 CHAPTERS 1 THROUGH 8 OF THE BOOK OF ISAIA FROM THE YOUNG'S LITERAL TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Mark Penfold. CHAPTERS 1 THROUGH 8 OF THE BOOK OF ISAIA FROM THE YOUNG'S LITERAL TRANSLATION CHAPTER 1 The visions of Isaiah, son of Amos, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Isaiah, Japham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for Jehovah hath spoken. Sons, I have nourished and brought up, and they transgressed against me. An ox hath known its owner, and an ass the crib of its master. Israel hath not known. My people hath not understood. Ah, sinning nation of people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons, corrupters. They have forsaken Jehovah. They have despised the holy one of Israel. They have gone away backward. Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostasy. Every head is become diseased, and every heart is sick. From the soul of the foot unto the head there is no soundness in it, wound and bruised and fresh smighting. They have not been closed nor bound, nor have they softened with ointment. Your land is a desolation, your cities burnt with fire, your ground before you strangers are consuming it, and a desolation as overthrown by strangers. And left hath been the daughter of Zion, as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a place of cucumbers, as a city besieged. Unless Jehovah of hosts had left to us a remnant shortly as Sodom we had been, to Gomorrah we had been like. Here the word of Jehovah ye rulers of Sodom give ear to the law of our God ye people of Gomorrah. Why to me the abundance of your sacrifices, saith Jehovah, I have been satiated with burnt offerings of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of bullocks, and lambs, and he goats I have not desired. When ye come in to appear before me, who hath required this of your hand to trample my courts? Add not to bring in a vain present, incense and abomination it is to me, new moon and Sabbath calling of convocation, render not iniquity and a restraint. Your new moons and your set seasons hath my soul hated. They have been upon me for a burden, I have been weary of bearing, and in your spreading forth your hands I hide mine eyes from you. Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, your hands of blood have been full. Wash ye, make ye pure, turn aside the evil of your doings from before mine eyes, cease to do evil, learn to do good, seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, judge the fatherless, strive for the widow. Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, if your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, if they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be. If ye are willing, and have hearkened, the good of the land he consume, and if he refuse and have rebelled, by the sword he are consumed, for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, how hath a faithful city become a harlot? I have filled it with judgment, righteousness lodgeth in it, now murderers. Thy silver hath become dross, thy drink polluted with water, thy princes are apostates and companions of thieves, everyone loving a bribe and pursuing rewards, the fatherless they judge not, and the plea of the widow cometh not to them. Therefore the affirmation of the Lord Jehovah of hosts, the mighty one of Israel, ah, I am eased of mine adversaries, and I am avenged of mine enemies, and I turn back my hand upon thee, and I refine as purity thy dross, and I turn aside all thy tin, and I give back thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as in the beginning. After this thou art called a city of righteousness, a faithful city. Zion in judgment is redeemed, and her captivity in righteousness, and the destruction of transgressors and sinners is together, and those forsaking Jehovah are consumed, for men are ashamed because of the oaks that ye have desired, and ye are confounded because of the gardens that ye have chosen, for ye are as an oak whose leaf is fading, and as a garden that hath no water, and the strong hath been foretoe, and his work for a spark, and burned hath both of them together, and there is none quenching. Chapter 2 The thing that Isaiah, son of Amma's, hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, and it hath come to pass in the latter end of the days, established is the mount of Jehovah's house, above the top of the mounts, and it hath been lifted up above the heights, and flowed unto it have all the nations, and gone have many peoples, and said, Come, and we go up unto the mount of Jehovah, unto the house of the God of Jacob, and he doth teach us of his ways, and we walk in his paths, for from Zion goeth forth a law, and a word of Jehovah from Jerusalem, and he hath judged between the nations, and hath given a decision to many peoples, and they have beat their swords to plowshares, and their spears to pruning hooks, nation doth not lift up sword unto nation, nor do they learn any more war. O house of Jacob, come, and we walk in the light of Jehovah, for thou hast left thy people the house of Jacob, for they have been filled from the east, and our sorcerers like the Philistines, and with the children of strangers strike hands, and its land is full of silver and gold, and there is no end to its treasures, and its land is full of horses, and there is no end to its chariots, and its land is full of idols, to the work of its hands it boweth itself, to that which its fingers have made, and the low boweth down, and the high is humbled, and thou acceptest them not. Enter into a rock, and be hidden in dust, because of the fear of Jehovah, and because of the honor of his Excellency. The hotty eyes of man have been humbled, and bowed down have been the loftiness of men, and set on high have Jehovah alone been in that day. For a day is to Jehovah of hosts, for every proud and high one, and for every lifted up and low one, and for all the cedars of Lebanon, the high and the exalted ones, and for all oaks of Bashan, and for all the high mountains, and for all the exalted heights, and for every high tower, and for every fenced wall, and for all ships of Tarshish, and for all desirable pictures, and bow down have been the hottyness of man, and humbled the loftiness of men, and set on high have Jehovah alone been in that day, and the idols they completely pass away. And men have entered into caverns of rocks, and into caves of dust because of the fear of Jehovah, and because of the honor of His Excellency in His rising to terrify the earth. In that day, Doth man cast his idols of silver and his idols of gold that they have made for him to worship, to moles and to bats, to enter into cavities of the rocks, and into clefts of the high places because of the fear of Jehovah, and because of the honor of His Excellency in His rising to terrify the earth. Cease for you from man whose breath is in his nostrils, for in what is he esteemed? Chapter 3 For lo, the Lord Jehovah of hosts is turning aside from Jerusalem and from Judah, stay and staff, every stay of bread, and every stay of water, hero and man of war, judge and prophet, and diviner and elder, head of fifty, and accepted of faces, and counselor, and the wise of artificers, and the intelligent of charmers, and I have made youths their heads, and sucklings rule over them, and the people have exacted man upon man, even a man on his neighbor enlarged themselves to the youths against the aged, and the lightly esteemed against the honored. When one layeth hold on his brother of the house of his father by the garment, come, a ruler thou art to us, ruin is under thy hand, he lifteth up in that day saying, I am not a binder up, and in my house is neither bread nor garment, he do not make me a ruler of the people, for stumbled hath Jerusalem, and Judah hath fallen for their tongue, and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory. The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, and their sin, as Sodom they declared, they have not hidden. Woe to their soul, for they have done to themselves evil. Say ye to the righteous that it is good, because the fruit of their doings they eat. Woe to the wicked, evil, because the deed of his hand is done to him. My people, its exacters are sucklings, and women have ruled over it. My people, thy eulogists are causing to err, and the way of thy paths swallowed up. Jehovah hath stood up to plead, and he is standing to judge the peoples. Jehovah unto judgment doth enter with elders of his people and its heads, and ye, ye have consumed the vineyard. Plunder of the poor is in your houses. What to you, ye bruise my people, and the faces of the poor ye grind. An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah of hosts, and Jehovah saith, because that daughters of Zion have been haughty, and they walk stretching out the neck, and deceiving with the eyes, walking and mincing they go, and with their feet they make a tinkling. The Lord also hath scabbed the crown of the head of daughters of Zion, and Jehovah their simplicity exposes. In that day doth the Lord turn aside the beauty of the tinkling ornaments, and of the embroidered works, and of the round tires like moons, of the drops and the bracelets and the mufflers, of the bonnets and the ornaments of the legs, and of the bands and of the perfume boxes and the amulets, of the seals and of the nose rings, of the costly apparel and of the mantles, and of the coverings and of the purses, of the mirrors and of the linen garments, and of the hoods and of the veils. And it hath been instead of spice is muck, and instead of a girdle a rope, and instead of curled work baldness, and instead of a stomacher a girdle of sackcloth. For instead of glory thy men by sword do fall, and thy might in battle, and lamented and mourned have her openings, yea, she hath been emptied on the earth she sitteth. Chapter 4 And Takenhold hath seven women on one man in that day saying, Our own bread we do eat, and our own raiment we put on. Only let thy name be called over us, remove thou our reproach. In that day is the shoot of Jehovah for desire and for honor, and the fruit of the earth for excellence and for beauty to the escaped of Israel. And it hath been he who is left in Zion, and he who is remaining in Jerusalem. Holy is said of him, of everyone who is written for life in Jerusalem. If the Lord hath washed away the filth of daughters of Zion, and the blood of Jerusalem purgeth from her midst by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning, then hath Jehovah prepared over every fixed place of Mount Zion, and over her convocations a cloud by day, and smoke, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, that over all honor a safeguard, and a covering may be, for a shadow by day from drought, and for a refuge, and for a hiding place from inundation and from rain. Chapter 5 Let me sing, I pray you, for my beloved, a song of my beloved as to his vineyard, my beloved hath a vineyard in a fruitful hill, and he thenseth it, and casteth out its stones, and planted it with a choice vine, and buildeth a tower in its midst, and also a wine-press hath hewn out in it, and he waited for the yielding of grapes, and it yieldeth bad ones, and now a inhabitant of Jerusalem, and man of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard, what, to do still to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Wherefore I waited to the yielding of grapes, and it yieldeth bad ones, and now pray, let me cause you to know that which I am doing to my vineyard, to turn aside its hedge, and it hath been for consumption to break down its wall, and it hath been for a treading place. And I make it a waste, it is not pruned nor arranged, and gone up hath briar and thorn, and on the thick clouds I lay a charge from reigning upon it rain. Because the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the man of Judah his pleasant plant, and he waited for judgment for low oppression, for righteousness, and low a cry. Woe to those joining house to house, field to field they bring near, till there is no place, and ye have been settled by yourselves in the midst of the land. By the weapons of Jehovah of hosts do not many houses a desolation become great and good without inhabitant, for ten acres of vineyard do yield one bath, and the seed yieldeth an ifa. Woe to those rising early in the morning, strong drink they pursue, tarrying in twilight, wine in flameeth them, and harp and sultry, tabaret and pipe, and wine have been their banquets, and the work of Jehovah they behold not, yea, the work of his hands they have not seen. Therefore my people removed without knowledge, and its honorable ones are famished, and its multitude dried up of thirst. Therefore hath Sheol enlarged herself, and hath opened her mouth without limit, and gone down hath its honor, and its multitude, and its noise, and its exalting one into her, and bowed down is the low, and humbled the high, and the eyes of the haughty become low, and Jehovah of hosts is high in judgment, and the holy gods sanctified in righteousness, and fed hath lands according to their leading, and waste places of the fat ones do sojourners consume. Woe to those drawing out iniquity with cords of vanity, and as with thick ropes of the cart, sin, who are saying, let him hurry, let him hasten his work that we may see, and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, and we know. Woe to those saying to evil, good, and to good, evil, putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. Woe to the wise in their own eyes, and before their own faces intelligent. Woe to the mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink, declaring righteous the wicked for a bribe, and the righteousness of the righteous they turn aside from him. Therefore as a tongue of fire devour with stubble, and flaming hay falleth, their root is as muck, and their flower as dust goeth up, because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and the saying of the Holy One of Israel despised. Therefore hath the anger of Jehovah burned among his people, and he stretcheth out his hand against it, and smighteth it, and the mountains tremble, and their carcass is as filth in the midst of the outplaces. With all this his anger did not turn back, and still his hand is stretched out, and he lifted up an ensign to nations afar off, and hissed to it from the end of the earth, and lo, with haste, swift it cometh. There is none weary nor stumbling in it, it doth not slumber nor sleep, nor opened hath been the girdle of its loins, nor drawn away the latchet of its sandals, whose arrows are sharp and all its bows bent, hoofs of its horses as flint have been reckoned, and its wheels as a hurricane, its roaring is as a lioness, its roareth like young lions, and it howleth and seizeth pray, and carryeth away safely, and there is none delivering, and it howleth against it in that day as the howling of a sea, and it hath looked attentively to the land, and lo, darkness, distress, and light hath been darkened by its abundance. CHAPTER 6 In the year of the death of King Isaiah I see the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and his train is filling the temple. Seraphs are standing above it. Six wings hath each one, with two each covereth its face, and with two each covereth its feet, and with two each flyeth. And this one hath called unto that, and hath said, Holy, Holy, Holy is Jehovah of hosts, the fullness of all the earth is his glory! And the posts of the thresholds are moved by the voice of him who is calling, and the house is full of smoke. And I say, Woe to me, for I have been silent, for a man unclean of lips am I, and in midst of a people unclean of lips I am dwelling, because the King Jehovah of hosts hath my eyes seen, and flee unto me doth one of the Seraphs, and in his hand a burning coal, with tongs he hath taken it from off the altar. And he strikeeth against my mouth, and sayeth, Woe, this hath stricken against thy lips, and turn aside as thine iniquity, and thy sin is covered. And I hear the voice of the Lord saying, Whom do I send, and who doth go for us? And I say, Here am I, send me! And he sayeth, Go, and thou hast said to this people, Hear ye, to hear, and ye do not understand, and see ye, to see, and ye do not know. Declare fat the heart of this people, and its ears declare heavy, and its eyes declare dazzled, lest it see with its eyes, and with its ears hear, and its heart consider, and it hath turned back, and hath health. And I say, Till when, O Lord? And he sayeth, Surely till cities have been wasted without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the ground be wasted, a desolation, and Jehovah hath put man far off, and great is the forsaken part in the heart of the land, and yet in it a tenth, and it hath turned, and hath been for a burning as a teal tree, and as an oak, that in falling hath substance in them, the holy seed is its substance. Chapter 7 And it cometh to pass in the days of Ahaz, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Ghana hath reason king of Aram, and Pekah son of Ramaliah, king of Israel, to Jerusalem to battle against it, and he is not able to fight against it. And it is declared to the house of David saying, Aram hath been led towards Ephraim, and his heart and the heart of his people is moved, like the moving of trees of a forest by the presence of wind. And Jehovah sayeth unto Isaiah, Go forth, I pray thee, to meet Ahaz, thou and Shear Joshua thy son, unto the end of the conduit of the upper pool, unto the highway of the fullers field. And thou hast said unto him, Take heed and be quiet, fear not, and let not thy heart be timid, because of these two tales of smoking brands, for the fierceness of the anger of reason, and Aram, and the son of Ramaliah, because that Aram counseled against the evil, Ephraim, and the son of Ramaliah, saying, We go up into Judah, and we vex it, and we rend it unto ourselves, and we cause a king to reign in its midst, the son of Tabiel. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, It doth not stand, nor shall it be. For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is reason, and within sixty and five years is Ephraim broken from being a people, and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Ramaliah. If ye do not give credence, surely ye are not steadfast. And Jehovah addeth to speak unto Ahaz, saying, Ask for the assign from Jehovah thy God, make deep the request, or make it high upwards. And Ahaz saith, I do not ask, nor try Jehovah. And he saith, Here I pray you, oh house of David, is it a little thing for you to wary men that ye wary also, my God? Therefore the Lord himself giveth to you a sign. Lo, the virgin is conceiving, and is bringing forth a son, and hath called his name Immanuel. Butter and honey he doth eat, when he knoweth to refuse evil, and to fix on good. For before the youth doth know to refuse evil, and to fix on good, forsaken is the land thou art fixed with, because of her two kings. Jehovah bringeth on thee, and on thy people, and on the house of thy father, days that have not come, even from the day of the turning aside of Ephraim from Judah, by the king of Ashur. And it hath come to pass in that day, Jehovah doth hiss for a fly that is in the extremity of the brooks of Egypt, and for a bee that is in the land of Ashur. And they have come, and rested all of them in the desolate valleys, and in holes of the rocks, and on all the thorns, and on all the commendable things. In that day doth the Lord shave by a razor that is hired beyond the river, by the king of Ashur, the head, and the hair of the feet, yea also the beard it consumes. And it hath come to pass in that day, a man keepeth alive a heifer of the herd, and two of the flock. And it hath come to pass from the abundance of the yielding of milk, he eateth butter. And honey doth everyone eat who is left in the heart of the land. And it hath come to pass in that day, every place where there are a thousand vines, at a thousand silverlings, is for briars and for thorns. With arrows and with bow he cometh thither, because all the land is briar and thorn. And all the hills that with a mattock are kept in order, thither cometh not the fear of briar and thorn. And it hath been for the sending forth of ox, and for the treading of sheep. Chapter 8 And Jehovah saith unto me, take to thee a great tablet, and write upon it with a graving tool of man, to haste spoil, enjoy pray. And I cause faithful witnesses to testify to me, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah, son of Jeberakiah. And I draw near unto the prophetess, and she conceiveth, and bereth a son. And Jehovah saith unto me, call his name, for before the youth doth know to cry, my father and my mother, one taketh away the wealth of Damascus, and the spoil of Samaria, before the king of Ashur. And Jehovah addeth to speak unto me again, saying, because that this people hath refused the waters of Shailoa that go softly, and is rejoicing with reason, and the son of Remeliah. Therefore, lo, the Lord is bringing up on them the waters of the river, the mighty and the great, the king of Ashur, and all his glory. And it hath gone up over all its streams, and hath gone on over all its banks. And it hath passed on into Judah, it hath over flown and passed over unto the naked cometh, and the stretching out of its wings hath been the fullness of the breath of thy land. O Immanuel, be friends, o nations, and be broken, and give ear, all ye far off ones of earth. Gird yourselves, and be broken. Gird yourselves, and be broken. Take counsel, and it is broken. Speak a word, and it doth not stand, because of Immanuel. For thus hath Jehovah spoken unto me with strength of hand, and instructeth me against walking in the way of this people, saying, ye do not say a confederacy to all to whom this people sayeth a confederacy. And its fear ye do not fear, nor declare fearful. Jehovah of hosts, him ye do sanctify, and he is your fear, and he your dread. And he hath been for a sanctuary, and for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of falling to the two houses of Israel, for a jinn, and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And many among them have stumbled and fallen, and been broken, and snared and captured. Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples, and I have waited for Jehovah, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I have looked for him. Lo, I, and the children whom Jehovah hath given to me, are for signs and for wonders in Israel, from Jehovah of hosts, who is dwelling in Mount Zion. And when they say unto you, seek unto those having familiar spirits, and unto wizards who chatter and mutter, doth not a people seek unto its God, for the living unto the dead, to the law, and to the testimony, if not let them say after this manner that there is no dawn to it, and it hath passed over into it hardened and hungry, and it hath come to pass that it is hungry, and hath been rough, and made light of its king, and of its God, and hath looked upwards, and unto the land it looketh attentively, lo, adversity and darkness, dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, but not the dimness for which he is in distress. The end of chapters one through eight of the Book of Isaiah from the Young's Literal Translation. Recording by Mark Penfold. Chapters nine through eighteen of the Book of Isaiah from the Young's Literal Translation of the Bible. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Mark Penfold. Chapters nine through eighteen of the Book of Isaiah from the Young's Literal Translation. Chapter nine. As the former time made light, the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, so the latter have honored the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. The people who are walking in darkness have seen a great light, dwellers in a land of death shade, light have shown upon them. Thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast made great its joy, they have joyed before thee as the joy in harvest, as men rejoice in their apportioning spoil. And the staff of its shoulder, the rod of its exactor, thou hast broken as in the day of Midian. For every battle of a warrior is with rushing, and raiment rolled in blood, and it have been for burning fuel of fire. For a child have been born to us, a son have been given to us, and the princely power is on his shoulder, and Hedoth called his name, Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace. To the increase of the princely power, and of peace, there is no end. On the throne of David and on his kingdom to establish it, and to support it, in judgment and in righteousness, henceforth even unto the age, the zeal of Jehovah of hosts, Doth this. A word hath the Lord sent into Jacob, and it hath fallen in Israel, and the people have known, all of it, Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria in pride and in greatness apart, saying, Bricks have fallen, and hewn work we build, sycamores have been cut down, and cedars we renew, and Jehovah setteth the adversaries of reason on high of him, and his enemies he joineth together, Aram from before, and Philistia from behind, and they devour Israel with the whole mouth, with all this not turned back hath his anger, and still his hand is stretched out, and the people hath not turned back unto him who is smiting it, and Jehovah of hosts they have not sought, and Jehovah cuteth off from Israel, head and tail, branch and reed the same day, elder and accepted of face, he is the head, prophet, teacher of falsehood, he is the tail, and the eulogists of this people are causing to err, and its eulogized ones are consumed, therefore over its young men the Lord rejoiceth not, and its orphans and its widows he pitieth not, for everyone is profane, and an evildoer, and every mouth is in folly, with all this not turned back hath his anger, and still his hand is stretched out, for burned as a fire hath wickedness, briar and thorn it devoureth, and it kindleeth in thickets of the forest, and they lift themselves up, an exaltation of smoke, in the wrath of Jehovah of hosts hath the land been consumed, and the people is as fuel of fire, a man on his brother hath evildoer, and cuteth down on the right, and hath been hungry, and he devoureth on the left, and they have not been satisfied, each the flesh of his own arm they devour. Manasseh, Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh, together they are against Judah, with all this not turned back hath his anger, and still his hand is stretched out. Chapter 10 Woe to those decreeing these of iniquity, and writers who have prescribed perverseness, to turn aside from judgment the poor, and to take violently away the judgment of the afflicted of my people, that widows may be their prey, that the fatherless they may spoil, and what do ye at a day of inspection, and at desolation from afar it cometh, near whom do ye flee for help, and where do ye leave your honor? Without me it hath bowed down in the place of a bound one, and in the place of the slain they fall. With all this not turned back hath his anger, and still his hand is stretched out. Woe to Asshur, a rod of mine anger, and a staff in their hand is mine indignation, against a profane nation I send him, and concerning a people of my wrath I charge him, to spoil spoil, and to seize prey, and to make it a treading place as the clay of outplaces, and he, he thinketh not so, and his heart reckoneth not so, for to destroy is in his heart, and to cut off nations not a few. For he sayeth, are not my princes altogether kings, is not Calno as Karchemish, is not Hamath as Arpad, is not Samaria as Damascus? As my hand hath got to the kingdoms of a worthless thing, and their graven images, greater than Jerusalem, and then do I not, as I have done to Samaria, and to her worthless things, so due to Jerusalem, and to her grievous things? And it hath come to pass when the Lord doth fulfill all his work in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, I see concerning the fruit of the greatness of the heart of the king of Asshur, and concerning the glory of the height of his eyes. For he hath said, by the power of my hand I have wrought, and by my wisdom I have been intelligent, and I remove borders of the peoples, and their chief ones I have spoiled, and I put down as a mighty one the inhabitants, and my hand as to a nest geteth to the wealth of the peoples, and as a gathering of forsaken eggs, all the earth I have gathered, and there hath not been one moving wing, or opening mouth, or whispering. Doth the axe glorify itself against him who is hewing with it? As a rod waving those lifting it up? As a staff lifting up that which is not wood? Therefore doth the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness, and under his honor he kindleth a burning as the burning of a fire. And the light of Israel hath been for a fire, and his holy one for a flame, and it hath burned, and devoured his thorn and his briar in one day. And the honor of Israel hath burned one day. And the honor of his forest, and his fruitful field, from soul even unto flesh he doth consume, and it hath been as the fainting of a standard bearer, and the rest of the trees of his forest are few, and a youth doth write them. And it hath come to pass in that day, the remnant of Israel and the escaped of the house of Jacob, do not add any more to lean on its smiter, and have leant on Jehovah, the holy man of Israel in truth. A remnant returneth, a remnant of Jacob unto the mighty God. For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant doth return of it, a consumption determined overflowing with righteousness. For a consumption that is determined, the Lord Jehovah of hosts is making in the midst of all the land. Therefore thus said the Lord Jehovah of hosts, be not afraid in Zion, because of Asher with a rod he doth smite thee and his staff lifteth up against thee in the way of Egypt. For yet a very little and the indignation hath been completed, and mine anger by their wearing out. And awakening for him is Jehovah of hosts, a scourge like the smiting of Midian at the rock Oreb, and his rod is over the sea, and he hath lifted it in the way of Egypt. And it hath turned is his burden from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and destroyed hath been the yoke because of prosperity. He hath come in against A.I.F. He hath passed over into Migran at McMash, he looketh after his vessels. They hath gone over the passage. Giba, they have made a lodging place. Trembled hath Rama, Gibiah of Saul fled. Cry aloud with thy voice, daughter of Laish. Answer her, Anathoth. Fled away hath Madmenah. The inhabitants of the high places hath hardened themselves. Yet today in Nab to remain waive its hand doth the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. Lo, the Lord Jehovah of hosts is lopping a branch with violence, and the highest stature are cut down, and the lofty are become low. And he hath gone round the thickets of the forest with iron, and a rod hath come out from the stalk of Jesse, and a branch from his roots is fruitful. Rested on him hath the spirit of Jehovah, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and fear of Jehovah, to refresh him in the fear of Jehovah, and by the sight of his eyes he judgeeth not, nor by the hymn of Jehovah he judgeeth not, nor by the hearing of his ears decided. And he hath judged in righteousness the poor, and decided in uprightness for the humble of earth, and hath smitten earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he puteth the wicked to death. And righteousness hath been the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins, and a wolf hath sojourned with a kid doth lie down. And calf, and young lion, and fatling are together, and a little youth is leader over them, and cow and bear do feed, together lie down their young ones, and a lion as an ox eateth straw, and played hath a suckling by the hole of an asp, and on the den of a cockatrice hath the weaned one put his hand. Evil they do not, nor destroy in all my holy mountain. For full hath been the earth with the knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters are covering the sea. And there hath been in that day a root of Jesse that is standing for an ensign of peoples, unto him do nations seek, and his rest hath been honor. And it hath come to pass in that day the Lord addeth a second time his power to get the remnant of his people that is left from Asur, and from Paphros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from Isles of the sea. And he hath lifted up in ensign to nations, and gathereth the driven away of Israel, and the scattered of Judah he assembleth from the four wings of the earth. And turned aside hath the envy of Ephraim, and the adversaries of Judah are cut off. Ephraim doth not envy Judah, and Judah doth not distress Ephraim. And they have flown on the shoulder of the Philistines westward. Together they spoil the sons of the east, Edom and Moab sending forth their hand, and sons of Ammon obeying them. And Jehovah hath devoted to destruction the tongue of the sea of Egypt, and hath waved his hand over the river in the terror of his wind, and hath smitten it at the seven streams, and hath caused men to tread it with fear, and there hath been a highway for the remnant of his people that is left from Asher, as there was for Israel in the day of his coming up out of the land of Egypt. Chapter 12. And thou hast said in that day, I thank thee, O Jehovah, though thou hast been angry with me, turn back doth thine anger, and thou dost comfort me. Lo, God is my salvation, I trust and fear not, for long is Ja Jehovah, and he is to me for salvation, and he hath drawn waters with joy out of the fountains of salvation, and he hath said in that day, Give ye praise to Jehovah, call in his name, make known among the peoples his axe, make mention that set on high is his name. Praise ye Jehovah for excellence he hath done, known is this in all the earth. Cry aloud, and sing, O inhabitant of Zion, for great in thy midst is the holy one of Israel. Chapter 13. The burden of Babylon that Isaiah son of Amos hath seen. On a high mountain, lift ye up an ensign, raise the voice to them, wave the hand, and they go into the openings of nobles. I have given charge to my sanctified ones, also I have called my mighty ones for mine anger, those rejoicing at mine excellency, a voice of a multitude in the mountains, a likeness of a numerous people, a voice of noise from the kingdoms of nations who are gathered, Jehovah of hosts inspecting a host of battle. They are coming in from a land of far off, from the end of the heavens, Jehovah and the instruments of his indignation to destroy all the land. How will ye for near is the day of Jehovah, as destruction from the mighty it cometh. Therefore all hands do fail, and every heart of man doth melt. And they have been troubled, pains and pains they take, as a travelling woman they are pained, a man at his friend they marvel, the appearance of flames, their faces low, the day of Jehovah doth come, fierce with wrath and heat of anger, to make the land become a desolation. Yea, it's sinning ones he destroyeth from it, for the stars of the heavens and their constellations cause not their light to shine, darkened hath been the sun in it's going out, and the moon causeth not it's light to come forth. And I have appointed on the world evil, and on the wicked their iniquity, and have caused to cease the excellency of the proud, and the excellency of the terrible I make low. I make man more rare than fine gold, and a common man than pure gold of Ophir. Therefore the heavens I cause to tremble, and the earth doth shake its place in the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in a day of the heat of his anger, and it hath been as a road driven away, and as a flock that hath no gatherer, each unto his people they turn, and each unto his land they flee. Everyone who is found is thrust through, and everyone who is added falleth by sword, and their sucklings are dashed to pieces before their eyes, spoiled are their houses, and their lives lain with. Lo, I am stirring up against them the Medes, whose silver esteem not, and gold they delight not in it, and bows dash young men to pieces, and the fruit of the womb they pity not, on sons their eye hath no pity. And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, the glory, the excellency of the Chaldeans, hath been as overthrown by God with Sodom and with Gomorrah. Nor doth not sit forever, nor continueeth unto many generations. Nor doth Arab pinched tent there, and shepherds lie not down there, and zeem hath lain down there, and foal hath been their houses of howlings, and dwelt there hath daughters of an ostrich, and goats do skip there, and Ieem hath responded in his forsaken habitations, and dragons in palaces of delight, and near to come is her time, and her days are not drawn out. Chapter 14 Because Jehovah loveth Jacob, and hath fixed again on Israel, and given them rest on their own land, and joined hath been the sojourner to them, and they hath been admitted to the house of Jacob, and peoples hath taken them, and hath brought them in unto their place, and the house of Israel hath inherited them, on the land of Jehovah for men servants, and for hosts, and they hath been captors of their captors, and hath ruled over their exacters, and hath come to pass in the day of Jehovah's giving rest to thee from thy grief, and from thy trouble, and from the sharp bondage that hath been served upon thee, that thou hath taken up this simile concerning the king of Babylon, and said how hath the exacter ceased ceased hath the golden one broken hath Jehovah the staff of the wicked, the scepter of others, he who is smiting peoples in wrath, a smiting without intermission, he who is ruling in anger nations, pursuing without restraint, at rest quiet hath been all the earth, they have broken forth into singing, even furs have rejoiced over the cedars of Lebanon, saying, since thou hast lain down, the hewer cometh not up against us. Sheal beneath hath been troubled at thee to meet thy coming in, it is waking up for thee, Refaim all chief ones of earth, it hath raised up from their thrones all kings of nations, all of them answer and say unto thee even thou hast become weak like us, unto us thou hast become like. Brought down to Sheal hath been thine excellency, the noise of thy sultry, under thee spread out hath been the worm, yea, covering thee is the worm. How hath thou fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son of the dawn, thou hast been cut down to earth, O weakener of nations, and thou sets in thy heart. The heavens, I go up, above stars of God I raise my throne, and I sit in the mount of meeting in the sides of the north. I go up above the heights of a thick cloud I am like to the most high, only unto Sheal thou art brought down, unto the sides of the pit. Thy elders look to thee, to thee they attend. Is this the man causing the earth to tremble, shaking kingdoms? He hath made the world as a wilderness, and his cities he hath broken down of his bound ones he opened not the house. All kings of nations, all of them, have lain down in honor each in his house, and thou hast been cast out of thy grave as an abominable branch, raiment of the slain, thrust through ones of the sword, going down unto the sons of the pit as a carcass trodden down. Thou art not united with them in burial, for thy land thou hast destroyed, thy people thou hast slain. Not named to the age is the seed of evildoers. Prepare ye for his sons slaughter, because of the iniquity of their fathers they rise not, nor have possessed the land, nor filled the face of the world with cities, and I have risen up against them the affirmation of Jehovah of hosts, and have cut off in reference to Babylon, name and remnant and continuator and successor the affirmation of Jehovah, and have made it for a possession of a bittern and ponds of waters, and dobb'd it with a mire of destruction the affirmation of Jehovah of hosts. Sworn hath Jehovah of hosts saying as I thought, so hath it up in? And as I counseled, it standeth to break ashore in my land, and on my mountains I tread him down and turned from off them hath his yoke, yea his burden from off their shoulder turneth aside. This is the counsel that is counseled for all the earth, and this is the hand that has stretched out for all the nations, for Jehovah of hosts hath purposed, and hudoth make void, and his hand that has stretched out off turneth back. In the year of the death of King Ahaz was this burden. Rejoice not thou, Philistia, all of thee, that broken hath been the rod of thy smiter, for from the root of a serpent cometh out of viper, and its fruit is a flying seraph, and delighted hath the firstborn of the poor, and the needy in confidence lie down, and I have put to death with famine thy root, and thy remnant its slayeth. Howl, O gate, cry, O city, melted art thou, Philistia, all of thee, for from the north smoke hath come, and there is none alone in his set places, and what doth one answer the messengers of a nation, that Jehovah hath founded Zion, and in it do the poor of his people trust. Chapter 15 The Burden of Moab Because in a night destroyed was R of Moab, it hath been cut off. He hath gone up to Bajif and Daibon, the high places to weep, on Nibo and on Mediba Moab howleth, on all its heads his baldness every beard cut off. In its out places they girded on sackcloth, on its pinnacles and in its broad places everyone howleth going down with weeping, and cried off Heshbon and Eliela unto Jahaz from the north, and Eliela unto Jahaz heard hath been their voice, therefore the armed ones of Moab do shout, his life hath been grievous to him. My heart is toward Moab, cry do her fugitives unto Zohar, a heifer of the third year for the ascent of Lujeth, with weeping he goeth up in it for in the way of Horonayim a cry of destruction they wake up for the waters of Nimrim are desolations, for withered hath been the hay, finished hath been the tender grass, a green thing there hath not been therefore the abundance he made and their store unto the brook of the willows they carry for gone round hath the cry the border of Moab, unto Eglaim is its howling, and to Bir Elim is its howling for the waters of Daimon have been full of blood for I set on Daimon additions for the escaped of Moab and for the remnant of Adama chapter 16 send he a lamb to the ruler of the land, from Sila in the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion and it hath come to pass as a wandering bird a net cast out are daughters of Moab at Fords of Arnan bring ye in counsel do judgment make as night by shadow in the midst of noon hide outcasts the wanderer reveal it sojourn in thee do my outcasts oh Moab be a secret hiding place to them from the face of a destroyer for ceased hath the extortioner finished hath been a destroyer consumed the treaders down out of the land and established in kindness is the throne and one hath sat on it in truth in the tent of David judging and seeking judgment and hasting righteousness we have heard of the pride of very proud his pride and his arrogance and his wrath not right are his devices therefore howl doth Moab for Moab all of it doth howl for the great cakes of Kier Harasef it meditative surely they are smitten because fields of Heshban languish the vine of Simma lords of nations did beat her choice vines unto Jazeir they have come they have wandered in a wilderness have spread themselves they have passed over a sea therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazeir the vine of Simma I water thee with my tear oh Heshban and Eliela for for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest the shouting hath fallen and removed hath been gladness and joy from the fruitful field and in vineyards they sing not nor shout wine in the presses tredeth not the treader shouting I have caused therefore my bowels for Moab as a harp do sound and mine inward parts for Kier Harasef and it hath come to pass when it hath been seen that weary hath been Moab on the high place and he hath come unto his sanctuary to pray and is not able this is the word that Jehovah hath spoken unto Moab from that time and now hath Jehovah spoken saying in three years as years of an hireling lightly esteemed is the honor of Moab with all the great multitude and the remnant is little, small not mighty Chapter 17 The Burden of Damascus Lo Damascus is taken away from being a city and it hath been a heap a ruin forsaken are the cities of Arowair for droves they are and they have lain down and there is none troubling and ceased hath the fortress from Damascus and the remnant of Aram are as the honor of the sons of Israel the affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts and it hath come to pass in that day wax pour doth the honor of Jacob and the fatness of his flesh doth wax lean and it hath come to pass as the gathering by the reaper of the standing corn and his arm the ears reapeth and it hath come to pass as the gathering of the ears in the valley of Refayim and left in him hath been gleaning as the compassing of an olive two three berries on the top of a branch four five on the fruitful boughs the affirmation of Jehovah God of Israel in that day doth man look to his maker yay his eyes to the holy one of Israel look and he look hath not unto the altars the work of his own hands and that which his own fingers made he see hath not the shrines and the images in that day are the cities of his strength as the forsaken thing of the forest and the branch that they have left because of the sons of Israel it also hath been a desolation because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation and the rock of thy strength has not remembered therefore thou plantest plants of pleasantness and with a strange slip sowest it in the day thy plant thou causest to become great and in the morning he'd makest to flourish a heap is the harvest in a day of overflowing and of mortal pain woe to the multitude of many peoples as the sounding of seas they sound and to the wasting of nations as the wasting of mighty waters they are wasted nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted and he hath pushed against it and it hath fled afar off and been pursued as chaff of hills before wind rolling thing before a hurricane at even time low terror before morning it is not this is the portion of our spoilers and the lot of our plunderers chapter 18 hoe land shadowed with wings that is beyond the rivers of kush that is sending by sea ambassadors even with implements of reed on the face of the waters go ye light messengers unto a nation drawn out and peeled unto a people fearful from its beginning and onwards a nation meeting out by line and treading down whose land floods have spoiled all ye inhabitants of the world and ye dwellers of earth at the lifting up of an ensign on hills ye look and at the blowing of a trumpet ye hear for thus said Jehovah unto me I rest and I look on my settled place as a clear heat on an herb as a thick cloud of dew in the heat of harvest for before harvest when the flower is perfect and the blossom is producing unrighted fruit then hath one cut the sprigs with pruning hooks and the branches he hath turned aside cut down they are left together to the ravenous fowl of the mountains and to the beast of the earth and summered on them hath the ravenous fowl and every beast of the earth wintereth on them at that time brat is a present to Jehovah of hosts a nation drawn out and peeled even of a people fearful from the beginning hitherto a nation meeting out by line and treading down whose land floods have spoiled unto the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts Mount Zion the end of chapters nine through eighteen of the book of Isaiah from the young's literal translation of the Bible recording by Mark Penfold chapters nineteen through twenty-eight of the book of Isaiah from the young's literal translation of the Bible this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org recording by Mark Penfold chapters nineteen through twenty-eight of Isaiah from the young's literal translation chapter nineteen the burden of Egypt low Jehovah is riding on a swift thick cloud and he have entered Egypt and moved have been the idols of Egypt at his presence and the heart of Egypt melted in its midst and I armed Egyptians against Egyptians and they fought each against his brother and each against his neighbor city against city kingdom against kingdom and emptied out have been in its midst the spirit of Egypt and its council I swallow up and they have sought unto the idols and unto the charmers and unto those having familiar spirits and unto the wizards and I have delivered the Egyptians into the hand of a hard lord and a strong king doth rule over them and affirmation of the lord Jehovah of hosts and failed have waters from the sea and a river is wasted and dried up and they have turned away the flowings weak and dried up have been brooks of the bulwark read and flag have withered exposed things by the brook by the edge of the brook and every sown thing of the brook half withered it has been driven away and is not and lamented have the fishers and mourned have all casting angle into a brook and those spreading nets on the face of the waters have turned away and ashamed have been makers of fine flax and weavers of networks and its foundations have been smitten all making wages are afflicted in soul only fools are the princes of Zohan the council of the wise ones of the counselors of Pharaoh have become brutish how say ye unto Pharaoh a son of the wise am I a son of kings of antiquity where are they now thy wise ones yay tell to thee I pray thee and they know what Jehovah of hosts have counseled against Egypt foolish have been princes of Zohan lifted up have been princes of Noth and they have caused Egypt to air the chief of her tribes Jehovah have mingled in her midst a spirit of perverseness and they have caused Egypt to air in all its work as a drunkard Arith in his vomit and there is no work to Egypt the tale branch or read may do in that day is Egypt like women and it have mourned and been afraid because of the waving of the hand of Jehovah of hosts that he is waving over it and the land of Judah have been to Egypt for a cause of staggering everyone who doth mention it for himself because of the council of Jehovah of hosts that he is counseling against it in that day there are five cities in the land of Egypt speaking the lip of Canaan and swearing to Jehovah of hosts the city of destruction is said of one in that day there is an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt and a standing pillar near its border to Jehovah and it have been for a sign and for a testimony to Jehovah of hosts in the land of Egypt for they cry unto Jehovah from the face of oppressors and even a great one and have delivered them and known have been Jehovah to Egypt and the Egyptians have known Jehovah in that day and done sacrifice and present and vowed a vow to Jehovah and completed it and Jehovah have smitten Egypt smiting and healing and they have turned back unto Jehovah and he have been entreated of them and have healed them in that day is a highway out of Egypt to Azure and come in have the Assyrians to Egypt and the Egyptians into Azure and the Egyptians have served with the Assyrians in that day is Israel third after Egypt and after Azure a blessing in the heart of the earth in that Jehovah of hosts did blessed saying blessed is my people Egypt and the work of my hands Azure and mine inheritance Israel in the year of the coming in of Tartan to Ashtad when Sargon king of Azure sendeth him and he fight against Ashtad and capture with it at that time spake Jehovah by the hand of Isaiah son of Amos saying go and thou hast loosed the sack cloth from off thy loins and thy sandal thou dost draw from off thy foot and he doth so going naked and barefoot and Jehovah say as my servant Isaiah have gone naked and barefoot three years a sign and a wonder for Egypt and for kush so doth the king of Azure lead the captivity of Egypt and the removal of kush young and old naked and barefoot with seat uncovered the nakedness of Egypt and they have been a frighted and ashamed of kush their confidence and of Egypt their beauty and the inhabitant of this isle have said in that day whether we have fled for help to be delivered from the king of Azure and how do we escape we chapter 21 the burden of the wilderness of the sea like hurricanes in the south for passing through from the wilderness it have come from a fearful land a hard vision has been declared to me the treacherous dealer is dealing treacherously and the destroyer is destroying go up besiege oh media all its sighing I have caused to cease therefore filled have been my loins with great pain pangs have seized me as pangs of a travailing woman I have been bent down by hearing I have been troubled by seeing wandered hath my heart trembling hath terrified me the twilight of my desire he hath made a fear to me arrange the table watch in the watchtower eat drink rise he heads joint the shield for thus said the Lord unto me go station the watchman that which he seeeth let him declare and he hath seen a chariot a couple of horsemen the rider of an ass the rider of a camel and he hath given attention he hath increased attention and he cryeth a lion on a watchtower my lord I am standing continually by day and on my ward I am stationed whole nights and lo the chariot of a man is coming a couple of horsemen and he answereth and sayeth fallen fallen hath Babylon and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken to the earth oh my threshing and the son of my floor that which I heard from Jehovah of hosts God of Israel I have declared to you the burden of Duma unto me is one calling from seer watchman what of the night watchman what of the night the watchman hath said come hath morning and also night if he inquire inquire ye turn back come the burden on Arabia in a forest in Arabia ye lodge o travelers of D'danem to meet the thirsty brought water have inhabitants of the land of Tima with his bread they came before a fugitive for from the face of destructions they fled from the face of a stretched out sword the face of a trodden bow and from the face of the grievousness of battle for thus said the lord unto me within a year as years of a hireling consumed hath been all the honor of Qedar and the remnant of the number of bowmen the mighty of the sons of Qedar are few for Jehovah God of Israel hath spoken Chapter 22 the burden of the valley of vision what to thee now thou hast gone up all of thee to the roofs full of stirs a noisy city an exulting city thy pierced are not pierced of the sword nor dead in battle all thy rulers fled together from the bow bound have been all found of thee they have been kept bound together afar off they have fled therefore I said look ye from me I am bitter in my weeping haste not to comfort me for the destruction of the future of my people for a day of noise and of treading down and of perplexity is to the lord Jehovah of hosts in the valley of vision digging down a wall and crying unto the mountain and Elam hath borne a quiver in a chariot of men horsemen and cure hath exposed a shield and it cometh to pass the choice of thy valleys have been full of chariots and the horsemen place themselves diligently at the gate and one removeeth the covering of Judah and thou lookest in that day unto the armor of the house of the forest and the breeches of the city of David ye have seen for they have become many and ye gather the waters of the lower pool and the houses of Jerusalem did ye number and ye break down the houses to fence the wall and a ditch ye made between the two walls for the waters of the old pool and ye have not looked unto its maker of old ye have not seen and call doth the lord Jehovah of hosts in that day to weeping and to lamentation and to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth and lo joy and gladness slang of oxen and slaughtering of sheep eating of flesh and drinking of wine eat and drink for tomorrow we die and revealed it hath been in mine ears by Jehovah of hosts not pardoned is this iniquity to you till ye die said the lord Jehovah of hosts thus said the lord Jehovah of hosts go enter in unto this steward unto Shabna who is over the house what to thee here and who to thee here that thou hast hewn out to thee here a suppleker hewing on high his suppleker graving in a rock a dwelling for himself low Jehovah is casting thee up and down a casting up and down oh mighty one and thy coverer covering wrapping round wrapping thee round oh babbler on a land broad of sides there thou dyest and there the chariots of thine honor are the shame of the house of thy lord and I have thrust thee from thy station and from thine office he throweth thee down and it hath come to pass in that day that I have called to my him son of Hilkiah and I have clothed him with thy coat and with thy girdle I strengthen him and thy garment I give into his hand and he hath been for a father to the inhabitant of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah and I have placed the key of the house of David on his shoulder and he hath opened and none is shutting and hath shut and none is opening and I have fixed him a nail in a steadfast place and he hath been for a throne of the honor to the house of his father and they have hanged on him all the honor of the house of his father the offspring and the issue all vessels of small quality from vessels of basins to all vessels of flagons in that day an affirmation of Jehovah of hosts moved is the nail that is fixed in a steadfast place yay it hath been cut down and hath fallen and cut off hath been the burden that is on it hath spoken chapter 23 the burden of Tyre how old he ships of Tarshish for it hath been destroyed without house without entrance from the land of Chitim it was revealed to them be silent he inhabitants of the Isle traitor of Zidane passing the sea they filled thee and in many waters is the seed of Sihor the harvest of the brook is her increase and she is a mart of nations be ashamed O Zidane for the sea spake the strength of the sea saying I have not been pained nor have I brought forth nor have I nourished young men nor brought up virgins as at the report of Egypt they are pained so at the report of Tyre pass over to Tarshish how old he inhabitants of the Isle is this your exulting one from the days of old is her do her own feet of far off to sojourn who hath counseled this against Tyre the crowning one whose traitors are princes her merchants the honored of earth Jehovah of hosts hath counseled it to pollute the excellency of all beauty to make light all the honored of earth pass through thy land as a brook daughter of Tarshish there is no more a girdle his hand he have stretched out over the sea the kingdoms to tremble Jehovah hath charged concerning the merchant one to destroy her strong places and he sayeth thou dost not add any more to exult or oppressed one virgin daughter of Zidane to Chittam arise pass over even there there is no rest for thee low the land of the Chaldeans this people was not as sure founded it for the Zim they raised its watchtowers they lifted up her palaces he hath appointed her for a ruin howly ships of Tarshish for your strength hath been destroyed and it hath come to pass in that day that forgotten is Tyre 70 years according to the days of one king at the end of 70 years there is to Tyre as the song of the harlot take a harp go round the city O forgotten harlot play well multiply song that thou hast be remembered and it hath come to pass at the end of 70 years Jehovah inspecteth Tyre and she hath repented of her gift that she committed fornication with all kingdoms of the earth on the face of the ground and her merchandise and her gift hath been holy to Jehovah not treasured up nor stored for to those sitting before Jehovah is her merchandise to eat to satiety and for a lasting chapter 24 lo Jehovah is emptying the land and is making it waste and hath overturned it on its face and hath scattered its inhabitants and it hath been as a people so a priest as the servant so his master as the maid servant so her mistress as the buyer so the seller as the lender so the borrower as the usurer so he who is lifting it on himself utterly emptied is the land and utterly spoiled for Jehovah hath spoken this word mourned fated hath the land languished fated hath the world languished have they the high place of the people of the land and the land hath been defiled under its inhabitants because they have transgressed laws they have changed a statute they have made void a covenant age during therefore a curse hath consumed the land and the inhabitants in it are become desolate therefore consumed have been inhabitants of the land and few men have been left mourned hath the new wine languished the vine side have all the joyful of heart ceased hath the joy of tabrets ceased hath the noise of exalting ones ceased hath the joy of a harp with a song they drink not wine bitter is strong drink to those drinking it it was broken down a city emptiness shut hath been every house from entrance a cry over the wine is in outplaces darkened hath been all joy removed hath been the joy of the land left in the city is desolation and with wasting is the gate smitten when thus it is in the heart of the land in the midst of the peoples as the compassing of the olive as gleaning when harvest hath been finished they they lift up their voice they sing of the excellency of Judah they have cried aloud from the sea therefore in prosperity honor ye Jehovah in aisles of the sea the name of Jehovah God of Israel from the skirt of the earth we heard songs the desire of the righteous and I say leanness is to me leanness is to me woe is to me treacherous dealers dealt treacherously yay treachery treacherous dealers dealt treacherously fear and a snare and a jinn are on the o inhabitant of the land and it hath come to pass he who is fleeing from the noise of the fear doth fall into the snare and he who is coming up from the midst of the snare is captured by the jinn for windows on high hath been opened and shaken our foundations of the land utterly broken down hath been the land utterly broken hath been the land utterly moved hath been the land utterly moved hath been the land stagger greatly doth the land as a drunkard and it hath been moved as a lodge and heavy on it hath been its transgression and it hath fallen and hath not to rise and it hath come to pass in that day Jehovah layeth a charge on the host of the high place in the high place and on the kings of the land on the land and they hath been gathered a gathering of bound ones in a pit hath up they have been in a prison and after a multitude of days are inspected and confounded hath been the moon and ashamed hath been the sun for reigned hath Jehovah of hosts in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem and over against his elders honor Chapter 25 Oh Jehovah my god art thou I exalt thee, I confess thy name for thou hast done a wonderful thing councils of old steadfastness oh steadfast one for thou didst make of a city a heap of a fenced city a ruin a high place of strangers from being a city to the age it is not built therefore honor thee to a strong people a city of the terrible nations ferith thee for thou hast been a stronghold for the poor a stronghold for the needy in his distress a refuge from storm a shadow from heat when the spirit of the terrible is as a storm a wall as heat in a dry place the noise of strangers thou humblest heat with the shadow of a thick cloud the singing of the terrible is humbled and made hath Jehovah of hosts for all the peoples in this mount a banquet of fat things a banquet of preserved things fat things full of marrow preserved things refined and swallowed up hath he in this mountain the face of the wrapping that is wrapped over all the peoples and of the covering that is spread over all the nations he hath swallowed up death in victory and wiped hath the Lord Jehovah the tear from off all faces and the reproach of his people he turneth aside from off all the land for Jehovah hath spoken and one hath said in that day oh this is our God we waited for him and he saveth us this is Jehovah we have waited for him we joy and rejoice in his salvation for rest doth the hand of Jehovah on this mountain and trodden down is Moab under him as trodden down is straw on a dung hill and he spread out his hands in its midst as spread out doth the swimmer to swim and he hath humbled his excellency with the machinations of his hands and the fortress of the high place of thy walls he hath bowed down he hath made low he hath caused it to come to the earth unto dust chapter 26 in that day sung is this song in the land of Judah we have a strong city salvation he doth make walls and bulwark open ye the gates that enter may a righteous nation preserving steadfastness an imagination supported this for in thee it is confident trust ye in Jehovah forever for in Yah Jehovah is a rock of ages for he bowed down the dwellers on high a city set on high he maketh low he maketh it low unto the earth he causeth it to come unto the dust tread it down doth afoot feet of the poor steps of the weak the path for the righteous is uprightness oh upright one the path of the righteous thou dost wander also in the path of thy judgments oh Jehovah we have waited for thee to thy name and to thy remembrance is the desire of the soul with my soul I desire thee in the night also with my spirit within me I seek thee earnestly for when thy judgments are on the earth the inhabitants of the world have learned righteousness the wicked findeth favor he hath not learned righteousness in a land of straightforwardness he dealeth and seeeth not the excellency of Jehovah oh Jehovah high as thy hand they see not they see the zeal of the people and are ashamed also the fire thine adversaries consumeeth them oh Jehovah thou appointest peace to us for all our works also thou hast wrought for us oh Jehovah our God lords have ruled us besides thee only by thee make mention of thy name dead they live not rethayim they rise not therefore thou hast inspected and dost destroy them yea thou destroyest all their memory thou hast added to the nation oh Jehovah thou hast added to the nation thou hast been honored thou hast put far off all the ends of earth oh Jehovah in distress they missed thee they have poured out a whisper when a pregnant woman cometh near to the birth she is pained she cryeth in her pangs so we have been from thy face oh Jehovah we have conceived we have been pained we have brought forth as it were wind salvation we do not work in the earth nor do the inhabitants of the world fall thy dead live my dead body they rise awake and sing ye dwellers in the dust for the dew of herbs is thy dew and the land of rethayim thou causest to fall come my people enter into thy inner chambers and shut thy doors behind thee hide thyself shortly a moment till the indignation pass over for lo Jehovah is coming out of his place to charge the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth upon him and revealed hath the earth her blood nor doth she cover any more her slain chapter 27 in that day lay a charge doth Jehovah with his sword the sharp and the great and the strong on Leviathan a fleeing serpent and on Leviathan a crooked serpent and he hath slain the dragon that is in the sea in that day a desirable vineyard respond ye to her aye Jehovah emits keeper every moment I water it lest any lay a charge against it night and day I keep it fury is not in me who giveth me a briar a thorn in battle I step into it I burn it at once or he doth take hold on my strength he doth make peace with me peace he doth make with me those coming in he causeth to take root Jacob doth blossom and flourished hath Israel and they have filled the face of the world with increase as the smiting of his smiter hath he smitten them as the slaying of his slain doth he slay in measure in sending it forth thou strivest with it he hath taken away by his sharp wind in the day of an east wind therefore by this is the iniquity of Jacob covered and this is all the fruit to take away his sin in his setting all the stones of an altar as chalk stones beaten in pieces they rise not shrines and images for the fenced city is alone a habitation cast out and forsaken as a wilderness there doth the calf delight and there it lieth down and hath consumed its branches in the withering of its branch it is broken off women are coming in setting it on fire for it is not a people of understanding therefore pity it not doth its maker and its former doth not favor it and it hath come to pass in that day beat out doth Jehovah from the branch of the river unto the stream of Egypt and ye are gathered one by one o sons of Israel and it hath come to pass in that day it is blown with a great trumpet and come in have those perishing in the land of ashur and those cast out in the land of Egypt and have bowed themselves to Jehovah in the holy mount in Jerusalem chapter 28 woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim and the fading flower of the beauty of his glory that is on the head of the fat valley of the broken down of line low a mighty and strong one is to the lord as a storm of hail a destructive shower as an inundation of mighty waters overflowing he cast down to the earth with the hand by feet trodden down is the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim and the fading flower of the beauty of his glory that is on the head of the fat man as its first fruit before summer that its beholder see while it is yet in his hand he swallow with it in that day is Jehovah of hosts for a crown of beauty and for a diadem of glory to the remnant of his people and for a spirit of judgment to him who is sitting in the judgment and for might to those turning back the battle to the gate and even these through wine have aired and through strong drink have priest and prophet aired through strong drink they have been swallowed up of the wine they wandered because of the strong drink they have aired in seeing they have stumbled judicially for all tables have been full of vomit filth without place by whom doth he teach knowledge and by whom doth he cause to understand the report the weaned from milk the removed from breasts for rule is on rule rule on rule line on line line on line a little here a little there for by scorned lip and by another tongue doth he speak unto this people unto whom he have said this is the rest give ye rest to the weary and this the refreshing and they have not been willing to hear and to whom a word of Jehovah have been rule on rule rule on rule line on line line on line a little here a little there so that they go and have stumbled backward and been broken and snared and captured therefore hear a word of Jehovah ye men of scorning ruling this people that is in Jerusalem because he have said we have made a covenant with death and with shield we have made a provision an overflowing scourge when it passeth over doth not meet us though we have made a lie our refuge and in falsehood have been hidden therefore thus said the Lord Jehovah low I am laying a foundation in Zion a stone a tried stone a corner stone precious a settled foundation he who is believing doth not make haste and I have put judgment for a line and righteousness for a plummet and sweep away doth hail the refuge of lies and the secret treading place do waters overflow and disannoled have been your covenant with death and your provision with shield doth not stand an overflowing scourge when it passeth over then ye have been to it for a treading place from the fullness of its passing over it taketh you for morning by morning it passeth over by day and by night and it have been only a trembling to consider the report for shorter have been the bed one self out in and the covering have been narrower than to wrap one self up in for as at Mount Parazim rise doth Jehovah as at the valley of Gibyan he is troubled to do his work strange is his work and to do his deed strange is his deed and now show not yourselves scorners lest strong be your bands for a consumption that is determined I have heard by the Lord Jehovah of hosts is for the land give ear and hear my voice attend and hear my saying the whole day ploweth the plowmen to so he openeth and har with his ground have he not if he have made level its face then scattered pitches and come and sprinkle and have placed the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rye in its own border and instruct him for judgment doth his God he doth direct him for not with a sharp pointed thing threshed our pitches and the wheel of a cart on coming turned round for with a staff beaten out our pitches and coming with a rod bread corn is beaten small for not forever doth he sorely thresh it nor crushed it half a wheel of his cart nor do his hoofs beat it small even this from Jehovah of hosts have gone out he have made council wonderful he have made wisdom great the end chapters 19 through 28 from the book of Isaiah from the young's literal translation of the holy bible recording by Mark Penfold