Highlights (Hgs):
Prophecy on punishment of Bablylon, Assyria, Philistines.
The wrath of God is fearsome and trembling:
6. Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty.
7. Because of this, all hands will go limp, every heart will melt with fear.
8. Terror will seize them, pain and anguish will grip them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at each other, their faces aflame
9. See, the day of the LORD is coming a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners within it.
10. The stars of heaven and their constellations will not show their light. The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light.
11. I will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sins. I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and will humble the pride of the ruthless.
12. I will make people scarcer than pure gold, more rare than the gold of Ophir.
13. Therefore I will make the heavens tremble; and the earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the LORD Almighty, in the day of his burning anger.
14. Like a hunted gazelle, like sheep without a shepherd, they will all return to their own people, they will flee to their native land.
15. Whoever is captured will be thrust through; all who are caught will fall by the sword.
16. Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives violated.
Prophecy and description of pride of Satan/ Lucifer-Chapter 13:12-15.
19. Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms, the pride and glory of the Babylonians, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
20. She will never be inhabited or lived in through all generations; there no nomads will pitch their tents, there no shepherds will rest their flocks.
21. But desert creatures will lie there, jackals will fill her houses; there the owls will dwell, and there the wild goats will leap about.
22. Hyenas will inhabit her strongholds, jackals her luxurious palaces. Her time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.
The plan and greatness of God. Chapter 14:24-27-who can thwart his plans vs 27.
The Fall of Lucifer-Chapter 14
12. How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!
13. You said in your heart, “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon.
14. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”
15. But you are brought down to the realm of the dead, to the depths of the pit.