 Chapter 1-8 of Isaiah, American Standard Version The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amos, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for Jehovah hath spoken. I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib, but Israel doth not know. My people doth not consider. Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that deal corruptly. They have forsaken Jehovah. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and gone backward. Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot, even unto the head, there is no soundness in it, but wounds and bruises and fresh stripes. They have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil. 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. And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth and a vineyard, as a lodge and a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city, except Jehovah of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah. Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. What unto me is the multitude of your sacrifices, sayeth Jehovah? I have had enough 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. When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand to trample my courts? Bring no more vain oblations. Incense is an abomination unto me. New moon and Sabbath, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with iniquity, and the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateeth. They are a trouble unto me. I am weary of bearing them. 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. Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes. Cease to do evil, learn to do well, seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, sayeth Jehovah. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land. But, if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword. For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it. How is the fateful city become a harlot? She that was full of justice, righteousness lodged in her. But now, murderers, thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water. Thy princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loveth bribes and followeth after rewards. They judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. Therefore, sayeth the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the mighty one of Israel. Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies. And I will turn my hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge away thy dross. Then we'll take away all thy tin. And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning. Afterward thou shalt be called the city of righteousness, a faithful town. Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness. But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and they that forsake Jehovah shall be consumed. For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeeth. And as a garden that hath no water, and the strong shall be as toe, and his work as a spark. And they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them. End of chapter 1, chapter 2, the word that Isaiah the son of Amos saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it. And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, 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 Jehovah from Jerusalem. And he will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. Oh house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of Jehovah, for thou hast forsaken thy people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with customs from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners. And their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures, their land also is full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots. Their land, also, is full of idols, they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made, and the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is brought low, therefore forgive them not. Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty. The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bound down, and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day. For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up, and it shall be brought low, and upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Baytian, and upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, and upon every lofty tower, and upon every fortified wall, and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant imagery, and the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low, and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day. And the idols shall utterly pass away, and men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake mightily the earth. And that day men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for them to worship, to the moles and to the bats, to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefs of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake mightily the earth. Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for wherein is he to be accounted of? End of Chapter 2 Chapter 3 For behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah, stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, the mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the elder, the captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counselor, and the expert artificer, and the skillful enchanter, and I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor. The child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable. When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand. And that day shall he lift up his voice, saying, I will not be a healer, for in my house is neither bread nor clothing. He shall not make me ruler of the people. For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen, because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory. The show 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 done evil unto themselves. Say ye of the righteous, that it shall be well with him, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe unto the wicked, it shall be ill with him, for what his hands have done shall be done unto him. As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they that lead thee, cause thee to air, and destroy the way of thy paths. Jehovah standeth up to contend, and standeth to judge the peoples. Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof. It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses. What mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the face of the poor, sayeth the Lord, Jehovah of hosts? Moreover Jehovah said, because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks, and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet. Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab, the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts. In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, and the calls, and the crescents, the pendants, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, the head tires, and the ankle chains, and the sashes, and the perfume boxes, and the amulets, the rings, and the nose jewels, the festival robes, and the mantles, and the shawls, and the satchels, the hand mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the veils. And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness, and instead of a girdle, a rope, and instead of well-set hair, baldness, and instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth, branding instead of beauty. Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war, and her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall be desolate, and sit upon the ground. 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. 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 justice, and by the spirit of burning. And Jehovah will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion, and over her assemblies a cloud and smoke by day, in the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all the glory shall be spread a covering, and there shall be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain. End of Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well beloved had a vineyard, and a very fruitful hill, and he digged 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 hewed out a wine-press therein, and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard, 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. And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up, I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down, and I will lay it waste, it shall not be pruned nor hoed, but there shall come up briars and thorns, I will also command the clouds, that they reign no reign upon it. For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant, and he looked for justice, but behold oppression, for righteousness, but behold a cry, woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land. In mine ears, saith Jehovah of hosts, of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair without inhabitant, for ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ifa. Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, that tarry late into the night, till wine inflame them, and the harp and the loot, the tabret and the pipe, and wine are in their feasts, but they regard not the work of Jehovah, neither have they considered the operation of his hands. Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of knowledge, and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst. Therefore sheol hath enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure, and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoices among them descend into it. And the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is humbled, and the eyes of the lofty are humbled. But Jehovah of hosts is exalted in justice, in God the holy one is sanctified in righteousness. Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat. Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin, as it were with a cart rope, that say, let him make speed, let him 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. Woe unto them that call evil good in good evil, that put darkness for light, and light for darkness, that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight. Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink, that justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him. Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despise the word of the holy one of Israel. Therefore is the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them, and the mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still, and he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss for them from the end of the earth, and behold, they shall come with speed swiftly. 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, whose arrows are sharp and all their bows bent, their horses hoofs shall be accounted as flint, and their wheels as a whirlwind. Their roaring shall be like a lioness, they shall roar like young lions, yea, they shall roar and lay hold of the prey, and carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver, and they shall roar against them in that day, like the roaring of the sea, and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and distress, and the light is darkened and the clouds thereof. End of Chapter 5 Chapter 6 And the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim, each one had six wings. With twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another and said, Holy, Holy, Holy, is Jehovah of Hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory. And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Then said I, What was 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 Jehovah of Hosts. Then flew one of the seraphim unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar, and he touched my mouth with it and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips, and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin forgiven. And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I, send me! And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not, and see ye indeed, but perceive not. 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 turn again, and be healed. Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste, and Jehovah have removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many in the midst of the land. And if there be yet a tenth in it, it also shall in turn be eaten up, as a terribent, and as an oak, whose stock remaineth when they are felled, so the holy seed is the stock thereof. End of Chapter 6 Chapter 7 And it came to pass in the days of Ahas, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that resin, the king of Syria, and Pika, the son of Ramalia, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is Confederate with Ephraim, and his heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind. Then said Jehovah unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahas, thou, and she our Joshua thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, and the highway of the fuller's field, and say unto him, Take heed and be quiet, fear not, neither, let thy heart be faint, because of these two tales of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of resin, and Syria, and the son of Ramalia, because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Ramalia have purposed evil against thee, saying, Let us go up against Judah and vex it, and let us make up reach therein for us, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeel. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass. For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is resin, and within three score and five years shall Ephraim be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people. And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Ramalia's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established. And Jehovah spake again unto Ahaz saying, Ask thee a sign of Jehovah thy God, ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt Jehovah. And he said, Hear ye now, O House of David, is it a small thing for you to weary men, that ye will weary my God also? Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Emanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil and choose the good. For before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings, thou a poorest shall be forsaken. Jehovah will bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that ye from departed from Judah, even the king of Assyria, and it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will 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, and they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the clefts of the rocks, and upon all thorn hedges, and upon all pastures. In that day will the Lord shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the river, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet, and it shall also consume the beard. And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep, and it shall come to pass that because of the abundance of milk, which they shall give, he shall eat butter, for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the midst of the land. And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place where there were a thousand vines and a thousand silver links, shall be for briars and thorns. With arrows and with bow shall one come thither, because all the land shall be briars and thorns, and all the hills that were digged with the mattock, thou shalt not come thither for fear of briars and thorns, but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep. Jehovah said unto me, Take thee a great tablet and write upon it with the pen of a man, for mar shalal hashbans, and I will take unto me faithful witnesses to record Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberakiah. And I went unto the prophetess, and she conceived, and bear a son. Then said Jehovah unto me, Call his name, mar shalal hashbans, 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 carried away before the king of Assyria. And Jehovah spake unto me yet again, saying, For as much as this people have refused the waters of Shaloa, that go softly, and rejoice in resin and Ramalia's son. Now therefore behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong in many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory, and it shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks, and it shall sweep onward into Judah, it shall overflow and pass through, it shall reach even to the neck, and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the bread of thy land. O Emmanuel, make an uproar, O ye peoples, and be broken in pieces, and give ear, O ye, of far countries. Gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces. Gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces. Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to not. Speak the word, and it shall not stand, for God is with us. For Jehovah spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying, Say ye not, a conspiracy concerning all whereof, this people shall say a conspiracy. Neither fear ye their fear, nor be in dread thereof. Jehovah of hosts, him shall ye sanctify, and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread, and he shall be for a sanctuary, but for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of offense, to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples, and I will wait for Jehovah, that hideeth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. Behold, I and the children whom Jehovah hath given me, are for signs and for wonders in Israel, from Jehovah of hosts, who dwelleth in Mount Zion. And when they shall say unto you, seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto the wizards, that chirp, and that mutter, should not a people seek unto their God? On behalf of the living should they seek unto the dead? To the law unto the testimony. If they speak not according to this word, surely there is no mourning for them, and they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry, and it shall come to pass that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king, and by their God, and turn their faces upward. And they shall look unto the earth, and behold, distressed and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and into thick darkness, they shall be driven away. End of chapter 8 Chapters 9 through 18 of Isaiah, American Standard Version. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information and to find out how you can volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org, recording by Sam Stinson. Chapter 9 But there shall be no gloom to her that was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time hath he made it glorious. By the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light. They that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death upon them hath the light shined. Thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast increased their joy. They joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. For the yoke of his burden and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, thou hast broken as in the day of Midian. For all the armor of the armed man in the tumult and the garments rolled in blood shall be for burning, for fuel of fire. 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, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace, there shall be no end upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth, even for ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this. The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel, and all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the Inhabitant of Samaria, that say in pride and in stoutness of heart. The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone. The sycamores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place. Therefore Jehovah will set up on high against him the adversaries of resin, and will stir up his enemies, 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. Yet the people have not turned unto him that smote them, neither have they sought Jehovah of hosts. Therefore Jehovah will cut off from Israel, head and tail, palm branch and rush in one day. The elder and the honorable man, he is the head, and the prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail, for they that lead this people cause them to err, and they that are led of them are destroyed. Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows, for everyone is profane and an evil doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. For wickedness burneth as the fire, it devoureth the briars and thorns, yea it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke. Through the wrath of Jehovah of hosts is the land burnt up, and the people are as the fuel of fire. No man spareeth his brother, and one 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. 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. 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? They shall only bow down under the prisoners, and shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation. I will send him against a profane 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. How be it, he meaneth not so. Neither doth his heart think so, but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few. For he sayeth, Are not my princes all of them kings? Is not Calno as Carcamish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus? As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem, and of Samaria? Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so due to Jerusalem and her idols? 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. For he hath said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding, and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and like a valiant man I have brought down them, that sit on thrones. And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the peoples, and as one gathereth eggs that are forsaken, have I gathered all the earth, and there was none that moved the wing, or that opened the mouth, or chirped. Shall the ax boast itself against him that he was therewith? Shall the saw magnify itself against him that wieldeth it? As if a rod should wield them that lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up him that is not wood. Therefore will the Lord Jehovah of hosts send among his fat ones leanness, and under his glory there shall be kindled a burning, like the burning of fire. And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his holy one for a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns, and his briars in one day, and he will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body, and it shall be as when a standard bearer fainteth, and the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may write them, and it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and they that are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean upon him that smote them, but shall lean upon Jehovah, the holy one of Israel, in truth. A remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob unto the mighty God. For though thy people Israel, be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them shall return, a destruction as determined, overflowing with righteousness. For a full end, and that determined, will the Lord Jehovah of hosts make in the midst of all the earth. Therefore thus sayeth the Lord Jehovah of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian, though he smite thee with the rod, and lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt. For yet a very little while, and the indignation against thee shall be accomplished, and mine anger shall be directed to his destruction. And Jehovah of hosts will stir up against him a scourge, as in the slaughter of Midian, at the rock of Oreb, and his rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up, after the manner of Egypt. And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall depart from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed by reason of fatness. He has come to Ieth. He is passed through Migron. At McMash he layeth up his baggage. They are gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Giba. Reema Trembleth. Gibiah of Saul is fled. Cry aloud with thy voice, O daughter of Galim. Harken, O Lysha, O thou poor Anaphaph. Mad Menah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Giba flee for safety. This very day shall he halt at Nab. He shakeeth his hand at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. Behold the Lord. Jehovah of hosts will lock the bowels with terror, and the high of stature shall be hewn down, and the lofty shall be brought low, and he will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one. End of chapter 10, chapter 11. And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit, and the spirit of Jehovah 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 Jehovah, and his delight shall be in the fear of Jehovah, and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears, but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide 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, and righteousness shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the girdle of his loins, and the wolf 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 eat them, and the cow and the bear shall feed, their young ones shall lie down together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and the sucking child shall play on the whole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea, and it shall come to pass in that day, that the root of Jesse that standeth for an ensign of the peoples, unto him shall the nations seek, and his resting place shall be glorious, and it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people that shall remain, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Kush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea, and he will set up an ensign for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and they that vex Judah shall be cut off. Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim, and they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the west, together shall they despoil the children of the east. They shall put forth their hand upon Edom in Moab, and the children of Ammon shall obey them, and Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea, and with his scorching wind will he wave his hand over the river, and will smite it into seven streams, and cause men to march over dry shod. And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, that shall remain, from Assyria, like as there was for Israel, and the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. End of Chapter 11, Chapter 12. And in that day thou shalt say, I will give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah, for though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortest me. Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust, and will not be afraid, for Jehovah, even Jehovah, is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation. Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation, and in that day shall ye say, give thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name, declare his doings among the peoples, make mention that his name is exalted, sing unto Jehovah, for he hath done excellent things, let this be known in all the earth, cry aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion, for great in the midst of thee is the Holy One of Israel. End of Chapter 12, Chapter 13. The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amos did see, set ye up in ensign upon the bare mountain, lift up the voice unto them, wave the hand that they may go into the gates of the nobles. I have commanded my consecrated ones, yea, I have called my mighty men for mine anger, even my proudly exalting ones. The noise of a multitude in the mountains as of a great people, the noise of a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together, Jehovah of hosts is mustering the host for the battle. They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Jehovah and the weapons of his indignation to destroy the whole land. Whale ye, for the day of Jehovah is at hand, as destruction from the Almighty shall it come. Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt, and they shall be dismayed, pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them. They shall be in pain as a woman in travail, they shall look in amazement one at another, their faces shall be faces of flame. Behold the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it. For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light, the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine, and I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity, and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of O'Fear. Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, and the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger, and it shall come to pass that as the chaste row, and as sheep that no man gathereth, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land. Every one that is found shall be thrust through, and every one that is taken shall fall by the sword. Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished. Behold, I will stir up the meads against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold they shall not delight in it, and their bows shall dash the young men in pieces, and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes shall not spare children, and Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation, neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there, neither shall shepherds make their flocks to lie down there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures, and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there, and wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces, and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. CHAPTER XIV And they shall rule over their oppressors, and it shall come to pass, in the day that Jehovah shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy trouble, and from the hard service wherein thou wast made to serve, that thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased? The golden cities ceased. Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers, that smote the peoples in wrath, with a continual stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained. The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break forth into singing, yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon saying, Since thou art late low, no hewers come up against us. Sheel from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming. It stirs 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. All they shall answer and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us? Thy pomp is brought down to Sheel, and the noise of thy vials. The worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee. How art thou fallen from heaven? O daystar, son of the morning, how art thou cut down to the ground that didst lay low the nations? And thou saidst in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit upon the mount of congregation in the uttermost parts of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will make myself like the most high. Yet thou shalt be brought down to Sheel, to the uttermost parts of the pit. They that see thee shall gaze at thee, they shall consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms, that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof, that let not loose his prisoners to their home? All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory. Everyone in his own house? But thou art cast forth away from thy suppoker, like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit as a dead body trodden underfoot. Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people. The seed of evildoers shall not be named for ever. Prepare ye slaughter for his children, for the iniquity of their fathers, that they rise not up and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities. And I will rise up against them, sayeth Jehovah of hosts, and cut off from Babylon, name and remnant, and son and son's son, sayeth Jehovah. I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the bosom of destruction, sayeth Jehovah of hosts. Jehovah 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, that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him underfoot, then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulder. This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. For Jehovah of hosts hath purposed, and who shall annull it? And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? And the year that King Ahaz died was this burden. Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of thee, because the rod that smote thee is broken, for out of the serpent's root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. 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 thy remnant shall be slain. How, O gate, cry, O city, thou art melted away. O Philistia, all of thee, for there comeeth a smoke out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks. What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah hath founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his people take refuge. End of Chapter 14. Chapter 15. The Burden of Moab For in a night R of Moab is laid waste, and brought to not. For in a night Kerr of Moab is laid waste, and brought to not. They are gone up to Baith, and to Debon, to the high places, to weep. Moab whaleth over Nebo, and over Mediba, and all their heads is baldness. Every beard is cut off. In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth. On their housetops, and in their broad places, every one whaleth weeping abundantly. And Heshpin cryeth out, and El-e-aleh, their voices heard even unto jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. His soul tremoleth within him. My heart cryeth out for Moab. Her nobles flee unto Zohar, to Eglath Shalishi YAH, for by the ascent of Louheeth with weeping they go up. For in the way of Horan A'im they raise up a cry of destruction. For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate. For the grass is withered away. The tender grass faileth. There is no green thing. Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away over the brook of the willows. For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab, the whaling thereof unto Eglahim, and the whaling thereof unto Ba'ir Aleem. For the waters of Dimon are full of blood, for I will bring yet more upon Dimon, a line upon them of Moab that escape, and upon the remnant of the land. End of Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Cengi the lambs, for the ruler of the land from Sila to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnan. Give counsel, execute justice, make thy shade as the night in the midst of the noon day. Hide the outcasts, betray not the fugitive. Let mine outcast dwell with thee, as for Moab be thou a covert to him from the face of the destroyer, for the extortioner is brought to not destruction ceaseth. The oppressors are consumed out of the land, and a throne shall be established in loving kindness, and one shall sit thereon in truth in the tent of David, judging and seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness. We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud, even of his arrogancey, and his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are not. Therefore shall Moab wail from Moab, every one shall wail, for the raisin cakes of cur, haraseth shall ye mourn utterly stricken, for the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibma. The lords of the nations have broken down the choice-branches thereof, which reached even unto Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea. Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibma. I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon and Eli-al-e. For upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest, the battle shout is fallen, and gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field, and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither joyful noise, no treader shall tread out wine in the presses. I have made the vintage shout to cease. Wherefore my heart soundeth like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kier haras, and it shall come to pass when Moab presenteth himself, when he wearyeth himself upon the high place, and shall come to his sanctuary to pray. That he shall not prevail. This is the word that Jehovah spake concerning Moab in time passed. But now Jehovah hath spoken, saying, within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude, and the remnant shall be very small, and of no account. End of Chapter 16 Chapter 17 The Burden of Damascus Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. The cities of R.O.R. are forsaken. They shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. And the fortress 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 Jehovah of hosts. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. And it shall be as when the harvest man gathereth the standing grain, and his arm reapeth the ears. Yay! It shall be as when one gleaneth ears in the valley of Refaim. Yet there shall be left there in gleaning, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bow, four or five in the outmost branches of a fruitful tree, saith Jehovah the God of Israel. And that day shall men look unto their maker, and their eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. And they shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands, neither shall they have respect to that which their fingers have made, either the ashram or the sun images. And that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken places in the wood, and on the mountaintop, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel, and it shall be a desolation. For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength. Therefore thou plantest pleasant plants, and setest it with strange slips. And the day of thy planting, thou hedgest it in, and in the morning thou makest thy seed to blossom. But the harvest fleeth away, in the day of grief, and of desperate sorrow. Ah, the uproar of many peoples, that roar like the roaring of the seas, and the rushing of nations that rush like the rushing of mighty waters. The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters, but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm. And even, tide behold, terror, and before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that despoil us, and the lot of them that rob us. End of Chapter 17, Chapter 18. Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, saying, Go ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meeteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, all ye inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye, and when the trumpet is blown, hear ye, for thus hath Jehovah said unto me, I will be still. Then I will behold in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew, and the heat of harvest. For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomeeth a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away and cut down. They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth, and the ravenous birds shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them, and that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts, from a people tall and smooth, even from a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meeteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the Mount Zion. End of chapter 18. And I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor, city against city, and kingdom against kingdom, and the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it, and I will destroy the council thereof, and they shall seek unto the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards, and I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel Lord, and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord Jehovah of hosts, and the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry, and the rivers shall become fowl, the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up, the reeds and flags shall wither away, the meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile shall become dry, be driven away and be no more, and the fishers shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish, moreover, they that work in combed flax, and they that weave white cloth shall be confounded, and the pillars of Egypt shall be broken in pieces, all they that work for hire shall be grieved in soul. The princes of Zohan are utterly foolish, the council of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh is become brutish. How say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? Where then are thy wise men? And let them tell thee now, and let them know what Jehovah of hosts hath purposed concerning Egypt. The princes of Zohan are become fools, the princes of Memphis are deceived, they have caused Egypt to go astray that are the cornerstone of her tribes. Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her, and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work thereof, as a drunken man stagareth in his vomit. Neither shall there be for Egypt any work which head or tail, palm branch or rush may do. And that day shall the Egyptians be like unto women, and they shall tremble in fear because of the shaking of the hand of Jehovah of hosts, which he shaketh over them. And the land of Judah shall become a terror unto Egypt, every one to whom mention is made thereof shall be afraid, because of the purpose of Jehovah of hosts, which he purposeth against it. In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan and swear to Jehovah of hosts, one shall be called the City of Destruction. In that day shall there be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to Jehovah. And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto Jehovah of hosts in the land of Egypt, for they shall cry unto Jehovah because of oppressors, and he will send them a Savior and a Defender, and he will deliver them. And Jehovah shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know Jehovah in that day. Yea, they shall worship with sacrifice and oblation, and shall vow a vow unto Jehovah, and shall perform it. And Jehovah will smite Egypt, smiting and healing, and they shall return unto Jehovah, and he will be entreated of them, and will heal them. And 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 worship with the Assyrians. And that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth. For that Jehovah of hosts hath blessed them, saying, blessed be Egypt, my people, and Assyria, the work of my hands, and Israel, mine inheritance. The curtain came unto Ashtad, when Sargon, the king of Assyria, sent him, and he fought against Ashtad and took it. At that time Jehovah spake by Isaiah, the son of Amos, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe from off thy foot, and he did so, walking naked and barefoot. And Jehovah said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign, and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia, so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered to the shame of Egypt. And they shall be dismayed and confounded because of Ethiopia, their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. And the inhabitant of this coastland shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whether we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria, and we, how shall we escape? End of Chapter 20 Chapter 21 The burden of the wilderness of the sea, as whirlwinds in the south sweep through it, it cometh from the wilderness from a terrible land. A grievous vision is declared unto me. The treacherous man dealeth treacherously, and the destroyer destroyeth. Go up, O elam, besiege, O media, all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. Therefore are my loins filled with anguish, pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail. I am pained so that I cannot hear. I am dismayed so that I cannot see. My heart fluttereth. Horror hath affrighted me. The twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me. They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield. For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth. And when he seeth a troop, horsemen and pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed. And he cried as a lion, O Lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and am set in my ward whole nights. And behold, here cometh a troop of men, horsemen and pairs. And he answered and said, Fallen, fallen is Babylon, and all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground. O thou my threshing and the grain of my floor, that which I have heard from Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you. The Burden of Duma One calleth unto me, out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night. If ye will inquire, inquire ye, turn ye, come. The Burden upon Arabia And the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Deedonites. Unto him that was thirsty they brought water. The inhabitants of the land of Tima did meet the fugitives with their bread. For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, All the glory of Kedar shall fail. And the residue of the number of the archers, The mighty men of the children of Kedar shall be few, For Jehovah the God of Israel hath spoken it. And of Chapter 21, Chapter 22 The Burden of the Valley of Vision What aileth thee now, That thou art wholly gone up to the housetons? O thou that art full of shoutings, A tumultuous city, A joyous town, Thy slain are not slain with the sword, Neither are they dead in battle. All thy rulers fled away together, They were bound by the archers, All that were found of thee were bound together, They fled afar off. Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly, Labor not to comfort me For the destruction of the daughter of my people. For it is a day of discomforture, And of treading down, And of perplexity from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, In the Valley of Vision, A breaking down of the walls, And a crying to the mountains, And Elam bear the quiver, With chariots of men, And horsemen, And Kyr uncovered the shield, And it came to pass That thy choicest valleys were full of chariots, And the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate, And he took away the covering of Judah, And thou didst look in that day To the armor and the house of the forest, And ye saw the breeches of the city of David, That they were many, And ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool, And ye numbered the houses of Jerusalem, And ye break down the houses to fortify the wall. Ye made also a reservoir Between the two walls for the water of the old pool, But ye looked not unto him that had done this, Neither had ye respect unto him that purposed it long ago, And in that day did the Lord Jehovah of hosts Call to weeping, and to mourning, And to baldness, and to girding with sat cloth, And behold, joy and gladness, Slaying oxen and killing sheep, Eating flesh and drinking wine, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die. And Jehovah of hosts revealed himself in mine ears, Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you, Till ye die, sayeth the Lord Jehovah of hosts. Thus sayeth the Lord Jehovah of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, Even unto Shebna, who is over the house, And say, What do is thou here? And whom has thou here, That thou hast hewed thee out here a sepulcher, Hewing him out a sepulcher on high, Graving a habitation for himself in the rock? Behold, Jehovah, like a strong man, Will hurl thee away violently, Yea, he will wrap thee up closely. He will surely wind thee round and round, And toss thee like a ball into a large country. There shalt thou die, And there shall be the chariots of thy glory, Thou shame of thy Lord's house. And I will thrust thee from thine office, And from thy station shalt thou be pulled down. And it shall come to pass in that day, That I will call my servant Eliakim, The son of Hilkiah, And I will clothe him with thy robe, And strengthen him with thy girdle, And I will commit thy government into his hand. Then he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, And to the house of Judah. And the key of the house of David, Will I lay upon his shoulder, And he shall open, and none shall shut. And he shall shut, and none shall open. And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place, And he shall be for a throne of glory to his father's house. And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, The offspring on the issue, every small vessel, From the cups even to all the flagons. In that day, sayeth Jehovah of hosts, Shall the nail that was fastened in a sure place give way, And it shall be hewn down and fall, And the burden that was upon it shall be cut off, For Jehovah hath spoken it. End of Chapter 22, Chapter 23 The burden of Tyre How ye ships of Tarshish, For it is laid waste, So that there is no house, no entering in, From the land of Keteem it is revealed to them. Be still, ye inhabitants of the coast, Thou whom the merchants of Sidon, That pass over the sea, have replenished. And on great waters, the seed of the Shihor, The harvest of the Nile, was her revenue, And she was the mart of nations. Be thou ashamed, O Sidon, For the sea hath spoken, The stronghold of the sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, Neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins. When the report cometh to Egypt, They shall be sorely pained at the report of Tyre. Pass ye over to Tarshish. Whale, ye inhabitants of the coast, Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, Whose feet carried her afar off to Sojourn? Who hath purposed this against Tyre? The bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, Whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth. Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, To stain the pride of all glory, To bring it to contempt all the honorable of the earth. Pass through thy land as the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish, There is no restraint any more. He hath stretched out his hand over the sea, He hath shaken the kingdoms. Jehovah hath given commandment, concerning Caiman, To destroy the strongholds thereof. And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise! Pass over to Khatim. Even there shalt thou have no rest. Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people was not. The Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew the palaces thereof. They made it a ruin. How ye ships of Tarshish! For your stronghold is laid waste. 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, It shall be unto Tyre as in the song of the harlot. Take a harp. Go about the city, thou harlot, That has been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, That thou mayest be remembered. And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years. That Jehovah will visit Tyre, And she shall return to her Hyre. And shall play the harlot With all the kingdoms of the world Upon the face of the earth. And her merchandise, And her hire shall be holiness to Jehovah. It shall not be treasured nor laid up. For her merchandise shall be for them That dwell before Jehovah, To eat sufficiently and for durable clothing. End of Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, And maketh it waste, And turneth it upside down, And scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. 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 creditor, So with the debtor, As with the taker of interest, So with the giver of interest to him. The earth shall be utterly emptied, And utterly laid waste, For Jehovah hath spoken this word. The earth mourneth, And fadeeth away. The world languishes, And fadeeth away. The lofty people of the earth Do languish. The earth also is polluted Under the inhabitants thereof, Because they have transgressed the laws, Violated the statutes, Broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, And they that dwell therein are found guilty, Therefore the inhabitants of the earth Are burned, And few men left. The new wine mourneth, The vine languishes, All the merry-hearted do sigh. The mirth of Tabret's Seaseth, The noise of them that rejoice endeth, The joy of the harp, Seaseth. They shall not drink wine with the song. Strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. The waste city is broken down. Every house is shut up, That no man may come in. There is a crying in the streets, Because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone. And the city is left desolation. And the gate is smitten with destruction. For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth, Among the peoples, As the shaking of an olive tree, As the gleaning when the vintage is done. These shall lift up their voice. They shall shout for the majesty of Jehovah. They cry aloud from the sea. Wherefore glorify ye Jehovah in the east. Even the name of Jehovah, The God of Israel, and the aisles of the sea. From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, Glory to the righteous. But I said, I pine away. I pine away. Woe is me! The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yea, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously. Fear and the picked, And the snare are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. And that shall come to pass That he who fleeth from the noise of the fear Shall fall into the pit. And he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit Shall be taken in the snare. For the windows on high are opened, And the foundations of the earth tremble. The earth is utterly broken. The earth is rent asunder. The earth is shaken violently. The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, And shall sway to and fro like a hammock. And the transgression thereof Shall be heavy upon it. And it shall fall and not rise again. And it shall come to pass in that day That Jehovah will punish the host Of the high ones on high, And the kings of the earth upon the earth. And they shall be gathered together, As prisoners are gathered in the pit, And shall be shut up in the prison. And after many days shall they be visited. Then the moon shall be confounded, And the sun ashamed. For Jehovah of hosts will reign in Mount Zion And in Jerusalem, And before his elders shall be glory. A palace of strangers to be no city It shall never be built. Therefore shall a strong people glorify thee, A city of terrible nations shall fear thee. For thou hast been a stronghold to the poor, A stronghold to the needy in his distress, A refuge from the storm, A shade from the heat, When the blast of the terrible ones Is as a storm against the wall. As the heat in a dry place Will thou bring down the noise of strangers, As the heat by the shade of a cloud, The song of the terrible ones, Shall be brought low. And in this mountain will Jehovah of hosts Make unto all peoples a feast of fat things, A feast of wines on the leaves, A fat things full of marrow, Of wines on the leaves well refined. And he will destroy in this mountain The face of the covering that covereth all peoples, And the veil that is spread over all nations. He hath swallowed up death forever, And the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears From off all faces, And the reproach of his people Will he take away from off all the earth. For Jehovah hath spoken it. And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God. We have waited for him, And he will save us. This is Jehovah. We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. For in this mountain will the hand of Jehovah rest. And Moab shall be trodden down in his place, Even as straw is trodden down in the water of the dung hill. And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst thereof, As he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim. But Jehovah will lay low his pride Together with the craft of his hands. And the high fortress of thy walls Hath he brought down, laid low, And brought to the ground, even to the dust. End of Chapter 25, Chapter 26 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah. We have a strong city. Salvation will he appoint for walls and bulwarks. Open ye the gates that the righteous nation Which keepeth faith may enter in. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in Jehovah for ever, for in Jehovah Even Jehovah is an everlasting rock. For he hath brought down then that dwell on high, The lofty city, he layeth it low. He layeth it low, even to the ground. He bringeth it even to the dust. The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, And the steps of the needy. The way of the just is uprightness. Thou that art upright dost direct the path of the just. Ye, and the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, Have we waited for thee. To thy name, even to thy memorial name, Is the desire of our soul. With my soul have I desired thee in the night. Ye, with my spirit within me, will I seek thee earnestly. For when thy judgments are in the earth, The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. Let favor be showed to the wicked. Yet will he not learn righteousness? In the land of uprightness will he deal wrongfully, And will not behold the majesty of Jehovah. Jehovah, thy hand is lifted up. Yet they see not. But they shall see thy zeal for the people, And be put to shame. Ye, by our shoulder thine adversaries. Jehovah, thou wilt ordain peace for us, For thou hast also wrought all our works For us. O Jehovah, our God. Other lords besides thee have had dominion over us, But by thee only will we make mention of thy name. They are dead. They shall not live. They are deceased. They shall not rise. Therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, And made all remembrance of them to perish. Thou hast increased the nation, O Jehovah. Thou hast increased the nation. Thou art glorified. Thou hast enlarged all the borders of the land. Jehovah, in trouble have they visited thee. They poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. Like as a woman with child, That draweth near the time of her delivery, Is in pain and cryeth out in her pangs, So we have been before thee, O Jehovah. We have been with child. We have been in pain. We have, as it were, brought forth wind. We have not brought any deliverance in the earth. Neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. Thy dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing ye that dwell in the dust, For thy dew is as the dew of herbs, And the earth shall cast forth the dead. Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, And shut thy doors about thee. Hide thyself for a little moment, Until the indignation be over-past. For behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also shall disclose her blood, And shall no more cover her slain. End of Chapter 26 Chapter 27 In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong sword Will punish Leviathan, the swift serpent, And Leviathan the crooked serpent, And he will slay the monster that is in the sea. In that day a vineyard of wine, Seeing ye unto it. I, Jehovah, am its keeper. I will water it every moment, lest any hurt it. I will keep it night and day. Wrath is not in me. Would that the briars and thorns were against me in battle? I would march upon them. I would burn them together. Or else let him take hold of my strength, That he may make peace with me. Yea, let him make peace with me. In days to come shall Jacob take root, Israel shall blossom in bud, And they shall fill the face of the world with fruit. Have he smitten them, As he smote those that smote them? Or are they slain according to the slaughter of them That were slain by them? In measure, when thou sendest them away, Thou dost contend with them. He hath removed them with his rough blast In the day of the east wind. Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven. And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin, That he maketh all the stones of the altar As chalkstones that are beaten in thunder, So that the ashram and the sun images shall rise no more. For the fortified city is solitary, A habitation deserted and forsaken. Like the wilderness, there shall the calf feed, And there shall he lie down, And consume the branches thereof. When the bows thereof are withered, They shall be broken off. The women shall come, And set them on fire, For it is a people of no understanding. Therefore he that made them Will not have compassion upon them, And he that formed them will show them no favor. And it shall come to pass in that day, That Jehovah will beat off his fruit From the flood of the river unto the brook of Egypt, And ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel. And it shall come to pass in that day, That a great trumpet shall be blown, And they shall come that were ready to perish In the land of Assyria. And they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt, And they shall worship Jehovah In the holy mountain at Jerusalem. End of Chapter 27, Chapter 28 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, And to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, Which is on the head of the fat valley of them That are overcome with wine. Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, As a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, As a tempest of mighty waters overflowing. Will he cast down to the earth with the hand? The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim Shall be trodden underfoot. And the fading flower of his glorious beauty, Which is on the head of the fat valley, Shall be as the first ripe fig before the summer, Which when he that looked upon it seeeth, While it is yet in his hand he eateth it up. And that day will Jehovah of hosts become a crown of glory, And a diadem of beauty unto the residue of his people, And a spirit of justice to him that sitteth in judgment, And strength to them that turn back the battle at the gate. And even these reel with wine, And stagger with strong drink, The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, They are swallowed up of wine, They stagger with strong drink, They air in vision, they stumble in judgment. For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, So that there is no place clean. Whom will he teach knowledge? And whom will he make to understand the message? Them that are weaned from the milk, And drawn from the breasts? For it is precept upon precept, Precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, Hear a little, there a little, Nay, but by men of strange lips, And with another tongue will he speak to this people, To whom he said, this is the rest, Give ye rest to him that is weary, And this is the refreshing, yet they would not hear. Therefore, shall the word of Jehovah be unto them, Precept upon precept, Precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, Hear a little, there a little, That they may go, and fall backward, And be broken, and snared, and taken. Wherefore, hear the word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, That rule this people that is in Jerusalem. Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, And with shield are we at agreement, When the overflowing scourge shall pass through, It shall not come unto us, For we have made lies our refuge, And under falsehood have we hid ourselves. Therefore thus sayeth the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation, A stone, a tried stone, A precious corner stone, Of sure foundation, He that believeth shall not be in haste. And I will make justice the line, And righteousness the plummet, And the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, And the water shall overflow the hiding place, And your covenant with death shall be annulled, And your agreement with shield shall not stand, When the overflowing scourge shall pass through, Then ye shall be trodden down by it. As often as it passeth through, It shall take you, For morning by morning shall it pass through, By day and by night, And it shall be not but terror to understand the message. For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it, And the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. For Jehovah will rise up as in Mount Perazim. He will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, That he may do his work, his strange work, And bring to pass his act, his strange act. Now, therefore, be ye not scoffers, Lest your bonds be made strong, For a decree of destruction have I heard From the Lord Jehovah of hosts upon the whole earth. Give ye ear, and hear my voice, Harken, and hear my speech. Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? Doth he continually open and harrow his ground? When he hath levelled the face thereof, Doth he not cast abroad the fitches, And scatter the cumin, and put in the wheat and rose, And the barley in the appointed place, And the spelt in the border thereof? For his God doth instruct him aright, And doth teach him. For the fitches are not threshed With a sharp threshing instrument. Neither is a cartwheel turned about upon the cumin, But the fitches are beaten out with a staff, In the cumin with a rod. Bread grain is ground, For he will not be always threshing it, And though the wheel of his cart, And his horses scatter it, He doth not grind it. This also cometh forth from Jehovah of hosts, Who is wonderful in counsel, And excellent in wisdom.