The Book of the Prophet Isaiah
1:1The 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. 1:2Hear, O heavens, and
give ear, O earth; for Jehovah hath spoken: I have nourished and brought
up children, and they have rebelled against me. 1:3The ox knoweth his
owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel doth not know, my
people doth not consider. 1:4Ah sinful nation, a people laden with
iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly! they have
forsaken Jehovah, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are
estranged and gone backward. 1:5Why will ye be still stricken, that ye
revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
1:6From the sole of the foot even unto the
head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and
fresh stripes: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither
mollified with oil. 1:7Your 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. 1:8And the daughter of
Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of
cucumbers, as a besieged city. 1:9Except Jehovah of hosts had left unto
us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been
like unto Gomorrah. 1:10Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of
Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. 1:11What unto me is the multitude of your
sacrifices? saith Jehovah: I have had enough 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. 1:12When ye come to appear
before me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample my courts? 1:13Bring no more vain oblations; incense
is an abomination unto me; new moon and sabbath, the calling of
assemblies,- I cannot away with iniquity and the solemn meeting. 1:14Your new moons and your appointed
feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble unto me; I am weary of bearing
them. 1:15And 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. 1:16Wash you, make you clean; put away the
evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 1:17learn to do well; seek justice,
relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 1:18Come now, and let us reason together,
saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as
snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 1:19If
ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: 1:20but
if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth
of Jehovah hath spoken it. 1:21How is the faithful city become a
harlot! she that was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now
murderers. 1:22Thy silver is become dross, thy wine
mixed with water. 1:23Thy princes are rebellious, and
companions of thieves; every one loveth bribes, and followeth after
rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the
widow come unto them. 1:24Therefore saith the Lord, Jehovah of
hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries,
and avenge me of mine enemies; 1:25and I will turn my hand upon thee, and
thoroughly purge away thy dross, and will take away all thy tin; 1:26and
I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the
beginning: afterward thou shalt be called The city of righteousness, a
faithful town. 1:27Zion shall be redeemed with justice,
and her converts with righteousness. 1:28But the destruction of transgressors
and sinners shall be together, and they that forsake Jehovah shall be
consumed. 1:29For they shall be ashamed of the oaks
which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye
have chosen. 1:30For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf
fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. 1:31And the strong shall
be as tow, and his work as a spark; and they shall both burn together, and
none shall quench them.
2:1The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz
saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2:2And it shall come to pass in the latter
days, that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top
of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations
shall flow unto it. 2:3And many peoples shall go and say, Come
ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, 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 Jehovah from
Jerusalem. 2:4And he will judge between the nations,
and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords
into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not
lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 2:5O
house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of Jehovah. 2:6For
thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are filled
with customs from the east, and are soothsayers like the
Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners. 2:7And
their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their
treasures; their land also is full of horses, neither is there any end of
their chariots. 2:8Their land also is full of idols; they
worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have
made. 2:9And the mean man is bowed down, and the
great man is brought low: therefore forgive them not. 2:10Enter into the rock, and hide thee in
the dust, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his
majesty. 2:11The lofty looks of man shall be
brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah
alone shall be exalted in that day. 2:12For there shall be a day of Jehovah of
hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up;
and it shall be brought low; 2:13and upon all the cedars of Lebanon,
that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, 2:14and
upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, 2:15and
upon every lofty tower, and upon every fortified wall, 2:16and
upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant imagery. 2:17And
the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall
be brought low; and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day. 2:18And
the idols shall utterly pass away. 2:19And men shall go into the caves of the
rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Jehovah,
and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the
earth. 2:20In that day men shall cast away their
idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for them to
worship, to the moles and to the bats; 2:21to go into the caverns
of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the
terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to
shake mightily the earth. 2:22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in
his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?
3:1For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of
hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the
whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water; 3:2the mighty man, and the
man of war; the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the elder; 3:3the
captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counsellor, and the
expert artificer, and the skilful enchanter. 3:4And I will give
children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. 3:5And
the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his
neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and
the base against the honorable. 3:6When a man shall take hold of his
brother in the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be
thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand; 3:7in that day shall he
lift up his voice, saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house
is neither bread nor clothing: ye shall not make me ruler of the people.
3:8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is
fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to
provoke the eyes of his glory. 3:9The show 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 done evil unto themselves. 3:10Say
ye of the righteous, that it shall be well with him; for
they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 3:11Woe unto the wicked!
it shall be ill with him; for what his hands have done shall
be done unto him. 3:12As for my people, children are their
oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they that lead thee
cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. 3:13Jehovah standeth up to
contend, and standeth to judge the peoples. 3:14Jehovah will enter
into judgment with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof: It
is ye that have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your
houses: 3:15what mean ye that ye crush my people,
and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts. 3:16Moreover Jehovah said, Because the
daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton
eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their
feet; 3:17therefore the Lord will smite with a
scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay
bare their secret parts. 3:18In that day the Lord will take away
the beauty of their anklets, and the cauls, and the crescents; 3:19the
pendants, and the bracelets, and the mufflers; 3:20the headtires, and the
ankle chains, and the sashes, and the perfume-boxes, and the amulets; 3:21the
rings, and the nose-jewels; 3:22the festival robes, and the mantles,
and the shawls, and the satchels; 3:23the hand-mirrors, and the fine linen,
and the turbans, and the veils. 3:24And it shall come to pass, that
instead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness; and instead of a
girdle, a rope; and instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a
robe, a girding of sackcloth; branding instead of beauty. 3:25Thy
men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. 3:26And
her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon
the ground.
4:1And seven women shall take hold of one
man in that day, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own
apparel: only let us be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach.
4:2In
that day shall the branch of Jehovah be beautiful and glorious, and the
fruit of the land shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped
of Israel. 4:3And 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; 4:4when
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 justice, and by the spirit of burning. 4:5And Jehovah will create
over the whole habitation of mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud
and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all
the glory shall be spread a covering. 4:6And there shall be a
pavilion for a shade in the day-time from the heat, and for a refuge and
for a covert from storm and from rain.
5:1Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song
of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a
very fruitful hill: 5:2and he digged 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 hewed out a winepress therein: and he looked
that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. 5:3And
now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you,
betwixt me and my vineyard. 5:4What 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? 5:5And
now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the
hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down the wall
thereof, and it shall be trodden down: 5:6and I will lay it
waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and
thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 5:7For
the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of
Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold,
oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry. 5:8Woe unto them that join
house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no room, and ye be
made to dwell alone in the midst of the land! 5:9In mine ears
saith Jehovah of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate,
even great and fair, without inhabitant. 5:10For ten acres of
vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but
an ephah. 5:11Woe unto them that rise up early in
the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that tarry late into the
night, till wine inflame them! 5:12And the harp and the lute, the tabret
and the pipe, and wine, are in their feasts; but they regard not
the work of Jehovah, neither have they considered the operation of his
hands. 5:13Therefore my people are gone into
captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and
their multitude are parched with thirst. 5:14Therefore Sheol hath
enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their
glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth among
them, descend into it. 5:15And the mean man is bowed down, and
the great man is humbled, and the eyes of the lofty are humbled: 5:16but
Jehovah of hosts is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified
in righteousness. 5:17Then shall the lambs feed as in their
pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat. 5:18Woe
unto them that draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were
with a cart rope; 5:19that say, Let him make speed, let him
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! 5:20Woe 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! 5:21Woe
unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
5:22Woe unto them that are mighty to drink
wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink; 5:23that justify the
wicked for a bribe, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from
him! 5:24Therefore as the tongue of fire
devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so
their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust;
because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the
word of the Holy One of Israel. 5:25Therefore is the anger of Jehovah
kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against
them, and hath smitten them; and the mountains tremble, and their dead
bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger
is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 5:26And
he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss for them
from the end of the earth; and, behold, they shall come with speed
swiftly. 5:27None 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: 5:28whose arrows are sharp, and all their
bows bent; their horses' hoofs shall be accounted as flint, and their
wheels as a whirlwind: 5:29their roaring shall be like a lioness,
they shall roar like young lions; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of
the prey, and carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver. 5:30And
they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and
if one look unto the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the
light is darkened in the clouds thereof.
6:1In the year that king Uzziah died I saw
the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled
the temple. 6:2Above him stood the seraphim: each one
had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered
his feet, and with twain he did fly. 6:3And one cried unto another, and said,
Holy, holy, holy, is Jehovah of hosts: the whole earth is full of his
glory. 6:4And the foundations of the thresholds
shook at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
6:5Then 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, Jehovah of
hosts. 6:6Then flew one of the seraphim unto me,
having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off
the altar: 6:7and he touched my mouth with it, and
said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away,
and thy sin forgiven. 6:8And I heard the voice of the Lord,
saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I;
send me. 6:9And he said, Go, and tell this people,
Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
6:10Make the heart of this people fat, and
make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they sea with their eyes,
and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again,
and be healed. 6:11Then said I, Lord, how long? And he
answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without
man, and the land become utterly waste, 6:12and Jehovah have
removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many in the midst of the
land. 6:13And if there be yet a tenth in it, it
also shall in turn be eaten up: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock
remaineth, when they are felled; so the holy seed is the stock thereof.
7:1And 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 to
Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. 7:2And
it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim.
And his heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the
forest tremble with the wind. 7:3Then said Jehovah 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; 7:4and
say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither let thy heart be
faint, because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce
anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. 7:5Because Syria, Ephraim,
and the son of Remaliah, have purposed evil against thee, saying, 7:6Let
us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for
us, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeel; 7:7thus
saith the Lord Jehovah, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
7:8For the head of Syria is Damascus, and
the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall
Ephraim be broken in pieces, so that is shall not be a people: 7:9and
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. 7:10And
Jehovah spake again unto Ahaz, saying, 7:11Ask thee a sign of
Jehovah thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. 7:12But
Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt Jehovah. 7:13And
he said, Hear ye now, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to
weary men, that ye will weary my God also? 7:14Therefore the Lord
himself will give you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a
son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 7:15Butter and honey shall
he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good. 7:16For
before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the
land whose two kings thou abhorrest shall be forsaken. 7:17Jehovah will 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. 7:18And
it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will 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. 7:19And they shall come, and shall rest
all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the clefts of the rocks, and
upon all thorn-hedges, and upon all pastures. 7:20In that day will the
Lord shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River,
even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet;
and it shall also consume the beard. 7:21And it shall come to pass in that day,
that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep; 7:22and
it shall come to pass, that because of the abundance of milk which they
shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat
that is left in the midst of the land. 7:23And it shall come to
pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a
thousand silverlings, shall be for briers and thorns. 7:24With arrows and with bow shall one
come thither, because all the land shall be briers and thorns. 7:25And
all the hills that were digged with the mattock, thou shalt not come
thither for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending
forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.
8:1And Jehovah said unto me, Take thee a
great tablet, and write upon it with the pen of a man, For
Maher-shalal-hash-baz; 8:2and I will take unto me faithful
witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of
Jeberechiah. 8:3And I went unto the prophetess; and she
conceived, and bare a son. Then said Jehovah unto me, Call his name
Maher-shalal-hash-baz. 8:4For before the child shall have
knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of Damascus and
the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria. 8:5And
Jehovah spake unto me yet again, saying, 8:6Forasmuch as this
people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in
Rezin and Remaliah's son; 8:7now 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 it shall come up
over all its channels, and go over all its banks; 8:8and it shall sweep
onward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach even
to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the breadth of
thy land, O Immanuel. 8:9Make an uproar, O ye peoples, and be
broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves,
and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces. 8:10Take counsel together, and it shall be
brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with
us. 8:11For Jehovah spake thus to me with a
strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people,
saying, 8:12Say ye not, A conspiracy, concerning
all whereof this people shall say, A conspiracy; neither fear ye their
fear, nor be in dread thereof. 8:13Jehovah of hosts, him
shall ye sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. 8:14And
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. 8:15And many shall stumble thereon, and
fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. 8:16Bind thou up the
testimony, seal the law among my disciples. 8:17And I will wait for
Jehovah, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for
him. 8:18Behold, I and the children whom
Jehovah hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Jehovah
of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion. 8:19And when they shall
say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits and unto the
wizards, that chirp and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their
God? on behalf of the living should they seek unto the dead? 8:20To
the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word,
surely there is no morning for them. 8:21And they shall pass through it, sore
distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be
hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their
God, and turn their faces upward: 8:22and they shall look unto the earth,
and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick
darkness they shall be driven away.
9:1But there shall be no gloom to her that
was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of
Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time hath he made it
glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the
nations. 9:2The people that walked in darkness have
seen a great light: they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death,
upon them hath the light shined. 9:3Thou hast multiplied the nation, thou
hast increased their joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in
harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. 9:4For the yoke of his
burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, thou hast
broken as in the day of Midian. 9:5For all the armor of the armed man in
the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall be for burning, for
fuel of fire. 9:6For unto us a child is born, unto us a
son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name
shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father,
Prince of Peace. 9:7Of the increase of his government and
of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his
kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with
righteousness from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts
will perform this. 9:8The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it
hath lighted upon Israel. 9:9And all the people shall know,
even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in pride and
in stoutness of heart, 9:10The bricks are fallen, but we will
build with hewn stone; the sycomores are cut down, but we will put cedars
in their place. 9:11Therefore Jehovah will set up on high
against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies, 9:12the
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. 9:13Yet the people have not turned unto
him that smote them, neither have they sought Jehovah of hosts. 9:14Therefore Jehovah will cut off from
Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day. 9:15The
elder and the honorable man, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth
lies, he is the tail. 9:16For they that lead this people cause
them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. 9:17Therefore the Lord will not rejoice
over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless
and widows; for every one is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth
speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is
stretched out still. 9:18For wickedness burneth as the fire; it
devoureth the briers and thorns; yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the
forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke. 9:19Through the wrath of
Jehovah of hosts is the land burnt up; and the people are as the fuel of
fire: no man spareth his brother. 9:20And one 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: 9:21Manasseh, 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.
10:1Woe unto them that decree unrighteous
decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness; 10:2to turn aside the
needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that
widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their
prey! 10:3And 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? 10:4They shall only bow down under the
prisoners, and shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not
turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 10:5Ho Assyrian, the rod
of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation! 10:6I
will send him against a profane 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. 10:7Howbeit he meaneth not
so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy,
and to cut off nations not a few. 10:8For he saith, Are not my princes all
of them kings? 10:9Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not
Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? 10:10As my hand hath found
the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem
and of Samaria; 10:11shall I not, as I have done unto
Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? 10:12Wherefore 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. 10:13For he hath said, By
the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have
understanding: and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have
robbed their treasures, and like a valiant man I have brought down them
that sit on thrones: 10:14and my hand hath found as a nest the
riches of the peoples; and as one gathereth eggs that are forsaken, have I
gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing, or that
opened the mouth, or chirped. 10:15Shall the axe boast itself against
him that heweth therewith? shall the saw magnify itself against him that
wieldeth it? as if a rod should wield them that lift it up, or as
if a staff should lift up him that is not wood. 10:16Therefore will the Lord, Jehovah of
hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall
be kindled a burning like the burning of fire. 10:17And the light of
Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn
and devour his thorns and his briers in one day. 10:18And he will consume
the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body:
and it shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth. 10:19And the remnant of
the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may write them. 10:20And it shall come to pass in that
day, that the remnant of Israel, and they that are escaped of the house of
Jacob, shall no more again lean upon him that smote them, but shall lean
upon Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 10:21A remnant shall
return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. 10:22For though thy people, Israel, be as
the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them shall return: a
destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness. 10:23For a full end, and that determined,
will the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, make in the midst of all the earth. 10:24Therefore thus saith the Lord,
Jehovah of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the
Assyrian, though he smite thee with the rod, and lift up his staff against
thee, after the manner of Egypt. 10:25For yet a very little while, and the
indignation against thee shall be accomplished, and mine anger
shall be directed to his destruction. 10:26And Jehovah of hosts
will stir up against him a scourge, as in the slaughter of Midian at the
rock of Oreb: and his rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up
after the manner of Egypt. 10:27And it shall come to pass in that
day, that his burden shall depart from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from
off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed by reason of fatness. 10:28He is come to Aiath, he is passed
through Migron; at Michmash he layeth up his baggage; 10:29they are gone over the pass; they
have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah trembleth; Gibeah of Saul is
fled. 10:30Cry aloud with thy voice, O daughter
of Gallim! hearken, O Laishah! O thou poor Anathoth! 10:31Madmenah is a fugitive; the
inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety. 10:32This very day shall
he halt at Nob: he shaketh his hand at the mount of the daughter of Zion,
the hill of Jerusalem. 10:33Behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts,
will lop the boughs with terror: and the high of stature shall be hewn
down, and the lofty shall be brought low. 10:34And he will cut down
the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty
one.
11:1And there shall come forth a shoot out
of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit. 11:2And
the Spirit of Jehovah 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 Jehovah. 11:3And his delight shall be in the fear
of Jehovah; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither
decide after the hearing of his ears; 11:4but with righteousness
shall he judge the poor, and decide 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. 11:5And righteousness
shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the girdle of his
loins. 11:6And the wolf 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.
11:7And the cow and the bear shall feed;
their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw
like the ox. 11:8And the sucking child shall play on
the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the
adder's den. 11:9They shall not hurt nor destroy in all
my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah,
as the waters cover the sea. 11:10And it shall come to pass in that
day, that the root of Jesse, that standeth for an ensign of the peoples,
unto him shall the nations seek; and his resting-place shall be glorious.
11:11And it shall come to pass in that
day, that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the
remnant of his people, that shall remain, 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. 11:12And he will set up an
ensign for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and
gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
11:13The envy also of Ephraim shall
depart, and they that vex Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy
Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. 11:14And they shall fly
down upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the west; together shall they
despoil the children of the east: they shall put forth their hand upon
Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them. 11:15And Jehovah will utterly destroy the
tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind will he wave his
hand over the River, and will smite it into seven streams, and cause men
to march over dryshod. 11:16And there shall be a highway for the
remnant of his people, that shall remain, from Assyria; like as there was
for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
12:1And in that day thou shalt say, I will
give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah; for though thou wast angry with me,
thine anger is turned away and thou comfortest me. 12:2Behold, God is my
salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Jehovah, even
Jehovah, is my strength and song; and he is become my salvation. 12:3Therefore with joy shall ye draw water
out of the wells of salvation. 12:4And in that day shall ye say, Give
thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name, declare his doings among the
peoples, make mention that his name is exalted. 12:5Sing unto Jehovah; for
he hath done excellent things: let this be known in all the earth. 12:6Cry
aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion; for great in the midst of thee
is the Holy One of Israel.
13:1The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah
the son of Amoz did see. 13:2Set ye up an ensign upon the bare
mountain, lift up the voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may go
into the gates of the nobles. 13:3I have commanded my consecrated ones,
yea, I have called my mighty men for mine anger, even my proudly exulting
ones. 13:4The noise of a multitude in the
mountains, as of a great people! the noise of a tumult of the kingdoms of
the nations gathered together! Jehovah of hosts is mustering the host for
the battle. 13:5They come from a far country, from the
uttermost part of heaven, even Jehovah, and the weapons of his
indignation, to destroy the whole land. 13:6Wail ye; for the day
of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come. 13:7Therefore shall all hands be feeble,
and every heart of man shall melt: 13:8and they shall be dismayed; pangs and
sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman
in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces
shall be faces of flame. 13:9Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh,
cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to
destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 13:10For the stars of
heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun
shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its
light to shine. 13:11And 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. 13:12I will make a man more rare than fine
gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir. 13:13Therefore I will make
the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, in
the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. 13:14And it shall come to pass, that as
the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathereth, they shall turn every
man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land. 13:15Every one that is found shall be
thrust through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the sword. 13:16Their infants also shall be dashed in
pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives
ravished. 13:17Behold, I will stir up the Medes
against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not
delight in it. 13:18And their bows shall dash the
young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb;
their eye shall not spare children. 13:19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,
the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom
and Gomorrah. 13:20It shall never be inhabited, neither
shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the
Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall shepherds make their flocks to lie
down there. 13:21But wild beasts of the desert shall
lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and
ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there. 13:22And wolves shall cry in their
castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to
come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
14:1For Jehovah will have compassion on
Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the
sojourner shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house
of Jacob. 14:2And the peoples shall take them, and
bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in
the land of Jehovah for servants and for handmaids: and they shall take
them captive whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their
oppressors. 14:3And it shall come to pass in the day
that Jehovah shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy trouble,
and from the hard service wherein thou wast made to serve, 14:4that thou shalt take up this parable
against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the
golden city ceased! 14:5Jehovah hath broken the staff of the
wicked, the sceptre of the rulers; 14:6that smote the peoples in wrath with a
continual stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that
none restrained. 14:7The whole earth is at rest, and
is quiet: they break forth into singing. 14:8Yea, the fir-trees
rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since
thou art laid low, no hewer is come up against us. 14:9Sheol 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. 14:10All they shall answer
and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like
unto us? 14:11Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol,
and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and
worms cover thee. 14:12How art thou fallen from heaven, O
day-star, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that
didst lay low the nations! 14:13And thou saidst in thy heart, I will
ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I
will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the
north; 14:14I will ascend above the heights of
the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High. 14:15Yet thou shalt be
brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit. 14:16They that see thee shall gaze at
thee, they shall consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made
the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; 14:17that made the world
as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that let not loose his
prisoners to their home? 14:18All the kings of the nations, all of
them, sleep in glory, every one in his own house. 14:19But thou art cast
forth away from thy sepulchre like an abominable branch, clothed with the
slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones
of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot. 14:20Thou shalt not be
joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, thou
hast slain thy people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named for ever.
14:21Prepare ye slaughter for his children
for the iniquity of their fathers, that they rise not up, and possess the
earth, and fill the face of the world with cities. 14:22And I will rise up
against them, saith Jehovah of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and
remnant, and son and son's son, saith Jehovah. 14:23I will also make it a
possession for the porcupine, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with
the besom of destruction, saith Jehovah of hosts. 14:24Jehovah 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: 14:25that 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 shoulder. 14:26This is the purpose that is purposed
upon the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all
the nations. 14:27For Jehovah of hosts hath purposed,
and who shall annul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn
it back? 14:28In the year that king Ahaz died was
this burden. 14:29Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of
thee, because the rod that smote thee is broken; for out of the serpent's
root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying
serpent. 14:30And the first-born of the poor shall
feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; and I will kill thy root
with famine, and thy remnant shall be slain. 14:31Howl, O gate; cry, O
city; thou art melted away, O Philistia, all of thee; for there cometh a
smoke out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks. 14:32What then shall one answer the
messengers of the nation? That Jehovah hath founded Zion, and in her shall
the afflicted of his people take refuge.
15:1The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar
of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nought; for in a night Kir of
Moab is laid waste, and brought to nought. 15:2They are gone up to
Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab waileth over Nebo,
and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.
15:3In their streets they gird themselves
with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad places, every one
waileth, weeping abundantly. 15:4And Heshbon crieth out, and Elealeh;
their voice is heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed men of Moab cry
aloud; his soul trembleth within him. 15:5My heart crieth out
for Moab; her nobles flee unto Zoar, to Eglath-shelishi-yah: for by
the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim
they raise up a cry of destruction. 15:6For the waters of Nimrim shall be
desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass faileth, there
is no green thing. 15:7Therefore the abundance they have
gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away over the
brook of the willows. 15:8For the cry is gone round about the
borders of Moab; the wailing thereof unto Eglaim, and the wailing thereof
unto Beer-elim. 15:9For the waters of Dimon are full of
blood; for I will bring yet more upon Dimon, a lion upon them of Moab that
escape, and upon the remnant of the land.
16:1Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the
land from Selah to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
16:2For it shall be that, as wandering
birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords
of the Arnon. 16:3Give counsel, execute justice; make
thy shade as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts;
betray not the fugitive. 16:4Let mine outcasts dwell with thee; as
for Moab, be thou a covert to him from the face of the destroyer. For the
extortioner is brought to nought, destruction ceaseth, the oppressors are
consumed out of the land. 16:5And a throne shall be established in
lovingkindness; and one shall sit thereon in truth, in the tent of David,
judging, and seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness. 16:6We
have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his
arrogancy, and his pride, and his wrath; his boastings are nought. 16:7Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab,
every one shall wail: for the raisin-cakes of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn,
utterly stricken. 16:8For the fields of Heshbon languish,
and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down
the choice branches thereof, which reached even unto Jazer, which wandered
into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the
sea. 16:9Therefore I will weep with the weeping
of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water thee with my tears, O
Heshbon, and Elealeh: for upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest the
battle shout is fallen. 16:10And gladness is taken away, and joy
out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing,
neither joyful noise: no treader shall tread out wine in the presses; I
have made the vintage shout to cease. 16:11Wherefore my heart
soundeth like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-heres. 16:12And it shall come to pass, when Moab
presenteth himself, when he wearieth himself upon the high place, and
shall come to his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail. 16:13This is the word that Jehovah spake
concerning Moab in time past. 16:14But now Jehovah hath spoken, saying,
Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be
brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant shall
be very small and of no account.
17:1The burden of Damascus. Behold,
Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
17:2The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they
shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them
afraid. 17:3And the fortress 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 Jehovah of hosts.
17:4And it shall come to pass in that day,
that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh
shall wax lean. 17:5And it shall be as when the harvestman
gathereth the standing grain, and his arm reapeth the ears; yea, it shall
be as when one gleaneth ears in the valley of Rephaim. 17:6Yet
there shall be left therein gleanings, as the shaking of an olive-tree,
two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in
the outmost branches of a fruitful tree, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel.
17:7In that day shall men look unto their
Maker, and their eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. 17:8And
they shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall
they have respect to that which their fingers have made, either the
Asherim, or the sun-images. 17:9In that day shall their strong cities
be as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which were
forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it shall be a desolation.
17:10For thou hast forgotten the God of
thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength;
therefore thou plantest pleasant plants, and settest it with strange
slips. 17:11In the day of thy planting thou
hedgest it in, and in the morning thou makest thy seed to blossom; but the
harvest fleeth away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. 17:12Ah, the uproar of many peoples, that
roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush
like the rushing of mighty waters! 17:13The nations shall rush like the
rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far
off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind,
and like the whirling dust before the storm. 17:14At eventide, behold,
terror; and before the morning they are not. This is the portion of
them that despoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
18:1Ah, the land of the rustling of wings,
which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; 18:2that sendeth
ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters,
saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a
people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and
treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide! 18:3All ye inhabitants of
the world, and ye dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on
the mountains, see ye; and when the trumpet is blown, hear ye. 18:4For
thus hath Jehovah said unto me, I will be still, and I will behold in my
dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the
heat of harvest. 18:5For before the harvest, when the
blossom is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he will cut off
the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take
away and cut down. 18:6They shall be left together unto the
ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the
ravenous birds shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth
shall winter upon them. 18:7In that time shall a present be
brought unto Jehovah of hosts from a people tall and smooth, even
from a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth
out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the
name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount Zion.
19:1The burden of Egypt. Behold, Jehovah
rideth upon a swift cloud, and cometh unto Egypt: and the idols of Egypt
shall tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the
midst of it. 19:2And I will stir up the Egyptians
against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother,
and every one against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom
against kingdom. 19:3And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in
the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall
seek unto the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar
spirits, and to the wizards. 19:4And I will give over the Egyptians
into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them,
saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts. 19:5And the waters shall fail from the
sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry. 19:6And the rivers shall
become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the
reeds and flags shall wither away. 19:7The meadows by the Nile, by the brink
of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, shall become dry, be
driven away, and be no more. 19:8And the fishers shall lament, and all
they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets
upon the waters shall languish. 19:9Moreover they that work in combed
flax, and they that weave white cloth, shall be confounded. 19:10And the pillars of Egypt shall
be broken in pieces; all they that work for hire shall be grieved
in soul. 19:11The princes of Zoan are utterly
foolish; the counsel of the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh is become
brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of
ancient kings? 19:12Where then are thy wise men? and let
them tell thee now; and let them know what Jehovah of hosts hath purposed
concerning Egypt. 19:13The princes of Zoan are become fools,
the princes of Memphis are deceived; they have caused Egypt to go astray,
that are the corner-stone of her tribes. 19:14Jehovah hath mingled
a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt
to go astray in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his
vomit. 19:15Neither shall there be for Egypt any
work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do. 19:16In that day shall the Egyptians be
like unto women; and they shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of
the hand of Jehovah of hosts, which he shaketh over them. 19:17And the land of Judah shall become a
terror unto Egypt; every one to whom mention is made thereof shall be
afraid, because of the purpose of Jehovah of hosts, which he purposeth
against it. 19:18In that day there shall be five
cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear
to Jehovah of hosts; one shall be called The city of destruction. 19:19In that day shall there be an altar
to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border
thereof to Jehovah. 19:20And it shall be for a sign and for a
witness unto Jehovah of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry
unto Jehovah because of oppressors, and he will send them a saviour, and a
defender, and he will deliver them. 19:21And Jehovah shall be known to Egypt,
and the Egyptians shall know Jehovah in that day; yea, they shall worship
with sacrifice and oblation, and shall vow a vow unto Jehovah, and shall
perform it. 19:22And Jehovah will smite Egypt, smiting
and healing; and they shall return unto Jehovah, and he will be entreated
of them, and will heal them. 19:23In 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 worship with the Assyrians.
19:24In that day shall Israel be the third
with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth; 19:25for that Jehovah of hosts hath
blessed them, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of
my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
20:1In the year that Tartan came unto
Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against
Ashdod and took it; 20:2at that time Jehovah spake by Isaiah
the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins,
and put thy shoe from off thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and
barefoot. 20:3And Jehovah said, Like as my servant
Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder
concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia; 20:4so shall the king of
Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young
and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of
Egypt. 20:5And they shall be dismayed and
confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their
glory. 20:6And the inhabitant of this coast-land
shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we fled
for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and we, how shall we
escape?
21:1The burden of the wilderness of the
sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it cometh from the
wilderness, from a terrible land. 21:2A grievous vision is declared unto me;
the treacherous man dealeth treacherously, and the destroyer destroyeth.
Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to
cease. 21:3Therefore are my loins filled with
anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in
travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot
see. 21:4My heart fluttereth, horror hath
affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling
unto me. 21:5They prepare the table, they set the
watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield. 21:6For
thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman: let him declare what
he seeth: 21:7and when he seeth a troop, horsemen in
pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently
with much heed. 21:8And he cried as a lion: O Lord, I
stand continually upon the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my
ward whole nights; 21:9and, behold, here cometh a troop of
men, horsemen in pairs. And he answered and said, Fallen, fallen is
Babylon; and all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground.
21:10O thou my threshing, and the grain of
my floor! that which I have heard from Jehovah of hosts, the God of
Israel, have I declared unto you. 21:11The burden of Dumah. One calleth unto
me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
21:12The watchman said, The morning
cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: turn ye, come.
21:13The burden upon Arabia. In the forest
in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites. 21:14Unto him that was thirsty they
brought water; the inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitives
with their bread. 21:15For they fled away from the swords,
from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of
war. 21:16For thus hath the Lord said unto me,
Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of
Kedar shall fail; 21:17and the residue of the number of the
archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be few; for
Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath spoken it.
22:1The burden of the valley of vision.
What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? 22:2O
thou that art full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; thy
slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle. 22:3All
thy rulers fled away together, they were bound by the archers; all that
were found of thee were bound together; they fled afar off. 22:4Therefore said I, Look away from me, I
will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the
daughter of my people. 22:5For it is a day of discomfiture, and
of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in
the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the
mountains. 22:6And Elam bare the quiver, with
chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield. 22:7And
it came to pass, that thy choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the
horsemen set themselves in array at the gate. 22:8And he took away the
covering of Judah; and thou didst look in that day to the armor in the
house of the forest. 22:9And ye saw the breaches of the city of
David, that they were many; and ye gathered together the waters of the
lower pool; 22:10and ye numbered the houses of
Jerusalem, and ye brake down the houses to fortify the wall; 22:11ye made also a reservoir between the
two walls for the water of the old pool. But ye looked not unto him that
had done this, neither had ye respect unto him that purposed it long ago.
22:12And in that day did the Lord, Jehovah
of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to
girding with sackcloth: 22:13and 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. 22:14And Jehovah of hosts revealed himself
in mine ears, Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till ye die,
saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts. 22:15Thus saith the Lord, Jehovah of
hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, who is over the
house, and say, 22:16What doest thou here? and whom has
thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out here a sepulchre? hewing him out
a sepulchre on high, graving a habitation for himself in the rock! 22:17Behold, Jehovah, like a strong
man, will hurl thee away violently; yea, he will wrap thee up closely. 22:18He will surely wind thee round and
round, and toss thee like a ball into a large country; there shalt
thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory, thou shame of thy
lord's house. 22:19And I will thrust thee from thine
office; and from thy station shalt thou be pulled down. 22:20And it shall come to pass in that
day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: 22:21and I will cloth 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. 22:22And the key of the house of David
will I lay upon his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and
he shall shut, and none shall open. 22:23And I will fasten him as a nail in a
sure place; and he shall be for a throne of glory to his father's house.
22:24And they shall hang upon him all the
glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, every small
vessel, from the cups even to all the flagons. 22:25In that day, saith
Jehovah of hosts, shall the nail that was fastened in a sure place give
way; and it shall be hewn down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it
shall be cut off; for Jehovah hath spoken it.
23:1The 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 Kittim it is revealed to them. 23:2Be still, ye
inhabitants of the coast, thou whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over
the sea, have replenished. 23:3And on great waters the seed of the
Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the mart of
nations. 23:4Be thou ashamed, O Sidon; for the sea
hath spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor
brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.
23:5When the report cometh to Egypt, they
shall be sorely pained at the report of Tyre. 23:6Pass ye over to
Tarshish; wail, ye inhabitants of the coast. 23:7Is this your joyous
city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her
afar off to sojourn? 23:8Who hath purposed this against Tyre,
the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are
the honorable of the earth? 23:9Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to
stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of
the earth. 23:10Pass through thy land as the Nile, O
daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint any more. 23:11He hath stretched out his hand over
the sea, he hath shaken the kingdoms: Jehovah hath given commandment
concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds thereof. 23:12And he said, Thou shalt no more
rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon: arise, pass over to
Kittim; even there shalt thou have no rest. 23:13Behold, the land of
the Chaldeans: this people was not; the Assyrian founded it for them that
dwell in the wilderness; they set up their towers; they overthrew the
palaces thereof; they made it a ruin. 23:14Howl, ye ships of
Tarshish; for your stronghold is laid waste. 23:15And 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 it shall be unto Tyre
as in the song of the harlot. 23:16Take a harp, go about the city, thou
harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that
thou mayest be remembered. 23:17And it shall come to pass after the
end of seventy years, that Jehovah will visit Tyre, and she shall return
to her hire, and shall play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the world
upon the face of the earth. 23:18And her merchandise and her hire
shall be holiness to Jehovah: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for
her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before Jehovah, to eat
sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
24:1Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth
empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth
abroad the inhabitants thereof. 24:2And 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 creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with
the giver of interest to him. 24:3The earth shall be utterly emptied,
and utterly laid waste; for Jehovah hath spoken this word. 24:4The
earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the
lofty people of the earth do languish. 24:5The earth also is
polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the
laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant. 24:6Therefore hath the curse devoured the
earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the
inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. 24:7The
new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh. 24:8The
mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy
of the harp ceaseth. 24:9They shall not drink wine with a song;
strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. 24:10The waste city is
broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 24:11There is a crying in the streets
because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
24:12In the city is left desolation, and
the gate is smitten with destruction. 24:13For thus shall it be
in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an
olive-tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done. 24:14These shall lift up their voice, they
shall shout; for the majesty of Jehovah they cry aloud from the sea. 24:15Wherefore glorify ye Jehovah in the
east, even the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the isles of the
sea. 24:16From the uttermost part of the earth
have we heard songs: Glory to the righteous. But I said, I pine away, I
pine away, woe is me! the treacherous have dealt treacherously; yea, the
treacherous have dealt very treacherously. 24:17Fear, and the pit,
and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. 24:18And 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 on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble. 24:19The earth is utterly broken, the
earth is rent asunder, the earth is shaken violently. 24:20The earth shall stagger like a
drunken man, and shall sway to and fro like a hammock; and the
transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not
rise again. 24:21And it shall come to pass in that
day, that Jehovah will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the
kings of the earth upon the earth. 24:22And 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. 24:23Then the moon shall
be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Jehovah of hosts will reign in
mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders shall be glory.
25:1O Jehovah, thou art my God; I will
exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things,
even counsels of old, in faithfulness and truth. 25:2For
thou hast made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of
strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. 25:3Therefore shall a
strong people glorify thee; a city of terrible nations shall fear thee. 25:4For
thou hast been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his
distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast
of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. 25:5As the heat in a dry
place wilt thou bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the
shade of a cloud, the song of the terrible ones shall be brought low. 25:6And
in this mountain will Jehovah of hosts make unto all peoples 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. 25:7And he will destroy in this mountain
the face of the covering that covereth all peoples, and the veil that is
spread over all nations. 25:8He hath swallowed up death for ever;
and the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the
reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for
Jehovah hath spoken it. 25:9And it shall be said in that day, Lo,
this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is
Jehovah; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his
salvation. 25:10For in this mountain will the hand of
Jehovah rest; and Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw
is trodden down in the water of the dung-hill. 25:11And he shall spread
forth his hands in the midst thereof, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth
his hands to swim; but Jehovah will lay low his pride
together with the craft of his hands. 25:12And the high fortress
of thy walls hath he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground,
even to the dust.
26:1In that day shall this song be sung in
the land of Judah: we have a strong city; salvation will he appoint for
walls and bulwarks. 26:2Open ye the gates, that the righteous
nation which keepeth faith may enter in. 26:3Thou wilt keep
him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on
thee; because he trusteth in thee. 26:4Trust ye in Jehovah
for ever; for in Jehovah, even Jehovah, is an everlasting rock. 26:5For
he hath brought 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.
26:6The foot shall tread it down; even the
feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy. 26:7The way of the just is
uprightness: thou that art upright dost direct the path of the just. 26:8Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O
Jehovah, have we waited for thee; to thy name, even to thy memorial
name, is the desire of our soul. 26:9With my soul have I
desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee
earnestly: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the
world learn righteousness. 26:10Let favor be showed to the wicked,
yet will he not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he
deal wrongfully, and will not behold the majesty of Jehovah. 26:11Jehovah, thy hand is lifted up, yet
they see not: but they shall see thy zeal for the people, and be
put to shame; yea, fire shall devour thine adversaries. 26:12Jehovah, thou wilt ordain peace for
us; for thou hast also wrought all our works for us. 26:13O
Jehovah our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us; but
by thee only will we make mention of thy name. 26:14They are dead,
they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise:
therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance
of them to perish. 26:15Thou hast increased the nation, O
Jehovah, thou hast increased the nation; thou art glorified; thou hast
enlarged all the borders of the land. 26:16Jehovah, in trouble
have they visited thee; they poured out a prayer when thy
chastening was upon them. 26:17Like as a woman with child, that
draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain and crieth out in her
pangs; so we have been before thee, O Jehovah. 26:18We 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. 26:19Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies
shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is
as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead. 26:20Come, my people, enter thou into thy
chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself for a little moment,
until the indignation be overpast. 26:21For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth 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.
27:1In that day Jehovah with his hard and
great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and
leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the
sea. 27:2In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing
ye unto it. 27:3I Jehovah am its keeper; I will water
it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. 27:4Wrath is not in me: would that the
briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them, I
would burn them together. 27:5Or else let him take hold of my
strength, that he may make peace with me; yea, let him make peace
with me. 27:6In days to come shall Jacob take root;
Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the face of the world
with fruit. 27:7Hath he smitten them as he smote those
that smote them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that
were slain by them? 27:8In measure, when thou sendest them
away, thou dost contend with them; he hath removed them with his
rough blast in the day of the east wind. 27:9Therefore by this
shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of
taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones of the altar as
chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, so that the Asherim and the
sun-images shall rise no more. 27:10For the fortified city is solitary, a
habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the
calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
27:11When the boughs thereof are withered,
they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for
it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not
have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no
favor. 27:12And it shall come to pass in that
day, that Jehovah will beat off his fruit from the flood of the
River unto the brook of Egypt; and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye
children of Israel. 27:13And it shall come to pass in that
day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come that were
ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and they that were outcasts in the
land of Egypt; and they shall worship Jehovah in the holy mountain at
Jerusalem.
28:1Woe to the crown of pride of the
drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty,
which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with
wine! 28:2Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and
strong one; as a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of
mighty waters overflowing, will he cast down to the earth with the hand.
28:3The crown of pride of the drunkards of
Ephraim shall be trodden under foot: 28:4and the fading flower of his glorious
beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the first-ripe
fig before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it
is yet in his hand he eateth it up. 28:5In that day will Jehovah of hosts
become a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his
people; 28:6and a spirit of justice to him that
sitteth in judgment, and strength to them that turn back the battle at the
gate. 28:7And even these reel with wine, and
stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong
drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they
err in vision, they stumble in judgment. 28:8For all tables are
full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place
clean. 28:9Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom
will he make to understand the message? them that are weaned from the
milk, and drawn from the breasts? 28:10For it is precept upon precept,
precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there
a little. 28:11Nay, but by men of strange
lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people; 28:12to whom he said, This is the rest,
give ye rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they
would not hear. 28:13Therefore shall the word of Jehovah
be unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line,
line upon line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall
backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. 28:14Wherefore hear the
word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem:
28:15Because ye have said, We have made a
covenant with death, and with Sheol 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: 28:16therefore thus saith the Lord
Jehovah, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a
precious corner -stone of sure foundation: he that believeth shall
not be in haste. 28:17And I will make justice the line, and
righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of
lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place. 28:18And your covenant with death shall be
annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the
overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by
it. 28:19As often as it passeth through, it
shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and
by night: and it shall be nought but terror to understand the message. 28:20For 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. 28:21For Jehovah will rise up as in mount
Perazim, he will 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. 28:22Now therefore be ye not scoffers,
lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of destruction have I heard
from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, upon the whole earth. 28:23Give ye ear, and hear my voice;
hearken, and hear my speech. 28:24Doth he that ploweth to sow plow
continually? doth he continually open and harrow his ground? 28:25When he hath levelled the face
thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and
put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the
spelt in the border thereof? 28:26For his God doth instruct him aright,
and doth teach him. 28:27For the fitches are not threshed with
a sharp 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. 28:28Bread grain is ground; for he
will not be always threshing it: and though the wheel of his cart and his
horses scatter it, he doth not grind it. 28:29This also cometh
forth from Jehovah of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in
wisdom.
29:1Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David
encamped! add ye year to year; let the feasts come round: 29:2then will I distress Ariel, and there
shall be mourning and lamentation; and she shall be unto me as Ariel. 29:3And
I will encamp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee
with posted troops, and I will raise siege works against thee. 29:4And
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. 29:5But the multitude of thy foes shall be
like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that
passeth away: yea, it shall be in an instant suddenly. 29:6She
shall be visited of Jehovah of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake,
and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring
fire. 29:7And the multitude of all the nations
that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her
stronghold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the
night. 29:8And it shall be as when a 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. 29:9Tarry ye and wonder; take your
pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger,
but not with strong drink. 29:10For Jehovah hath poured out upon you
the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes, the prophets; and
your heads, the seers, hath he covered. 29:11And all vision 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: 29:12and the book is delivered to him that
is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I am not
learned. 29:13And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this
people draw nigh unto me, and with their mouth and with their lips
to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of
me is a commandment of men which hath been taught them; 29:14therefore, behold, I will proceed to
do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a
wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the
understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. 29:15Woe unto them that
hide deep their counsel from Jehovah, and whose works are in the dark, and
that say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? 29:16Ye turn things upside
down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say
of him that made it, He made me not; or the thing formed say of him that
formed it, He hath no understanding? 29:17Is 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? 29:18And 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. 29:19The meek also shall
increase their joy in Jehovah, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the
Holy One of Israel. 29:20For the terrible one is brought to
nought, and the scoffer ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity are
cut off; 29:21that make a man an offender in
his cause, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and
turn aside the just with a thing of nought. 29:22Therefore thus saith
Jehovah, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob shall
not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale. 29:23But when he seeth his children, the
work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name; yea,
they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall stand in awe of the
God of Israel. 29:24They also that err in spirit shall
come to understanding, and they that murmur shall receive instruction.
30:1Woe to the rebellious children, saith
Jehovah, that take counsel, but not of me; and that make a league, but not
of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin, 30:2that set out to go
down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves
in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt! 30:3Therefore shall the strength of
Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your
confusion. 30:4For their princes are at Zoan, and
their ambassadors are come to Hanes. 30:5They shall all be ashamed because of a
people that cannot profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a
shame, and also a reproach. 30:6The burden of the beasts of the South.
Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and
the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon
the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the humps of
camels, to a people that shall not profit them. 30:7For
Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her
Rahab that sitteth still. 30:8Now go, write it before them on a
tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for
ever and ever. 30:9For it is a rebellious people, lying
children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah; 30:10that say to the seers, See not; and
to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth
things, prophesy deceits, 30:11get you out of the way, turn aside
out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. 30:12Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of
Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and
perverseness, and rely thereon; 30:13therefore this iniquity shall be to
you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking
cometh suddenly in an instant. 30:14And he shall break it as a potter's
vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there
shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd wherewith to take fire
from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern. 30:15For thus said the Lord Jehovah, 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: 30:16but 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. 30:17One thousand shall
flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five shall ye flee: till
ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a
hill. 30:18And therefore will Jehovah wait, that
he may be gracious unto you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he may
have mercy upon you: for Jehovah is a God of justice; blessed are all they
that wait for him. 30:19For the people shall dwell in Zion at
Jerusalem; thou shalt weep no more; he will surely be gracious unto thee
at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear, he will answer thee. 30:20And though the Lord give you the
bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers
be hidden anymore, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers; 30:21and 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. 30:22And ye shall defile
the overlaying of thy graven images of silver, and the plating of thy
molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as an unclean thing; thou
shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. 30:23And he will give the rain for thy
seed, wherewith thou shalt sow the ground; and bread of the increase of
the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that day shall thy
cattle feed in large pastures; 30:24the oxen likewise and the young asses
that till the ground shall eat savory provender, which hath been winnowed
with the shovel and with the fork. 30:25And there shall be upon every lofty
mountain, and upon every high hill, brooks and streams of waters,
in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. 30:26Moreover 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 Jehovah bindeth up the hurt of
his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. 30:27Behold, the name of
Jehovah cometh from far, burning with his anger, and in thick rising
smoke: his li