1. Outline

a. Lessons in Trust 13 – 35

1. Don’t trust the nations 13 – 23

2. Yahweh, Sovereign of the nations 24 - 27

3. Woe to those who will not wait 28 - 33

4. The nations? A desert; Yahweh? A Garden 34 – 35

5. Don’t Trust the Nations

a. Placement of the segment and possible structure

1. Babylon: representative of the nations 13 – 14

ii. Philistia: Enemy neighbor 14:28-32

iii. Moab: the height of pride 15 – 16

iv. Damascus and Israel: Enemy neighbors 17:1-11

v. The ends of the earth 17:12 – 18:7

vi. Egypt: Helpless Help 19 – 20b

vii. Babylon: its fall and repercussions 21

viii. The Valley of Vision 22

ix. Tyre, Queen of the West 23

b. All the nations are under judgment from your God and some will even turn to him.