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Isaiah 7:17-21:13
New International Version
Isaiah 7:17-21:13
New International Version
17 The Lord will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since Ephraim broke away(A) from Judah—he will bring the king of Assyria.(B)”
Assyria, the Lord’s Instrument
18 In that day(C) the Lord will whistle(D) for flies from the Nile delta in Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.(E) 19 They will all come and settle in the steep ravines and in the crevices(F) in the rocks, on all the thornbushes(G) and at all the water holes. 20 In that day(H) the Lord will use(I) a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River(J)—the king of Assyria(K)—to shave your head and private parts, and to cut off your beard(L) also.(M) 21 In that day,(N) a person will keep alive a young cow and two goats.(O) 22 And because of the abundance of the milk they give, there will be curds to eat. All who remain in the land will eat curds(P) and honey.(Q) 23 In that day,(R) in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels,[a](S) there will be only briers and thorns.(T) 24 Hunters will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers(U) and thorns. 25 As for all the hills(V) once cultivated by the hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of the briers and thorns;(W) they will become places where cattle are turned loose and where sheep run.(X)
Isaiah and His Children as Signs
8 The Lord said to me, “Take a large scroll(Y) and write on it with an ordinary pen: Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.”[b](Z) 2 So I called in Uriah(AA) the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah as reliable witnesses(AB) for me. 3 Then I made love to the prophetess,(AC) and she conceived and gave birth to a son.(AD) And the Lord said to me, “Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.(AE) 4 For before the boy knows(AF) how to say ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus(AG) and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.(AH)”
5 The Lord spoke to me again:
6 “Because this people has rejected(AI)
the gently flowing waters of Shiloah(AJ)
and rejoices over Rezin
and the son of Remaliah,(AK)
7 therefore the Lord is about to bring against them
the mighty floodwaters(AL) of the Euphrates—
the king of Assyria(AM) with all his pomp.(AN)
It will overflow all its channels,
run over all its banks(AO)
8 and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it,(AP)
passing through it and reaching up to the neck.
Its outspread wings(AQ) will cover the breadth of your land,
Immanuel[c]!”(AR)
9 Raise the war cry,[d](AS) you nations, and be shattered!(AT)
Listen, all you distant lands.
Prepare(AU) for battle, and be shattered!
Prepare for battle, and be shattered!
10 Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted;(AV)
propose your plan, but it will not stand,(AW)
for God is with us.[e](AX)
11 This is what the Lord says to me with his strong hand upon me,(AY) warning me not to follow(AZ) the way of this people:
12 “Do not call conspiracy(BA)
everything this people calls a conspiracy;
do not fear what they fear,(BB)
and do not dread it.(BC)
13 The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy,(BD)
he is the one you are to fear,(BE)
he is the one you are to dread.(BF)
14 He will be a holy place;(BG)
for both Israel and Judah he will be
a stone(BH) that causes people to stumble(BI)
and a rock that makes them fall.(BJ)
And for the people of Jerusalem he will be
a trap and a snare.(BK)
15 Many of them will stumble;(BL)
they will fall and be broken,
they will be snared and captured.”
16 Bind up this testimony of warning(BM)
and seal(BN) up God’s instruction among my disciples.
17 I will wait(BO) for the Lord,
who is hiding(BP) his face from the descendants of Jacob.
I will put my trust in him.(BQ)
18 Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me.(BR) We are signs(BS) and symbols(BT) in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.(BU)
The Darkness Turns to Light
19 When someone tells you to consult(BV) mediums and spiritists,(BW) who whisper and mutter,(BX) should not a people inquire(BY) of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? 20 Consult God’s instruction(BZ) and the testimony of warning.(CA) If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light(CB) of dawn. 21 Distressed and hungry,(CC) they will roam through the land;(CD) when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse(CE) their king and their God. 22 Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom,(CF) and they will be thrust into utter darkness.(CG)
9 [f]Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom(CH) for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,(CI) but in the future he will honor Galilee of the nations, by the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan—
2 The people walking in darkness(CJ)
have seen a great light;(CK)
on those living in the land of deep darkness(CL)
a light has dawned.(CM)
3 You have enlarged the nation(CN)
and increased their joy;(CO)
they rejoice before you
as people rejoice at the harvest,
as warriors rejoice
when dividing the plunder.(CP)
4 For as in the day of Midian’s defeat,(CQ)
you have shattered(CR)
the yoke(CS) that burdens them,
the bar across their shoulders,(CT)
the rod of their oppressor.(CU)
5 Every warrior’s boot used in battle
and every garment rolled in blood
will be destined for burning,(CV)
will be fuel for the fire.
6 For to us a child is born,(CW)
to us a son is given,(CX)
and the government(CY) will be on his shoulders.(CZ)
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor,(DA) Mighty God,(DB)
Everlasting(DC) Father,(DD) Prince of Peace.(DE)
7 Of the greatness of his government(DF) and peace(DG)
there will be no end.(DH)
He will reign(DI) on David’s throne
and over his kingdom,
establishing and upholding it
with justice(DJ) and righteousness(DK)
from that time on and forever.(DL)
The zeal(DM) of the Lord Almighty
will accomplish this.
The Lord’s Anger Against Israel
8 The Lord has sent a message(DN) against Jacob;
it will fall on Israel.
9 All the people will know it—
Ephraim(DO) and the inhabitants of Samaria(DP)—
who say with pride
and arrogance(DQ) of heart,
10 “The bricks have fallen down,
but we will rebuild with dressed stone;(DR)
the fig(DS) trees have been felled,
but we will replace them with cedars.(DT)”
11 But the Lord has strengthened Rezin’s(DU) foes against them
and has spurred their enemies on.
12 Arameans(DV) from the east and Philistines(DW) from the west
have devoured(DX) Israel with open mouth.
13 But the people have not returned(EA) to him who struck(EB) them,
nor have they sought(EC) the Lord Almighty.
14 So the Lord will cut off from Israel both head and tail,
both palm branch and reed(ED) in a single day;(EE)
15 the elders(EF) and dignitaries(EG) are the head,
the prophets(EH) who teach lies(EI) are the tail.
16 Those who guide(EJ) this people mislead them,
and those who are guided are led astray.(EK)
17 Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men,(EL)
nor will he pity(EM) the fatherless and widows,
for everyone is ungodly(EN) and wicked,(EO)
every mouth speaks folly.(EP)
Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,
his hand is still upraised.(EQ)
18 Surely wickedness burns like a fire;(ER)
it consumes briers and thorns,(ES)
it sets the forest thickets ablaze,(ET)
so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.
19 By the wrath(EU) of the Lord Almighty
the land will be scorched(EV)
and the people will be fuel for the fire;(EW)
they will not spare one another.(EX)
20 On the right they will devour,
but still be hungry;(EY)
on the left they will eat,(EZ)
but not be satisfied.
Each will feed on the flesh of their own offspring[g]:
21 Manasseh will feed on Ephraim, and Ephraim on Manasseh;(FA)
together they will turn against Judah.(FB)
Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,
his hand is still upraised.(FC)
10 Woe(FD) to those who make unjust laws,
to those who issue oppressive decrees,(FE)
2 to deprive(FF) the poor of their rights
and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,(FG)
making widows their prey
and robbing the fatherless.(FH)
3 What will you do on the day of reckoning,(FI)
when disaster(FJ) comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?(FK)
Where will you leave your riches?
4 Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives(FL)
or fall among the slain.(FM)
Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,(FN)
his hand is still upraised.
God’s Judgment on Assyria
5 “Woe(FO) to the Assyrian,(FP) the rod(FQ) of my anger,
in whose hand is the club(FR) of my wrath!(FS)
6 I send him against a godless(FT) nation,
I dispatch(FU) him against a people who anger me,(FV)
to seize loot and snatch plunder,(FW)
and to trample(FX) them down like mud in the streets.
7 But this is not what he intends,(FY)
this is not what he has in mind;
his purpose is to destroy,
to put an end to many nations.
8 ‘Are not my commanders(FZ) all kings?’ he says.
9 ‘Has not Kalno(GA) fared like Carchemish?(GB)
Is not Hamath(GC) like Arpad,(GD)
and Samaria(GE) like Damascus?(GF)
10 As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols,(GG)
kingdoms whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria—
11 shall I not deal with Jerusalem and her images
as I dealt with Samaria and her idols?(GH)’”
12 When the Lord has finished all his work(GI) against Mount Zion(GJ) and Jerusalem, he will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria(GK) for the willful pride(GL) of his heart and the haughty look(GM) in his eyes. 13 For he says:
“‘By the strength of my hand(GN) I have done this,(GO)
and by my wisdom, because I have understanding.
I removed the boundaries of nations,
I plundered their treasures;(GP)
like a mighty one I subdued[h] their kings.(GQ)
14 As one reaches into a nest,(GR)
so my hand reached for the wealth(GS) of the nations;
as people gather abandoned eggs,
so I gathered all the countries;(GT)
not one flapped a wing,
or opened its mouth to chirp.(GU)’”
15 Does the ax raise itself above the person who swings it,
or the saw boast against the one who uses it?(GV)
As if a rod were to wield the person who lifts it up,
or a club(GW) brandish the one who is not wood!
16 Therefore, the Lord, the Lord Almighty,
will send a wasting disease(GX) upon his sturdy warriors;(GY)
under his pomp(GZ) a fire(HA) will be kindled
like a blazing flame.
17 The Light of Israel will become a fire,(HB)
their Holy One(HC) a flame;
in a single day it will burn and consume
his thorns(HD) and his briers.(HE)
18 The splendor of his forests(HF) and fertile fields
it will completely destroy,(HG)
as when a sick person wastes away.
19 And the remaining trees of his forests(HH) will be so few(HI)
that a child could write them down.
The Remnant of Israel
20 In that day(HJ) the remnant of Israel,
the survivors(HK) of Jacob,
will no longer rely(HL) on him
who struck them down(HM)
but will truly rely(HN) on the Lord,
the Holy One of Israel.(HO)
21 A remnant(HP) will return,[i](HQ) a remnant of Jacob
will return to the Mighty God.(HR)
22 Though your people be like the sand(HS) by the sea, Israel,
only a remnant will return.(HT)
Destruction has been decreed,(HU)
overwhelming and righteous.
23 The Lord, the Lord Almighty, will carry out
the destruction decreed(HV) upon the whole land.(HW)
24 Therefore this is what the Lord, the Lord Almighty, says:
“My people who live in Zion,(HX)
do not be afraid(HY) of the Assyrians,
who beat(HZ) you with a rod(IA)
and lift up a club against you, as Egypt did.
25 Very soon(IB) my anger against you will end
and my wrath(IC) will be directed to their destruction.(ID)”
26 The Lord Almighty will lash(IE) them with a whip,
as when he struck down Midian(IF) at the rock of Oreb;
and he will raise his staff(IG) over the waters,(IH)
as he did in Egypt.
27 In that day(II) their burden(IJ) will be lifted from your shoulders,
their yoke(IK) from your neck;(IL)
the yoke(IM) will be broken
because you have grown so fat.[j]
28 They enter Aiath;
they pass through Migron;(IN)
they store supplies(IO) at Mikmash.(IP)
29 They go over the pass, and say,
“We will camp overnight at Geba.(IQ)”
Ramah(IR) trembles;
Gibeah(IS) of Saul flees.(IT)
30 Cry out, Daughter Gallim!(IU)
Listen, Laishah!
Poor Anathoth!(IV)
31 Madmenah is in flight;
the people of Gebim take cover.
32 This day they will halt at Nob;(IW)
they will shake their fist(IX)
at the mount of Daughter Zion,(IY)
at the hill of Jerusalem.
33 See, the Lord, the Lord Almighty,
will lop off(IZ) the boughs with great power.
The lofty trees will be felled,(JA)
the tall(JB) ones will be brought low.(JC)
34 He will cut down(JD) the forest thickets with an ax;
Lebanon(JE) will fall before the Mighty One.(JF)
The Branch From Jesse
11 A shoot(JG) will come up from the stump(JH) of Jesse;(JI)
from his roots a Branch(JJ) will bear fruit.(JK)
2 The Spirit(JL) of the Lord will rest on him—
the Spirit of wisdom(JM) and of understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and of might,(JN)
the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord—
3 and he will delight in the fear(JO) of the Lord.
He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes,(JP)
or decide by what he hears with his ears;(JQ)
4 but with righteousness(JR) he will judge the needy,(JS)
with justice(JT) he will give decisions for the poor(JU) of the earth.
He will strike(JV) the earth with the rod of his mouth;(JW)
with the breath(JX) of his lips he will slay the wicked.(JY)
5 Righteousness will be his belt(JZ)
and faithfulness(KA) the sash around his waist.(KB)
6 The wolf will live with the lamb,(KC)
the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling[k] together;
and a little child will lead them.
7 The cow will feed with the bear,
their young will lie down together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox.(KD)
8 The infant(KE) will play near the cobra’s den,
and the young child will put its hand into the viper’s(KF) nest.
9 They will neither harm nor destroy(KG)
on all my holy mountain,(KH)
for the earth(KI) will be filled with the knowledge(KJ) of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea.
10 In that day(KK) the Root of Jesse(KL) will stand as a banner(KM) for the peoples; the nations(KN) will rally to him,(KO) and his resting place(KP) will be glorious.(KQ) 11 In that day(KR) the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant(KS) of his people from Assyria,(KT) from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt,(KU) from Cush,[l](KV) from Elam,(KW) from Babylonia,[m] from Hamath(KX) and from the islands(KY) of the Mediterranean.(KZ)
12 He will raise a banner(LA) for the nations
and gather(LB) the exiles of Israel;(LC)
he will assemble the scattered people(LD) of Judah
from the four quarters of the earth.(LE)
13 Ephraim’s jealousy will vanish,
and Judah’s enemies[n] will be destroyed;
Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,
nor Judah hostile toward Ephraim.(LF)
14 They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia(LG) to the west;
together they will plunder the people to the east.(LH)
They will subdue Edom(LI) and Moab,(LJ)
and the Ammonites(LK) will be subject to them.(LL)
15 The Lord will dry up(LM)
the gulf of the Egyptian sea;
with a scorching wind(LN) he will sweep his hand(LO)
over the Euphrates River.(LP)
He will break it up into seven streams
so that anyone can cross over in sandals.(LQ)
16 There will be a highway(LR) for the remnant(LS) of his people
that is left from Assyria,(LT)
as there was for Israel
when they came up from Egypt.(LU)
Songs of Praise
12 In that day(LV) you will say:
“I will praise(LW) you, Lord.
Although you were angry with me,
your anger has turned away(LX)
and you have comforted(LY) me.
2 Surely God is my salvation;(LZ)
I will trust(MA) and not be afraid.
The Lord, the Lord himself,(MB) is my strength(MC) and my defense[o];
he has become my salvation.(MD)”
3 With joy you will draw water(ME)
from the wells(MF) of salvation.
4 In that day(MG) you will say:
“Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name;(MH)
make known among the nations(MI) what he has done,
and proclaim that his name is exalted.(MJ)
5 Sing(MK) to the Lord, for he has done glorious things;(ML)
let this be known to all the world.
6 Shout aloud and sing for joy,(MM) people of Zion,
for great(MN) is the Holy One of Israel(MO) among you.(MP)”
A Prophecy Against Babylon
13 A prophecy(MQ) against Babylon(MR) that Isaiah son of Amoz(MS) saw:(MT)
2 Raise a banner(MU) on a bare hilltop,
shout to them;
beckon to them
to enter the gates(MV) of the nobles.
3 I have commanded those I prepared for battle;
I have summoned my warriors(MW) to carry out my wrath(MX)—
those who rejoice(MY) in my triumph.
4 Listen, a noise on the mountains,
like that of a great multitude!(MZ)
Listen, an uproar(NA) among the kingdoms,
like nations massing together!
The Lord Almighty(NB) is mustering(NC)
an army for war.
5 They come from faraway lands,
from the ends of the heavens(ND)—
the Lord and the weapons(NE) of his wrath(NF)—
to destroy(NG) the whole country.
6 Wail,(NH) for the day(NI) of the Lord is near;
it will come like destruction(NJ) from the Almighty.[p](NK)
7 Because of this, all hands will go limp,(NL)
every heart will melt with fear.(NM)
8 Terror(NN) will seize them,
pain and anguish will grip(NO) them;
they will writhe like a woman in labor.(NP)
They will look aghast at each other,
their faces aflame.(NQ)
9 See, the day(NR) of the Lord is coming
—a cruel(NS) day, with wrath(NT) and fierce anger(NU)—
to make the land desolate
and destroy the sinners within it.
10 The stars of heaven and their constellations
will not show their light.(NV)
The rising sun(NW) will be darkened(NX)
and the moon will not give its light.(NY)
11 I will punish(NZ) the world for its evil,
the wicked(OA) for their sins.
I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty(OB)
and will humble(OC) the pride of the ruthless.(OD)
12 I will make people(OE) scarcer than pure gold,
more rare than the gold of Ophir.(OF)
13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble;(OG)
and the earth will shake(OH) from its place
at the wrath(OI) of the Lord Almighty,
in the day of his burning anger.(OJ)
14 Like a hunted(OK) gazelle,
like sheep without a shepherd,(OL)
they will all return to their own people,
they will flee(OM) to their native land.(ON)
15 Whoever is captured will be thrust through;
all who are caught will fall(OO) by the sword.(OP)
16 Their infants(OQ) will be dashed to pieces before their eyes;
their houses will be looted and their wives violated.(OR)
17 See, I will stir up(OS) against them the Medes,(OT)
who do not care for silver
and have no delight in gold.(OU)
18 Their bows(OV) will strike down the young men;(OW)
they will have no mercy(OX) on infants,
nor will they look with compassion on children.(OY)
19 Babylon,(OZ) the jewel of kingdoms,(PA)
the pride and glory(PB) of the Babylonians,[q]
will be overthrown(PC) by God
like Sodom and Gomorrah.(PD)
20 She will never be inhabited(PE)
or lived in through all generations;
there no nomads(PF) will pitch their tents,
there no shepherds will rest their flocks.
21 But desert creatures(PG) will lie there,
jackals(PH) will fill her houses;
there the owls(PI) will dwell,
and there the wild goats(PJ) will leap about.
22 Hyenas(PK) will inhabit her strongholds,(PL)
jackals(PM) her luxurious palaces.
Her time is at hand,(PN)
and her days will not be prolonged.(PO)
14 The Lord will have compassion(PP) on Jacob;
once again he will choose(PQ) Israel
and will settle them in their own land.(PR)
Foreigners(PS) will join them
and unite with the descendants of Jacob.
2 Nations will take them
and bring(PT) them to their own place.
And Israel will take possession of the nations(PU)
and make them male and female servants in the Lord’s land.
They will make captives(PV) of their captors
and rule over their oppressors.(PW)
3 On the day the Lord gives you relief(PX) from your suffering and turmoil(PY) and from the harsh labor forced on you,(PZ) 4 you will take up this taunt(QA) against the king of Babylon:(QB)
How the oppressor(QC) has come to an end!
How his fury[r] has ended!
5 The Lord has broken the rod(QD) of the wicked,(QE)
the scepter(QF) of the rulers,
6 which in anger struck down peoples(QG)
with unceasing blows,
and in fury subdued(QH) nations
with relentless aggression.(QI)
7 All the lands are at rest and at peace;(QJ)
they break into singing.(QK)
8 Even the junipers(QL) and the cedars of Lebanon
gloat over you and say,
“Now that you have been laid low,
no one comes to cut us down.”(QM)
9 The realm of the dead(QN) below is all astir
to meet you at your coming;
it rouses the spirits of the departed(QO) to greet you—
all those who were leaders(QP) in the world;
it makes them rise from their thrones—
all those who were kings over the nations.(QQ)
10 They will all respond,
they will say to you,
“You also have become weak, as we are;
you have become like us.”(QR)
11 All your pomp has been brought down to the grave,(QS)
along with the noise of your harps;(QT)
maggots are spread out beneath you
and worms(QU) cover you.(QV)
12 How you have fallen(QW) from heaven,
morning star,(QX) son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
you who once laid low the nations!(QY)
13 You said in your heart,
“I will ascend(QZ) to the heavens;
I will raise my throne(RA)
above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,(RB)
on the utmost heights(RC) of Mount Zaphon.[s]
14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;(RD)
I will make myself like the Most High.”(RE)
15 But you are brought down(RF) to the realm of the dead,(RG)
to the depths(RH) of the pit.(RI)
16 Those who see you stare at you,
they ponder your fate:(RJ)
“Is this the man who shook(RK) the earth
and made kingdoms tremble,
17 the man who made the world a wilderness,(RL)
who overthrew(RM) its cities
and would not let his captives go home?”(RN)
18 All the kings of the nations lie in state,
each in his own tomb.(RO)
19 But you are cast out(RP) of your tomb
like a rejected branch;
you are covered with the slain,(RQ)
with those pierced by the sword,(RR)
those who descend to the stones of the pit.(RS)
Like a corpse trampled underfoot,
20 you will not join them in burial,(RT)
for you have destroyed your land
and killed your people.
Let the offspring(RU) of the wicked(RV)
never be mentioned(RW) again.
21 Prepare a place to slaughter his children(RX)
for the sins of their ancestors;(RY)
they are not to rise to inherit the land
and cover the earth with their cities.
22 “I will rise up(RZ) against them,”
declares the Lord Almighty.
“I will wipe out Babylon’s name(SA) and survivors,
her offspring and descendants,(SB)”
declares the Lord.
23 “I will turn her into a place for owls(SC)
and into swampland;
I will sweep her with the broom of destruction,(SD)”
declares the Lord Almighty.(SE)
24 The Lord Almighty has sworn,(SF)
“Surely, as I have planned,(SG) so it will be,
and as I have purposed, so it will happen.(SH)
25 I will crush the Assyrian(SI) in my land;
on my mountains I will trample him down.
His yoke(SJ) will be taken from my people,
and his burden removed from their shoulders.(SK)”
26 This is the plan(SL) determined for the whole world;
this is the hand(SM) stretched out over all nations.
27 For the Lord Almighty has purposed,(SN) and who can thwart him?
His hand(SO) is stretched out, and who can turn it back?(SP)
A Prophecy Against the Philistines
28 This prophecy(SQ) came in the year(SR) King Ahaz(SS) died:
29 Do not rejoice, all you Philistines,(ST)
that the rod that struck you is broken;
from the root of that snake will spring up a viper,(SU)
its fruit will be a darting, venomous serpent.(SV)
30 The poorest of the poor will find pasture,
and the needy(SW) will lie down in safety.(SX)
But your root I will destroy by famine;(SY)
it will slay(SZ) your survivors.(TA)
31 Wail,(TB) you gate!(TC) Howl, you city!
Melt away, all you Philistines!(TD)
A cloud of smoke comes from the north,(TE)
and there is not a straggler in its ranks.(TF)
32 What answer shall be given
to the envoys(TG) of that nation?
“The Lord has established Zion,(TH)
and in her his afflicted people will find refuge.(TI)”
A Prophecy Against Moab(TJ)
15 A prophecy(TK) against Moab:(TL)
Ar(TM) in Moab is ruined,(TN)
destroyed in a night!
Kir(TO) in Moab is ruined,
destroyed in a night!
2 Dibon(TP) goes up to its temple,
to its high places(TQ) to weep;
Moab wails(TR) over Nebo(TS) and Medeba.
Every head is shaved(TT)
and every beard cut off.(TU)
3 In the streets they wear sackcloth;(TV)
on the roofs(TW) and in the public squares(TX)
they all wail,(TY)
prostrate with weeping.(TZ)
4 Heshbon(UA) and Elealeh(UB) cry out,
their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz.(UC)
Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out,
and their hearts are faint.
5 My heart cries out(UD) over Moab;(UE)
her fugitives(UF) flee as far as Zoar,(UG)
as far as Eglath Shelishiyah.
They go up the hill to Luhith,
weeping as they go;
on the road to Horonaim(UH)
they lament their destruction.(UI)
6 The waters of Nimrim are dried up(UJ)
and the grass is withered;(UK)
the vegetation is gone(UL)
and nothing green is left.(UM)
7 So the wealth they have acquired(UN) and stored up
they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.
8 Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab;
their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim,
their lamentation as far as Beer(UO) Elim.
9 The waters of Dimon[t] are full of blood,
but I will bring still more upon Dimon[u]—
a lion(UP) upon the fugitives of Moab(UQ)
and upon those who remain in the land.
16 Send lambs(UR) as tribute(US)
to the ruler of the land,
from Sela,(UT) across the desert,
to the mount of Daughter Zion.(UU)
2 Like fluttering birds
pushed from the nest,(UV)
so are the women of Moab(UW)
at the fords(UX) of the Arnon.(UY)
3 “Make up your mind,” Moab says.
“Render a decision.
Make your shadow like night—
at high noon.
Hide the fugitives,(UZ)
do not betray the refugees.
4 Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you;
be their shelter(VA) from the destroyer.”
The oppressor(VB) will come to an end,
and destruction will cease;(VC)
the aggressor will vanish from the land.
5 In love a throne(VD) will be established;(VE)
in faithfulness a man will sit on it—
one from the house[v] of David(VF)—
one who in judging seeks justice(VG)
and speeds the cause of righteousness.
6 We have heard of Moab’s(VH) pride(VI)—
how great is her arrogance!—
of her conceit, her pride and her insolence;
but her boasts are empty.
7 Therefore the Moabites wail,(VJ)
they wail together for Moab.
Lament and grieve
for the raisin cakes(VK) of Kir Hareseth.(VL)
8 The fields of Heshbon(VM) wither,(VN)
the vines of Sibmah(VO) also.
The rulers of the nations
have trampled down the choicest vines,(VP)
which once reached Jazer(VQ)
and spread toward the desert.
Their shoots spread out(VR)
and went as far as the sea.[w](VS)
9 So I weep,(VT) as Jazer weeps,
for the vines of Sibmah.
Heshbon and Elealeh,(VU)
I drench you with tears!(VV)
The shouts of joy(VW) over your ripened fruit
and over your harvests(VX) have been stilled.
10 Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards;(VY)
no one sings or shouts(VZ) in the vineyards;
no one treads(WA) out wine at the presses,(WB)
for I have put an end to the shouting.
11 My heart laments for Moab(WC) like a harp,(WD)
my inmost being(WE) for Kir Hareseth.
12 When Moab appears at her high place,(WF)
she only wears herself out;
when she goes to her shrine(WG) to pray,
it is to no avail.(WH)
13 This is the word the Lord has already spoken concerning Moab. 14 But now the Lord says: “Within three years,(WI) as a servant bound by contract(WJ) would count them,(WK) Moab’s splendor and all her many people will be despised,(WL) and her survivors will be very few and feeble.”(WM)
A Prophecy Against Damascus
17 A prophecy(WN) against Damascus:(WO)
“See, Damascus will no longer be a city
but will become a heap of ruins.(WP)
2 The cities of Aroer(WQ) will be deserted
and left to flocks,(WR) which will lie down,(WS)
with no one to make them afraid.(WT)
3 The fortified(WU) city will disappear from Ephraim,
and royal power from Damascus;
the remnant of Aram will be
like the glory(WV) of the Israelites,”(WW)
declares the Lord Almighty.
4 “In that day(WX) the glory(WY) of Jacob will fade;
the fat of his body will waste(WZ) away.
5 It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain,
gathering(XA) the grain in their arms—
as when someone gleans heads of grain(XB)
in the Valley of Rephaim.(XC)
6 Yet some gleanings will remain,(XD)
as when an olive tree is beaten,(XE)
leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches,
four or five on the fruitful boughs,”
declares the Lord, the God of Israel.
7 In that day(XF) people will look(XG) to their Maker(XH)
and turn their eyes to the Holy One(XI) of Israel.
8 They will not look to the altars,(XJ)
the work of their hands,(XK)
and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles[x](XL)
and the incense altars their fingers(XM) have made.
9 In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth.(XN) And all will be desolation.
10 You have forgotten(XO) God your Savior;(XP)
you have not remembered the Rock,(XQ) your fortress.(XR)
Therefore, though you set out the finest plants
and plant imported vines,(XS)
11 though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,
and on the morning(XT) when you plant them, you bring them to bud,
yet the harvest(XU) will be as nothing(XV)
in the day of disease and incurable(XW) pain.(XX)
12 Woe to the many nations that rage(XY)—
they rage like the raging sea!(XZ)
Woe to the peoples who roar(YA)—
they roar like the roaring of great waters!(YB)
13 Although the peoples roar(YC) like the roar of surging waters,
when he rebukes(YD) them they flee(YE) far away,
driven before the wind like chaff(YF) on the hills,
like tumbleweed before a gale.(YG)
14 In the evening, sudden(YH) terror!(YI)
Before the morning, they are gone!(YJ)
This is the portion of those who loot us,
the lot of those who plunder us.
A Prophecy Against Cush
18 Woe(YK) to the land of whirring wings[y]
along the rivers of Cush,[z](YL)
2 which sends envoys(YM) by sea
in papyrus(YN) boats over the water.
Go, swift messengers,
to a people tall and smooth-skinned,(YO)
to a people feared far and wide,
an aggressive(YP) nation of strange speech,
whose land is divided by rivers.(YQ)
3 All you people of the world,(YR)
you who live on the earth,
when a banner(YS) is raised on the mountains,
you will see it,
and when a trumpet(YT) sounds,
you will hear it.
4 This is what the Lord says to me:
“I will remain quiet(YU) and will look on from my dwelling place,(YV)
like shimmering heat in the sunshine,(YW)
like a cloud of dew(YX) in the heat of harvest.”
5 For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone
and the flower becomes a ripening grape,
he will cut off(YY) the shoots with pruning knives,
and cut down and take away the spreading branches.(YZ)
6 They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey(ZA)
and to the wild animals;(ZB)
the birds will feed on them all summer,
the wild animals all winter.
7 At that time gifts(ZC) will be brought to the Lord Almighty
from a people tall and smooth-skinned,(ZD)
from a people feared(ZE) far and wide,
an aggressive nation of strange speech,
whose land is divided by rivers(ZF)—
the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the Lord Almighty.(ZG)
A Prophecy Against Egypt
19 A prophecy(ZH) against Egypt:(ZI)
See, the Lord rides on a swift cloud(ZJ)
and is coming to Egypt.
The idols of Egypt tremble before him,
and the hearts of the Egyptians melt(ZK) with fear.
2 “I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian—
brother will fight against brother,(ZL)
neighbor against neighbor,
city against city,
kingdom against kingdom.(ZM)
3 The Egyptians will lose heart,(ZN)
and I will bring their plans(ZO) to nothing;(ZP)
they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead,
the mediums and the spiritists.(ZQ)
4 I will hand the Egyptians over
to the power of a cruel master,
and a fierce king(ZR) will rule over them,”
declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
5 The waters of the river will dry up,(ZS)
and the riverbed will be parched and dry.(ZT)
6 The canals will stink;(ZU)
the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up.(ZV)
The reeds(ZW) and rushes will wither,(ZX)
7 also the plants(ZY) along the Nile,
at the mouth of the river.
Every sown field(ZZ) along the Nile
will become parched, will blow away and be no more.(AAA)
8 The fishermen(AAB) will groan and lament,
all who cast hooks(AAC) into the Nile;
those who throw nets on the water
will pine away.
9 Those who work with combed flax(AAD) will despair,
the weavers of fine linen(AAE) will lose hope.
10 The workers in cloth will be dejected,
and all the wage earners will be sick at heart.
11 The officials of Zoan(AAF) are nothing but fools;
the wise counselors(AAG) of Pharaoh give senseless advice.(AAH)
How can you say to Pharaoh,
“I am one of the wise men,(AAI)
a disciple of the ancient kings”?
12 Where are your wise men(AAJ) now?
Let them show you and make known
what the Lord Almighty
has planned(AAK) against Egypt.
13 The officials of Zoan(AAL) have become fools,
the leaders of Memphis(AAM) are deceived;
the cornerstones(AAN) of her peoples
have led Egypt astray.
14 The Lord has poured into them
a spirit of dizziness;(AAO)
they make Egypt stagger in all that she does,
as a drunkard staggers(AAP) around in his vomit.
15 There is nothing Egypt can do—
head or tail, palm branch or reed.(AAQ)
16 In that day(AAR) the Egyptians will become weaklings.(AAS) They will shudder with fear(AAT) at the uplifted hand(AAU) that the Lord Almighty raises against them. 17 And the land of Judah will bring terror to the Egyptians; everyone to whom Judah is mentioned will be terrified,(AAV) because of what the Lord Almighty is planning(AAW) against them.
18 In that day(AAX) five cities(AAY) in Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance(AAZ) to the Lord Almighty. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.[aa](ABA)
19 In that day(ABB) there will be an altar(ABC) to the Lord in the heart of Egypt,(ABD) and a monument(ABE) to the Lord at its border. 20 It will be a sign and witness(ABF) to the Lord Almighty in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the Lord because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior(ABG) and defender, and he will rescue(ABH) them. 21 So the Lord will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge(ABI) the Lord. They will worship(ABJ) with sacrifices and grain offerings; they will make vows to the Lord and keep them.(ABK) 22 The Lord will strike(ABL) Egypt with a plague;(ABM) he will strike them and heal them. They will turn(ABN) to the Lord, and he will respond to their pleas and heal(ABO) them.
23 In that day(ABP) there will be a highway(ABQ) from Egypt to Assyria.(ABR) The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship(ABS) together. 24 In that day(ABT) Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria,(ABU) a blessing[ab](ABV) on the earth. 25 The Lord Almighty will bless(ABW) them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people,(ABX) Assyria my handiwork,(ABY) and Israel my inheritance.(ABZ)”
A Prophecy Against Egypt and Cush
20 In the year that the supreme commander,(ACA) sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod(ACB) and attacked and captured it— 2 at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz.(ACC) He said to him, “Take off the sackcloth(ACD) from your body and the sandals(ACE) from your feet.” And he did so, going around stripped(ACF) and barefoot.(ACG)
3 Then the Lord said, “Just as my servant(ACH) Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years,(ACI) as a sign(ACJ) and portent(ACK) against Egypt(ACL) and Cush,[ac](ACM) 4 so the king(ACN) of Assyria will lead away stripped(ACO) and barefoot the Egyptian captives(ACP) and Cushite(ACQ) exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared(ACR)—to Egypt’s shame.(ACS) 5 Those who trusted(ACT) in Cush(ACU) and boasted in Egypt(ACV) will be dismayed and put to shame.(ACW) 6 In that day(ACX) the people who live on this coast will say, ‘See what has happened(ACY) to those we relied on,(ACZ) those we fled to for help(ADA) and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?(ADB)’”
A Prophecy Against Babylon
21 A prophecy(ADC) against the Desert(ADD) by the Sea:
Like whirlwinds(ADE) sweeping through the southland,(ADF)
an invader comes from the desert,
from a land of terror.
2 A dire(ADG) vision has been shown to me:
The traitor betrays,(ADH) the looter takes loot.
Elam,(ADI) attack! Media,(ADJ) lay siege!
I will bring to an end all the groaning she caused.
3 At this my body is racked with pain,(ADK)
pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor;(ADL)
I am staggered by what I hear,
I am bewildered(ADM) by what I see.
4 My heart(ADN) falters,
fear makes me tremble;(ADO)
the twilight I longed for
has become a horror(ADP) to me.
5 They set the tables,
they spread the rugs,
they eat, they drink!(ADQ)
Get up, you officers,
oil the shields!(ADR)
6 This is what the Lord says to me:
“Go, post a lookout(ADS)
and have him report what he sees.
7 When he sees chariots(ADT)
with teams of horses,
riders on donkeys
or riders on camels,(ADU)
let him be alert,
fully alert.”
8 And the lookout[ad](ADV) shouted,
“Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower;
every night I stay at my post.
9 Look, here comes a man in a chariot(ADW)
with a team of horses.
And he gives back the answer:
‘Babylon(ADX) has fallen,(ADY) has fallen!
All the images of its gods(ADZ)
lie shattered(AEA) on the ground!’”
10 My people who are crushed on the threshing floor,(AEB)
I tell you what I have heard
from the Lord Almighty,
from the God of Israel.
A Prophecy Against Edom
11 A prophecy against Dumah[ae]:(AEC)
Someone calls to me from Seir,(AED)
“Watchman, what is left of the night?
Watchman, what is left of the night?”
12 The watchman replies,
“Morning is coming, but also the night.
If you would ask, then ask;
and come back yet again.”
A Prophecy Against Arabia
13 A prophecy(AEE) against Arabia:(AEF)
You caravans of Dedanites,(AEG)
who camp in the thickets of Arabia,
Footnotes
- Isaiah 7:23 That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms
- Isaiah 8:1 Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz means quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil; also in verse 3.
- Isaiah 8:8 Immanuel means God with us.
- Isaiah 8:9 Or Do your worst
- Isaiah 8:10 Hebrew Immanuel
- Isaiah 9:1 In Hebrew texts 9:1 is numbered 8:23, and 9:2-21 is numbered 9:1-20.
- Isaiah 9:20 Or arm
- Isaiah 10:13 Or treasures; / I subdued the mighty,
- Isaiah 10:21 Hebrew shear-jashub (see 7:3 and note); also in verse 22
- Isaiah 10:27 Hebrew; Septuagint broken / from your shoulders
- Isaiah 11:6 Hebrew; Septuagint lion will feed
- Isaiah 11:11 That is, the upper Nile region
- Isaiah 11:11 Hebrew Shinar
- Isaiah 11:13 Or hostility
- Isaiah 12:2 Or song
- Isaiah 13:6 Hebrew Shaddai
- Isaiah 13:19 Or Chaldeans
- Isaiah 14:4 Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain.
- Isaiah 14:13 Or of the north; Zaphon was the most sacred mountain of the Canaanites.
- Isaiah 15:9 Dimon, a wordplay on Dibon (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for blood.
- Isaiah 15:9 Dimon, a wordplay on Dibon (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for blood.
- Isaiah 16:5 Hebrew tent
- Isaiah 16:8 Probably the Dead Sea
- Isaiah 17:8 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah
- Isaiah 18:1 Or of locusts
- Isaiah 18:1 That is, the upper Nile region
- Isaiah 19:18 Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls, Symmachus and Vulgate; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text City of Destruction
- Isaiah 19:24 Or Assyria, whose names will be used in blessings (see Gen. 48:20); or Assyria, who will be seen by others as blessed
- Isaiah 20:3 That is, the upper Nile region; also in verse 5
- Isaiah 21:8 Dead Sea Scrolls and Syriac; Masoretic Text A lion
- Isaiah 21:11 Dumah, a wordplay on Edom, means silence or stillness.
Isaiah 7:17-33:19
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Isaiah 7:17-33:19
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17 The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.
20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.
23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
25 And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
8 Moreover the Lord said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the Lord to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.
4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
5 The Lord spake also unto me again, saying,
6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
11 For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
13 Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
17 And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
18 Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
9 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
11 Therefore the Lord shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts.
14 Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
19 Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
10 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:
14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.
19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
23 For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
24 Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
26 And the Lord of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.
32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33 Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
11 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;
3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
15 And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
12 And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.
5 Sing unto the Lord; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.
6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
13 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
6 Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.
15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.
19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
14 For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
5 The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
22 For I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the Lord.
23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
24 The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
27 For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.
32 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the Lord hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
15 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.
5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.
9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.
16 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.
7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.
8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.
10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.
12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.
13 This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.
14 But now the Lord hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.
17 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts.
4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the Lord God of Israel.
7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
18 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
4 For so the Lord said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
7 In that time shall the present be brought unto the Lord of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Zion.
19 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts.
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
12 Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
14 The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he shaketh over it.
17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the Lord of hosts, which he hath determined against it.
18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the Lord of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.
19 In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.
20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the Lord because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
21 And the Lord shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the Lord, and perform it.
22 And the Lord shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the Lord, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:
25 Whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
20 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
2 At the same time spake the Lord by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
3 And the Lord said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?
21 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:
8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:
17 And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the Lord God of Israel hath spoken it.
22 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.
4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord God of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
7 And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
12 And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
14 And it was revealed in mine ears by the Lord of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord God of hosts.
15 Thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,
16 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?
17 Behold, the Lord will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.
18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.
19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.
24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
25 In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the Lord hath spoken it.
23 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.
5 As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
9 The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.
11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the Lord hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.
12 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.
13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the Lord: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
24 Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.
4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the Lord, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
15 Wherefore glorify ye the Lord in the fires, even the name of the Lord God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
25 O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
6 And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.
9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the Lord rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.
26 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, 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 brought 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 her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
27 In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
3 I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
5 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.
6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
28 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
5 In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
13 But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14 Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
21 For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
28 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
29 This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.
29 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
6 Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
8 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
10 For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
22 Therefore thus saith the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
23 But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
30 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord:
10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
15 For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
17 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
18 And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the Lord cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the mighty One of Israel.
30 And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
31 For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.
32 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the Lord shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
31 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord!
2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the Lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
4 For thus hath the Lord spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
5 As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.
6 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
7 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
9 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
32 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.
33 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
2 O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
4 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
5 The Lord is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the Lord is his treasure.
7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
9 The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
10 Now will I rise, saith the Lord; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
12 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
13 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might.
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
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