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Isaiah 14:1-28:14
English Standard Version
Isaiah 14:1-28:14
English Standard Version
The Restoration of Jacob
14 (A)For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and (B)will set them in their own land, and (C)sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob. 2 And (D)the peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the Lord's land (E)as male and female slaves.[a] (F)They will take captive those who were their captors, (G)and rule over those who oppressed them.
Israel's Remnant Taunts Babylon
3 When the Lord has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve, 4 you will take up this (H)taunt against the king of Babylon:
“How the oppressor has ceased,
(I)the insolent fury[b] ceased!
5 The Lord has broken the (J)staff of the wicked,
the (K)scepter of rulers,
6 (L)that struck the peoples in wrath
with unceasing blows,
that ruled the nations in anger
with unrelenting persecution.
7 The whole earth is at rest and quiet;
(M)they break forth into singing.
8 (N)(O)The cypresses rejoice at you,
(P)the cedars of Lebanon, saying,
‘Since you were laid low,
no woodcutter comes up against us.’
9 Sheol beneath is stirred up
to meet you when you come;
it rouses the shades to greet you,
all who were leaders of the earth;
it raises from their thrones
all who were kings of the nations.
10 (Q)All of them will answer
and say to you:
‘You too have become as weak as we!
You have become like us!’
11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,
the sound of your harps;
maggots are laid as a bed beneath you,
and worms are your covers.
12 “How (R)you are fallen from heaven,
O Day Star, (S)son of Dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
you who laid the nations low!
13 You said in your heart,
(T)‘I will ascend to heaven;
above the stars of God
(U)I will set my throne on high;
I will sit on the mount of assembly
in the far reaches of the north;[c]
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.’
15 (V)But you are brought down to Sheol,
to the far reaches of the pit.
16 Those who see you will stare at you
and ponder over you:
‘Is this (W)the man who made the earth tremble,
who shook kingdoms,
17 who made the world like a desert
and overthrew its cities,
(X)who did not let his prisoners go home?’
18 All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
each in his own tomb;[d]
19 but you are cast out, away from your grave,
like a loathed branch,
(Y)clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword,
who go down to the stones of the pit,
like a dead body trampled underfoot.
20 You will not be joined with them in burial,
because you have destroyed your land,
you have slain your people.
“May (Z)the offspring of evildoers
nevermore be named!
21 Prepare slaughter for his sons
(AA)because of the guilt of their fathers,
lest they rise and possess the earth,
and fill the face of the world with cities.”
22 “I will rise up against them,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon name and (AB)remnant, (AC)descendants and posterity,” declares the Lord. 23 “And I will make it a possession of the (AD)hedgehog,[e] and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.
An Oracle Concerning Assyria
24 The Lord of hosts has sworn:
(AE)“As I have planned,
so shall it be,
and as I have purposed,
so shall it stand,
25 that (AF)I will break the Assyrian in my land,
and on my mountains trample him underfoot;
and (AG)his yoke shall depart from them,
and (AH)his burden from their shoulder.”
26 This is the purpose that is purposed
concerning the whole earth,
and this is (AI)the hand that is stretched out
over all the nations.
27 (AJ)For the Lord of hosts has purposed,
and who will annul it?
(AK)His hand is stretched out,
and who will turn it back?
An Oracle Concerning Philistia
28 In the year that (AL)King Ahaz died came this (AM)oracle:
29 Rejoice not, (AN)O Philistia, all of you,
that (AO)the rod that struck you is broken,
for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder,
and its fruit will be a (AP)flying fiery serpent.
30 And the firstborn of (AQ)the poor will graze,
and (AR)the needy lie down in safety;
but I will kill your root with famine,
and your remnant it will slay.
31 (AS)Wail, O (AT)gate; cry out, O city;
melt in fear, (AU)O Philistia, all of you!
(AV)For smoke comes out of the north,
and there is no straggler in his ranks.
32 What will one answer the messengers of the nation?
(AW)“The Lord has founded Zion,
and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge.”
An Oracle Concerning Moab
15 An (AX)oracle concerning (AY)Moab.
Because (AZ)Ar of Moab is laid waste in a night,
Moab is undone;
because (BA)Kir of Moab is laid waste in a night,
Moab is undone.
2 He has gone up to the temple,[f] and to (BB)Dibon,
to the high places[g] to weep;
over (BC)Nebo and over (BD)Medeba
Moab (BE)wails.
On every head is (BF)baldness;
every beard is shorn;
3 in the streets they wear sackcloth;
on the housetops and in the squares
everyone wails and melts in tears.
4 (BG)Heshbon and (BH)Elealeh cry out;
their voice is heard as far as (BI)Jahaz;
therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud;
his soul trembles.
5 My heart cries out for Moab;
her fugitives flee to Zoar,
to (BJ)Eglath-shelishiyah.
For at the (BK)ascent of Luhith
they go up weeping;
on the road to (BL)Horonaim
they raise a cry of destruction;
6 the waters of (BM)Nimrim
are a desolation;
the grass is withered, the vegetation fails,
the greenery is no more.
7 (BN)Therefore the abundance they have gained
and what they have laid up
they carry away
over the Brook of the Willows.
8 For a cry has gone
around the land of Moab;
her wailing reaches to Eglaim;
her wailing reaches to Beer-elim.
9 For the waters of (BO)Dibon[h] are full of blood;
for I will bring upon Dibon even more,
(BP)a lion for those of Moab who escape,
for the remnant of the land.
16 (BQ)Send the lamb to the ruler of the land,
from (BR)Sela, by way of the desert,
to the mount of the daughter of Zion.
2 Like fleeing birds,
like a scattered nest,
so are the daughters of Moab
at (BS)the fords of the Arnon.
3 “Give counsel;
grant justice;
(BT)make your shade like night
at the height of noon;
shelter the outcasts;
do not reveal the fugitive;
4 let (BU)the outcasts of Moab
sojourn among you;
be a shelter to them[i]
from the destroyer.
When the oppressor is no more,
and destruction has ceased,
and he who tramples underfoot has vanished from the land,
5 (BV)then a throne will be established in steadfast love,
and on it will sit in faithfulness
in the tent of David
one who judges and seeks justice
and is swift to do righteousness.”
6 (BW)We have heard of the pride of Moab—
how proud he is!—
(BX)of his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence;
in his idle boasting he is not right.
7 Therefore let Moab wail for Moab,
(BY)let everyone wail.
Mourn, utterly stricken,
for the (BZ)raisin cakes of (CA)Kir-hareseth.
8 For the fields of Heshbon languish,
and (CB)the vine of Sibmah;
the lords of the nations
have struck down its branches,
which reached to Jazer
and strayed to the desert;
its shoots spread abroad
and passed over the sea.
9 Therefore (CC)I weep with (CD)the weeping of Jazer
for the vine of Sibmah;
I drench you with my tears,
O Heshbon and Elealeh;
for over (CE)your summer fruit and your harvest
the shout has ceased.
10 (CF)And joy and gladness are taken away from (CG)the fruitful field,
and in the vineyards no (CH)songs are sung,
no cheers are raised;
no (CI)treader treads out wine (CJ)in the presses;
I have put an end to the shouting.
11 Therefore (CK)my inner parts moan like a lyre for Moab,
and my inmost self for Kir-hareseth.
12 And when Moab presents himself, when (CL)he wearies himself on (CM)the high place, when he comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail.
13 This is the word that the Lord spoke concerning Moab (CN)in the past. 14 But now the Lord has spoken, saying, “In three years, (CO)like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all his great multitude, and those who remain will be (CP)very few and feeble.”
An Oracle Concerning Damascus
17 An (CQ)oracle concerning (CR)Damascus.
Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city
and will become a heap of ruins.
2 The cities of (CS)Aroer are deserted;
they will be for flocks,
which will lie down, and (CT)none will make them afraid.
3 The fortress will disappear from (CU)Ephraim,
and the kingdom from (CV)Damascus;
and the remnant of Syria will be
like (CW)the glory of the children of Israel,
declares the Lord of hosts.
4 And in that day (CX)the glory of Jacob will be brought low,
and (CY)the fat of his flesh will grow lean.
5 And it shall be (CZ)as when the reaper gathers standing grain
and his arm harvests the ears,
and as when one gleans the ears of grain
in (DA)the Valley of Rephaim.
6 (DB)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 (DC)In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel. 8 (DD)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 (DE)Asherim or the altars of incense.
9 (DF)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 (DG)you have forgotten the God of your salvation
and have not remembered the (DH)Rock of your refuge;
therefore, though you plant pleasant plants
and sow the vine-branch of a stranger,
11 though you make them grow[j] on the day that you plant them,
and make them blossom in the morning that you sow,
yet the harvest will flee away[k]
in a day of grief and incurable pain.
12 Ah, (DI)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 (DJ)The nations roar like the roaring of many waters,
(DK)but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away,
chased (DL)like chaff on the mountains before the wind
and (DM)whirling dust before the storm.
14 (DN)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 (DO)whirring wings
that is beyond the rivers of (DP)Cush,[l]
2 which (DQ)sends ambassadors by the sea,
in vessels of papyrus on the waters!
Go, you swift messengers,
to a nation (DR)tall and smooth,
to a people feared near and far,
a nation (DS)mighty and conquering,
whose land the rivers divide.
3 All you inhabitants of the world,
you who dwell on the earth,
when (DT)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 (DU)from my dwelling
like clear heat in sunshine,
like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
5 (DV)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 (DW)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 (DX)At that time tribute will be brought to the Lord of hosts
from a people (DY)tall and smooth,
from a people feared near and far,
a nation mighty and conquering,
whose land the rivers divide,
to (DZ)Mount Zion, the place of the (EA)name of the Lord of hosts.
An Oracle Concerning Egypt
19 An (EB)oracle concerning (EC)Egypt.
Behold, the Lord (ED)is riding on a swift cloud
and comes to Egypt;
and (EE)the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence,
and the heart of the Egyptians will (EF)melt within them.
2 And I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians,
(EG)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[m] their (EH)counsel;
and they will inquire of the idols and the sorcerers,
and (EI)the mediums and the necromancers;
4 and I will give over the Egyptians
into the hand of (EJ)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 (EK)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 (EL)combed flax will be in despair,
and the weavers of white cotton.
10 Those who are the (EM)pillars of the land will be crushed,
and all who (EN)work for pay will be grieved.
11 The princes of (EO)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 (EP)wise men?
Let them tell you
that they might know what the Lord of hosts has purposed against Egypt.
13 The princes of (EQ)Zoan have become fools,
and the princes of (ER)Memphis are deluded;
those who are the (ES)cornerstones of her tribes
have made Egypt stagger.
14 The Lord has mingled within her (ET)a spirit of confusion,
and they will make Egypt stagger in all its deeds,
(EU)as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
15 And there will be nothing for Egypt
that (EV)head or tail, palm branch or reed, may do.
Egypt, Assyria, Israel Blessed
16 In that day the Egyptians will be (EW)like women, and (EX)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 (EY)In that day there will be (EZ)five cities in the land of Egypt that (FA)speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the Lord of hosts. One of these will be called the City of Destruction.[n]
19 In that day there will be an (FB)altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a (FC)pillar to the Lord at its border. 20 (FD)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, (FE)he will send them a savior and defender, and deliver them. 21 (FF)And the Lord will make himself known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians will know the Lord in that day (FG)and worship with sacrifice and offering, and they will make vows to the Lord and perform them. 22 (FH)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 (FI)In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria, (FJ)and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.
24 In that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, (FK)a blessing in the midst of the earth, 25 whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed be Egypt (FL)my people, and Assyria (FM)the work of my hands, and (FN)Israel my inheritance.”
A Sign Against Egypt and Cush
20 In the year that (FO)the commander in chief, who was sent by Sargon the king of Assyria, came to (FP)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 (FQ)naked and barefoot.
3 Then the Lord said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years (FR)as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush,[o] 4 so shall the (FS)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 (FT)Then they shall be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and of Egypt their boast. 6 And the inhabitants of (FU)this coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is what has happened to those in whom we hoped and (FV)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 (FW)oracle concerning the wilderness of (FX)the sea.
(FY)As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on,
it comes from the wilderness,
from a terrible land.
2 A stern vision is told to me;
(FZ)the traitor betrays,
and the destroyer destroys.
Go up, O (GA)Elam;
lay siege, O (GB)Media;
all the (GC)sighing she has caused
I bring to an end.
3 Therefore my loins are filled with anguish;
(GD)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;
(GE)the twilight I longed for
has been turned for me into trembling.
5 (GF)They prepare the table,
they spread the rugs,[p]
they eat, they drink.
Arise, O princes;
(GG)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:[q]
(GH)“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!”
(GI)And he answered,
(GJ)“Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
(GK)and all the carved images of her gods
he has shattered to the ground.”
10 O (GL)my threshed and winnowed one,
what I have heard from the Lord of hosts,
the God of Israel, I announce to you.
11 The (GM)oracle concerning (GN)Dumah.
One is calling to me from (GO)Seir,
“Watchman, what time of the night?
Watchman, what time of the night?”
12 The watchman says:
“Morning comes, and also (GP)the night.
If you will inquire, (GQ)inquire;
come back again.”
13 The (GR)oracle concerning (GS)Arabia.
In the thickets in (GT)Arabia you will lodge,
O (GU)caravans of (GV)Dedanites.
14 To the thirsty bring water;
meet the fugitive with bread,
O inhabitants of the land of (GW)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, (GX)according to the years of a hired worker, all the glory of (GY)Kedar will come to an end. 17 And the remainder of the archers of the mighty men of the sons of (GZ)Kedar will be few, (HA)for the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.”
An Oracle Concerning Jerusalem
22 The (HB)oracle concerning (HC)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, (HD)exultant town?
Your slain are (HE)not slain with the sword
or dead in battle.
3 (HF)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;
(HG)let me weep bitter tears;
do not labor to comfort me
concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
5 (HH)For the Lord God of hosts has (HI)a day
of tumult and (HJ)trampling and (HK)confusion
in (HL)the valley of vision,
a battering down of walls
and a shouting to the mountains.
6 And (HM)Elam bore the quiver
with chariots and horsemen,
and (HN)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 (HO)the covering of Judah.
In that day you looked to (HP)the weapons of the House of the Forest, 9 and you saw that (HQ)the breaches of the city of David were many. (HR)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 (HS)You made a reservoir between (HT)the two walls for the water of (HU)the old pool. But (HV)you did not look to him who did it, or see him who planned it long ago.
12 In that day (HW)the Lord God of hosts
called for weeping and mourning,
for (HX)baldness and (HY)wearing sackcloth;
13 and behold, joy and gladness,
killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
eating flesh and drinking wine.
(HZ)“Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we die.”
14 The Lord of hosts (IA)has revealed himself in my ears:
“Surely (IB)this iniquity will not be atoned for you (IC)until you die,”
says the Lord God of hosts.
15 Thus says the Lord God of hosts, “Come, go to this steward, to (ID)Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him: 16 What have you to do here, and whom have you here, (IE)that you have cut out here a tomb for yourself, you (IF)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. (IG)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 (IH)your glorious chariots, you shame of your master's house. 19 (II)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 (IJ)Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, 21 and (IK)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 (IL)a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. 22 And I will place (IM)on his shoulder (IN)the key of the house of David. (IO)He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. 23 And I will fasten him (IP)like a peg in a secure place, and he will become (IQ)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, (IR)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 (IS)oracle concerning (IT)Tyre.
Wail, O (IU)ships of Tarshish,
for Tyre is laid waste, (IV)without house or harbor!
From (IW)the land of Cyprus[r]
it is revealed to them.
2 Be still, O inhabitants of the coast;
the merchants of (IX)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 (IY)the merchant of the nations.
4 Be ashamed, O (IZ)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[s] over the report about Tyre.
6 (JA)Cross over to Tarshish;
wail, O inhabitants of the coast!
7 Is this your exultant city
(JB)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,
(JC)to defile the pompous pride of all glory,[t]
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 (JD)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 (JE)Sidon;
arise, (JF)cross over to (JG)Cyprus,
even there you will have no rest.”
13 Behold the land of (JH)the Chaldeans! This is the people that was not;[u] Assyria destined it for wild beasts. They erected (JI)their siege towers, they stripped her palaces bare, they made her a ruin.
14 (JJ)Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
for your stronghold is laid waste.
15 In that day Tyre will be forgotten for (JK)seventy years, like the days[v] of one king. At the end of (JL)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 (JM)seventy years, the Lord will visit Tyre, and she will return to her wages and (JN)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, (JO)the Lord will empty the earth[w] and make it desolate,
and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.
2 (JP)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;
(JQ)as with the buyer, so with the seller;
as with the lender, so with the borrower;
(JR)as with the creditor, so with the debtor.
3 (JS)The earth shall be utterly empty and utterly plundered;
(JT)for the Lord has spoken this word.
4 (JU)The earth mourns and withers;
the world languishes and withers;
the highest people of the earth languish.
5 The earth lies (JV)defiled
under its inhabitants;
for (JW)they have transgressed the laws,
violated the statutes,
broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore (JX)a curse devours the earth,
and its inhabitants (JY)suffer for their guilt;
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched,
and few men are left.
7 (JZ)The wine mourns,
the vine languishes,
all the merry-hearted sigh.
8 (KA)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 (KB)with singing;
strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.
10 (KC)The wasted city is broken down;
(KD)every house is shut up so that none can enter.
11 (KE)There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine;
(KF)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,
(KG)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.[x]
15 (KH)Therefore in the east[y] give glory to the Lord;
in the coastlands of the sea, give glory to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
16 (KI)From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise,
of glory to (KJ)the Righteous One.
But I say, “I waste away,
I waste away. Woe is me!
For (KK)the traitors have betrayed,
with betrayal the traitors have betrayed.”
17 (KL)Terror and the pit and the snare[z]
are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth!
18 (KM)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 (KN)the windows of heaven are opened,
and (KO)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 (KP)staggers like a drunken man;
it sways like a hut;
(KQ)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 (KR)the kings of the earth, on the earth.
22 (KS)They will be gathered together
as prisoners in a pit;
they will be shut up in a prison,
and after many days (KT)they will be punished.
23 (KU)Then the moon will be confounded
and the sun ashamed,
for (KV)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, (KW)you are my God;
(KX)I will exalt you; I will praise your name,
for you have done wonderful things,
(KY)plans formed of old, faithful and sure.
2 For you have made the city (KZ)a heap,
the fortified city a ruin;
the foreigners' palace is a city no more;
it will never be rebuilt.
3 (LA)Therefore strong peoples will glorify you;
cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
4 (LB)For you have been a stronghold to the poor,
a stronghold to the needy in his distress,
(LC)a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat;
(LD)for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,
5 (LE)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 (LF)On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples
a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine,
(LG)of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.
7 And he will swallow up (LH)on this mountain
the covering that is cast over all peoples,
(LI)the veil that is spread over all nations.
8 (LJ)He will swallow up death forever;
and (LK)the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces,
and (LL)the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth,
(LM)for the Lord has spoken.
9 It will be said on that day,
“Behold, this is our God; (LN)we have waited for him, that he might save us.
This is the Lord; we have waited for him;
(LO)let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”
10 For the hand of the Lord will rest (LP)on this mountain,
and (LQ)Moab shall be trampled down in his place,
as straw is trampled down in a dunghill.[aa]
11 (LR)And he will spread out his hands in the midst of it
as a swimmer spreads his hands out to swim,
but the Lord (LS)will lay low his pompous pride together with the skill[ab] 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.
You Keep Him in Perfect Peace
26 In that day (LT)this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
“We have a strong city;
he sets up (LU)salvation
as walls and bulwarks.
2 (LV)Open the gates,
that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
3 (LW)You keep him in perfect peace
whose mind is stayed on you,
because he trusts in you.
4 Trust in the Lord forever,
for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
5 (LX)For he has humbled
the inhabitants of the height,
the lofty city.
He lays it low, lays it low to the ground,
casts it to the dust.
6 The foot tramples it,
the feet of (LY)the poor,
the steps of (LZ)the needy.”
7 The path of the righteous is level;
(MA)you make level the way of the righteous.
8 In the path of your judgments,
O Lord, we wait for you;
(MB)your name and (MC)remembrance
are the desire of our soul.
9 My soul yearns for you in the night;
my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
(MD)For when your judgments are in the earth,
the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
10 (ME)If favor is shown to the wicked,
he does not learn righteousness;
in the land of uprightness he deals corruptly
and does not see the majesty of the Lord.
11 O Lord, (MF)your hand is lifted up,
but (MG)they do not see it.
Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed.
Let (MH)the fire for your adversaries consume them.
12 O Lord, you will ordain (MI)peace for us,
for you have indeed done for us all our works.
13 O Lord our God,
(MJ)other lords besides you have ruled over us,
(MK)but your name alone we bring to remembrance.
14 They are dead, they will not live;
they are shades, they will not arise;
to that end you have visited them with destruction
and wiped out all remembrance of them.
15 (ML)But you have increased the nation, O Lord,
you have increased the nation; you are glorified;
(MM)you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
16 O Lord, (MN)in distress they sought you;
they poured out a whispered prayer
when your discipline was upon them.
17 (MO)Like a pregnant woman
who writhes and cries out in her pangs
when she is near to giving birth,
so were we because of you, O Lord;
18 (MP)we were pregnant, we writhed,
but we have given birth to wind.
We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth,
and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.
19 (MQ)Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise.
You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy!
For (MR)your dew is a dew of light,
and the earth will give birth to the dead.
20 Come, my people, enter your chambers,
and shut your doors behind you;
hide yourselves (MS)for a little while
until the fury has passed by.
21 (MT)For behold, the Lord is coming out from his place
to punish the inhabitants of (MU)the earth for their iniquity,
and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it,
and will no more cover its slain.
The Redemption of Israel
27 In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong (MV)sword will punish (MW)Leviathan the fleeing serpent, (MX)Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay (MY)the dragon that is in the sea.
2 In that day,
(MZ)“A pleasant vineyard,[ac] (NA)sing of it!
3 I, the Lord, am its keeper;
every moment I water it.
Lest anyone punish it,
I keep it night and day;
4 I have no wrath.
(NB)Would that I had thorns and briers to battle!
I would march against them,
I would burn them up together.
5 Or let them lay hold of my protection,
let them make peace with me,
let them make peace with me.”
6 (NC)In days to come[ad] Jacob shall take root,
Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots
and fill the whole world with fruit.
7 (ND)Has he struck them (NE)as he struck those who struck them?
Or have they been slain (NF)as their slayers were slain?
8 (NG)Measure by measure,[ae] by exile you contended with them;
(NH)he removed them with his fierce breath[af] in the day of the east wind.
9 Therefore by this (NI)the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:[ag]
(NJ)when he makes all the stones of the altars
like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
no (NK)Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
10 (NL)For the fortified city is solitary,
a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;
there the calf grazes;
there it lies down and strips its branches.
11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
women come and make a fire of them.
(NM)For this is a people without discernment;
therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
he who formed them will show them no favor.
12 In that day (NN)from the river Euphrates[ah] to the Brook of Egypt the Lord will thresh out the grain, and you will be gleaned one by one, O people of Israel. 13 And in that day (NO)a great trumpet will be blown, (NP)and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt (NQ)will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
Judgment on Ephraim and Jerusalem
28 Ah, the proud crown of (NR)the drunkards of Ephraim,
and the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine!
2 Behold, the Lord has (NS)one who is mighty and strong;
like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest,
like (NT)a storm of mighty, overflowing waters,
he casts down to the earth with his hand.
3 (NU)The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim
will be trodden underfoot;
4 (NV)and the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
which is on the head of the rich valley,
will be like (NW)a first-ripe fig[ai] before the summer:
when someone sees it, he swallows it
as soon as it is in his hand.
5 (NX)In that day the Lord of hosts will be a crown of glory,[aj]
and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people,
6 and (NY)a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment,
and (NZ)strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
7 (OA)These also reel with wine
and (OB)stagger with strong drink;
the priest and (OC)the prophet reel with strong drink,
they are swallowed by[ak] wine,
they stagger with strong drink,
they reel in vision,
they stumble in giving judgment.
8 For all tables are full of filthy vomit,
with no space left.
9 (OD)“To whom will he teach knowledge,
and to whom will he explain the message?
Those who are weaned from the milk,
those taken from the breast?
10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little.”
11 (OE)For by people of strange lips
and with a foreign tongue
the Lord will speak to this people,
12 to whom he has said,
(OF)“This is rest;
give rest to the weary;
and this is repose”;
yet they would not hear.
13 And the word of the Lord will be to them
precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little,
(OG)that they may go, and fall backward,
and be broken, and snared, and taken.
A Cornerstone in Zion
14 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you (OH)scoffers,
who rule this people in Jerusalem!
Footnotes
- Isaiah 14:2 Or servants
- Isaiah 14:4 Dead Sea Scroll (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate); the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain
- Isaiah 14:13 Or in the remote parts of Zaphon
- Isaiah 14:18 Hebrew house
- Isaiah 14:23 Possibly porcupine, or owl
- Isaiah 15:2 Hebrew the house
- Isaiah 15:2 Or temple, even Dibon to the high places
- Isaiah 15:9 Dead Sea Scroll, Vulgate (compare Syriac); Masoretic Text Dimon; twice in this verse
- Isaiah 16:4 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac; Masoretic Text let my outcasts sojourn among you; as for Moab, be a shelter to them
- 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 27:2 Many Hebrew manuscripts A vineyard of wine
- Isaiah 27:6 Hebrew In those to come
- Isaiah 27:8 Or By driving her away; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
- Isaiah 27:8 Or wind
- Isaiah 27:9 Septuagint and this is the blessing when I take away his sin
- Isaiah 27:12 Hebrew from the River
- Isaiah 28:4 Or fruit
- Isaiah 28:5 The Hebrew words for glory and hosts sound alike
- Isaiah 28:7 Or confused by
Isaiah 14:1-28:14
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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.
2 Nations 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)
3 On the day the Lord gives you relief(I) from your suffering and turmoil(J) and from the harsh labor forced on you,(K) 4 you 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!
5 The Lord has broken the rod(O) of the wicked,(P)
the scepter(Q) of the rulers,
6 which in anger struck down peoples(R)
with unceasing blows,
and in fury subdued(S) nations
with relentless aggression.(T)
7 All the lands are at rest and at peace;(U)
they break into singing.(V)
8 Even 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)
9 The 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)
10 They will all respond,
they will say to you,
“You also have become weak, as we are;
you have become like us.”(AC)
11 All 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)
12 How 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)
13 You 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]
14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;(AO)
I will make myself like the Most High.”(AP)
15 But you are brought down(AQ) to the realm of the dead,(AR)
to the depths(AS) of the pit.(AT)
16 Those who see you stare at you,
they ponder your fate:(AU)
“Is this the man who shook(AV) the earth
and made kingdoms tremble,
17 the man who made the world a wilderness,(AW)
who overthrew(AX) its cities
and would not let his captives go home?”(AY)
18 All the kings of the nations lie in state,
each in his own tomb.(AZ)
19 But 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.
21 Prepare 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)
24 The 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)
25 I 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)”
26 This is the plan(BW) determined for the whole world;
this is the hand(BX) stretched out over all nations.
27 For 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
28 This prophecy(CB) came in the year(CC) King Ahaz(CD) died:
29 Do 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)
30 The 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)
31 Wail,(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)
32 What 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!
2 Dibon(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)
3 In the streets they wear sackcloth;(DG)
on the roofs(DH) and in the public squares(DI)
they all wail,(DJ)
prostrate with weeping.(DK)
4 Heshbon(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.
5 My 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)
6 The waters of Nimrim are dried up(DU)
and the grass is withered;(DV)
the vegetation is gone(DW)
and nothing green is left.(DX)
7 So the wealth they have acquired(DY) and stored up
they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.
8 Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab;
their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim,
their lamentation as far as Beer(DZ) Elim.
9 The 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)
2 Like 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.
4 Let 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.
5 In 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.
6 We 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.
7 Therefore the Moabites wail,(EU)
they wail together for Moab.
Lament and grieve
for the raisin cakes(EV) of Kir Hareseth.(EW)
8 The 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)
9 So 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.
10 Joy 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.
11 My heart laments for Moab(FN) like a harp,(FO)
my inmost being(FP) for Kir Hareseth.
12 When 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)
13 This is the word the Lord has already spoken concerning Moab. 14 But 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)
2 The 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)
3 The 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.
5 It 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)
6 Yet 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.
7 In that day(GQ) people will look(GR) to their Maker(GS)
and turn their eyes to the Holy One(GT) of Israel.
8 They 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.
9 In 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.
10 You 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)
11 though 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)
12 Woe 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)
13 Although 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)
14 In 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)
2 which 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)
3 All 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.
4 This 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.”
5 For, 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)
6 They 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.
7 At 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)
3 The 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)
4 I 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.
5 The waters of the river will dry up,(JD)
and the riverbed will be parched and dry.(JE)
6 The 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)
8 The fishermen(JM) will groan and lament,
all who cast hooks(JN) into the Nile;
those who throw nets on the water
will pine away.
9 Those who work with combed flax(JO) will despair,
the weavers of fine linen(JP) 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(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”?
12 Where are your wise men(JU) now?
Let them show you and make known
what the Lord Almighty
has planned(JV) against Egypt.
13 The officials of Zoan(JW) have become fools,
the leaders of Memphis(JX) are deceived;
the cornerstones(JY) of her peoples
have led Egypt astray.
14 The 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.
15 There is nothing Egypt can do—
head or tail, palm branch or reed.(KB)
16 In 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. 17 And 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.
18 In 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)
19 In 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. 20 It 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. 21 So 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) 22 The 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.
23 In 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. 24 In that day(LE) Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria,(LF) a blessing[k](LG) on the earth. 25 The 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— 2 at 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)
3 Then 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) 4 so 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) 5 Those who trusted(ME) in Cush(MF) and boasted in Egypt(MG) will be dismayed and put to shame.(MH) 6 In 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.
2 A 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.
3 At 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.
4 My heart(MY) falters,
fear makes me tremble;(MZ)
the twilight I longed for
has become a horror(NA) to me.
5 They set the tables,
they spread the rugs,
they eat, they drink!(NB)
Get up, you officers,
oil the shields!(NC)
6 This is what the Lord says to me:
“Go, post a lookout(ND)
and have him report what he sees.
7 When he sees chariots(NE)
with teams of horses,
riders on donkeys
or riders on camels,(NF)
let him be alert,
fully alert.”
8 And the lookout[m](NG) 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(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!’”
10 My 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
11 A 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?”
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(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.
15 They flee(NT) from the sword,(NU)
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(NV) would count it, all the splendor(NW) of Kedar(NX) will come to an end. 17 The 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)
2 you 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.
3 All 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.
4 Therefore I said, “Turn away from me;
let me weep(OK) bitterly.
Do not try to console me
over the destruction of my people.”(OL)
5 The 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.
6 Elam(OR) takes up the quiver,(OS)
with her charioteers and horses;
Kir(OT) uncovers the shield.
7 Your choicest valleys(OU) are full of chariots,
and horsemen are posted at the city gates.(OV)
8 The 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)
9 You 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)
10 You counted the buildings in Jerusalem
and tore down houses(PB) to strengthen the wall.(PC)
11 You 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.
12 The 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)
13 But 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)
14 The 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.
15 This is what the Lord, the Lord Almighty, says:
“Go, say to this steward,
to Shebna(PQ) the palace(PR) administrator:(PS)
16 What 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.
18 He 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.
19 I 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. 21 I 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. 22 I 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) 23 I 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. 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,(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.
2 Be silent,(QU) you people of the island
and you merchants(QV) of Sidon,(QW)
whom the seafarers have enriched.
3 On 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.
4 Be 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.”
5 When word comes to Egypt,
they will be in anguish(RC) at the report from Tyre.(RD)
6 Cross over to Tarshish;(RE)
wail, you people of the island.
7 Is this your city of revelry,(RF)
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(RG) are princes,
whose traders(RH) are renowned in the earth?
9 The 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.
10 Till[q] 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(RM) over the sea
and made its kingdoms tremble.(RN)
He has given an order concerning Phoenicia
that her fortresses be destroyed.(RO)
12 He 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.”
13 Look 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)
15 At 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.”
17 At 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) 18 Yet 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—
2 it 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)
3 The earth will be completely laid waste(SP)
and totally plundered.(SQ)
The Lord has spoken(SR) this word.
4 The earth dries up(SS) and withers,(ST)
the world languishes and withers,
the heavens(SU) languish with the earth.(SV)
5 The earth is defiled(SW) by its people;
they have disobeyed(SX) the laws,
violated the statutes
and broken the everlasting covenant.(SY)
6 Therefore 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.
7 The new wine dries up(TB) and the vine withers;(TC)
all the merrymakers groan.(TD)
8 The joyful timbrels(TE) are stilled,
the noise(TF) of the revelers(TG) has stopped,
the joyful harp(TH) is silent.(TI)
9 No longer do they drink wine(TJ) with a song;
the beer is bitter(TK) to its drinkers.
10 The ruined city(TL) lies desolate;(TM)
the entrance to every house is barred.
11 In the streets they cry out(TN) for wine;(TO)
all joy turns to gloom,(TP)
all joyful sounds are banished from the earth.
12 The city is left in ruins,(TQ)
its gate(TR) is battered to pieces.
13 So 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)
14 They raise their voices, they shout for joy;(TU)
from the west(TV) they acclaim the Lord’s majesty.
15 Therefore 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.
16 From 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)”
17 Terror(UJ) and pit and snare(UK) await you,
people of the earth.(UL)
18 Whoever 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)
19 The earth is broken up,(UR)
the earth is split asunder,(US)
the earth is violently shaken.
20 The 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)
21 In that day(UY) the Lord will punish(UZ)
the powers(VA) in the heavens above
and the kings(VB) on the earth below.
22 They 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)
23 The 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.
2 You 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)
3 Therefore strong peoples will honor you;(VT)
cities of ruthless(VU) nations will revere you.
4 You 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.
6 On 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)
7 On 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)
9 In 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)
10 The 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.
11 They 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.
12 He 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)
2 Open the gates(XD)
that the righteous(XE) nation may enter,
the nation that keeps faith.
3 You will keep in perfect peace(XF)
those whose minds are steadfast,
because they trust(XG) in you.
4 Trust(XH) in the Lord forever,(XI)
for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock(XJ) eternal.
5 He 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)
6 Feet trample(XM) it down—
the feet of the oppressed,(XN)
the footsteps of the poor.(XO)
7 The path of the righteous is level;(XP)
you, the Upright One,(XQ) make the way of the righteous smooth.(XR)
8 Yes, 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.
9 My 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)
10 But 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.
11 Lord, 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.
12 Lord, you establish peace(YH) for us;
all that we have accomplished you have done(YI) for us.
13 Lord our God, other lords(YJ) besides you have ruled over us,
but your name(YK) alone do we honor.(YL)
14 They 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)
15 You 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.
16 Lord, they came to you in their distress;(YS)
when you disciplined(YT) them,
they could barely whisper(YU) a prayer.[v]
17 As a pregnant woman about to give birth(YV)
writhes and cries out in her pain,
so were we in your presence, Lord.
18 We 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)
19 But 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)
20 Go, 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)
21 See, 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.
2 In 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)
5 Or else let them come to me for refuge;(ZX)
let them make peace(ZY) with me,
yes, let them make peace with me.”
6 In days to come Jacob will take root,(ZZ)
Israel will bud and blossom(AAA)
and fill all the world with fruit.(AAB)
7 Has the Lord struck her
as he struck(AAC) down those who struck her?
Has she been killed
as those were killed who killed her?
8 By 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.
9 By 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.
10 The 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.
11 When 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)
12 In 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. 13 And 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)
2 See, 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.
3 That wreath, the pride of Ephraim’s(ABK) drunkards,
will be trampled(ABL) underfoot.
4 That 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.
5 In that day(ABO) the Lord Almighty
will be a glorious(ABP) crown,(ABQ)
a beautiful wreath
for the remnant(ABR) of his people.
6 He 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.
7 And 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.
8 All 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?
10 For it is:
Do this, do that,
a rule for this, a rule for that[y];
a little here, a little there.(ACG)”
11 Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues(ACH)
God will speak to this people,(ACI)
12 to 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.
13 So 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)
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 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.
- 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
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