Author: Shalem John

Ask the Lord for rain in the springtime, and He will answer with lightning and showers. Every field will become a lush pasture. 2 How foolish to ask the idols for anything like that! Fortune-tellers’ predictions are all a bunch of silly lies; what comfort is there in promises that don’t come true? Judah and Israel have been led astray and wander like lost sheep; everyone attacks them, for they have no shepherd to protect them. 3 “My anger burns against your ‘shepherds’-your lenders and I will punish them these goats. For the Lord of Hosts has arrived to help…

Open your doors, oh Lebanon, to judgment. You will be destroyed as though by fire raging through your forests. 2 Weep, oh cypress trees, for all the ruined cedars; the tallest and most beautiful of them are fallen. Cry in fear, you oaks of Bashan, as you watch the thickest forests felled. 3 Listen to the wailing of Israel’s leaders all these evil shepherds for their wealth is gone. Hear the young lions roaring the princes are weeping, for their glorious Jordan valley lies in ruins. 4 Then said the Lord my God to me, “Go and take a job…

A gain the Lord’s message came to me: 2 “The Lord of Hosts says, I am greatly con- Cerned yes, furiously angry because of all that Jeru-salem’s enemies have done to her. 3 Now I am going to return to My land and I, Myself, will live within Jerusalem; and Jerusalem shall be called “The Faithful City,’ and ‘The Holy Mountain,’ and ‘The Mountain of the Lord of Hosts.’ ” 4 The Lord of Hosts declares that Jerusalem will have peace and prosperity so long that there will once again be aged men and women hobbling through her streets on…