Judah Forsakes the Lord
1The avision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the bdays of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
2cHear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
3dThe ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel edoth not know, my people doth not consider.
4Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, fa seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
5gWhy should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
7hYour 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.
8And the daughter of Zion is left ias a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, jas a besieged city.
9kExcept the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as lSodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
God Hates Judah’s Sacrificies
10Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers mof Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
11To what purpose is the multitude of your nsacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
12When ye come oto appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
13Bring no more pvain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, qthe calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14Your rnew moons and your sappointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
15And twhen ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: uyea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Your Sins Shall Be as White as Snow
16vWash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; wcease to do evil;
17Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18Come now, and let us xreason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, ythey shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
20But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: zfor the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Zion Shall Be Redeemed with Judgment
21aHow is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now bmurderers.
22cThy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
23dThy princes are rebellious, and ecompanions of thieves: fevery one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they gjudge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
24Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, hI will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
25And I will turn my hand upon thee, and ipurely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
26And I will restore thy judges jas at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward kthou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
27Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
28And the ldestruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
29For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
30For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
31mAnd the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall nquench them.
The Mountain of the Lord
1The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2And ait shall come to pass bin the last days, cthat the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3And many people shall go and say, dCome ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: efor out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us fwalk in the light of the LORD.
6Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished gfrom the east, and hare soothsayers like the Philistines, iand they please themselves in the children of strangers.
7jTheir land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:
8kTheir land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
9And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
The Day of the Lord
10lEnter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
11The lofty looks of man shall be mhumbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted nin that day.
12For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
13And upon all othe cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
14And pupon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
15And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
16qAnd upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
17And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
18And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
The Fear of the Lord
19And they shall go into the rholes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, sfor fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth tto shake terribly the earth.
20In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
21To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
22uCease ye from man, whose vbreath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Judah’s Wicked Rulers
1For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, adoth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah bthe stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
2cThe mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
3The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
4And I will give dchildren to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
5And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
6When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:
7In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
8For eJerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
The Lord Pleads and Judges
9The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as fSodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
10Say ye to the righteous, gthat it shall be well with him: hfor they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11Woe unto the wicked! iit shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, jthey which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
13The LORD standeth up kto plead, and standeth to judge the people.
14The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up lthe vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15What mean ye that ye mbeat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
The Daughters of Zion
16Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
17Therefore the Lord will smite with na scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will odiscover their secret parts.
18In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their pround tires like the moon,
19The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
21The rings, and nose jewels,
22The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
23The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
24And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair qbaldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
25Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
26rAnd her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate sshall sit upon the ground.
The Beautiful Branch of the Lord
1And ain that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will beat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away cour reproach.
2In that day shall dthe branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
3And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, eshall be called holy, even every one that is fwritten among the living in Jerusalem:
4When gthe Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
5And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, ha cloud and smoke by day, and ithe shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
6And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and jfor a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
The Vineyard of Wild Grapes
1Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved atouching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
2And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: band he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
3And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, cjudge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
4What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in dit? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
The Destruction of the Vineyard
5And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: eI will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
6And I will lay it fwaste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and gthorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
7For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
8Woe unto them that join hhouse to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
9iIn mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
10Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one jbath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
Woe to Those Who Follow Strong Drink
11kWoe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
12And lthe harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but mthey regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
13nTherefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no oknowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
14Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
15And pthe mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
16But the LORD of hosts shall be qexalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
17Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of rthe fat ones shall strangers eat.
Woe to Those Who Sin Openly
18Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
19sThat say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
Woe to Those Who Call Evil Good
20Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21Woe unto them that are twise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
22Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
23Which ujustify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
24Therefore vas the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so wtheir root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25xTherefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and ythe hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. zFor all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
God Will Summon Nations to War
26aAnd he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will bhiss unto them from cthe end of the earth: and, behold, dthey shall come with speed swiftly:
27None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither eshall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
28fWhose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
29Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
30And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one glook unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
The Holy and Glorious Lord
1In the year that aking Uzziah died I bsaw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
2Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and cwith twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
3And one cried unto another, and said, dHoly, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: ethe whole earth is full of his glory.
4And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
God Cleanses Isaiah
5Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of funclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
6Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off gthe altar:
7And he hlaid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
Isaiah’s Message to Be Rejected
8Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for ius? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
9And he said, Go, and jtell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
10Make kthe heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; llest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
11Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, mUntil the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
12nAnd the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
13But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so othe holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
God’s Message to Ahaz
1And it came to pass in the days of aAhaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against bit, but could not prevail against it.
2And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
3Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field;
4And say unto him, Take heed, and be cquiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
5Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
6Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:
7Thus saith the Lord GOD, dIt shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
8eFor the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
9And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. fIf ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
A Sign from the Lord
10Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
11gAsk thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
12But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
13And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
14Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; hBehold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear ia son, and shall call his name jImmanuel.
15Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
16kFor before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of lboth her kings.
Coming Destruction
17mThe LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that nEphraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
18And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD oshall 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.
19And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in pthe holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.
20In the same day shall the Lord shave with a qrazor that is rhired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
21And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
22And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.
23And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, sit shall even be for briers and thorns.
24With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
25And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
Damascus and Samaria to Fall
1Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and awrite in it with a man’s pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
2And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, bUriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
3And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
4cFor before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, dthe riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
Assyrian Conquest
5The LORD spake also unto me again, saying,
6Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of eShiloah that go softly, and rejoice fin Rezin and Remaliah’s son;
7Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
8And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, ghe shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O hImmanuel.
9iAssociate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
10jTake counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, kand it shall not stand: lfor God is with us.
Sanctify the Lord of Hosts
11For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
12Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
13Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
14And mhe shall be for a sanctuary; but for na stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15And many among them shall ostumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
16Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
17And I will wait upon the LORD, that phideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I qwill look for him.
18rBehold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me sare for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
Seek the Law and the Testimony
19And when they shall say unto you, tSeek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards uthat peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living vto the dead?
20wTo the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because xthere is no light in them.
21And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and ycurse their king and their God, and look upward.
22And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
A Great Light
1Nevertheless athe dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the bfirst he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and cafterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
2dThe people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
3Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice ewhen they divide the spoil.
4For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of fMidian.
5For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; gbut this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
The Birth of the Prince of Peace
6hFor unto us a child is born, unto us a ison is given: and jthe government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called kWonderful, Counsellor, lThe mighty God, The everlasting Father, mThe Prince of Peace.
7Of the increase of his government and peace nthere shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The ozeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
The Pride of Ephraim
8The Lord sent a word into pJacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
9And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
10The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
11Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
12The 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.
13For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
14Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, qin one day.
15The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
16For rthe leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
17Therefore the Lord sshall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. tFor all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
18For wickedness uburneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
19Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is vthe land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: wno man shall spare his brother.
20And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, xand they shall not be satisfied: ythey shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
21Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be zagainst Judah. aFor all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Woe to the Abusers of Justice
1Woe unto them that adecree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
2To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
3And bwhat will ye do in cthe day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from dfar? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
4Without me they shall bow down under the eprisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. fFor all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
The Assyrian to Be a Tool of Destruction
5O Assyrian, gthe rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
6I will send him against han hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I igive him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7jHowbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
8kFor he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
9Is not lCalno mas Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria nas Damascus?
10As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
11Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
12Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work oupon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, pI will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
13qFor he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:
14And rmy hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
15Shall sthe axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
16Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
17And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: tand it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
18And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of uhis fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.
19And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
A Remnant Shall Return to the Lord
20And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, vshall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the wmighty God.
22xFor though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yyet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
23zFor the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
24Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, abe not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of bEgypt.
25For yet a very little while, cand the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
26And the LORD of hosts shall stir up da scourge for him according to the slaughter of eMidian at the rock of Oreb: and fas his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
27And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of gthe anointing.
28He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
29They are gone over hthe passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; iGibeah of Saul is fled.
30Lift up thy voice, O daughter jof Gallim: cause it to be heard unto kLaish, O poor Anathoth.
31lMadmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.
32As yet shall he remain mat Nob that day: he shall nshake his hand against the mount of othe daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and pthe high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
34And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
A Branch of Jesse
1And athere shall come forth a rod out of the stem of bJesse, and ca Branch shall grow out of his roots:
2dAnd the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
3And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
4But ewith righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall fsmite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
5And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
The Wolf and the Lamb
6gThe wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
7And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.
9hThey shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for ithe earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
10jAnd in that day kthere shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an lensign of the people; to it shall the mGentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
11And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, nfrom Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
12And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together othe dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
13pThe envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
14But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: qthey shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
15And the LORD rshall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
16And sthere shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; tlike as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
The Lord Is My Strength and My Song
1And ain that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
2Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: bfor the cLORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
3Therefore with joy shall ye draw dwater out of the wells of salvation.
4And in that day shall ye say, ePraise the LORD, call upon his name, fdeclare his doings among the people, make mention that his gname is exalted.
5hSing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.
6iCry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is jthe Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
The Burden of Babylon
1The aburden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
2bLift ye up a banner cupon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, dshake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
3I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called emy mighty ones for mine anger, even them that frejoice in my highness.
4The gnoise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
5They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the hLORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole iland.
The Destructive Day of the Lord
6Howl ye; jfor the day of the LORD is at hand; kit shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:
8And they shall be afraid: lpangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9Behold, mthe day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy nthe sinners thereof out of it.
10For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be odarkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11And I will ppunish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; qand I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13rTherefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in sthe day of his fierce anger.
14And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: tthey shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.
15Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
16Their children also shall be udashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives vravished.
17wBehold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
18Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
The Desolation of Babylon
19xAnd Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew ySodom and Gomorrah.
20zIt shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
21aBut wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
22And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: band her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
A Rest from Bondage
1For the LORD awill have mercy on Jacob, and bwill yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: cand the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
2And the people shall take them, dand bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; eand they shall rule over their oppressors.
3And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
The Fall of Babylon’s King
4That thou fshalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the ggolden city ceased!
5The LORD hath broken hthe staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
6He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
7The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
8iYea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
9jHell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
10All they shall kspeak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
11Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
12lHow art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13For thou hast said in thine heart, mI will ascend into heaven, nI will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the omount of the congregation, pin the sides of the north:
14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; qI will be like the most High.
Babylon to Be Cut Off
15Yet thou rshalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
16They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
17That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
18All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
19But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
20Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: sthe seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
21Prepare slaughter for his children tfor the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
22For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon uthe name, and vremnant, wand son, and nephew, saith the LORD.
23xI will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
The Fall of Assyria
24The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it ystand:
25That I will break the zAssyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall ahis yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
26This is the bpurpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
27For the LORD of hosts hath cpurposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
Palestina Warned Not to Rejoice
28In the year that dking Ahaz died was this burden.
29Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, ebecause the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, fand his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
30And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
31Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.
32What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That gthe LORD hath founded Zion, and hthe poor of his people shall trust in it.
The Burden of Moab
1The aburden of Moab. Because in the night bAr of cMoab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
2He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: don all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
3In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, eweeping abundantly.
4And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto fJahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.
A Crying for Moab
5gMy heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for hby the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
6For the waters iof Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
7Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
8For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim.
9For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, jlions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.
David’s Throne
1Send aye the lamb to the ruler of the land bfrom Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
2For it shall be, that, as a cwandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of dArnon.
3Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
4Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
5And in mercy eshall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, fjudging, and seeking judgment, and hasting grighteousness.
6We have heard of the hpride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: ibut his lies shall not be so.
7Therefore shall Moab jhowl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations kof Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.
8For lthe fields of Heshbon languish, and mthe vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the nsea.
The Glory of Moab Will End
9Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, oO Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.
10And pgladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
11Wherefore qmy bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh.
12And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on rthe high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.
13This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.
14But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, sas the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.
The Burden of Damascus
1The aburden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
2The cities of bAroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and cnone shall make them afraid.
3dThe fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
4And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and ethe fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
5fAnd it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
A Man Shall Look to His Maker
6gYet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.
7At that day shall a man hlook to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
8And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his ifingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
9In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
10Because thou hast forgotten jthe God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
11In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
God Will Rebuke the Nations
12Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise klike the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall lrebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and mshall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Ethiopia’s Destruction
1Woe ato the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
3All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, bwhen he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
4For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
5For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
6They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
The Present to the Lord
7In that time cshall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
The Burden of Egypt
1The aburden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD brideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and cthe idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2And I will dset the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
3And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof: and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall eseek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
4And the Egyptians will I give over finto the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
5gAnd the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
6And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks hof defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
7The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
8The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
9Moreover they that work in ifine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
10And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
The Failure of the Egyptian Wisdom
11Surely the princes of jZoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: khow say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
12lWhere are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath mpurposed upon Egypt.
13The princes of Zoan are become fools, nthe princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
14The LORD hath mingled oa perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
15Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which pthe head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
16In that day shall Egypt qbe like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, rwhich he shaketh over it.
17And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath sdetermined against it.
18In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt tspeak the language of Canaan, and uswear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.
Egypt Shall Know the Lord
19In that day vshall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the wLORD.
20And xit shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a ysaviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
21And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall zknow the LORD in that day, and ashall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it.
22And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and bheal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
23In that day cshall 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 dserve with the Assyrians.
24In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:
25Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria ethe work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
The Shame of Egypt and Ethiopia
1In the year that aTartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
2At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose bthe sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, cwalking naked and barefoot.
3And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years dfor a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
4So shall the eking of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, feven with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
5gAnd they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
6And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for hhelp to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?
The Burden of the Desert of the Sea
1The burden of the desert of the sea. As awhirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
2A grievous vision is declared unto me; bthe treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. cGo up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
3Therefore dare my loins filled with pain: epangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
4My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: fthe night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
5gPrepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
6For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
7And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:
8And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the hwatchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
9And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, iBabylon is fallen, is fallen; and jall the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
10kO my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
The Burdens of Dumah and Arabia
11lThe burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of mSeir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
12The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
13nThe burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies oof Dedanim.
14The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
15For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
16For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, paccording to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of qKedar shall fail:
17And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.
The Burden of the Valley of Vision
1The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
2Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, aa joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
3All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.
4Therefore said I, Look away from me; bI will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
5cFor it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity dby the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
6eAnd Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and fKir uncovered the shield.
7And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
Not Looking to the Maker
8gAnd he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour hof the house of the forest.
9iYe have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
10And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
11jYe made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old kpool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
God Calls for Repentance
12And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts lcall to weeping, and to mourning, and mto baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
13And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and ndrinking wine: olet us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
14pAnd it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity qshall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
15Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto rShebna, which is over the house, and say,
16What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he sthat heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?
17Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, tand will surely cover thee.
18He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the uchariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord’s house.
19And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.
Eliakim’s Rise to Power
20And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant vEliakim the son of Hilkiah:
21And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
22And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his wshoulder; so he shall xopen, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
23And I will fasten him as ya nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house.
24And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
25In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
The Burden of Tyre
1The aburden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
2Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
3And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and bshe is a mart of nations.
4Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.
5cAs at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
6Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
7Is this your djoyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
8Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, ethe crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
9The LORD of hosts hath fpurposed it, to stain the gpride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
10Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.
11He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment hagainst the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.
12And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, ipass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.
The Land of the Chaldeans
13Behold the land of the jChaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for kthem that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
14lHowl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
15And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
16Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
17And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and mshall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
18And her merchandise and her hire nshall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
The Empty Earth
1Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
2And it shall be, as with the people, so with the apriest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; bas with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
3The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
4The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the chaughty people of the earth do languish.
5dThe earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have etransgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the feverlasting covenant.
6Therefore hath gthe curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are hburned, and few men left.
7iThe new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
8The mirth jof tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
9They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
10The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
11There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
12In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Glorify the Lord
13When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, kthere shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
14They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
15Wherefore lglorify ye the LORD in the fires, even mthe name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
16From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! nthe treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
17oFear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18And it 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 pthe windows from on high are open, and qthe foundations of the earth do shake.
The Lord Shall Reign
19rThe earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20The earth shall sreel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, tand the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22And 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.
23Then the umoon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall vreign in wmount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
Praise for the Lord’s Faithfulness
1O LORD, thou art my God; aI will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; bfor thou hast done wonderful cthings; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
2For thou hast made dof a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
3Therefore shall the strong people eglorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
4For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, fa refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
5Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
Death Is Swallowed in Victory
6And in gthis mountain shall hthe LORD of hosts make unto iall people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
7And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and jthe vail that is spread over all nations.
8He will kswallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will lwipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
9And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; mwe have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, nwe will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and oMoab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
11And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their ppride together with the spoils of their hands.
12And the qfortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.
A Mind Stayed on God
1In athat day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; bsalvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
2cOpen ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
3Thou wilt keep him in perfect dpeace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
4Trust ye in the LORD for ever: efor in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
5For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; fthe lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
6The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
7The way of the just is uprightness: gthou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
8Yea, hin the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we iwaited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
9jWith my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
10kLet favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in lthe land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
11LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, mthey will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
A Peace for God’s People
12LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.
13O LORD our God, nother lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
14They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to operish.
15Thou hast pincreased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
16LORD, qin trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
17Like as ra woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
18We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have sthe inhabitants of the world fallen.
19tThy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. uAwake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
The Lord Punishes Iniquity
20Come, my people, venter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were wfor a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
21For, behold, the LORD xcometh 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.
The Vineyard of Red Wine
1In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, aeven leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay bthe dragon that is in the sea.
2In that day csing ye unto her, dA vineyard of red wine.
3eI the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
4Fury is not in me: who would set fthe briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
5Or let him take hold gof my strength, that he may hmake peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.
6He shall cause them that come of Jacob ito take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
7jHath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
8kIn measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: lhe stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
9By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
The Desolation of Cities
10Yet the defenced city shall be mdesolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for nit is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will onot have mercy on them, and phe that formed them will shew them no favour.
12And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be qgathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
13rAnd it shall come to pass in that day, sthat the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of tEgypt, and shall uworship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
Woe to Ephraim
1Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
2Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, awhich as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
3The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
4And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
A Crown of Glory
5In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
6And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
7But they also bhave erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; cthe priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
8For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
9dWhom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
10eFor precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11For with fstammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
12To whom he said, This is the grest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
13But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
A Precious Corner Stone
14Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: hfor we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation ia stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
A Covenant with Death
18And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
20For 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.
21For the LORD shall rise up as in mount jPerazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of kGibeon, that he may do his work, lhis strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
22Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts ma consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
Hearken to My Voice
23Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
24Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
25When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
26For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
27For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
28Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
29This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, nwhich is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.
Woe to Jerusalem
1Woe to Ariel, ato Ariel, the city bwhere David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
2Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
3And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
4And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, cout of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
5Moreover the multitude of thy dstrangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be eas chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be fat an instant suddenly.
6gThou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with hearthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
7iAnd the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be jas a dream of a night vision.
8kIt shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
9Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: lthey are drunken, mbut not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
10For nthe LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath oclosed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, pthe seers hath he covered.
11And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book qthat is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: rand he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
12And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
God Will Do a Marvellous Work
13Wherefore the Lord said, sForasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and twith their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
14uTherefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: vfor the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
15wWoe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and xthey say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
16Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the ywork say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
A Fruitful Field
17Is it not yet a very little while, and zLebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
18And ain that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
19bThe meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and cthe poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20For the terrible one is brought to nought, and dthe scorner is consumed, and all that ewatch for iniquity are cut off:
21That make a man an offender for a word, and flay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just gfor a thing of nought.
22Therefore thus saith the LORD, hwho redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be iashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
23But when he seeth his children, jthe work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
24They also kthat erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
Woe to Judah
1Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, athat take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, bthat they may add sin to sin:
2cThat walk to go down into Egypt, and dhave not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
3eTherefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
4For his princes were at fZoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
5gThey were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
6hThe burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, ithe viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
7jFor the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
A Rebellious People
8Now go, kwrite it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
9That lthis is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
10mWhich say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, nspeak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
A Breach Ready to Fall
12Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye odespise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
13Therefore this iniquity shall be to you pas a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking qcometh suddenly at an instant.
14And rhe shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
15For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; sIn returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: tand ye would not.
16But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
17uOne thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
Graciousness and Mercy
18And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be vgracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: wblessed are all they that xwait for him.
19For the people yshall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt zweep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will aanswer thee.
20And though the Lord give you bthe bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not cthy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
21And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye dturn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
22eYe shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; fthou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
23gThen shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
24The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
25And there shall be hupon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the igreat slaughter, when the towers fall.
26Moreover jthe light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
The Glorious Voice of the Lord
27Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
28And khis breath, as an overflowing stream, lshall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be ma bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
29Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into nthe mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
30oAnd the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, pand hailstones.
31For qthrough the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, rwhich smote with a rod.
32And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of sshaking will he fight with it.
33tFor Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Woe for Trusting in Egypt
1Woe to them athat go down to Egypt for help; and bstay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, cneither seek the LORD!
2Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and dwill not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
3Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail etogether.
4For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, fLike as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
Preserving Jerusalem
5gAs birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.
6Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have hdeeply revolted.
7For in that day every man shall icast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for ja sin.
8Then shall the Assyrian kfall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall ldevour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
9mAnd he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
The Righteous King
1Behold, aa king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
2And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and ba covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
3And cthe eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
4The heart also of the rash shall dunderstand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
5The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
6For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work einiquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
7The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with flying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
8But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
A Warning to Careless Women
9Rise up, ye women gthat are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
10Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
11Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
12They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
13hUpon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in ithe joyous city:
14jBecause the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
15Until kthe spirit be poured upon us from on high, and lthe wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
The Effect of Righteousness
16Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
17mAnd the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
18And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet nresting places;
19oWhen it shall hail, coming down pon the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
20Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of qthe ox and the ass.
Woe to the Spoiler
1Woe to thee athat spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! bwhen thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be cspoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
2O LORD, be gracious unto us; dwe have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
3At the noise of the tumult the people efled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
4And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
The Exalted Lord
5fThe LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
6And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.
7Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: gthe ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
8hThe highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: ihe hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
9jThe earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
10kNow will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
11lYe shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
12And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: mas thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
13Hear, nye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might.
14The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring ofire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
15He that pwalketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and qshutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
16He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
17Thine eyes shall see the king in his rbeauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
18Thine heart shall meditate terror. sWhere is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19tThou shalt not see a fierce people, ua people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
A Place of Quiet Habitation
20vLook upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see wJerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; xnot one of ythe stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
21But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
22For the LORD is our zjudge, the LORD is our alawgiver, bthe LORD is our king; he will save us.
23Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
24And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: cthe people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
The Indignation of the Lord
1Comea near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: blet the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
2For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the cslaughter.
3Their slain also shall be cast out, and dtheir stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4And eall the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: fand all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a gfalling fig from the fig tree.
The Sword of the Lord
5For hmy sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it ishall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
6The jsword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for kthe LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
7And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
8For it is the day of the LORD’s lvengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
9mAnd the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
10It shall not be quenched night nor day; nthe smoke thereof shall go up for ever: ofrom generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
11pBut the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and qhe shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
12They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
13And rthorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and sit shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
14The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
15There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
The Book of the Lord
16Seek ye out of tthe book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
17And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
The Desert Will Blossom
1The awilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the bdesert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
2cIt shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the dglory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
3eStrengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
The Salvation of the Lord
4Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with fvengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and gsave you.
5Then the heyes of the blind shall be opened, and ithe ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
6Then shall the jlame man leap as an hart, and the ktongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall lwaters break out, and streams in the desert.
7And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in mthe habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
8And an nhighway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; othe unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
9pNo lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:
10And the qransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and rsorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Judah Is Invaded by Assyria
1Now ait came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
2And the king of Assyria sent Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field.
Rabshakeh’s Message
3Then came forth unto him bEliakim, Hilkiah’s son, which was over the house, and cShebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph’s son, the recorder.
4dAnd Rab-shakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
5I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
6Lo, thou trustest in the estaff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that ftrust in him.
7But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
8Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
9How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
10And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
Israel Is Urged to Surrender
11Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
12But Rab-shakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
13Then Rab-shakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
14Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.
15Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
16Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: gand eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
17Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
Rabshakeh’s Blasphemy
18Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the hgods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
19Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered iSamaria out of my hand?
20Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
21But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
22Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh.
Hezekiah Appeals to Isaiah
1And ait came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
2And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
3And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of btrouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
4It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to creproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
5So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
Fear Not Rabshakeh’s Words
6And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
8So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
Hezekiah Urged to Surrender
9And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
10Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?
12Have the dgods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
13Where is the king of eHamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
A Prayer to the Lord
14And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
15And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying,
16O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou falone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.
17gIncline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hhear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.
18Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their icountries,
19And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were jno gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
20Now therefore, O LORD our God, ksave us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may lknow that thou art the LORD, even thou only.
The Lord Answers
21Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:
22This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
23Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
24By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.
25I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
26Hast thou not heard mlong ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
27Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
28But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
29Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore nwill I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will oturn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
A Remnant Will Bear Fruit
30And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
31And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
32For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the pzeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
The King Will Not Enter the City
33Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.
34By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
35For I will qdefend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant rDavid’s sake.
The Assyrian Camp Is Smitten
36Then the sangel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
37So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
38And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and tEsar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.