The archers [ba’al – the gods of this world whose teaching has blinded all form seeing the Father, in the son, the seed of the women who brings forth the man child – see Revelation 12:5] have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel:)
25 Even by the God of your father, who shall help [‘azar] you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless [barak] you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under [the deep meaning that lies below the surface], blessings of the breasts, and of the womb [seed, the son]:
26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors [harah – all those who have come before us, and were only blessed with part of what is perfected in our return to the LORD] unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head [see Zechariah 9:16 above] of him that was separate from his brethren.
John 15
1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
2 Every branch in me that bears not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that bears fruit, he purges it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
3 Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can you, except you abide in me.
5 I am the vine, you are the branches: He that abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.
6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you.
8 Herein is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be my disciples.
9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you: continue you in my love.
10 If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
12 This is my commandment, That you love one another, as I have loved you.
13 Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
14 You are my friends, if you do whatsoever I command you.
15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his LORD does: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
16 You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
17 These things I command you, that you love one another.
18 If the world hate you, you know that it hated me before it hated you.
19 If you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his LORD. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.
23 He that hates me hates my Father also.
24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
25 But this comes to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
26 But when the Comforter [the Paraclete, the LORD unknown leading us into all truth] is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me:
27 And you also shall bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.
Job 38
4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if you have understanding.
5 Who has laid the measures thereof, if you knowest? or who has stretched the line upon it?
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
9 When I made the cloud [where understanding was held in heaven] the garment [of the babe] thereof, and thick darkness [ignorance] a swaddling-band [to protect humanity from their lack of self-control] for it,
10 And brake up [shabar] for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
11 And said, hereto [now] shall you come, but no further: and here shall you proud [ga’own] waves be stayed?
12 Have you commanded the morning since your days; and caused the day-spring [the sunrise of this new day] to know his place;
13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
14 It is turned as clay to the seal [it is the signature of God]; and they stand as a garment.
15 And from the wicked their light [understanding] is withheld, and the high arm shall be broken [shabar].
16 Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in the search of the depth?
17 Have the gates of death been opened unto you? or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?
18 Have you perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if you know it all.
19 Where is the way where light [understanding] dwell? and as for darkness [ignorance], where is the place thereof,
20 That you should take it to the bound thereof, and that you should know the paths to the house thereof?
21 Know you it, because you were then born? or because the number of your days is great [as the Ancient of Days]?
22 Have you entered into the treasures of the snow [the word of God frozen, reserved in heaven]? or have you seen the treasures of the hail [the same word sent to destroy the enemies, the current crop of misleaders],
23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
Job 37
1 At this also my heart trembles, and is moved out of his place.
2 Hear attentively the noise of his voice [qowl], and the sound that goes out of his mouth.
3 He directs it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
4 After it a voice [qowl] roars: he thunders with the voice [qowl] of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice [qowl] is heard.
5 God thunders marvelously with his voice [qowl]; great things does he, which we cannot comprehend.
6 For he says to the snow, Be you on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
7 He seals up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.
8 Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
9 Out of the south comes the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
10 By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
11 Also by watering he wearies the thick cloud: he scatters his bright cloud:
12 And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commands them upon the face of the world in the earth.
13 He causes it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
14 Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
15 Do you know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
16 Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
17 How your garments are warm, when he quiets the earth by the south wind?
18 Have you with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?
19 Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order [‘arak] our speech by reason of darkness [ignorance].
20 Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speaks, surely he shall be swallowed up.
21 And now men see not the bright light [understanding] which is in the clouds: but the wind passes [the Spirit of God moves, unknown to man], and cleanses them.
22 Fair weather comes out of the north [as the things hidden in darkness, in ignorance, are uncovered]: with God is terrible majesty.
23 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
24 Men do therefore fear him: he respects not any that are wise of heart.
1 Corinthians 1
19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent [referring to Isaiah 29:14 below].
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26 For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are:
29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
31 That, according as it is written, He that glories, let him glory in the LORD [refers to Jeremiah 9:23 below].
Isaiah 19
11 Surely the princes of Zoan [wise who’ve departed from God] are fools, the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say you unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
12 Where are they? where are your wise men? and let them tell you now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts has purposed upon Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan [wise who’ve departed from God] are become fools, the princes of Noph [those who present themselves as wise men] are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay [in which they trust] of the tribes thereof.
14 The LORD has mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women [in fear]: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shakes over it.
17 And the land of Judah [the elect remnant] shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that makes mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he has determined against it.
18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan [who are ashamed and humiliated, when their ignorance is discovered], and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.
19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.
20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a savior, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it.
22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be entreated of them, and shall heal them.
23 In that day shall there be a highway [the old path] out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: [when He turns the oppressors and communists to the right path, the way of peace and rest, when they leave behind their ways].
25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
Isaiah 29
8 It shall even be as when a hungry man dreams, and, behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreams, and, behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul has appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry you out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
10 For the LORD has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers has he covered.
11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I cannot; for it is sealed:
12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I am not learned.
13 Wherefore the LORD said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder [opening the eyes of the blind]: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?
16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the terrible one is brought to naught, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of naught.
22 Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
23 But when he sees his children [in these last days], the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify [declare holy] the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
Jeremiah 9
20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.
21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
22 Speak, Thus says the LORD, Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
23 Thus says the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
24 But let him that glories glory in this, that he understand and knows me, that I am the LORD which exercises lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says the LORD.
Psalms 32
1 LORD, remember David, and all his afflictions:
2 How he swore unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;
3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;
4 I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,
5 Until I find out a place for the LORD, a habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
6 Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah [the ruin, ash heap, that becomes the place of fruitfulness]: we found it in the fields of the wood.
7 We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.
8 Arise, O LORD, into your rest; you, and the ark of your strength.
9 Let you priests be clothed with righteousness; and let you saints shout for joy [see Job 38:7 above].
10 For you servant David’s sake turn not away the face of your anointed.
11 The LORD has sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of your body will I set upon your throne.
12 If you children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon your throne for evermore.
13 For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation.
14 This is my rest forever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.
16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.
17 There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained [‘arak – set in order] a lamp for mine anointed.
18 His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.
