Philistia Destroyed

28 This is the [a]burden which came in the year that (A)King Ahaz died.

29 “Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia,
(B)Because the rod that struck you is broken;
For out of the serpent’s roots will come forth a viper,
(C)And its offspring will be a fiery flying serpent.
30 The firstborn of the poor will feed,
And the needy will lie down in safety;
I will kill your roots with famine,
And it will slay your remnant.
31 Wail, O gate! Cry, O city!
All you of Philistia are dissolved;
For smoke will come from the north,
And no one will be alone in his [b]appointed times.”

32 What will they answer the messengers of the nation?
That (D)the Lord has founded Zion,
And (E)the poor of His people shall take refuge in it.

Proclamation Against Moab

15 The (F)burden[c] against Moab.

Because in the night (G)Ar of (H)Moab is laid waste
And destroyed,
Because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste
And destroyed,
He has gone up to the [d]temple and Dibon,
To the high places to weep.
Moab will wail over Nebo and over Medeba;
(I)On all their heads will be baldness,
And every beard cut off.
In their streets they will clothe themselves with sackcloth;
On the tops of their houses
And in their streets
Everyone will wail, (J)weeping bitterly.
Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out,
Their voice shall be heard as far as (K)Jahaz;
Therefore the [e]armed soldiers of Moab will cry out;
His life will be burdensome to him.

“My(L) heart will cry out for Moab;
His fugitives shall flee to Zoar,
Like [f]a three-year-old heifer.
For (M)by the Ascent of Luhith
They will go up with weeping;
For in the way of Horonaim
They will raise up a cry of destruction,
For the waters (N)of Nimrim will be desolate,
For the green grass has withered away;
The grass fails, there is nothing green.
Therefore the abundance they have gained,
And what they have laid up,
They will carry away to the Brook of the Willows.
For the cry has gone all around the borders of Moab,
Its wailing to Eglaim
And its wailing to Beer Elim.
For the waters of [g]Dimon will be full of blood;
Because I will bring more upon Dimon,
(O)Lions upon him who escapes from Moab,
And on the remnant of the land.”

Moab Destroyed

16 Send (P)the lamb to the ruler of the land,
(Q)From [h]Sela to the wilderness,
To the mount of the daughter of Zion.
For it shall be as a (R)wandering bird thrown out of the nest;
So shall be the daughters of Moab at the fords of the (S)Arnon.

“Take counsel, execute judgment;
Make your shadow like the night in the middle of the day;
Hide the outcasts,
Do not betray him who escapes.
Let My outcasts dwell with you, O Moab;
Be a shelter to them from the face of the [i]spoiler.
For the extortioner is at an end,
Devastation ceases,
The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
In mercy (T)the throne will be established;
And One will sit on it in truth, in the tabernacle of David,
(U)Judging and seeking justice and hastening (V)righteousness.”

We have heard of the (W)pride of Moab—
He is very proud—
Of his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath;
(X)But his [j]lies shall not be so.
Therefore Moab shall (Y)wail for Moab;
Everyone shall wail.
For the foundations (Z)of Kir Hareseth you shall mourn;
Surely they are stricken.

For (AA)the fields of Heshbon languish,
And (AB)the vine of Sibmah;
The lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants,
Which have reached to Jazer
And wandered through the wilderness.
Her branches are stretched out,
They are gone over the (AC)sea.
Therefore I will bewail the vine of Sibmah,
With the weeping of Jazer;
I will drench you with my tears,
(AD)O Heshbon and Elealeh;
For [k]battle cries have fallen
Over your summer fruits and your harvest.

10 (AE)Gladness is taken away,
And joy from the plentiful field;
In the vineyards there will be no singing,
Nor will there be shouting;
No treaders will tread out wine in the presses;
I have made their shouting cease.
11 Therefore (AF)my [l]heart shall resound like a harp for Moab,
And my inner being for [m]Kir Heres.

12 And it shall come to pass,
When it is seen that Moab is weary on (AG)the high place,
That he will come to his sanctuary to pray;
But he will not prevail.

13 This is the word which the Lord has spoken concerning Moab since that time. 14 But now the Lord has spoken, saying, “Within three years, (AH)as the years of a hired man, the glory of Moab will be despised with all that great multitude, and the remnant will be very small and feeble.”

Proclamation Against Syria and Israel

17 The (AI)burden[n] against Damascus.

“Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city,
And it will be a ruinous heap.
[o]The cities of (AJ)Aroer are forsaken;
They will be for flocks
Which lie down, and (AK)no one will make them afraid.
(AL)The fortress also will cease from Ephraim,
The kingdom from Damascus,
And the remnant of Syria;
They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,”
Says the Lord of hosts.

“In that day it shall come to pass
That the glory of Jacob will [p]wane,
And (AM)the fatness of his flesh grow lean.
(AN)It shall be as when the harvester gathers the grain,
And reaps the heads with his arm;
It shall be as he who gathers heads of grain
In the Valley of Rephaim.
(AO)Yet gleaning grapes will be left in it,
Like the shaking of an olive tree,
Two or three olives at the top of the uppermost bough,
Four or five in its most fruitful branches,”
Says the Lord God of Israel.

In that day a man will (AP)look to his Maker,
And his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
He will not look to the altars,
The work of his hands;
He will not respect what his (AQ)fingers have made,
Nor the [q]wooden images nor the incense altars.

In that day his strong cities will be as a forsaken [r]bough
And [s]an uppermost branch,
Which they left because of the children of Israel;
And there will be desolation.

10 Because you have forgotten (AR)the God of your salvation,
And have not been mindful of the Rock of your [t]stronghold,
Therefore you will plant pleasant plants
And set out foreign seedlings;
11 In the day you will make your plant to grow,
And in the morning you will make your seed to flourish;
But the harvest will be a heap of ruins
In the day of grief and desperate sorrow.

12 Woe to the multitude of many people
Who make a noise (AS)like the roar of the seas,
And to the rushing of nations
That make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters;
But God will (AT)rebuke them and they will flee far away,
And (AU)be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind,
Like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 Then behold, at eventide, trouble!
And before the morning, he is no more.
This is the portion of those who plunder us,
And the lot of those who rob us.

Proclamation Against Ethiopia

18 Woe (AV)to the land shadowed with buzzing wings,
Which is beyond the rivers of [u]Ethiopia,
Which sends ambassadors by sea,
Even in vessels of reed on the waters, saying,
“Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth of skin,
To a people terrible from their beginning onward,
A nation powerful and treading down,
Whose land the rivers divide.”

All inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth:
(AW)When he lifts up a banner on the mountains, you see it;
And when he blows a trumpet, you hear it.
For so the Lord said to me,
“I will take My rest,
And I will [v]look from My dwelling place
Like clear heat in sunshine,
Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect
And the sour grape is ripening in the flower,
He will both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks
And take away and cut down the branches.
They will be left together for the mountain birds of prey
And for the beasts of the earth;
The birds of prey will summer on them,
And all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.

In that time (AX)a present will be brought to the Lord of hosts
[w]From a people tall and smooth of skin,
And from a people terrible from their beginning onward,
A nation powerful and treading down,
Whose land the rivers divide—
To the place of the name of the Lord of hosts,
To Mount Zion.

Proclamation Against Egypt

19 The (AY)burden[x] against Egypt.

Behold, the Lord (AZ)rides on a swift cloud,
And will come into Egypt;
(BA)The idols of Egypt will [y]totter at His presence,
And the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst.

“I will (BB)set Egyptians against Egyptians;
Everyone will fight against his brother,
And everyone against his neighbor,
City against city, kingdom against kingdom.
The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst;
I will destroy their counsel,
And they will (BC)consult the idols and the charmers,
The mediums and the sorcerers.
And the Egyptians I will give
(BD)Into the hand of a cruel master,
And a fierce king will rule over them,”
Says the Lord, the Lord of hosts.

(BE)The waters will fail from the sea,
And the river will be wasted and dried up.
The rivers will turn foul;
The brooks (BF)of defense will be emptied and dried up;
The reeds and rushes will wither.
The papyrus reeds by [z]the River, by the mouth of the River,
And everything sown by the River,
Will wither, be driven away, and be no more.
The fishermen also will mourn;
All those will lament who cast hooks into the River,
And they will languish who spread nets on the waters.
Moreover those who work in (BG)fine flax
And those who weave fine fabric will be ashamed;
10 And its foundations will be broken.
All who make wages will be troubled of soul.

11 Surely the princes of (BH)Zoan are fools;
Pharaoh’s wise counselors give foolish counsel.
(BI)How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise,
The son of ancient kings?”
12 (BJ)Where are they?
Where are your wise men?
Let them tell you now,
And let them know what the Lord of hosts has (BK)purposed against Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan have become fools;
(BL)The princes of [aa]Noph are deceived;
They have also [ab]deluded Egypt,
Those who are the [ac]mainstay of its tribes.
14 The Lord has mingled (BM)a perverse spirit in her midst;
And they have caused Egypt to err in all her work,
As a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
15 Neither will there be any work for Egypt,
Which (BN)the head or tail,
Palm branch or bulrush, may do.

16 In that day Egypt will (BO)be like women, and will be afraid and fear because of the waving of the hand of the Lord of hosts, (BP)which He waves over it. 17 And the land of Judah will be a terror to Egypt; everyone who makes mention of it will be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the Lord of hosts which He has (BQ)determined against it.

Egypt, Assyria, and Israel Blessed

18 In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will (BR)speak the language of Canaan and (BS)swear by the Lord of hosts; one will be called the City of [ad]Destruction.

19 In that day (BT)there will be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the (BU)Lord at its border. 20 And (BV)it will be for a sign and for a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the Lord because of the oppressors, and He will send them a (BW)Savior and a Mighty One, and He will deliver them. 21 Then the Lord will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will (BX)know the Lord in that day, and (BY)will make sacrifice and offering; yes, they will make a vow to the Lord and perform it. 22 And the Lord will strike Egypt, He will strike and (BZ)heal it; they will return to the Lord, and He will be entreated by them and heal them.

23 In that day (CA)there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian will come into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians will (CB)serve with the Assyrians.

24 In that day Israel will be one of three with Egypt and Assyria—a blessing in the midst of the land, 25 whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, “Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria (CC)the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.”

The Sign Against Egypt and Ethiopia

20 In the year that (CD)Tartan[ae] came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it, at the same time the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and remove (CE)the sackcloth from your [af]body, and take your sandals off your feet.” And he did so, (CF)walking naked and barefoot.

Then the Lord said, “Just as My servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years (CG)for a sign and a wonder against Egypt and Ethiopia, so shall the (CH)king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians as prisoners and the Ethiopians as captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, (CI)with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. (CJ)Then they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation and Egypt their glory. And the inhabitant of this territory will say in that day, ‘Surely such is our expectation, wherever we flee for (CK)help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?’ ”

The Fall of Babylon Proclaimed

21 The [ag]burden against the Wilderness of the Sea.

As (CL)whirlwinds in the South pass through,
So it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.
A distressing vision is declared to me;
(CM)The treacherous dealer deals treacherously,
And the plunderer plunders.
(CN)Go up, O Elam!
Besiege, O Media!
All its sighing I have made to cease.

Therefore (CO)my loins are filled with pain;
(CP)Pangs have taken hold of me, like the pangs of a woman in labor.
I was [ah]distressed when I heard it;
I was dismayed when I saw it.
My heart wavered, fearfulness frightened me;
(CQ)The night for which I longed He turned into fear for me.
(CR)Prepare the table,
Set a watchman in the tower,
Eat and drink.
Arise, you princes,
Anoint the shield!

For thus has the Lord said to me:
“Go, set a watchman,
Let him declare what he sees.”
And he saw a chariot with a pair of horsemen,
A chariot of donkeys, and a chariot of camels,
And he listened earnestly with great care.
[ai]Then he cried, “A lion, my Lord!
I stand continually on the (CS)watchtower in the daytime;
I have sat at my post every night.
And look, here comes a chariot of men with a pair of horsemen!”
Then he answered and said,
(CT)“Babylon is fallen, is fallen!
And (CU)all the carved images of her gods
He has broken to the ground.”

10 (CV)Oh, my threshing and the grain of my floor!
That which I have heard from the Lord of hosts,
The God of Israel,
I have declared to you.

Proclamation Against Edom

11 (CW)The [aj]burden against Dumah.

He calls to me out of (CX)Seir,
“Watchman, what of the night?
Watchman, what of the night?”
12 The watchman said,
“The morning comes, and also the night.
If you will inquire, inquire;
Return! Come back!”

Proclamation Against Arabia

13 (CY)The [ak]burden against Arabia.

In the forest in Arabia you will lodge,
O you traveling companies (CZ)of Dedanites.
14 O inhabitants of the land of Tema,
Bring water to him who is thirsty;
With their bread they met him who fled.
15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword,
From the bent bow, and from the distress of war.

16 For thus the Lord has said to me: “Within a year, (DA)according to the year of a hired man, all the glory of (DB)Kedar will fail; 17 and the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the people of Kedar, will be diminished; for the Lord God of Israel has spoken it.

Proclamation Against Jerusalem

22 The [al]burden against the Valley of Vision.

What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops,
You who are full of noise,
A [am]tumultuous city, (DC)a joyous city?
Your slain men are not slain with the sword,
Nor dead in battle.
All your rulers have fled together;
They are captured by the archers.
All who are found in you are bound together;
They have fled from afar.
Therefore I said, “Look away from me,
(DD)I will weep bitterly;
Do not labor to comfort me
Because of the plundering of the daughter of my people.”

(DE)For it is a day of trouble and treading down and perplexity
(DF)By the Lord God of hosts
In the Valley of Vision—
Breaking down the walls
And of crying to the mountain.
(DG)Elam bore the quiver
With chariots of men and horsemen,
And (DH)Kir uncovered the shield.
It shall come to pass that your choicest valleys
Shall be full of chariots,
And the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.

(DI)He removed the [an]protection of Judah.
You looked in that day to the armor (DJ)of the House of the Forest;
(DK)You also saw the [ao]damage to the city of David,
That it was great;
And you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
10 You numbered the houses of Jerusalem,
And the houses you broke down
To fortify the wall.
11 (DL)You also made a reservoir between the two walls
For the water of the old (DM)pool.
But you did not look to its Maker,
Nor did you have respect for Him who fashioned it long ago.

12 And in that day the Lord God of hosts
(DN)Called for weeping and for mourning,
(DO)For baldness and for girding with sackcloth.
13 But instead, joy and gladness,
Slaying oxen and killing sheep,
Eating meat and (DP)drinking wine:
(DQ)“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

14 (DR)Then it was revealed in my hearing by the Lord of hosts,
“Surely for this iniquity there (DS)will be no atonement for you,
Even to your death,” says the Lord God of hosts.

The Judgment on Shebna

15 Thus says the Lord God of hosts:

“Go, proceed to this steward,
To (DT)Shebna, who is over the house, and say:
16 ‘What have you here, and whom have you here,
That you have hewn a sepulcher here,
As he (DU)who hews himself a sepulcher on high,
Who carves a tomb for himself in a rock?
17 Indeed, the Lord will throw you away violently,
O mighty man,
(DV)And will surely seize you.
18 He will surely turn violently and toss you like a ball
Into a large country;
There you shall die, and there (DW)your glorious chariots
Shall be the shame of your master’s house.
19 So I will drive you out of your office,
And from your position [ap]he will pull you down.

20 ‘Then it shall be in that day,
That I will call My servant (DX)Eliakim the son of Hilkiah;
21 I will clothe him with your robe
And strengthen him with your belt;
I will commit your responsibility into his hand.
He shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem
And to the house of Judah.
22 The key of the house of David
I will lay on his (DY)shoulder;
So he shall (DZ)open, and no one shall shut;
And he shall shut, and no one shall open.
23 I will fasten him as (EA)a peg in a secure place,
And he will become a glorious throne to his father’s house.

24 ‘They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the posterity, all vessels of small quantity, from the cups to all the pitchers. 25 In that day,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘the peg that is fastened in the secure place will be removed and be cut down and fall, and the burden that was on it will be cut off; for the Lord has spoken.’ ”

Proclamation Against Tyre

23 The (EB)burden[aq] against Tyre.

Wail, you ships of Tarshish!
For it is laid waste,
So that there is no house, no harbor;
From the land of [ar]Cyprus it is revealed to them.

Be still, you inhabitants of the coastland,
You merchants of Sidon,
[as]Whom those who cross the sea have filled.
And on great waters the grain of Shihor,
The harvest of [at]the River, is her revenue;
And (EC)she is a marketplace for the nations.

Be ashamed, O Sidon;
For the sea has spoken,
The strength of the sea, saying,
“I do not labor, nor bring forth children;
Neither do I rear young men,
Nor bring up virgins.”
(ED)When the report reaches Egypt,
They also will be in agony at the report of Tyre.

Cross over to Tarshish;
Wail, you inhabitants of the coastland!
Is this your (EE)joyous city,
Whose antiquity is from ancient days,
Whose feet carried her far off to dwell?
Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, (EF)the crowning city,
Whose merchants are princes,
Whose traders are the honorable of the earth?
The Lord of hosts has (EG)purposed it,
To [au]bring to dishonor the (EH)pride of all glory,
To bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

10 Overflow through your land like [av]the River,
O daughter of Tarshish;
There is no more [aw]strength.
11 He stretched out His hand over the sea,
He shook the kingdoms;
The Lord has given a commandment (EI)against Canaan
To destroy its strongholds.
12 And He said, “You will rejoice no more,
O you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon.
Arise, (EJ)cross over to Cyprus;
There also you will have no rest.”

13 Behold, the land of the (EK)Chaldeans,
This people which was not;
Assyria founded it for (EL)wild beasts of the desert.
They set up its towers,
They raised up its palaces,
And brought it to ruin.

14 (EM)Wail, you ships of Tarshish!
For your strength is laid waste.

15 Now it shall come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:

16 “Take a harp, go about the city,
You forgotten harlot;
Make sweet melody, sing many songs,
That you may be remembered.”

17 And it shall be, at the end of seventy years, that the Lord will deal with Tyre. She will return to her hire, and (EN)commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. 18 Her gain and her pay (EO)will be set apart for the Lord; it will not be treasured nor laid up, for her gain will be for those who dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for [ax]fine clothing.

Impending Judgment on the Earth

24 Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it waste,
Distorts its surface
And scatters abroad its inhabitants.
And it shall be:
As with the people, so with the (EP)priest;
As with the servant, so with his master;
As with the maid, so with her mistress;
(EQ)As with the buyer, so with the seller;
As with the lender, so with the borrower;
As with the creditor, so with the debtor.
The land shall be entirely emptied and utterly plundered,
For the Lord has spoken this word.

The earth mourns and fades away,
The world languishes and fades away;
The (ER)haughty[ay] people of the earth languish.
(ES)The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants,
Because they have (ET)transgressed the laws,
Changed the ordinance,
Broken the (EU)everlasting covenant.
Therefore (EV)the curse has devoured the earth,
And those who dwell in it are [az]desolate.
Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are (EW)burned,
And few men are left.

(EX)The new wine fails, the vine languishes,
All the merry-hearted sigh.
The mirth (EY)of the tambourine ceases,
The noise of the jubilant ends,
The joy of the harp ceases.
They shall not drink wine with a song;
Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.
10 The city of confusion is broken down;
Every house is shut up, so that none may go in.
11 There is a cry for wine in the streets,
All joy is darkened,
The mirth of the land is gone.
12 In the city desolation is left,
And the gate is stricken with destruction.
13 When it shall be thus in the midst of the land among the people,
(EZ)It shall be like the shaking of an olive tree,
Like the gleaning of grapes when the vintage is done.

14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing;
For the majesty of the Lord
They shall cry aloud from the sea.
15 Therefore (FA)glorify the Lord in the dawning light,
(FB)The name of the Lord God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea.
16 From the ends of the earth we have heard songs:
“Glory to the righteous!”
But I said, [ba]“I am ruined, ruined!
Woe to me!
(FC)The treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously,
Indeed, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.”

17 (FD)Fear and the pit and the snare
Are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall be
That he who flees from the noise of the fear
Shall fall into the pit,
And he who comes up from the midst of the pit
Shall be [bb]caught in the snare;
For (FE)the windows from on high are open,
And (FF)the foundations of the earth are shaken.

19 (FG)The earth is violently broken,
The earth is split open,
The earth is shaken exceedingly.
20 The earth shall (FH)reel[bc] to and fro like a drunkard,
And shall totter like a hut;
Its transgression shall be heavy upon it,
And it will fall, and not rise again.

21 It shall come to pass in that day
That the Lord will punish on high the host of exalted ones,
And on the earth (FI)the kings of the earth.
22 They will be gathered together,
As prisoners are gathered in the [bd]pit,
And will be shut up in the prison;
After many days they will be punished.
23 Then the (FJ)moon will be disgraced
And the sun ashamed;
For the Lord of hosts will (FK)reign
On (FL)Mount Zion and in Jerusalem
And before His elders, gloriously.

Praise to God

25 O Lord, You are my God.
(FM)I will exalt You,
I will praise Your name,
(FN)For You have done wonderful things;
(FO)Your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
For You have made (FP)a city a ruin,
A fortified city a ruin,
A palace of foreigners to be a city no more;
It will never be rebuilt.
Therefore the strong people will (FQ)glorify You;
The city of the [be]terrible nations will fear You.
For You have been a strength to the poor,
A strength to the needy in his distress,
(FR)A refuge from the storm,
A shade from the heat;
For the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
You will reduce the noise of aliens,
As heat in a dry place;
As heat in the shadow of a cloud,
The song of the terrible ones will be [bf]diminished.

And in (FS)this mountain
(FT)The Lord of hosts will make for (FU)all people
A feast of [bg]choice pieces,
A feast of [bh]wines on the lees,
Of fat things full of marrow,
Of well-refined wines on the lees.
And He will destroy on this mountain
The surface of the covering cast over all people,
And (FV)the veil that is spread over all nations.
He will (FW)swallow up death forever,
And the Lord God will (FX)wipe away tears from all faces;
The rebuke of His people
He will take away from all the earth;
For the Lord has spoken.

And it will be said in that day:
“Behold, this is our God;
(FY)We have waited for Him, and He will save us.
This is the Lord;
We have waited for Him;
(FZ)We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.”

10 For on this mountain the hand of the Lord will rest,
And (GA)Moab shall be trampled down under Him,
As straw is trampled down for the refuse heap.
11 And He will spread out His hands in their midst
As a swimmer reaches out to swim,
And He will bring down their (GB)pride
Together with the trickery of their hands.
12 The (GC)fortress of the high fort of your walls
He will bring down, lay low,
And bring to the ground, down to the dust.

A Song of Salvation

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

“We have a strong city;
(GE)God will appoint salvation for walls and bulwarks.
(GF)Open the gates,
That the righteous nation which [bi]keeps the truth may enter in.
You will keep him in perfect (GG)peace,
Whose mind is stayed on You,
Because he trusts in You.
Trust in the Lord forever,
(GH)For in Yah, the Lord, is [bj]everlasting strength.
For He brings [bk]down those who dwell on high,
(GI)The lofty city;
He lays it low,
He lays it low to the ground,
He brings it down to the dust.
The foot shall [bl]tread it down—
The feet of the poor
And the steps of the needy.”

The way of the just is uprightness;
(GJ)O Most Upright,
You [bm]weigh the path of the just.
Yes, (GK)in the way of Your judgments,
O Lord, we have (GL)waited for You;
The desire of our soul is for Your name
And for the remembrance of You.
(GM)With my soul I have desired You in the night,
Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early;
For when Your judgments are in the earth,
The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

10 (GN)Let grace be shown to the wicked,
Yet he will not learn righteousness;
In (GO)the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly,
And will not behold the majesty of the Lord.
11 Lord, when Your hand is lifted up, (GP)they will not see.
But they will see and be ashamed
For [bn]their envy of people;
Yes, the fire of Your enemies shall devour them.

12 Lord, You will establish peace for us,
For You have also done all our works [bo]in us.
13 O Lord our God, (GQ)masters besides You
Have had dominion over us;
But by You only we make mention of Your name.
14 They are dead, they will not live;
They are deceased, they will not rise.
Therefore You have punished and destroyed them,
And made all their memory to (GR)perish.
15 You have increased the nation, O Lord,
You have (GS)increased the nation;
You are glorified;
You have expanded all the [bp]borders of the land.

16 Lord, (GT)in trouble they have visited You,
They poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.
17 As (GU)a woman with child
Is in pain and cries out in her [bq]pangs,
When she draws near the time of her delivery,
So have we been in Your sight, O Lord.
18 We have been with child, we have been in pain;
We have, as it were, [br]brought forth wind;
We have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth,
Nor have (GV)the inhabitants of the world fallen.

19 (GW)Your dead shall live;
Together with [bs]my dead body they shall arise.
(GX)Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust;
For your dew is like the dew of herbs,
And the earth shall cast out the dead.

Take Refuge from the Coming Judgment

20 Come, my people, (GY)enter your chambers,
And shut your doors behind you;
Hide yourself, as it were, (GZ)for a little moment,
Until the indignation is past.
21 For behold, the Lord (HA)comes out of His place
To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;
The earth will also disclose her [bt]blood,
And will no more cover her slain.

Israel Will Be Restored

27 In that day the Lord with His severe sword, great and strong,
Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent,
(HB)Leviathan that twisted serpent;
And He will slay (HC)the reptile that is in the sea.

The Restoration of Israel

In that day (HD)sing to her,
(HE)“A vineyard of [bu]red wine!
(HF)I, the Lord, keep it,
I water it every moment;
Lest any hurt it,
I keep it night and day.
Fury is not in Me.
Who would set (HG)briers and thorns
Against Me in battle?
I would go through them,
I would burn them together.
Or let him take hold (HH)of My strength,
That he may (HI)make peace with Me;
And he shall make peace with Me.”

Those who come He shall cause (HJ)to take root in Jacob;
Israel shall blossom and bud,
And fill the face of the world with fruit.

(HK)Has He struck [bv]Israel as He struck those who struck him?
Or has He been slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by Him?
(HL)In measure, by sending it away,
You contended with it.
(HM)He removes it by His rough wind
In the day of the east wind.
Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered;
And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin:
When he makes all the stones of the altar
Like chalkstones that are beaten to dust,
[bw]Wooden images and incense altars shall not stand.

10 Yet the fortified city will be (HN)desolate,
The habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness;
There the calf will feed, and there it will lie down
And consume its branches.
11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off;
The women come and set them on fire.
For (HO)it is a people of no understanding;
Therefore He who made them will (HP)not have mercy on them,
And (HQ)He who formed them will show them no favor.

12 And it shall come to pass in that day
That the Lord will thresh,
From the channel of [bx]the River to the Brook of Egypt;
And you will be (HR)gathered one by one,
O you children of Israel.

13 (HS)So it shall be in that day:
(HT)The great trumpet will be blown;
They will come, who are about to perish in the land of Assyria,
And they who are outcasts in the land of (HU)Egypt,
And shall (HV)worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

Woe to Ephraim and Jerusalem

28 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim,
Whose glorious beauty is a fading flower
Which is at the head of the [by]verdant valleys,
To those who are overcome with wine!
Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one,
(HW)Like a tempest of hail and a destroying storm,
Like a flood of mighty waters overflowing,
Who will bring them down to the earth with His hand.
The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim,
Will be trampled underfoot;
And the glorious beauty is a fading flower
Which is at the head of the [bz]verdant valley,
Like the first fruit before the summer,
Which an observer sees;
He eats it up while it is still in his hand.

In that day the Lord of hosts will be
For a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty
To the remnant of His people,
For a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment,
And for strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

But they also (HX)have erred through wine,
And through intoxicating drink are out of the way;
(HY)The priest and the prophet have erred through intoxicating drink,
They are swallowed up by wine,
They are out of the way through intoxicating drink;
They err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
For all tables are full of vomit and filth;
No place is clean.

“Whom(HZ) will he teach knowledge?
And whom will he make to understand the message?
Those just weaned from milk?
Those just drawn from the breasts?
10 (IA)For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept,
Line upon line, line upon line,
Here a little, there a little.”

11 For with (IB)stammering lips and another tongue
He will speak to this people,
12 To whom He said, “This is the (IC)rest with which
You may cause the weary to rest,”
And, “This is the refreshing”;
Yet they would not hear.
13 But the word of the Lord was to them,
“Precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
Line upon line, line upon line,
Here a little, there a little,”
That they might go and fall backward, and be broken
And snared and caught.

14 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scornful men,
Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,
15 Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,
And with Sheol we are in agreement.
When the overflowing scourge passes through,
It will not come to us,
(ID)For we have made lies our refuge,
And under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”

A Cornerstone in Zion

16 Therefore thus says the Lord God:

“Behold, I lay in Zion (IE)a stone for a foundation,
A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation;
Whoever believes will not act hastily.
17 Also I will make justice the measuring line,
And righteousness the plummet;
The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies,
And the waters will overflow the hiding place.
18 Your covenant with death will be annulled,
And your agreement with Sheol will not stand;
When the overflowing scourge passes through,
Then you will be trampled down by it.
19 As often as it goes out it will take you;
For morning by morning it will pass over,
And by day and by night;
It will be a terror just to understand the report.”

20 For the bed is too short to stretch out on,
And the covering so narrow that one cannot wrap himself in it.
21 For the Lord will rise up as at Mount (IF)Perazim,
He will be angry as in the Valley of (IG)Gibeon—
That He may do His work, (IH)His awesome work,
And bring to pass His act, His [ca]unusual act.
22 Now therefore, do not be mockers,
Lest your bonds be made strong;
For I have heard from the Lord God of hosts,
(II)A [cb]destruction determined even upon the whole earth.

Listen to the Teaching of God

23 Give ear and hear my voice,
Listen and hear my speech.
24 Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow?
Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?
25 When he has leveled its surface,
Does he not sow the black cummin
And scatter the cummin,
Plant the wheat in rows,
The barley in the appointed place,
And the [cc]spelt in its place?
26 For He instructs him in right judgment,
His God teaches him.

27 For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing sledge,
Nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cummin;
But the black cummin is beaten out with a stick,
And the cummin with a rod.
28 Bread flour must be ground;
Therefore he does not thresh it forever,
Break it with his cartwheel,
Or crush it with his horsemen.
29 This also comes from the Lord of hosts,
(IJ)Who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in [cd]guidance.

Woe to Jerusalem

29 “Woe (IK)to [ce]Ariel, to Ariel, the city (IL)where David dwelt!
Add year to year;
Let feasts come around.
Yet I will distress Ariel;
There shall be heaviness and sorrow,
And it shall be to Me as Ariel.
I will encamp against you all around,
I will lay siege against you with a mound,
And I will raise siegeworks against you.
You shall be brought down,
You shall speak out of the ground;
Your speech shall be low, out of the dust;
Your voice shall be like a medium’s, (IM)out of the ground;
And your speech shall whisper out of the dust.

“Moreover the multitude of your (IN)foes
Shall be like fine dust,
And the multitude of the terrible ones
Like (IO)chaff that passes away;
Yes, it shall be (IP)in an instant, suddenly.
(IQ)You will be punished by the Lord of hosts
With thunder and (IR)earthquake and great noise,
With storm and tempest
And the flame of devouring fire.
(IS)The multitude of all the nations who fight against [cf]Ariel,
Even all who fight against her and her fortress,
And distress her,
Shall be (IT)as a dream of a night vision.
(IU)It shall even be as when a hungry man dreams,
And look—he eats;
But he awakes, and his soul is still empty;
Or as when a thirsty man dreams,
And look—he drinks;
But he awakes, and indeed he is faint,
And his soul still craves:
So the multitude of all the nations shall be,
Who fight against Mount Zion.”

The Blindness of Disobedience

Pause and wonder!
Blind yourselves and be blind!
(IV)They are drunk, (IW)but not with wine;
They stagger, but not with intoxicating drink.
10 For (IX)the Lord has poured out on you
The spirit of deep sleep,
And has (IY)closed your eyes, namely, the prophets;
And He has covered your heads, namely, (IZ)the seers.

11 The whole vision has become to you like the words of a [cg]book (JA)that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is literate, saying, “Read this, please.”

(JB)And he says, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”

12 Then the book is delivered to one who [ch]is illiterate, saying, “Read this, please.”

And he says, “I am not literate.”

13 Therefore the Lord said:

(JC)“Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths
And honor Me (JD)with their lips,
But have removed their hearts far from Me,
And their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men,
14 (JE)Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work
Among this people,
A marvelous work and a wonder;
(JF)For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,
And the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.”

15 (JG)Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from the Lord,
And their works are in the dark;
(JH)They say, “Who sees us?” and, “Who knows us?”
16 Surely you have things turned around!
Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay;
For shall the (JI)thing made say of him who made it,
“He did not make me”?
Or shall the thing formed say of him who formed it,
“He has no understanding”?

Future Recovery of Wisdom

17 Is it not yet a very little while
Till (JJ)Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field,
And the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest?
18 (JK)In that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book,
And the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
19 (JL)The humble also shall increase their joy in the Lord,
And (JM)the poor among men shall rejoice
In the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the [ci]terrible one is brought to nothing,
(JN)The scornful one is consumed,
And all who (JO)watch for iniquity are cut off—
21 Who make a man an offender by a word,
And (JP)lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate,
And turn aside the just (JQ)by empty words.

22 Therefore thus says the Lord, (JR)who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob:

“Jacob shall not now be (JS)ashamed,
Nor shall his face now grow pale;
23 But when he sees his children,
(JT)The work of My hands, in his midst,
They will hallow My name,
And hallow the Holy One of Jacob,
And fear the God of Israel.
24 These also (JU)who erred in spirit will come to understanding,
And those who complained will learn doctrine.”

Futile Confidence in Egypt

30 “Woe to the rebellious children,” says the Lord,
(JV)“Who take counsel, but not of Me,
And who [cj]devise plans, but not of My Spirit,
(JW)That they may add sin to sin;
(JX)Who walk to go down to Egypt,
And (JY)have not asked My advice,
To strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh,
And to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
(JZ)Therefore the strength of Pharaoh
Shall be your shame,
And trust in the shadow of Egypt
Shall be your humiliation.
For his princes were at (KA)Zoan,
And his ambassadors came to Hanes.
(KB)They were all ashamed of a people who could not benefit them,
Or be help or benefit,
But a shame and also a reproach.”

(KC)The [ck]burden against the beasts of the South.

Through a land of trouble and anguish,
From which came the lioness and lion,
(KD)The viper and fiery flying serpent,
They will carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys,
And their treasures on the humps of camels,
To a people who shall not profit;
(KE)For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose.
Therefore I have called her
[cl]Rahab-Hem-Shebeth.

A Rebellious People

Now go, (KF)write it before them on a tablet,
And note it on a scroll,
That it may be for time to come,
Forever and ever:
That (KG)this is a rebellious people,
Lying children,
Children who will not hear the law of the Lord;
10 (KH)Who say to the seers, “Do not see,”
And to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us right things;
(KI)Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.
11 Get out of the way,
Turn aside from the path,
Cause the Holy One of Israel
To cease from before us.”

12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel:

“Because you (KJ)despise this word,
And trust in oppression and perversity,
And rely on them,
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you
(KK)Like a breach ready to fall,
A bulge in a high wall,
Whose breaking (KL)comes suddenly, in an instant.
14 And (KM)He shall break it like the breaking of the potter’s vessel,
Which is broken in pieces;
He shall not spare.
So there shall not be found among its fragments
[cm]A shard to take fire from the hearth,
Or to take water from the cistern.”

15 For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel:

(KN)“In returning and rest you shall be saved;
In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.”
(KO)But you would not,
16 And you said, “No, for we will flee on horses”—
Therefore you shall flee!
And, “We will ride on swift horses”—
Therefore those who pursue you shall be swift!

17 (KP)One thousand shall flee at the threat of one,
At the threat of five you shall flee,
Till you are left as a [cn]pole on top of a mountain
And as a banner on a hill.

God Will Be Gracious

18 Therefore the Lord will wait, that He may be (KQ)gracious to you;
And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you.
For the Lord is a God of justice;
(KR)Blessed are all those who (KS)wait for Him.

19 For the people (KT)shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem;
You shall (KU)weep no more.
He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry;
When He hears it, He will (KV)answer you.
20 And though the Lord gives you
(KW)The bread of adversity and the water of [co]affliction,
Yet (KX)your teachers will not be moved into a corner anymore,
But your eyes shall see your teachers.
21 Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying,
“This is the way, walk in it,”
Whenever you (KY)turn to the right hand
Or whenever you turn to the left.
22 (KZ)You will also defile the covering of your images of silver,
And the ornament of your molded images of gold.
You will throw them away as an unclean thing;
(LA)You will say to them, “Get away!”

23 (LB)Then He will give the rain for your seed
With which you sow the ground,
And bread of the increase of the earth;
It will be [cp]fat and plentiful.
In that day your cattle will feed
In large pastures.
24 Likewise the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground
Will eat cured fodder,
Which has been winnowed with the shovel and fan.
25 There will be (LC)on every high mountain
And on every high hill
Rivers and streams of waters,
In the day of the (LD)great slaughter,
When the towers fall.
26 Moreover (LE)the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun,
And the light of the sun will be sevenfold,
As the light of seven days,
In the day that the Lord binds up the bruise of His people
And heals the stroke of their wound.

Judgment on Assyria

27 Behold, the name of the Lord comes from afar,
Burning with His anger,
And His burden is heavy;
His lips are full of indignation,
And His tongue like a devouring fire.
28 (LF)His breath is like an overflowing stream,
(LG)Which reaches up to the neck,
To sift the nations with the sieve of futility;
And there shall be (LH)a bridle in the jaws of the people,
Causing them to err.

29 You shall have a song
As in the night when a holy festival is kept,
And gladness of heart as when one goes with a flute,
To come into (LI)the mountain of the Lord,
To [cq]the Mighty One of Israel.
30 (LJ)The Lord will cause His glorious voice to be heard,
And show the descent of His arm,
With the indignation of His anger
And the flame of a devouring fire,
With scattering, tempest, (LK)and hailstones.
31 For (LL)through the voice of the Lord
Assyria will be [cr]beaten down,
As He strikes with the (LM)rod.
32 And in every place where the staff of punishment passes,
Which the Lord lays on him,
It will be with tambourines and harps;
And in battles of (LN)brandishing He will fight with it.
33 (LO)For Tophet was established of old,
Yes, for the king it is prepared.
He has made it deep and large;
Its pyre is fire with much wood;
The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone,
Kindles it.

The Folly of Not Trusting God

31 Woe to those (LP)who go down to Egypt for help,
And (LQ)rely on horses,
Who trust in chariots because they are many,
And in horsemen because they are very strong,
But who do not look to the Holy One of Israel,
(LR)Nor seek the Lord!
Yet He also is wise and will bring disaster,
And (LS)will not [cs]call back His words,
But will arise against the house of evildoers,
And against the help of those who work iniquity.
Now the Egyptians are men, and not God;
And their horses are flesh, and not spirit.
When the Lord stretches out His hand,
Both he who helps will fall,
And he who is helped will fall down;
They all will perish (LT)together.

God Will Deliver Jerusalem

For thus the Lord has spoken to me:

(LU)“As a lion roars,
And a young lion over his prey
(When a multitude of shepherds is summoned against him,
He will not be afraid of their voice
Nor be disturbed by their noise),
So the Lord of hosts will come down
To fight for Mount Zion and for its hill.
(LV)Like birds flying about,
So will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem.
Defending, He will also deliver it;
Passing over, He will preserve it.

Return to Him against whom the children of Israel have (LW)deeply revolted. For in that day every man shall (LX)throw away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—(LY)sin, which your own hands have made for yourselves.

“Then Assyria shall (LZ)fall by a sword not of man,
And a sword not of mankind shall (MA)devour him.
But he shall flee from the sword,
And his young men shall become forced labor.
(MB)He shall cross over to his stronghold for fear,
And his princes shall be afraid of the banner,”
Says the Lord,
Whose fire is in Zion
And whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

A Reign of Righteousness

32 Behold, (MC)a king will reign in righteousness,
And princes will rule with justice.
A man will be as a hiding place from the wind,
And (MD)a [ct]cover from the tempest,
As rivers of water in a dry place,
As the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
(ME)The eyes of those who see will not be dim,
And the ears of those who hear will listen.
Also the heart of the [cu]rash will (MF)understand knowledge,
And the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.

The foolish person will no longer be called [cv]generous,
Nor the miser said to be bountiful;
For the foolish person will speak foolishness,
And his heart will work (MG)iniquity:
To practice ungodliness,
To utter error against the Lord,
To keep the hungry unsatisfied,
And he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Also the schemes of the schemer are evil;
He devises wicked plans
To destroy the poor with (MH)lying words,
Even when the needy speaks justice.
But a [cw]generous man devises generous things,
And by generosity he shall stand.

Consequences of Complacency

Rise up, you women (MI)who are at ease,
Hear my voice;
You complacent daughters,
Give ear to my speech.
10 In a year and some days
You will be troubled, you complacent women;
For the vintage will fail,
The gathering will not come.
11 Tremble, you women who are at ease;
Be troubled, you complacent ones;
Strip yourselves, make yourselves bare,
And gird sackcloth on your waists.

12 People shall mourn upon their breasts
For the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
13 (MJ)On the land of my people will come up thorns and briers,
Yes, on all the happy homes in (MK)the joyous city;
14 (ML)Because the palaces will be forsaken,
The bustling city will be deserted.
The forts and towers will become lairs forever,
A joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks—
15 Until (MM)the Spirit is poured upon us from on high,
And (MN)the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
And the fruitful field is counted as a forest.

The Peace of God’s Reign

16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness,
And righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
17 (MO)The work of righteousness will be peace,
And the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.
18 My people will dwell in a peaceful habitation,
In secure dwellings, and in quiet (MP)resting places,
19 (MQ)Though hail comes down (MR)on the forest,
And the city is brought low in humiliation.

20 Blessed are you who sow beside all waters,
Who send out freely the feet of (MS)the ox and the donkey.

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:28 oracle, prophecy
  2. Isaiah 14:31 Or ranks
  3. Isaiah 15:1 oracle, prophecy
  4. Isaiah 15:2 Heb. bayith, lit. house
  5. Isaiah 15:4 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX, Syr. loins
  6. Isaiah 15:5 Or The Third Eglath, an unknown city, Jer. 48:34
  7. Isaiah 15:9 So with MT, Tg.; DSS, Vg. Dibon; LXX Rimon
  8. Isaiah 16:1 Lit. Rock
  9. Isaiah 16:4 devastator
  10. Isaiah 16:6 Lit. vain talk
  11. Isaiah 16:9 Or shouting has
  12. Isaiah 16:11 Lit. belly
  13. Isaiah 16:11 Kir Hareseth, v. 7
  14. Isaiah 17:1 oracle, prophecy
  15. Isaiah 17:2 So with MT, Vg.; LXX It shall be forsaken forever; Tg. Its cities shall be forsaken and desolate
  16. Isaiah 17:4 fade
  17. Isaiah 17:8 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities
  18. Isaiah 17:9 LXX Hivites; Tg. laid waste; Vg. as the plows
  19. Isaiah 17:9 LXX Amorites; Tg. in ruins; Vg. corn
  20. Isaiah 17:10 refuge
  21. Isaiah 18:1 Heb. Cush
  22. Isaiah 18:4 watch
  23. Isaiah 18:7 So with DSS, LXX, Vg.; MT omits From; Tg. To
  24. Isaiah 19:1 oracle, prophecy
  25. Isaiah 19:1 Lit. shake
  26. Isaiah 19:7 The Nile
  27. Isaiah 19:13 Ancient Memphis
  28. Isaiah 19:13 Lit. caused to stagger
  29. Isaiah 19:13 cornerstone
  30. Isaiah 19:18 Some Heb. mss., Arab., DSS, Tg., Vg. Sun; LXX Asedek, lit. Righteousness
  31. Isaiah 20:1 Or the Commander in Chief
  32. Isaiah 20:2 Lit. loins
  33. Isaiah 21:1 oracle, prophecy
  34. Isaiah 21:3 Lit. bowed
  35. Isaiah 21:8 DSS Then the observer cried, “My Lord!
  36. Isaiah 21:11 oracle, prophecy
  37. Isaiah 21:13 oracle, prophecy
  38. Isaiah 22:1 oracle, prophecy
  39. Isaiah 22:2 boisterous
  40. Isaiah 22:8 Lit. covering
  41. Isaiah 22:9 Lit. breaches in the city walls
  42. Isaiah 22:19 LXX omits he will pull you down; Syr., Tg., Vg. I will pull you down
  43. Isaiah 23:1 oracle, prophecy
  44. Isaiah 23:1 Heb. Kittim, western lands, especially Cyprus
  45. Isaiah 23:2 So with MT, Vg.; LXX, Tg. Passing over the water; DSS Your messengers passing over the sea
  46. Isaiah 23:3 The Nile
  47. Isaiah 23:9 pollute
  48. Isaiah 23:10 The Nile
  49. Isaiah 23:10 restraint, lit. belt
  50. Isaiah 23:18 choice
  51. Isaiah 24:4 proud
  52. Isaiah 24:6 Or held guilty
  53. Isaiah 24:16 Lit. Leanness to me, leanness to me
  54. Isaiah 24:18 Lit. taken
  55. Isaiah 24:20 stagger
  56. Isaiah 24:22 dungeon
  57. Isaiah 25:3 terrifying
  58. Isaiah 25:5 humbled
  59. Isaiah 25:6 Lit. fat things
  60. Isaiah 25:6 wines matured on the sediment
  61. Isaiah 26:2 Or remains faithful
  62. Isaiah 26:4 Or Rock of Ages
  63. Isaiah 26:5 low
  64. Isaiah 26:6 trample
  65. Isaiah 26:7 Or make level
  66. Isaiah 26:11 Or Your zeal for the people
  67. Isaiah 26:12 Or for us
  68. Isaiah 26:15 Or ends
  69. Isaiah 26:17 sharp pains
  70. Isaiah 26:18 given birth to
  71. Isaiah 26:19 So with MT, Vg.; Syr., Tg. their dead bodies; LXX those in the tombs
  72. Isaiah 26:21 Or bloodshed
  73. Isaiah 27:2 So with MT (Kittel’s Biblia Hebraica), Bg., Vg.; MT (Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia), some Heb. mss., LXX delight; Tg. choice vineyard
  74. Isaiah 27:7 Lit. him
  75. Isaiah 27:9 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities
  76. Isaiah 27:12 The Euphrates
  77. Isaiah 28:1 Lit. valleys of fatness
  78. Isaiah 28:4 Lit. valley of fatness
  79. Isaiah 28:21 Lit. foreign
  80. Isaiah 28:22 Lit. complete end
  81. Isaiah 28:25 rye
  82. Isaiah 28:29 sound wisdom
  83. Isaiah 29:1 Jerusalem, lit. Lion of God
  84. Isaiah 29:7 Jerusalem
  85. Isaiah 29:11 scroll
  86. Isaiah 29:12 Lit. does not know books
  87. Isaiah 29:20 terrifying
  88. Isaiah 30:1 Lit. weave a web
  89. Isaiah 30:6 oracle, prophecy
  90. Isaiah 30:7 Lit. Rahab Sits Idle
  91. Isaiah 30:14 A piece of broken pottery
  92. Isaiah 30:17 A tree stripped of branches
  93. Isaiah 30:20 oppression
  94. Isaiah 30:23 rich
  95. Isaiah 30:29 Lit. the Rock
  96. Isaiah 30:31 Lit. shattered
  97. Isaiah 31:2 retract
  98. Isaiah 32:2 shelter
  99. Isaiah 32:4 hasty
  100. Isaiah 32:5 noble
  101. Isaiah 32:8 noble

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