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Genesis 1
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Genesis 1
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The Creation of the World
1 In the (A)beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was (B)without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
3 And God said, (C)“Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
6 And God said, (D)“Let there be an expanse[a] in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” 7 And God made[b] the expanse and (E)separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were (F)above the expanse. And it was so. 8 And God called the expanse Heaven.[c] And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
9 And God said, (G)“Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry land Earth,[d] and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, (H)“Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants[e] yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. 12 The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for (I)signs and for (J)seasons,[f] and for days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. 16 And God (K)made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. 17 And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 to (L)rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
20 And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds[g] fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.” 21 So (M)God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, (N)“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23 And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
24 And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. 25 And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, (O)“Let us make man[h] in our image, (P)after our likeness. And (Q)let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
(R)male and female he created them.
28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, (S)“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” 29 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. (T)You shall have them for food. 30 And (U)to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. 31 (V)And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Footnotes
- Genesis 1:6 Or a canopy; also verses 7, 8, 14, 15, 17, 20
- Genesis 1:7 Or fashioned; also verse 16
- Genesis 1:8 Or Sky; also verses 9, 14, 15, 17, 20, 26, 28, 30; 2:1
- Genesis 1:10 Or Land; also verses 11, 12, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 30; 2:1
- Genesis 1:11 Or small plants; also verses 12, 29
- Genesis 1:14 Or appointed times
- Genesis 1:20 Or flying things; see Leviticus 11:19–20
- Genesis 1:26 The Hebrew word for man (adam) is the generic term for mankind and becomes the proper name Adam
Genesis 1
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Genesis 1
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The Beginning
1 In the beginning(A) God created(B) the heavens(C) and the earth.(D) 2 Now the earth was formless(E) and empty,(F) darkness was over the surface of the deep,(G) and the Spirit of God(H) was hovering(I) over the waters.
3 And God said,(J) “Let there be light,” and there was light.(K) 4 God saw that the light was good,(L) and he separated the light from the darkness.(M) 5 God called(N) the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.”(O) And there was evening, and there was morning(P)—the first day.
6 And God said,(Q) “Let there be a vault(R) between the waters(S) to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it.(T) And it was so.(U) 8 God called(V) the vault “sky.”(W) And there was evening, and there was morning(X)—the second day.
9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place,(Y) and let dry ground(Z) appear.” And it was so.(AA) 10 God called(AB) the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters(AC) he called “seas.”(AD) And God saw that it was good.(AE)
11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation:(AF) seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.(AG)” And it was so.(AH) 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds(AI) and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.(AJ) 13 And there was evening, and there was morning(AK)—the third day.
14 And God said, “Let there be lights(AL) in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night,(AM) and let them serve as signs(AN) to mark sacred times,(AO) and days and years,(AP) 15 and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so.(AQ) 16 God made two great lights—the greater light(AR) to govern(AS) the day and the lesser light to govern(AT) the night.(AU) He also made the stars.(AV) 17 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night,(AW) and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.(AX) 19 And there was evening, and there was morning(AY)—the fourth day.
20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures,(AZ) and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.”(BA) 21 So God created(BB) the great creatures of the sea(BC) and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it,(BD) according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.(BE) And God saw that it was good.(BF) 22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”(BG) 23 And there was evening, and there was morning(BH)—the fifth day.
24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures(BI) according to their kinds:(BJ) the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so.(BK) 25 God made the wild animals(BL) according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds.(BM) And God saw that it was good.(BN)
26 Then God said, “Let us(BO) make mankind(BP) in our image,(BQ) in our likeness,(BR) so that they may rule(BS) over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky,(BT) over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
27 So God created(BU) mankind(BV) in his own image,(BW)
in the image of God(BX) he created them;
male and female(BY) he created them.(BZ)
28 God blessed them and said to them,(CA) “Be fruitful and increase in number;(CB) fill the earth(CC) and subdue it. Rule over(CD) the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.(CE)”
29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.(CF) 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life(CG) in it—I give every green plant for food.(CH)” And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made,(CI) and it was very good.(CJ) And there was evening, and there was morning(CK)—the sixth day.
Footnotes
- Genesis 1:26 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Syriac); Masoretic Text the earth
Psalm 104
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Psalm 104
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O Lord My God, You Are Very Great
104 (A)Bless the Lord, O my soul!
O Lord my God, you are (B)very great!
(C)You are clothed with splendor and majesty,
2 covering yourself with light as with a garment,
(D)stretching out the heavens (E)like a tent.
3 He (F)lays the beams of his (G)chambers on the waters;
he makes (H)the clouds his chariot;
he rides on (I)the wings of the wind;
4 he (J)makes his messengers winds,
his (K)ministers (L)a flaming fire.
5 He (M)set the earth on its foundations,
so that it should never be moved.
6 You (N)covered it with the deep as with a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.
7 At (O)your rebuke they fled;
at (P)the sound of your thunder they (Q)took to flight.
8 The mountains rose, the valleys sank down
to the place that you (R)appointed for them.
9 You set (S)a boundary that they may not pass,
so that they (T)might not again cover the earth.
10 You make springs gush forth in the valleys;
they flow between the hills;
11 they (U)give drink to every beast of the field;
the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
12 Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell;
they sing among the branches.
13 (V)From your lofty abode you (W)water the mountains;
the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work.
14 You cause (X)the grass to grow for the livestock
and (Y)plants for man to cultivate,
that he may bring forth (Z)food from the earth
15 and (AA)wine to gladden the heart of man,
(AB)oil to make his face shine
and bread to (AC)strengthen man's heart.
16 The trees of the Lord are watered abundantly,
(AD)the cedars of Lebanon (AE)that he planted.
17 In them the birds build their nests;
the stork has her home in the fir trees.
18 The high mountains are for (AF)the wild goats;
the rocks are a refuge for (AG)the rock badgers.
19 He made the moon to mark the (AH)seasons;[a]
the sun knows its time for setting.
20 (AI)You make darkness, and it is night,
when all the beasts of the forest creep about.
21 (AJ)The young lions roar for their prey,
seeking their food from God.
22 When the sun rises, they steal away
and lie down in their (AK)dens.
23 (AL)Man goes out to his work
and to his labor until the evening.
24 O Lord, how manifold are your works!
In (AM)wisdom have you made them all;
the earth is full of your creatures.
25 Here is the sea, great and wide,
(AN)which teems with creatures innumerable,
living things both small and great.
26 There go the ships,
and (AO)Leviathan, which you formed to (AP)play in it.[b]
27 These (AQ)all look to you,
to (AR)give them their food in due season.
28 When you give it to them, they gather it up;
when you (AS)open your hand, they are filled with good things.
29 When you (AT)hide your face, they are (AU)dismayed;
when you (AV)take away their breath, they die
and (AW)return to their dust.
30 When you (AX)send forth your Spirit,[c] they are created,
and you (AY)renew the face of the ground.
31 May the glory of the Lord (AZ)endure forever;
may the Lord (BA)rejoice in his works,
32 who looks on the earth and it (BB)trembles,
who (BC)touches the mountains and they smoke!
33 I will sing to the Lord (BD)as long as I live;
I will sing praise to my God while I have being.
34 May my (BE)meditation be pleasing to him,
for I rejoice in the Lord.
35 Let (BF)sinners be consumed from the earth,
and let the wicked be no more!
(BG)Bless the Lord, O my soul!
(BH)Praise the Lord!
Footnotes
- Psalm 104:19 Or the appointed times (compare Genesis 1:14)
- Psalm 104:26 Or you formed to play with
- Psalm 104:30 Or breath
Psalm 104
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Psalm 104
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Psalm 104
1 Praise the Lord, my soul.(A)
Lord my God, you are very great;
you are clothed with splendor and majesty.(B)
2 The Lord wraps(C) himself in light(D) as with a garment;
he stretches(E) out the heavens(F) like a tent(G)
3 and lays the beams(H) of his upper chambers on their waters.(I)
He makes the clouds(J) his chariot(K)
and rides on the wings of the wind.(L)
4 He makes winds his messengers,[a](M)
flames of fire(N) his servants.
5 He set the earth(O) on its foundations;(P)
it can never be moved.
6 You covered it(Q) with the watery depths(R) as with a garment;
the waters stood(S) above the mountains.
7 But at your rebuke(T) the waters fled,
at the sound of your thunder(U) they took to flight;
8 they flowed over the mountains,
they went down into the valleys,
to the place you assigned(V) for them.
9 You set a boundary(W) they cannot cross;
never again will they cover the earth.
10 He makes springs(X) pour water into the ravines;
it flows between the mountains.
11 They give water(Y) to all the beasts of the field;
the wild donkeys(Z) quench their thirst.
12 The birds of the sky(AA) nest by the waters;
they sing among the branches.(AB)
13 He waters the mountains(AC) from his upper chambers;(AD)
the land is satisfied by the fruit of his work.(AE)
14 He makes grass grow(AF) for the cattle,
and plants for people to cultivate—
bringing forth food(AG) from the earth:
15 wine(AH) that gladdens human hearts,
oil(AI) to make their faces shine,
and bread that sustains(AJ) their hearts.
16 The trees of the Lord(AK) are well watered,
the cedars of Lebanon(AL) that he planted.
17 There the birds(AM) make their nests;
the stork has its home in the junipers.
18 The high mountains belong to the wild goats;(AN)
the crags are a refuge for the hyrax.(AO)
19 He made the moon to mark the seasons,(AP)
and the sun(AQ) knows when to go down.
20 You bring darkness,(AR) it becomes night,(AS)
and all the beasts of the forest(AT) prowl.
21 The lions roar for their prey(AU)
and seek their food from God.(AV)
22 The sun rises, and they steal away;
they return and lie down in their dens.(AW)
23 Then people go out to their work,(AX)
to their labor until evening.(AY)
24 How many are your works,(AZ) Lord!
In wisdom you made(BA) them all;
the earth is full of your creatures.(BB)
25 There is the sea,(BC) vast and spacious,
teeming with creatures beyond number—
living things both large and small.(BD)
26 There the ships(BE) go to and fro,
and Leviathan,(BF) which you formed to frolic(BG) there.(BH)
27 All creatures look to you
to give them their food(BI) at the proper time.
28 When you give it to them,
they gather it up;
when you open your hand,
they are satisfied(BJ) with good things.
29 When you hide your face,(BK)
they are terrified;
when you take away their breath,
they die and return to the dust.(BL)
30 When you send your Spirit,(BM)
they are created,
and you renew the face of the ground.
31 May the glory of the Lord(BN) endure forever;
may the Lord rejoice in his works(BO)—
32 he who looks at the earth, and it trembles,(BP)
who touches the mountains,(BQ) and they smoke.(BR)
33 I will sing(BS) to the Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
34 May my meditation be pleasing to him,
as I rejoice(BT) in the Lord.
35 But may sinners vanish(BU) from the earth
and the wicked be no more.(BV)
Praise the Lord, my soul.
Footnotes
- Psalm 104:4 Or angels
- Psalm 104:35 Hebrew Hallelu Yah; in the Septuagint this line stands at the beginning of Psalm 105.
Isaiah 65
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Isaiah 65
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Judgment and Salvation
65 (A)I was ready to be sought by (B)those who did not ask for me;
I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me.
I said, “Here I am, here I am,”
to a nation that was not called by[a] my name.
2 (C)I spread out my hands all the day
to a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is not good,
following their own devices;
3 a people who provoke me
to my face continually,
(D)sacrificing in gardens
and making offerings on bricks;
4 who sit in tombs,
and spend the night in secret places;
(E)who eat pig's flesh,
and broth of tainted meat is in their vessels;
5 who say, “Keep to yourself,
do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.”
(F)These are a smoke in my nostrils,
a fire that burns all the day.
6 Behold, (G)it is written before me:
(H)“I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
(I)I will indeed repay into their lap
7 both your iniquities (J)and your fathers' iniquities together,
says the Lord;
(K)because they made offerings on the mountains
(L)and insulted me on the hills,
I will measure into their lap
payment for their former deeds.”[b]
8 Thus says the Lord:
(M)“As the new wine is found in the cluster,
and they say, ‘Do not destroy it,
for there is a blessing in it,’
so I will do for my servants' sake,
(N)and not destroy them all.
9 (O)I will bring forth offspring from Jacob,
and from Judah possessors of my mountains;
my chosen shall possess it,
and my servants shall dwell there.
10 (P)Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks,
and (Q)the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down,
for my people (R)who have sought me.
11 But (S)you who forsake the Lord,
who forget (T)my holy mountain,
who (U)set a table for Fortune
and (V)fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny,
12 I will destine you to the sword,
and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter,
(W)because, when I called, you did not answer;
when I spoke, you did not listen,
(X)but you did what was evil in my eyes
and chose what I did not delight in.”
13 Therefore thus says the Lord God:
“Behold, (Y)my servants shall eat,
but you shall be hungry;
behold, my servants shall drink,
but you shall be thirsty;
behold, my servants shall rejoice,
but you shall be put to shame;
14 behold, (Z)my servants shall sing for gladness of heart,
but you shall cry out for pain of heart
and shall wail for breaking of spirit.
15 You shall leave your name to (AA)my chosen (AB)for a curse,
and the Lord God will put you to death,
but his servants (AC)he will call by another name,
16 so that he who (AD)blesses himself in the land
shall bless himself by (AE)the God of truth,
and he who takes an oath in the land
shall swear by (AF)the God of truth;
(AG)because the former troubles are forgotten
and are hidden from my eyes.
New Heavens and a New Earth
17 “For behold, (AH)I create new heavens
and a new earth,
and the former things shall not be remembered
or come into mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice forever
in that which I create;
for behold, (AI)I create Jerusalem to be a joy,
and her people to be a gladness.
19 (AJ)I will rejoice in Jerusalem
and be glad in my people;
(AK)no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping
and the cry of distress.
20 No more shall there be in it
an infant who lives but a few days,
or an old man who does not fill out his days,
for (AL)the young man shall die a hundred years old,
and (AM)the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
21 (AN)They shall build houses and inhabit them;
they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 (AO)They shall not build and another inhabit;
they shall not plant and another eat;
(AP)for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
and my chosen shall long enjoy[c] the work of their hands.
23 (AQ)They shall not labor in vain
(AR)or bear children for calamity,[d]
for (AS)they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,
and their descendants with them.
24 (AT)Before they call I will answer;
(AU)while they are yet speaking I will hear.
25 (AV)The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;
the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
and (AW)dust shall be the serpent's food.
(AX)They shall not hurt or destroy
in all my holy mountain,”
says the Lord.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 65:1 Or that did not call upon
- Isaiah 65:7 Or I will first measure their payment into their lap
- Isaiah 65:22 Hebrew shall wear out
- Isaiah 65:23 Or for sudden terror
Isaiah 65
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Isaiah 65
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Judgment and Salvation
65 “I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me;
I was found by those who did not seek me.(A)
To a nation(B) that did not call on my name,(C)
I said, ‘Here am I, here am I.’
2 All day long I have held out my hands
to an obstinate people,(D)
who walk in ways not good,
pursuing their own imaginations(E)—
3 a people who continually provoke me
to my very face,(F)
offering sacrifices in gardens(G)
and burning incense(H) on altars of brick;
4 who sit among the graves(I)
and spend their nights keeping secret vigil;
who eat the flesh of pigs,(J)
and whose pots hold broth of impure meat;
5 who say, ‘Keep away; don’t come near me,
for I am too sacred(K) for you!’
Such people are smoke(L) in my nostrils,
a fire that keeps burning all day.
6 “See, it stands written before me:
I will not keep silent(M) but will pay back(N) in full;
I will pay it back into their laps(O)—
7 both your sins(P) and the sins of your ancestors,”(Q)
says the Lord.
“Because they burned sacrifices on the mountains
and defied me on the hills,(R)
I will measure into their laps
the full payment(S) for their former deeds.”
8 This is what the Lord says:
“As when juice is still found in a cluster of grapes(T)
and people say, ‘Don’t destroy it,
there is still a blessing in it,’
so will I do in behalf of my servants;(U)
I will not destroy them all.
9 I will bring forth descendants(V) from Jacob,
and from Judah those who will possess(W) my mountains;
my chosen(X) people will inherit them,
and there will my servants live.(Y)
10 Sharon(Z) will become a pasture for flocks,(AA)
and the Valley of Achor(AB) a resting place for herds,
for my people who seek(AC) me.
11 “But as for you who forsake(AD) the Lord
and forget my holy mountain,(AE)
who spread a table for Fortune
and fill bowls of mixed wine(AF) for Destiny,
12 I will destine you for the sword,(AG)
and all of you will fall in the slaughter;(AH)
for I called but you did not answer,(AI)
I spoke but you did not listen.(AJ)
You did evil in my sight
and chose what displeases me.”(AK)
13 Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says:
“My servants will eat,(AL)
but you will go hungry;(AM)
my servants will drink,(AN)
but you will go thirsty;(AO)
my servants will rejoice,(AP)
but you will be put to shame.(AQ)
14 My servants will sing(AR)
out of the joy of their hearts,
but you will cry out(AS)
from anguish of heart
and wail in brokenness of spirit.
15 You will leave your name
for my chosen ones to use in their curses;(AT)
the Sovereign Lord will put you to death,
but to his servants he will give another name.(AU)
16 Whoever invokes a blessing(AV) in the land
will do so by the one true God;(AW)
whoever takes an oath in the land
will swear(AX) by the one true God.
For the past troubles(AY) will be forgotten
and hidden from my eyes.
New Heavens and a New Earth
17 “See, I will create
new heavens and a new earth.(AZ)
The former things will not be remembered,(BA)
nor will they come to mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice(BB) forever
in what I will create,
for I will create Jerusalem(BC) to be a delight
and its people a joy.
19 I will rejoice(BD) over Jerusalem
and take delight(BE) in my people;
the sound of weeping and of crying(BF)
will be heard in it no more.
20 “Never again will there be in it
an infant(BG) who lives but a few days,
or an old man who does not live out his years;(BH)
the one who dies at a hundred
will be thought a mere child;
the one who fails to reach[a] a hundred
will be considered accursed.
21 They will build houses(BI) and dwell in them;
they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.(BJ)
22 No longer will they build houses and others live in them,(BK)
or plant and others eat.
For as the days of a tree,(BL)
so will be the days(BM) of my people;
my chosen(BN) ones will long enjoy
the work of their hands.
23 They will not labor in vain,(BO)
nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune;(BP)
for they will be a people blessed(BQ) by the Lord,
they and their descendants(BR) with them.
24 Before they call(BS) I will answer;(BT)
while they are still speaking(BU) I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb(BV) will feed together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox,(BW)
and dust will be the serpent’s(BX) food.
They will neither harm nor destroy
on all my holy mountain,”(BY)
says the Lord.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 65:20 Or the sinner who reaches
Isaiah 17-25
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Isaiah 17-25
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An Oracle Concerning Damascus
17 An (A)oracle concerning (B)Damascus.
Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city
and will become a heap of ruins.
2 The cities of (C)Aroer are deserted;
they will be for flocks,
which will lie down, and (D)none will make them afraid.
3 The fortress will disappear from (E)Ephraim,
and the kingdom from (F)Damascus;
and the remnant of Syria will be
like (G)the glory of the children of Israel,
declares the Lord of hosts.
4 And in that day (H)the glory of Jacob will be brought low,
and (I)the fat of his flesh will grow lean.
5 And it shall be (J)as when the reaper gathers standing grain
and his arm harvests the ears,
and as when one gleans the ears of grain
in (K)the Valley of Rephaim.
6 (L)Gleanings will be left in it,
as when an olive tree is beaten—
two or three berries
in the top of the highest bough,
four or five
on the branches of a fruit tree,
declares the Lord God of Israel.
7 (M)In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel. 8 (N)He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and he will not look on what his own fingers have made, either the (O)Asherim or the altars of incense.
9 (P)In that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the wooded heights and the hilltops, which they deserted because of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation.
10 For (Q)you have forgotten the God of your salvation
and have not remembered the (R)Rock of your refuge;
therefore, though you plant pleasant plants
and sow the vine-branch of a stranger,
11 though you make them grow[a] on the day that you plant them,
and make them blossom in the morning that you sow,
yet the harvest will flee away[b]
in a day of grief and incurable pain.
12 Ah, (S)the thunder of many peoples;
they thunder like the thundering of the sea!
Ah, the roar of nations;
they roar like the roaring of mighty waters!
13 (T)The nations roar like the roaring of many waters,
(U)but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away,
chased (V)like chaff on the mountains before the wind
and (W)whirling dust before the storm.
14 (X)At evening time, behold, terror!
Before morning, they are no more!
This is the portion of those who loot us,
and the lot of those who plunder us.
An Oracle Concerning Cush
18 Ah, land of (Y)whirring wings
that is beyond the rivers of (Z)Cush,[c]
2 which (AA)sends ambassadors by the sea,
in vessels of papyrus on the waters!
Go, you swift messengers,
to a nation (AB)tall and smooth,
to a people feared near and far,
a nation (AC)mighty and conquering,
whose land the rivers divide.
3 All you inhabitants of the world,
you who dwell on the earth,
when (AD)a signal is raised on the mountains, look!
When a trumpet is blown, hear!
4 For thus the Lord said to me:
“I will quietly look (AE)from my dwelling
like clear heat in sunshine,
like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
5 (AF)For before the harvest, when the blossom is over,
and the flower becomes a ripening grape,
he cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks,
and the spreading branches he lops off and clears away.
6 (AG)They shall all of them be left
to the birds of prey of the mountains
and to the beasts of the earth.
And the birds of prey will summer on them,
and all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.
7 (AH)At that time tribute will be brought to the Lord of hosts
from a people (AI)tall and smooth,
from a people feared near and far,
a nation mighty and conquering,
whose land the rivers divide,
to (AJ)Mount Zion, the place of the (AK)name of the Lord of hosts.
An Oracle Concerning Egypt
19 An (AL)oracle concerning (AM)Egypt.
Behold, the Lord (AN)is riding on a swift cloud
and comes to Egypt;
and (AO)the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence,
and the heart of the Egyptians will (AP)melt within them.
2 And I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians,
(AQ)and they will fight, each against another
and each against his neighbor,
city against city, kingdom against kingdom;
3 and the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out,
and I will confound[d] their (AR)counsel;
and they will inquire of the idols and the sorcerers,
and (AS)the mediums and the necromancers;
4 and I will give over the Egyptians
into the hand of (AT)a hard master,
and a fierce king will rule over them,
declares the Lord God of hosts.
5 And the waters of the sea will be dried up,
and the river will be dry and parched,
6 and its canals will become foul,
and the branches of Egypt's Nile will diminish and dry up,
reeds and rushes will rot away.
7 There will be bare places by the Nile,
on the brink of the Nile,
and all that is sown by the Nile will be parched,
will be driven away, and will be no more.
8 The (AU)fishermen will mourn and lament,
all who cast a hook in the Nile;
and they will languish
who spread nets on the water.
9 The workers in (AV)combed flax will be in despair,
and the weavers of white cotton.
10 Those who are the (AW)pillars of the land will be crushed,
and all who (AX)work for pay will be grieved.
11 The princes of (AY)Zoan are utterly foolish;
the wisest counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel.
How can you say to Pharaoh,
“I am a son of the wise,
a son of ancient kings”?
12 Where then are your (AZ)wise men?
Let them tell you
that they might know what the Lord of hosts has purposed against Egypt.
13 The princes of (BA)Zoan have become fools,
and the princes of (BB)Memphis are deluded;
those who are the (BC)cornerstones of her tribes
have made Egypt stagger.
14 The Lord has mingled within her (BD)a spirit of confusion,
and they will make Egypt stagger in all its deeds,
(BE)as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
15 And there will be nothing for Egypt
that (BF)head or tail, palm branch or reed, may do.
Egypt, Assyria, Israel Blessed
16 In that day the Egyptians will be (BG)like women, and (BH)tremble with fear before the hand that the Lord of hosts shakes over them. 17 And the land of Judah will become a terror to the Egyptians. Everyone to whom it is mentioned will fear because of the purpose that the Lord of hosts has purposed against them.
18 (BI)In that day there will be (BJ)five cities in the land of Egypt that (BK)speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the Lord of hosts. One of these will be called the City of Destruction.[e]
19 In that day there will be an (BL)altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a (BM)pillar to the Lord at its border. 20 (BN)It will be a sign and a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry to the Lord because of oppressors, (BO)he will send them a savior and defender, and deliver them. 21 (BP)And the Lord will make himself known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians will know the Lord in that day (BQ)and worship with sacrifice and offering, and they will make vows to the Lord and perform them. 22 (BR)And the Lord will strike Egypt, striking and healing, and they will return to the Lord, and he will listen to their pleas for mercy and heal them.
23 (BS)In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria, (BT)and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.
24 In that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, (BU)a blessing in the midst of the earth, 25 whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed be Egypt (BV)my people, and Assyria (BW)the work of my hands, and (BX)Israel my inheritance.”
A Sign Against Egypt and Cush
20 In the year that (BY)the commander in chief, who was sent by Sargon the king of Assyria, came to (BZ)Ashdod and fought against it and captured it— 2 at that time the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loose the sackcloth from your waist and take off your sandals from your feet,” and he did so, walking (CA)naked and barefoot.
3 Then the Lord said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years (CB)as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush,[f] 4 so shall the (CC)king of Assyria lead away the Egyptian captives and the Cushite exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt. 5 (CD)Then they shall be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and of Egypt their boast. 6 And the inhabitants of (CE)this coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is what has happened to those in whom we hoped and (CF)to whom we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! And we, how shall we escape?’”
Fallen, Fallen Is Babylon
21 The (CG)oracle concerning the wilderness of (CH)the sea.
(CI)As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on,
it comes from the wilderness,
from a terrible land.
2 A stern vision is told to me;
(CJ)the traitor betrays,
and the destroyer destroys.
Go up, O (CK)Elam;
lay siege, O (CL)Media;
all the (CM)sighing she has caused
I bring to an end.
3 Therefore my loins are filled with anguish;
(CN)pangs have seized me,
like the pangs of a woman in labor;
I am bowed down so that I cannot hear;
I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
4 My heart staggers; horror has appalled me;
(CO)the twilight I longed for
has been turned for me into trembling.
5 (CP)They prepare the table,
they spread the rugs,[g]
they eat, they drink.
Arise, O princes;
(CQ)oil the shield!
6 For thus the Lord said to me:
“Go, set a watchman;
let him announce what he sees.
7 When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs,
riders on donkeys, riders on camels,
let him listen diligently,
very diligently.”
8 Then he who saw cried out:[h]
(CR)“Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord,
continually by day,
and at my post I am stationed
whole nights.
9 And behold, here come riders,
horsemen in pairs!”
(CS)And he answered,
(CT)“Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
(CU)and all the carved images of her gods
he has shattered to the ground.”
10 O (CV)my threshed and winnowed one,
what I have heard from the Lord of hosts,
the God of Israel, I announce to you.
11 The (CW)oracle concerning (CX)Dumah.
One is calling to me from (CY)Seir,
“Watchman, what time of the night?
Watchman, what time of the night?”
12 The watchman says:
“Morning comes, and also (CZ)the night.
If you will inquire, (DA)inquire;
come back again.”
13 The (DB)oracle concerning (DC)Arabia.
In the thickets in (DD)Arabia you will lodge,
O (DE)caravans of (DF)Dedanites.
14 To the thirsty bring water;
meet the fugitive with bread,
O inhabitants of the land of (DG)Tema.
15 For they have fled from the swords,
from the drawn sword,
from the bent bow,
and from the press of battle.
16 For thus the Lord said to me, “Within a year, (DH)according to the years of a hired worker, all the glory of (DI)Kedar will come to an end. 17 And the remainder of the archers of the mighty men of the sons of (DJ)Kedar will be few, (DK)for the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.”
An Oracle Concerning Jerusalem
22 The (DL)oracle concerning (DM)the valley of vision.
What do you mean that you have gone up,
all of you, to the housetops,
2 you who are full of shoutings,
tumultuous city, (DN)exultant town?
Your slain are (DO)not slain with the sword
or dead in battle.
3 (DP)All your leaders have fled together;
without the bow they were captured.
All of you who were found were captured,
though they had fled far away.
4 Therefore I said:
“Look away from me;
(DQ)let me weep bitter tears;
do not labor to comfort me
concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
5 (DR)For the Lord God of hosts has (DS)a day
of tumult and (DT)trampling and (DU)confusion
in (DV)the valley of vision,
a battering down of walls
and a shouting to the mountains.
6 And (DW)Elam bore the quiver
with chariots and horsemen,
and (DX)Kir uncovered the shield.
7 Your choicest valleys were full of chariots,
and the horsemen took their stand at the gates.
8 He has taken away (DY)the covering of Judah.
In that day you looked to (DZ)the weapons of the House of the Forest, 9 and you saw that (EA)the breaches of the city of David were many. (EB)You collected the waters of the lower pool, 10 and you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall. 11 (EC)You made a reservoir between (ED)the two walls for the water of (EE)the old pool. But (EF)you did not look to him who did it, or see him who planned it long ago.
12 In that day (EG)the Lord God of hosts
called for weeping and mourning,
for (EH)baldness and (EI)wearing sackcloth;
13 and behold, joy and gladness,
killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
eating flesh and drinking wine.
(EJ)“Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we die.”
14 The Lord of hosts (EK)has revealed himself in my ears:
“Surely (EL)this iniquity will not be atoned for you (EM)until you die,”
says the Lord God of hosts.
15 Thus says the Lord God of hosts, “Come, go to this steward, to (EN)Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him: 16 What have you to do here, and whom have you here, (EO)that you have cut out here a tomb for yourself, you (EP)who cut out a tomb on the height and carve a dwelling for yourself in the rock? 17 Behold, the Lord will hurl you away violently, O you strong man. (EQ)He will seize firm hold on you 18 and whirl you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a wide land. There you shall die, and there shall be (ER)your glorious chariots, you shame of your master's house. 19 (ES)I will thrust you from your office, and you will be pulled down from your station. 20 In that day I will call my servant (ET)Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, 21 and (EU)I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your sash on him, and will commit your authority to his hand. And he shall be (EV)a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. 22 And I will place (EW)on his shoulder (EX)the key of the house of David. (EY)He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. 23 And I will fasten him (EZ)like a peg in a secure place, and he will become (FA)a throne of honor to his father's house. 24 And they will hang on him the whole honor of his father's house, the offspring and issue, every small vessel, from the cups to all the flagons. 25 In that day, declares the Lord of hosts, (FB)the peg that was fastened in a secure place will give way, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on it will be cut off, for the Lord has spoken.”
An Oracle Concerning Tyre and Sidon
23 The (FC)oracle concerning (FD)Tyre.
Wail, O (FE)ships of Tarshish,
for Tyre is laid waste, (FF)without house or harbor!
From (FG)the land of Cyprus[i]
it is revealed to them.
2 Be still, O inhabitants of the coast;
the merchants of (FH)Sidon, who cross the sea, have filled you.
3 And on many waters
your revenue was the grain of Shihor,
the harvest of the Nile;
you were (FI)the merchant of the nations.
4 Be ashamed, O (FJ)Sidon, for the sea has spoken,
the stronghold of the sea, saying:
“I have neither labored nor given birth,
I have neither reared young men
nor brought up young women.”
5 When the report comes to Egypt,
they will be in anguish[j] over the report about Tyre.
6 (FK)Cross over to Tarshish;
wail, O inhabitants of the coast!
7 Is this your exultant city
(FL)whose origin is from days of old,
whose feet carried her
to settle far away?
8 Who has purposed this
against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants were princes,
whose traders were the honored of the earth?
9 The Lord of hosts has purposed it,
(FM)to defile the pompous pride of all glory,[k]
to dishonor all the honored of the earth.
10 Cross over your land like the Nile,
O daughter of Tarshish;
there is no restraint anymore.
11 (FN)He has stretched out his hand over the sea;
he has shaken the kingdoms;
the Lord has given command concerning Canaan
to destroy its strongholds.
12 And he said:
“You will no more exult,
O oppressed virgin daughter of (FO)Sidon;
arise, (FP)cross over to (FQ)Cyprus,
even there you will have no rest.”
13 Behold the land of (FR)the Chaldeans! This is the people that was not;[l] Assyria destined it for wild beasts. They erected (FS)their siege towers, they stripped her palaces bare, they made her a ruin.
14 (FT)Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
for your stronghold is laid waste.
15 In that day Tyre will be forgotten for (FU)seventy years, like the days[m] of one king. At the end of (FV)seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:
16 “Take a harp;
go about the city,
O forgotten prostitute!
Make sweet melody;
sing many songs,
that you may be remembered.”
17 At the end of (FW)seventy years, the Lord will visit Tyre, and she will return to her wages and (FX)will prostitute herself with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. 18 Her merchandise and her wages will be holy to the Lord. It will not be stored or hoarded, but her merchandise will supply abundant food and fine clothing for those who dwell before the Lord.
Judgment on the Whole Earth
24 Behold, (FY)the Lord will empty the earth[n] and make it desolate,
and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.
2 (FZ)And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest;
as with the slave, so with his master;
as with the maid, so with her mistress;
(GA)as with the buyer, so with the seller;
as with the lender, so with the borrower;
(GB)as with the creditor, so with the debtor.
3 (GC)The earth shall be utterly empty and utterly plundered;
(GD)for the Lord has spoken this word.
4 (GE)The earth mourns and withers;
the world languishes and withers;
the highest people of the earth languish.
5 The earth lies (GF)defiled
under its inhabitants;
for (GG)they have transgressed the laws,
violated the statutes,
broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore (GH)a curse devours the earth,
and its inhabitants (GI)suffer for their guilt;
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched,
and few men are left.
7 (GJ)The wine mourns,
the vine languishes,
all the merry-hearted sigh.
8 (GK)The mirth of the tambourines is stilled,
the noise of the jubilant has ceased,
the mirth of the lyre is stilled.
9 No more do they drink wine (GL)with singing;
strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.
10 (GM)The wasted city is broken down;
(GN)every house is shut up so that none can enter.
11 (GO)There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine;
(GP)all joy has grown dark;
the gladness of the earth is banished.
12 Desolation is left in the city;
the gates are battered into ruins.
13 For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth
among the nations,
(GQ)as when an olive tree is beaten,
as at the gleaning when the grape harvest is done.
14 They lift up their voices, they sing for joy;
over the majesty of the Lord they shout from the west.[o]
15 (GR)Therefore in the east[p] give glory to the Lord;
in the coastlands of the sea, give glory to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
16 (GS)From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise,
of glory to (GT)the Righteous One.
But I say, “I waste away,
I waste away. Woe is me!
For (GU)the traitors have betrayed,
with betrayal the traitors have betrayed.”
17 (GV)Terror and the pit and the snare[q]
are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth!
18 (GW)He who flees at the sound of the terror
shall fall into the pit,
and he who climbs out of the pit
shall be caught in the snare.
For (GX)the windows of heaven are opened,
and (GY)the foundations of the earth tremble.
19 The earth is utterly broken,
the earth is split apart,
the earth is violently shaken.
20 The earth (GZ)staggers like a drunken man;
it sways like a hut;
(HA)its transgression lies heavy upon it,
and it falls, and will not rise again.
21 On that day the Lord will punish
the host of heaven, in heaven,
and (HB)the kings of the earth, on the earth.
22 (HC)They will be gathered together
as prisoners in a pit;
they will be shut up in a prison,
and after many days (HD)they will be punished.
23 (HE)Then the moon will be confounded
and the sun ashamed,
for (HF)the Lord of hosts reigns
on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,
and his glory will be before his elders.
God Will Swallow Up Death Forever
25 O Lord, (HG)you are my God;
(HH)I will exalt you; I will praise your name,
for you have done wonderful things,
(HI)plans formed of old, faithful and sure.
2 For you have made the city (HJ)a heap,
the fortified city a ruin;
the foreigners' palace is a city no more;
it will never be rebuilt.
3 (HK)Therefore strong peoples will glorify you;
cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
4 (HL)For you have been a stronghold to the poor,
a stronghold to the needy in his distress,
(HM)a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat;
(HN)for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,
5 (HO)like heat in a dry place.
You subdue the noise of the foreigners;
as heat by the shade of a cloud,
so the song of the ruthless is put down.
6 (HP)On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples
a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine,
(HQ)of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.
7 And he will swallow up (HR)on this mountain
the covering that is cast over all peoples,
(HS)the veil that is spread over all nations.
8 (HT)He will swallow up death forever;
and (HU)the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces,
and (HV)the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth,
(HW)for the Lord has spoken.
9 It will be said on that day,
“Behold, this is our God; (HX)we have waited for him, that he might save us.
This is the Lord; we have waited for him;
(HY)let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”
10 For the hand of the Lord will rest (HZ)on this mountain,
and (IA)Moab shall be trampled down in his place,
as straw is trampled down in a dunghill.[r]
11 (IB)And he will spread out his hands in the midst of it
as a swimmer spreads his hands out to swim,
but the Lord (IC)will lay low his pompous pride together with the skill[s] of his hands.
12 And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down,
lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 17:11 Or though you carefully fence them
- Isaiah 17:11 Or will be a heap
- Isaiah 18:1 Probably Nubia
- Isaiah 19:3 Or I will swallow up
- Isaiah 19:18 Dead Sea Scroll and some other manuscripts City of the Sun
- Isaiah 20:3 Probably Nubia
- Isaiah 21:5 Or they set the watchman
- Isaiah 21:8 Dead Sea Scroll, Syriac; Masoretic Text Then a lion cried out, or Then he cried out like a lion
- Isaiah 23:1 Hebrew Kittim; also verse 12
- Isaiah 23:5 Hebrew they will have labor pains
- Isaiah 23:9 The Hebrew words for glory and hosts sound alike
- Isaiah 23:13 Or that has become nothing
- Isaiah 23:15 Or lifetime
- Isaiah 24:1 Or land; also throughout this chapter
- Isaiah 24:14 Hebrew from the sea
- Isaiah 24:15 Hebrew in the realm of light, or with the fires
- Isaiah 24:17 The Hebrew words for terror, pit, and snare sound alike
- Isaiah 25:10 The Hebrew words for dunghill and for the Moabite town Madmen (Jeremiah 48:2) sound alike
- Isaiah 25:11 Or in spite of the skill
Isaiah 17-25
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Isaiah 17-25
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A Prophecy Against Damascus
17 A prophecy(A) against Damascus:(B)
“See, Damascus will no longer be a city
but will become a heap of ruins.(C)
2 The cities of Aroer(D) will be deserted
and left to flocks,(E) which will lie down,(F)
with no one to make them afraid.(G)
3 The fortified(H) city will disappear from Ephraim,
and royal power from Damascus;
the remnant of Aram will be
like the glory(I) of the Israelites,”(J)
declares the Lord Almighty.
4 “In that day(K) the glory(L) of Jacob will fade;
the fat of his body will waste(M) away.
5 It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain,
gathering(N) the grain in their arms—
as when someone gleans heads of grain(O)
in the Valley of Rephaim.(P)
6 Yet some gleanings will remain,(Q)
as when an olive tree is beaten,(R)
leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches,
four or five on the fruitful boughs,”
declares the Lord, the God of Israel.
7 In that day(S) people will look(T) to their Maker(U)
and turn their eyes to the Holy One(V) of Israel.
8 They will not look to the altars,(W)
the work of their hands,(X)
and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles[a](Y)
and the incense altars their fingers(Z) have made.
9 In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth.(AA) And all will be desolation.
10 You have forgotten(AB) God your Savior;(AC)
you have not remembered the Rock,(AD) your fortress.(AE)
Therefore, though you set out the finest plants
and plant imported vines,(AF)
11 though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,
and on the morning(AG) when you plant them, you bring them to bud,
yet the harvest(AH) will be as nothing(AI)
in the day of disease and incurable(AJ) pain.(AK)
12 Woe to the many nations that rage(AL)—
they rage like the raging sea!(AM)
Woe to the peoples who roar(AN)—
they roar like the roaring of great waters!(AO)
13 Although the peoples roar(AP) like the roar of surging waters,
when he rebukes(AQ) them they flee(AR) far away,
driven before the wind like chaff(AS) on the hills,
like tumbleweed before a gale.(AT)
14 In the evening, sudden(AU) terror!(AV)
Before the morning, they are gone!(AW)
This is the portion of those who loot us,
the lot of those who plunder us.
A Prophecy Against Cush
18 Woe(AX) to the land of whirring wings[b]
along the rivers of Cush,[c](AY)
2 which sends envoys(AZ) by sea
in papyrus(BA) boats over the water.
Go, swift messengers,
to a people tall and smooth-skinned,(BB)
to a people feared far and wide,
an aggressive(BC) nation of strange speech,
whose land is divided by rivers.(BD)
3 All you people of the world,(BE)
you who live on the earth,
when a banner(BF) is raised on the mountains,
you will see it,
and when a trumpet(BG) sounds,
you will hear it.
4 This is what the Lord says to me:
“I will remain quiet(BH) and will look on from my dwelling place,(BI)
like shimmering heat in the sunshine,(BJ)
like a cloud of dew(BK) in the heat of harvest.”
5 For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone
and the flower becomes a ripening grape,
he will cut off(BL) the shoots with pruning knives,
and cut down and take away the spreading branches.(BM)
6 They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey(BN)
and to the wild animals;(BO)
the birds will feed on them all summer,
the wild animals all winter.
7 At that time gifts(BP) will be brought to the Lord Almighty
from a people tall and smooth-skinned,(BQ)
from a people feared(BR) far and wide,
an aggressive nation of strange speech,
whose land is divided by rivers(BS)—
the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the Lord Almighty.(BT)
A Prophecy Against Egypt
19 A prophecy(BU) against Egypt:(BV)
See, the Lord rides on a swift cloud(BW)
and is coming to Egypt.
The idols of Egypt tremble before him,
and the hearts of the Egyptians melt(BX) with fear.
2 “I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian—
brother will fight against brother,(BY)
neighbor against neighbor,
city against city,
kingdom against kingdom.(BZ)
3 The Egyptians will lose heart,(CA)
and I will bring their plans(CB) to nothing;(CC)
they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead,
the mediums and the spiritists.(CD)
4 I will hand the Egyptians over
to the power of a cruel master,
and a fierce king(CE) will rule over them,”
declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
5 The waters of the river will dry up,(CF)
and the riverbed will be parched and dry.(CG)
6 The canals will stink;(CH)
the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up.(CI)
The reeds(CJ) and rushes will wither,(CK)
7 also the plants(CL) along the Nile,
at the mouth of the river.
Every sown field(CM) along the Nile
will become parched, will blow away and be no more.(CN)
8 The fishermen(CO) will groan and lament,
all who cast hooks(CP) into the Nile;
those who throw nets on the water
will pine away.
9 Those who work with combed flax(CQ) will despair,
the weavers of fine linen(CR) will lose hope.
10 The workers in cloth will be dejected,
and all the wage earners will be sick at heart.
11 The officials of Zoan(CS) are nothing but fools;
the wise counselors(CT) of Pharaoh give senseless advice.(CU)
How can you say to Pharaoh,
“I am one of the wise men,(CV)
a disciple of the ancient kings”?
12 Where are your wise men(CW) now?
Let them show you and make known
what the Lord Almighty
has planned(CX) against Egypt.
13 The officials of Zoan(CY) have become fools,
the leaders of Memphis(CZ) are deceived;
the cornerstones(DA) of her peoples
have led Egypt astray.
14 The Lord has poured into them
a spirit of dizziness;(DB)
they make Egypt stagger in all that she does,
as a drunkard staggers(DC) around in his vomit.
15 There is nothing Egypt can do—
head or tail, palm branch or reed.(DD)
16 In that day(DE) the Egyptians will become weaklings.(DF) They will shudder with fear(DG) at the uplifted hand(DH) that the Lord Almighty raises against them. 17 And the land of Judah will bring terror to the Egyptians; everyone to whom Judah is mentioned will be terrified,(DI) because of what the Lord Almighty is planning(DJ) against them.
18 In that day(DK) five cities(DL) in Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance(DM) to the Lord Almighty. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.[d](DN)
19 In that day(DO) there will be an altar(DP) to the Lord in the heart of Egypt,(DQ) and a monument(DR) to the Lord at its border. 20 It will be a sign and witness(DS) 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(DT) and defender, and he will rescue(DU) them. 21 So the Lord will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge(DV) the Lord. They will worship(DW) with sacrifices and grain offerings; they will make vows to the Lord and keep them.(DX) 22 The Lord will strike(DY) Egypt with a plague;(DZ) he will strike them and heal them. They will turn(EA) to the Lord, and he will respond to their pleas and heal(EB) them.
23 In that day(EC) there will be a highway(ED) from Egypt to Assyria.(EE) The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship(EF) together. 24 In that day(EG) Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria,(EH) a blessing[e](EI) on the earth. 25 The Lord Almighty will bless(EJ) them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people,(EK) Assyria my handiwork,(EL) and Israel my inheritance.(EM)”
A Prophecy Against Egypt and Cush
20 In the year that the supreme commander,(EN) sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod(EO) and attacked and captured it— 2 at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz.(EP) He said to him, “Take off the sackcloth(EQ) from your body and the sandals(ER) from your feet.” And he did so, going around stripped(ES) and barefoot.(ET)
3 Then the Lord said, “Just as my servant(EU) Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years,(EV) as a sign(EW) and portent(EX) against Egypt(EY) and Cush,[f](EZ) 4 so the king(FA) of Assyria will lead away stripped(FB) and barefoot the Egyptian captives(FC) and Cushite(FD) exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared(FE)—to Egypt’s shame.(FF) 5 Those who trusted(FG) in Cush(FH) and boasted in Egypt(FI) will be dismayed and put to shame.(FJ) 6 In that day(FK) the people who live on this coast will say, ‘See what has happened(FL) to those we relied on,(FM) those we fled to for help(FN) and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?(FO)’”
A Prophecy Against Babylon
21 A prophecy(FP) against the Desert(FQ) by the Sea:
Like whirlwinds(FR) sweeping through the southland,(FS)
an invader comes from the desert,
from a land of terror.
2 A dire(FT) vision has been shown to me:
The traitor betrays,(FU) the looter takes loot.
Elam,(FV) attack! Media,(FW) lay siege!
I will bring to an end all the groaning she caused.
3 At this my body is racked with pain,(FX)
pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor;(FY)
I am staggered by what I hear,
I am bewildered(FZ) by what I see.
4 My heart(GA) falters,
fear makes me tremble;(GB)
the twilight I longed for
has become a horror(GC) to me.
5 They set the tables,
they spread the rugs,
they eat, they drink!(GD)
Get up, you officers,
oil the shields!(GE)
6 This is what the Lord says to me:
“Go, post a lookout(GF)
and have him report what he sees.
7 When he sees chariots(GG)
with teams of horses,
riders on donkeys
or riders on camels,(GH)
let him be alert,
fully alert.”
8 And the lookout[g](GI) shouted,
“Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower;
every night I stay at my post.
9 Look, here comes a man in a chariot(GJ)
with a team of horses.
And he gives back the answer:
‘Babylon(GK) has fallen,(GL) has fallen!
All the images of its gods(GM)
lie shattered(GN) on the ground!’”
10 My people who are crushed on the threshing floor,(GO)
I tell you what I have heard
from the Lord Almighty,
from the God of Israel.
A Prophecy Against Edom
11 A prophecy against Dumah[h]:(GP)
Someone calls to me from Seir,(GQ)
“Watchman, what is left of the night?
Watchman, what is left of the night?”
12 The watchman replies,
“Morning is coming, but also the night.
If you would ask, then ask;
and come back yet again.”
A Prophecy Against Arabia
13 A prophecy(GR) against Arabia:(GS)
You caravans of Dedanites,(GT)
who camp in the thickets of Arabia,
14 bring water for the thirsty;
you who live in Tema,(GU)
bring food for the fugitives.
15 They flee(GV) from the sword,(GW)
from the drawn sword,
from the bent bow
and from the heat of battle.
16 This is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a servant bound by contract(GX) would count it, all the splendor(GY) of Kedar(GZ) will come to an end. 17 The survivors of the archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.(HA)” The Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.(HB)
A Prophecy About Jerusalem
22 A prophecy(HC) against the Valley(HD) of Vision:(HE)
What troubles you now,
that you have all gone up on the roofs,(HF)
2 you town so full of commotion,
you city of tumult(HG) and revelry?(HH)
Your slain(HI) were not killed by the sword,(HJ)
nor did they die in battle.
3 All your leaders have fled(HK) together;
they have been captured(HL) without using the bow.
All you who were caught were taken prisoner together,
having fled while the enemy was still far away.
4 Therefore I said, “Turn away from me;
let me weep(HM) bitterly.
Do not try to console me
over the destruction of my people.”(HN)
5 The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day(HO)
of tumult and trampling(HP) and terror(HQ)
in the Valley of Vision,(HR)
a day of battering down walls(HS)
and of crying out to the mountains.
6 Elam(HT) takes up the quiver,(HU)
with her charioteers and horses;
Kir(HV) uncovers the shield.
7 Your choicest valleys(HW) are full of chariots,
and horsemen are posted at the city gates.(HX)
8 The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah,
and you looked in that day(HY)
to the weapons(HZ) in the Palace of the Forest.(IA)
9 You saw that the walls of the City of David
were broken through(IB) in many places;
you stored up water
in the Lower Pool.(IC)
10 You counted the buildings in Jerusalem
and tore down houses(ID) to strengthen the wall.(IE)
11 You built a reservoir between the two walls(IF)
for the water of the Old Pool,(IG)
but you did not look to the One who made it,
or have regard(IH) for the One who planned(II) it long ago.
12 The Lord, the Lord Almighty,
called you on that day(IJ)
to weep(IK) and to wail,
to tear out your hair(IL) and put on sackcloth.(IM)
13 But see, there is joy and revelry,(IN)
slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep,
eating of meat and drinking of wine!(IO)
“Let us eat and drink,” you say,
“for tomorrow we die!”(IP)
14 The Lord Almighty has revealed this in my hearing:(IQ) “Till your dying day this sin will not be atoned(IR) for,” says the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
15 This is what the Lord, the Lord Almighty, says:
“Go, say to this steward,
to Shebna(IS) the palace(IT) administrator:(IU)
16 What are you doing here and who gave you permission
to cut out a grave(IV) for yourself(IW) 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(IX) you away, you mighty man.
18 He will roll you up tightly like a ball
and throw(IY) you into a large country.
There you will die
and there the chariots(IZ) you were so proud of
will become a disgrace to your master’s house.
19 I will depose you from your office,
and you will be ousted(JA) from your position.(JB)
20 “In that day(JC) I will summon my servant,(JD) Eliakim(JE) son of Hilkiah. 21 I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash(JF) around him and hand your authority(JG) over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah. 22 I will place on his shoulder(JH) the key(JI) to the house of David;(JJ) what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.(JK) 23 I will drive him like a peg(JL) into a firm place;(JM) he will become a seat[i] of honor(JN) for the house of his father. 24 All 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,(JO)” declares the Lord Almighty, “the peg(JP) 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.(JQ)
A Prophecy Against Tyre
23 A prophecy against Tyre:(JR)
Wail,(JS) you ships(JT) of Tarshish!(JU)
For Tyre is destroyed(JV)
and left without house or harbor.
From the land of Cyprus
word has come to them.
2 Be silent,(JW) you people of the island
and you merchants(JX) of Sidon,(JY)
whom the seafarers have enriched.
3 On the great waters
came the grain of the Shihor;(JZ)
the harvest of the Nile[j](KA) was the revenue of Tyre,(KB)
and she became the marketplace of the nations.
4 Be ashamed, Sidon,(KC) and you fortress of the sea,
for the sea has spoken:
“I have neither been in labor nor given birth;(KD)
I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters.”
5 When word comes to Egypt,
they will be in anguish(KE) at the report from Tyre.(KF)
6 Cross over to Tarshish;(KG)
wail, you people of the island.
7 Is this your city of revelry,(KH)
the old, old city,
whose feet have taken her
to settle in far-off lands?
8 Who planned this against Tyre,
the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants(KI) are princes,
whose traders(KJ) are renowned in the earth?
9 The Lord Almighty planned(KK) it,
to bring down(KL) her pride in all her splendor
and to humble(KM) all who are renowned(KN) on the earth.
10 Till[k] your land as they do along the Nile,
Daughter Tarshish,
for you no longer have a harbor.
11 The Lord has stretched out his hand(KO) over the sea
and made its kingdoms tremble.(KP)
He has given an order concerning Phoenicia
that her fortresses be destroyed.(KQ)
12 He said, “No more of your reveling,(KR)
Virgin Daughter(KS) Sidon, now crushed!
“Up, cross over to Cyprus;(KT)
even there you will find no rest.”
13 Look at the land of the Babylonians,[l](KU)
this people that is now of no account!
The Assyrians(KV) have made it
a place for desert creatures;(KW)
they raised up their siege towers,(KX)
they stripped its fortresses bare
and turned it into a ruin.(KY)
15 At that time Tyre(LC) will be forgotten for seventy years,(LD) 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;(LE)
play the harp well, sing many a song,
so that you will be remembered.”
17 At the end of seventy years,(LF) the Lord will deal with Tyre. She will return to her lucrative prostitution(LG) and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.(LH) 18 Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the Lord;(LI) they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the Lord,(LJ) for abundant food and fine clothes.(LK)
The Lord’s Devastation of the Earth
24 See, the Lord is going to lay waste the earth(LL)
and devastate(LM) it;
he will ruin its face
and scatter(LN) its inhabitants—
2 it will be the same
for priest as for people,(LO)
for the master as for his servant,
for the mistress as for her servant,
for seller as for buyer,(LP)
for borrower as for lender,
for debtor as for creditor.(LQ)
3 The earth will be completely laid waste(LR)
and totally plundered.(LS)
The Lord has spoken(LT) this word.
4 The earth dries up(LU) and withers,(LV)
the world languishes and withers,
the heavens(LW) languish with the earth.(LX)
5 The earth is defiled(LY) by its people;
they have disobeyed(LZ) the laws,
violated the statutes
and broken the everlasting covenant.(MA)
6 Therefore a curse(MB) consumes the earth;
its people must bear their guilt.
Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up,(MC)
and very few are left.
7 The new wine dries up(MD) and the vine withers;(ME)
all the merrymakers groan.(MF)
8 The joyful timbrels(MG) are stilled,
the noise(MH) of the revelers(MI) has stopped,
the joyful harp(MJ) is silent.(MK)
9 No longer do they drink wine(ML) with a song;
the beer is bitter(MM) to its drinkers.
10 The ruined city(MN) lies desolate;(MO)
the entrance to every house is barred.
11 In the streets they cry out(MP) for wine;(MQ)
all joy turns to gloom,(MR)
all joyful sounds are banished from the earth.
12 The city is left in ruins,(MS)
its gate(MT) is battered to pieces.
13 So will it be on the earth
and among the nations,
as when an olive tree is beaten,(MU)
or as when gleanings are left after the grape harvest.(MV)
14 They raise their voices, they shout for joy;(MW)
from the west(MX) they acclaim the Lord’s majesty.
15 Therefore in the east(MY) give glory(MZ) to the Lord;
exalt(NA) the name(NB) of the Lord, the God of Israel,
in the islands(NC) of the sea.
16 From the ends of the earth(ND) we hear singing:(NE)
“Glory(NF) to the Righteous One.”(NG)
But I said, “I waste away, I waste away!(NH)
Woe(NI) to me!
The treacherous(NJ) betray!
With treachery the treacherous betray!(NK)”
17 Terror(NL) and pit and snare(NM) await you,
people of the earth.(NN)
18 Whoever flees(NO) at the sound of terror
will fall into a pit;(NP)
whoever climbs out of the pit
will be caught in a snare.(NQ)
The floodgates of the heavens(NR) are opened,
the foundations of the earth shake.(NS)
19 The earth is broken up,(NT)
the earth is split asunder,(NU)
the earth is violently shaken.
20 The earth reels like a drunkard,(NV)
it sways like a hut(NW) in the wind;
so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion(NX)
that it falls(NY)—never to rise again.(NZ)
21 In that day(OA) the Lord will punish(OB)
the powers(OC) in the heavens above
and the kings(OD) on the earth below.
22 They will be herded together
like prisoners(OE) bound in a dungeon;(OF)
they will be shut up in prison
and be punished[m] after many days.(OG)
23 The moon will be dismayed,
the sun(OH) ashamed;
for the Lord Almighty will reign(OI)
on Mount Zion(OJ) and in Jerusalem,
and before its elders—with great glory.(OK)
Praise to the Lord
25 Lord, you are my God;(OL)
I will exalt you and praise your name,(OM)
for in perfect faithfulness(ON)
you have done wonderful things,(OO)
things planned(OP) long ago.
2 You have made the city a heap of rubble,(OQ)
the fortified(OR) town a ruin,(OS)
the foreigners’ stronghold(OT) a city no more;
it will never be rebuilt.(OU)
3 Therefore strong peoples will honor you;(OV)
cities of ruthless(OW) nations will revere you.
4 You have been a refuge(OX) for the poor,(OY)
a refuge for the needy(OZ) in their distress,
a shelter from the storm(PA)
and a shade from the heat.
For the breath of the ruthless(PB)
is like a storm driving against a wall
5 and like the heat of the desert.
You silence(PC) the uproar of foreigners;(PD)
as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud,
so the song of the ruthless(PE) is stilled.
6 On this mountain(PF) the Lord Almighty will prepare
a feast(PG) of rich food for all peoples,
a banquet of aged wine—
the best of meats and the finest of wines.(PH)
7 On this mountain he will destroy
the shroud(PI) that enfolds all peoples,(PJ)
the sheet that covers all nations;
8 he will swallow up death(PK) forever.
The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears(PL)
from all faces;
he will remove his people’s disgrace(PM)
from all the earth.
The Lord has spoken.(PN)
9 In that day(PO) they will say,
“Surely this is our God;(PP)
we trusted(PQ) in him, and he saved(PR) us.
This is the Lord, we trusted in him;
let us rejoice(PS) and be glad in his salvation.”(PT)
10 The hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain;(PU)
but Moab(PV) will be trampled in their land
as straw is trampled down in the manure.
11 They will stretch out their hands in it,
as swimmers stretch out their hands to swim.
God will bring down(PW) their pride(PX)
despite the cleverness[n] of their hands.
12 He will bring down your high fortified walls(PY)
and lay them low;(PZ)
he will bring them down to the ground,
to the very dust.
Footnotes
- 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 3 are 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.
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