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Isaiah 27-31
New International Version
Isaiah 27-31
New International Version
Deliverance of Israel
27 In that day,(A)
the Lord will punish with his sword(B)—
his fierce, great and powerful sword—
Leviathan(C) the gliding serpent,(D)
Leviathan the coiling serpent;
he will slay the monster(E) of the sea.
2 In that day(F)—
“Sing(G) about a fruitful vineyard:(H)
3 I, the Lord, watch over it;
I water(I) it continually.
I guard(J) it day and night
so that no one may harm(K) it.
4 I am not angry.
If only there were briers and thorns confronting me!
I would march against them in battle;
I would set them all on fire.(L)
5 Or else let them come to me for refuge;(M)
let them make peace(N) with me,
yes, let them make peace with me.”
6 In days to come Jacob will take root,(O)
Israel will bud and blossom(P)
and fill all the world with fruit.(Q)
7 Has the Lord struck her
as he struck(R) down those who struck her?
Has she been killed
as those were killed who killed her?
8 By warfare[a] and exile(S) you contend with her—
with his fierce blast he drives her out,
as on a day the east wind(T) blows.
9 By this, then, will Jacob’s guilt be atoned(U) for,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:(V)
When he makes all the altar stones(W)
to be like limestone crushed to pieces,
no Asherah poles[b](X) or incense altars(Y)
will be left standing.
10 The fortified city stands desolate,(Z)
an abandoned settlement, forsaken(AA) like the wilderness;
there the calves graze,(AB)
there they lie down;(AC)
they strip its branches bare.
11 When its twigs are dry, they are broken off(AD)
and women come and make fires(AE) with them.
For this is a people without understanding;(AF)
so their Maker has no compassion on them,
and their Creator(AG) shows them no favor.(AH)
12 In that day the Lord will thresh(AI) from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt,(AJ) and you, Israel, will be gathered(AK) up one by one. 13 And in that day(AL) a great trumpet(AM) will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled(AN) in Egypt(AO) will come and worship(AP) the Lord on the holy mountain(AQ) in Jerusalem.
Woe to the Leaders of Ephraim and Judah
28 Woe(AR) to that wreath, the pride of Ephraim’s(AS) drunkards,
to the fading flower, his glorious beauty,
set on the head of a fertile valley(AT)—
to that city, the pride of those laid low by wine!(AU)
2 See, the Lord has one who is powerful(AV) and strong.
Like a hailstorm(AW) and a destructive wind,(AX)
like a driving rain and a flooding(AY) downpour,
he will throw it forcefully to the ground.
3 That wreath, the pride of Ephraim’s(AZ) drunkards,
will be trampled(BA) underfoot.
4 That fading flower, his glorious beauty,
set on the head of a fertile valley,(BB)
will be like figs(BC) ripe before harvest—
as soon as people see them and take them in hand,
they swallow them.
5 In that day(BD) the Lord Almighty
will be a glorious(BE) crown,(BF)
a beautiful wreath
for the remnant(BG) of his people.
6 He will be a spirit of justice(BH)
to the one who sits in judgment,(BI)
a source of strength
to those who turn back the battle(BJ) at the gate.
7 And these also stagger(BK) from wine(BL)
and reel(BM) from beer:
Priests(BN) and prophets(BO) stagger from beer
and are befuddled with wine;
they reel from beer,
they stagger when seeing visions,(BP)
they stumble when rendering decisions.
8 All the tables are covered with vomit(BQ)
and there is not a spot without filth.
9 “Who is it he is trying to teach?(BR)
To whom is he explaining his message?(BS)
To children weaned(BT) from their milk,(BU)
to those just taken from the breast?
10 For it is:
Do this, do that,
a rule for this, a rule for that[c];
a little here, a little there.(BV)”
11 Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues(BW)
God will speak to this people,(BX)
12 to whom he said,
“This is the resting place, let the weary rest”;(BY)
and, “This is the place of repose”—
but they would not listen.
13 So then, the word of the Lord to them will become:
Do this, do that,
a rule for this, a rule for that;
a little here, a little there(BZ)—
so that as they go they will fall backward;
they will be injured(CA) and snared and captured.(CB)
14 Therefore hear the word of the Lord,(CC) you scoffers(CD)
who rule this people in Jerusalem.
15 You boast, “We have entered into a covenant with death,(CE)
with the realm of the dead we have made an agreement.
When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by,(CF)
it cannot touch us,
for we have made a lie(CG) our refuge
and falsehood[d] our hiding place.(CH)”
16 So this is what the Sovereign Lord says:
“See, I lay a stone in Zion,(CI) a tested stone,(CJ)
a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation;(CK)
the one who relies on it
will never be stricken with panic.(CL)
17 I will make justice(CM) the measuring line
and righteousness the plumb line;(CN)
hail(CO) will sweep away your refuge, the lie,
and water will overflow(CP) your hiding place.
18 Your covenant with death will be annulled;
your agreement with the realm of the dead will not stand.(CQ)
When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by,(CR)
you will be beaten down(CS) by it.
19 As often as it comes it will carry you away;(CT)
morning after morning,(CU) by day and by night,
it will sweep through.”
The understanding of this message
will bring sheer terror.(CV)
20 The bed is too short to stretch out on,
the blanket too narrow to wrap around you.(CW)
21 The Lord will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim,(CX)
he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon(CY)—
to do his work,(CZ) his strange work,
and perform his task, his alien task.
22 Now stop your mocking,(DA)
or your chains will become heavier;
the Lord, the Lord Almighty, has told me
of the destruction decreed(DB) against the whole land.(DC)
23 Listen(DD) and hear my voice;
pay attention and hear what I say.
24 When a farmer plows for planting,(DE) does he plow continually?
Does he keep on breaking up and working the soil?
25 When he has leveled the surface,
does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin?(DF)
Does he not plant wheat in its place,[e]
barley(DG) in its plot,[f]
and spelt(DH) in its field?
26 His God instructs him
and teaches(DI) him the right way.
27 Caraway is not threshed(DJ) with a sledge,(DK)
nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin;
caraway is beaten out with a rod,(DL)
and cumin with a stick.
28 Grain must be ground to make bread;
so one does not go on threshing it forever.
The wheels of a threshing cart(DM) may be rolled over it,
but one does not use horses to grind grain.
29 All this also comes from the Lord Almighty,
whose plan is wonderful,(DN)
whose wisdom is magnificent.(DO)
Woe to David’s City
29 Woe(DP) to you, Ariel, Ariel,(DQ)
the city(DR) where David settled!
Add year to year
and let your cycle of festivals(DS) go on.
2 Yet I will besiege Ariel;(DT)
she will mourn and lament,(DU)
she will be to me like an altar hearth.[g](DV)
3 I will encamp against you on all sides;
I will encircle(DW) you with towers
and set up my siege works(DX) against you.
4 Brought low, you will speak from the ground;
your speech will mumble(DY) out of the dust.(DZ)
Your voice will come ghostlike(EA) from the earth;
out of the dust your speech will whisper.(EB)
5 But your many enemies will become like fine dust,(EC)
the ruthless(ED) hordes like blown chaff.(EE)
Suddenly,(EF) in an instant,
6 the Lord Almighty will come(EG)
with thunder(EH) and earthquake(EI) and great noise,
with windstorm and tempest(EJ) and flames of a devouring fire.(EK)
7 Then the hordes of all the nations(EL) that fight against Ariel,(EM)
that attack her and her fortress and besiege her,
will be as it is with a dream,(EN)
with a vision in the night—
8 as when a hungry person dreams of eating,
but awakens(EO) hungry still;
as when a thirsty person dreams of drinking,
but awakens faint and thirsty still.(EP)
So will it be with the hordes of all the nations
that fight against Mount Zion.(EQ)
9 Be stunned and amazed,(ER)
blind yourselves and be sightless;(ES)
be drunk,(ET) but not from wine,(EU)
stagger,(EV) but not from beer.
10 The Lord has brought over you a deep sleep:(EW)
He has sealed your eyes(EX) (the prophets);(EY)
he has covered your heads (the seers).(EZ)
11 For you this whole vision(FA) is nothing but words sealed(FB) in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I can’t; it is sealed.” 12 Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I don’t know how to read.”
13 The Lord says:
“These people(FC) come near to me with their mouth
and honor me with their lips,(FD)
but their hearts are far from me.(FE)
Their worship of me
is based on merely human rules they have been taught.[h](FF)
14 Therefore once more I will astound these people
with wonder upon wonder;(FG)
the wisdom of the wise(FH) will perish,
the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.(FI)”
15 Woe to those who go to great depths
to hide(FJ) their plans from the Lord,
who do their work in darkness and think,
“Who sees us?(FK) Who will know?”(FL)
16 You turn things upside down,
as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!(FM)
Shall what is formed say to the one who formed(FN) it,
“You did not make me”?
Can the pot say to the potter,(FO)
“You know nothing”?(FP)
17 In a very short time,(FQ) will not Lebanon(FR) be turned into a fertile field(FS)
and the fertile field seem like a forest?(FT)
18 In that day(FU) the deaf(FV) will hear the words of the scroll,
and out of gloom and darkness(FW)
the eyes of the blind will see.(FX)
19 Once more the humble(FY) will rejoice in the Lord;
the needy(FZ) will rejoice in the Holy One(GA) of Israel.
20 The ruthless(GB) will vanish,(GC)
the mockers(GD) will disappear,
and all who have an eye for evil(GE) will be cut down—
21 those who with a word make someone out to be guilty,
who ensnare the defender in court(GF)
and with false testimony(GG) deprive the innocent of justice.(GH)
22 Therefore this is what the Lord, who redeemed(GI) Abraham,(GJ) says to the descendants of Jacob:
“No longer will Jacob be ashamed;(GK)
no longer will their faces grow pale.(GL)
23 When they see among them their children,(GM)
the work of my hands,(GN)
they will keep my name holy;(GO)
they will acknowledge the holiness of the Holy One(GP) of Jacob,
and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
24 Those who are wayward(GQ) in spirit will gain understanding;(GR)
those who complain will accept instruction.”(GS)
Woe to the Obstinate Nation
30 “Woe(GT) to the obstinate children,”(GU)
declares the Lord,
“to those who carry out plans that are not mine,
forming an alliance,(GV) but not by my Spirit,
heaping sin upon sin;
2 who go down to Egypt(GW)
without consulting(GX) me;
who look for help to Pharaoh’s protection,(GY)
to Egypt’s shade for refuge.(GZ)
3 But Pharaoh’s protection will be to your shame,
Egypt’s shade(HA) will bring you disgrace.(HB)
4 Though they have officials in Zoan(HC)
and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,
5 everyone will be put to shame
because of a people(HD) useless(HE) to them,
who bring neither help(HF) nor advantage,
but only shame and disgrace.(HG)”
6 A prophecy(HH) concerning the animals of the Negev:(HI)
Through a land of hardship and distress,(HJ)
of lions(HK) and lionesses,
of adders and darting snakes,(HL)
the envoys carry their riches on donkeys’(HM) backs,
their treasures(HN) on the humps of camels,
to that unprofitable nation,
7 to Egypt, whose help is utterly useless.(HO)
Therefore I call her
Rahab(HP) the Do-Nothing.
8 Go now, write it on a tablet(HQ) for them,
inscribe it on a scroll,(HR)
that for the days to come
it may be an everlasting witness.(HS)
9 For these are rebellious(HT) people, deceitful(HU) children,
children unwilling to listen to the Lord’s instruction.(HV)
10 They say to the seers,(HW)
“See no more visions(HX)!”
and to the prophets,
“Give us no more visions of what is right!
Tell us pleasant things,(HY)
prophesy illusions.(HZ)
11 Leave this way,(IA)
get off this path,
and stop confronting(IB) us
with the Holy One(IC) of Israel!”
12 Therefore this is what the Holy One(ID) of Israel says:
“Because you have rejected this message,(IE)
relied on oppression(IF)
and depended on deceit,
13 this sin will become for you
like a high wall,(IG) cracked and bulging,
that collapses(IH) suddenly,(II) in an instant.
14 It will break in pieces like pottery,(IJ)
shattered so mercilessly
that among its pieces not a fragment will be found
for taking coals from a hearth
or scooping water out of a cistern.”
15 This is what the Sovereign(IK) Lord, the Holy One(IL) of Israel, says:
“In repentance and rest(IM) is your salvation,
in quietness and trust(IN) is your strength,
but you would have none of it.(IO)
16 You said, ‘No, we will flee(IP) on horses.’(IQ)
Therefore you will flee!
You said, ‘We will ride off on swift horses.’
Therefore your pursuers will be swift!
17 A thousand will flee
at the threat of one;
at the threat of five(IR)
you will all flee(IS) away,
till you are left(IT)
like a flagstaff on a mountaintop,
like a banner(IU) on a hill.”
18 Yet the Lord longs(IV) to be gracious to you;
therefore he will rise up to show you compassion.(IW)
For the Lord is a God of justice.(IX)
Blessed are all who wait for him!(IY)
19 People of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more.(IZ) How gracious he will be when you cry for help!(JA) As soon as he hears, he will answer(JB) you. 20 Although the Lord gives you the bread(JC) of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers(JD) will be hidden(JE) no more; with your own eyes you will see them. 21 Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice(JF) behind you, saying, “This is the way;(JG) walk in it.” 22 Then you will desecrate your idols(JH) overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold;(JI) you will throw them away like a menstrual(JJ) cloth and say to them, “Away with you!(JK)”
23 He will also send you rain(JL) for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich(JM) and plentiful.(JN) In that day(JO) your cattle will graze in broad meadows.(JP) 24 The oxen(JQ) and donkeys that work the soil will eat fodder(JR) and mash, spread out with fork(JS) and shovel. 25 In the day of great slaughter,(JT) when the towers(JU) fall, streams of water will flow(JV) on every high mountain and every lofty hill. 26 The moon will shine like the sun,(JW) and the sunlight will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days, when the Lord binds up the bruises of his people and heals(JX) the wounds he inflicted.
27 See, the Name(JY) of the Lord comes from afar,
with burning anger(JZ) and dense clouds of smoke;
his lips are full of wrath,(KA)
and his tongue is a consuming fire.(KB)
28 His breath(KC) is like a rushing torrent,(KD)
rising up to the neck.(KE)
He shakes the nations in the sieve(KF) of destruction;
he places in the jaws of the peoples
a bit(KG) that leads them astray.
29 And you will sing
as on the night you celebrate a holy festival;(KH)
your hearts will rejoice(KI)
as when people playing pipes(KJ) go up
to the mountain(KK) of the Lord,
to the Rock(KL) of Israel.
30 The Lord will cause people to hear his majestic voice(KM)
and will make them see his arm(KN) coming down
with raging anger(KO) and consuming fire,(KP)
with cloudburst, thunderstorm(KQ) and hail.(KR)
31 The voice of the Lord will shatter Assyria;(KS)
with his rod he will strike(KT) them down.
32 Every stroke the Lord lays on them
with his punishing club(KU)
will be to the music of timbrels(KV) and harps,
as he fights them in battle with the blows of his arm.(KW)
33 Topheth(KX) has long been prepared;
it has been made ready for the king.
Its fire pit has been made deep and wide,
with an abundance of fire and wood;
the breath(KY) of the Lord,
like a stream of burning sulfur,(KZ)
sets it ablaze.(LA)
Woe to Those Who Rely on Egypt
31 Woe(LB) to those who go down to Egypt(LC) for help,
who rely on horses,(LD)
who trust in the multitude of their chariots(LE)
and in the great strength of their horsemen,
but do not look to the Holy One(LF) of Israel,
or seek help from the Lord.(LG)
2 Yet he too is wise(LH) and can bring disaster;(LI)
he does not take back his words.(LJ)
He will rise up against that wicked nation,(LK)
against those who help evildoers.
3 But the Egyptians(LL) are mere mortals and not God;(LM)
their horses(LN) are flesh and not spirit.
When the Lord stretches out his hand,(LO)
those who help will stumble,
those who are helped(LP) will fall;
all will perish together.(LQ)
4 This is what the Lord says to me:
“As a lion(LR) growls,
a great lion over its prey—
and though a whole band of shepherds(LS)
is called together against it,
it is not frightened by their shouts
or disturbed by their clamor(LT)—
so the Lord Almighty will come down(LU)
to do battle on Mount Zion and on its heights.
5 Like birds hovering(LV) overhead,
the Lord Almighty will shield(LW) Jerusalem;
he will shield it and deliver(LX) it,
he will ‘pass over’(LY) it and will rescue it.”
6 Return,(LZ) you Israelites, to the One you have so greatly revolted(MA) against. 7 For in that day(MB) every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold(MC) your sinful hands have made.(MD)
8 “Assyria(ME) will fall by no human sword;
a sword, not of mortals, will devour(MF) them.
They will flee before the sword
and their young men will be put to forced labor.(MG)
9 Their stronghold(MH) will fall because of terror;
at the sight of the battle standard(MI) their commanders will panic,(MJ)”
declares the Lord,
whose fire(MK) is in Zion,
whose furnace(ML) is in Jerusalem.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 27:8 See Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
- Isaiah 27:9 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah
- Isaiah 28:10 Hebrew / sav lasav sav lasav / kav lakav kav lakav (probably meaningless sounds mimicking the prophet’s words); also in verse 13
- Isaiah 28:15 Or false gods
- Isaiah 28:25 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
- Isaiah 28:25 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
- Isaiah 29:2 The Hebrew for altar hearth sounds like the Hebrew for Ariel.
- Isaiah 29:13 Hebrew; Septuagint They worship me in vain; / their teachings are merely human rules
Isaiah 27-31
King James Version
Isaiah 27-31
King James Version
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.
Isaiah 27-31
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Isaiah 27-31
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Israel Will Be Restored
27 In that day the Lord with His severe sword, great and strong,
Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent,
(A)Leviathan that twisted serpent;
And He will slay (B)the reptile that is in the sea.
The Restoration of Israel
2 In that day (C)sing to her,
(D)“A vineyard of [a]red wine!
3 (E)I, the Lord, keep it,
I water it every moment;
Lest any hurt it,
I keep it night and day.
4 Fury is not in Me.
Who would set (F)briers and thorns
Against Me in battle?
I would go through them,
I would burn them together.
5 Or let him take hold (G)of My strength,
That he may (H)make peace with Me;
And he shall make peace with Me.”
6 Those who come He shall cause (I)to take root in Jacob;
Israel shall blossom and bud,
And fill the face of the world with fruit.
7 (J)Has He struck [b]Israel as He struck those who struck him?
Or has He been slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by Him?
8 (K)In measure, by sending it away,
You contended with it.
(L)He removes it by His rough wind
In the day of the east wind.
9 Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered;
And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin:
When he makes all the stones of the altar
Like chalkstones that are beaten to dust,
[c]Wooden images and incense altars shall not stand.
10 Yet the fortified city will be (M)desolate,
The habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness;
There the calf will feed, and there it will lie down
And consume its branches.
11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off;
The women come and set them on fire.
For (N)it is a people of no understanding;
Therefore He who made them will (O)not have mercy on them,
And (P)He who formed them will show them no favor.
12 And it shall come to pass in that day
That the Lord will thresh,
From the channel of [d]the River to the Brook of Egypt;
And you will be (Q)gathered one by one,
O you children of Israel.
13 (R)So it shall be in that day:
(S)The great trumpet will be blown;
They will come, who are about to perish in the land of Assyria,
And they who are outcasts in the land of (T)Egypt,
And shall (U)worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
Woe to Ephraim and Jerusalem
28 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim,
Whose glorious beauty is a fading flower
Which is at the head of the [e]verdant valleys,
To those who are overcome with wine!
2 Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one,
(V)Like a tempest of hail and a destroying storm,
Like a flood of mighty waters overflowing,
Who will bring them down to the earth with His hand.
3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim,
Will be trampled underfoot;
4 And the glorious beauty is a fading flower
Which is at the head of the [f]verdant valley,
Like the first fruit before the summer,
Which an observer sees;
He eats it up while it is still in his hand.
5 In that day the Lord of hosts will be
For a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty
To the remnant of His people,
6 For a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment,
And for strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
7 But they also (W)have erred through wine,
And through intoxicating drink are out of the way;
(X)The priest and the prophet have erred through intoxicating drink,
They are swallowed up by wine,
They are out of the way through intoxicating drink;
They err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
8 For all tables are full of vomit and filth;
No place is clean.
9 “Whom(Y) will he teach knowledge?
And whom will he make to understand the message?
Those just weaned from milk?
Those just drawn from the breasts?
10 (Z)For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept,
Line upon line, line upon line,
Here a little, there a little.”
11 For with (AA)stammering lips and another tongue
He will speak to this people,
12 To whom He said, “This is the (AB)rest with which
You may cause the weary to rest,”
And, “This is the refreshing”;
Yet they would not hear.
13 But the word of the Lord was to them,
“Precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
Line upon line, line upon line,
Here a little, there a little,”
That they might go and fall backward, and be broken
And snared and caught.
14 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scornful men,
Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,
15 Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,
And with Sheol we are in agreement.
When the overflowing scourge passes through,
It will not come to us,
(AC)For we have made lies our refuge,
And under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”
A Cornerstone in Zion
16 Therefore thus says the Lord God:
“Behold, I lay in Zion (AD)a stone for a foundation,
A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation;
Whoever believes will not act hastily.
17 Also I will make justice the measuring line,
And righteousness the plummet;
The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies,
And the waters will overflow the hiding place.
18 Your covenant with death will be annulled,
And your agreement with Sheol will not stand;
When the overflowing scourge passes through,
Then you will be trampled down by it.
19 As often as it goes out it will take you;
For morning by morning it will pass over,
And by day and by night;
It will be a terror just to understand the report.”
20 For the bed is too short to stretch out on,
And the covering so narrow that one cannot wrap himself in it.
21 For the Lord will rise up as at Mount (AE)Perazim,
He will be angry as in the Valley of (AF)Gibeon—
That He may do His work, (AG)His awesome work,
And bring to pass His act, His [g]unusual act.
22 Now therefore, do not be mockers,
Lest your bonds be made strong;
For I have heard from the Lord God of hosts,
(AH)A [h]destruction determined even upon the whole earth.
Listen to the Teaching of God
23 Give ear and hear my voice,
Listen and hear my speech.
24 Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow?
Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?
25 When he has leveled its surface,
Does he not sow the black cummin
And scatter the cummin,
Plant the wheat in rows,
The barley in the appointed place,
And the [i]spelt in its place?
26 For He instructs him in right judgment,
His God teaches him.
27 For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing sledge,
Nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cummin;
But the black cummin is beaten out with a stick,
And the cummin with a rod.
28 Bread flour must be ground;
Therefore he does not thresh it forever,
Break it with his cartwheel,
Or crush it with his horsemen.
29 This also comes from the Lord of hosts,
(AI)Who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in [j]guidance.
Woe to Jerusalem
29 “Woe (AJ)to [k]Ariel, to Ariel, the city (AK)where David dwelt!
Add year to year;
Let feasts come around.
2 Yet I will distress Ariel;
There shall be heaviness and sorrow,
And it shall be to Me as Ariel.
3 I will encamp against you all around,
I will lay siege against you with a mound,
And I will raise siegeworks against you.
4 You shall be brought down,
You shall speak out of the ground;
Your speech shall be low, out of the dust;
Your voice shall be like a medium’s, (AL)out of the ground;
And your speech shall whisper out of the dust.
5 “Moreover the multitude of your (AM)foes
Shall be like fine dust,
And the multitude of the terrible ones
Like (AN)chaff that passes away;
Yes, it shall be (AO)in an instant, suddenly.
6 (AP)You will be punished by the Lord of hosts
With thunder and (AQ)earthquake and great noise,
With storm and tempest
And the flame of devouring fire.
7 (AR)The multitude of all the nations who fight against [l]Ariel,
Even all who fight against her and her fortress,
And distress her,
Shall be (AS)as a dream of a night vision.
8 (AT)It shall even be as when a hungry man dreams,
And look—he eats;
But he awakes, and his soul is still empty;
Or as when a thirsty man dreams,
And look—he drinks;
But he awakes, and indeed he is faint,
And his soul still craves:
So the multitude of all the nations shall be,
Who fight against Mount Zion.”
The Blindness of Disobedience
9 Pause and wonder!
Blind yourselves and be blind!
(AU)They are drunk, (AV)but not with wine;
They stagger, but not with intoxicating drink.
10 For (AW)the Lord has poured out on you
The spirit of deep sleep,
And has (AX)closed your eyes, namely, the prophets;
And He has covered your heads, namely, (AY)the seers.
11 The whole vision has become to you like the words of a [m]book (AZ)that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is literate, saying, “Read this, please.”
(BA)And he says, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”
12 Then the book is delivered to one who [n]is illiterate, saying, “Read this, please.”
And he says, “I am not literate.”
13 Therefore the Lord said:
(BB)“Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths
And honor Me (BC)with their lips,
But have removed their hearts far from Me,
And their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men,
14 (BD)Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work
Among this people,
A marvelous work and a wonder;
(BE)For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,
And the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.”
15 (BF)Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from the Lord,
And their works are in the dark;
(BG)They say, “Who sees us?” and, “Who knows us?”
16 Surely you have things turned around!
Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay;
For shall the (BH)thing made say of him who made it,
“He did not make me”?
Or shall the thing formed say of him who formed it,
“He has no understanding”?
Future Recovery of Wisdom
17 Is it not yet a very little while
Till (BI)Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field,
And the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest?
18 (BJ)In that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book,
And the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
19 (BK)The humble also shall increase their joy in the Lord,
And (BL)the poor among men shall rejoice
In the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the [o]terrible one is brought to nothing,
(BM)The scornful one is consumed,
And all who (BN)watch for iniquity are cut off—
21 Who make a man an offender by a word,
And (BO)lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate,
And turn aside the just (BP)by empty words.
22 Therefore thus says the Lord, (BQ)who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob:
“Jacob shall not now be (BR)ashamed,
Nor shall his face now grow pale;
23 But when he sees his children,
(BS)The work of My hands, in his midst,
They will hallow My name,
And hallow the Holy One of Jacob,
And fear the God of Israel.
24 These also (BT)who erred in spirit will come to understanding,
And those who complained will learn doctrine.”
Futile Confidence in Egypt
30 “Woe to the rebellious children,” says the Lord,
(BU)“Who take counsel, but not of Me,
And who [p]devise plans, but not of My Spirit,
(BV)That they may add sin to sin;
2 (BW)Who walk to go down to Egypt,
And (BX)have not asked My advice,
To strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh,
And to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
3 (BY)Therefore the strength of Pharaoh
Shall be your shame,
And trust in the shadow of Egypt
Shall be your humiliation.
4 For his princes were at (BZ)Zoan,
And his ambassadors came to Hanes.
5 (CA)They were all ashamed of a people who could not benefit them,
Or be help or benefit,
But a shame and also a reproach.”
6 (CB)The [q]burden against the beasts of the South.
Through a land of trouble and anguish,
From which came the lioness and lion,
(CC)The viper and fiery flying serpent,
They will carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys,
And their treasures on the humps of camels,
To a people who shall not profit;
7 (CD)For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose.
Therefore I have called her
[r]Rahab-Hem-Shebeth.
A Rebellious People
8 Now go, (CE)write it before them on a tablet,
And note it on a scroll,
That it may be for time to come,
Forever and ever:
9 That (CF)this is a rebellious people,
Lying children,
Children who will not hear the law of the Lord;
10 (CG)Who say to the seers, “Do not see,”
And to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us right things;
(CH)Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.
11 Get out of the way,
Turn aside from the path,
Cause the Holy One of Israel
To cease from before us.”
12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel:
“Because you (CI)despise this word,
And trust in oppression and perversity,
And rely on them,
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you
(CJ)Like a breach ready to fall,
A bulge in a high wall,
Whose breaking (CK)comes suddenly, in an instant.
14 And (CL)He shall break it like the breaking of the potter’s vessel,
Which is broken in pieces;
He shall not spare.
So there shall not be found among its fragments
[s]A shard to take fire from the hearth,
Or to take water from the cistern.”
15 For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel:
(CM)“In returning and rest you shall be saved;
In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.”
(CN)But you would not,
16 And you said, “No, for we will flee on horses”—
Therefore you shall flee!
And, “We will ride on swift horses”—
Therefore those who pursue you shall be swift!
17 (CO)One thousand shall flee at the threat of one,
At the threat of five you shall flee,
Till you are left as a [t]pole on top of a mountain
And as a banner on a hill.
God Will Be Gracious
18 Therefore the Lord will wait, that He may be (CP)gracious to you;
And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you.
For the Lord is a God of justice;
(CQ)Blessed are all those who (CR)wait for Him.
19 For the people (CS)shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem;
You shall (CT)weep no more.
He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry;
When He hears it, He will (CU)answer you.
20 And though the Lord gives you
(CV)The bread of adversity and the water of [u]affliction,
Yet (CW)your teachers will not be moved into a corner anymore,
But your eyes shall see your teachers.
21 Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying,
“This is the way, walk in it,”
Whenever you (CX)turn to the right hand
Or whenever you turn to the left.
22 (CY)You will also defile the covering of your images of silver,
And the ornament of your molded images of gold.
You will throw them away as an unclean thing;
(CZ)You will say to them, “Get away!”
23 (DA)Then He will give the rain for your seed
With which you sow the ground,
And bread of the increase of the earth;
It will be [v]fat and plentiful.
In that day your cattle will feed
In large pastures.
24 Likewise the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground
Will eat cured fodder,
Which has been winnowed with the shovel and fan.
25 There will be (DB)on every high mountain
And on every high hill
Rivers and streams of waters,
In the day of the (DC)great slaughter,
When the towers fall.
26 Moreover (DD)the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun,
And the light of the sun will be sevenfold,
As the light of seven days,
In the day that the Lord binds up the bruise of His people
And heals the stroke of their wound.
Judgment on Assyria
27 Behold, the name of the Lord comes from afar,
Burning with His anger,
And His burden is heavy;
His lips are full of indignation,
And His tongue like a devouring fire.
28 (DE)His breath is like an overflowing stream,
(DF)Which reaches up to the neck,
To sift the nations with the sieve of futility;
And there shall be (DG)a bridle in the jaws of the people,
Causing them to err.
29 You shall have a song
As in the night when a holy festival is kept,
And gladness of heart as when one goes with a flute,
To come into (DH)the mountain of the Lord,
To [w]the Mighty One of Israel.
30 (DI)The Lord will cause His glorious voice to be heard,
And show the descent of His arm,
With the indignation of His anger
And the flame of a devouring fire,
With scattering, tempest, (DJ)and hailstones.
31 For (DK)through the voice of the Lord
Assyria will be [x]beaten down,
As He strikes with the (DL)rod.
32 And in every place where the staff of punishment passes,
Which the Lord lays on him,
It will be with tambourines and harps;
And in battles of (DM)brandishing He will fight with it.
33 (DN)For Tophet was established of old,
Yes, for the king it is prepared.
He has made it deep and large;
Its pyre is fire with much wood;
The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone,
Kindles it.
The Folly of Not Trusting God
31 Woe to those (DO)who go down to Egypt for help,
And (DP)rely on horses,
Who trust in chariots because they are many,
And in horsemen because they are very strong,
But who do not look to the Holy One of Israel,
(DQ)Nor seek the Lord!
2 Yet He also is wise and will bring disaster,
And (DR)will not [y]call back His words,
But will arise against the house of evildoers,
And against the help of those who work iniquity.
3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God;
And their horses are flesh, and not spirit.
When the Lord stretches out His hand,
Both he who helps will fall,
And he who is helped will fall down;
They all will perish (DS)together.
God Will Deliver Jerusalem
4 For thus the Lord has spoken to me:
(DT)“As a lion roars,
And a young lion over his prey
(When a multitude of shepherds is summoned against him,
He will not be afraid of their voice
Nor be disturbed by their noise),
So the Lord of hosts will come down
To fight for Mount Zion and for its hill.
5 (DU)Like birds flying about,
So will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem.
Defending, He will also deliver it;
Passing over, He will preserve it.”
6 Return to Him against whom the children of Israel have (DV)deeply revolted. 7 For in that day every man shall (DW)throw away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—(DX)sin, which your own hands have made for yourselves.
8 “Then Assyria shall (DY)fall by a sword not of man,
And a sword not of mankind shall (DZ)devour him.
But he shall flee from the sword,
And his young men shall become forced labor.
9 (EA)He shall cross over to his stronghold for fear,
And his princes shall be afraid of the banner,”
Says the Lord,
Whose fire is in Zion
And whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 27:2 So with MT (Kittel’s Biblia Hebraica), Bg., Vg.; MT (Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia), some Heb. mss., LXX delight; Tg. choice vineyard
- Isaiah 27:7 Lit. him
- Isaiah 27:9 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities
- Isaiah 27:12 The Euphrates
- Isaiah 28:1 Lit. valleys of fatness
- Isaiah 28:4 Lit. valley of fatness
- Isaiah 28:21 Lit. foreign
- Isaiah 28:22 Lit. complete end
- Isaiah 28:25 rye
- Isaiah 28:29 sound wisdom
- Isaiah 29:1 Jerusalem, lit. Lion of God
- Isaiah 29:7 Jerusalem
- Isaiah 29:11 scroll
- Isaiah 29:12 Lit. does not know books
- Isaiah 29:20 terrifying
- Isaiah 30:1 Lit. weave a web
- Isaiah 30:6 oracle, prophecy
- Isaiah 30:7 Lit. Rahab Sits Idle
- Isaiah 30:14 A piece of broken pottery
- Isaiah 30:17 A tree stripped of branches
- Isaiah 30:20 oppression
- Isaiah 30:23 rich
- Isaiah 30:29 Lit. the Rock
- Isaiah 30:31 Lit. shattered
- Isaiah 31:2 retract
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