THE HOLY BIBLE (Darby Translation) Isaiah

1:1: * The vision of Isaiah the son of Amos, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
1:2: Hear, ye heavens, and give ear, thou earth! for Jehovah 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; Israel doth not know, my people hath no intelligence.
1:4: Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that corrupt themselves! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have despised the Holy One of Israel; they are turned away backward.
1:5: Why should ye be smitten 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 him; wounds, and weals, and open sores: they have not been dressed, nor bound up, nor mollified with oil.
1:7: Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers eat it up in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
1:8: And the daughter of Zion is left, as a booth in a vineyard, as a night-lodge in a cucumber-garden, as a besieged city.
1:9: Unless Jehovah of hosts had left us a very small residue, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
1:10: Hear the word of Jehovah, rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, people of Gomorrah!
1:11: To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith Jehovah. I am sated with burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and in the blood of bullocks, and of lambs, and of he-goats I take no pleasure.
1:12: When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this from your hand -- to tread my courts?
1:13: Bring no more vain oblations! Incense is an abomination unto me, -- new moon and sabbath, the calling of convocations -- wickedness and the solemn meeting I cannot bear.
1:14: Your new moons and your set feasts my soul hateth: they are a burden to me; I am wearied of bearing 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, gladden the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow.
1:18: Come now, 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.
1:19: If ye be willing and hearken, 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 Jehovah hath spoken.
1:21: How is the faithful city become a harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness used to lodge in it, but now murderers.
1:22: Thy silver is become dross, thy wine is mixed with water:
1:23: thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth presents, and hunteth after rewards; they judge not the fatherless, and the cause of the widow cometh not unto them.
1:24: Therefore 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.
1:25: And I will turn my hand upon thee, and will thoroughly purge away thy dross, and take away all thine alloy;
1:26: and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning. Afterwards thou shalt be called, Town of righteousness, Faithful city.
1:27: Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and they that return of her with righteousness.
1:28: But the ruin of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together; and they that forsake Jehovah shall be consumed.
1:29: For they shall be ashamed of the terebinths that ye have desired, and ye shall blush for the gardens that ye have chosen.
1:30: For ye shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
1:31: And the strong shall be for tow, and his work a spark; and they shall both burn together, and there shall be none to quench them.

Chapter 2

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 end of days, that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow unto it.
2:3: And many peoples shall go and say, Come, 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 Jehovah's word from Jerusalem.
2:4: And he shall judge among the nations, and shall reprove many peoples; and they shall forge their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
2:5: House of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of Jehovah.
2:6: For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with what comes from the east, and use auguries like the Philistines, and ally themselves with the children of foreigners.
2:7: And their land is full of silver and gold, and there is no end of their treasures: their land also is full of horses, and there is no end of their chariots.
2:8: And their land is full of idols; they bow themselves down to the work of their own hands, to that which their fingers have made.
2:9: And the mean man shall be bowed down, and the great man shall be brought low: and do not thou forgive them!
2:10: Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty.
2:11: The lofty eyes of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.
2:12: For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon everything proud and lofty, and upon everything lifted up, and it shall be brought low;
2:13: and upon all the cedars of Lebanon, high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan;
2:14: and upon all the lofty 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 works of art.
2:17: And 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:
2:18: and the idols shall utterly pass away.
2:19: And they 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 shall arise to terrify the earth.
2:20: In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made each for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
2:21: to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the fissures of the cliffs, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to terrify the earth.
2:22: Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for what account is to be made of him?

Chapter 3

3:1: For behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and 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 diviner and the elder,
3:3: the captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the clever among artificers, and the one versed in enchantments.
3:4: And I will appoint youths as their princes, and children shall rule over them.
3:5: And the people shall be oppressed one by the other, and each by his neighbour; the child will be insolent against the elder, and the base against the honourable.
3:6: When a man shall take hold of his brother, in his father's house, and shall say: Thou hast clothing; be our chief, and let this ruin be under thy hand;
3:7: he will lift up his hand in that day, saying, I cannot be a healer, and in my house there is neither bread nor clothing; ye shall not make me a chief of the people.
3:8: For Jerusalem stumbleth and Judah falleth, because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
3:9: The look of their face doth witness against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom: they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have brought evil upon themselves.
3:10: Say ye of 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, because the desert of his hands shall be rendered unto him.
3:12: As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people! they that guide thee mislead thee, and destroy the way of thy paths.
3:13: Jehovah setteth himself to plead, and standeth to judge the peoples.
3:14: Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their princes, saying: It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard: the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
3:15: What mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the faces of the afflicted? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
3:16: And Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-out neck and wanton eyes, and go along mincing, and making a tinkling with their feet;
3:17: therefore the Lord will make bald the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts.
3:18: In that day the Lord will take away the ornament of anklets, and the little suns and crescents,
3:19: the pearl-drops, and the bracelets, and the veils,
3:20: the head-dresses, and the stepping chains, and the girdles, and the scent-boxes, and the amulets;
3:21: the finger-rings, and the nose-rings;
3:22: the festival-robes, and the tunics, and the mantles, and the wallets;
3:23: the mirrors, and the fine linen bodices, and the turbans, and the flowing veils.
3:24: And it shall come to pass, instead of perfume there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe of display, a girding of sackcloth; brand instead of beauty.
3:25: Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the fight;
3:26: and her gates shall lament and mourn; and, stripped, she shall sit upon the ground.

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

5:1: I will sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard: My well-beloved had a vineyard upon a fruitful hill.
5:2: And he dug it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine; and he built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes.
5:3: And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.
5:4: What was there yet to do 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, let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden under foot;
5:6: and I will make it a waste -- it shall not be pruned nor cultivated, but there shall come up briars and thorns; and I will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
5:7: For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah the plant of his delight: and he looked for justice, and behold, blood-shedding; for righteousness, and behold, a cry.
5:8: Woe unto them that add house to house, that join field to field, until there is no more room, and that ye dwell yourselves alone in the midst of the land!
5:9: In mine ears Jehovah of hosts hath said, Many houses shall assuredly become a desolation, great and excellent ones, without inhabitant.
5:10: Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.
5:11: Woe unto them that, rising early in the morning, run after strong drink; that linger till twilight, till wine inflameth them!
5:12: And harp and lyre, tambour and flute, and wine are in their banquets; but they regard not the work of Jehovah, nor do they see the operation of his hands.
5:13: Therefore my people are led away captive from lack of knowledge, and their nobility die of famine, and their multitude are parched with thirst.
5:14: Therefore doth Sheol enlarge its desire, and open its mouth without measure; and her splendour shall descend into it, and her multitude, and her tumult, and all that is joyful within her.
5:15: And the mean man shall be bowed down, and the great man brought low, and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low;
5:16: and Jehovah of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy �God hallowed in righteousness.
5:17: And the lambs shall feed as on their pasture, 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 with cart-ropes!
5:19: who say, Let him hasten, let him speed 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 who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
5:21: Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and intelligent in their own esteem!
5:22: Woe unto them that are mighty for drinking wine, and men valiant to mix strong drink;
5:23: who justify the wicked for a bribe, and turn away the righteousness of the righteous from them!
5:24: Therefore as a tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and dry grass sinketh down in the flame, their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; for they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
5:25: Therefore is the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he hath stretched out his hand against them and hath smitten them; and the mountains trembled, and their carcases are become as dung in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
5:26: And he will lift up a banner to the nations afar off, and will hiss for one from the end of the earth; and behold, it will come rapidly and lightly.
5:27: None among them is weary, none stumbleth; they slumber not, nor sleep; none hath the girdle of his loins loosed, nor the thong of his sandals broken;
5:28: their arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses' hoofs are reckoned as the flint, and their wheels as a whirlwind.
5:29: Their roaring is like a lioness, they roar as the young lions; yea, they growl, and snatch the prey, and carry it away safe, and there is none to deliver;
5:30: and they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. And if one look upon the earth, behold darkness and distress, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

Chapter 6

6:1: In the year of the death of king Uzziah, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
6:2: Seraphim were standing above him: each had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he flew.
6:3: And one called to the other and said, Holy, holy, holy is Jehovah of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!
6:4: And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
6:5: And I said, Woe unto me! for I am undone; for 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.
6:6: And one of the seraphim flew unto me, and he had in his hand a glowing coal, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar;
6:7: and he made it touch my mouth, and said, Behold, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin expiated.
6:8: And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? And I said, Here am I; send me.
6:9: And he said, Go; and thou shalt say unto this people, Hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see and shall not perceive.
6:10: Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and healed.
6:11: And I said, Lord, how long? And he said, Until the cities be wasted, without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land become an utter desolation,
6:12: and Jehovah have removed men far away, and the solitude be great in the midst of the land.
6:13: But a tenth part shall still be therein, and it shall return and be eaten; as the terebinth and as the oak whose trunk remaineth after the felling: the holy seed shall be the trunk thereof.

Chapter 7

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, came up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but they were not able to fight against it.
7:2: And it was told the house of David saying, Syria is allied with Ephraim. Then his heart and the heart of his people shook, as the trees of the forest are shaken with the wind.
7:3: And Jehovah said to Isaiah, Go out now to meet Ahaz, thou and thy son Shear-jashub, at the end of the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller's field;
7:4: and thou shalt say unto him, Take heed and be quiet; fear not, and let not thy heart faint before these two ends of smoking firebrands, because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
7:5: Inasmuch as Syria hath taken evil counsel against thee, Ephraim also and the son of Remaliah, saying,
7:6: Let us go up against Judah, and harass it, and make a breach therein for us, and set up a king therein -- the son of Tabeal;
7:7: thus saith the Lord Jehovah: It shall not stand, nor come to pass;
7:8: for the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years shall Ephraim be broken, so as to be no more a people;
7:9: and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye believe not, surely ye shall not be established.
7:10: And Jehovah spoke again to Ahaz, saying,
7:11: Ask for thee a sign from Jehovah thy God; ask for it in the deep, or in the height above.
7:12: And Ahaz said, I will not ask, and will not tempt Jehovah.
7:13: And he said, Hear then, house of David: Is it a small matter for you to weary men, that ye weary also my God?
7:14: Therefore will the Lord himself give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and shall bring forth a son, and call his name Immanuel.
7:15: Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and to choose the good.
7:16: For before the child knoweth to refuse the evil and to choose the good, the land whose two kings thou fearest shall be forsaken.
7:17: Jehovah will bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days which have not come since the day when Ephraim turned away from Judah -- even the king of Assyria.
7:18: And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will hiss for the fly which is at the extremity of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria;
7:19: and they shall come and settle all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and on all thorn-bushes, and on all the pastures.
7:20: In that day will the Lord, with a razor which is hired beyond the river, with the king of Assyria, shave the head and the hair of the feet, yea, the beard also will it take away.
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, from the abundance of milk they shall give, that he shall eat butter; for every one that remaineth in the midst of the land shall eat butter and honey.
7:23: And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver pieces, shall become briars and thorns:
7:24: with arrows and with the bow shall they come thither, for the whole land shall become briars and thorns.
7:25: And all mountains that have been dug up with the hoe -- thither will they not come, from fear of briars and thorns; and they shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of small cattle.

Chapter 8

8:1: And Jehovah said to me, Take thee a great tablet, and write thereon with a man's style, concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
8:2: And I took unto me to witness, sure witnesses, Urijah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
8:3: And I came near to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son; and Jehovah said unto me, Call his name, Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
8:4: For before the lad knoweth 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: And Jehovah spoke again to me, saying,
8:6: Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah which flow softly, and rejoiceth in Rezin and in the son of Remaliah,
8:7: therefore behold, the Lord will bring up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory; and he shall mount up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
8:8: and he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow it and go further, 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: Rage, ye peoples, and be broken in pieces! And give ear, all ye distant parts of the earth: Gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces!
8:10: Settle a plan, and it shall come to nought; speak a word, and it shall not stand: for �God is with us.
8:11: For Jehovah spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and he instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
8:12: Ye shall not say, Conspiracy, of everything of which this people saith, Conspiracy; and fear ye not their fear, and be not in dread.
8:13: Jehovah of hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
8:14: And he will be for a sanctuary; and 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 snared, and taken.
8:16: Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
8:17: And I will wait for Jehovah, who hideth his face from the house of Jacob; and I will look for him.
8:18: Behold, I and the children that Jehovah hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel, from Jehovah of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion.
8:19: And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto the necromancers and unto the soothsayers, who chirp and who mutter, say, Shall not a people seek unto their God? Will they go for the living unto the dead?
8:20: To the law and the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, for them there is no daybreak.
8:21: And they shall pass through it, hard pressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass when they are hungry, they will fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and will gaze upward:
8:22: and they will look to the earth; and behold, trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into thick darkness.

Chapter 9

9:1: Nevertheless the darkness shall not be as when the distress was in the land, at the time he at first lightly, and afterwards heavily, visited the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, -- the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:
9:2: the people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them light hath shone.
9:3: Thou hast multiplied the nation, hast increased its joy: they joy before thee like to the joy in harvest; 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 boot of him that is shod for the tumult, and the garment rolled in blood, shall be for burning, fuel for 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 is called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty �God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.
9:7: Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with judgment and with righteousness, from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this.
9:8: The Lord sent a word unto Jacob, and it lighteth upon Israel.
9:9: And all the people shall know it, Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in pride and stoutness of heart,
9:10: The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamore trees are cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.
9:11: And Jehovah will set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and arm his enemies,
9:12: the Syrians on the east, and the Philistines on the west; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
9:13: But the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, and they do not seek Jehovah of hosts.
9:14: And Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-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 guides of this people mislead them; and they that are guided by them are swallowed up.
9:17: Therefore the Lord will not rejoice in their young men, neither will he have mercy on their fatherless and on their widows; for every one is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
9:18: For wickedness burneth as a fire: it devoureth briars and thorns, and kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they go rolling up like a pillar of smoke.
9:19: Through the wrath of Jehovah of hosts is the land burned up, and the people is as fuel for fire: a man spareth not his brother;
9:20: and he snatcheth on the right hand, and is hungry, and eateth on the left hand; and they are not satisfied. They eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
9:21: Manasseh, Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together are against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.

Chapter 10

10:1: Woe unto them that decree iniquitous decrees, and to the writers that prescribe oppression,
10:2: to turn away the poor from judgment, and to take away the right from the afflicted 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 sudden destruction which shall come from far? To whom will ye flee for help, and where will ye leave your glory?
10:4: They can but crouch under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
10:5: Ah! the Assyrian! the rod of mine anger! and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
10:6: I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge; to take the spoil, and to seize the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
10:7: But he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; for it is in his heart to extirpate and cut off nations not a few.
10:8: For he saith, Are not my princes all kings?
10:9: Is not Calno as Karkemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?
10:10: As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, -- and their graven images exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
10:11: -- shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her images?
10:12: And it shall come to pass, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stoutness of 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 intelligent; 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;
10:14: and my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the peoples, and as one gathereth forsaken eggs, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or chirped.
10:15: -- Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? shall the saw magnify itself against him that wieldeth it? As if the rod should wield them that lift it up; as if the staff should lift up him who is not wood!
10:16: Therefore shall the Lord, Jehovah 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 briars in one day,
10:18: and it shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body; and they shall be as when a sick man fainteth.
10:19: And the remainder of the trees of his forest shall be few: yea, a child might 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 rely upon him that smote them; but they shall rely upon Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
10:21: The remnant shall return, the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty �God.
10:22: For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them shall return: the consumption determined shall overflow in righteousness.
10:23: For a consumption, and one determined, will the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, accomplish in the midst of all the land.
10:24: Therefore thus saith the Lord, Jehovah 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 be accomplished, and mine anger, in their destruction.
10:26: And Jehovah of hosts will stir up a scourge against him, according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; and his rod shall be upon the sea, and he will 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 hath passed through Migron; at Michmash he layeth up his baggage.
10:29: They are gone through the pass; they make their lodging at Geba: Ramah trembleth, Gibeah of Saul is fled.
10:30: Lift up thy voice, daughter of Gallim! Hearken, O Laish! -- Poor Anathoth!
10:31: Madmenah is fugitive; the inhabitants of Gebim take to flight.
10:32: Still a day of halting at Nob; he shaketh his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. ...
10:33: Behold the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, shall lop the boughs with violence; and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be brought low;
10:34: and he shall make clearings in the thickets of the forest with iron; and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

Chapter 11

11:1: And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall be fruitful;
11:2: and 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.
11:3: And his delight will be in the fear of Jehovah; 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 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 reins, and faithfulness the girdle of his loins.
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 fatted beast together, and a little child shall lead them.
11:7: And the cow and the she-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 adder, and the weaned child shall put forth its hand to the viper's den.
11:9: They 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.
11:10: And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, standing as a banner of the peoples: the nations shall seek it; and his resting-place shall be glory.
11:11: And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to acquire 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 lift up a banner to 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: And the envy of Ephraim shall depart, and the troublers of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim will not envy Judah, and Judah will not trouble Ephraim:
11:14: but they shall fly upon the shoulder of the Philistines towards the west; together shall they spoil the sons of the east; they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
11:15: And Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind will he shake his hand over the river, and will smite it into seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
11:16: And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people which will be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day when he went up out of the land of Egypt.

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

13:1: The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
13:2: Lift up a banner upon a bare mountain, raise the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.
13:3: I have commanded my hallowed ones, I have also called my mighty men for mine anger, them that rejoice in my highness.
13:4: The noise of a multitude on the mountains, as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations assembled together: Jehovah of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
13:5: They come from a far country, from the end of the heavens -- Jehovah, and the weapons of his indignation -- to destroy the whole land.
13:6: Howl, for the day of Jehovah is at hand; it cometh as destruction from the Almighty.
13:7: Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt,
13:8: and they shall be terrified: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them, they shall writhe as a woman that travaileth; they shall be amazed one at another, their faces shall be as flames.
13:9: Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the earth desolate; and he will destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
13:10: For the stars of the heavens 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 evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will make the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will bring low the haughtiness of the violent.
13:12: I will make a man more precious than fine gold, even man than the gold of Ophir.
13:13: Therefore I will make the heavens to shake, and the earth shall be removed out of her place, at the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
13:14: And it shall be as with a chased roe, and as with a flock that no man gathereth together; every one shall turn to his own people, and every one flee into his own land.
13:15: All that are found shall be thrust through; and every one that is in league with them shall fall by the sword.
13:16: And their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes, their houses shall be rifled, and their women ravished.
13:17: Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who do not regard silver, and as for gold, they have no delight in it.
13:18: And their bows 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 Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
13:20: It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in, even to generation and generation; nor shall Arabian pitch tent there, nor shepherds make fold there.
13:21: But beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be full of owls; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.
13:22: And jackals shall cry to one another in their palaces, and wild dogs in the pleasant castles. And her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

Chapter 14

14:1: For Jehovah will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in rest in their own land; and the stranger shall be united to them, and they shall be joined to the house of Jacob.
14:2: And 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 handmaids; and they shall take them captive whose captives they were, and they shall rule over their oppressors.
14:3: And 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 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 exactress of gold ceased!
14:5: Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers.
14:6: He that smote the peoples in wrath with a relentless stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted unsparingly.
14:7: The whole earth is at rest, is quiet: they break forth into singing.
14:8: Even the cypresses rejoice at thee, the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
14:9: Sheol from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming, stirring up the dead for thee, all the he-goats of the earth; making to rise from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
14:10: All of them shall answer and say unto thee, Art thou also become powerless as we; art thou become like unto us!
14:11: -- Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, the noise of thy lyres: the maggot is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.
14:12: How art thou fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the morning! Thou art cut down to the ground, that didst prostrate the nations!
14:13: And thou that didst say in thy heart, I will ascend into the heavens, I will exalt my throne above the stars of �God, and I will sit upon the mount of assembly, in the recesses of the north;
14:14: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High:
14:15: none the less art thou brought down to Sheol, to the recesses of the pit.
14:16: They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee; they shall consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that shook kingdoms;
14:17: that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that dismissed not his prisoners homewards?
14:18: -- All the kings of the nations, 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, covered with the slain -- those thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit: like a carcase trodden under foot.
14:20: Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial; for thou hast destroyed thy land, hast slain thy people. Of the seed of evildoers no mention shall be made for ever.
14:21: Prepare ye slaughter for his children, because of the iniquity of their fathers; that they may not rise up and possess the earth, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
14:22: For I will rise up against them, saith Jehovah of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and scion and descendant, saith Jehovah.
14:23: And I will make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith Jehovah of hosts.
14:24: Jehovah of hosts hath sworn saying, Assuredly as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, it shall stand:
14:25: to break the Assyrian in my land; and upon my mountains will I tread him under foot; and his yoke shall depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
14:26: This is the counsel which is purposed concerning the whole earth; and this is the hand which is stretched out upon all the nations.
14:27: For Jehovah of hosts hath purposed, and who shall frustrate it? And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
14:28: In the year of the death of king Ahaz was this burden:
14:29: Rejoice not thou, Philistia, all of thee, because the rod that smote thee is broken; for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a viper, 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; but I will kill thy root with famine, and thy remnant shall be slain.
14:31: Howl, O gate! cry, O city! thou, Philistia, art wholly dissolved; for there cometh from the north a smoke, and none remaineth apart in his gatherings of troops.
14:32: And what shall be answered to the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah hath founded Zion, and the afflicted of his people find refuge in it.

Chapter 15

15:1: The burden of Moab: For in the night of being laid waste, Ar of Moab is destroyed; for in the night of being laid waste, Kir of Moab is destroyed!
15:2: He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep; Moab howleth over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.
15:3: In their streets they are girded with sackcloth; on their roofs, and in their broadways, every one howleth, melted into tears.
15:4: And Heshbon crieth, and Elealeh: their voice is heard unto Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out: his soul trembleth in him.
15:5: My heart crieth out for Moab; their fugitives have fled unto Zoar, unto Eglath-Sheli-shijah: for by the ascent of Luhith, with weeping they go up by it; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.
15:6: For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the herbage is withered away, the grass hath failed, there is no green thing.
15:7: Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, do they carry away to the torrent of the willows.
15:8: For the cry goeth 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 are full of blood, for I will lay yet more upon Dimon: a lion upon them that are escaped of Moab, and upon that which remaineth of the land.

Chapter 16

16:1: Send the lamb of the ruler of the land from the rock to the wilderness, -- unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
16:2: And it shall be that as a wandering bird, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.
16:3: Bring in counsel, execute justice; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of noonday; hide the outcasts, discover not the fugitive.
16:4: Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the waster. For the extortioner is at an end, the wasting hath ceased, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
16:5: And a throne shall be established in mercy: and in the tent of David there shall sit upon it, in truth, one judging and seeking justice and hastening righteousness.
16:6: We have heard of the arrogance of Moab, -- he is very proud, -- of his pride, and his arrogance, and his wrath: his pratings are vain.
16:7: Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab; every one of them shall howl. For the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn, verily afflicted.
16:8: For the fields of Heshbon languish, the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants: they reached unto Jaazer, they wandered through the wilderness; its shoots stretched out, they went beyond the sea.
16:9: Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jaazer for the vine of Sibmah; with my tears will I water thee, Heshbon, and Elealeh, for a cry is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest.
16:10: And joy and gladness is taken away out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there is no singing, neither is there shouting: the treaders tread out no wine in the presses, I have made the cry of the winepress to cease.
16:11: Therefore my bowels sound like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirheres.
16:12: And it shall come to pass, when Moab shall appear, shall weary himself on the high place, and enter into his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail.
16:13: This is the word which Jehovah hath spoken from of old concerning Moab.
16:14: And now Jehovah speaketh saying, Within three years, as the years of a hired servant, and the glory of Moab shall be brought to nothing, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be small, few, of no account.

Chapter 17

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; and they shall lie down and there shall be none to 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 Jehovah 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 become lean.
17:5: And it shall be as when the reaper gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; yea, it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
17:6: And a gleaning shall be left in it, as at the shaking of an olive-tree: two, three berries above, in the tree-top; four, five in its fruitful boughs, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel.
17:7: In that day shall man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have regard to the Holy One of Israel.
17:8: And he will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, nor have regard to what his fingers have made, neither the Asherahs nor the sun-images.
17:9: In that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken tract in the woodland, and the mountain-top which they forsook before the children of Israel; and there shall be desolation.
17:10: For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plantations, and shalt set them with foreign slips:
17:11: in the day of thy planting wilt thou make them to grow, and on the morrow wilt thou make thy seed to flourish; but the harvest will flee in the day of taking possession, and the sorrow will be incurable.
17:12: Ha! a tumult of many peoples! they make a noise as the noise of the seas; -- and the rushing of nations! they rush as the rushing of mighty waters.
17:13: The nations rush as the rushing of many waters; but he will rebuke them, and they shall flee far away, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a whirling of dust before the whirlwind:
17:14: behold, at eventide, trouble; before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

Chapter 18

18:1: Ha! land shadowing with wings, which art beyond the rivers of Cush,
18:2: that sendest ambassadors over the sea, and in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, saying, Go, swift messengers, to a nation scattered and ravaged, to a people terrible from their existence and thenceforth; to a nation of continued waiting and of treading down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
18:3: All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, see ye, and when a trumpet is blown, hear ye!
18:4: For thus hath Jehovah said unto me: I will take my rest, and I will observe from my dwelling-place like clear heat upon herbs, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
18:5: For before the harvest, when the blossoming is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning-knives, and take away and cut down the branches.
18:6: They shall be left together unto the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the earth; and the birds of prey shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
18:7: In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts of a people scattered and ravaged, -- and from a people terrible from their existence and thenceforth, a nation of continued waiting and of treading down, whose land the rivers have spoiled, ... to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount Zion.

Chapter 19

19:1: The burden of Egypt. Behold, Jehovah rideth upon a swift cloud, and cometh to Egypt; and the idols of Egypt are moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt melteth in the midst of it.
19:2: And I will incite the Egyptians against the Egyptians; and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, kingdom against kingdom.
19:3: And 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 unto the conjurers, and unto the necromancers, and unto the soothsayers.
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, Jehovah of hosts.
19:5: And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up;
19:6: and the rivers shall stink, and the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and drain away: the reeds and sedges shall wither.
19:7: The meadows by the Nile, on the banks of the Nile, and everything sown by the Nile, shall be dried up, be driven away, and be no more.
19:8: And the fishers shall mourn, and all they that cast fish-hook into the Nile shall lament, and they that spread net upon the waters shall languish.
19:9: And they that work in fine flax, and they that weave white stuffs shall be ashamed.
19:10: And her pillars shall be broken in pieces, and all workers for hire shall be sad of soul.
19:11: They are but fools, the princes of Zoan, the wise counsellors of Pharaoh: their counsel is become senseless. How say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
19:12: Where are they then, thy wise men? Let them now tell thee, and let them make known what Jehovah of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
19:13: The princes of Zoan are become foolish, the princes of Noph are deceived; and the corner-stones of its tribes have caused Egypt to err.
19:14: Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst thereof; and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunkard staggereth in his vomit.
19:15: Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.
19:16: In that day shall Egypt be like unto women; and it shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Jehovah of hosts, which he shaketh over it.
19:17: And the land of Judah shall be a dismay unto Egypt: every one that thinketh of it shall be afraid for himself, because of the counsel of Jehovah of hosts, which he hath purposed against it.
19:18: In that day shall there be five cities in the land of Egypt speaking the language of Canaan, and swearing by Jehovah of hosts: one shall be called, The city of Heres.
19:19: In 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:
19:20: and it shall be for a sign and for a witness to Jehovah of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry unto Jehovah because of the oppressors, and he will send them a saviour and defender, who shall deliver them.
19:21: And Jehovah shall be known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians shall know Jehovah in that day, and shall serve with sacrifice and oblation; and they shall vow a vow unto Jehovah, and perform it.
19:22: And Jehovah will smite Egypt; he will smite and heal: and they shall return to Jehovah, and he will be entreated of them, and will 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 Egypt shall serve with Assyria.
19:24: In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth;
19:25: whom Jehovah of hosts will bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance!

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

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 dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, Elam! besiege, Media! All the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
21:3: Therefore are my loins filled with pain; anguish hath taken hold upon me, as the anguish of a woman in travail: I am bowed down so as not to hear, I am dismayed so as not to see.
21:4: My heart panteth, horror affrighteth me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into trembling unto me.
21:5: Prepare the table, appoint the watch; eat, drink: arise, ye princes, 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 chariots, horsemen by pairs, a chariot with asses, a chariot with camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed.
21:8: And he cried as a lion, Lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights.
21:9: -- And behold, there cometh a chariot of men; horsemen by pairs. 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! What I have heard of Jehovah 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 inquire, inquire; return, come.
21:13: The burden against Arabia. In the forest of Arabia shall ye lodge, ye caravans of Dedanites.
21:14: Bring ye water to meet the thirsty! The inhabitants of the land of Tema come forth with their bread for him that fleeth.
21:15: For they flee 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 a hired servant, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail;
21:17: and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, shall be diminished: for Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath spoken.

Chapter 22

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 wast full of stir, a town of tumult, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
22:3: All thy rulers have fled together, they are taken prisoners without the bow: all that are found of thee are made prisoners together; they were fleeing far off.
22:4: Therefore said I, Look away from me; let me 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, from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the valley of vision; a day of breaking down the wall, and of crying to the mountain:
22:6: -- Elam beareth the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovereth 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 uncovereth the covering of Judah: and thou didst look in that day to the armour in the house of the forest;
22:9: and ye have seen the breaches of the city of David, that they are many; and ye have gathered together the waters of the lower pool;
22:10: and ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and have broken down the houses to fortify the wall;
22:11: and ye have made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not had regard unto the maker thereof, neither have ye looked unto him that fashioned it long ago.
22:12: And in that day did the Lord Jehovah of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth;
22:13: and behold joy and rejoicing, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: -- Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.
22:14: And it was revealed in mine ears by Jehovah of hosts: Assuredly this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
22:15: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah of hosts: Go, get thee in unto this steward, unto Shebna, who is over the house, and say,
22:16: What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewn thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth out his sepulchre on high, cutting out in the rock a habitation for himself?
22:17: Behold, Jehovah will hurl thee with the force of a mighty man, and will cover thee entirely.
22:18: Rolling thee up completely, he will roll thee as a ball into a wide country: there shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory, O shame of thy lord's house!
22:19: And I will drive thee from thine office, and from thy station will I pull thee down.
22:20: And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkijah;
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; and 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 throne of glory 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 the small vessels, as well the vessels of cups as all the vessels of flagons.
22:25: In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in a sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for Jehovah hath spoken.

Chapter 23

23:1: The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish! for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, none entering in. From the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
23:2: Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle! The merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished thee.
23:3: And on great waters, the seed of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the market of the nations.
23:4: Be thou ashamed, Sidon, for the sea hath spoken, the strength of the sea, saying, I have not travailed nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men nor brought up virgins.
23:5: -- When the report came into Egypt, they were sorely pained at the news of Tyre.
23:6: Pass over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the coast!
23:7: Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? Her feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
23:8: Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the distributor of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose dealers were the honourable of the earth?
23:9: Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to profane the pride of all glory, to bring to nought all the honourable of the earth.
23:10: Overflow thy land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish: there is no more restraint.
23:11: He hath stretched out his hand over the sea, he shaketh the kingdoms. Jehovah hath given a commandment concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds thereof,
23:12: and hath said, Thou shalt no more exult, thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Sidon: get thee up, pass over to Chittim; even there shalt thou have no rest.
23:13: Behold the land of the Chaldeans: this people did not exist; the Assyrian founded it for the dwellers in the desert: they set up their towers, they destroyed the palaces thereof; he brought it to ruin.
23:14: Howl, ships of Tarshish! for your fortress 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. At the end of seventy years it shall be for Tyre as the harlot's song.
23:16: Take a harp, go about the city, thou forgotten harlot! Make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
23:17: And it shall come to pass at the end of seventy years, that Jehovah will visit Tyre; and she will return to her hire, and will commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the earth upon the face of the ground.
23:18: And her merchandise and her hire shall be holy to Jehovah: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before Jehovah, to eat and be sufficed, and for excellent clothing.

Chapter 24

24:1: Behold, Jehovah maketh the land empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.
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 him from whom usury is taken.
24:3: The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.
24:4: The land mourneth, it fadeth away; the world languisheth, it fadeth away: the haughty people of the land do languish.
24:5: And the land is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; for they have violated the laws, changed the statute, broken the everlasting covenant.
24:6: Therefore doth the curse devour the earth, and they that dwell therein are held guilty; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are consumed, and few men are left.
24:7: The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all that were merry-hearted do sigh;
24:8: the mirth of tambours ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
24:9: They do not drink wine with a song; strong drink is bitter to them that drink it.
24:10: The city of solitude is broken down; every house is shut up, so that none entereth 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: desolation remaineth in the city, and the gate is smitten, -- a ruin.
24:13: For so will it be in the midst of the land among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive-tree, as the grape-gleanings when the vintage is done.
24:14: These shall lift up their voice, they shall shout for the majesty of Jehovah, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
24:15: Therefore glorify Jehovah in the east, the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the isles of the west.
24:16: From the end of the earth have we heard songs: Glory to the righteous! And I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! The treacherous have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.
24:17: Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee, inhabitant of the land.
24:18: And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the sound 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 open, and the foundations of the earth shake.
24:19: The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is completely dissolved, the earth is violently moved.
24:20: The earth reeleth to and fro like a drunkard, and is shaken like a night hut; and its transgression is heavy upon it; and it falleth and shall not rise again.
24:21: And 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.
24:22: And they shall be brought together, as an assemblage of prisoners for the pit, and shall be shut up in prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
24:23: And the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Jehovah of hosts shall reign on mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients in glory.

Chapter 25

25:1: Jehovah, thou art my God: I will exalt thee; I will celebrate thy name, for thou hast done wonderful things; counsels of old which are faithfulness and truth.
25:2: For thou hast made of the city a heap, of the fortified town a ruin, the palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built up.
25:3: Therefore shall the mighty people glorify thee, the city of terrible nations shall fear thee.
25:4: For thou hast been a fortress to the poor, a fortress for the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat: for the blast of the terrible ones has been as the storm against a wall.
25:5: Thou hast subdued the tumult of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; as the heat, by the shadow of a cloud, so the song of the terrible ones is brought low.
25:6: And 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.
25:7: And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the veil which veileth all the peoples, and the covering that is spread over all the nations.
25:8: He will swallow up death in victory. 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.
25:9: And it shall be said in that day, Behold, 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.
25:10: For in this mountain shall the hand of Jehovah rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, as straw is trodden down in the dunghill;
25:11: and he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth them forth to swim; and he shall bring down their pride together with the plots of their hands.
25:12: And the fortress of the high defences of thy walls will he bring down, lay low, bring to the ground, into the dust.

Chapter 26

26:1: In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation doth he appoint for walls and bulwarks.
26:2: Open ye the gates, and the righteous nation which keepeth faithfulness shall enter in.
26:3: Thou wilt keep in perfect peace the mind stayed on thee, for he confideth in thee.
26:4: Confide ye in Jehovah for ever; for in Jah, Jehovah, is the rock of ages.
26:5: For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low, he layeth it low to the ground, he bringeth it even to the dust.
26:6: The foot shall tread it down, -- the feet of the afflicted, the steps of the poor.
26:7: The way of the just is uprightness: thou, the Upright, dost make the path of the just even.
26:8: Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to thy memorial.
26:9: With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
26:10: If favour be shewn to the wicked, he doth not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness he dealeth unjustly, and beholdeth not the majesty of Jehovah.
26:11: Jehovah, thy hand is lifted up, but they do not see: yet they shall see thy jealousy for the people, and be ashamed; yea, the fire which is for thine adversaries shall devour them.
26:12: Jehovah, thou wilt ordain peace for us; for thou also hast wrought all our works for us.
26:13: Jehovah our God, other lords than thee have had dominion over us; by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
26:14: They are dead, they shall not live; deceased, they shall not rise: for thou hast visited and destroyed them, and made all memory of them to perish.
26:15: Thou hast increased the nation, Jehovah, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified. Thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
26:16: Jehovah, in trouble they sought thee; they poured out their whispered prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
26:17: As a woman with child, that draweth near her delivery, is in travail, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been before thee, Jehovah.
26:18: We have been with child, we have been in travail, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought the deliverance of the land, neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
26:19: Thy dead shall live, my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing in triumph, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is the dew of the morning, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
26:20: Come, my people, enter into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself just for a little moment, until the indignation be past.
26:21: For behold, Jehovah cometh out of his place to visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth upon them; and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

Chapter 27

27:1: In that day Jehovah, with his sore and great and strong sword, will visit leviathan the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.
27:2: In that day there shall be a vineyard of pure wine; sing concerning it:
27:3: I Jehovah keep it, I will water it every moment; lest any harm it, I will keep it night and day.
27:4: Fury is not in me. Oh that I had briars and thorns in battle against me! I would march against them, I would burn them together.
27:5: Or let him take hold of my strength; let him make peace with me: yea, let him make peace with me.
27:6: In the future Jacob shall take root; Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.
27:7: Hath he smitten him according to the smiting of those that smote him? Is he slain according to the slaughter of those slain by him?
27:8: In measure, when sending her away, didst thou contend with her: he hath taken her away with 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 of the taking away of his sin: when he shall make all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are crumbled in pieces, -- the Asherahs and the sun-images shall not stand.
27:10: For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume its boughs.
27:11: When its branches are withered they shall be broken off; women shall come and set them on fire. For it is a people of no intelligence; therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he who formed them will shew them no favour.
27:12: And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah shall beat out from the flood of the river unto the torrent of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, 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 that were perishing in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and they shall worship Jehovah in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

Chapter 28

28:1: Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious adornment, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with wine.
28:2: Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, as a storm of hail and a destroying tempest; as a storm of mighty waters overflowing, shall he cast down to the earth with might.
28:3: The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under feet;
28:4: and the fading flower of his glorious adornment which is on the head of the fat valley shall be like an early fig before the summer: as soon as he that seeth it perceiveth it, scarcely is it in his hand, he swalloweth it down.
28:5: In that day will Jehovah of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the remnant 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 these also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are they gone astray. The priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink; they are overpowered by wine, they are gone astray through strong drink; they have erred in vision, they have stumbled in judgment.
28:8: For all tables are full of filthy vomit, so that there is no more place.
28:9: Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand the report? Them that are weaned from the milk, withdrawn from the breasts?
28:10: For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little. ...
28:11: For with stammering lips and a strange tongue will he speak to this people;
28:12: to whom he said, This is the rest: cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing. But they would not hear.
28:13: And the word of Jehovah was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little: that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
28:14: Therefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
28:15: For ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol have we made an 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 Jehovah: Behold, I lay for foundation in Zion a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure foundation: he that trusteth shall not make haste.
28:17: And I will appoint judgment for a line, and righteousness for a 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 annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, ye shall be trodden down by it.
28:19: 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 terror only to understand the report.
28:20: For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow when he would wrap himself in it.
28:21: For Jehovah will rise up as on mount Perazim, he will be moved with anger as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and perform his act, his unwonted act.
28:22: Now therefore be ye not scorners, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard from the Lord Jehovah of hosts a consumption, and one determined, upon the whole land.
28:23: Give ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
28:24: Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? Is he all day opening and breaking the clods of his land?
28:25: Doth he not, when he hath levelled the face thereof, cast abroad dill, and scatter cummin, and set the wheat in rows, and the barley in an appointed place, and the rye in its border?
28:26: His God doth instruct him in his judgment, he doth teach him.
28:27: For the dill is not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cummin; but dill is beaten out with a staff, and cummin with a rod.
28:28: Bread corn is crushed, because he will not ever be threshing it; and if he drove the wheels of his cart and his horses over it, he would not crush it.
28:29: This also cometh forth from Jehovah of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel, great in wisdom.

Chapter 29

29:1: Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city of David's encampment! Add ye year to year; let the feasts come round.
29:2: But I will distress Ariel, and there shall be sorrow and sadness; and it shall be unto me as an Ariel.
29:3: And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with watch-posts, and I will raise forts against thee.
29:4: And thou shalt be brought low, thou shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall come 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: And the multitude of thine enemies shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away; and it shall be in an instant, suddenly.
29:6: Thou shalt be visited by Jehovah of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
29:7: And the multitude of all the nations that war against Ariel, even all that war against her and her fortifications, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
29:8: It shall even be as when the hungry dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; and he awaketh, and his soul is empty; or as when the thirsty dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; and he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul craveth: so shall the multitude of all the nations be that war against mount Zion.
29:9: Be astounded and astonished, blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
29:10: For Jehovah hath poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes; the prophets and your chiefs, the seers, hath he covered.
29:11: And the whole vision is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which they give to one that can read, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot, for it is sealed.
29:12: And they give the book to him that cannot read, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot read.
29:13: And the Lord saith, Forasmuch as this people draw near with their mouth, and honour me with their lips, but their heart is removed far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught of men;
29:14: therefore, behold, I will proceed to do marvellously with this people, to do marvellously, even with wonder, and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their intelligent ones shall be hid.
29:15: Woe unto them that hide deep, far from Jehovah, their counsel! And their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
29:16: Oh your perverseness! -- Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay, so that the work 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?
29:17: 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, out of obscurity and out of darkness, the eyes of the blind shall see;
29:19: and the meek shall increase their joy in Jehovah, and the needy among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
29:20: For the terrible one shall come to nought, and the scorner shall be no more, and all that watch for iniquity shall be 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 pervert the judgment of the righteous by futility.
29:22: Therefore thus saith Jehovah who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now be pale;
29:23: for when he seeth his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall hallow my name, and hallow the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
29:24: And they that are of erring spirit shall know understanding, and the disobedient shall learn doctrine.

Chapter 30

30:1: Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, who take counsel, but not of me, and who make leagues, but not by my Spirit, that they may heap sin upon sin;
30:2: who walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked of my mouth, -- to take refuge under the protection of Pharaoh, and trust in the shadow of Egypt!
30:3: For to you the protection of Pharaoh shall be a shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt a 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 did not profit them, nor were a help or profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
30:6: -- The burden of the beasts of the south: Through a land of trouble and anguish, whence come the lioness and lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to the people that shall not profit them.
30:7: For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I named her, Arrogance, that doeth nothing.
30:8: Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and record it in a book, that it may be for the time to come, as a witness for ever,
30:9: that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah;
30:10: who 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: Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because ye reject this word, and confide in oppression and wilfulness, and depend thereon,
30:13: therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a towering wall, whose breaking shall come suddenly in an instant.
30:14: And he shall break it as the breaking of a potter's vessel, that is broken in pieces unsparingly; and in the pieces of it there shall not be found a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to scoop water out of the cistern.
30:15: For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest shall ye be saved, in quietness and confidence shall be your strength; but ye would not.
30:16: And ye said, No, but 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 a banner on a hill.
30:18: And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he lift himself up, that he may have mercy upon you; for Jehovah 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; as he heareth it, he will answer thee.
30:20: And the Lord will give you the bread of adversity, and the water of oppression; yet thy teachers shall not be hidden any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers.
30:21: And when ye turn to the right hand or when ye turn to the left, thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it.
30:22: And ye shall defile the silver covering of your graven images, and the gold overlaying of your molten images; thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth: Out! shalt thou say unto it.
30:23: And he will give the rain of thy seed with which thou shalt sow the ground; and bread, the produce of the ground, and it shall be fat and rich. In that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures;
30:24: and the oxen and the asses that till the ground shall eat salted 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 hill that is lifted up, brooks and water-courses, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
30:26: And 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 breach of his people, and healeth the wound of their stroke.
30:27: Behold, the name of Jehovah cometh from far, burning with his anger -- a grievous conflagration; his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a consuming fire;
30:28: and his breath as an overflowing torrent, which reacheth even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and to put a bridle into the jaws of the peoples, that causeth them to go astray.
30:29: Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a feast is sanctified; and joy of heart, as of one who goeth with a pipe to come unto the mountain of Jehovah, to the Rock of Israel.
30:30: And Jehovah will cause the majesty of his voice to be heard, and will shew the lighting down of his arm with indignation of anger, and a flame of consuming fire, with waterflood and storm and hailstones.
30:31: For through the voice of Jehovah shall the Assyrian be broken down: he will smite him with the rod.
30:32: And wherever shall pass the appointed staff, which Jehovah shall lay upon him, it shall be with tambours and harps; and with tumultuous battles will he fight with it.
30:33: For Topheth is prepared of old; for the king also it is prepared: he hath made it deep and large; its pile is fire and much wood; the breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

Chapter 31

31:1: Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, and depend on horses, and confide in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong; and who look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Jehovah!
31:2: But he also is wise, and he bringeth evil, and recalleth not his words; and he will arise against the house of evildoers, and against the help of workers of iniquity.
31:3: And the Egyptians are men, and not �God, and their horses flesh, and not spirit; and Jehovah shall stretch forth his hand, and he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall fall, and they all shall perish together.
31:4: For thus hath Jehovah said unto me: Like as the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, is not afraid of their voice, nor giveth way before the multitude of them; so will Jehovah of hosts come down to war upon mount Zion, and on the hill thereof.
31:5: As birds with outstretched wings, so will Jehovah of hosts cover Jerusalem; covering, he will also deliver, passing over, he will rescue it.
31:6: Turn unto him from whom ye have deeply revolted, ye children of Israel;
31:7: for in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your sinful hands have made unto you.
31:8: And Asshur shall fall by the sword, not of a great man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become tributary;
31:9: and for fear, he shall pass over to his rock, and his princes shall be afraid of the banner, saith Jehovah, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

Chapter 32

32:1: Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
32:2: And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the storm; as brooks of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty 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: and the heart of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
32:5: The vile man shall be no more called noble, nor the churl said to be bountiful:
32:6: for the vile man will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to 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 meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
32:8: But the noble deviseth noble things; and to noble things doth 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: In a year and some days shall ye be troubled, ye careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering 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 on your loins!
32:12: They shall smite on the breasts in lamentation for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vineyards.
32:13: Upon the land of my people shall come up thistles and briars, yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
32:14: For the palace shall be deserted, the multitude of the city shall be forsaken; hill and watchtower shall be caves 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 become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
32:16: And judgment shall inhabit the wilderness, and righteousness dwell 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: And 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 the feet of the ox and the ass.

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