Isaiah 22

New International Version

A Prophecy About Jerusalem

22 A prophecy^(A) against the Valley^(B) of Vision:^(C)

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

⁵The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day^(M)
    of tumult and trampling^(N) and terror^(O)
    in the Valley of Vision,^(P)
a day of battering down walls^(Q)
    and of crying out to the mountains.
⁶Elam^(R) takes up the quiver,^(S)
    with her charioteers and horses;
    Kir^(T) uncovers the shield.
⁷Your choicest valleys^(U) are full of chariots,
    and horsemen are posted at the city gates.^(V)

⁸The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah,
    and you looked in that day^(W)
    to the weapons^(X) in the Palace of the Forest.^(Y)
⁹You saw that the walls of the City of David
    were broken through^(Z) in many places;
you stored up water
    in the Lower Pool.^(AA)
¹⁰You counted the buildings in Jerusalem
    and tore down houses^(AB) to strengthen the wall.^(AC)
¹¹You built a reservoir between the two walls^(AD)
    for the water of the Old Pool,^(AE)
but you did not look to the One who made it,
    or have regard^(AF) for the One who planned^(AG) it long ago.

¹²The Lord, the Lord Almighty,
    called you on that day^(AH)
to weep^(AI) and to wail,
    to tear out your hair^(AJ) and put on sackcloth.^(AK)
¹³But see, there is joy and revelry,^(AL)
    slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep,
    eating of meat and drinking of wine!^(AM)
“Let us eat and drink,” you say,
    “for tomorrow we die!”^(AN)

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

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

“Go, say to this steward,
    to Shebna^(AQ) the palace^(AR) administrator:^(AS)
¹⁶What are you doing here and who gave you permission
    to cut out a grave^(AT) for yourself^(AU) 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^(AV) you away, you mighty man.
¹⁸He will roll you up tightly like a ball
    and throw^(AW) you into a large country.
There you will die
    and there the chariots^(AX) you were so proud of
    will become a disgrace to your master’s house.
¹⁹I will depose you from your office,
    and you will be ousted^(AY) from your position.^(AZ)

²⁰“In that day^(BA) I will summon my servant,^(BB) Eliakim^(BC) son of Hilkiah. ²¹I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash^(BD) around him and hand your authority^(BE) over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah. ²²I will place on his shoulder^(BF) the key^(BG) to the house of David;^(BH) what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.^(BI) ²³I will drive him like a peg^(BJ) into a firm place;^(BK) he will become a seat^[a] of honor^(BL) for the house of his father. ²⁴All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots—all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.

²⁵“In that day,^(BM)” declares the Lord Almighty, “the peg^(BN) 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.^(BO)

Footnotes

Isaiah 22:23 Or throne

Isaiah 22

King James Version

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

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

³All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.

⁴Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

⁵For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord God of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.

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

⁷And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.

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

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

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

¹¹Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.

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

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

¹⁴And it was revealed in mine ears by the Lord of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord God of hosts.

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

¹⁶What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?

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

¹⁸He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.

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

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

²¹And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

²²And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.

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

²⁴And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.

²⁵In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the Lord hath spoken it.

Isaiah 15-25

New International Version

A Prophecy Against Moab^(A)

15 A prophecy^(B) against Moab:^(C)

Ar^(D) in Moab is ruined,^(E)
    destroyed in a night!
Kir^(F) in Moab is ruined,
    destroyed in a night!
²Dibon^(G) goes up to its temple,
    to its high places^(H) to weep;
    Moab wails^(I) over Nebo^(J) and Medeba.
Every head is shaved^(K)
    and every beard cut off.^(L)
³In the streets they wear sackcloth;^(M)
    on the roofs^(N) and in the public squares^(O)
they all wail,^(P)
    prostrate with weeping.^(Q)
⁴Heshbon^(R) and Elealeh^(S) cry out,
    their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz.^(T)
Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out,
    and their hearts are faint.

⁵My heart cries out^(U) over Moab;^(V)
    her fugitives^(W) flee as far as Zoar,^(X)
    as far as Eglath Shelishiyah.
They go up the hill to Luhith,
    weeping as they go;
on the road to Horonaim^(Y)
    they lament their destruction.^(Z)
⁶The waters of Nimrim are dried up^(AA)
    and the grass is withered;^(AB)
the vegetation is gone^(AC)
    and nothing green is left.^(AD)
⁷So the wealth they have acquired^(AE) and stored up
    they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.
⁸Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab;
    their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim,
    their lamentation as far as Beer^(AF) Elim.
⁹The waters of Dimon^[a] are full of blood,
    but I will bring still more upon Dimon^[b]—
a lion^(AG) upon the fugitives of Moab^(AH)
    and upon those who remain in the land.

16 Send lambs^(AI) as tribute^(AJ)
    to the ruler of the land,
from Sela,^(AK) across the desert,
    to the mount of Daughter Zion.^(AL)
²Like fluttering birds
    pushed from the nest,^(AM)
so are the women of Moab^(AN)
    at the fords^(AO) of the Arnon.^(AP)

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

The oppressor^(AS) will come to an end,
    and destruction will cease;^(AT)
    the aggressor will vanish from the land.
⁵In love a throne^(AU) will be established;^(AV)
    in faithfulness a man will sit on it—
    one from the house^[c] of David^(AW)—
one who in judging seeks justice^(AX)
    and speeds the cause of righteousness.

⁶We have heard of Moab’s^(AY) pride^(AZ)—
    how great is her arrogance!—
of her conceit, her pride and her insolence;
    but her boasts are empty.
⁷Therefore the Moabites wail,^(BA)
    they wail together for Moab.
Lament and grieve
    for the raisin cakes^(BB) of Kir Hareseth.^(BC)
⁸The fields of Heshbon^(BD) wither,^(BE)
    the vines of Sibmah^(BF) also.
The rulers of the nations
    have trampled down the choicest vines,^(BG)
which once reached Jazer^(BH)
    and spread toward the desert.
Their shoots spread out^(BI)
    and went as far as the sea.^[d]^(BJ)
⁹So I weep,^(BK) as Jazer weeps,
    for the vines of Sibmah.
Heshbon and Elealeh,^(BL)
    I drench you with tears!^(BM)
The shouts of joy^(BN) over your ripened fruit
    and over your harvests^(BO) have been stilled.
¹⁰Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards;^(BP)
    no one sings or shouts^(BQ) in the vineyards;
no one treads^(BR) out wine at the presses,^(BS)
    for I have put an end to the shouting.
¹¹My heart laments for Moab^(BT) like a harp,^(BU)
    my inmost being^(BV) for Kir Hareseth.
¹²When Moab appears at her high place,^(BW)
    she only wears herself out;
when she goes to her shrine^(BX) to pray,
    it is to no avail.^(BY)

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

A Prophecy Against Damascus

17 A prophecy^(CE) against Damascus:^(CF)

“See, Damascus will no longer be a city
    but will become a heap of ruins.^(CG)
²The cities of Aroer^(CH) will be deserted
    and left to flocks,^(CI) which will lie down,^(CJ)
    with no one to make them afraid.^(CK)
³The fortified^(CL) city will disappear from Ephraim,
    and royal power from Damascus;
the remnant of Aram will be
    like the glory^(CM) of the Israelites,”^(CN)
declares the Lord Almighty.

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

⁷In that day^(CW) people will look^(CX) to their Maker^(CY)
    and turn their eyes to the Holy One^(CZ) of Israel.
⁸They will not look to the altars,^(DA)
    the work of their hands,^(DB)
and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles^[e]^(DC)
    and the incense altars their fingers^(DD) have made.

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

¹⁰You have forgotten^(DF) God your Savior;^(DG)
    you have not remembered the Rock,^(DH) your fortress.^(DI)
Therefore, though you set out the finest plants
    and plant imported vines,^(DJ)
¹¹though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,
    and on the morning^(DK) when you plant them, you bring them to bud,
yet the harvest^(DL) will be as nothing^(DM)
    in the day of disease and incurable^(DN) pain.^(DO)

¹²Woe to the many nations that rage^(DP)—
    they rage like the raging sea!^(DQ)
Woe to the peoples who roar^(DR)—
    they roar like the roaring of great waters!^(DS)
¹³Although the peoples roar^(DT) like the roar of surging waters,
    when he rebukes^(DU) them they flee^(DV) far away,
driven before the wind like chaff^(DW) on the hills,
    like tumbleweed before a gale.^(DX)
¹⁴In the evening, sudden^(DY) terror!^(DZ)
    Before the morning, they are gone!^(EA)
This is the portion of those who loot us,
    the lot of those who plunder us.

A Prophecy Against Cush

18 Woe^(EB) to the land of whirring wings^[f]
along the rivers of Cush,^[g]^(EC)
²which sends envoys^(ED) by sea
in papyrus^(EE) boats over the water.

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

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

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

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

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

A Prophecy Against Egypt

19 A prophecy^(EY) against Egypt:^(EZ)

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

²“I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian—
    brother will fight against brother,^(FC)
    neighbor against neighbor,
    city against city,
    kingdom against kingdom.^(FD)
³The Egyptians will lose heart,^(FE)
    and I will bring their plans^(FF) to nothing;^(FG)
they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead,
    the mediums and the spiritists.^(FH)
⁴I will hand the Egyptians over
    to the power of a cruel master,
and a fierce king^(FI) will rule over them,”
    declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

⁵The waters of the river will dry up,^(FJ)
    and the riverbed will be parched and dry.^(FK)
⁶The canals will stink;^(FL)
    the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up.^(FM)
The reeds^(FN) and rushes will wither,^(FO)
⁷    also the plants^(FP) along the Nile,
    at the mouth of the river.
Every sown field^(FQ) along the Nile
    will become parched, will blow away and be no more.^(FR)
⁸The fishermen^(FS) will groan and lament,
    all who cast hooks^(FT) into the Nile;
those who throw nets on the water
    will pine away.
⁹Those who work with combed flax^(FU) will despair,
    the weavers of fine linen^(FV) will lose hope.
¹⁰The workers in cloth will be dejected,
    and all the wage earners will be sick at heart.

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

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

¹⁶In that day^(GI) the Egyptians will become weaklings.^(GJ) They will shudder with fear^(GK) at the uplifted hand^(GL) that the Lord Almighty raises against them. ¹⁷And the land of Judah will bring terror to the Egyptians; everyone to whom Judah is mentioned will be terrified,^(GM) because of what the Lord Almighty is planning^(GN) against them.

¹⁸In that day^(GO) five cities^(GP) in Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance^(GQ) to the Lord Almighty. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.^[h]^(GR)

¹⁹In that day^(GS) there will be an altar^(GT) to the Lord in the heart of Egypt,^(GU) and a monument^(GV) to the Lord at its border. ²⁰It will be a sign and witness^(GW) 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^(GX) and defender, and he will rescue^(GY) them. ²¹So the Lord will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge^(GZ) the Lord. They will worship^(HA) with sacrifices and grain offerings; they will make vows to the Lord and keep them.^(HB) ²²The Lord will strike^(HC) Egypt with a plague;^(HD) he will strike them and heal them. They will turn^(HE) to the Lord, and he will respond to their pleas and heal^(HF) them.

²³In that day^(HG) there will be a highway^(HH) from Egypt to Assyria.^(HI) The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship^(HJ) together. ²⁴In that day^(HK) Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria,^(HL) a blessing^[i]^(HM) on the earth. ²⁵The Lord Almighty will bless^(HN) them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people,^(HO) Assyria my handiwork,^(HP) and Israel my inheritance.^(HQ)”

A Prophecy Against Egypt and Cush

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

³Then the Lord said, “Just as my servant^(HY) Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years,^(HZ) as a sign^(IA) and portent^(IB) against Egypt^(IC) and Cush,^[j]^(ID) ⁴so the king^(IE) of Assyria will lead away stripped^(IF) and barefoot the Egyptian captives^(IG) and Cushite^(IH) exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared^(II)—to Egypt’s shame.^(IJ) ⁵Those who trusted^(IK) in Cush^(IL) and boasted in Egypt^(IM) will be dismayed and put to shame.^(IN) ⁶In that day^(IO) the people who live on this coast will say, ‘See what has happened^(IP) to those we relied on,^(IQ) those we fled to for help^(IR) and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?^(IS)’”

A Prophecy Against Babylon

21 A prophecy^(IT) against the Desert^(IU) by the Sea:

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

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

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

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

⁶This is what the Lord says to me:

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

⁸And the lookout^[k]^(JM) shouted,

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

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

A Prophecy Against Edom

¹¹A prophecy against Dumah^[l]:^(JT)

Someone calls to me from Seir,^(JU)
    “Watchman, what is left of the night?
    Watchman, what is left of the night?”
¹²The watchman replies,
    “Morning is coming, but also the night.
If you would ask, then ask;
    and come back yet again.”

A Prophecy Against Arabia

¹³A prophecy^(JV) against Arabia:^(JW)

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

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

A Prophecy About Jerusalem

22 A prophecy^(KG) against the Valley^(KH) of Vision:^(KI)

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

⁵The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day^(KS)
    of tumult and trampling^(KT) and terror^(KU)
    in the Valley of Vision,^(KV)
a day of battering down walls^(KW)
    and of crying out to the mountains.
⁶Elam^(KX) takes up the quiver,^(KY)
    with her charioteers and horses;
    Kir^(KZ) uncovers the shield.
⁷Your choicest valleys^(LA) are full of chariots,
    and horsemen are posted at the city gates.^(LB)

⁸The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah,
    and you looked in that day^(LC)
    to the weapons^(LD) in the Palace of the Forest.^(LE)
⁹You saw that the walls of the City of David
    were broken through^(LF) in many places;
you stored up water
    in the Lower Pool.^(LG)
¹⁰You counted the buildings in Jerusalem
    and tore down houses^(LH) to strengthen the wall.^(LI)
¹¹You built a reservoir between the two walls^(LJ)
    for the water of the Old Pool,^(LK)
but you did not look to the One who made it,
    or have regard^(LL) for the One who planned^(LM) it long ago.

¹²The Lord, the Lord Almighty,
    called you on that day^(LN)
to weep^(LO) and to wail,
    to tear out your hair^(LP) and put on sackcloth.^(LQ)
¹³But see, there is joy and revelry,^(LR)
    slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep,
    eating of meat and drinking of wine!^(LS)
“Let us eat and drink,” you say,
    “for tomorrow we die!”^(LT)

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

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

“Go, say to this steward,
    to Shebna^(LW) the palace^(LX) administrator:^(LY)
¹⁶What are you doing here and who gave you permission
    to cut out a grave^(LZ) for yourself^(MA) 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^(MB) you away, you mighty man.
¹⁸He will roll you up tightly like a ball
    and throw^(MC) you into a large country.
There you will die
    and there the chariots^(MD) you were so proud of
    will become a disgrace to your master’s house.
¹⁹I will depose you from your office,
    and you will be ousted^(ME) from your position.^(MF)

²⁰“In that day^(MG) I will summon my servant,^(MH) Eliakim^(MI) son of Hilkiah. ²¹I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash^(MJ) around him and hand your authority^(MK) over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah. ²²I will place on his shoulder^(ML) the key^(MM) to the house of David;^(MN) what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.^(MO) ²³I will drive him like a peg^(MP) into a firm place;^(MQ) he will become a seat^[m] of honor^(MR) for the house of his father. ²⁴All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots—all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.

²⁵“In that day,^(MS)” declares the Lord Almighty, “the peg^(MT) 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.^(MU)

A Prophecy Against Tyre

23 A prophecy against Tyre:^(MV)

Wail,^(MW) you ships^(MX) of Tarshish!^(MY)
    For Tyre is destroyed^(MZ)
    and left without house or harbor.
From the land of Cyprus
    word has come to them.

²Be silent,^(NA) you people of the island
    and you merchants^(NB) of Sidon,^(NC)
    whom the seafarers have enriched.
³On the great waters
    came the grain of the Shihor;^(ND)
the harvest of the Nile^[n]^(NE) was the revenue of Tyre,^(NF)
    and she became the marketplace of the nations.

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

⁶Cross over to Tarshish;^(NK)
    wail, you people of the island.
⁷Is this your city of revelry,^(NL)
    the old, old city,
whose feet have taken her
    to settle in far-off lands?
⁸Who planned this against Tyre,
    the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants^(NM) are princes,
    whose traders^(NN) are renowned in the earth?
⁹The Lord Almighty planned^(NO) it,
    to bring down^(NP) her pride in all her splendor
    and to humble^(NQ) all who are renowned^(NR) on the earth.

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

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

¹⁴Wail, you ships^(OD) of Tarshish;^(OE)
your fortress is destroyed!^(OF)

¹⁵At that time Tyre^(OG) will be forgotten for seventy years,^(OH) 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;^(OI)
play the harp well, sing many a song,
so that you will be remembered.”

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

The Lord’s Devastation of the Earth

24 See, the Lord is going to lay waste the earth^(OP)
    and devastate^(OQ) it;
he will ruin its face
    and scatter^(OR) its inhabitants—
²it will be the same
    for priest as for people,^(OS)
    for the master as for his servant,
    for the mistress as for her servant,
    for seller as for buyer,^(OT)
    for borrower as for lender,
    for debtor as for creditor.^(OU)
³The earth will be completely laid waste^(OV)
    and totally plundered.^(OW)
The Lord has spoken^(OX) this word.

⁴The earth dries up^(OY) and withers,^(OZ)
    the world languishes and withers,
    the heavens^(PA) languish with the earth.^(PB)
⁵The earth is defiled^(PC) by its people;
    they have disobeyed^(PD) the laws,
violated the statutes
    and broken the everlasting covenant.^(PE)
⁶Therefore a curse^(PF) consumes the earth;
    its people must bear their guilt.
Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up,^(PG)
    and very few are left.
⁷The new wine dries up^(PH) and the vine withers;^(PI)
    all the merrymakers groan.^(PJ)
⁸The joyful timbrels^(PK) are stilled,
    the noise^(PL) of the revelers^(PM) has stopped,
    the joyful harp^(PN) is silent.^(PO)
⁹No longer do they drink wine^(PP) with a song;
    the beer is bitter^(PQ) to its drinkers.
¹⁰The ruined city^(PR) lies desolate;^(PS)
    the entrance to every house is barred.
¹¹In the streets they cry out^(PT) for wine;^(PU)
    all joy turns to gloom,^(PV)
    all joyful sounds are banished from the earth.
¹²The city is left in ruins,^(PW)
    its gate^(PX) is battered to pieces.
¹³So will it be on the earth
    and among the nations,
as when an olive tree is beaten,^(PY)
    or as when gleanings are left after the grape harvest.^(PZ)

¹⁴They raise their voices, they shout for joy;^(QA)
    from the west^(QB) they acclaim the Lord’s majesty.
¹⁵Therefore in the east^(QC) give glory^(QD) to the Lord;
    exalt^(QE) the name^(QF) of the Lord, the God of Israel,
    in the islands^(QG) of the sea.
¹⁶From the ends of the earth^(QH) we hear singing:^(QI)
    “Glory^(QJ) to the Righteous One.”^(QK)

But I said, “I waste away, I waste away!^(QL)
    Woe^(QM) to me!
The treacherous^(QN) betray!
    With treachery the treacherous betray!^(QO)”
¹⁷Terror^(QP) and pit and snare^(QQ) await you,
    people of the earth.^(QR)
¹⁸Whoever flees^(QS) at the sound of terror
    will fall into a pit;^(QT)
whoever climbs out of the pit
    will be caught in a snare.^(QU)

The floodgates of the heavens^(QV) are opened,
    the foundations of the earth shake.^(QW)
¹⁹The earth is broken up,^(QX)
    the earth is split asunder,^(QY)
    the earth is violently shaken.
²⁰The earth reels like a drunkard,^(QZ)
    it sways like a hut^(RA) in the wind;
so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion^(RB)
    that it falls^(RC)—never to rise again.^(RD)

²¹In that day^(RE) the Lord will punish^(RF)
    the powers^(RG) in the heavens above
    and the kings^(RH) on the earth below.
²²They will be herded together
    like prisoners^(RI) bound in a dungeon;^(RJ)
they will be shut up in prison
    and be punished^[q] after many days.^(RK)
²³The moon will be dismayed,
    the sun^(RL) ashamed;
for the Lord Almighty will reign^(RM)
    on Mount Zion^(RN) and in Jerusalem,
    and before its elders—with great glory.^(RO)

Praise to the Lord

25 Lord, you are my God;^(RP)
    I will exalt you and praise your name,^(RQ)
for in perfect faithfulness^(RR)
    you have done wonderful things,^(RS)
    things planned^(RT) long ago.
²You have made the city a heap of rubble,^(RU)
    the fortified^(RV) town a ruin,^(RW)
the foreigners’ stronghold^(RX) a city no more;
    it will never be rebuilt.^(RY)
³Therefore strong peoples will honor you;^(RZ)
    cities of ruthless^(SA) nations will revere you.
⁴You have been a refuge^(SB) for the poor,^(SC)
    a refuge for the needy^(SD) in their distress,
a shelter from the storm^(SE)
    and a shade from the heat.
For the breath of the ruthless^(SF)
    is like a storm driving against a wall
⁵    and like the heat of the desert.
You silence^(SG) the uproar of foreigners;^(SH)
    as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud,
    so the song of the ruthless^(SI) is stilled.

⁶On this mountain^(SJ) the Lord Almighty will prepare
    a feast^(SK) of rich food for all peoples,
a banquet of aged wine—
    the best of meats and the finest of wines.^(SL)
⁷On this mountain he will destroy
    the shroud^(SM) that enfolds all peoples,^(SN)
the sheet that covers all nations;
⁸    he will swallow up death^(SO) forever.
The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears^(SP)
    from all faces;
he will remove his people’s disgrace^(SQ)
    from all the earth.
The Lord has spoken.^(SR)

⁹In that day^(SS) they will say,

“Surely this is our God;^(ST)
we trusted^(SU) in him, and he saved^(SV) us.
This is the Lord, we trusted in him;
let us rejoice^(SW) and be glad in his salvation.”^(SX)

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

Footnotes

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

Isaiah 15-25

King James Version

15 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;

²He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

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

⁴And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.

⁵My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.

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

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

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

⁹For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.

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

²For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

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

⁴Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

⁵And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.

⁶We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

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

⁸For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.

⁹Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.

¹⁰And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.

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

¹²And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.

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

¹⁴But now the Lord hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

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

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

³The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts.

⁴And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.

⁵And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

⁶Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the Lord God of Israel.

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

⁸And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.

⁹In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

¹⁰Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:

¹¹In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

¹²Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

¹³The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

¹⁴And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

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

²That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

³All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.

⁴For so the Lord said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

⁵For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

⁶They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

⁷In that time shall the present be brought unto the Lord of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Zion.

19 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

²And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

³And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

⁴And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts.

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

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

⁷The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.

⁸The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

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

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

¹¹Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

¹²Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.

¹³The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.

¹⁴The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

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

¹⁶In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he shaketh over it.

¹⁷And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the Lord of hosts, which he hath determined against it.

¹⁸In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the Lord of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.

¹⁹In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.

²⁰And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the Lord because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.

²¹And the Lord shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the Lord, and perform it.

²²And the Lord shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the Lord, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.

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

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

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

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

²At the same time spake the Lord by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

³And the Lord said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;

⁴So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

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

⁶And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?

21 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

²A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.

³Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

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

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

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

⁷And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:

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

⁹And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.

¹⁰O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.

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

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

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

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

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

¹⁶For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:

¹⁷And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the Lord God of Israel hath spoken it.