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23 1 A Prophecy against Tyre. 17 A promise that it shall be restored.
1 The [a]burden of Tyre. Howl ye ships of [b]Tarshish: for [c]it is destroyed, so that there is none house: none shall come from the land of [d]Kittim: it is [e]revealed unto them.
2 Be still, ye that dwell in the isles: the merchants of Sidon, and such as pass over the sea, have [f]replenished thee.
3 The [g]seed of Nile growing by the abundance of waters, and the harvest of the river was her revenues, and she was a mart of the nations.
4 Be ashamed, thou Sidon: for the [h]sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I have not [i]travailed, nor brought forth children, neither nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.
5 When the fame cometh to the Egyptians, they shall be [j]sorry, concerning the rumor of Tyre.
6 Go you over to [k]Tarshish: howl, ye that dwell in the isles.
7 Is not this that your glorious city? her antiquity is of ancient days: her own feet shall lead her afar off to be a sojourner.
8 Who hath decreed this against Tyre (that [l]crowneth men) whose merchants are princes? whose chapmen are the nobles of the world?
9 The Lord of hosts hath decreed this, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring to contempt all them that be glorious in the earth.
10 Pass through thy land like a flood to the [m]daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.
11 He stretched out his hand upon the sea: he shook the kingdoms: the Lord hath given a commandment concerning the place of merchandise, to destroy the power thereof.
12 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice when thou art oppressed: [n]O virgin [o]daughter of Sidon: rise up, go out unto Kittim: yet there thou shalt have no rest.
13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans: this was no people: [p]Assyria founded it by the inhabitants of the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof: they raised the palaces thereof, and he [q]brought it to ruin.
14 Howl ye ships of Tarshish, for your [r]strength is destroyed.
15 And in that day shall Tyre be forgotten seventy years (according to the years of one King) at the end of [s]seventy years shall Tyre [t]sing as an harlot.
16 Take an harp and go about the city (thou harlot that hast been forgotten) [u]make sweet melody, sing more songs that thou mayest be remembered.
17 And at the end of seventy years shall the Lord visit Tyre, and she shall return to her [v]wages, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the earth, that are in the world.
18 Yet her occupying and her wages shall be [w]holy unto the Lord: it shall not be laid up nor kept in store, but her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and to have durable clothing.
24 1 A prophecy of the curse of God for the sins of the people. 13 A remnant reserved shall praise the Lord.
1 Behold, the Lord maketh the [x]earth empty, and he maketh it waste: he turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
2 And there shall be like people, like [y]Priest, and like servant, like master, like maid, like mistress, like buyer, like seller, like lender, like borrower, like giver, like taker to usury.
3 The earth shall be clean emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.
4 The earth lamenteth and fadeth away, the world is feebled and decayed: the proud people of the earth are weakened.
5 The earth [z]also deceiveth, because of the inhabitants thereof: for they transgressed the laws: they changed the ordinances, and brake the everlasting Covenant.
6 Therefore hath the [aa]curse devoured the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are desolate. Wherefore the inhabitants of the land are [ab]burned up, and few men are left.
7 The wine faileth, the vine hath no might: all that were of merry heart, do mourn.
8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth: the noise of them that rejoice, endeth: the joy of the harp ceaseth.
9 They shall not drink wine with mirth: strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
10 The city of [ac]vanity is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
11 There is a crying for wine in the streets: all joy is darkened: the [ad]mirth of the world is gone away.
12 In the cities is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
13 ¶ Surely thus shall it be in the midst of the earth, among the people, [ae]as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the grapes when the vintage is ended.
14 They shall lift up their voice: they shall shout for the magnificence of the Lord: they shall rejoice from [af]the sea.
15 Wherefore praise ye the Lord in the valleys, even the Name of the Lord God of Israel, in the isles of the sea.
16 From the uttermost part of the earth we have heard praises, even glory to the [ag]just, and I said, [ah]My leanness, my leanness, woe is me: the transgressors have offended: yea, the transgressors have grievously offended.
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And he that fleeth from the noise of the fear, shall fall into the pit: and he that cometh up out of the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for the [ai]windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down: the earth is clean dissolved: the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunken man, and shall be removed like a tent, and the iniquity thereof shall be heavy upon it: so that it shall fall, and rise no more.
21 ¶ And in that day shall the Lord [aj]visit the host above that is on high, even the kings of the world that are upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together as the prisoners in the pit: and they shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be [ak]visited.
23 [al]Then the moon shall be abashed, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion and in Jerusalem: and glory shall be before his ancient men.
25 A thanksgiving to God in that that he showeth himself judge of the world, by punishing the wicked, and maintaining the godly.
1 O Lord, thou [am]art my God: I will exalt thee, I will praise thy Name: for thou hast done wonderful things, according to the counsels of old, with a stable truth.
2 For thou hast made of a [an]city an heap, of a strong city, a ruin: even the place [ao]of strangers of a city, it shall never be built.
3 Therefore shall the [ap]mighty people give glory unto thee: the city of the strong nations shall fear thee.
4 For thou hast been a strength unto the poor, even a strength to the needy in his trouble, a refuge against the tempest, a shadow against the heat: for the blast [aq]of the mighty is like a storm against the wall.
5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of the strangers, [ar]as the heat in a dry place; he will bring down the song of the mighty, as [as]the heat in the shadow of a cloud.
6 And in this [at]mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, even a feast of fined wines, and of fat things full of marrow, of wines fined and purified.
7 And he will destroy in this mountain [au]the covering that covereth all people, and the veil that is spread upon all nations.
8 He will destroy death forever: and the Lord God will [av]wipe away the tears from all faces, and the rebuke of his people will he take away out of all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.
9 And in that day shall men say, Lo, this is our God: we have waited for him, and he will save us. This is the Lord, we have waited for him, we will rejoice and be joyful in salvation.
10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the Lord rest, and [aw]Moab shall be threshed under him even as straw is threshed in [ax]Madmenah.
11 And he shall stretch out his hand in the midst of them (as he that swimmeth stretcheth them out to swim) and with the strength of his hands shall he bring down their pride.
12 The defense also of the height of thy walls shall he bring down and lay low, and cast them to the ground, even unto the dust.
26 A song of the faithful, wherein is declared, in what consisteth the salvation of the Church, and wherein they ought to trust.
1 In that day shall [ay]this song be sung in the land of Judah, We have a strong city: [az]salvation shall God set for walls and bulwarks.
2 [ba]Open ye the gates that the righteous nation, which keepeth the truth, may enter in.
3 By an assured [bb]purpose wilt thou preserve perfect peace, because they trusted in thee.
4 Trust in the Lord forever: for in the Lord God is strength forevermore.
5 For he will bring down them that dwell on high: [bc]the high city he will abase: even unto the ground will he cast it down, and bring it unto dust.
6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the [bd]poor, and the steps of the needy.
7 The way of the just is righteousness: thou wilt make equal the righteous path of the just.
8 Also we, O Lord, have waited for thee in the way of thy [be]judgments: the desire of our soul is to thy Name, and to the remembrance of thee.
9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night, and with my spirit within me will I seek thee in the morning: for seeing thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn [bf]righteousness.
10 Let mercy [bg]be showed to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he do wickedly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.
11 O Lord, they will not behold thine high hand: but they shall see it, and be confounded with [bh]the zeal of the people, and the fire of thine [bi]enemies shall devour them.
12 Lord unto us thou wilt ordain peace: for thou also hast wrought all our works for us.
13 O Lord our God, other [bj]lords beside thee, have ruled us, but we will remember thee only, and thy Name.
14 The [bk]dead shall not live, neither shall the dead arise, because thou hast visited and scattered them, and destroyed all their memory.
15 Thou hast increased [bl]the nation, O Lord: thou hast increased the nation: thou art made glorious, thou hast enlarged all the coasts of the earth.
16 Lord, in trouble have they [bm]visited thee: they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near to the travail, is in sorrow, and crieth in her pains, so have we been in thy [bn]sight, O Lord.
18 We have conceived, we have born in pain, as though we should have brought forth [bo]wind: there was no help in the earth, neither did the inhabitants of [bp]the world fall.
19 ¶ [bq]Thy dead men shall live: even with my body shall they rise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy [br]dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20 Come, my people: [bs]enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors after thee: hide thyself for a very little while, until the indignation pass over.
21 For lo, the Lord cometh out of his place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth upon them: and the earth shall disclose her [bt]blood, and shall no more hide her slain.
27 A prophecy against the kingdom of Satan. 2 And of the joy of the Church for their deliverance.
1 In that [bu]day the Lord with his sore and great and mighty [bv]sword shall visit Leviathan, that piercing serpent, even Leviathan, that crooked serpent, and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
2 In that day sing of the vineyard [bw]of red wine.
3 I the Lord do keep it: I will water it every moment: lest any assail it, I will keep it night and day.
4 Anger [bx]is not in me: who would set the briers and the thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
5 Or will he [by]feel my strength, that he may make peace with me, and be at one with me?
6 [bz]Hereafter Jacob shall take root: Israel shall flourish and grow: and the world shall be filled with fruit.
7 Hath he smitten [ca]him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by him?
8 In [cb]measure in the branches thereof wilt thou contend with it, when he bloweth with his rough wind in the day of the East wind.
9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the [cc]fruit, the taking away of his sin: when he shall make all the stones of the altars, as chalk stones broken in pieces, that the groves and images may not stand up.
10 Yet the [cd]defensed city shall be desolate, and the habitation shall be forsaken, and left like a wilderness. There shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie and consume the branches thereof.
11 When the boughs of it are dry, they shall be broken: the [ce]women come and set them on fire: for it is a people of none understanding: therefore he that made them shall not have compassion of them, and he that formed them, shall have no mercy on them.
12 And in that day shall the Lord thresh from the channel of the [cf]river unto the river of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered, one by one, O children of Israel.
13 In that day also shall the great trumpet be [cg]blown, and they shall come, which perished in the land of Assyria, and they that were chased into the land of Egypt, and they shall worship the Lord in the holy Mount at Jerusalem.
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