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Lamsa OT - Isaiah

 

"1 ¶ THE vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah:"

"2 ¶ Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the LORD has spoken, I have reared and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. 3 The ox knows its owner, and the ass its master’s crib; but Israel does not know, my people do not understand. 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, an offspring of evildoers, children that are corrupt; you have forsaken the LORD, you have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, you have gone away backward. 5 Why should you be stricken any more, and be chastised? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds and bruises, and swelling sores; they have not been closed, neither bound up, nor softened with oil. 7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. 8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. 9 Except the LORD of hosts had left to us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and we should have been like Gomorrah."

"10 ¶ Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah. 11 Of what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? says the LORD; I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I do not delight in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats. 12 When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain offerings to me; their savour is an abomination to me; in the new moons and sabbaths, you call an assembly; I do not eat that which is obtained wrongfully, and taken by force. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they are a burden to me; I am weary to bear them. 15 And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood."

"16 ¶ Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do good; seek justice, do good to the oppressed, plead for the fatherless, plead for the widows. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be like wool. 19 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; 20 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it."

"21 ¶ How is the faithful city become a harlot! For once it was full of justice; and righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers. 22 Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water. 23 Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves; every one of them loves a bribe and runs after rewards; they plead not the cause of the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come before them. 24 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah, I will avenge myself of my adversaries, I will take vengeance upon my enemies; 25 And I will turn my hand against you, and purge away your rebellious men, and remove all your iniquities; 26 And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counsellors as at the beginning; afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city. 27 Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her captivity with righteousness. 28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and those who have forsaken the LORD shill perish. 29 For they shall be ashamed of the idols which they have desired, and they shall be confounded by the witchcraft which they have chosen. 30 For they shall be like an oak whose leaves have fallen, and like a garden that has no water. 31 And their strength shall be like cotton, and their works like a spark, and they shall both burn together, and there shall be none to quench them."

"2:1 ¶ THE word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem: 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established above the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall look to it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many peoples who are far off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into sickles: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 5 O house of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of the LORD."

"6 ¶ For thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are self-satisfied as in the olden days, and they practice augury like the Philistines, and they have reared many alien children. 7 Their land also is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; their land also is filled with horses, and there is no end to their chariots; 8 Their land also is filled with idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: 9 And the common man is humbled, and the mighty man is brought low; therefore forgive them not."

"10 ¶ Enter into the rocks, and hide in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. 11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of man shall be brought low, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. 12 For the day of the LORD shall be against every one that is proud and lofty, and against every one that is lifted up, that he shall be brought low; 13 And against all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and against all the oaks of Bashan, 14 And against all the high mountains, and against all the hills that are lifted up, 15 And against every high tower, and against every fenced wall, 16 And against all the ships of Tarshish, and against all the pleasant sights. 17 And the loftiness of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of man shall be brought low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. 18 And the idols shall utterly pass away. 19 And the people shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he arises to conquer the earth. 20 In that day a man shall cast away to the moles and to the bats his idols of gold and his idols of silver, which they made each one for themselves to worship, 21 To go into the caves of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he arises to conquer the earth. 22 Shun the man who is hasty for of what account is he?"

"3:1 ¶ FOR, behold, the LORD of hosts does take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, 2 The mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet and the diviner and the elder, 3 The captain of fifty and the honorable man and the counsellor and the skilful carpenter and the expert counsellor. 4 And I will appoint young men to be their princes, and mockers shall rule over them. 5 And the people shall oppress one another, every one his neighbor; and the young men shall provoke the elders, and the base men the honorable. 6 When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, and say to him, You have clothing, be our ruler, and govern this ruin; 7 In that day he shall answer, and say, I will not be a leader; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing; make me not a ruler over the people. 8 For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, provoking God in the majesty of his glory."

"9 ¶ Their hypocrisy witnesses against them; and they declare their sins like Sodom, they do not hide them. Woe to their soul! for they have wrought evil to themselves. 10 Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 11 Woe to the wicked! it shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given him. 12 The princes shall pluck my people out, and women shall rule over them. O my people, your leaders have caused you to err, and disturbed the way of your paths. 13 The LORD stands up to plead, and stands to judge his people. 14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof: for you have burned the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses. 15 Why did you sting my people, and shame the faces of the poor? says the LORD of hosts."

"16 ¶ Because the daughters of Zion have become haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks, and wanton eyes, making a tinkling with their feet, and thus provoking the LORD; 17 Therefore the LORD will bring low the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD shall lay bare their secret parts. 18 In that day the LORD will take away the beauty of their apparel; 19 And their adornments and their necklaces and the braids of their hair and their chains and their bonnets and their veils, 20 The paint of their faces, their earrings and their strings of beads 21 And the ornaments of their legs and their bracelets and nose rings, 22 The garments of varied colors and the mantles and the fine linens, the purple garments, 23 The long outer garments, the purple robes, the scarlet robes, the wardrobe of all their adornments. 24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of a sweet smell there shall be a stink; and instead of an ornamental girdle, a worker’s apron; and instead of curled hair, baldness; and instead of purple robes, a girding of sackcloth; for their beauty shall be destroyed. 25 Your mighty men shall fall by the sword, and your valiant men in the battle. 26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and her victory shall turn to defeat."

"4:1 ¶ AND in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel; only let us be called by your name, to take away our reproach."

"2 ¶ In that day shall the glory and honor of the LORD shine forth, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for the remnant of Israel. 3 And it shall come to pass, that he who is left in Zion, and he who remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one who is written among the living in Jerusalem, 4 When the LORD shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the bloodshed from the midst of Jerusalem, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of purging. 5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, round about, a cloud by day, and the smoke and shining of a flaming fire by night; for the glory of the LORD shall be a shelter over all. 6 And there shall be a shelter for a shade in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a shelter from the storm and from the rain."

"5:1 ¶ NOW I will sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard on the corner of a fertile land; 2 He cultivated it and fenced it and planted it with the choicest vines, and built a watchtower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress in it; and he expected that it should bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes. 3 And now, O men of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem, judge between me and my vineyard. 4 What more could have been done to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I expected that it should bring forth grapes, it brought forth wild grapes. 5 And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard; I will demolish its tower, and it shall be for spoil; and break down its fence, and it shall be trodden down; 6 And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall spring up in it briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant; and I looked for justice, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry."

"8 ¶ Woe to those who trespass the boundaries between houses, who remove the landmarks between the fields, to steal the land, that they may dwell alone in the midst of the earth! 9 In my ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth, it has been heard, that many houses shall be desolate, because there will be no one to dwell in them. 10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah. 11 Woe to them who rise up early in the morning, and run after strong drink; that continue drinking until night, till wine inflames them! 12 They drink wine while listening to the harps, timbrels, tambourines, and flutes; but they do not regard the works of the LORD, neither consider the deeds of his hands. 13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their dead are multiplied because of the famine, and have been overcome with thirst. 14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged itself, and opened its mouth without measure: and the glorious men, the honorable men, and the mighty men shall descend into it. 15 And the mean man shall be humbled, and the mighty man shall be brought down, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled: 16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the Holy God shall be sanctified in righteousness. 17 Then shall the lambs feed there in their usual fashion, and the waste places that shall be rebuilt shall be the property of the rightful owners."

"18 ¶ Woe to them that spin out their iniquities like a long rope, and their sins are like a bridle on the neck of a heifer; 19 Who say, Let the LORD make speed, and hasten his works, that we may see them; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near, and let it come, that we may know it! 20 Woe to 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! 21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight! 22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and strong men who mix strong drink; 23 Who justify the guilty because of his bribe, and take away justice from the righteous! 24 Therefore as the fire devours the stubble and the flame consumes the chaff, so they shall be consumed by the flame, and their root shall be as dust; and their blossom shall go up like chaff, because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts and despised the command of the Holy One of Israel. 25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he has stretched forth his hand against them, and has smitten them: and the mountains trembled; and their carcasses were like mud in the streets. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still. 26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from afar and will whistle to them from the end of the earth; and, behold, they shall come swiftly with speed. 27 They shall not be weary nor stumble, they shall not slumber nor sleep, neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the lace of their shoes be broken; 28 Their arrows are sharp and their bows are bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind. 29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, and like the young lions that roar, and take hold on the prey and carry it off; and none shall deliver it. 30 And in that day he shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea; and if they look to the land, behold, there shall be darkness and distress, and the light shall be darkened with thick darkness."

"6:1 ¶ IN the year that King Uzziah died I saw the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled his temple. 2 And above him stood the seraphim; each one had six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he did fly. 3 And one called to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory. 4 And the posts of the door shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke."

"5 ¶ Then I said, Woe is me, I am dismayed; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar; 7 And he touched my mouth and said to me, Lo, this has touched your lips; your iniquity is taken away, and your sins are forgiven. 8 And I heard the voice of the LORD, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me."

"9 ¶ And he said to me, Go, and tell this people, You can hear indeed, but understand not; and you can see indeed, but do not perceive. 10 For the heart of this people is darkened and their ears are heavy and their eyes closed, so that they may not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and be converted and be forgiven. 11 Then I said, How long, O LORD? And he said, Until the cities lie waste without inhabitants and the houses without men and the land be utterly desolate 12 And the LORD shall have cast off men far away and there shall be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. 13 And they that remain in it shall be a tenth, and again they shall be burned and shall be made like the terebinth or like an oak which is fallen from its stump. The holy seed is the source thereof."

"7:1 ¶ AND it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jothan, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Aram, and Pekah the son of Romaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. 2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Aram is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart and the heart of his people were moved, as the trees of the forest are moved with the wind. 3 Then the LORD said to Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool which is in the highway of the palace’s field; 4 And say to him, Take heed and be quiet; fear not, neither be frightened by these two weakening trouble-makers, by the fierce anger of Rezin, and by the son of Romaliah 5 Because Aram, Ephraim, and the son of Romaliah have taken evil counsel against you, saying, 6 Let us go up against Judah and destroy it, and let us make a breach in it and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal; 7 Thus says the LORD God: It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass. 8 For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and after sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken, so that it will no longer be a people. 9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Romaliah’s son. If you do not believe, surely you shall not understand."

"10 ¶ Moreover the LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying, 11 Ask for yourself a sign of the LORD your God; ask something in the depth, or in the height above. 12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD my God. 13 And he said, Hear now, O house of David; it is a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also? 14 Therefore the LORD himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know how to refuse the evil and choose the good. 16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land before whose two kings you are harassed shall be forsaken."

"17 ¶ The LORD shall bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father’s house days that have not come from the day when the king of Assyria parted Ephraim from Judah. 18 And it shall come to pass on that day that the LORD shall whistle for the flies that are in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt and for the bees that are in the land of Assyria. 19 And they shall come and shall rest all of them in the valley of Jathoth and in the holes of the rocks and in all the dens. 20 On that day shall the LORD shave with a sharp razor the region that is beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and he shall also shave off the beard. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day that a man shall rear a young cow and two sheep; 22 And it shall come to pass because of the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter; for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land. 23 And it shall come to pass in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines, worth a thousand silver pieces, shall become briers and thorns. 24 With arrows and with bows shall men come there, because all the land shall be filled with briers and thorns. 25 And on all the hills that once were ploughed with a plough, you shall not go for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall become pasture for cattle and for the treading of sheep."

"8:1 ¶ MOREOVER the LORD said to me, Take a large scroll and write on it plainly, To hasten the captivity, and to record the spoil. 2 And I took to me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Berechiah. 3 Then I went to the prophetess; and she conceived and bore a son. Then the LORD said to me, Call his name Mesarhib-shabey-otakib-baz, Hasten to take away captives; speed to take away the spoil. 4 For before the child shall know how to cry, My father and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria. 5 The LORD spoke to me again, saying, 6 Forsasmuch as this people have refused the waters of Shiloah, that flow softly, and rejoice in Rezin and the son of Romaliah; 7 Now therefore, behold, the LORD brings up against them the waters of the river (Euphrates), many and strong, even the king of Assyria and all his glory; and he shall come up over all their brooks, and walk over all their fortified walls; 8 And he shall pass through Judah and shall sweep on and go over; he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel."

"9 ¶ Tremble, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all you of far countries; gird yourselves, and you shall be defeated. 10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand; for God is with us. 11 For the LORD spoke thus to me, as he held me and led me aside that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, 12 Do not say, A conspiracy, as this people has said conspiracy, neither shall you worship their idols nor be afraid of them. 13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; he is your God and he is your helper. 14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; and for a stone of offense and for a rock of stumbling to both the houses of Israel, for a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many of them shall stumble by them; they shall fall and be broken and be snared and be taken."

"16 ¶ Bind up the testimony, seal the law, 17 And in my teaching I will wait for the LORD, who has turned away his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. 18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for a sign and for a wonder in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells on mount Zion. 19 And when they shall say to you, Inquire of men who have familiar spirits and of wise men who chirp and mutter, these men are not God’s people, who inquire of the dead concerning the living. 20 As for the law and the testimony, if they do not speak according to this word, it is because they do not receive a bribe for it. 21 And they shall pass through the land sorely beset and hungry; and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall be angry and will curse their king, and their God, and be haughty. 22 And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, tribulation and dimness shall scatter them; but he shall not afflict him who is in distress as in the former time."

"9:1 ¶ THE land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali have rejoiced; the mighty dominion, the way by the sea, the country beyond the river Jordan, and Galilee of the Gentiles have rejoiced. 2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shined. 3 Thou hast multiplied the people, and thou hast increased its joy; they joy before thee as those who rejoice in the harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. 4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden and the staff of his shoulder and the rod of his oppressor, as in the days of Midian. 5 For every voice which is heard brings terror and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be for burning and fuel for fire. 6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder: and his name is called Wonderful Counsellor, The Mighty One, The Everlasting God, The Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and of his peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to establish it and to sustain it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this."

"8 ¶ The LORD has sent a word to Jacob, and it has lighted upon Israel. 9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and haughtiness of heart, 10 We shall lay bricks and hew stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. 11 Therefore the LORD shall cause the adversaries of Rezin to prevail against him, and incite his enemies, 12 The Edomites from the east and the Philistines from the west; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 13 For the people did not turn to him till they were devoured, neither did they seek the LORD of hosts. 14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, tail and head, in one day. 15 The elder and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail. 16 For the leaders of this people shall cause them to err and cause them to sink low. 17 Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall he have mercy on their orphans and widows; for all of them are hypocrites and evildoers, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 18 For wickedness burns like the fire; it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and the chosen ones shall roll up like the lifting up of smoke. 19 Through the rebuke of the LORD of hosts the land trembles, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire; no man shall spare his brother. 20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and shall not be satisfied; they shall eat every man the flesh of his own kinsmen; 21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall devour Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still."

"10:1 ¶ WOE to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and who write unjust decrees; 2 To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that they may plunder the widows and that they may rob the fatherless! 3 And what will you do on the day of recompense and in the storm which shall come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your glory? 4 Without me you shall bow down under the prisoners, and you shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still."

"5 ¶ Ho, Assyrian! the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation. 6 I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against a wrathful people will I give him a charge, to take captives and to take spoil and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 7 But he does not look so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and annihilate nations not a few. 8 For he says, Are not my princes altogether kings? 9 Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? 10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel those of Jerusalem and of Samaria; 11 And as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so will I do to Jerusalem and her idols. 12 Therefore it shall come to pass, that when the LORD has performed his whole work on mount Zion, and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his pride. 13 For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent, and I have removed the boundaries of the nations, and I have plundered their wealth, and subjugated the inhabited cities; 14 And my hand has found like a nest the riches of the peoples; and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken, I have gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved a wing or opened the mouth or chirped. 15 Shall the ax boast itself over him who hews with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself over him who saws with it? Or shall a rod exalt itself over him who lifts it up? 16 Therefore shall the LORD God of hosts send destruction upon his rich ones; and instead of his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. 17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; 18 And it shall consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful fields, both soul and body shall perish; and they shall be as if they never had been. 19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be so few that a child may write them down."

"20 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again trust upon him that smote them; but they shall trust in the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God. 22 For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return; their number decreased, cut off, but flooded with righteousness. 23 For the LORD God of hosts shall bring destruction and make decrees throughout all the earth."

"24 ¶ Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: O my people that dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian, who shall smite you with his rod, and shall lift up his staff against you after the manner of Egypt. 25 For yet a very little while, and my indignation shall be accomplished, and my anger because of their destruction. 26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge against them according to the slaughter of Midian at mount Horeb; and as his staff was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt. 27 And it shall come to pass in that day that his burden shall be taken away from off your shoulder and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed from your neck because of your strength. 28 He has come to Anath, he has passed Megiddo; at Michmash he has laid up his supplies; 29 They have gone over the passage of Gibeah to Beth-bethan; Ramath is afraid; Gibeah of Saul has fled. 30 Lift up your voice, O daughter of Gallim; give ear, O Laish; answer me, O Anathoth. 31 Marmanah has been removed; the inhabitants of Gobin are resisting. 32 As yet he shall remain at Nob that day; he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion and against the hill of Jerusalem. 33 Behold, the LORD God of hosts shall overthrow the glorious ones with might; and the high ones of stature shall be humbled, and the haughty shall be brought down. 34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon with its glory shall fall."

"11:1 ¶ AND there shall come forth a shoot out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots; 2 And he shall be at peace, and the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the reverence of the LORD; 3 And shall shine forth in the reverence of the LORD; and he shall not judge after that which his eyes see, neither reprove after that which his ears hear; 4 But with justice shall he judge the poor, and reprove with uprightness for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. 5 Righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his waist. 6 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 ox shall feed together; and a little child shall lead them. 7 And the cow and the bear shall feed together; and their young ones shall grow up together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 And the suckling child shall play with the serpent, and the weaned child shall put his hand into the hole of the asp. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea."

"10 ¶ And on that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand as an ensign to the peoples; to him shall the Gentiles seek; and his rest shall be glorious. 11 And it shall come to pass in that day that the LORD shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people which are left from Assyria and from Egypt and from Pathros and from Ethiopia and from Elam and from Seir and from Hamath and from the islands of the sea. 12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. 13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be destroyed; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not oppress Ephraim. 14 But they shall fly upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the sea; they shall plunder them of the east together; they shall stretch out their hands against Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them. 15 And the LORD shall utterly dry up the sea of Egypt; and with his mighty wind he shall stretch his hand over the river, and shall smite it into seven streams, so that men may cross through it dryshod. 16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people which shall be left from Assyria; as it was in the day that Israel came up from the land of Egypt."

"12:1 ¶ AND you shall say in that day, O LORD, I will praise thee; though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou hast comforted me. 2 Behold, in God my Saviour I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD is my strength and my song; and he has become my salvation. 3 Therefore with joy shall you draw water out of the spring of salvation."

"4 ¶ And you shall say in that day, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the Gentiles, make mention that his name is exalted. 5 Sing to the LORD; for he has done excellent things; this is known in all the earth. 6 Rejoice and give praise, O inhabitant of Zion; for great is he that is in your midst, the Holy One of Israel."

"13:1 ¶ THE prophecy concerning the fall of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw. 2 Lift up a banner on high mountains, raise the voice to them, wave the hand, that they may enter the gates of the princes. 3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have called the mighty ones in my anger, even them that became strong with my excellency. 4 The noise of tumult on the mountains, like as of many peoples; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together; the LORD of hosts is performing wonders. 5 Warriors are coming from afar, and from the end of heaven, even the LORD and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land."

"6 ¶ Howl; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a plunder which is made suddenly. 7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt; 8 And they shall be afraid; terror and pangs shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail; they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. 9 Behold, the day of the LORD comes, which has no remedy, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to make the earth a desolation; and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its rising, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine. 11 And I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will bring low the haughtiness of the mighty. 12 I will make a man more precious than gold; even a man than the gold of Ophir. 13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall be moved out of its place, in the rebuke of the LORD of hosts, in the day of his fierce anger. 14 And they shall be like gazelles when they flee, and like sheep that have no one to gather them; every man shall turn to his own people, and every one flee to his own land. 15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that escapes shall fall by the sword. 16 Their children, shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled and their wives ravished. 17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver, and have no delight in gold. 18 The bows of young men shall be broken in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children."

"19 ¶ And Babylon, the glory of the kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldean’s excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation; neither shall the Arabians encamp there; neither shall the shepherds make their folds there. 21 But wild beasts shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. 22 And the screech-owls shall cry in their palaces, and jackals in their pleasant temples; its time is soon to come, and its days shall not be prolonged."

"14:1 ¶ FOR the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and will set them in their own land; and strangers shall accompany them, and they shall add to the house of Jacob. 2 And the Gentiles shall take them and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for men-servants and women-servants; and they shall take them captive, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. 3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give you rest from your sorrow and from your anger and from the hard bondage wherein you were made to serve."

"4 ¶ You shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the ruler ceased! the zealous one ceased! 5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked and the sceptre of the rulers. 6 He who smote the peoples in wrath, smiting without instruction, who chastised the peoples in anger and persecuted them without pity. 7 The whole earth is at rest and is quiet; they break forth into singing. 8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since you are felled, no hewer is come up to cut us down. 9 Sheol beneath is murmuring at your coming; it stirs up against you all the mighty men, even all the rulers of the earth whom you overthrew from their thrones. 10 All the kings of the nations shall answer and say to you, Are you also become weak as we? Are you become like us? 11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the noise of your harps is dead; the dust is spread under you, and the worms cover you. 12 How are you fallen from heaven! howl in the morning! for you have fallen down to the ground, O reviler of the nations. 13 For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will dwell also upon the high mountains in the outer regions of the north. 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 15 From henceforth you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the bottom of the pit. 16 Those who see you shall stare at you and consider you, saying, Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms; 17 Who made the world as a wilderness and destroyed its cities; who did not free his prisoners? 18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. 19 But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable person, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through by the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as corpses trodden under foot. 20 You shall not rejoice with them in the grave, because you have destroyed your land and slain your people; the offspring of the evildoer shall never rise again. 21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with war. 22 For I will rise up against them, says the LORD of hosts, and will cut off from Babylon the name, its offspring, the family, and its generation, says the LORD. 23 I will also make it a possession for owls, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the LORD of hosts."

"24 ¶ The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand; 25 I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot; then his yoke shall depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders. 26 This is the end that is purposed against all the earth; and this is the land that is stretched out against all the nations. 27 For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who can disannul it? And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? 28 The conquest of Philistia. In the year that King Ahaz died, came this burden. 29 Rejoice not, whole Philistia, because the rod of him that smote you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a viper, and its offspring shall be a fiery flying serpent. 30 And the first-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant I shall slay. 31 Howl, O city; cry, O city; whole Philistia is in confusion; for there shall come from the north a smoke? and none shall be left in their feasts. 32 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nations? That the LORD has founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall take refuge in it."

"15:1 ¶ THE prophecy concerning the fall of Moab. Because in the night the city of Moab is plundered and brought to silence; because in the night the defenses of Moab are despoiled and brought to silence; 2 They have gone up to the house of Ribon, to the high places, to weep; Moab shall howl over Nebo and over Medeba; on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off. 3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth; on the housetops and in their streets every one shall howl, weeping vehemently. 4 Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh; their voice shall be heard as far as Jazoth; therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his soul shall howl for him. 5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; they shall howl as they flee to Zoar; Moab was strong like a three year old heifer; for by the ascent of Luhith they shall go up with weeping; and in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction."

"6 ¶ For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the vegetation is withered away, and the green grass is dried up, there is no green thing. 7 Therefore what was left is gone, and that which they have stored shall they carry away over the brook of willows. 8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof as far as Eglaim, and the howling thereof to Beer-elim. 9 For the waters of Ribon are full of blood; and I will bring more upon Ribon, and I will plot against those who escape of Moab, and against the remnant of the land."

"16:1 ¶ THE prophecy concerning the rest of the land. I will send the son of the ruler of the land from the rock city of the wilderness, to the mount of the daughter of Zion. 2 And he shall be like a bird that changes its nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be deserted at the fords of Arnon. 3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make your shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not him that wanders. 4 Let the outcasts of Moab dwell with you; be a shelter to them from the face of the spoiler; for the destroyer is at an end, and the spoiler ceases, the oppressors are consumed out of the land. 5 In mercy shall a throne be established, and he shall sit upon it, in truth in the tabernacle of David, a judge who seeks justice and hastens righteousness."

"6 ¶ We have heard of the majesty of Moab; he is very proud, even of his haughtiness and his wrath; his augurers so predict concerning him. 7 Therefore shall Moab howl; every one shall howl for Moab, for the foundations of the walls are destroyed; surely they groan like the sick. 8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the mighty men of the nations have broken down the branches thereof, they are come as far as Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness; its shoots spread out, they are gone over the sea. 9 Therefore I will cause you to weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water you with your tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh; for an oppressor has come against your harvest and the gathering of your grapes. 10 And gladness and joy are taken away out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no rejoicing, neither shall there be shouting: nor shall they tread out wine in the press; nor shall men tread out wine with their feet; for I have made the vine treaders to cease. 11 Therefore my heart shall lament like a harp for Moab, and my soul for the fortified walls which will be destroyed. 12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high places, that he shall come to the sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail. 13 This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning Moab since that time. 14 But now the LORD has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be despised, with all that great multitude of his people; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble."

"17:1 ¶ THE prophecy concerning the fall of Damascus. Behold, Damascus shall cease to be a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. 2 The cities of Adoer shall be forsaken; they shall be for flocks which shall lie down in them, and none shall harm them. 3 The might also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Ephraim will be like the glory of the children of Israel, says the LORD of hosts. 4 And in that day it shall come to pass that the glory of Jacob shall wane, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. 5 And it shall be as when the reaper harvests standing sheaves, and gathers the ears in his arms; and it shall be as he that gathers ears in the valley of Rephaim."

"6 ¶ Yet gleaning shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five on the outermost branches thereof, says the LORD God of Israel. 7 In that day a man shall trust in his Maker, and his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel. 8 And he shall not trust in the altars, the work of his hands and the work which his fingers have made, neither shall he look at the idols or the images."

"9 ¶ In that day shall his strong cities be like a desolate well, and like an emirate which was left destitute before the children of Israel; so you will become a desolation. 10 Because you have forgotten the God your Saviour, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength; therefore you shall plant pleasant plants and shall graft them with strange branches; 11 On the day that you plant them, they shall put forth blossoms, and in the morning your seed shall flourish, but the harvest shall be a ruin in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow."

"12 ¶ Woe to the armies of many people, which make a noise like the roaring of the seas! And to the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters! 13 He shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off and shall be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like dry grass before the whirlwind. 14 And behold at eveningtide violence; and before the morning they are no more. This is the portion of our oppressor, and the lot of those who plunder us."

"18:1 ¶ WOE to the land of shadowing wings which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; 2 That sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, saying, Go, you swift messengers, to a nation who will be plundered and uprooted, to a nation whose strength was within it hitherto; to a people who will be dishonored and trodden down, whose land the rivers have ruined! 3 All you inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, you shall see when the ensign shall be lifted up upon the mountains; and when he blows a trumpet, you shall hear. 4 For thus the LORD said to me: I will rest, and I will look from my dwelling place as midday heat upon the river and as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest. 5 For before the harvest, when the bud has perished and the grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the lean shoots with pruning hooks and take away and shake off the branches. 6 They shall be left together to the fowls of the mountains and to the beasts of the earth; and the birds shall gather upon them, and all the wild beasts of the earth, shall devour them. 7 At that time presents shall be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people plundered and uprooted, whose strength was within him hitherto; from a people dishonored and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, even to mount Zion."

"19:1 ¶ THE prophecy concerning the fall of Egypt. Behold, the LORD is riding upon swift clouds, and comes into Egypt; and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of the Egyptians shall melt in the midst of it. 2 And I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian; and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. 3 And the spirit of the Egyptian shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will blot out their counsel; and they shall inquire of idols and of the sorcerers and of those who have familiar spirits and of wizards. 4 And I will deliver the Egyptians into the hands of the cruel Medes; and a fierce king shall rule over them, says the LORD of hosts. 5 And they shall cut off the water from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. 6 And they shall divert the waters of the rivers, and shall diminish the great rivers; the reeds and rushes and papyrus shall wither. 7 The rushes by the river, and by the mouth of the river, and everything sown by the river shall wither, be driven away, and be no more. 8 The fishermen also shall lament, and all who cast hooks into the river shall mourn, and those who spread nets upon the water shall languish. 9 Moreover those who work in cotton, and those who comb cotton and weave with joy, shall be confounded. 10 And all those who make strong drink for the drinking of the people shall be humiliated. 11 Surely the princes of Zoan have become fools, the wise counsellors of King Pharaoh give foolish counsel; how can you say to Pharaoh, We are wise men, the sons of the ancient kings? 12 Where are your wise men? Let them tell you now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts has purposed against Egypt. 13 The princes of Zoan have become fools, the princes of Memphis have become haughty and have deceived Egypt, even the foundation of her families. 14 The LORD has mingled a spirit of deceit within her; and it has caused the Egyptian to err in all his works, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit. 15 Neither shall there be any leader for the Egyptians who can make head or tail of it, or tail or head. 16 On that day the Egyptian shall be like a woman, and he shall be afraid and tremble because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shakes against him. 17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror to the Egyptian; every one who makes mention of it shall be filled with dread because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts which he has determined against the Egyptian."

"18 ¶ In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt which speak the language of Canaan and swear by the LORD of hosts; one of them shall be called Haris, the city of destruction. 19 On that day there shall be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at its border to the LORD. 20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry to the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour and a judge, and he shall deliver them. 21 And the LORD shall be known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall offer sacrifices and oblations; yea, they shall vow a vow to the LORD and perform it. 22 And the LORD shall smite the Egyptians; he shall smite and heal them; and they shall return to the LORD, and he shall answer them and shall heal them. 23 In that day there shall be a highway from Egypt to Assyria and from Assyria to Egypt, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve the Assyrians. 24 In that day Israel shall be the third with Egyptians and with Assyrians, even a blessing in the midst of the land, 25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people and Assyria the work of my hands and Israel my heritage."

"20:1 ¶ IN the year that Tartan came to Ashdod (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him) and fought against Ashdod and took it, 2 At that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off your loins and put off your shoes from your feet. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. 3 And the Lord said, As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot, so shall there be signs and wonders for three years upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; 4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. 5 And they shall be defeated and ashamed of Ethiopia their trust, and of Egypt their glory. 6 And the inhabitants of this isle shall say on that day, Behold, here is our trust, to whom we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?"

"21:1 ¶ THE prophecy concerning the desert of the sea. As a whirlwind from the south, sweeping through from the wilderness; so it comes from a far off land. 2 A grievous vision is declared to me: the oppressor oppresses, and the plunderer plunders. Go up, O Elam, and the mountains of Media; all the sighing thereof I have made to cease. 3 Therefore my loins are filled with pain; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail; I was dismayed so that I could not hear, I was terrified so that I could not see. 4 My heart failed, pangs made me quake; the beauty of my pleasures has been turned into terror to me. 5 Prepare the tables, watch in the watchtowers, eat, drink; arise, O princes, and anoint the shields. 6 For thus has the LORD said to me: Go, set a watchman, that he may declare what he sees. 7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a rider on an ass and a rider on a camel; and he hearkened diligently with much heed; 8 Then the watchman cried into my ears, saying, I the LORD stand continually in the daytime, and I stand upon my watchtower every night. 9 And, behold, there came a man from the pair of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods are broken to the ground. 10 There is no one to reap and no one to thresh; that which I have heard of the LORD God of Israel, I have declared to you."

"11 ¶ The prophecy concerning Dumah. He called to me from Seir. Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? 12 The watchman says, The morning comes, and also the night; if you will inquire, inquire; you will come back again."

"13 ¶ The prophecy concerning Arabia. In the evening you shall lodge in the forest, in the highway of Dornim. 14 Meet the thirsty, bring water, O you inhabitants of the land of the south! Meet those who are fleeing with your bread. 15 For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword and from the bent bow and from the grievousness of war. 16 For thus has the LORD said to me: Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail; 17 And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished; for the LORD God of Israel has spoken it."

"22:1 ¶ THE prophecy concerning the valley of vision. What do you see here, that you are all gone up to the housetops? 2 The city is full of tumult, the mighty city is full of noise; your slain men are not slain with the sword nor dead in battle. 3 All your princes are fled together, they are surrounded by the archers; all that were found in you are bound together; they have fled to far off places. 4 Therefore said I, Leave me alone, I will weep bitterly; trouble not yourself to comfort me, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people. 5 For it is a day of trouble and of treading down and of weeping before the LORD God of hosts in the valley of vision; they have surveyed the walls, and shouted upon the mountains. 6 And Elam bore the quiver with the chariots of men and horsemen, and the shields were seen on the wall. 7 And it shall come to pass that your choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gates."

"8 ¶ And the defenses of Judah shall be laid bare, and you shall see on that day the armour of the house of the forest. 9 You have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many; and you have gathered together the waters of the lower pool. 10 And you have supplied the houses of Jerusalem with water, and you have broken down the houses to fortify the walls. 11 And you made ditches between the two walls for the water of the old pool; but you have not looked to the maker thereof, neither had respect to him who fashioned it long ago. 12 And in that day the LORD God of hosts called to weeping and to mourning and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth; 13 And behold joy and gladness, slaughtering oxen and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine; let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die. 14 And it was revealed in my ears by the LORD of hosts, saying, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till you die, says the LORD God of hosts."

"15 ¶ Thus says the LORD God of hosts: Go, get to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him, 16 What do you here? And what have you here, that you have hewn a tomb for yourself, as he who hews for himself a tomb on high and carves a habitation for himself in a rock? 17 Behold, O man, the LORD will surely cast you away, and will surely forsake you. 18 And he shall afflict you like the affliction of a company of soldiers besieged in a fortress from which there is no escape; there shall you die, and there the chariots of your glory shall be the shame of your master’s house. 19 And I will take away your glory, and will cast you down from your position. 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD, I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah; 21 And I will clothe him with your robe and will gird him with your girdle, and I will commit your government into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. 22 And I will place upon his shoulder the keys of the house of David; so he shall open and none shall shut, and he shall shut and none shall open. 23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house. 24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, both the honorable men and the glorious men, and all small vessels, from instruments of music to the harp. 25 In that day, says the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in a sure place be removed and be overthrown and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be destroyed; for the LORD has spoken it."

"23:1 ¶ THE prophecy concerning the fall of Tyre. Howl, O ships of Tarshish! for he who brings merchandise is plundered; from the land of China the news has been revealed to us. 2 Be still, O inhabitants of the islands, the merchants of Zidon that passed over the sea. 3 Your commerce is on many waters, O offspring of merchants; the harvest of the river is her revenue, and she is a mart of nations. 4 Be ashamed, O Zidon; for the sea has spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I have neither been in travail nor have I given birth to children, neither have I reared young men nor brought up virgins. 5 When the news reaches Egypt, they will be in pain over the report of Tyre. 6 Pass over to Tarshish; howl, O you inhabitants of the islands. 7 Is this your mighty city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? Her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. 8 Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth? 9 The LORD of hosts has purposed it, to bring to an end the glory of every mighty man and to bring into dishonor all the honorable men of the earth. 10 Pass through your land like a river, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no one to drive you away. 11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms; the LORD has given a commandment against Canaan to destroy its mighty men. 12 And he said, You shall no more become mighty, O you oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon; arise, pass over to China; there also you shall have no rest. 13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this is the people, and not the Assyrians, who destroyed it; they appointed spies who spied on her palaces, and they brought it to ruin. 14 Howl, O ships of Tarshish; for your stronghold is plundered."

"15 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day that Tyre shall be forgotten for seventy years, according to the days of one king; after the end of seventy years they shall sing to Tyre a harlot’s song. 16 Take a harp, go about the city, O you harlot that has been forgotten; play sweet melodies, sing many songs, that you may be remembered. 17 And it shall come to pass at the end of seventy years that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her traffic and commit fornications with all the kingdoms that are upon the face of the earth. 18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be sanctified to the LORD; it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat abundantly, and replace their old garments with new ones."

"24:1 ¶ BEHOLD, the LORD shall destroy the earth and lay it waste and turn it upside down and scatter its inhabitants. 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 creditor, so with the debtor. 3 The land shall be utterly destroyed and utterly spoiled; for the LORD has spoken this word. 4 The earth howls and sits in mourning, the world wails and sits in mourning, the haughty people of the earth lament. 5 The earth also is defiled like its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the law, changed the ordinance, and nullified the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore the earth shall sit in mourning, and all its inhabitants shall be condemned; therefore all the inhabitants of the earth shall be destroyed, and a few men shall be left. 7 The grain mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh. 8 The mirth of the timbrels has ceased, the noise of those that rejoice has ended, the joy of the harp is over. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it. 10 The city is plundered, every wine cellar is shut up, so that no one may come in. 11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy has ended, the mirth of the land is gone. 12 The city is left in desolation, and its gates are broken with destruction."

"13 ¶ For thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the peoples, it shall be as the shaking of an olive tree and as the gleaning of grapes when the vintage is done. 14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea. 15 Therefore glorify the LORD with a song, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the islands of the sea."

"16 ¶ From the uttermost parts of the earth we have heard songs, even the glory of the righteous, saying, It is a mystery to me. it is a mystery to me, woe to me, the wicked have dealt treacherously, yea, the wicked have dealt very treacherously. 17 Fear and the pit and the snare are upon you, O inhabitants of the earth. 18 And it shall come to pass that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be caught in the snare; for the fountains from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake. 19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is utterly moved, the earth is staggering exceedingly. 20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard and shall be shaken like a booth, and its transgression shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall and not rise again. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day that the LORD shall punish the host of the lofty ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. 22 And they shall be gathered together as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days they shall be saved. 23 Then the moon shall be confounded and the sun ashamed, for the LORD of hosts shall reign on mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and will be glorified in the presence of his saints."

"25:1 ¶ O LORD, thou art my God; I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things, and given faithful counsel from afar, amen. 2 For thou hast reduced a city to a heap, the fortified city to a ruin; the palace of the strangers and the city are never to be built again. 3 Therefore many peoples shall praise thee, the city of the mighty nations shall worship thee. 4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a helper to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat; for the blast of the mighty ones is as a storm against the wall. 5 Thou shalt blot out the pride of aliens as the shadow at noonday, and as the heat is blotted out by the shade of a cloud; thus the branch of the mighty ones shall be humbled."

"6 ¶ And on this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make for all peoples a lavish feast, a feast of old and rich wines, from the things that belong to our heavenly Saviour and the Mighty One. 7 And he will destroy on this mountain the prestige of the ruler who ruled over all the peoples, because of the slaughter which was made among all the peoples. 8 He will swallow up death in victory for ever; and the LORD God of hosts will wipe away the tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people he shall take away from off all the earth; for the LORD has spoken it."

"9 ¶ And it shall be said on that day, Lo, this is the LORD our God; we have waited for him, and he shall save us; this is the LORD our God, we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. 10 For on this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down with the threshing sled. 11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as a swimmer spreads forth his hands to swim; and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their bands. 12 And the fortress of treason of your rebellious men and your strong walls he shall tear down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust."

"26:1 ¶ IN that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: O city whose salvation has prevailed, build the walls and the bulwarks; 2 Open the gates, that the righteous peoples who keep faith and that the truth may enter in. 3 Thou wilt keep us in perfect peace, for in thee we have trusted, O LORD, for ever and ever. 4 For the LORD God is an everlasting strength;"

"5 ¶ He brings down those that dwell on high; the lofty city, he shall lay it low, even to the ground; he brings it even to the dust. 6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy. 7 The way of the humble is straight; the path of the righteous is straight and level. 8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is for thy name, and to remembrance of thee. 9 My soul has desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early; for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. 10 The wicked has gone far off that he may not learn righteousness; chastisement in the land brings correction; the wicked shall not behold the majesty of the LORD. 11 O LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see; but they shall see and be ashamed for the zeal of the people; yea, let the fire of the oven devour thine enemies."

"12 ¶ O LORD, thou wilt give us peace; for thou also hast wrought all our works for us. 13 O LORD our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us; but thy name alone will we mention; 14 For they do not raise the dead, they do not raise the mighty men; therefore thou hast visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. 15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation; thou hast removed it afar and scattered it to all the ends of the earth. 16 O LORD, in distress have they sought thee, and in siege they muttered the incantation invoking thy discipline. 17 Like a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, and is in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD. 18 We have been with child, we have been in pain like those who brought forth wind; save us lest we perish in the earth, lest the inhabitants of the world come to an end. 19 Thy dead men shall live, their dead bodies shall arise. Those who dwell in the dust shall awake and sing, for thy dew is a dew of light, and the land of the giants thou shalt overthrow."

"20 ¶ Come, my people, enter into your chambers and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves as it were for a little time, until my indignation has passed away. 21 For, behold, the LORD is coming out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; and the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain."

"27:1 ¶ IN that day the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword shall punish Leviathan, the piercing serpent, even Leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. 2 In that day sing to Israel of a vineyard of wine. 3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it continually; I will visit it and keep it night and day. 4 You have no hedge; who then did set in you the briers and the thorns? I will blow at the vineyard from near and will burn it together. 5 Or let Israel take hold of my strength, and I will make peace for him, peace will I give him. 6 He shall cause those that come of Jacob to take root; Israel shall blossom and bud and fill the face of the world with fruit."

"7 ¶ Has the LORD smitten the oppressor as he smote those who smote him? Or is he slain according to the slaughter of those who are slain by him? 8 In measure by which he has measured, will you judge him; in that which he has devised, in fierce anger on a day of blasting heat. 9 By this, therefore, shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven; and with all this fruit his sin will be taken away; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk-stones that are broken in pieces; likewise, the images and idols shall not stand up. 10 For the strong city shall be forlorn and deserted and forsaken and left desolate like a wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down and consume its grass. 11 When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off; the women come and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding; therefore he who made them will not have mercy on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor. 12 And it shall come to pass in that day that the LORD shall stir up the people from the channel of the river Euphrates to the river of Egypt, and you shall be gathered one to another, O children of Israel! 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, the great trumpet shall be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Egypt and those who were scattered in the land of Assyria shall come in and worship the LORD in the land of the LORD, even on his holy mountain in Jerusalem."

"28:1 ¶ WOE to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, and woe to the shameful diadem of the strength of his glory, which dominates at the entrance of the fertile valley of those that are overcome with wine! 2 Be