1:1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw
concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham,
Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath
spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have
rebelled against me.
1:3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib:
[but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of
evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the
LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger,
they are gone away backward.
1:5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and
more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
1:6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head [there is] no
soundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and putrifying
sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither
mollified with ointment.
1:7 Your country [is] desolate, your cities [are] burned with
fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and [it
is] desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
1:8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard,
as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
1:9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small
remnant, we should have been as Sodom, [and] we should have
been like unto Gomorrah.
1:10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear
unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
1:11 To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices unto
me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams,
and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of
bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
1:12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at
your hand, to tread my courts?
1:13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination
unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies,
I cannot away with; [it is] iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth:
they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [them].
1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes
from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your
hands are full of blood.
1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings
from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed,
judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD:
though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
1:19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the
land:
1:20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the
sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].
1:21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of
judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
1:22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
1:23 Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves:
every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge
not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come
unto them.
1:24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One
of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge
me of mine enemies:
1:25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away
thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
1:26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy
counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be
called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
1:27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with
righteousness.
1:28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners
[shall be] together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be
consumed.
1:29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have
desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye
have chosen.
1:30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a
garden that hath no water.
1:31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a
spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench
[them].
2:1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah
and Jerusalem.
2:2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, [that] the
mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of
the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all
nations shall flow unto it.
2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up
to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob;
and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his
paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of
the LORD from Jerusalem.
2:4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many
people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and
their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword
against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
2:5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of
the LORD.
2:6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob,
because they be replenished from the east, and [are]
soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in
the children of strangers.
2:7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither [is
there any] end of their treasures; their land is also full of
horses, neither [is there any] end of their chariots:
2:8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of
their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
2:9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth
himself: therefore forgive them not.
2:10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of
the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
2:11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the
haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone
shall be exalted in that day.
2:12 For the day of the LORD of hosts [shall be] upon every [one
that is] proud and lofty, and upon every [one that is] lifted
up; and he shall be brought low:
2:13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, [that are] high and
lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
2:14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills
[that are] lifted up,
2:15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
2:16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant
pictures.
2:17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the
haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall
be exalted in that day.
2:18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
2:19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the
caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of
his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
2:20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his
idols of gold, which they made [each one] for himself to
worship, to the moles and to the bats;
2:21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of
the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of
his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
2:22 Cease ye from man, whose breath [is] in his nostrils: for
wherein is he to be accounted of?
3:1 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away
from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole
stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
3:2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the
prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
3:3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the
counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
3:4 And I will give children [to be] their princes, and babes
shall rule over them.
3:5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and
every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself
proudly against the ancient, and the base against the
honourable.
3:6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of
his father, [saying], Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler,
and [let] this ruin [be] under thy hand:
3:7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer;
for in my house [is] neither bread nor clothing: make me not a
ruler of the people.
3:8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their
tongue and their doings [are] against the LORD, to provoke the
eyes of his glory.
3:9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and
they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide [it] not. Woe unto
their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
3:10 Say ye to the righteous, that [it shall be] well [with
him]: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
3:11 Woe unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him]: for the
reward of his hands shall be given him.
3:12 [As for] my people, children [are] their oppressors, and
women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause
[thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
3:13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the
people.
3:14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his
people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the
vineyard; the spoil of the poor [is] in your houses.
3:15 What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces, and grind
the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
3:16 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are
haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes,
walking and mincing [as] they go, and making a tinkling with
their feet:
3:17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the
head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their
secret parts.
3:18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of [their]
tinkling ornaments [about their feet], and [their] cauls, and
[their] round tires like the moon,
3:19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
3:20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the
headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
3:21 The rings, and nose jewels,
3:22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the
wimples, and the crisping pins,
3:23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the
vails.
3:24 And it shall come to pass, [that] instead of sweet smell
there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and
instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a
girding of sackcloth; [and] burning instead of beauty.
3:25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she [being]
desolate shall sit upon the ground.
4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man,
saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel:
only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
4:2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and
glorious, and the fruit of the earth [shall be] excellent and
comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
4:3 And it shall come to pass, [that he that is] left in Zion,
and [he that] remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy,
[even] every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
4:4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the
daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem
from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the
spirit of burning.
4:5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount
Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and
the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory
[shall be] a defence.
4:6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime
from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from
storm and from rain.
5:1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved
touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very
fruitful hill:
5:2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and
planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the
midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked
that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild
grapes.
5:3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah,
judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
5:4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have
not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring
forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
5:5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my
vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be
eaten up; [and] break down the wall thereof, and it shall be
trodden down:
5:6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged;
but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command
the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of
Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked
for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but
behold a cry.
5:8 Woe unto them that join house to house, [that] lay field to
field, till [there be] no place, that they may be placed alone
in the midst of the earth!
5:9 In mine ears [said] the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many
houses shall be desolate, [even] great and fair, without
inhabitant.
5:10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the
seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
5:11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, [that]
they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, [till]
wine inflame them!
5:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine,
are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD,
neither consider the operation of his hands.
5:13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because [they
have] no knowledge: and their honourable men [are] famished,
and their multitude dried up with thirst.
5:14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth
without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and
their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
5:15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man
shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
5:16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God
that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
5:17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste
places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
5:18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and
sin as it were with a cart rope:
5:19 That say, Let him make speed, [and] hasten his work, that
we may see [it]: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel
draw nigh and come, that we may know [it]!
5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put
darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for
sweet, and sweet for bitter!
5:21 Woe unto [them that are] wise in their own eyes, and
prudent in their own sight!
5:22 Woe unto [them that are] mighty to drink wine, and men of
strength to mingle strong drink:
5:23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the
righteousness of the righteous from him!
5:24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame
consumeth the chaff, [so] their root shall be as rottenness,
and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast
away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the
Holy One of Israel.
5:25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his
people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and
hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their
carcases [were] torn in the midst of the streets. For all this
his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out
still.
5:26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and
will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold,
they shall come with speed swiftly:
5:27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall
slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be
loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
5:28 Whose arrows [are] sharp, and all their bows bent, their
horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels
like a whirlwind:
5:29 Their roaring [shall be] like a lion, they shall roar like
young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey,
and shall carry [it] away safe, and none shall deliver [it].
5:30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the
roaring of the sea: and if [one] look unto the land, behold
darkness [and] sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens
thereof.
6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord
sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled
the temple.
6:2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with
twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet,
and with twain he did fly.
6:3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, [is]
the LORD of hosts: the whole earth [is] full of his glory.
6:4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that
cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
6:5 Then said I, Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because I [am] a
man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of
unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of
hosts.
6:6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal
in his hand, [which] he had taken with the tongs from off the
altar:
6:7 And he laid [it] upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath
touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin
purged.
6:8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I
send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here [am] I; send
me.
6:9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but
understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears
heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and
hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and
convert, and be healed.
6:11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the
cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without
man, and the land be utterly desolate,
6:12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and [there be] a
great forsaking in the midst of the land.
6:13 But yet in it [shall be] a tenth, and [it] shall return,
and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose
substance [is] in them, when they cast [their leaves: so] the
holy seed [shall be] the substance thereof.
7:1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham,
the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, [that] Rezin the king of
Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up
toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail
against it.
7:2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is
confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the
heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with
the wind.
7:3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz,
thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the
upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
7:4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither
be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands,
for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of
Remaliah.
7:5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken
evil counsel against thee, saying,
7:6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a
breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it,
[even] the son of Tabeal:
7:7 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall
it come to pass.
7:8 For the head of Syria [is] Damascus, and the head of
Damascus [is] Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall
Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
7:9 And the head of Ephraim [is] Samaria, and the head of
Samaria [is] Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye
shall not be established.
7:10 Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
7:11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the
depth, or in the height above.
7:12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the
LORD.
7:13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; [Is it] a small
thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a
virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name
Immanuel.
7:15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse
the evil, and choose the good.
7:16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and
choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken
of both her kings.
7:17 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and
upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day
that Ephraim departed from Judah; [even] the king of Assyria.
7:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD
shall hiss for the fly that [is] in the uttermost part of the
rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that [is] in the land of
Assyria.
7:19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the
desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all
thorns, and upon all bushes.
7:20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is
hired, [namely], by them beyond the river, by the king of
Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also
consume the beard.
7:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] a man shall
nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
7:22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk [that]
they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall
every one eat that is left in the land.
7:23 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] every place
shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand
silverlings, it shall [even] be for briers and thorns.
7:24 With arrows and with bows shall [men] come thither; because
all the land shall become briers and thorns.
7:25 And [on] all hills that shall be digged with the mattock,
there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but
it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading
of lesser cattle.
8:1 Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and
write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
8:2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the
priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
8:3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare
a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name
Mahershalalhashbaz.
8:4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father,
and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria
shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
8:5 The LORD spake also unto me again, saying,
8:6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that
go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
8:7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the
waters of the river, strong and many, [even] the king of
Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his
channels, and go over all his banks:
8:8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go
over, he shall reach [even] to the neck; and the stretching out
of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
8:9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in
pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves,
and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall
be broken in pieces.
8:10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak
the word, and it shall not stand: for God [is] with us.
8:11 For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and
instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people,
saying,
8:12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all [them to] whom this
people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear,
nor be afraid.
8:13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and [let] him [be] your
fear, and [let] him [be] your dread.
8:14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of
stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of
Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem.
8:15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken,
and be snared, and be taken.
8:16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
8:17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from
the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
8:18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me
[are] for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of
hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
8:19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have
familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter:
should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the
dead?
8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not
according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no light in
them.
8:21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry:
and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they
shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and
look upward.
8:22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and
darkness, dimness of anguish; and [they shall be] driven to
darkness.
9:1 Nevertheless the dimness [shall] not [be] such as [was] in
her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land
of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more
grievously afflict [her by] the way of the sea, beyond Jordan,
in Galilee of the nations.
9:2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light:
they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them
hath the light shined.
9:3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, [and] not increased the
joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest,
[and] as [men] rejoice when they divide the spoil.
9:4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff
of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of
Midian.
9:5 For every battle of the warrior [is] with confused noise,
and garments rolled in blood; but [this] shall be with burning
[and] fuel of fire.
9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the
government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be
called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting
Father, The Prince of Peace.
9:7 Of the increase of [his] government and peace [there shall
be] no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to
order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice
from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts
will perform this.
9:8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon
Israel.
9:9 And all the people shall know, [even] Ephraim and the
inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of
heart,
9:10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn
stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change [them
into] cedars.
9:11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin
against him, and join his enemies together;
9:12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they
shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is
not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.
9:13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them,
neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
9:14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail,
branch and rush, in one day.
9:15 The ancient and honourable, he [is] the head; and the
prophet that teacheth lies, he [is] the tail.
9:16 For the leaders of this people cause [them] to err; and
[they that are] led of them [are] destroyed.
9:17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men,
neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for
every one [is] an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth
speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but
his hand [is] stretched out still.
9:18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the
briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the
forest, and they shall mount up [like] the lifting up of smoke.
9:19 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land
darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no
man shall spare his brother.
9:20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and
he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied:
they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
9:21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: [and] they
together [shall be] against Judah. For all this his anger is
not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.
10:1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that
write grievousness [which] they have prescribed;
10:2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the
right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their
prey, and [that] they may rob the fatherless!
10:3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the
desolation [which] shall come from far? to whom will ye flee
for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
10:4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and
they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not
turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.
10:5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their
hand is mine indignation.
10:6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against
the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the
spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the
mire of the streets.
10:7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so;
but [it is] in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a
few.
10:8 For he saith, [Are] not my princes altogether kings?
10:9 [Is] not Calno as Carchemish? [is] not Hamath as Arpad?
[is] not Samaria as Damascus?
10:10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose
graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
10:11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so
do to Jerusalem and her idols?
10:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, [that] when the Lord hath
performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I
will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of
Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
10:13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done [it],
and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the
bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I
have put down the inhabitants like a valiant [man]:
10:14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people:
and as one gathereth eggs [that are] left, have I gathered all
the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened
the mouth, or peeped.
10:15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth
therewith? [or] shall the saw magnify itself against him that
shaketh it? as if the rod should shake [itself] against them
that lift it up, [or] as if the staff should lift up [itself,
as if it were] no wood.
10:16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among
his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a
burning like the burning of a fire.
10:17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy
One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and
his briers in one day;
10:18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his
fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a
standardbearer fainteth.
10:19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that
a child may write them.
10:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the remnant
of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall
no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay
upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
10:21 The remnant shall return, [even] the remnant of Jacob,
unto the mighty God.
10:22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea,
[yet] a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed
shall overflow with righteousness.
10:23 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even
determined, in the midst of all the land.
10:24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people
that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall
smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against
thee, after the manner of Egypt.
10:25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall
cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
10:26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him
according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and
[as] his rod [was] upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after
the manner of Egypt.
10:27 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] his burden
shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from
off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the
anointing.
10:28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash
he hath laid up his carriages:
10:29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their
lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
10:30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be
heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
10:31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather
themselves to flee.
10:32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his
hand [against] the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of
Jerusalem.
10:33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough
with terror: and the high ones of stature [shall be] hewn down,
and the haughty shall be humbled.
10:34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with
iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
11:1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse,
and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
11:2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit
of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might,
the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
11:3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of
the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes,
neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
11:4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove
with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the
earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his
lips shall he slay the wicked.
11:5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and
faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
11:6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard
shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion
and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
11:7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall
lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
11:8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp,
and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain:
for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as
the waters cover the sea.
11:10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which
shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the
Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
11:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the Lord
shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant
of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from
Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from
Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
11:12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall
assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the
dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
11:13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries
of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and
Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
11:14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines
toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together:
they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children
of Ammon shall obey them.
11:15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the
Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand
over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and
make [men] go over dryshod.
11:16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his
people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to
Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
12:1 And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee:
though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and
thou comfortedst me.
12:2 Behold, God [is] my salvation; I will trust, and not be
afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH [is] my strength and [my] song; he
also is become my salvation.
12:3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of
salvation.
12:4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon
his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention
that his name is exalted.
12:5 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this
[is] known in all the earth.
12:6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great [is]
the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
13:1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did
see.
13:2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice
unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of
the nobles.
13:3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my
mighty ones for mine anger, [even] them that rejoice in my
highness.
13:4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a
great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations
gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the
battle.
13:5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven,
[even] the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy
the whole land.
13:6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD [is] at hand; it shall
come as a destruction from the Almighty.
13:7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart
shall melt:
13:8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold
of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they
shall be amazed one at another; their faces [shall be as]
flames.
13:9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath
and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall
destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
13:10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof
shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his
going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
13:11 And I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the
wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of
the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the
terrible.
13:12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man
than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13:13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall
remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and
in the day of his fierce anger.
13:14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no
man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and
flee every one into his own land.
13:15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every
one that is joined [unto them] shall fall by the sword.
13:16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their
eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
13:17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall
not regard silver; and [as for] gold, they shall not delight in
it.
13:18 [Their] bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and
they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye
shall not spare children.
13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the
Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and
Gomorrah.
13:20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in
from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch
tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
13:21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their
houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell
there, and satyrs shall dance there.
13:22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their
desolate houses, and dragons in [their] pleasant palaces: and
her time [is] near to come, and her days shall not be
prolonged.
14:1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose
Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall
be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of
Jacob.
14:2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their
place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land
of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take
them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule
over their oppressors.
14:3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall
give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the
hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
14:4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of
Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden
city ceased!
14:5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, [and] the
sceptre of the rulers.
14:6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke,
he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, [and] none
hindereth.
14:7 The whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet: they break
forth into singing.
14:8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, [and] the cedars of
Lebanon, [saying], Since thou art laid down, no feller is come
up against us.
14:9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet [thee] at thy
coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, [even] all the chief
ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the
kings of the nations.
14:10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also
become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
14:11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, [and] the noise of
thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover
thee.
14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the
morning! [how] art thou cut down to the ground, which didst
weaken the nations!
14:13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into
heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will
sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of
the north:
14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be
like the most High.
14:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of
the pit.
14:16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, [and]
consider thee, [saying, Is] this the man that made the earth to
tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
14:17 [That] made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the
cities thereof; [that] opened not the house of his prisoners?
14:18 All the kings of the nations, [even] all of them, lie in
glory, every one in his own house.
14:19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable
branch, [and as] the raiment of those that are slain, thrust
through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as
a carcase trodden under feet.
14:20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou
hast destroyed thy land, [and] slain thy people: the seed of
evildoers shall never be renowned.
14:21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of
their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor
fill the face of the world with cities.
14:22 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts,
and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and
nephew, saith the LORD.
14:23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and
pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of
destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
14:24 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have
thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, [so]
shall it stand:
14:25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my
mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from
off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
14:26 This [is] the purpose that is purposed upon the whole
earth: and this [is] the hand that is stretched out upon all
the nations.
14:27 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall
disannul [it]? and his hand [is] stretched out, and who shall
turn it back?
14:28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
14:29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him
that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall
come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit [shall be] a fiery
flying serpent.
14:30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy
shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine,
and he shall slay thy remnant.
14:31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, [art]
dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and
none [shall be] alone in his appointed times.
14:32 What shall [one] then answer the messengers of the nation?
That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people
shall trust in it.
15:1 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid
waste, [and] brought to silence; because in the night Kir of
Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to silence;
15:2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to
weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their
heads [shall be] baldness, [and] every beard cut off.
15:3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth:
on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one
shall howl, weeping abundantly.
15:4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be
heard [even] unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab
shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.
15:5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives [shall flee]
unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up
of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of
Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
15:6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is
withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
15:7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which
they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the
willows.
15:8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the
howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto
Beerelim.
15:9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will
bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab,
and upon the remnant of the land.
16:1 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the
wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
16:2 For it shall be, [that], as a wandering bird cast out of
the nest, [so] the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of
Arnon.
16:3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the
night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray
not him that wandereth.
16:4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert
to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at
an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of
the land.
16:5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall
sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and
seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
16:6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; [he is] very proud:
[even] of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: [but]
his lies [shall] not [be] so.
16:7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl:
for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely [they
are] stricken.
16:8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of
Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal
plants thereof, they are come [even] unto Jazer, they wandered
[through] the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they
are gone over the sea.
16:9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine
of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and
Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy
harvest is fallen.
16:10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful
field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither
shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine
in [their] presses; I have made [their vintage] shouting to
cease.
16:11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and
mine inward parts for Kirharesh.
16:12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is
weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to
pray; but he shall not prevail.
16:13 This [is] the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning
Moab since that time.
16:14 But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years,
as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be
contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant
[shall be] very small [and] feeble.
17:1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from
[being] a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
17:2 The cities of Aroer [are] forsaken: they shall be for
flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make [them]
afraid.
17:3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom
from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the
glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
17:4 And in that day it shall come to pass, [that] the glory of
Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall
wax lean.
17:5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn,
and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that
gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
17:6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of
an olive tree, two [or] three berries in the top of the
uppermost bough, four [or] five in the outmost fruitful
branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.
17:7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes
shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
17:8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands,
neither shall respect [that] which his fingers have made,
either the groves, or the images.
17:9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough,
and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the
children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
17:10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and
hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore
shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange
slips:
17:11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the
morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: [but] the harvest
[shall be] a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
17:12 Woe to the multitude of many people, [which] make a noise
like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,
[that] make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
17:13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters:
but [God] shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and
shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind,
and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
17:14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; [and] before the
morning he [is] not. This [is] the portion of them that spoil
us, and the lot of them that rob us.
18:1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which [is] beyond the
rivers of Ethiopia:
18:2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of
bulrushes upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers,
to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from
their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down,
whose land the rivers have spoiled!
18:3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth,
see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when
he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
18:4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I
will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon
herbs, [and] like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
18:5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the
sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the
sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away [and] cut down the
branches.
18:6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the
mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall
summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter
upon them.
18:7 In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of
hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people
terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and
trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the
place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
19:1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift
cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall
be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in
the midst of it.
19:2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and
they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one
against his neighbour; city against city, [and] kingdom against
kingdom.
19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof;
and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to
the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar
spirits, and to the wizards.
19:4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel
lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord,
the LORD of hosts.
19:5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall
be wasted and dried up.
19:6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; [and] the brooks
of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags
shall wither.
19:7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks,
and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven
away, and be no [more].
19:8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle
into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon
the waters shall languish.
19:9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave
networks, shall be confounded.
19:10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that
make sluices [and] ponds for fish.
19:11 Surely the princes of Zoan [are] fools, the counsel of the
wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto
Pharaoh, I [am] the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
19:12 Where [are] they? where [are] thy wise [men]? and let them
tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath
purposed upon Egypt.
19:13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph
are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, [even they that
are] the stay of the tribes thereof.
19:14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst
thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work
thereof, as a drunken [man] staggereth in his vomit.
19:15 Neither shall there be [any] work for Egypt, which the
head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
19:16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall
be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the
LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.
19:17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every
one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself,
because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath
determined against it.
19:18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak
the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one
shall be called, The city of destruction.
19:19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the
midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof
to the LORD.
19:20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD
of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD
because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour,
and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
19:21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians
shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and
oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform
[it].
19:22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal
[it]: and they shall return [even] to the LORD, and he shall be
intreated of them, and shall heal them.
19:23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to
Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the
Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the
Assyrians.
19:24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with
Assyria, [even] a blessing in the midst of the land:
19:25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed [be]
Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel
mine inheritance.
20:1 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the
king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took
it;
20:2 At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz,
saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put
off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and
barefoot.
20:3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked
naked and barefoot three years [for] a sign and wonder upon
Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
20:4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians
prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked
and barefoot, even with [their] buttocks uncovered, to the
shame of Egypt.
20:5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their
expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
20:6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day,
Behold, such [is] our expectation, whither we flee for help to
be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?
21:1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the
south pass through; [so] it cometh from the desert, from a
terrible land.
21:2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous
dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up,
O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made
to cease.
21:3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken
hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was
bowed down at the hearing [of it]; I was dismayed at the seeing
[of it].
21:4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my
pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
21:5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink:
arise, ye princes, [and] anoint the shield.
21:6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman,
let him declare what he seeth.
21:7 And he saw a chariot [with] a couple of horsemen, a chariot
of asses, [and] a chariot of camels; and he hearkened
diligently with much heed:
21:8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the
watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole
nights:
21:9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, [with] a couple
of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is
fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken
unto the ground.
21:10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I
have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I
declared unto you.
21:11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir,
Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
21:12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night:
if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
21:13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye
lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
21:14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him
that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that
fled.
21:15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and
from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
21:16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year,
according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of
Kedar shall fail:
21:17 And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men
of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God
of Israel hath spoken [it].
22:1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now,
that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
22:2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous
city: thy slain [men are] not slain with the sword, nor dead in
battle.
22:3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the
archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, [which]
have fled from far.
22:4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly,
labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the
daughter of my people.
22:5 For [it is] a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of
perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision,
breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
22:6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men [and]
horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
22:7 And it shall come to pass, [that] thy choicest valleys
shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set
themselves in array at the gate.
22:8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst
look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
22:9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that
they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower
pool.
22:10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the
houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
22:11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water
of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof,
neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
22:12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping,
and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with
sackcloth:
22:13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing
sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink;
for to morrow we shall die.
22:14 And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts,
Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die,
saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
22:15 Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this
treasurer, [even] unto Shebna, which [is] over the house, [and
say],
22:16 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou
hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, [as] he that heweth him
out a sepulchre on high, [and] that graveth an habitation for
himself in a rock?
22:17 Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty
captivity, and will surely cover thee.
22:18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee [like] a ball
into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the
chariots of thy glory [shall be] the shame of thy lord's house.
22:19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state
shall he pull thee down.
22:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my
servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
22:21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him
with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his
hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and to the house of Judah.
22:22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his
shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall
shut, and none shall open.
22:23 And I will fasten him [as] a nail in a sure place; and he
shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.
22:24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's
house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small
quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of
flagons.
22:25 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that
is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and
fall; and the burden that [was] upon it shall be cut off: for
the LORD hath spoken [it].
23:1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is
laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the
land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
23:2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the
merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
23:3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the
river, [is] her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
23:4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, [even]
the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth
children, neither do I nourish up young men, [nor] bring up
virgins.
23:5 As at the report concerning Egypt, [so] shall they be
sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
23:6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
23:7 [Is] this your joyous [city], whose antiquity [is] of
ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
23:8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning
[city], whose merchants [are] princes, whose traffickers [are]
the honourable of the earth?
23:9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of
all glory, [and] to bring into contempt all the honourable of
the earth.
23:10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish:
[there is] no more strength.
23:11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the
kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the
merchant [city], to destroy the strong holds thereof.
23:12 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed
virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there
also shalt thou have no rest.
23:13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not,
[till] the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the
wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the
palaces thereof; [and] he brought it to ruin.
23:14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid
waste.
23:15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be
forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king:
after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
23:16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast
been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou
mayest be remembered.
23:17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years,
that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire,
and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world
upon the face of the earth.
23:18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the
LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her
merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to
eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
24:1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it
waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the
inhabitants thereof.
24:2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as
with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with
her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with
the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury,
so with the giver of usury to him.
24:3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for
the LORD hath spoken this word.
24:4 The earth mourneth [and] fadeth away, the world languisheth
[and] fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof;
because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance,
broken the everlasting covenant.
24:6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that
dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the
earth are burned, and few men left.
24:7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the
merryhearted do sigh.
24:8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that
rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
24:9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall
be bitter to them that drink it.
24:10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut
up, that no man may come in.
24:11 [There is] a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is
darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
24:12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten
with destruction.
24:13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the
people, [there shall be] as the shaking of an olive tree, [and]
as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
24:14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the
majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
24:15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, [even] the
name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
24:16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs,
[even] glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my
leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt
treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very
treacherously.
24:17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, [are] upon thee, O
inhabitant of the earth.
24:18 And it shall come to pass, [that] he who fleeth from the
noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh
up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for
the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the
earth do shake.
24:19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean
dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
24:20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall
be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall
be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
24:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD
shall punish the host of the high ones [that are] on high, and
the kings of the earth upon the earth.
24:22 And they shall be gathered together, [as] prisoners are
gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and
after many days shall they be visited.
24:23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed,
when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in
Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
25:1 O LORD, thou [art] my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise
thy name; for thou hast done wonderful [things; thy] counsels
of old [are] faithfulness [and] truth.
25:2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; [of] a defenced city
a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be
built.
25:3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of
the terrible nations shall fear thee.
25:4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to
the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow
from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones [is] as a
storm [against] the wall.
25:5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat
in a dry place; [even] the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the
branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
25:6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all
people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of
fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
25:7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the
covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over
all nations.
25:8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will
wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his
people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD
hath spoken [it].
25:9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this [is] our God; we
have waited for him, and he will save us: this [is] the LORD;
we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his
salvation.
25:10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and
Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden
down for the dunghill.
25:11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them,
as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth [his hands] to swim: and he
shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their
hands.
25:12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he
bring down, lay low, [and] bring to the ground, [even] to the
dust.
26:1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah;
We have a strong city; salvation will [God] appoint [for] walls
and bulwarks.
26:2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth
the truth may enter in.
26:3 Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is]
stayed [on thee]: because he trusteth in thee.
26:4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH [is]
everlasting strength:
26:5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty
city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, [even] to the ground;
he bringeth it [even] to the dust.
26:6 The foot shall tread it down, [even] the feet of the poor,
[and] the steps of the needy.
26:7 The way of the just [is] uprightness: thou, most upright,
dost weigh the path of the just.
26:8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited
for thee; the desire of [our] soul [is] to thy name, and to the
remembrance of thee.
26:9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my
spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments
[are] in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn
righteousness.
26:10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, [yet] will he not
learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal
unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
26:11 LORD, [when] thy hand is lifted up, they will not see:
[but] they shall see, and be ashamed for [their] envy at the
people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
26:12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast
wrought all our works in us.
26:13 O LORD our God, [other] lords beside thee have had
dominion over us: [but] by thee only will we make mention of
thy name.
26:14 [They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased,
they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed
them, and made all their memory to perish.
26:15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast
increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed
[it] far [unto] all the ends of the earth.
26:16 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a
prayer [when] thy chastening [was] upon them.
26:17 Like as a woman with child, [that] draweth near the time
of her delivery, is in pain, [and] crieth out in her pangs; so
have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
26:18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as
it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance
in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
26:19 Thy dead [men] shall live, [together with] my dead body
shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for
thy dew [is as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out
the dead.
26:20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut
thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little
moment, until the indignation be overpast.
26:21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish
the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also
shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
27:1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong
sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even
leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon
that [is] in the sea.
27:2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
27:3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest
[any] hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
27:4 Fury [is] not in me: who would set the briers [and] thorns
against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn
them together.
27:5 Or let him take hold of my strength, [that] he may make
peace with me; [and] he shall make peace with me.
27:6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel
shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with
fruit.
27:7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? [or]
is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain
by him?
27:8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with
it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
27:9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged;
and this [is] all the fruit to take away his sin; when he
maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are
beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
27:10 Yet the defenced city [shall be] desolate, [and] the
habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall
the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the
branches thereof.
27:11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken
off: the women come, [and] set them on fire: for it [is] a
people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will
not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them
no favour.
27:12 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD
shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of
Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of
Israel.
27:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the great
trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to
perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of
Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at
Jerusalem.
28:1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim,
whose glorious beauty [is] a fading flower, which [are] on the
head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
28:2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, [which] as a
tempest of hail [and] a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty
waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
28:3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be
trodden under feet:
28:4 And the glorious beauty, which [is] on the head of the fat
valley, shall be a fading flower, [and] as the hasty fruit
before the summer; which [when] he that looketh upon it seeth,
while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
28:5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of
glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his
people,
28:6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in
judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the
gate.
28:7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong
drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred
through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are
out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they
stumble [in] judgment.
28:8 For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that
there is] no place [clean].
28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to
understand doctrine? [them that are] weaned from the milk,
[and] drawn from the breasts.
28:10 For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept;
line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a
little:
28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak
to this people.
28:12 To whom he said, This [is] the rest [wherewith] ye may
cause the weary to rest; and this [is] the refreshing: yet they
would not hear.
28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon
precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line;
here a little, [and] there a little; that they might go, and
fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
28:14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that
rule this people which [is] in Jerusalem.
28:15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death,
and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge
shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made
lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion
for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner
[stone], a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make
haste.
28:17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to
the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies,
and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
28:18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and
your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing
scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by
it.
28:19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for
morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and
it shall be a vexation only [to] understand the report.
28:20 For the bed is shorter than that [a man] can stretch
himself [on it]: and the covering narrower than that he can
wrap himself [in it].
28:21 For the LORD shall rise up as [in] mount Perazim, he shall
be wroth as [in] the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work,
his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
28:22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made
strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a
consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
28:23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my
speech.
28:24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and
break the clods of his ground?
28:25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast
abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the
principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their
place?
28:26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, [and] doth
teach him.
28:27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing
instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the
cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the
cummin with a rod.
28:28 Bread [corn] is bruised; because he will not ever be
threshing it, nor break [it with] the wheel of his cart, nor
bruise it [with] his horsemen.
28:29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, [which] is
wonderful in counsel, [and] excellent in working.
29:1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city [where] David dwelt! add
ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
29:2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and
sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
29:3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay
siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against
thee.
29:4 And thou shalt be brought down, [and] shalt speak out of
the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and
thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out
of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
29:5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small
dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones [shall be] as
chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant
suddenly.
29:6 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder,
and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest,
and the flame of devouring fire.
29:7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against
Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and
that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
29:8 It shall even be as when an hungry [man] dreameth, and,
behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as
when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he
awaketh, and, behold, [he is] faint, and his soul hath
appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that
fight against mount Zion.
29:9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are
drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong
drink.
29:10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep
sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers,
the seers hath he covered.
29:11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a
book that is sealed, which [men] deliver to one that is
learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I
cannot; for it [is] sealed:
29:12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned,
saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
29:13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw
near [me] with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me,
but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward
me is taught by the precept of men:
29:14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work
among this people, [even] a marvellous work and a wonder: for
the wisdom of their wise [men] shall perish, and the
understanding of their prudent [men] shall be hid.
29:15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from
the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who
seeth us? and who knoweth us?
29:16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be
esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him
that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of
him that framed it, He had no understanding?
29:17 [Is] it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be
turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be
esteemed as a forest?
29:18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book,
and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out
of darkness.
29:19 The meek also shall increase [their] joy in the LORD, and
the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
29:20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner
is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
29:21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare
for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for
a thing of nought.
29:22 Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham,
concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed,
neither shall his face now wax pale.
29:23 But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in
the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the
Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
29:24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to
understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
30:1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take
counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not
of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
30:2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my
mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and
to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
30:3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and
the trust in the shadow of Egypt [your] confusion.
30:4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to
Hanes.
30:5 They were all ashamed of a people [that] could not profit
them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a
reproach.
30:6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of
trouble and anguish, from whence [come] the young and old lion,
the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their
riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures
upon the bunches of camels, to a people [that] shall not profit
[them].
30:7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose:
therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength [is] to
sit still.
30:8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a
book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
30:9 That this [is] a rebellious people, lying children,
children [that] will not hear the law of the LORD:
30:10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets,
Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things,
prophesy deceits:
30:11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause
the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
30:12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye
despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness,
and stay thereon:
30:13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready
to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh
suddenly at an instant.
30:14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters'
vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that
there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take
fire from the hearth, or to take water [withal] out of the pit.
30:15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In
returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in
confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
30:16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore
shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore
shall they that pursue you be swift.
30:17 One thousand [shall flee] at the rebuke of one; at the
rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon
the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
30:18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious
unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have
mercy upon you: for the LORD [is] a God of judgment: blessed
[are] all they that wait for him.
30:19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou
shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the
voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
30:20 And [though] the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and
the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed
into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
30:21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This
[is] the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand,
and when ye turn to the left.
30:22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of
silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou
shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto
it, Get thee hence.
30:23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt
sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth,
and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle
feed in large pastures.
30:24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground
shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the
shovel and with the fan.
30:25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon
every high hill, rivers [and] streams of waters in the day of
the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
30:26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of
the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the
light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the
breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
30:27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning
[with] his anger, and the burden [thereof is] heavy: his lips
are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
30:28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to
the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of
vanity: and [there shall be] a bridle in the jaws of the
people, causing [them] to err.
30:29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night [when] a holy
solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth
with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the
mighty One of Israel.
30:30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard,
and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the
indignation of [his] anger, and [with] the flame of a devouring
fire, [with] scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
30:31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be
beaten down, [which] smote with a rod.
30:32 And [in] every place where the grounded staff shall pass,
which the LORD shall lay upon him, [it] shall be with tabrets
and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
30:33 For Tophet [is] ordained of old; yea, for the king it is
prepared; he hath made [it] deep [and] large: the pile thereof
[is] fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream
of brimstone, doth kindle it.
31:1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on
horses, and trust in chariots, because [they are] many; and in
horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto
the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
31:2 Yet he also [is] wise, and will bring evil, and will not
call back his words: but will arise against the house of the
evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
31:3 Now the Egyptians [are] men, and not God; and their horses
flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his
hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen
shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
31:4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and
the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of
shepherds is called forth against him, [he] will not be afraid
of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so
shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and
for the hill thereof.
31:5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend
Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver [it; and] passing
over he will preserve it.
31:6 Turn ye unto [him from] whom the children of Israel have
deeply revolted.
31:7 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of
silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made
unto you [for] a sin.
31:8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a
mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him:
but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be
discomfited.
31:9 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his
princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose
fire [is] in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
32:1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes
shall rule in judgment.
32:2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a
covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as
the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
32:3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the
ears of them that hear shall hearken.
32:4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and
the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the
churl said [to be] bountiful.
32:6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will
work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error
against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he
will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
32:7 The instruments also of the churl [are] evil: he deviseth
wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when
the needy speaketh right.
32:8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal
things shall he stand.
32:9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye
careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
32:10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless
women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not
come.
32:11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye
careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird
[sackcloth] upon [your] loins.
32:12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields,
for the fruitful vine.
32:13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns [and]
briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy [in] the joyous city:
32:14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of
the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens
for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
32:15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the
wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be
counted for a forest.
32:16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and
righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the
effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
32:18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and
in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
32:19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the
city shall be low in a low place.
32:20 Blessed [are] ye that sow beside all waters, that send
forth [thither] the feet of the ox and the ass.
33:1 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou [wast] not spoiled; and
dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with
thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled;
[and] when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they
shall deal treacherously with thee.
33:2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be
thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of
trouble.
33:3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting
up of thyself the nations were scattered.
33:4 And your spoil shall be gathered [like] the gathering of
the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he
run upon them.
33:5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath
filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
33:6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy
times, [and] strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD [is]
his treasure.
33:7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the
ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
33:8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath
broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth
no man.
33:9 The earth mourneth [and] languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed
[and] hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and
Carmel shake off [their fruits].
33:10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted;
now will I lift up myself.
33:11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble:
your breath, [as] fire, shall devour you.
33:12 And the people shall be [as] the burnings of lime: [as]
thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
33:13 Hear, ye [that are] far off, what I have done; and, ye
[that are] near, acknowledge my might.
33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised
the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring
fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
33:15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he
that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands
from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of
blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
33:16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence [shall be]
the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters
[shall be] sure.
33:17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall
behold the land that is very far off.
33:18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where [is] the scribe?
where [is] the receiver? where [is] he that counted the towers?
33:19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper
speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, [that
thou canst] not understand.
33:20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes
shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle [that]
shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall
ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be
broken.
33:21 But there the glorious LORD [will be] unto us a place of
broad rivers [and] streams; wherein shall go no galley with
oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
33:22 For the LORD [is] our judge, the LORD [is] our lawgiver,
the LORD [is] our king; he will save us.
33:23 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen
their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of
a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
33:24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people
that dwell therein [shall be] forgiven [their] iniquity.
34:1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let
the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all
things that come forth of it.
34:2 For the indignation of the LORD [is] upon all nations, and
[his] fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed
them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
34:3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall
come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be
melted with their blood.
34:4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the
heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their
host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine,
and as a falling [fig] from the fig tree.
34:5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall
come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to
judgment.
34:6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat
with fatness, [and] with the blood of lambs and goats, with the
fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in
Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
34:7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the
bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with
blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
34:8 For [it is] the day of the LORD'S vengeance, [and] the year
of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
34:9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the
dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become
burning pitch.
34:10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof
shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall
lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
34:11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the
owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch
out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
34:12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but
none [shall be] there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
34:13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and
brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an
habitation of dragons, [and] a court for owls.
34:14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the
wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his
fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for
herself a place of rest.
34:15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and
hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures
also be gathered, every one with her mate.
34:16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of
these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it
hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
34:17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath
divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever,
from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
35:1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for
them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
35:2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and
singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the
excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of
the LORD, [and] the excellency of our God.
35:3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
35:4 Say to them [that are] of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear
not: behold, your God will come [with] vengeance, [even] God
[with] a recompence; he will come and save you.
35:5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of
the deaf shall be unstopped.
35:6 Then shall the lame [man] leap as an hart, and the tongue
of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out,
and streams in the desert.
35:7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty
land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each
lay, [shall be] grass with reeds and rushes.
35:8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be
called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it;
but it [shall be] for those: the wayfaring men, though fools,
shall not err [therein].
35:9 No lion shall be there, nor [any] ravenous beast shall go
up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall
walk [there]:
35:10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to
Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they
shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall
flee away.
36:1 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king
Hezekiah, [that] Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against
all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
36:2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to
Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by
the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's
field.
36:3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was
over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son,
the recorder.
36:4 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus
saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence [is]
this wherein thou trustest?
36:5 I say, [sayest thou], (but [they are but] vain words) [I
have] counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou
trust, that thou rebellest against me?
36:6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on
Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and
pierce it: so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in
him.
36:7 But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: [is
it] not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath
taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall
worship before this altar?
36:8 Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the
king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if
thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
36:9 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the
least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for
chariots and for horsemen?
36:10 And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to
destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and
destroy it.
36:11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh,
Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language;
for we understand [it]: and speak not to us in the Jews'
language, in the ears of the people that [are] on the wall.
36:12 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master
and to thee to speak these words? [hath he] not [sent me] to
the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own
dung, and drink their own piss with you?
36:13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the
Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king,
the king of Assyria.
36:14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he
shall not be able to deliver you.
36:15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying,
The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be
delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
36:16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of
Assyria, Make [an agreement] with me [by] a present, and come
out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of
his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own
cistern;
36:17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own
land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
36:18 [Beware] lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will
deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his
land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
36:19 Where [are] the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where [are] the
gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my
hand?
36:20 Who [are they] among all the gods of these lands, that
have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should
deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
36:21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word:
for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
36:22 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that [was] over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph,
the recorder, to Hezekiah with [their] clothes rent, and told
him the words of Rabshakeh.
37:1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard [it], that he
rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went
into the house of the LORD.
37:2 And he sent Eliakim, who [was] over the household, and
Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with
sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
37:3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day [is]
a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the
children are come to the birth, and [there is] not strength to
bring forth.
37:4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of
Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to
reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the
LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up [thy] prayer for the
remnant that is left.
37:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
37:6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your
master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that
thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria
have blasphemed me.
37:7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a
rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to
fall by the sword in his own land.
37:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria
warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed
from Lachish.
37:9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He
is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard [it], he
sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
37:10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let
not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying,
Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of
Assyria.
37:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have
done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be
delivered?
37:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my
fathers have destroyed, [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and
the children of Eden which [were] in Telassar?
37:13 Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and
the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
37:14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the
messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of
the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
37:15 And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying,
37:16 O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest [between]
the cherubims, thou [art] the God, [even] thou alone, of all
the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.
37:17 Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O
LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which
hath sent to reproach the living God.
37:18 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all
the nations, and their countries,
37:19 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they [were] no
gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore
they have destroyed them.
37:20 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that
all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou [art] the
LORD, [even] thou only.
37:21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying,
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to
me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:
37:22 This [is] the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning
him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee,
[and] laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath
shaken her head at thee.
37:23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom
hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thine eyes on
high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.
37:24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast
said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the
height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will
cut down the tall cedars thereof, [and] the choice fir trees
thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, [and]
the forest of his Carmel.
37:25 I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my
feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
37:26 Hast thou not heard long ago, [how] I have done it; [and]
of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it
to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities
[into] ruinous heaps.
37:27 Therefore their inhabitants [were] of small power, they
were dismayed and confounded: they were [as] the grass of the
field, and [as] the green herb, [as] the grass on the
housetops, and [as corn] blasted before it be grown up.
37:28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming
in, and thy rage against me.
37:29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up
into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and
my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by
which thou camest.
37:30 And this [shall be] a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat [this]
year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which
springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap,
and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
37:31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah
shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
37:32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they
that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts
shall do this.
37:33 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of
Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow
there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against
it.
37:34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and
shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
37:35 For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake,
and for my servant David's sake.
37:36 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the
camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five
thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold,
they [were] all dead corpses.
37:37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and
returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
37:38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of
Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote
him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia:
and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
38:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the
prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus
saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die,
and not live.
38:2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed
unto the LORD,
38:3 And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have
walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have
done [that which is] good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
38:4 Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,
38:5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of
David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy
tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
38:6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of
the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.
38:7 And this [shall be] a sign unto thee from the LORD, that
the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;
38:8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which
is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So
the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone
down.
38:9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been
sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
38:10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the
gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
38:11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, [even] the LORD, in the
land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the
inhabitants of the world.
38:12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a
shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will
cut me off with pining sickness: from day [even] to night wilt
thou make an end of me.
38:13 I reckoned till morning, [that], as a lion, so will he
break all my bones: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an
end of me.
38:14 Like a crane [or] a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn
as a dove: mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O LORD, I am
oppressed; undertake for me.
38:15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself
hath done [it]: I shall go softly all my years in the
bitterness of my soul.
38:16 O Lord, by these [things men] live, and in all these
[things is] the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and
make me to live.
38:17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in
love to my soul [delivered it] from the pit of corruption: for
thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
38:18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can [not]
celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for
thy truth.
38:19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I [do]
this day: the father to the children shall make known thy
truth.
38:20 The LORD [was ready] to save me: therefore we will s