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Song of Songs 5:2 - Isaiah 9:20
New International Version
Song of Songs 5:2 - Isaiah 9:20
New International Version
She
2 I slept but my heart was awake.
Listen! My beloved is knocking:
“Open to me, my sister, my darling,
my dove,(A) my flawless(B) one.(C)
My head is drenched with dew,
my hair with the dampness of the night.”
3 I have taken off my robe—
must I put it on again?
I have washed my feet—
must I soil them again?
4 My beloved thrust his hand through the latch-opening;
my heart began to pound for him.
5 I arose to open for my beloved,
and my hands dripped with myrrh,(D)
my fingers with flowing myrrh,
on the handles of the bolt.
6 I opened for my beloved,(E)
but my beloved had left; he was gone.(F)
My heart sank at his departure.[a]
I looked(G) for him but did not find him.
I called him but he did not answer.
7 The watchmen found me
as they made their rounds in the city.(H)
They beat me, they bruised me;
they took away my cloak,
those watchmen of the walls!
8 Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you(I)—
if you find my beloved,(J)
what will you tell him?
Tell him I am faint with love.(K)
Friends
9 How is your beloved better than others,
most beautiful of women?(L)
How is your beloved better than others,
that you so charge us?
She
10 My beloved is radiant and ruddy,
outstanding among ten thousand.(M)
11 His head is purest gold;
his hair is wavy
and black as a raven.
12 His eyes are like doves(N)
by the water streams,
washed in milk,(O)
mounted like jewels.
13 His cheeks(P) are like beds of spice(Q)
yielding perfume.
His lips are like lilies(R)
dripping with myrrh.(S)
14 His arms are rods of gold
set with topaz.
His body is like polished ivory
decorated with lapis lazuli.(T)
15 His legs are pillars of marble
set on bases of pure gold.
His appearance is like Lebanon,(U)
choice as its cedars.
16 His mouth(V) is sweetness itself;
he is altogether lovely.
This is my beloved,(W) this is my friend,
daughters of Jerusalem.(X)
Friends
6 Where has your beloved(Y) gone,
most beautiful of women?(Z)
Which way did your beloved turn,
that we may look for him with you?
She
2 My beloved has gone(AA) down to his garden,(AB)
to the beds of spices,(AC)
to browse in the gardens
and to gather lilies.
3 I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine;(AD)
he browses among the lilies.(AE)
He
4 You are as beautiful as Tirzah,(AF) my darling,
as lovely as Jerusalem,(AG)
as majestic as troops with banners.(AH)
5 Turn your eyes from me;
they overwhelm me.
Your hair is like a flock of goats
descending from Gilead.(AI)
6 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep
coming up from the washing.
Each has its twin,
not one of them is missing.(AJ)
7 Your temples behind your veil(AK)
are like the halves of a pomegranate.(AL)
8 Sixty queens(AM) there may be,
and eighty concubines,(AN)
and virgins beyond number;
9 but my dove,(AO) my perfect one,(AP) is unique,
the only daughter of her mother,
the favorite of the one who bore her.(AQ)
The young women saw her and called her blessed;
the queens and concubines praised her.
Friends
10 Who is this that appears like the dawn,
fair as the moon, bright as the sun,
majestic as the stars in procession?
He
11 I went down to the grove of nut trees
to look at the new growth in the valley,
to see if the vines had budded
or the pomegranates were in bloom.(AR)
12 Before I realized it,
my desire set me among the royal chariots of my people.[b]
Friends
13 Come back, come back, O Shulammite;
come back, come back, that we may gaze on you!
He
7 [d]How beautiful your sandaled feet,
O prince’s(AT) daughter!
Your graceful legs are like jewels,
the work of an artist’s hands.
2 Your navel is a rounded goblet
that never lacks blended wine.
Your waist is a mound of wheat
encircled by lilies.
3 Your breasts(AU) are like two fawns,
like twin fawns of a gazelle.
4 Your neck is like an ivory tower.(AV)
Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon(AW)
by the gate of Bath Rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon(AX)
looking toward Damascus.
5 Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel.(AY)
Your hair is like royal tapestry;
the king is held captive by its tresses.
6 How beautiful(AZ) you are and how pleasing,
my love, with your delights!(BA)
7 Your stature is like that of the palm,
and your breasts(BB) like clusters of fruit.
8 I said, “I will climb the palm tree;
I will take hold of its fruit.”
May your breasts be like clusters of grapes on the vine,
the fragrance of your breath like apples,(BC)
9 and your mouth like the best wine.
She
May the wine go straight to my beloved,(BD)
flowing gently over lips and teeth.[e]
10 I belong to my beloved,
and his desire(BE) is for me.(BF)
11 Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside,
let us spend the night in the villages.[f]
12 Let us go early to the vineyards(BG)
to see if the vines have budded,(BH)
if their blossoms(BI) have opened,
and if the pomegranates(BJ) are in bloom(BK)—
there I will give you my love.
13 The mandrakes(BL) send out their fragrance,
and at our door is every delicacy,
both new and old,
that I have stored up for you, my beloved.(BM)
8 If only you were to me like a brother,
who was nursed at my mother’s breasts!
Then, if I found you outside,
I would kiss you,
and no one would despise me.
2 I would lead you
and bring you to my mother’s house(BN)—
she who has taught me.
I would give you spiced wine to drink,
the nectar of my pomegranates.
3 His left arm is under my head
and his right arm embraces me.(BO)
4 Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you:
Do not arouse or awaken love
until it so desires.(BP)
Friends
5 Who is this coming up from the wilderness(BQ)
leaning on her beloved?
She
Under the apple tree I roused you;
there your mother conceived(BR) you,
there she who was in labor gave you birth.
6 Place me like a seal over your heart,
like a seal on your arm;
for love(BS) is as strong as death,
its jealousy[g](BT) unyielding as the grave.
It burns like blazing fire,
like a mighty flame.[h]
7 Many waters cannot quench love;
rivers cannot sweep it away.
If one were to give
all the wealth of one’s house for love,
it[i] would be utterly scorned.(BU)
Friends
8 We have a little sister,
and her breasts are not yet grown.
What shall we do for our sister
on the day she is spoken for?
9 If she is a wall,
we will build towers of silver on her.
If she is a door,
we will enclose her with panels of cedar.
She
10 I am a wall,
and my breasts are like towers.
Thus I have become in his eyes
like one bringing contentment.
11 Solomon had a vineyard(BV) in Baal Hamon;
he let out his vineyard to tenants.
Each was to bring for its fruit
a thousand shekels[j](BW) of silver.
12 But my own vineyard(BX) is mine to give;
the thousand shekels are for you, Solomon,
and two hundred[k] are for those who tend its fruit.
He
13 You who dwell in the gardens
with friends in attendance,
let me hear your voice!
She
14 Come away, my beloved,
and be like a gazelle(BY)
or like a young stag(BZ)
on the spice-laden mountains.(CA)
1 The vision(CB) concerning Judah and Jerusalem(CC) that Isaiah son of Amoz saw(CD) during the reigns of Uzziah,(CE) Jotham,(CF) Ahaz(CG) and Hezekiah,(CH) kings of Judah.
A Rebellious Nation
2 Hear me, you heavens! Listen, earth!(CI)
For the Lord has spoken:(CJ)
“I reared children(CK) and brought them up,
but they have rebelled(CL) against me.
3 The ox knows(CM) its master,
the donkey its owner’s manger,(CN)
but Israel does not know,(CO)
my people do not understand.(CP)”
4 Woe to the sinful nation,
a people whose guilt is great,(CQ)
a brood of evildoers,(CR)
children given to corruption!(CS)
They have forsaken(CT) the Lord;
they have spurned the Holy One(CU) of Israel
and turned their backs(CV) on him.
5 Why should you be beaten(CW) anymore?
Why do you persist(CX) in rebellion?(CY)
Your whole head is injured,
your whole heart(CZ) afflicted.(DA)
6 From the sole of your foot to the top of your head(DB)
there is no soundness(DC)—
only wounds and welts(DD)
and open sores,
not cleansed or bandaged(DE)
or soothed with olive oil.(DF)
7 Your country is desolate,(DG)
your cities burned with fire;(DH)
your fields are being stripped by foreigners(DI)
right before you,
laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.(DJ)
8 Daughter Zion(DK) is left(DL)
like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a hut(DM) in a cucumber field,
like a city under siege.
9 Unless the Lord Almighty
had left us some survivors,(DN)
we would have become like Sodom,
we would have been like Gomorrah.(DO)
10 Hear the word of the Lord,(DP)
you rulers of Sodom;(DQ)
listen to the instruction(DR) of our God,
you people of Gomorrah!(DS)
11 “The multitude of your sacrifices—
what are they to me?” says the Lord.
“I have more than enough of burnt offerings,
of rams and the fat of fattened animals;(DT)
I have no pleasure(DU)
in the blood of bulls(DV) and lambs and goats.(DW)
12 When you come to appear before me,
who has asked this of you,(DX)
this trampling of my courts?
13 Stop bringing meaningless offerings!(DY)
Your incense(DZ) is detestable(EA) to me.
New Moons,(EB) Sabbaths and convocations(EC)—
I cannot bear your worthless assemblies.
14 Your New Moon(ED) feasts and your appointed festivals(EE)
I hate with all my being.(EF)
They have become a burden to me;(EG)
I am weary(EH) of bearing them.
15 When you spread out your hands(EI) in prayer,
I hide(EJ) my eyes from you;
even when you offer many prayers,
I am not listening.(EK)
16 Wash(EN) and make yourselves clean.
Take your evil deeds out of my sight;(EO)
stop doing wrong.(EP)
17 Learn to do right;(EQ) seek justice.(ER)
Defend the oppressed.[l](ES)
Take up the cause of the fatherless;(ET)
plead the case of the widow.(EU)
18 “Come now, let us settle the matter,”(EV)
says the Lord.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;(EW)
though they are red as crimson,
they shall be like wool.(EX)
19 If you are willing and obedient,(EY)
you will eat the good things of the land;(EZ)
20 but if you resist and rebel,(FA)
you will be devoured by the sword.”(FB)
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.(FC)
21 See how the faithful city
has become a prostitute!(FD)
She once was full of justice;
righteousness(FE) used to dwell in her—
but now murderers!(FF)
22 Your silver has become dross,(FG)
your choice wine is diluted with water.
23 Your rulers are rebels,(FH)
partners with thieves;(FI)
they all love bribes(FJ)
and chase after gifts.
They do not defend the cause of the fatherless;
the widow’s case does not come before them.(FK)
24 Therefore the Lord, the Lord Almighty,
the Mighty One(FL) of Israel, declares:
“Ah! I will vent my wrath on my foes
and avenge(FM) myself on my enemies.(FN)
25 I will turn my hand against you;[m](FO)
I will thoroughly purge(FP) away your dross(FQ)
and remove all your impurities.(FR)
26 I will restore your leaders as in days of old,(FS)
your rulers as at the beginning.
Afterward you will be called(FT)
the City of Righteousness,(FU)
the Faithful City.(FV)”
27 Zion will be delivered with justice,
her penitent(FW) ones with righteousness.(FX)
28 But rebels and sinners(FY) will both be broken,
and those who forsake(FZ) the Lord will perish.(GA)
29 “You will be ashamed(GB) because of the sacred oaks(GC)
in which you have delighted;
you will be disgraced because of the gardens(GD)
that you have chosen.
30 You will be like an oak with fading leaves,(GE)
like a garden without water.
31 The mighty man will become tinder
and his work a spark;
both will burn together,
with no one to quench the fire.(GF)”
The Mountain of the Lord(GG)
2 This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:(GH)
2 In the last days(GI)
the mountain(GJ) of the Lord’s temple will be established
as the highest of the mountains;(GK)
it will be exalted(GL) above the hills,
and all nations will stream to it.(GM)
3 Many peoples(GN) will come and say,
“Come, let us go(GO) up to the mountain(GP) of the Lord,
to the temple of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us his ways,
so that we may walk in his paths.”
The law(GQ) will go out from Zion,
the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.(GR)
4 He will judge(GS) between the nations
and will settle disputes(GT) for many peoples.
They will beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.(GU)
Nation will not take up sword against nation,(GV)
nor will they train for war anymore.
The Day of the Lord
6 You, Lord, have abandoned(GY) your people,
the descendants of Jacob.(GZ)
They are full of superstitions from the East;
they practice divination(HA) like the Philistines(HB)
and embrace(HC) pagan customs.(HD)
7 Their land is full of silver and gold;(HE)
there is no end to their treasures.(HF)
Their land is full of horses;(HG)
there is no end to their chariots.(HH)
8 Their land is full of idols;(HI)
they bow down(HJ) to the work of their hands,(HK)
to what their fingers(HL) have made.
9 So people will be brought low(HM)
and everyone humbled(HN)—
do not forgive them.[n](HO)
10 Go into the rocks, hide(HP) in the ground
from the fearful presence of the Lord
and the splendor of his majesty!(HQ)
11 The eyes of the arrogant(HR) will be humbled(HS)
and human pride(HT) brought low;(HU)
the Lord alone will be exalted(HV) in that day.(HW)
12 The Lord Almighty has a day(HX) in store
for all the proud(HY) and lofty,(HZ)
for all that is exalted(IA)
(and they will be humbled),(IB)
13 for all the cedars of Lebanon,(IC) tall and lofty,(ID)
and all the oaks of Bashan,(IE)
14 for all the towering mountains
and all the high hills,(IF)
15 for every lofty tower(IG)
and every fortified wall,(IH)
16 for every trading ship[o](II)
and every stately vessel.
17 The arrogance of man will be brought low(IJ)
and human pride humbled;(IK)
the Lord alone will be exalted in that day,(IL)
18 and the idols(IM) will totally disappear.(IN)
19 People will flee to caves(IO) in the rocks
and to holes in the ground(IP)
from the fearful presence(IQ) of the Lord
and the splendor of his majesty,(IR)
when he rises to shake the earth.(IS)
20 In that day(IT) people will throw away
to the moles and bats(IU)
their idols of silver and idols of gold,(IV)
which they made to worship.(IW)
21 They will flee to caverns in the rocks(IX)
and to the overhanging crags
from the fearful presence of the Lord
and the splendor of his majesty,(IY)
when he rises(IZ) to shake the earth.(JA)
22 Stop trusting in mere humans,(JB)
who have but a breath(JC) in their nostrils.
Why hold them in esteem?(JD)
Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah
3 See now, the Lord,
the Lord Almighty,
is about to take from Jerusalem and Judah
both supply and support:(JE)
all supplies of food(JF) and all supplies of water,(JG)
2 the hero and the warrior,(JH)
the judge and the prophet,
the diviner(JI) and the elder,(JJ)
3 the captain of fifty(JK) and the man of rank,(JL)
the counselor, skilled craftsman(JM) and clever enchanter.(JN)
4 “I will make mere youths their officials;
children will rule over them.”(JO)
5 People will oppress each other—
man against man, neighbor against neighbor.(JP)
The young will rise up against the old,
the nobody against the honored.
6 A man will seize one of his brothers
in his father’s house, and say,
“You have a cloak, you be our leader;
take charge of this heap of ruins!”
7 But in that day(JQ) he will cry out,
“I have no remedy.(JR)
I have no food(JS) or clothing in my house;
do not make me the leader of the people.”(JT)
8 Jerusalem staggers,
Judah is falling;(JU)
their words(JV) and deeds(JW) are against the Lord,
defying(JX) his glorious presence.
9 The look on their faces testifies(JY) against them;
they parade their sin like Sodom;(JZ)
they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
They have brought disaster(KA) upon themselves.
10 Tell the righteous it will be well(KB) with them,
for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.(KC)
11 Woe to the wicked!(KD)
Disaster(KE) is upon them!
They will be paid back(KF)
for what their hands have done.(KG)
12 Youths(KH) oppress my people,
women rule over them.
My people, your guides lead you astray;(KI)
they turn you from the path.
13 The Lord takes his place in court;(KJ)
he rises to judge(KK) the people.
14 The Lord enters into judgment(KL)
against the elders and leaders of his people:
“It is you who have ruined my vineyard;
the plunder(KM) from the poor(KN) is in your houses.
15 What do you mean by crushing my people(KO)
and grinding(KP) the faces of the poor?”(KQ)
declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.(KR)
16 The Lord says,
“The women of Zion(KS) are haughty,
walking along with outstretched necks,(KT)
flirting with their eyes,
strutting along with swaying hips,
with ornaments jingling on their ankles.
17 Therefore the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the women of Zion;
the Lord will make their scalps bald.(KU)”
18 In that day(KV) the Lord will snatch away their finery: the bangles and headbands and crescent necklaces,(KW) 19 the earrings and bracelets(KX) and veils,(KY) 20 the headdresses(KZ) and anklets and sashes, the perfume bottles and charms, 21 the signet rings and nose rings,(LA) 22 the fine robes and the capes and cloaks,(LB) the purses 23 and mirrors, and the linen garments(LC) and tiaras(LD) and shawls.
24 Instead of fragrance(LE) there will be a stench;(LF)
instead of a sash,(LG) a rope;
instead of well-dressed hair, baldness;(LH)
instead of fine clothing, sackcloth;(LI)
instead of beauty,(LJ) branding.(LK)
25 Your men will fall by the sword,(LL)
your warriors in battle.(LM)
26 The gates(LN) of Zion will lament and mourn;(LO)
destitute,(LP) she will sit on the ground.(LQ)
4 1 In that day(LR) seven women
will take hold of one man(LS)
and say, “We will eat our own food(LT)
and provide our own clothes;
only let us be called by your name.
Take away our disgrace!”(LU)
The Branch of the Lord
2 In that day(LV) the Branch of the Lord(LW) will be beautiful(LX) and glorious, and the fruit(LY) of the land will be the pride and glory(LZ) of the survivors(MA) in Israel. 3 Those who are left in Zion,(MB) who remain(MC) in Jerusalem, will be called holy,(MD) all who are recorded(ME) among the living in Jerusalem. 4 The Lord will wash away the filth(MF) of the women of Zion;(MG) he will cleanse(MH) the bloodstains(MI) from Jerusalem by a spirit[p] of judgment(MJ) and a spirit[q] of fire.(MK) 5 Then the Lord will create(ML) over all of Mount Zion(MM) and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night;(MN) over everything the glory[r](MO) will be a canopy.(MP) 6 It will be a shelter(MQ) and shade from the heat of the day, and a refuge(MR) and hiding place from the storm(MS) and rain.
The Song of the Vineyard
5 I will sing for the one I love
a song about his vineyard:(MT)
My loved one had a vineyard
on a fertile hillside.
2 He dug it up and cleared it of stones
and planted it with the choicest vines.(MU)
He built a watchtower(MV) in it
and cut out a winepress(MW) as well.
Then he looked for a crop of good grapes,
but it yielded only bad fruit.(MX)
3 “Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard.(MY)
4 What more could have been done for my vineyard
than I have done for it?(MZ)
When I looked for good grapes,
why did it yield only bad?(NA)
5 Now I will tell you
what I am going to do to my vineyard:
I will take away its hedge,
and it will be destroyed;(NB)
I will break down its wall,(NC)
and it will be trampled.(ND)
6 I will make it a wasteland,(NE)
neither pruned nor cultivated,
and briers and thorns(NF) will grow there.
I will command the clouds
not to rain(NG) on it.”
7 The vineyard(NH) of the Lord Almighty
is the nation of Israel,
and the people of Judah
are the vines he delighted in.
And he looked for justice,(NI) but saw bloodshed;
for righteousness,(NJ) but heard cries of distress.(NK)
Woes and Judgments
8 Woe(NL) to you who add house to house
and join field to field(NM)
till no space is left
and you live alone in the land.
9 The Lord Almighty(NN) has declared in my hearing:(NO)
“Surely the great houses will become desolate,(NP)
the fine mansions left without occupants.
10 A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bath[s] of wine;
a homer[t] of seed will yield only an ephah[u] of grain.”(NQ)
11 Woe(NR) to those who rise early in the morning
to run after their drinks,
who stay up late at night
till they are inflamed with wine.(NS)
12 They have harps and lyres at their banquets,
pipes(NT) and timbrels(NU) and wine,
but they have no regard(NV) for the deeds of the Lord,
no respect for the work of his hands.(NW)
13 Therefore my people will go into exile(NX)
for lack of understanding;(NY)
those of high rank(NZ) will die of hunger
and the common people will be parched with thirst.(OA)
14 Therefore Death(OB) expands its jaws,
opening wide its mouth;(OC)
into it will descend their nobles and masses
with all their brawlers and revelers.(OD)
15 So people will be brought low(OE)
and everyone humbled,(OF)
the eyes of the arrogant(OG) humbled.
16 But the Lord Almighty will be exalted(OH) by his justice,(OI)
and the holy God will be proved holy(OJ) by his righteous acts.
17 Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture;(OK)
lambs will feed[v] among the ruins of the rich.
18 Woe(OL) to those who draw sin along with cords(OM) of deceit,
and wickedness(ON) as with cart ropes,
19 to those who say, “Let God hurry;
let him hasten(OO) his work
so we may see it.
The plan of the Holy One(OP) of Israel—
let it approach, let it come into view,
so we may know it.”(OQ)
20 Woe(OR) to those who call evil good(OS)
and good evil,(OT)
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,(OU)
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.(OV)
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes(OW)
and clever in their own sight.
22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine(OX)
and champions at mixing drinks,(OY)
23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe,(OZ)
but deny justice(PA) to the innocent.(PB)
24 Therefore, as tongues of fire(PC) lick up straw(PD)
and as dry grass sinks down in the flames,
so their roots will decay(PE)
and their flowers blow away like dust;(PF)
for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty
and spurned the word(PG) of the Holy One(PH) of Israel.
25 Therefore the Lord’s anger(PI) burns against his people;
his hand is raised and he strikes them down.
The mountains shake,(PJ)
and the dead bodies(PK) are like refuse(PL) in the streets.(PM)
26 He lifts up a banner(PP) for the distant nations,
he whistles(PQ) for those at the ends of the earth.(PR)
Here they come,
swiftly and speedily!
27 Not one of them grows tired(PS) or stumbles,
not one slumbers or sleeps;
not a belt(PT) is loosened at the waist,(PU)
not a sandal strap is broken.(PV)
28 Their arrows are sharp,(PW)
all their bows(PX) are strung;
their horses’ hooves(PY) seem like flint,
their chariot wheels like a whirlwind.(PZ)
29 Their roar is like that of the lion,(QA)
they roar like young lions;
they growl as they seize(QB) their prey
and carry it off with no one to rescue.(QC)
30 In that day(QD) they will roar over it
like the roaring of the sea.(QE)
And if one looks at the land,
there is only darkness(QF) and distress;(QG)
even the sun will be darkened(QH) by clouds.
Isaiah’s Commission
6 In the year that King Uzziah(QI) died,(QJ) I saw the Lord,(QK) high and exalted,(QL) seated on a throne;(QM) and the train of his robe(QN) filled the temple. 2 Above him were seraphim,(QO) each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet,(QP) and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling to one another:
4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.(QU)
5 “Woe(QV) to me!” I cried. “I am ruined!(QW) For I am a man of unclean lips,(QX) and I live among a people of unclean lips,(QY) and my eyes have seen(QZ) the King,(RA) the Lord Almighty.”(RB)
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal(RC) in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips;(RD) your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.(RE)”
8 Then I heard the voice(RF) of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send?(RG) And who will go for us?(RH)”
And I said, “Here am I.(RI) Send me!”
9 He said, “Go(RJ) and tell this people:
“‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding;
be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’(RK)
10 Make the heart of this people calloused;(RL)
make their ears dull
and close their eyes.[w](RM)
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,(RN)
understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed.”(RO)
11 Then I said, “For how long, Lord?”(RP)
And he answered:
“Until the cities lie ruined(RQ)
and without inhabitant,
until the houses are left deserted(RR)
and the fields ruined and ravaged,(RS)
12 until the Lord has sent everyone far away(RT)
and the land is utterly forsaken.(RU)
13 And though a tenth remains(RV) in the land,
it will again be laid waste.(RW)
But as the terebinth and oak
leave stumps(RX) when they are cut down,
so the holy(RY) seed will be the stump in the land.”(RZ)
The Sign of Immanuel
7 When Ahaz(SA) son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin(SB) of Aram(SC) and Pekah(SD) son of Remaliah(SE) king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem, but they could not overpower it.
2 Now the house of David(SF) was told, “Aram has allied itself with[x] Ephraim(SG)”; so the hearts of Ahaz and his people were shaken,(SH) as the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind.
3 Then the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out, you and your son Shear-Jashub,[y](SI) to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.(SJ) 4 Say to him, ‘Be careful, keep calm(SK) and don’t be afraid.(SL) Do not lose heart(SM) because of these two smoldering stubs(SN) of firewood—because of the fierce anger(SO) of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.(SP) 5 Aram, Ephraim and Remaliah’s(SQ) son have plotted(SR) your ruin, saying, 6 “Let us invade Judah; let us tear it apart and divide it among ourselves, and make the son of Tabeel king over it.” 7 Yet this is what the Sovereign Lord says:(SS)
“‘It will not take place,
it will not happen,(ST)
8 for the head of Aram is Damascus,(SU)
and the head of Damascus is only Rezin.(SV)
Within sixty-five years
Ephraim will be too shattered(SW) to be a people.
9 The head of Ephraim is Samaria,(SX)
and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah’s son.
If you do not stand(SY) firm in your faith,(SZ)
you will not stand at all.’”(TA)
10 Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz, 11 “Ask the Lord your God for a sign,(TB) whether in the deepest depths or in the highest heights.(TC)”
12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask; I will not put the Lord to the test.(TD)”
13 Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, you house of David!(TE) Is it not enough(TF) to try the patience of humans? Will you try the patience(TG) of my God(TH) also? 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you[z] a sign:(TI) The virgin[aa](TJ) will conceive and give birth to a son,(TK) and[ab] will call him Immanuel.[ac](TL) 15 He will be eating curds(TM) and honey(TN) when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, 16 for before the boy knows(TO) enough to reject the wrong and choose the right,(TP) the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.(TQ) 17 The Lord will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since Ephraim broke away(TR) from Judah—he will bring the king of Assyria.(TS)”
Assyria, the Lord’s Instrument
18 In that day(TT) the Lord will whistle(TU) for flies from the Nile delta in Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.(TV) 19 They will all come and settle in the steep ravines and in the crevices(TW) in the rocks, on all the thornbushes(TX) and at all the water holes. 20 In that day(TY) the Lord will use(TZ) a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River(UA)—the king of Assyria(UB)—to shave your head and private parts, and to cut off your beard(UC) also.(UD) 21 In that day,(UE) a person will keep alive a young cow and two goats.(UF) 22 And because of the abundance of the milk they give, there will be curds to eat. All who remain in the land will eat curds(UG) and honey.(UH) 23 In that day,(UI) in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels,[ad](UJ) there will be only briers and thorns.(UK) 24 Hunters will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers(UL) and thorns. 25 As for all the hills(UM) once cultivated by the hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of the briers and thorns;(UN) they will become places where cattle are turned loose and where sheep run.(UO)
Isaiah and His Children as Signs
8 The Lord said to me, “Take a large scroll(UP) and write on it with an ordinary pen: Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.”[ae](UQ) 2 So I called in Uriah(UR) the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah as reliable witnesses(US) for me. 3 Then I made love to the prophetess,(UT) and she conceived and gave birth to a son.(UU) And the Lord said to me, “Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.(UV) 4 For before the boy knows(UW) how to say ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus(UX) and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.(UY)”
5 The Lord spoke to me again:
6 “Because this people has rejected(UZ)
the gently flowing waters of Shiloah(VA)
and rejoices over Rezin
and the son of Remaliah,(VB)
7 therefore the Lord is about to bring against them
the mighty floodwaters(VC) of the Euphrates—
the king of Assyria(VD) with all his pomp.(VE)
It will overflow all its channels,
run over all its banks(VF)
8 and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it,(VG)
passing through it and reaching up to the neck.
Its outspread wings(VH) will cover the breadth of your land,
Immanuel[af]!”(VI)
9 Raise the war cry,[ag](VJ) you nations, and be shattered!(VK)
Listen, all you distant lands.
Prepare(VL) for battle, and be shattered!
Prepare for battle, and be shattered!
10 Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted;(VM)
propose your plan, but it will not stand,(VN)
for God is with us.[ah](VO)
11 This is what the Lord says to me with his strong hand upon me,(VP) warning me not to follow(VQ) the way of this people:
12 “Do not call conspiracy(VR)
everything this people calls a conspiracy;
do not fear what they fear,(VS)
and do not dread it.(VT)
13 The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy,(VU)
he is the one you are to fear,(VV)
he is the one you are to dread.(VW)
14 He will be a holy place;(VX)
for both Israel and Judah he will be
a stone(VY) that causes people to stumble(VZ)
and a rock that makes them fall.(WA)
And for the people of Jerusalem he will be
a trap and a snare.(WB)
15 Many of them will stumble;(WC)
they will fall and be broken,
they will be snared and captured.”
16 Bind up this testimony of warning(WD)
and seal(WE) up God’s instruction among my disciples.
17 I will wait(WF) for the Lord,
who is hiding(WG) his face from the descendants of Jacob.
I will put my trust in him.(WH)
18 Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me.(WI) We are signs(WJ) and symbols(WK) in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.(WL)
The Darkness Turns to Light
19 When someone tells you to consult(WM) mediums and spiritists,(WN) who whisper and mutter,(WO) should not a people inquire(WP) of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? 20 Consult God’s instruction(WQ) and the testimony of warning.(WR) If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light(WS) of dawn. 21 Distressed and hungry,(WT) they will roam through the land;(WU) when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse(WV) their king and their God. 22 Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom,(WW) and they will be thrust into utter darkness.(WX)
9 [ai]Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom(WY) for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,(WZ) but in the future he will honor Galilee of the nations, by the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan—
2 The people walking in darkness(XA)
have seen a great light;(XB)
on those living in the land of deep darkness(XC)
a light has dawned.(XD)
3 You have enlarged the nation(XE)
and increased their joy;(XF)
they rejoice before you
as people rejoice at the harvest,
as warriors rejoice
when dividing the plunder.(XG)
4 For as in the day of Midian’s defeat,(XH)
you have shattered(XI)
the yoke(XJ) that burdens them,
the bar across their shoulders,(XK)
the rod of their oppressor.(XL)
5 Every warrior’s boot used in battle
and every garment rolled in blood
will be destined for burning,(XM)
will be fuel for the fire.
6 For to us a child is born,(XN)
to us a son is given,(XO)
and the government(XP) will be on his shoulders.(XQ)
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor,(XR) Mighty God,(XS)
Everlasting(XT) Father,(XU) Prince of Peace.(XV)
7 Of the greatness of his government(XW) and peace(XX)
there will be no end.(XY)
He will reign(XZ) on David’s throne
and over his kingdom,
establishing and upholding it
with justice(YA) and righteousness(YB)
from that time on and forever.(YC)
The zeal(YD) of the Lord Almighty
will accomplish this.
The Lord’s Anger Against Israel
8 The Lord has sent a message(YE) against Jacob;
it will fall on Israel.
9 All the people will know it—
Ephraim(YF) and the inhabitants of Samaria(YG)—
who say with pride
and arrogance(YH) of heart,
10 “The bricks have fallen down,
but we will rebuild with dressed stone;(YI)
the fig(YJ) trees have been felled,
but we will replace them with cedars.(YK)”
11 But the Lord has strengthened Rezin’s(YL) foes against them
and has spurred their enemies on.
12 Arameans(YM) from the east and Philistines(YN) from the west
have devoured(YO) Israel with open mouth.
13 But the people have not returned(YR) to him who struck(YS) them,
nor have they sought(YT) the Lord Almighty.
14 So the Lord will cut off from Israel both head and tail,
both palm branch and reed(YU) in a single day;(YV)
15 the elders(YW) and dignitaries(YX) are the head,
the prophets(YY) who teach lies(YZ) are the tail.
16 Those who guide(ZA) this people mislead them,
and those who are guided are led astray.(ZB)
17 Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men,(ZC)
nor will he pity(ZD) the fatherless and widows,
for everyone is ungodly(ZE) and wicked,(ZF)
every mouth speaks folly.(ZG)
Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,
his hand is still upraised.(ZH)
18 Surely wickedness burns like a fire;(ZI)
it consumes briers and thorns,(ZJ)
it sets the forest thickets ablaze,(ZK)
so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.
19 By the wrath(ZL) of the Lord Almighty
the land will be scorched(ZM)
and the people will be fuel for the fire;(ZN)
they will not spare one another.(ZO)
20 On the right they will devour,
but still be hungry;(ZP)
on the left they will eat,(ZQ)
but not be satisfied.
Each will feed on the flesh of their own offspring[aj]:
Footnotes
- Song of Songs 5:6 Or heart had gone out to him when he spoke
- Song of Songs 6:12 Or among the chariots of Amminadab; or among the chariots of the people of the prince
- Song of Songs 6:13 In Hebrew texts this verse (6:13) is numbered 7:1.
- Song of Songs 7:1 In Hebrew texts 7:1-13 is numbered 7:2-14.
- Song of Songs 7:9 Septuagint, Aquila, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew lips of sleepers
- Song of Songs 7:11 Or the henna bushes
- Song of Songs 8:6 Or ardor
- Song of Songs 8:6 Or fire, / like the very flame of the Lord
- Song of Songs 8:7 Or he
- Song of Songs 8:11 That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms; also in verse 12
- Song of Songs 8:12 That is, about 5 pounds or about 2.3 kilograms
- Isaiah 1:17 Or justice. / Correct the oppressor
- Isaiah 1:25 That is, against Jerusalem
- Isaiah 2:9 Or not raise them up
- Isaiah 2:16 Hebrew every ship of Tarshish
- Isaiah 4:4 Or the Spirit
- Isaiah 4:4 Or the Spirit
- Isaiah 4:5 Or over all the glory there
- Isaiah 5:10 That is, about 6 gallons or about 22 liters
- Isaiah 5:10 That is, probably about 360 pounds or about 160 kilograms
- Isaiah 5:10 That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms
- Isaiah 5:17 Septuagint; Hebrew / strangers will eat
- Isaiah 6:10 Hebrew; Septuagint ‘You will be ever hearing, but never understanding; / you will be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ / 10 This people’s heart has become calloused; / they hardly hear with their ears, / and they have closed their eyes
- Isaiah 7:2 Or has set up camp in
- Isaiah 7:3 Shear-Jashub means a remnant will return.
- Isaiah 7:14 The Hebrew is plural.
- Isaiah 7:14 Or young woman
- Isaiah 7:14 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls son, and he or son, and they
- Isaiah 7:14 Immanuel means God with us.
- Isaiah 7:23 That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms
- Isaiah 8:1 Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz means quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil; also in verse 3.
- Isaiah 8:8 Immanuel means God with us.
- Isaiah 8:9 Or Do your worst
- Isaiah 8:10 Hebrew Immanuel
- Isaiah 9:1 In Hebrew texts 9:1 is numbered 8:23, and 9:2-21 is numbered 9:1-20.
- Isaiah 9:20 Or arm
Song of Solomon 5:2 - Isaiah 24:4
King James Version
Song of Solomon 5:2 - Isaiah 24:4
King James Version
2 I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
5 I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
7 The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
9 What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?
10 My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.
11 His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.
12 His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.
13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
14 His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
15 His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
16 His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
6 Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.
2 My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
3 I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.
4 Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.
5 Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.
6 Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.
7 As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
8 There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
9 My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
10 Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
11 I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished and the pomegranates budded.
12 Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib.
13 Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.
7 How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.
2 Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
5 Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
9 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
8 O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.
2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.
3 His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
5 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
8 We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
9 Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
24 Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
2 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.
6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:
8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty.
11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
12 For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?
3 For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.
2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:
7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
13 The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
14 The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.
16 Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.
18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
21 The rings, and nose jewels,
22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
4 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
2 In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
5 And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
5 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
9 In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
16 But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
6 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
12 And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
7 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
3 Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:
7 Thus saith the Lord God, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
10 Moreover the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
11 Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.
13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
17 The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.
20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.
23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
25 And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
8 Moreover the Lord said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the Lord to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.
4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
5 The Lord spake also unto me again, saying,
6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
11 For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
13 Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
17 And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
18 Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
9 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
11 Therefore the Lord shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts.
14 Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
19 Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
10 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:
14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.
19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
23 For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
24 Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
26 And the Lord of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.
32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33 Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
11 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;
3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
15 And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
12 And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.
5 Sing unto the Lord; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.
6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
13 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
6 Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.
15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.
19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
14 For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
5 The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
22 For I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the Lord.
23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
24 The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
27 For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.
32 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the Lord hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
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;
2 He 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.
3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
4 And 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.
5 My 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.
6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.
9 For 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.
2 For 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.
3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
4 Let 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.
5 And 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.
6 We 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.
7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.
8 For 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.
9 Therefore 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.
10 And 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.
11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.
12 And 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.
13 This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.
14 But 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.
2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
3 The 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.
4 And 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.
5 And 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.
6 Yet 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.
7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And 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.
9 In 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.
10 Because 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:
11 In 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.
12 Woe 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!
13 The 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.
14 And 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:
2 That 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!
3 All 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.
4 For 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.
5 For 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.
6 They 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.
7 In 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.
2 And 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.
3 And 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.
4 And 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.
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
7 The 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.
8 The 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.
9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
11 Surely 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?
12 Where 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.
13 The 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.
14 The 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.
15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
16 In 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.
17 And 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.
18 In 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.
19 In 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.
20 And 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.
21 And 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.
22 And 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.
23 In 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.
24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:
25 Whom 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;
2 At 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.
3 And 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;
4 So 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.
5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
6 And 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.
2 A 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.
3 Therefore 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.
4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
7 And 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:
8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
9 And, 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.
10 O 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.
11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
16 For 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:
17 And 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.
22 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
3 All 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.
4 Therefore 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.
5 For 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.
6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
7 And 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.
8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
11 Ye 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.
12 And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
13 And 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.
14 And 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.
15 Thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,
16 What 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?
17 Behold, the Lord will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.
18 He 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.
19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
21 And 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.
22 And 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.
23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.
24 And 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.
25 In 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.
23 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.
5 As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
9 The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.
11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the Lord hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.
12 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.
13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the Lord: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
24 Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.
4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
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