1Yahweh says, “Terrible things will happen to you, my people who rebel against me.
2You went to Egypt to ask their rulers for help,
3But the result of your trusting in the king of Egypt is that you will be disappointed and disgraced;
4Officials/ambassadors from Judah have gone to Zoan and Hanes cities in Egypt to make treaties,
5but all those who trust in the King of Egypt will be humiliated,
6I received from Yahweh this message about the animals in the southern part of Judah:
7The promises made by the king of Egypt are worthless;
8Yahweh told me to write on a scroll a message,
9It would remind them that they are deceitful and always rebelling against Yahweh;
10They tell the people who see/receive visions from Yahweh,
11Stop doing what you have been doing [DOU];
12Therefore, this is what the Holy One of Israel says:
13Therefore, the result of your sin of rejecting me will be that you will suddenly experience disasters;
14You will be smashed like a clay jar is smashed when it is dropped,
15Yahweh, our God, the Holy One of Israel, also says this:
16You said, ‘No, we will escape on horses that the army of Egypt will give us!’
17As a result, 1,000 of you will flee when only one of them pursues you!
18But Yahweh wants to be kind to you;
19You people who live in Jerusalem [DOU], some day you will not cry any more. Yahweh will be kind to you when you call out to him for help. He will answer/help you as soon as he hears you call.
20Although now Yahweh has caused you to daily experience [MET] great troubles and suffer much, he, your teacher, will not hide himself from you. He [SYN] will teach you many things clearly.
21And you will hear him speak to you to guide you. Right behind you he will say, “This is the road on which you should walk; walk on this road!”
22When that happens, you will destroy all your idols that are covered with silver or gold. You will throw them away like you throw away a filthy rag, and you will say to them, “We do not need you any more!”
23If you do that, Yahweh will bless you by giving you good rain at the time that you plant your crops. You will have good harvests, and plenty of pasture with grass for your cattle to eat.
24After the wind blows away the chaff, the oxen and donkeys that pull the plow to plow your ground will have good grain to eat.
25At that time, when your enemies have been slaughtered and their towers have ◄collapsed/been destroyed►, there will be streams flowing down every hill and mountain in Judah.
26The moon will seem to shine as brightly as the sun, and the sun will seem to shine seven times as brightly as previously. That is what it will be like when Yahweh causes the suffering of his people to cease; it will be as though [MET] he will be putting bandages on their wounds and healing them.
27It is as though we see Yahweh coming from far away;
28His breath is like [SIM] a flood that covers his enemies up to their necks.
29But his people will sing joyfully
30And Yahweh will enable us to hear him speaking powerfully/majestically.
31The soldiers of Assyria will be terrified when they hear the voice of Yahweh
32And while Yahweh strikes them to punish them,
33The valley of Topheth outside Jerusalem has been prepared for a long time;