1. Pre-Exile: The Judgment & Blessing Cycles (1:1 - 39:8) - 740-709 B.C., Israel
(These 2 groups of prophecies concentrate first on Judah & Jerusalem then on the Nations.)

C. Cycles of Prophecy for Judah and Jerusalem (24:1 - 35:10)

1. Cycle 1 - (24:1 - 27:13)

a. Judgment: On the Whole Earth (24:1-23)

b. Blessing: On God's People in Judah and Israel (Continued) (25:1 - 27:13)

¹ In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah;

We have a strong city;
salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.

² Open ye the gates,
that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth
may enter in.
³ Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace [peace peace],
whose mind is stayed on thee:
because he trusteth in thee.
⁴ Trust ye in the LORD for ever:
for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
⁵ For he bringeth down
them that dwell on high;
the lofty city,
he layeth it low;
he layeth it low, even to the ground;
he bringeth it even to the dust.
⁶ The foot shall tread it down,
even the feet of the poor,
and the steps of the needy.
⁷ The way of the just is uprightness:
thou, most upright,
dost weigh the path of the just.
⁸ Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD,
have we waited for thee;
the desire of our soul is to thy name,
and to the remembrance of thee.
⁹ With my soul have I desired thee in the night;
yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early:
for when thy judgments are in the earth,
the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
¹⁰ Let favour be shewed to the wicked,
yet will he not learn righteousness:
in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly,
and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
¹¹ LORD, when thy hand is lifted up,
they will not see:
but they shall see,
and be ashamed for their envy at the people;
yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
¹² LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us:
for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.
¹³ O LORD our God,
other lords beside thee have had dominion over us:
but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
¹⁴ They are dead,
they shall not live;
they are deceased,
they shall not rise:
therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them,
and made all their memory to perish.
¹⁵ Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD,
thou hast increased the nation:
thou art glorified:
thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.

¹⁶ LORD, in trouble have they visited thee,
they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
¹⁷ Like as a woman with child,
that draweth near the time of her delivery,
is in pain,
and crieth out in her pangs;
so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
¹⁸ We have been with child,
we have been in pain,
we have as it were bought forth wind;
we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth;
neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
¹⁹ Thy dead men shall live,
together with my dead body shall they arise.
Awake and sing,
ye that dwell in dust:
for thy dew is as the dew of herbs,
and the earth shall cast out the dead

²⁰ Come, my people,
enter thou into thy chambers,
and shut thy doors about thee:
hide thyself as it were for a little moment,
until the indignation be overpast.
²¹ For, behold,
the LORD cometh out of his place
to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:
the earth also shall disclose [this] her blood,
and shall no more cover [cover over] her slain.