those whom the Lord has ransomed will return that way. ¹  They will enter Zion with a happy shout. Unending joy will crown them, ²  happiness and joy will overwhelm ³  them; grief and suffering will disappear. ⁴ 

Those whom the Lord has ransomed will return; they will enter Zion with a happy shout. Unending joy will crown them, ¹  happiness and joy will overwhelm ²  them; grief and suffering will disappear. ³ 

The godly ¹  perish, but no one cares. ²  Honest people disappear, ³  when no one ⁴  minds ⁵  that the godly ⁶  disappear ⁷  because of ⁸  evil. ⁹ 

Therefore the land will mourn, and all its inhabitants will perish. ¹  The wild animals, ²  the birds of the sky, and even the fish in the sea will perish.

Therefore they will disappear like ¹  the morning mist, ²  like early morning dew that evaporates, ³  like chaff that is blown away ⁴  from a threshing floor, like smoke that disappears through an open window.

“I said, ‘I want to cut them in pieces. ¹  I want to make people forget they ever existed.

He grows up ¹  like a flower and then withers away; ²  he flees like a shadow, and does not remain. ³ 

Fire resides in his tent; ¹  over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.

The drought as well as the heat carry away the melted snow; ¹  so the grave ²  takes away those who have sinned. ³ 

May all my enemies be humiliated ¹  and absolutely terrified! ²  May they turn back and be suddenly humiliated!

You bring their lives to an end and they “fall asleep.” ¹  In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;

For my days go up in smoke, ¹  and my bones are charred like a fireplace. ² 

Drive out the scorner ¹  and contention will leave; strife and insults will cease. ² 

Where there is no wood, a fire goes out, and where there is no gossip, ¹  contention ceases. ² 

I will make human beings more scarce than pure gold, and people more scarce ¹  than gold from Ophir.

Here is a message about Damascus: “Look, Damascus is no longer a city, it is a heap of ruins!

They howl in the streets because of what happened to the wine; ¹  all joy turns to sorrow; ²  celebrations disappear from the earth. ³ 

Even if the forest is destroyed ¹  and the city is annihilated, ² 

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tiny stroke of a letter ¹  in the law to become void. ² 

But the rich person’s pride should be in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a wildflower in the meadow. ¹