Isaiah 14:1-28:14

New International Version

14 The Lord will have compassion^(A) on Jacob;
    once again he will choose^(B) Israel
    and will settle them in their own land.^(C)
Foreigners^(D) will join them
    and unite with the descendants of Jacob.
²Nations will take them
    and bring^(E) them to their own place.
And Israel will take possession of the nations^(F)
    and make them male and female servants in the Lord’s land.
They will make captives^(G) of their captors
    and rule over their oppressors.^(H)

³On the day the Lord gives you relief^(I) from your suffering and turmoil^(J) and from the harsh labor forced on you,^(K) ⁴you will take up this taunt^(L) against the king of Babylon:^(M)

How the oppressor^(N) has come to an end!
    How his fury^[a] has ended!
⁵The Lord has broken the rod^(O) of the wicked,^(P)
    the scepter^(Q) of the rulers,
⁶which in anger struck down peoples^(R)
    with unceasing blows,
and in fury subdued^(S) nations
    with relentless aggression.^(T)
⁷All the lands are at rest and at peace;^(U)
    they break into singing.^(V)
⁸Even the junipers^(W) and the cedars of Lebanon
    gloat over you and say,
“Now that you have been laid low,
    no one comes to cut us down.”^(X)

⁹The realm of the dead^(Y) below is all astir
    to meet you at your coming;
it rouses the spirits of the departed^(Z) to greet you—
    all those who were leaders^(AA) in the world;
it makes them rise from their thrones—
    all those who were kings over the nations.^(AB)
¹⁰They will all respond,
    they will say to you,
“You also have become weak, as we are;
    you have become like us.”^(AC)
¹¹All your pomp has been brought down to the grave,^(AD)
    along with the noise of your harps;^(AE)
maggots are spread out beneath you
    and worms^(AF) cover you.^(AG)

¹²How you have fallen^(AH) from heaven,
    morning star,^(AI) son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
    you who once laid low the nations!^(AJ)
¹³You said in your heart,
    “I will ascend^(AK) to the heavens;
I will raise my throne^(AL)
    above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,^(AM)
    on the utmost heights^(AN) of Mount Zaphon.^[b]
¹⁴I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;^(AO)
    I will make myself like the Most High.”^(AP)
¹⁵But you are brought down^(AQ) to the realm of the dead,^(AR)
    to the depths^(AS) of the pit.^(AT)

¹⁶Those who see you stare at you,
    they ponder your fate:^(AU)
“Is this the man who shook^(AV) the earth
    and made kingdoms tremble,
¹⁷the man who made the world a wilderness,^(AW)
    who overthrew^(AX) its cities
    and would not let his captives go home?”^(AY)

¹⁸All the kings of the nations lie in state,
    each in his own tomb.^(AZ)
¹⁹But you are cast out^(BA) of your tomb
    like a rejected branch;
you are covered with the slain,^(BB)
    with those pierced by the sword,^(BC)
    those who descend to the stones of the pit.^(BD)
Like a corpse trampled underfoot,
²⁰    you will not join them in burial,^(BE)
for you have destroyed your land
    and killed your people.

Let the offspring^(BF) of the wicked^(BG)
    never be mentioned^(BH) again.
²¹Prepare a place to slaughter his children^(BI)
    for the sins of their ancestors;^(BJ)
they are not to rise to inherit the land
    and cover the earth with their cities.

²²“I will rise up^(BK) against them,”
    declares the Lord Almighty.
“I will wipe out Babylon’s name^(BL) and survivors,
    her offspring and descendants,^(BM)”
declares the Lord.
²³“I will turn her into a place for owls^(BN)
    and into swampland;
I will sweep her with the broom of destruction,^(BO)”
    declares the Lord Almighty.^(BP)

²⁴The Lord Almighty has sworn,^(BQ)

“Surely, as I have planned,^(BR) so it will be,
    and as I have purposed, so it will happen.^(BS)
²⁵I will crush the Assyrian^(BT) in my land;
    on my mountains I will trample him down.
His yoke^(BU) will be taken from my people,
    and his burden removed from their shoulders.^(BV)”

²⁶This is the plan^(BW) determined for the whole world;
this is the hand^(BX) stretched out over all nations.
²⁷For the Lord Almighty has purposed,^(BY) and who can thwart him?
His hand^(BZ) is stretched out, and who can turn it back?^(CA)

A Prophecy Against the Philistines

²⁸This prophecy^(CB) came in the year^(CC) King Ahaz^(CD) died:

²⁹Do not rejoice, all you Philistines,^(CE)
    that the rod that struck you is broken;
from the root of that snake will spring up a viper,^(CF)
    its fruit will be a darting, venomous serpent.^(CG)
³⁰The poorest of the poor will find pasture,
    and the needy^(CH) will lie down in safety.^(CI)
But your root I will destroy by famine;^(CJ)
    it will slay^(CK) your survivors.^(CL)

³¹Wail,^(CM) you gate!^(CN) Howl, you city!
    Melt away, all you Philistines!^(CO)
A cloud of smoke comes from the north,^(CP)
    and there is not a straggler in its ranks.^(CQ)
³²What answer shall be given
    to the envoys^(CR) of that nation?
“The Lord has established Zion,^(CS)
    and in her his afflicted people will find refuge.^(CT)”

A Prophecy Against Moab^(CU)

15 A prophecy^(CV) against Moab:^(CW)

Ar^(CX) in Moab is ruined,^(CY)
    destroyed in a night!
Kir^(CZ) in Moab is ruined,
    destroyed in a night!
²Dibon^(DA) goes up to its temple,
    to its high places^(DB) to weep;
    Moab wails^(DC) over Nebo^(DD) and Medeba.
Every head is shaved^(DE)
    and every beard cut off.^(DF)
³In the streets they wear sackcloth;^(DG)
    on the roofs^(DH) and in the public squares^(DI)
they all wail,^(DJ)
    prostrate with weeping.^(DK)
⁴Heshbon^(DL) and Elealeh^(DM) cry out,
    their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz.^(DN)
Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out,
    and their hearts are faint.

⁵My heart cries out^(DO) over Moab;^(DP)
    her fugitives^(DQ) flee as far as Zoar,^(DR)
    as far as Eglath Shelishiyah.
They go up the hill to Luhith,
    weeping as they go;
on the road to Horonaim^(DS)
    they lament their destruction.^(DT)
⁶The waters of Nimrim are dried up^(DU)
    and the grass is withered;^(DV)
the vegetation is gone^(DW)
    and nothing green is left.^(DX)
⁷So the wealth they have acquired^(DY) and stored up
    they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.
⁸Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab;
    their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim,
    their lamentation as far as Beer^(DZ) Elim.
⁹The waters of Dimon^[c] are full of blood,
    but I will bring still more upon Dimon^[d]—
a lion^(EA) upon the fugitives of Moab^(EB)
    and upon those who remain in the land.

16 Send lambs^(EC) as tribute^(ED)
    to the ruler of the land,
from Sela,^(EE) across the desert,
    to the mount of Daughter Zion.^(EF)
²Like fluttering birds
    pushed from the nest,^(EG)
so are the women of Moab^(EH)
    at the fords^(EI) of the Arnon.^(EJ)

³“Make up your mind,” Moab says.
    “Render a decision.
Make your shadow like night—
    at high noon.
Hide the fugitives,^(EK)
    do not betray the refugees.
⁴Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you;
    be their shelter^(EL) from the destroyer.”

The oppressor^(EM) will come to an end,
    and destruction will cease;^(EN)
    the aggressor will vanish from the land.
⁵In love a throne^(EO) will be established;^(EP)
    in faithfulness a man will sit on it—
    one from the house^[e] of David^(EQ)—
one who in judging seeks justice^(ER)
    and speeds the cause of righteousness.

⁶We have heard of Moab’s^(ES) pride^(ET)—
    how great is her arrogance!—
of her conceit, her pride and her insolence;
    but her boasts are empty.
⁷Therefore the Moabites wail,^(EU)
    they wail together for Moab.
Lament and grieve
    for the raisin cakes^(EV) of Kir Hareseth.^(EW)
⁸The fields of Heshbon^(EX) wither,^(EY)
    the vines of Sibmah^(EZ) also.
The rulers of the nations
    have trampled down the choicest vines,^(FA)
which once reached Jazer^(FB)
    and spread toward the desert.
Their shoots spread out^(FC)
    and went as far as the sea.^[f]^(FD)
⁹So I weep,^(FE) as Jazer weeps,
    for the vines of Sibmah.
Heshbon and Elealeh,^(FF)
    I drench you with tears!^(FG)
The shouts of joy^(FH) over your ripened fruit
    and over your harvests^(FI) have been stilled.
¹⁰Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards;^(FJ)
    no one sings or shouts^(FK) in the vineyards;
no one treads^(FL) out wine at the presses,^(FM)
    for I have put an end to the shouting.
¹¹My heart laments for Moab^(FN) like a harp,^(FO)
    my inmost being^(FP) for Kir Hareseth.
¹²When Moab appears at her high place,^(FQ)
    she only wears herself out;
when she goes to her shrine^(FR) to pray,
    it is to no avail.^(FS)

¹³This is the word the Lord has already spoken concerning Moab. ¹⁴But now the Lord says: “Within three years,^(FT) as a servant bound by contract^(FU) would count them,^(FV) Moab’s splendor and all her many people will be despised,^(FW) and her survivors will be very few and feeble.”^(FX)

A Prophecy Against Damascus

17 A prophecy^(FY) against Damascus:^(FZ)

“See, Damascus will no longer be a city
    but will become a heap of ruins.^(GA)
²The cities of Aroer^(GB) will be deserted
    and left to flocks,^(GC) which will lie down,^(GD)
    with no one to make them afraid.^(GE)
³The fortified^(GF) city will disappear from Ephraim,
    and royal power from Damascus;
the remnant of Aram will be
    like the glory^(GG) of the Israelites,”^(GH)
declares the Lord Almighty.

⁴“In that day^(GI) the glory^(GJ) of Jacob will fade;
    the fat of his body will waste^(GK) away.
⁵It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain,
    gathering^(GL) the grain in their arms—
as when someone gleans heads of grain^(GM)
    in the Valley of Rephaim.^(GN)
⁶Yet some gleanings will remain,^(GO)
    as when an olive tree is beaten,^(GP)
leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches,
    four or five on the fruitful boughs,”
declares the Lord, the God of Israel.

⁷In that day^(GQ) people will look^(GR) to their Maker^(GS)
    and turn their eyes to the Holy One^(GT) of Israel.
⁸They will not look to the altars,^(GU)
    the work of their hands,^(GV)
and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles^[g]^(GW)
    and the incense altars their fingers^(GX) have made.

⁹In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth.^(GY) And all will be desolation.

¹⁰You have forgotten^(GZ) God your Savior;^(HA)
    you have not remembered the Rock,^(HB) your fortress.^(HC)
Therefore, though you set out the finest plants
    and plant imported vines,^(HD)
¹¹though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,
    and on the morning^(HE) when you plant them, you bring them to bud,
yet the harvest^(HF) will be as nothing^(HG)
    in the day of disease and incurable^(HH) pain.^(HI)

¹²Woe to the many nations that rage^(HJ)—
    they rage like the raging sea!^(HK)
Woe to the peoples who roar^(HL)—
    they roar like the roaring of great waters!^(HM)
¹³Although the peoples roar^(HN) like the roar of surging waters,
    when he rebukes^(HO) them they flee^(HP) far away,
driven before the wind like chaff^(HQ) on the hills,
    like tumbleweed before a gale.^(HR)
¹⁴In the evening, sudden^(HS) terror!^(HT)
    Before the morning, they are gone!^(HU)
This is the portion of those who loot us,
    the lot of those who plunder us.

A Prophecy Against Cush

18 Woe^(HV) to the land of whirring wings^[h]
along the rivers of Cush,^[i]^(HW)
²which sends envoys^(HX) by sea
in papyrus^(HY) boats over the water.

Go, swift messengers,
to a people tall and smooth-skinned,^(HZ)
to a people feared far and wide,
an aggressive^(IA) nation of strange speech,
whose land is divided by rivers.^(IB)

³All you people of the world,^(IC)
    you who live on the earth,
when a banner^(ID) is raised on the mountains,
    you will see it,
and when a trumpet^(IE) sounds,
    you will hear it.
⁴This is what the Lord says to me:
    “I will remain quiet^(IF) and will look on from my dwelling place,^(IG)
like shimmering heat in the sunshine,^(IH)
    like a cloud of dew^(II) in the heat of harvest.”
⁵For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone
    and the flower becomes a ripening grape,
he will cut off^(IJ) the shoots with pruning knives,
    and cut down and take away the spreading branches.^(IK)
⁶They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey^(IL)
    and to the wild animals;^(IM)
the birds will feed on them all summer,
    the wild animals all winter.

⁷At that time gifts^(IN) will be brought to the Lord Almighty

from a people tall and smooth-skinned,^(IO)
from a people feared^(IP) far and wide,
an aggressive nation of strange speech,
whose land is divided by rivers^(IQ)—

the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the Lord Almighty.^(IR)

A Prophecy Against Egypt

19 A prophecy^(IS) against Egypt:^(IT)

See, the Lord rides on a swift cloud^(IU)
and is coming to Egypt.
The idols of Egypt tremble before him,
and the hearts of the Egyptians melt^(IV) with fear.

²“I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian—
    brother will fight against brother,^(IW)
    neighbor against neighbor,
    city against city,
    kingdom against kingdom.^(IX)
³The Egyptians will lose heart,^(IY)
    and I will bring their plans^(IZ) to nothing;^(JA)
they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead,
    the mediums and the spiritists.^(JB)
⁴I will hand the Egyptians over
    to the power of a cruel master,
and a fierce king^(JC) will rule over them,”
    declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

⁵The waters of the river will dry up,^(JD)
    and the riverbed will be parched and dry.^(JE)
⁶The canals will stink;^(JF)
    the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up.^(JG)
The reeds^(JH) and rushes will wither,^(JI)
⁷    also the plants^(JJ) along the Nile,
    at the mouth of the river.
Every sown field^(JK) along the Nile
    will become parched, will blow away and be no more.^(JL)
⁸The fishermen^(JM) will groan and lament,
    all who cast hooks^(JN) into the Nile;
those who throw nets on the water
    will pine away.
⁹Those who work with combed flax^(JO) will despair,
    the weavers of fine linen^(JP) will lose hope.
¹⁰The workers in cloth will be dejected,
    and all the wage earners will be sick at heart.

¹¹The officials of Zoan^(JQ) are nothing but fools;
    the wise counselors^(JR) of Pharaoh give senseless advice.^(JS)
How can you say to Pharaoh,
    “I am one of the wise men,^(JT)
    a disciple of the ancient kings”?

¹²Where are your wise men^(JU) now?
    Let them show you and make known
what the Lord Almighty
    has planned^(JV) against Egypt.
¹³The officials of Zoan^(JW) have become fools,
    the leaders of Memphis^(JX) are deceived;
the cornerstones^(JY) of her peoples
    have led Egypt astray.
¹⁴The Lord has poured into them
    a spirit of dizziness;^(JZ)
they make Egypt stagger in all that she does,
    as a drunkard staggers^(KA) around in his vomit.
¹⁵There is nothing Egypt can do—
    head or tail, palm branch or reed.^(KB)

¹⁶In that day^(KC) the Egyptians will become weaklings.^(KD) They will shudder with fear^(KE) at the uplifted hand^(KF) that the Lord Almighty raises against them. ¹⁷And the land of Judah will bring terror to the Egyptians; everyone to whom Judah is mentioned will be terrified,^(KG) because of what the Lord Almighty is planning^(KH) against them.

¹⁸In that day^(KI) five cities^(KJ) in Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance^(KK) to the Lord Almighty. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.^[j]^(KL)

¹⁹In that day^(KM) there will be an altar^(KN) to the Lord in the heart of Egypt,^(KO) and a monument^(KP) to the Lord at its border. ²⁰It will be a sign and witness^(KQ) to the Lord Almighty in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the Lord because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior^(KR) and defender, and he will rescue^(KS) them. ²¹So the Lord will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge^(KT) the Lord. They will worship^(KU) with sacrifices and grain offerings; they will make vows to the Lord and keep them.^(KV) ²²The Lord will strike^(KW) Egypt with a plague;^(KX) he will strike them and heal them. They will turn^(KY) to the Lord, and he will respond to their pleas and heal^(KZ) them.

²³In that day^(LA) there will be a highway^(LB) from Egypt to Assyria.^(LC) The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship^(LD) together. ²⁴In that day^(LE) Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria,^(LF) a blessing^[k]^(LG) on the earth. ²⁵The Lord Almighty will bless^(LH) them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people,^(LI) Assyria my handiwork,^(LJ) and Israel my inheritance.^(LK)”

A Prophecy Against Egypt and Cush

20 In the year that the supreme commander,^(LL) sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod^(LM) and attacked and captured it— ²at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz.^(LN) He said to him, “Take off the sackcloth^(LO) from your body and the sandals^(LP) from your feet.” And he did so, going around stripped^(LQ) and barefoot.^(LR)

³Then the Lord said, “Just as my servant^(LS) Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years,^(LT) as a sign^(LU) and portent^(LV) against Egypt^(LW) and Cush,^[l]^(LX) ⁴so the king^(LY) of Assyria will lead away stripped^(LZ) and barefoot the Egyptian captives^(MA) and Cushite^(MB) exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared^(MC)—to Egypt’s shame.^(MD) ⁵Those who trusted^(ME) in Cush^(MF) and boasted in Egypt^(MG) will be dismayed and put to shame.^(MH) ⁶In that day^(MI) the people who live on this coast will say, ‘See what has happened^(MJ) to those we relied on,^(MK) those we fled to for help^(ML) and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?^(MM)’”

A Prophecy Against Babylon

21 A prophecy^(MN) against the Desert^(MO) by the Sea:

Like whirlwinds^(MP) sweeping through the southland,^(MQ)
an invader comes from the desert,
from a land of terror.

²A dire^(MR) vision has been shown to me:
The traitor betrays,^(MS) the looter takes loot.
Elam,^(MT) attack! Media,^(MU) lay siege!
I will bring to an end all the groaning she caused.

³At this my body is racked with pain,^(MV)
    pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor;^(MW)
I am staggered by what I hear,
    I am bewildered^(MX) by what I see.
⁴My heart^(MY) falters,
    fear makes me tremble;^(MZ)
the twilight I longed for
    has become a horror^(NA) to me.

⁵They set the tables,
    they spread the rugs,
    they eat, they drink!^(NB)
Get up, you officers,
    oil the shields!^(NC)

⁶This is what the Lord says to me:

“Go, post a lookout^(ND)
    and have him report what he sees.
⁷When he sees chariots^(NE)
    with teams of horses,
riders on donkeys
    or riders on camels,^(NF)
let him be alert,
    fully alert.”

⁸And the lookout^[m]^(NG) shouted,

“Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower;
    every night I stay at my post.
⁹Look, here comes a man in a chariot^(NH)
    with a team of horses.
And he gives back the answer:
    ‘Babylon^(NI) has fallen,^(NJ) has fallen!
All the images of its gods^(NK)
    lie shattered^(NL) on the ground!’”

¹⁰My people who are crushed on the threshing floor,^(NM)
I tell you what I have heard
from the Lord Almighty,
from the God of Israel.

A Prophecy Against Edom

¹¹A prophecy against Dumah^[n]:^(NN)

Someone calls to me from Seir,^(NO)
    “Watchman, what is left of the night?
    Watchman, what is left of the night?”
¹²The watchman replies,
    “Morning is coming, but also the night.
If you would ask, then ask;
    and come back yet again.”

A Prophecy Against Arabia

¹³A prophecy^(NP) against Arabia:^(NQ)

You caravans of Dedanites,^(NR)
    who camp in the thickets of Arabia,
¹⁴    bring water for the thirsty;
you who live in Tema,^(NS)
    bring food for the fugitives.
¹⁵They flee^(NT) from the sword,^(NU)
    from the drawn sword,
from the bent bow
    and from the heat of battle.

¹⁶This is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a servant bound by contract^(NV) would count it, all the splendor^(NW) of Kedar^(NX) will come to an end. ¹⁷The survivors of the archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.^(NY)” The Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.^(NZ)

A Prophecy About Jerusalem

22 A prophecy^(OA) against the Valley^(OB) of Vision:^(OC)

What troubles you now,
    that you have all gone up on the roofs,^(OD)
²you town so full of commotion,
    you city of tumult^(OE) and revelry?^(OF)
Your slain^(OG) were not killed by the sword,^(OH)
    nor did they die in battle.
³All your leaders have fled^(OI) together;
    they have been captured^(OJ) without using the bow.
All you who were caught were taken prisoner together,
    having fled while the enemy was still far away.
⁴Therefore I said, “Turn away from me;
    let me weep^(OK) bitterly.
Do not try to console me
    over the destruction of my people.”^(OL)

⁵The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day^(OM)
    of tumult and trampling^(ON) and terror^(OO)
    in the Valley of Vision,^(OP)
a day of battering down walls^(OQ)
    and of crying out to the mountains.
⁶Elam^(OR) takes up the quiver,^(OS)
    with her charioteers and horses;
    Kir^(OT) uncovers the shield.
⁷Your choicest valleys^(OU) are full of chariots,
    and horsemen are posted at the city gates.^(OV)

⁸The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah,
    and you looked in that day^(OW)
    to the weapons^(OX) in the Palace of the Forest.^(OY)
⁹You saw that the walls of the City of David
    were broken through^(OZ) in many places;
you stored up water
    in the Lower Pool.^(PA)
¹⁰You counted the buildings in Jerusalem
    and tore down houses^(PB) to strengthen the wall.^(PC)
¹¹You built a reservoir between the two walls^(PD)
    for the water of the Old Pool,^(PE)
but you did not look to the One who made it,
    or have regard^(PF) for the One who planned^(PG) it long ago.

¹²The Lord, the Lord Almighty,
    called you on that day^(PH)
to weep^(PI) and to wail,
    to tear out your hair^(PJ) and put on sackcloth.^(PK)
¹³But see, there is joy and revelry,^(PL)
    slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep,
    eating of meat and drinking of wine!^(PM)
“Let us eat and drink,” you say,
    “for tomorrow we die!”^(PN)

¹⁴The Lord Almighty has revealed this in my hearing:^(PO) “Till your dying day this sin will not be atoned^(PP) for,” says the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

¹⁵This is what the Lord, the Lord Almighty, says:

“Go, say to this steward,
    to Shebna^(PQ) the palace^(PR) administrator:^(PS)
¹⁶What are you doing here and who gave you permission
    to cut out a grave^(PT) for yourself^(PU) here,
hewing your grave on the height
    and chiseling your resting place in the rock?

¹⁷“Beware, the Lord is about to take firm hold of you
    and hurl^(PV) you away, you mighty man.
¹⁸He will roll you up tightly like a ball
    and throw^(PW) you into a large country.
There you will die
    and there the chariots^(PX) you were so proud of
    will become a disgrace to your master’s house.
¹⁹I will depose you from your office,
    and you will be ousted^(PY) from your position.^(PZ)

²⁰“In that day^(QA) I will summon my servant,^(QB) Eliakim^(QC) son of Hilkiah. ²¹I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash^(QD) around him and hand your authority^(QE) over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah. ²²I will place on his shoulder^(QF) the key^(QG) to the house of David;^(QH) what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.^(QI) ²³I will drive him like a peg^(QJ) into a firm place;^(QK) he will become a seat^[o] of honor^(QL) for the house of his father. ²⁴All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots—all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.

²⁵“In that day,^(QM)” declares the Lord Almighty, “the peg^(QN) driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down.” The Lord has spoken.^(QO)

A Prophecy Against Tyre

23 A prophecy against Tyre:^(QP)

Wail,^(QQ) you ships^(QR) of Tarshish!^(QS)
    For Tyre is destroyed^(QT)
    and left without house or harbor.
From the land of Cyprus
    word has come to them.

²Be silent,^(QU) you people of the island
    and you merchants^(QV) of Sidon,^(QW)
    whom the seafarers have enriched.
³On the great waters
    came the grain of the Shihor;^(QX)
the harvest of the Nile^[p]^(QY) was the revenue of Tyre,^(QZ)
    and she became the marketplace of the nations.

⁴Be ashamed, Sidon,^(RA) and you fortress of the sea,
    for the sea has spoken:
“I have neither been in labor nor given birth;^(RB)
    I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters.”
⁵When word comes to Egypt,
    they will be in anguish^(RC) at the report from Tyre.^(RD)

⁶Cross over to Tarshish;^(RE)
    wail, you people of the island.
⁷Is this your city of revelry,^(RF)
    the old, old city,
whose feet have taken her
    to settle in far-off lands?
⁸Who planned this against Tyre,
    the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants^(RG) are princes,
    whose traders^(RH) are renowned in the earth?
⁹The Lord Almighty planned^(RI) it,
    to bring down^(RJ) her pride in all her splendor
    and to humble^(RK) all who are renowned^(RL) on the earth.

¹⁰Till^[q] your land as they do along the Nile,
    Daughter Tarshish,
    for you no longer have a harbor.
¹¹The Lord has stretched out his hand^(RM) over the sea
    and made its kingdoms tremble.^(RN)
He has given an order concerning Phoenicia
    that her fortresses be destroyed.^(RO)
¹²He said, “No more of your reveling,^(RP)
    Virgin Daughter^(RQ) Sidon, now crushed!

“Up, cross over to Cyprus;^(RR)
    even there you will find no rest.”
¹³Look at the land of the Babylonians,^[r]^(RS)
    this people that is now of no account!
The Assyrians^(RT) have made it
    a place for desert creatures;^(RU)
they raised up their siege towers,^(RV)
    they stripped its fortresses bare
    and turned it into a ruin.^(RW)

¹⁴Wail, you ships^(RX) of Tarshish;^(RY)
your fortress is destroyed!^(RZ)

¹⁵At that time Tyre^(SA) will be forgotten for seventy years,^(SB) the span of a king’s life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

¹⁶“Take up a harp, walk through the city,
you forgotten prostitute;^(SC)
play the harp well, sing many a song,
so that you will be remembered.”

¹⁷At the end of seventy years,^(SD) the Lord will deal with Tyre. She will return to her lucrative prostitution^(SE) and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.^(SF) ¹⁸Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the Lord;^(SG) they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the Lord,^(SH) for abundant food and fine clothes.^(SI)

The Lord’s Devastation of the Earth

24 See, the Lord is going to lay waste the earth^(SJ)
    and devastate^(SK) it;
he will ruin its face
    and scatter^(SL) its inhabitants—
²it will be the same
    for priest as for people,^(SM)
    for the master as for his servant,
    for the mistress as for her servant,
    for seller as for buyer,^(SN)
    for borrower as for lender,
    for debtor as for creditor.^(SO)
³The earth will be completely laid waste^(SP)
    and totally plundered.^(SQ)
The Lord has spoken^(SR) this word.

⁴The earth dries up^(SS) and withers,^(ST)
    the world languishes and withers,
    the heavens^(SU) languish with the earth.^(SV)
⁵The earth is defiled^(SW) by its people;
    they have disobeyed^(SX) the laws,
violated the statutes
    and broken the everlasting covenant.^(SY)
⁶Therefore a curse^(SZ) consumes the earth;
    its people must bear their guilt.
Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up,^(TA)
    and very few are left.
⁷The new wine dries up^(TB) and the vine withers;^(TC)
    all the merrymakers groan.^(TD)
⁸The joyful timbrels^(TE) are stilled,
    the noise^(TF) of the revelers^(TG) has stopped,
    the joyful harp^(TH) is silent.^(TI)
⁹No longer do they drink wine^(TJ) with a song;
    the beer is bitter^(TK) to its drinkers.
¹⁰The ruined city^(TL) lies desolate;^(TM)
    the entrance to every house is barred.
¹¹In the streets they cry out^(TN) for wine;^(TO)
    all joy turns to gloom,^(TP)
    all joyful sounds are banished from the earth.
¹²The city is left in ruins,^(TQ)
    its gate^(TR) is battered to pieces.
¹³So will it be on the earth
    and among the nations,
as when an olive tree is beaten,^(TS)
    or as when gleanings are left after the grape harvest.^(TT)

¹⁴They raise their voices, they shout for joy;^(TU)
    from the west^(TV) they acclaim the Lord’s majesty.
¹⁵Therefore in the east^(TW) give glory^(TX) to the Lord;
    exalt^(TY) the name^(TZ) of the Lord, the God of Israel,
    in the islands^(UA) of the sea.
¹⁶From the ends of the earth^(UB) we hear singing:^(UC)
    “Glory^(UD) to the Righteous One.”^(UE)

But I said, “I waste away, I waste away!^(UF)
    Woe^(UG) to me!
The treacherous^(UH) betray!
    With treachery the treacherous betray!^(UI)”
¹⁷Terror^(UJ) and pit and snare^(UK) await you,
    people of the earth.^(UL)
¹⁸Whoever flees^(UM) at the sound of terror
    will fall into a pit;^(UN)
whoever climbs out of the pit
    will be caught in a snare.^(UO)

The floodgates of the heavens^(UP) are opened,
    the foundations of the earth shake.^(UQ)
¹⁹The earth is broken up,^(UR)
    the earth is split asunder,^(US)
    the earth is violently shaken.
²⁰The earth reels like a drunkard,^(UT)
    it sways like a hut^(UU) in the wind;
so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion^(UV)
    that it falls^(UW)—never to rise again.^(UX)

²¹In that day^(UY) the Lord will punish^(UZ)
    the powers^(VA) in the heavens above
    and the kings^(VB) on the earth below.
²²They will be herded together
    like prisoners^(VC) bound in a dungeon;^(VD)
they will be shut up in prison
    and be punished^[s] after many days.^(VE)
²³The moon will be dismayed,
    the sun^(VF) ashamed;
for the Lord Almighty will reign^(VG)
    on Mount Zion^(VH) and in Jerusalem,
    and before its elders—with great glory.^(VI)

Praise to the Lord

25 Lord, you are my God;^(VJ)
    I will exalt you and praise your name,^(VK)
for in perfect faithfulness^(VL)
    you have done wonderful things,^(VM)
    things planned^(VN) long ago.
²You have made the city a heap of rubble,^(VO)
    the fortified^(VP) town a ruin,^(VQ)
the foreigners’ stronghold^(VR) a city no more;
    it will never be rebuilt.^(VS)
³Therefore strong peoples will honor you;^(VT)
    cities of ruthless^(VU) nations will revere you.
⁴You have been a refuge^(VV) for the poor,^(VW)
    a refuge for the needy^(VX) in their distress,
a shelter from the storm^(VY)
    and a shade from the heat.
For the breath of the ruthless^(VZ)
    is like a storm driving against a wall
⁵    and like the heat of the desert.
You silence^(WA) the uproar of foreigners;^(WB)
    as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud,
    so the song of the ruthless^(WC) is stilled.

⁶On this mountain^(WD) the Lord Almighty will prepare
    a feast^(WE) of rich food for all peoples,
a banquet of aged wine—
    the best of meats and the finest of wines.^(WF)
⁷On this mountain he will destroy
    the shroud^(WG) that enfolds all peoples,^(WH)
the sheet that covers all nations;
⁸    he will swallow up death^(WI) forever.
The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears^(WJ)
    from all faces;
he will remove his people’s disgrace^(WK)
    from all the earth.
The Lord has spoken.^(WL)

⁹In that day^(WM) they will say,

“Surely this is our God;^(WN)
we trusted^(WO) in him, and he saved^(WP) us.
This is the Lord, we trusted in him;
let us rejoice^(WQ) and be glad in his salvation.”^(WR)

¹⁰The hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain;^(WS)
    but Moab^(WT) will be trampled in their land
    as straw is trampled down in the manure.
¹¹They will stretch out their hands in it,
    as swimmers stretch out their hands to swim.
God will bring down^(WU) their pride^(WV)
    despite the cleverness^[t] of their hands.
¹²He will bring down your high fortified walls^(WW)
    and lay them low;^(WX)
he will bring them down to the ground,
    to the very dust.

A Song of Praise

26 In that day^(WY) this song will be sung^(WZ) in the land of Judah:

We have a strong city;^(XA)
    God makes salvation
    its walls^(XB) and ramparts.^(XC)
²Open the gates^(XD)
    that the righteous^(XE) nation may enter,
    the nation that keeps faith.
³You will keep in perfect peace^(XF)
    those whose minds are steadfast,
    because they trust^(XG) in you.
⁴Trust^(XH) in the Lord forever,^(XI)
    for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock^(XJ) eternal.
⁵He humbles those who dwell on high,
    he lays the lofty city low;
he levels it to the ground^(XK)
    and casts it down to the dust.^(XL)
⁶Feet trample^(XM) it down—
    the feet of the oppressed,^(XN)
    the footsteps of the poor.^(XO)

⁷The path of the righteous is level;^(XP)
    you, the Upright One,^(XQ) make the way of the righteous smooth.^(XR)
⁸Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws,^[u]^(XS)
    we wait^(XT) for you;
your name^(XU) and renown
    are the desire of our hearts.
⁹My soul yearns for you in the night;^(XV)
    in the morning my spirit longs^(XW) for you.
When your judgments^(XX) come upon the earth,
    the people of the world learn righteousness.^(XY)
¹⁰But when grace is shown to the wicked,^(XZ)
    they do not learn righteousness;
even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil^(YA)
    and do not regard^(YB) the majesty of the Lord.
¹¹Lord, your hand is lifted high,^(YC)
    but they do not see^(YD) it.
Let them see your zeal^(YE) for your people and be put to shame;^(YF)
    let the fire^(YG) reserved for your enemies consume them.

¹²Lord, you establish peace^(YH) for us;
    all that we have accomplished you have done^(YI) for us.
¹³Lord our God, other lords^(YJ) besides you have ruled over us,
    but your name^(YK) alone do we honor.^(YL)
¹⁴They are now dead,^(YM) they live no more;
    their spirits^(YN) do not rise.
You punished them and brought them to ruin;^(YO)
    you wiped out all memory of them.^(YP)
¹⁵You have enlarged the nation, Lord;
    you have enlarged the nation.^(YQ)
You have gained glory for yourself;
    you have extended all the borders^(YR) of the land.

¹⁶Lord, they came to you in their distress;^(YS)
    when you disciplined^(YT) them,
    they could barely whisper^(YU) a prayer.^[v]
¹⁷As a pregnant woman about to give birth^(YV)
    writhes and cries out in her pain,
    so were we in your presence, Lord.
¹⁸We were with child, we writhed in labor,
    but we gave birth^(YW) to wind.
We have not brought salvation^(YX) to the earth,
    and the people of the world have not come to life.^(YY)

¹⁹But your dead^(YZ) will live, Lord;
    their bodies will rise—
let those who dwell in the dust^(ZA)
    wake up and shout for joy—
your dew^(ZB) is like the dew of the morning;
    the earth will give birth to her dead.^(ZC)

²⁰Go, my people, enter your rooms
    and shut the doors^(ZD) behind you;
hide^(ZE) yourselves for a little while
    until his wrath^(ZF) has passed by.^(ZG)
²¹See, the Lord is coming^(ZH) out of his dwelling^(ZI)
    to punish^(ZJ) the people of the earth for their sins.
The earth will disclose the blood^(ZK) shed on it;
    the earth will conceal its slain no longer.

Deliverance of Israel

27 In that day,^(ZL)

the Lord will punish with his sword^(ZM)—
his fierce, great and powerful sword—
Leviathan^(ZN) the gliding serpent,^(ZO)
Leviathan the coiling serpent;
he will slay the monster^(ZP) of the sea.

²In that day^(ZQ)—

“Sing^(ZR) about a fruitful vineyard:^(ZS)
³    I, the Lord, watch over it;
    I water^(ZT) it continually.
I guard^(ZU) it day and night
    so that no one may harm^(ZV) it.
⁴    I am not angry.
If only there were briers and thorns confronting me!
    I would march against them in battle;
    I would set them all on fire.^(ZW)
⁵Or else let them come to me for refuge;^(ZX)
    let them make peace^(ZY) with me,
    yes, let them make peace with me.”

⁶In days to come Jacob will take root,^(ZZ)
Israel will bud and blossom^(AAA)
and fill all the world with fruit.^(AAB)

⁷Has the Lord struck her
    as he struck^(AAC) down those who struck her?
Has she been killed
    as those were killed who killed her?
⁸By warfare^[w] and exile^(AAD) you contend with her—
    with his fierce blast he drives her out,
    as on a day the east wind^(AAE) blows.
⁹By this, then, will Jacob’s guilt be atoned^(AAF) for,
    and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:^(AAG)
When he makes all the altar stones^(AAH)
    to be like limestone crushed to pieces,
no Asherah poles^[x]^(AAI) or incense altars^(AAJ)
    will be left standing.
¹⁰The fortified city stands desolate,^(AAK)
    an abandoned settlement, forsaken^(AAL) like the wilderness;
there the calves graze,^(AAM)
    there they lie down;^(AAN)
    they strip its branches bare.
¹¹When its twigs are dry, they are broken off^(AAO)
    and women come and make fires^(AAP) with them.
For this is a people without understanding;^(AAQ)
    so their Maker has no compassion on them,
    and their Creator^(AAR) shows them no favor.^(AAS)

¹²In that day the Lord will thresh^(AAT) from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt,^(AAU) and you, Israel, will be gathered^(AAV) up one by one. ¹³And in that day^(AAW) a great trumpet^(AAX) will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled^(AAY) in Egypt^(AAZ) will come and worship^(ABA) the Lord on the holy mountain^(ABB) in Jerusalem.

Woe to the Leaders of Ephraim and Judah

28 Woe^(ABC) to that wreath, the pride of Ephraim’s^(ABD) drunkards,
    to the fading flower, his glorious beauty,
set on the head of a fertile valley^(ABE)—
    to that city, the pride of those laid low by wine!^(ABF)
²See, the Lord has one who is powerful^(ABG) and strong.
    Like a hailstorm^(ABH) and a destructive wind,^(ABI)
like a driving rain and a flooding^(ABJ) downpour,
    he will throw it forcefully to the ground.
³That wreath, the pride of Ephraim’s^(ABK) drunkards,
    will be trampled^(ABL) underfoot.
⁴That fading flower, his glorious beauty,
    set on the head of a fertile valley,^(ABM)
will be like figs^(ABN) ripe before harvest—
    as soon as people see them and take them in hand,
    they swallow them.

⁵In that day^(ABO) the Lord Almighty
    will be a glorious^(ABP) crown,^(ABQ)
a beautiful wreath
    for the remnant^(ABR) of his people.
⁶He will be a spirit of justice^(ABS)
    to the one who sits in judgment,^(ABT)
a source of strength
    to those who turn back the battle^(ABU) at the gate.

⁷And these also stagger^(ABV) from wine^(ABW)
    and reel^(ABX) from beer:
Priests^(ABY) and prophets^(ABZ) stagger from beer
    and are befuddled with wine;
they reel from beer,
    they stagger when seeing visions,^(ACA)
    they stumble when rendering decisions.
⁸All the tables are covered with vomit^(ACB)
    and there is not a spot without filth.

⁹“Who is it he is trying to teach?^(ACC)
    To whom is he explaining his message?^(ACD)
To children weaned^(ACE) from their milk,^(ACF)
    to those just taken from the breast?
¹⁰For it is:
    Do this, do that,
    a rule for this, a rule for that^[y];
    a little here, a little there.^(ACG)”

¹¹Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues^(ACH)
    God will speak to this people,^(ACI)
¹²to whom he said,
    “This is the resting place, let the weary rest”;^(ACJ)
and, “This is the place of repose”—
    but they would not listen.
¹³So then, the word of the Lord to them will become:
    Do this, do that,
    a rule for this, a rule for that;
    a little here, a little there^(ACK)—
so that as they go they will fall backward;
    they will be injured^(ACL) and snared and captured.^(ACM)

¹⁴Therefore hear the word of the Lord,^(ACN) you scoffers^(ACO)
who rule this people in Jerusalem.

Footnotes

Isaiah 14:4 Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain.
Isaiah 14:13 Or of the north; Zaphon was the most sacred mountain of the Canaanites.
Isaiah 15:9 Dimon, a wordplay on Dibon (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for blood.
Isaiah 15:9 Dimon, a wordplay on Dibon (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for blood.
Isaiah 16:5 Hebrew tent
Isaiah 16:8 Probably the Dead Sea
Isaiah 17:8 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah
Isaiah 18:1 Or of locusts
Isaiah 18:1 That is, the upper Nile region
Isaiah 19:18 Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls, Symmachus and Vulgate; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text City of Destruction
Isaiah 19:24 Or Assyria, whose names will be used in blessings (see Gen. 48:20); or Assyria, who will be seen by others as blessed
Isaiah 20:3 That is, the upper Nile region; also in verse 5
Isaiah 21:8 Dead Sea Scrolls and Syriac; Masoretic Text A lion
Isaiah 21:11 Dumah, a wordplay on Edom, means silence or stillness.
Isaiah 22:23 Or throne
Isaiah 23:3 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls Sidon, / who cross over the sea; / your envoys ³are on the great waters. / The grain of the Shihor, / the harvest of the Nile,
Isaiah 23:10 Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts; Masoretic Text Go through
Isaiah 23:13 Or Chaldeans
Isaiah 24:22 Or released
Isaiah 25:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
Isaiah 26:8 Or judgments
Isaiah 26:16 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.
Isaiah 27:8 See Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
Isaiah 27:9 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah
Isaiah 28:10 Hebrew / sav lasav sav lasav / kav lakav kav lakav (probably meaningless sounds mimicking the prophet’s words); also in verse 13

Isaiah 14-28

King James Version

14 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.

²And 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.

³And 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,

⁴That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

⁵The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.

⁶He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.

⁷The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.

⁸Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.

⁹Hell 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.

¹⁰All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?

¹¹Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

¹²How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

¹³For 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:

¹⁴I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

¹⁵Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

¹⁶They 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;

¹⁷That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

¹⁸All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.

¹⁹But 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.

²⁰Thou 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.

²¹Prepare 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.

²²For 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.

²³I 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.

²⁴The 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:

²⁵That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.

²⁶This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

²⁷For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

²⁸In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.

²⁹Rejoice 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.

³⁰And 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.

³¹Howl, 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.

³²What 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 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;

²He 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.

³In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.

⁴And 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.

⁵My 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.

⁶For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.

⁷Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.

⁸For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.

⁹For 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 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

²For 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.

³Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.

⁴Let 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.

⁵And 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.

⁶We 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.

⁷Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.

⁸For 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.

⁹Therefore 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.

¹⁰And 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.

¹¹Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.

¹²And 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.

¹³This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.

¹⁴But 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 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

²The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

³The 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.

⁴And 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.

⁵And 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.

⁶Yet 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.

⁷At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

⁸And 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.

⁹In 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.

¹⁰Because 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:

¹¹In 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.

¹²Woe 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!

¹³The 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.

¹⁴And 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 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:

²That 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!

³All 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.

⁴For 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.

⁵For 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.

⁶They 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.

⁷In 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 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.

²And 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.

³And 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.

⁴And 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.

⁵And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

⁶And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

⁷The 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.

⁸The 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.

⁹Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.

¹⁰And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.

¹¹Surely 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?

¹²Where 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.

¹³The 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.

¹⁴The 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.

¹⁵Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.

¹⁶In 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.

¹⁷And 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.

¹⁸In 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.

¹⁹In 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.

²⁰And 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.

²¹And 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.

²²And 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.

²³In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.

²⁴In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:

²⁵Whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.

20 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;

²At 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.

³And 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;

⁴So 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.

⁵And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

⁶And 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 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.

²A 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.

³Therefore 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.

⁴My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

⁵Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.

⁶For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.

⁷And 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:

⁸And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:

⁹And, 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.

¹⁰O 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.

¹¹The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

¹²The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.

¹³The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.

¹⁴The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.

¹⁵For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

¹⁶For 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:

¹⁷And 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 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

²Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.

³All 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.

⁴Therefore 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.

⁵For 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.

⁶And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.

⁷And 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.

⁸And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.

⁹Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

¹⁰And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.

¹¹Ye 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.

¹²And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

¹³And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

¹⁴And 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.

¹⁵Thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,

¹⁶What 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?

¹⁷Behold, the Lord will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.

¹⁸He 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.

¹⁹And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.

²⁰And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:

²¹And 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.

²²And 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.

²³And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.

²⁴And 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.

²⁵In 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 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.

²Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

³And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.

⁴Be 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.

⁵As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.

⁶Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.

⁷Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

⁸Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?

⁹The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

¹⁰Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.

¹¹He 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.

¹²And 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.

¹³Behold 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.

¹⁴Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.

¹⁵And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.

¹⁶Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

¹⁷And 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.

¹⁸And 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 Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

²And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

³The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.

⁴The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

⁵The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

⁶Therefore 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.

⁷The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.

⁸The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

⁹They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

¹⁰The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

¹¹There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

¹²In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

¹³When 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.

¹⁴They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the Lord, they shall cry aloud from the sea.

¹⁵Wherefore glorify ye the Lord in the fires, even the name of the Lord God of Israel in the isles of the sea.

¹⁶From 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.

¹⁷Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

¹⁸And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.

¹⁹The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.

²⁰The 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.

²¹And 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.

²²And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

²³Then 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 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.

²For 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.

³Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.

⁴For 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.

⁵Thou 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.

⁶And 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.

⁷And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.

⁸He 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.

⁹And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

¹⁰For 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.

¹¹And 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.

¹²And 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 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.

²Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.

³Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

⁴Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength:

⁵For 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.

⁶The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

⁷The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.

⁸Yea, 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.

⁹With 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.

¹⁰Let 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.

¹¹Lord, 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.

¹²Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.

¹³O Lord our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.

¹⁴They 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.

¹⁵Thou 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.

¹⁶Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

¹⁷Like 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.

¹⁸We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

¹⁹Thy 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.

²⁰Come, 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.

²¹For, 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 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.

²In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.

³I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

⁴Fury 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.

⁵Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.

⁶He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

⁷Hath 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?

⁸In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

⁹By 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.

¹⁰Yet 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.

¹¹When 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.

¹²And 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.

¹³And 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 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!

²Behold, 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.

³The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:

⁴And 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.

⁵In 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,

⁶And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

⁷But 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.

⁸For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

⁹Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

¹⁰For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

¹¹For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

¹²To 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.

¹³But 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.

¹⁴Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

¹⁵Because 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:

¹⁶Therefore 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.

¹⁷Judgment 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.

¹⁸And 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.

¹⁹From 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.

²⁰For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

²¹For 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.

²²Now 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.

²³Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

²⁴Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

²⁵When 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?

²⁶For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

²⁷For 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.

²⁸Bread 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.

²⁹This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

New International Version (NIV)

Isaiah 14:1-28:14

New International Version

A Prophecy Against the Philistines

A Prophecy Against Moab^(CU)

A Prophecy Against Damascus

A Prophecy Against Cush

A Prophecy Against Egypt

A Prophecy Against Egypt and Cush

A Prophecy Against Babylon

A Prophecy Against Edom

A Prophecy Against Arabia

A Prophecy About Jerusalem

A Prophecy Against Tyre

The Lord’s Devastation of the Earth

Praise to the Lord

A Song of Praise

Deliverance of Israel

Woe to the Leaders of Ephraim and Judah

Footnotes

Cross references

Isaiah 14-28

King James Version

More on the NIV

Isaiah 14:1-28:14 New International Version

A Prophecy Against the Philistines

A Prophecy Against Moab(CU)

A Prophecy Against Damascus

A Prophecy Against Cush

A Prophecy Against Egypt

A Prophecy Against Egypt and Cush

A Prophecy Against Babylon

A Prophecy Against Edom

A Prophecy Against Arabia

A Prophecy About Jerusalem

A Prophecy Against Tyre

The Lord’s Devastation of the Earth

Praise to the Lord

A Song of Praise

Deliverance of Israel

Woe to the Leaders of Ephraim and Judah

Footnotes

Cross references

Isaiah 14-28 King James Version

More on the NIV

Isaiah 14:1-28:14

New International Version

A Prophecy Against Moab^(CU)

Isaiah 14-28

King James Version