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Isaiah 14-19
English Standard Version
Isaiah 14-19
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.”
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 14-19
New International Version
Isaiah 14-19
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)”
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
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