THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET
Isaiah
Part 1 (Chapters 1-33)
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1:1:
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and
Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
1:2:
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have
nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
1:3:
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth
not know, my people doth not consider.
1:4:
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children
that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the
Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
1:5:
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole
head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
1:6:
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it;
but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed,
neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
1:7:
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land,
strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown
by strangers.
1:8:
And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge
in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
1:9:
Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should
have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
1:10:
Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of
our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
1:11:
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the
LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts;
and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
1:12:
When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand,
to tread my courts?
1:13:
Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new
moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is
iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
1:14:
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble
unto me; I am weary to bear them.
1:15:
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea,
when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
1:16:
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before
mine eyes; cease to do evil;
1:17:
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless,
plead for the widow.
1:18:
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins
be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like
crimson, they shall be as wool.
1:19:
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
1:20:
But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the
mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
1:21:
How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness
lodged in it; but now murderers.
1:22:
Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
1:23:
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth
gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither
doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
1:24:
Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel,
Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
1:25:
And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and
take away all thy tin:
1:26:
And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at
the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness,
the faithful city.
1:27:
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
1:28:
And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together,
and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
1:29:
For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall
be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
1:30:
For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath
no water.
1:31:
And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they
shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
2:1:
The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2:2:
And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's
house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted
above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
2:3:
And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain
of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of
his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth
the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
2:4:
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and
they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks:
nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn
war any more.
2:5:
O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
2:6:
Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they
be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines,
and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
2:7:
Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of
their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any
end of their chariots:
2:8:
Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands,
that which their own fingers have made:
2:9:
And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore
forgive them not.
2:10:
Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and
for the glory of his majesty.
2:11:
The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall
be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
2:12:
For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud
and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought
low:
2:13:
And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon
all the oaks of Bashan,
2:14:
And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted
up,
2:15:
And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
2:16:
And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
2:17:
And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men
shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
2:18:
And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
2:19:
And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the
earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he
ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
2:20:
In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold,
which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the
bats;
2:21:
To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks,
for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth
to shake terribly the earth.
2:22:
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to
be accounted of?
3:1:
For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem
and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the
whole stay of water,
3:2:
The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the
prudent, and the ancient,
3:3:
The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counseller, and the
cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
3:4:
And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over
them.
3:5:
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one
by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient,
and the base against the honourable.
3:6:
When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying,
Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:
3:7:
In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my
house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
3:8:
For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and
their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
3:9:
The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare
their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have
rewarded evil unto themselves.
3:10:
Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall
eat the fruit of their doings.
3:11:
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands
shall be given him.
3:12:
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them.
O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way
of thy paths.
3:13:
The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
3:14:
The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and
the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the
poor is in your houses.
3:15:
What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the
poor? saith the LORD GOD of hosts.
3:16:
Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and
walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as
they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
3:17:
Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the
daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
3:18:
In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments
about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
3:19:
The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
3:20:
The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the
tablets, and the earrings,
3:21:
The rings, and nose jewels,
3:22:
The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and
the crisping pins,
3:23:
The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
3:24:
And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink;
and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness;
and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead
of beauty.
3:25:
Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
3:26:
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit
upon the ground.
4:1:
And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will
eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy
name, to take away our reproach.
4:2:
In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and
the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are
escaped of Israel.
4:3:
And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth
in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among
the living in Jerusalem:
4:4:
When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion,
and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by
the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
4:5:
And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon
her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming
fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
4:6:
And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat,
and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
5:1:
Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard.
My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
5:2:
And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with
the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made
a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and
it brought forth wild grapes.
5:3:
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you,
betwixt me and my vineyard.
5:4:
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in
it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought
it forth wild grapes?
5:5:
And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take
away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall
thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
5:6:
And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there
shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they
rain no rain upon it.
5:7:
For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men
of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression;
for righteousness, but behold a cry.
5:8:
Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there
be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
5:9:
In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate,
even great and fair, without inhabitant.
5:10:
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer
shall yield an ephah.
5:11:
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong
drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
5:12:
And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their
feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the
operation of his hands.
5:13:
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge:
and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with
thirst.
5:14:
Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure:
and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth,
shall descend into it.
5:15:
And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled,
and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
5:16:
But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy
shall be sanctified in righteousness.
5:17:
Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the
fat ones shall strangers eat.
5:18:
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were
with a cart rope:
5:19:
That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it:
and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that
we may know it!
5:20:
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for
light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for
bitter!
5:21:
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own
sight!
5:22:
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle
strong drink:
5:23:
Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of
the righteous from him!
5:24:
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the
chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go
up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and
despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
5:25:
Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath
stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills
did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets.
For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out
still.
5:26:
And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto
them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed
swiftly:
5:27:
None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep;
neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their
shoes be broken:
5:28:
Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall
be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
5:29:
Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea,
they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe,
and none shall deliver it.
5:30:
And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea:
and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light
is darkened in the heavens thereof.
6:1:
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne,
high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
6:2:
Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered
his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
6:3:
And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of
hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
6:4:
And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the
house was filled with smoke.
6:5:
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean
lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes
have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
6:6:
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand,
which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
6:7:
And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips;
and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
6:8:
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who
will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
6:9:
And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not;
and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
6:10:
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut
their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and
understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
6:11:
Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted
without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly
desolate,
6:12:
And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking
in the midst of the land.
6:13:
But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten:
as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast
their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
7:1:
And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah,
king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah,
king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not
prevail against it.
7:2:
And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim.
And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the
wood are moved with the wind.
7:3:
Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub
thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of
the fuller's field;
7:4:
And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted
for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of
Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
7:5:
Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel
against thee, saying,
7:6:
Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein
for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:
7:7:
Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
7:8:
For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and
within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not
a people.
7:9:
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's
son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
7:10:
Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
7:11:
Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in
the height above.
7:12:
But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
7:13:
And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you
to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
7:14:
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall
conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
7:15:
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and
choose the good.
7:16:
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good,
the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
7:17:
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.
7:18:
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.
7:19:
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.
7:20:
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.
7:21:
And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young
cow, and two sheep;
7:22:
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.
7:23:
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.
7:24:
With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land
shall become briers and thorns.
7:25:
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.
8:1:
Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it
with a man's pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
8:2:
And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and
Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
8:3:
And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then
said the LORD to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
8:4:
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.
8:5:
The LORD spake also unto me again, saying,
8:6:
Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly,
and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
8:7:
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:
8:8:
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.
8:9:
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.
8:10:
Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and
it shall not stand: for God is with us.
8:11:
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,
8:12:
Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A
confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
8:13:
Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him
be your dread.
8:14:
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.
8:15:
And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared,
and be taken.
8:16:
Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
8:17:
And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob,
and I will look for him.
8:18:
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.
8:19:
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?
8:20:
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word,
it is because there is no light in them.
8:21:
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.
8:22:
And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness
of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
9:1:
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.
9:2:
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.
9:3:
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.
9:4:
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.
9:5:
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.
9:6:
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, Counseller,
The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
9:7:
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.
9:8:
The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
9:9:
And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria,
that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
9:10:
The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores
are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
9:11:
Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and
join his enemies together;
9:12:
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.
9:13:
For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they
seek the LORD of hosts.
9:14:
Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush,
in one day.
9:15:
The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth
lies, he is the tail.
9:16:
For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led
of them are destroyed.
9:17:
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.
9:18:
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.
9:19:
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.
9:20:
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:
9:21:
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.
10:1:
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness
which they have prescribed;
10:2:
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!
10:3:
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?
10:4:
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.
10:5:
O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine
indignation.
10:6:
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.
10:7:
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.
10:8:
For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
10:9:
Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
10:10:
As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images
did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
10:11:
Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem
and her idols?
10:12:
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.
10:13:
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:
10:14:
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.
10:15:
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.
10:16:
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.
10:17:
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;
10:18:
And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both
soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.
10:19:
And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may
write them.
10:20:
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.
10:21:
The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
10:22:
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.
10:23:
For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in
the midst of all the land.
10:24:
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.
10:25:
For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine
anger in their destruction.
10:26:
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.
10:27:
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.
10:28:
He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up
his carriages:
10:29:
They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba;
Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
10:30:
Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish,
O poor Anathoth.
10:31:
Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.
10:32:
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.
10:33:
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.
10:34:
And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon
shall fall by a mighty one.
11:1:
And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch
shall grow out of his roots:
11:2:
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;
11:3:
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:
11:4:
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.
11:5:
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the
girdle of his reins.
11:6:
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.
11:7:
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together:
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
11:8:
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned
child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
11:9:
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.
11:10:
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.
11:11:
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.
11:12:
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.
11:13:
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.
11:14:
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.
11:15:
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.
11:16:
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.
12:1:
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.
12:2:
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.
12:3:
Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
12:4:
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.
12:5:
Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in
all the earth.
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12:6: Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy
One of Israel in the midst of thee.
13:1:
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
13:2:
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.
13:3:
I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones
for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
13:4:
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.
13:5:
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.
13:6:
Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction
from the Almighty.
13:7:
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
13:8:
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.
13:9:
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.
13:10:
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.
13:11:
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.
13:12:
I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden
wedge of Ophir.
13:13:
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.
13:14:
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.
13:15:
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is
joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
13:16:
Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their
houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
13:17:
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver;
and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
13:18:
Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have
no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
13:19:
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency,
shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
13:20:
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.
13:21:
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.
13:22:
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.
14:1:
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.
14:2:
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.
14:3:
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,
14:4:
That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say,
How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
14:5:
The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
14:6:
He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled
the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
14:7:
The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
14:8:
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.
14:9:
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.
14:10:
All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we?
art thou become like unto us?
14:11:
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.
14:12:
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!
14:13:
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:
14:14:
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most
High.
14:15:
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
14:16:
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;
14:17:
That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof;
that opened not the house of his prisoners?
14:18:
All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one
in his own house.
14:19:
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.
14:20:
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.
14:21:
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.
14:22:
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.
14:23:
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.
14:24:
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:
14:25:
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.
14:26:
This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is
the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
14:27:
For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his
hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
14:28:
In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
14:29:
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.
14:30:
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.
14:31:
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.
14:32:
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.
15:1:
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;
15:2:
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.
15:3:
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.
15:4:
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.
15:5:
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.
15:6:
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away,
the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
15:7:
Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid
up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
15:8:
For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof
unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim.
15:9:
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.
16:1:
Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness,
unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
16:2:
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.
16:3:
Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst
of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
16:4:
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.
16:5:
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.
16:6:
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.
16:7:
Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations
of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.
16:8:
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.
16:9:
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.
16:10:
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.
16:11:
Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward
parts for Kir-haresh.
16:12:
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.
16:13:
This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.
16:14:
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.
17:1:
The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city,
and it shall be a ruinous heap.
17:2:
The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall
lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
17:3:
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.
17:4:
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.
17:5:
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.
17:6:
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.
17:7:
At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect
to the Holy One of Israel.
17:8:
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.
17:9:
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.
17:10:
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:
17:11:
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.
17:12:
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!
17:13:
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.
17:14:
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.
18:1:
Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
18:2:
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!
18:3:
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.
18:4:
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.
18:5:
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.
18:6:
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.
18:7:
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.
19:1:
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.
19:2:
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.
19:3:
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.
19:4:
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.
19:5:
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and
dried up.
19:6:
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.
19:7:
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.
19:8:
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.
19:9:
Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall
be confounded.
19:10:
And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices
and ponds for fish.
19:11:
Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellers
of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of
the wise, the son of ancient kings?
19:12:
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.
19:13:
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.
19:14:
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.
19:15:
Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch
or rush, may do.
19:16:
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.
19:17:
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.
19:18:
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.
19:19:
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.
19:20:
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.
19:21:
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.
19:22:
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.
19:23:
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.
19:24:
In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even
a blessing in the midst of the land:
19:25:
Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people,
and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
20:1:
In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria
sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
20:2:
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.
20:3:
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;
20:4:
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.
20:5:
And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and
of Egypt their glory.
20:6:
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?
21:1:
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.
21:2:
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.
21:3:
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.
21:4:
My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath
he turned into fear unto me.
21:5:
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes,
and anoint the shield.
21:6:
For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare
what he seeth.
21:7:
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:
21:8:
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:
21:9:
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.
21:10:
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.
21:11:
The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the
night? Watchman, what of the night?
21:12:
The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire,
enquire ye: return, come.
21:13:
The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling
companies of Dedanim.
21:14:
The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty,
they prevented with their bread him that fled.
21:15:
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent
bow, and from the grievousness of war.
21:16:
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:
21:17:
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.
22:1:
The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art
wholly gone up to the housetops?
22:2:
Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain
men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
22:3:
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.
22:4:
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.
22:5:
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.
22:6:
And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered
the shield.
22:7:
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.
22:8:
And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day
to the armour of the house of the forest.
22:9:
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.
22:10:
And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken
down to fortify the wall.
22:11:
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.
22:12:
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning,
and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
22:13:
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.
22:14:
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.
22:15:
Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even
unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,
22:16:
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?
22:17:
Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will
surely cover thee.
22:18:
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.
22:19:
And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull
thee down.
22:20:
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim
the son of Hilkiah:
22:21:
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.
22:22:
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.
22:23:
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.
22:24:
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.
22:25:
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.
23:1:
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.
23:2:
Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon,
that pass over the sea, have replenished.
23:3:
And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her
revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
23:4:
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.
23:5:
As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the
report of Tyre.
23:6:
Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
23:7:
Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet
shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
23:8:
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants
are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
23:9:
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.
23:10:
Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more
strength.
23:11:
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.
23:12:
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.
23:13:
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.
23:14:
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste
23:15:
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.
23:16:
Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten;
make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
23:17:
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.
23:18:
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.
24:1:
Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth
it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
24:2:
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.
24:3:
The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath
spoken this word.
24:4:
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away,
the haughty people of the earth do languish.
24:5:
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have
transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
24:6:
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.
24:7:
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
24:8:
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the
joy of the harp ceaseth.
24:9:
They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to
them that drink it.
24:10:
The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man
may come in.
24:11:
There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth
of the land is gone.
24:12:
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
24:13:
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.
24:14:
They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the
LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
24:15:
Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God
of Israel in the isles of the sea.
24:16:
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.
24:17:
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
24:18:
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.
24:19:
The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth
is moved exceedingly.
24:20:
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.
24:21:
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.
24:22:
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.
24:23:
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.
25:1:
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.
25:2:
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.
25:3:
Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible
nations shall fear thee.
25:4:
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.
25:5:
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.
25:6:
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.
25:7:
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.
25:8:
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.
25:9:
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.
25:10:
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.
25:11:
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.
25:12:
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.
26:1:
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong
city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
26:2:
Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may
enter in.
26:3:
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because
he trusteth in thee.
26:4:
Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
26:5:
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.
26:6:
The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps
of the needy.
26:7:
The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the
path of the just.
26:8:
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.
26:9:
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.
26:10:
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.
26:11:
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.
26:12:
LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our
works in us.
26:13:
O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but
by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
26:14:
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.
26:15:
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.
26:16:
LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when
thy chastening was upon them.
26:17:
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.
26:18:
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.
26:19:
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.
26:20:
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.
26:21:
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.
27:1:
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.
27:2:
In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
27:3:
I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it,
I will keep it night and day.
27:4:
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.
27:5:
Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and
he shall make peace with me.
27:6:
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.
27:7:
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?
27:8:
In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth
his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
27:9:
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.
27:10:
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.
27:11:
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.
27:12:
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.
27:13:
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.
28:1:
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!
28:2:
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.
28:3:
The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
28:4:
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.
28:5:
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,
28:6:
And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength
to them that turn the battle to the gate.
28:7:
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.
28:8:
For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place
clean.
28:9:
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.
28:10:
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line,
line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
28:11:
For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
28:12:
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.
28:13:
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.
28:14:
Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people
which is in Jerusalem.
28:15:
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:
28:16:
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.
28:17:
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.
28:18:
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.
28:19:
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.
28:20:
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.
28:21:
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.
28:22:
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.
28:23:
Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
28:24:
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods
of his ground?
28:25:
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 rie in their place?
28:26:
For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
28:27:
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.
28:28:
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.
28:29:
This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel,
and excellent in working.
29:1:
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year;
let them kill sacrifices.
29:2:
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and
it shall be unto me as Ariel.
29:3:
And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee
with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
29:4:
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.
29:5:
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.
29:6:
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.
29:7:
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.
29:8:
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.
29:9:
Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but
not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
29:10:
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.
29:11:
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:
29:12:
And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this,
I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
29:13:
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:
29:14:
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.
29:15:
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?
29:16:
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?
29:17:
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?
29:18:
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.
29:19:
The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among
men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
29:20:
For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed,
and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
29:21:
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.
29:22:
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.
29:23:
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.
29:24:
They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that
murmured shall learn doctrine.
30:1:
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:
30:2:
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!
30:3:
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in
the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
30:4:
For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
30:5:
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.
30:6:
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.
30:7:
For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have
I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
30:8:
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:
30:9:
That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not
hear the law of the LORD:
30:10:
Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto
us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
30:11:
Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One
of Israel to cease from before us.
30:12:
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word,
and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
30:13:
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.
30:14:
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.
30:15:
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.
30:16:
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.
30:17:
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.
30:18:
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.
30:19:
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.
30:20:
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:
30:21:
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.
30:22:
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.
30:23:
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.
30:24:
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.
30:25:
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.
30:26:
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.
30:27:
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:
30:28:
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.
30:29:
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.
30:30:
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.
30:31:
For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which
smote with a rod.
30:32:
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.
30:33:
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.
31:1:
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!
31:2:
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.
31:3:
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.
31:4:
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.
31:5:
As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending
also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.
31:6:
Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
31:7:
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.
31:8:
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.
31:9:
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.
32:1:
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in
judgment.
32:2:
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.
32:3:
And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that
hear shall hearken.
32:4:
The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of
the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
32:5:
The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to
be bountiful.
32:6:
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.
32:7:
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.
32:8:
But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he
stand.
32:9:
Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters;
give ear unto my speech.
32:10:
Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage
shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
32:11:
Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip
you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
32:12:
They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful
vine.
32:13:
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all
the houses of joy in the joyous city:
32:14:
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;
32:15:
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.
32:16:
Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in
the fruitful field.
32:17:
And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness
quietness and assurance for ever.
32:18:
And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings,
and in quiet resting places;
32:19:
When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low
in a low place.
32:20:
Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the
feet of the ox and the ass.
33:1:
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.
33:2:
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.
33:3:
At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself
the nations were scattered.
33:4:
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.
33:5:
The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with
judgment and righteousness.
33:6:
And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength
of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.
33:7:
Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace
shall weep bitterly.
33:8:
The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,
he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
33:9:
The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon
is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
33:10:
Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift
up myself.
33:11:
Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as
fire, shall devour you.
33:12:
And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall
they be burned in the fire.
33:13:
Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge
my might.
33:14:
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?
33:15:
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;
33:16:
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.
33:17:
Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land
that is very far off.
33:18:
Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver?
where is he that counted the towers?
33:19:
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.
33:20:
Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem
a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one
of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords
thereof be broken.
33:21:
But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and
streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship
pass thereby.
33:22:
For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king;
he will save us.
33:23:
Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they
could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the
lame take the prey.
33:24:
And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein
shall be forgiven their iniquity.