The vision
of Isaiah
the son of Amoz,
which he
saw concerning Judah
and Jerusalem
in the days
of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz,
and Hezekiah,
kings
of Judah.
Hear,
O heavens,
and give ear,
O earth:
for the LORD
hath spoken,
I have nourished
and brought
up children,
and
they
have rebelled against me.
The ox
knoweth his owner,
and the ass
his master's crib:
but Israel
doth not know,
my people
doth not consider.
Ah sinful nation,
a people
laden
with iniquity,
a seed
of evildoers,
children
that are corrupters:
they have forsaken
the LORD,
they have provoked
the Holy One
of Israel
unto anger,
they are gone away backward.
Why should
ye be stricken any more?
ye will revolt
more
and more:
the whole head
is sick,
and the whole heart faint.
From the sole
of the foot
even unto the head
there is no soundness in it;
but wounds,
and bruises,
and putrifying sores:
they have not been closed,
neither bound
up,
neither
mollified
with ointment.
Your country
is desolate,
your cities
are burned
with fire:
your land,
strangers
devour it
in your presence,
and it
is desolate,
as overthrown
by strangers.
And
the daughter
of Zion
is left as a cottage
in a vineyard,
as a lodge
in a garden
of cucumbers,
as a besieged city.
Except the LORD
of hosts
had left
unto us a
very small remnant,
we should have been
as Sodom,
and
we should have been like
unto Gomorrah.
Hear the word
of the LORD,
ye rulers
of Sodom;
give ear
unto the law
of our God,
ye people
of Gomorrah.
To what
purpose
is the multitude
of your sacrifices
unto me?
saith the LORD:
I am full of
the burnt offerings
of rams,
and the fat
of fed beasts;
and
I delight not
in the blood
of bullocks,
or of lambs,
or of he goats.
When ye come
to appear before me,
who hath required this
at your hand,
to tread my courts?
Bring no more vain oblations;
incense is an abomination
unto me;
the new moons
and sabbaths,
the calling
of assemblies,
I cannot away with;
it is iniquity,
even the solemn meeting.
Your new moons
and your appointed
feasts
my soul hateth:
they are a trouble
unto me;
I am
weary
to bear them.
And
when ye spread
forth your hands,
I will hide
mine
eyes from you:
yea,
when
ye make
many prayers,
I will not hear:
your hands
are full of blood.
Wash you,
make you clean;
put away the evil
of your doings
from before mine eyes;
cease to do evil;
Learn to do well;
seek judgment,
relieve the oppressed,
judge the fatherless,
plead for the widow.
Come now,
and let us
reason together,
saith the LORD:
though your sins
be as scarlet,
they shall be
as white
as snow;
though they
be red like crimson,
they shall be
as wool.
If ye
be willing
and obedient,
ye shall eat the good
of the land:
But
if ye
refuse and rebel,
ye shall be devoured
with the sword:
for the mouth
of the LORD
hath spoken it.
How is
the faithful city
become
an harlot!
it was full of judgment;
righteousness
lodged in it;
but now murderers.
Thy silver
is become dross,
thy wine
mixed with water:
Thy princes
are rebellious,
and companions
of thieves:
every one
loveth gifts,
and followeth after rewards:
they judge not
the fatherless,
neither doth
the cause
of the widow
come unto them.
Therefore saith
the LORD,
the LORD
of hosts,
the mighty One
of Israel, Ah,
I will ease me
of mine adversaries,
and avenge me
of mine enemies:
And I
will turn
my hand
upon thee,
and purely purge away
thy dross,
and take away all
thy tin:
And
I will restore
thy
judges as
at the first,
and thy counsellors
as at the beginning:
afterward
thou shalt be called,
The city
of righteousness,
the faithful city.
Zion shall be redeemed
with judgment,
and her converts
with righteousness.
And the destruction
of the transgressors
and of the sinners
shall be together,
and they that
forsake the LORD
shall be consumed.
For they
shall be ashamed
of the oaks
which ye
have desired,
and
ye shall be confounded
for the gardens
that
ye have chosen.
For ye
shall be
as an oak
whose leaf fadeth,
and as a garden
that
hath no water.
And the strong
shall be as tow,
and the maker of it
as a spark,
and
they shall both burn
together,
and none
shall quench them.
The word that Isaiah
the son
of Amoz
saw concerning Judah
and Jerusalem.
And it
shall come
to pass
in the last days,
that the mountain
of the LORD's house
shall be established
in the top
of the mountains,
and shall be exalted above
the hills;
and all nations
shall flow
unto it.
And many people
shall go
and say,
Come ye,
and let us
go up to
the mountain
of the LORD,
to the house
of the God
of Jacob;
and
he will teach us
of his ways,
and
we will walk
in his paths:
for out of Zion shall go
forth the law,
and the word
of the LORD
from Jerusalem.
And
he shall judge
among the nations,
and shall rebuke
many people:
and
they shall beat
their swords
into plowshares,
and their spears
into pruninghooks:
nation
shall not lift
up sword
against nation,
neither shall
they learn
war any more.
O house of Jacob,
come ye,
and let us
walk in the light
of the LORD.
Therefore thou
hast forsaken thy people
the house
of Jacob,
because
they be replenished
from the east,
and are
soothsayers like
the Philistines,
and
they please themselves
in the children
of strangers.
Their land
also is full of silver
and gold,
neither is there
any end
of their treasures;
their land
is also
full of horses,
neither is there
any end
of their chariots:
Their land
also is
full of idols;
they worship
the work
of their own hands,
that which their own fingers
have made:
And the mean man
boweth down,
and the great man
humbleth himself:
therefore forgive them not.
Enter
into the rock,
and hide thee
in the dust,
for fear
of the LORD,
and for the glory
of his majesty.
The lofty looks
of man
shall be humbled,
and the haughtiness
of men
shall be bowed down,
and the LORD alone
shall be exalted
in that day.
For the day
of the LORD
of hosts
shall be
upon every one
that is
proud
and lofty,
and
upon every one
that is lifted up;
and
he shall be brought low:
And
upon all
the cedars
of Lebanon,
that are high
and lifted up,
and
upon all
the oaks
of Bashan,
And
upon all
the high mountains,
and upon all
the hills
that are lifted up,
And
upon every high tower,
and upon every fenced wall,
And
upon all
the ships
of Tarshish,
and
upon all pleasant pictures.
And the loftiness
of man
shall be bowed down,
and the haughtiness
of men
shall be made low:
and the LORD alone
shall be exalted
in that day.
And the idols
he shall utterly abolish.
And
they shall go into the holes
of the rocks,
and
into the caves
of the earth,
for fear
of the LORD,
and for the glory
of his majesty,
when he
ariseth
to shake terribly the earth.
In that day a man
shall cast
his idols
of silver,
and his idols
of gold,
which they
made each one
for himself
to worship,
to the moles
and to the bats;
To go
into the clefts
of the rocks,
and into the tops
of the ragged rocks,
for fear
of the LORD,
and for the glory
of his majesty,
when he
ariseth
to shake terribly the earth.
Cease
ye from man,
whose breath
is in his nostrils:
for wherein is
he to be accounted of ?
For,
behold,
the Lord,
the LORD
of hosts,
doth take away
from Jerusalem
and from Judah
the stay
and the staff,
the whole stay
of bread,
and the whole stay
of water.
The mighty man,
and the man
of war,
the judge,
and the prophet,
and the prudent,
and the ancient,
The captain
of fifty,
and the honourable man,
and the counsellor,
and the cunning artificer,
and the eloquent orator.
And
I will give children
to be their princes,
and babes
shall rule over them.
And the people
shall be oppressed,
every one
by another,
and every one
by his neighbour:
the child
shall behave
himself
proudly against the ancient,
and the base
against the honourable.
When a man
shall take
hold
of his brother
of the house
of his father,
saying,
Thou hast clothing,
be thou
our ruler,
and let
this ruin
be under thy hand:
In that day
shall
he swear,
saying,
I will not be
an healer;
for in my house
is neither bread
nor clothing:
make me not a ruler
of the people.
For Jerusalem
is ruined,
and Judah
is fallen:
because
their tongue
and their doings
are against the LORD,
to provoke the eyes
of his glory.
The shew
of their countenance
doth witness against them;
and
they declare
their sin
as Sodom,
they hide it not.
Woe unto their soul!
for they
have rewarded evil
unto themselves.
Say
ye to the righteous,
that it
shall be well with him:
for they shall eat
the fruit
of their doings.
Woe unto the wicked!
it shall be ill
with him:
for the reward
of his hands
shall be given him.
As for my people,
children are their oppressors,
and women
rule over them.
O my people,
they which lead thee cause thee
to err,
and destroy
the way
of thy paths.
The LORD
standeth up to
plead,
and standeth to judge
the people.
The LORD
will enter
into judgment
with the ancients
of his people,
and the princes
thereof:
for ye
have eaten
up the vineyard;
the spoil
of the poor
is in your houses.
What mean ye that
ye beat
my people
to pieces,
and grind
the faces
of the poor?
saith the Lord GOD
of hosts.
Moreover the LORD saith,
Because
the daughters
of Zion
are haughty,
and walk
with stretched
forth necks
and wanton eyes,
walking
and mincing
as they go,
and making
a tinkling
with their feet:
Therefore the LORD
will smite
with a scab the crown
of the head
of the daughters
of Zion,
and the LORD
will discover
their secret parts.
In that day
the Lord
will take away
the bravery
of their tinkling ornaments
about their feet,
and their cauls,
and their round tires like
the moon,
The chains,
and the bracelets,
and the mufflers,
The bonnets,
and the ornaments
of the legs,
and the headbands,
and the tablets,
and the earrings,
The rings,
and nose jewels,
The changeable suits
of apparel,
and the mantles,
and the wimples,
and the crisping pins,
The glasses,
and the fine linen,
and the hoods,
and the vails.
And it
shall come
to pass,
that instead of sweet smell
there shall be stink;
and
instead of a girdle
a rent;
and instead of well
set hair baldness;
and
instead of a stomacher
a girding
of sackcloth;
and burning instead
of beauty.
Thy men
shall fall
by the sword,
and thy mighty
in the war.
And her gates
shall lament
and mourn;
and
she being
desolate
shall sit
upon the ground.
And in that day
seven women
shall take
hold
of one man,
saying,
We will eat
our own bread,
and wear
our own apparel:
only let us
be called
by thy name,
to take away our reproach.
In that day
shall
the branch
of the LORD
be
beautiful
and glorious,
and
the fruit
of the earth
shall be excellent
and
comely for them that
are escaped
of Israel.
And it
shall come
to pass,
that he
that is left
in Zion,
and
he that
remaineth in Jerusalem,
shall be called holy,
even
every one
that is written
among the living
in Jerusalem:
When the Lord
shall have washed away
the filth
of the daughters
of Zion,
and shall have purged
the blood
of Jerusalem
from the midst
thereof by the spirit
of judgment,
and by the spirit
of burning.
And the LORD
will create
upon every dwelling place
of mount Zion,
and
upon her assemblies,
a cloud and smoke
by day,
and the shining
of a flaming fire
by night:
for upon all
the glory
shall be
a defence.
And there shall be
a tabernacle
for a shadow
in the day
time
from the heat,
and for a place
of refuge,
and for a covert from storm
and from rain.
Now will
I sing
to my wellbeloved
a song
of my beloved touching
his vineyard.
My wellbeloved
hath a vineyard
in a very fruitful hill:
And he
fenced it,
and gathered
out the stones
thereof,
and planted
it with the choicest vine,
and built
a tower
in the midst of it,
and
also made
a winepress
therein:
and
he looked that it
should bring forth
grapes,
and it
brought forth
wild grapes.
And now,
O inhabitants
of Jerusalem,
and men of Judah,
judge,
I pray you,
betwixt me and my vineyard.
What could have been done more
to my vineyard,
that I
have not done
in it?
wherefore,
when
I looked that it
should bring forth
grapes,
brought
it forth wild grapes?
And now go to;
I will tell you
what
I will do
to my vineyard:
I will take away
the hedge thereof,
and it
shall be eaten up;
and break down
the wall thereof,
and it
shall be trodden down:
And I
will lay
it waste:
it shall not be pruned,
nor digged;
but there shall come
up briers
and thorns:
I will also command
the clouds
that they
rain no
rain
upon it.
For the vineyard
of the LORD
of hosts
is the house
of Israel,
and the men
of Judah
his pleasant plant:
and
he looked for judgment,
but behold
oppression;
for righteousness,
but behold a cry.
Woe unto them that
join house to house,
that lay
field to field,
till there be
no place,
that they
may be placed alone
in the midst
of the earth!
In mine ears
said the LORD
of hosts,
Of a truth many
houses
shall be desolate,
even great
and fair,
without inhabitant.
Yea,
ten acres
of vineyard
shall yield
one bath,
and
the seed
of an homer
shall yield
an ephah.
Woe unto them that rise
up early
in the morning,
that they
may follow
strong drink;
that continue until night,
till wine
inflame them!
And the harp,
and the viol,
the tabret,
and pipe,
and wine,
are in their feasts:
but
they regard not
the work
of the LORD,
neither consider
the operation
of his hands.
Therefore my people
are gone
into captivity,
because
they have
no knowledge:
and their honourable men
are famished,
and their multitude
dried up with thirst.
Therefore hell
hath enlarged herself,
and opened
her mouth
without measure:
and their glory,
and their multitude,
and their pomp,
and he
that rejoiceth,
shall descend
into it.
And the mean man
shall be brought down,
and the mighty man
shall be humbled,
and the eyes
of the lofty
shall be humbled:
But the LORD
of hosts
shall be exalted
in judgment,
and God
that is holy
shall be sanctified
in righteousness.
Then shall
the lambs
feed
after their manner,
and
the waste places
of the fat
ones shall strangers
eat.
Woe unto them that draw iniquity
with cords
of vanity,
and sin as it
were with a cart rope:
That say,
Let him make speed,
and hasten
his work,
that we
may see it:
and let
the counsel
of the Holy One
of Israel
draw nigh
and come,
that we
may know it!
Woe unto them that call
evil good,
and good evil;
that put darkness
for light,
and light
for darkness;
that put bitter
for sweet,
and sweet
for bitter!
Woe unto them that
are wise
in their own eyes,
and prudent
in their own sight!
Woe unto them that
are mighty
to drink wine,
and men
of strength
to mingle strong drink:
Which justify
the wicked
for reward,
and take away
the righteousness
of the righteous
from him!
Therefore as the fire
devoureth the stubble,
and the flame
consumeth the chaff,
so their root
shall be
as rottenness,
and their blossom
shall go up
as dust:
because
they have cast away
the law
of the LORD
of hosts,
and despised
the word
of the Holy One
of Israel.
Therefore is
the anger
of the LORD
kindled
against his people,
and
he hath stretched
forth his hand
against them,
and hath smitten them:
and the hills
did tremble,
and their carcases
were torn
in the midst
of the streets.
For all
this his anger
is not turned away,
but his hand
is stretched out still.
And
he will lift up an ensign
to the nations
from far,
and will hiss
unto them
from the end
of the earth:
and,
behold,
they shall come
with speed swiftly:
None shall be
weary
nor
stumble among them;
none shall slumber
nor sleep;
neither shall
the girdle
of their loins
be loosed,
nor the latchet
of their shoes
be broken:
Whose arrows
are sharp,
and all
their bows bent,
their horses' hoofs
shall be counted like flint,
and their wheels like
a whirlwind:
Their roaring
shall be like
a lion,
they shall roar like young lions:
yea,
they shall roar,
and lay
hold of the prey,
and shall carry it away safe,
and none
shall deliver it.
And in that day
they shall roar
against them like
the roaring
of the sea:
and
if one look
unto the land,
behold darkness
and sorrow,
and the light
is darkened
in the heavens
thereof.
In the year
that king Uzziah
died
I saw also
the LORD
sitting
upon a throne,
high
and lifted up,
and his train
filled the temple.
Above it
stood
the seraphims:
each one
had six wings;
with twain
he covered
his face,
and with twain
he covered
his feet,
and with twain
he did fly.
And one
cried
unto another,
and said,
Holy,
holy,
holy,
is the LORD
of hosts:
the whole earth
is full of
his glory.
And
the posts
of the door
moved
at the voice
of him that cried,
and the house
was filled
with smoke.
Then said I,
Woe is me!
for I
am undone;
because
I am a man
of unclean lips,
and
I dwell
in the midst
of a people
of unclean lips:
for mine
eyes
have seen
the King,
the LORD
of hosts.
Then flew one
of the seraphims
unto me,
having a live coal
in his hand,
which he
had taken
with the tongs from
off the altar:
And he
laid it
upon my mouth,
and said,
Lo,
this hath touched
thy lips;
and thine iniquity
is taken away,
and thy sin purged.
Also I
heard
the voice
of the Lord,
saying,
Whom
shall
I send,
and
who
will go for us?
Then said I,
Here am I;
send me.
And he said,
Go,
and tell
this people,
Hear ye indeed,
but understand not;
and see
ye indeed,
but perceive not.
Make the heart
of this people fat,
and make
their ears heavy,
and shut
their eyes;
lest
they see
with their eyes,
and hear
with their ears,
and understand
with their heart,
and convert,
and be healed.
Then said I,
Lord,
how long?
And he answered,
Until the cities
be wasted
without inhabitant,
and the houses
without man,
and the land
be utterly desolate,
And the LORD
have removed men
far away,
and there be
a great forsaking
in the midst
of the land.
But yet in it
shall be a tenth,
and it
shall return,
and shall be eaten:
as a teil tree,
and as an oak,
whose substance
is in them,
when
they cast
their leaves:
so the holy seed
shall be
the substance
thereof.
And it
came to pass
in the days
of Ahaz
the son
of Jotham,
the son
of Uzziah,
king of Judah,
that Rezin
the king
of Syria,
and Pekah
the son
of Remaliah,
king of Israel,
went up toward
Jerusalem
to war
against it,
but could not prevail
against it.
And it
was told
the house
of David,
saying,
Syria is confederate
with Ephraim.
And his heart
was moved,
and the heart
of his people,
as the trees
of the wood
are moved
with the wind.
Then said
the LORD
unto Isaiah,
Go forth now to meet Ahaz,
thou,
and Shearjashub thy son,
at the end
of the conduit
of the upper pool
in the highway
of the fuller's field;
And say unto him,
Take heed,
and be quiet;
fear not,
neither be fainthearted
for the two
tails of these
smoking firebrands,
for the fierce anger
of Rezin
with Syria,
and of the son
of Remaliah.
Because Syria, Ephraim,
and the son
of Remaliah,
have taken evil counsel
against thee,
saying,
Let us
go up
against Judah,
and vex it,
and let us
make a breach
therein for us,
and set
a king
in the midst of it,
even the son
of Tabeal:
Thus saith the Lord GOD,
It shall not stand,
neither shall it come
to pass.
For the head
of Syria
is Damascus,
and
the head
of Damascus
is Rezin;
and
within threescore
and five years
shall
Ephraim be broken,
that it
be not
a people.
And
the head
of Ephraim
is Samaria,
and
the head
of Samaria
is Remaliah's son.
If ye
will not believe,
surely
ye shall not be established.
Moreover the LORD
spake again
unto Ahaz,
saying,
Ask thee a sign
of the LORD thy God;
ask it either
in the depth,
or in the height above.
But Ahaz said,
I will not ask,
neither will
I tempt
the LORD.
And he said,
Hear ye now,
O house of David;
Is it
a small thing
for you
to weary men,
but will
ye weary
my God also?
Therefore
the Lord himself
shall give
you a sign;
Behold,
a virgin
shall conceive,
and bear a son,
and shall call
his name Immanuel.
Butter
and honey
shall
he eat,
that he
may know
to refuse the evil,
and choose
the good.
For before the child
shall know
to refuse the evil,
and choose
the good,
the land
that thou
abhorrest
shall be forsaken
of both her kings.
The LORD
shall bring
upon thee,
and upon thy people,
and upon thy father's house,
days
that have not come,
from the day
that Ephraim
departed
from Judah;
even the king
of Assyria.
And it
shall come
to pass
in that day,
that the LORD
shall hiss
for the fly
that is
in the uttermost part
of the rivers
of Egypt,
and for the bee
that is
in the land
of Assyria.
And
they shall come,
and shall rest
all of them
in the desolate valleys,
and in the holes
of the rocks,
and
upon all thorns,
and
upon all bushes.
In the same day
shall
the Lord
shave
with a razor
that is hired,
namely,
by them
beyond the river,
by the king
of Assyria,
the head,
and the hair
of the feet:
and it
shall also consume
the beard.
And it
shall come
to pass
in that day,
that a man
shall nourish
a young cow,
and two sheep;
And it
shall come
to pass,
for the abundance
of milk that
they shall give
he shall eat butter:
for butter and
honey
shall
every one
eat
that is left
in the land.
And it
shall come
to pass
in that day,
that every place
shall be,
where there were
a thousand vines
at a thousand silverlings,
it shall even be
for briers and thorns.
With arrows
and with bows
shall men
come thither;
because
all the land
shall become briers
and thorns.
And
on all hills
that shall be digged
with the mattock,
there shall not come
thither the fear
of briers
and thorns:
but it
shall be
for the sending forth
of oxen,
and for the treading
of lesser cattle.
Moreover the LORD
said unto me,
Take thee a great roll,
and write in it
with a man's pen concerning
Mahershalalhashbaz.
And
I took unto me faithful witnesses
to record,
Uriah the priest,
and Zechariah
the son
of Jeberechiah.
And
I went unto the prophetess;
and
she conceived,
and bare a son.
Then said
the LORD to me,
Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.
For before the child
shall have knowledge
to cry,
My father,
and my mother,
the riches
of Damascus
and the spoil
of Samaria
shall be taken away
before the king
of Assyria.
The LORD
spake also
unto me again,
saying,
Forasmuch
as this people
refuseth
the waters
of Shiloah
that go softly,
and rejoice
in Rezin
and Remaliah's son;
Now therefore,
behold,
the Lord
bringeth up
upon them the waters
of the river,
strong
and many,
even the king
of Assyria,
and all
his glory:
and
he shall come up
over all
his channels,
and go over all
his banks:
And
he shall pass
through Judah;
he shall overflow
and go over,
he shall reach
even to the neck;
and the stretching
out of his wings
shall fill
the breadth
of thy land,
O Immanuel.
Associate yourselves,
O ye people,
and
ye shall be broken in pieces;
and give ear,
all
ye
of far countries:
gird yourselves,
and
ye shall be broken in pieces;
gird yourselves,
and
ye shall be broken in pieces.
Take
counsel together,
and it
shall come
to nought;
speak the word,
and it
shall not stand:
for God
is with us.
For the LORD
spake thus to me
with a strong hand,
and instructed me
that I
should not walk
in the way
of this people,
saying,
Say ye not,
A confederacy,
to all them
to whom this people
shall say,
A confederacy;
neither fear
ye their fear,
nor be afraid.
Sanctify the LORD
of hosts himself;
and let him
be your fear,
and let him
be your dread.
And
he shall be
for a sanctuary;
but for a stone
of stumbling and
for a rock
of offence
to both
the houses
of Israel,
for a gin
and for a snare
to the inhabitants
of Jerusalem.
And many
among them shall stumble,
and fall,
and be broken,
and be snared,
and be taken.
Bind
up the testimony,
seal the law
among my disciples.
And I
will wait
upon the LORD,
that hideth his face
from the house
of Jacob,
and
I will look for him.
Behold,
I and the children whom
the LORD
hath given me
are for signs and
for wonders in Israel
from the LORD
of hosts,
which dwelleth in mount Zion.
And
when
they shall say
unto you,
Seek unto them that
have familiar spirits,
and
unto wizards that peep,
and that mutter:
should not
a people
seek
unto their God?
for the living
to the dead?
To the law
and to the testimony:
if they
speak not according to
this word,
it is
because
there is
no light in them.
And
they shall pass
through it,
hardly bestead
and hungry:
and it
shall come
to pass,
that when
they shall be hungry,
they shall fret themselves,
and curse
their king
and their God,
and look upward.
And
they shall look
unto the earth;
and behold
trouble
and darkness,
dimness
of anguish;
and
they shall be driven
to darkness.
Nevertheless
the dimness
shall not be
such as was
in her vexation,
when at the first
he lightly afflicted
the land
of Zebulun
and the land
of Naphtali,
and afterward did
more grievously afflict
her
by the way
of the sea,
beyond Jordan,
in Galilee
of the nations.
The people that
walked
in darkness
have seen
a great light:
they that
dwell
in the land
of the shadow
of death,
upon them hath
the light shined.
Thou hast multiplied
the nation,
and not increased
the joy:
they joy
before thee
according to
the joy
in harvest,
and as men
rejoice
when
they divide
the spoil.
For thou
hast broken
the yoke
of his burden,
and the staff
of his shoulder,
the rod
of his oppressor,
as in the day
of Midian.
For every battle
of the warrior
is with confused noise,
and garments
rolled
in blood;
but this
shall be
with burning
and fuel
of fire.
For unto us a child
is born,
unto us a son
is given:
and the government
shall be
upon his shoulder:
and his name
shall be called
Wonderful, Counsellor,
The mighty God,
The everlasting Father,
The Prince
of Peace.
Of the increase
of his government
and
peace
there shall be
no end,
upon the throne
of David,
and
upon his kingdom,
to order it,
and
to establish it
with judgment
and with justice from
henceforth even for ever.
The zeal
of the LORD
of hosts
will perform this.
The Lord
sent a word
into Jacob,
and it
hath lighted
upon Israel.
And all
the people
shall know,
even Ephraim
and the inhabitant
of Samaria,
that say
in the pride
and stoutness
of heart,
The bricks
are fallen down,
but
we will build
with hewn stones:
the sycomores
are cut down,
but
we will change them
into cedars.
Therefore the LORD
shall set up
the adversaries
of Rezin
against him,
and join
his enemies
together;
The Syrians
before,
and the Philistines
behind;
and
they shall devour
Israel with open mouth.
For all
this his anger
is not turned away,
but his hand
is stretched out still.
For the people
turneth not
unto him that
smiteth them,
neither do
they seek
the LORD
of hosts.
Therefore the LORD
will cut off
from Israel
head and tail,
branch and rush,
in one day.
The ancient
and honourable,
he is the head;
and
the prophet
that teacheth lies,
he is the tail.
For the leaders
of this people
cause them
to err;
and they
that are led
of them
are destroyed.
Therefore the LORD
shall have
no joy
in their young men,
neither shall have mercy
on their fatherless
and widows:
for every one
is an hypocrite
and an evildoer,
and every mouth
speaketh folly.
For all
this his anger
is not turned away,
but his hand
is stretched out still.
For wickedness
burneth
as the fire:
it shall devour
the briers
and thorns,
and shall kindle
in the thickets
of the forest,
and
they shall mount
up like
the lifting up
of smoke.
Through the wrath
of the LORD
of hosts
is the land darkened,
and the people
shall be as the fuel
of the fire:
no man
shall spare
his brother.
And
he shall snatch
on the right hand,
and be hungry;
and
he shall eat
on the left hand,
and
they shall not be satisfied:
they shall eat every man
the flesh
of his own arm:
Manasseh,
Ephraim;
and Ephraim, Manasseh:
and
they
together shall be
against Judah.
For all
this his anger
is not turned away,
but his hand
is stretched out still.
Woe unto them that decree
unrighteous decrees,
and
that write grievousness
which they
have prescribed;
To turn
aside the needy
from judgment,
and
to take away the right
from the poor
of my people,
that widows
may be
their prey,
and
that they
may rob
the fatherless!
And
what will
ye do
in the day
of visitation,
and
in the desolation
which shall come
from far?
to whom
will
ye flee
for help?
and
where will
ye leave
your glory?
Without me
they shall bow down
under the prisoners,
and
they shall fall
under the slain.
For all
this his anger
is not turned away,
but his hand
is stretched out still.
O Assyrian,
the rod
of mine anger,
and
the staff
in their hand
is mine indignation.
I will send him
against an hypocritical nation,
and
against the people
of my wrath
will
I give him
a charge,
to take the spoil,
and to take
the prey,
and
to tread them
down like
the mire
of the streets.
Howbeit
he meaneth not so,
neither doth
his heart
think so;
but it
is in his heart to
destroy and cut off nations
not a few.
For he saith,
Are not my princes
altogether kings?
Is not Calno
as Carchemish?
is not Hamath
as Arpad?
is not Samaria
as Damascus?
As my hand
hath found the kingdoms
of the idols,
and whose graven
images
did excel them
of Jerusalem
and of Samaria;
Shall I not,
as I
have done
unto Samaria
and her idols,
so do
to Jerusalem
and her idols?
Wherefore
it shall come
to pass,
that when the Lord
hath performed
his whole work
upon mount Zion
and
on Jerusalem,
I will punish the fruit
of the stout heart
of the king
of Assyria,
and the glory
of his high looks.
For he 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:
And my hand
hath found
as a nest
the riches
of the people:
and as one
gathereth
eggs
that are left,
have
I gathered all
the earth;
and there was none
that moved
the wing,
or opened
the mouth,
or peeped.
Shall
the axe
boast itself
against him that
heweth therewith?
or shall
the saw
magnify itself
against him that
shaketh it?
as if the rod
should shake itself
against them that lift it up,
or as if the staff
should lift
up itself,
as if it
were no wood.
Therefore shall
the Lord,
the Lord
of hosts,
send among his fat ones leanness;
and
under his glory
he shall kindle
a burning like
the burning
of a fire.
And
the light
of Israel
shall be
for a fire,
and his Holy One
for a flame:
and it
shall burn
and devour
his thorns
and his briers
in one day;
And shall consume
the glory
of his forest,
and
of his fruitful field,
both soul
and body:
and they
shall be
as when a standard-bearer fainteth.
And the rest
of the trees
of his forest
shall be few,
that a child
may write them.
And it
shall come
to pass
in that day,
that the remnant
of Israel,
and such as are escaped
of the house
of Jacob,
shall
no more again stay
upon him that
smote them;
but shall stay
upon the LORD,
the Holy One
of Israel,
in truth.
The remnant
shall return,
even the remnant
of Jacob,
unto the mighty God.
For though
thy people Israel
be as the sand
of the sea,
yet a remnant
of them shall return:
the consumption
decreed
shall overflow
with righteousness.
For the Lord GOD
of hosts
shall make
a consumption,
even determined,
in the midst
of all the land.
Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD
of hosts,
O my people
that dwellest in Zion,
be not afraid
of the Assyrian:
he shall smite thee
with a rod,
and shall lift
up his staff
against thee,
after the manner
of Egypt.
For yet
a very little while,
and the indignation
shall cease,
and mine
anger
in their destruction.
And the LORD
of hosts
shall stir
up a scourge
for him according to
the slaughter
of Midian
at the rock
of Oreb:
and as his rod
was upon the sea,
so shall
he lift it up
after the manner
of Egypt.
And it
shall come
to pass
in that day,
that his burden
shall be taken away from
off thy shoulder,
and his yoke
from off thy neck,
and the yoke
shall be destroyed
because of the anointing.
He is come
to Aiath,
he is passed
to Migron;
at Michmash
he hath laid up
his carriages:
They are gone over
the passage:
they have taken up
their lodging
at Geba;
Ramah is afraid;
Gibeah
of Saul
is fled.
Lift up thy voice,
O daughter
of Gallim:
cause it
to be heard
unto Laish,
O poor Anathoth.
Madmenah is removed;
the inhabitants
of Gebim
gather themselves
to flee.
As yet shall
he remain at Nob
that day:
he shall shake his hand
against the mount
of the daughter
of Zion,
the hill
of Jerusalem.
Behold,
the Lord,
the LORD
of hosts,
shall lop
the bough
with terror:
and the high
ones of stature
shall be hewn down,
and the haughty
shall be humbled.
And
he shall cut down
the thickets
of the forest
with iron,
and Lebanon
shall fall
by a mighty one.
And there shall come
forth a rod
out of the stem
of Jesse,
and a Branch
shall grow
out of his roots:
And
the spirit
of the LORD
shall rest upon him,
the spirit
of wisdom
and understanding,
the spirit
of counsel
and might,
the spirit
of knowledge
and of the fear
of the LORD;
And shall make him
of quick understanding
in the fear
of the LORD:
and
he shall not judge
after the sight
of his eyes,
neither reprove
after the hearing
of his ears:
But with righteousness
shall
he judge
the poor,
and reprove
with equity
for the meek
of the earth:
and
he shall smite
the earth:
with the rod
of his mouth,
and
with the breath
of his lips
shall
he slay
the wicked.
And righteousness
shall be the girdle
of his loins,
and faithfulness
the girdle
of his reins.
The wolf
also shall dwell
with the lamb,
and the leopard
shall lie down
with the kid;
and the calf
and the young lion
and the fatling
together;
and a little child
shall lead them.
And the cow
and the bear
shall feed;
their young
ones shall lie down together:
and the lion
shall eat
straw like
the ox.
And the sucking child
shall play
on the hole
of the asp,
and the weaned child
shall put
his hand
on the cockatrice' den.
They shall not hurt nor
destroy
in all my holy mountain:
for the earth
shall be full of
the knowledge
of the LORD,
as the waters
cover the sea.
And in that day
there shall be
a root of Jesse,
which shall stand for
an ensign
of the people;
to it shall
the Gentiles seek:
and his rest
shall be glorious.
And it
shall come
to pass
in that day,
that the Lord
shall set
his hand
again
the second time
to recover the remnant
of his people,
which shall be left,
from Assyria,
and from Egypt,
and from Pathros,
and from Cush,
and from Elam,
and from Shinar,
and from Hamath,
and
from the islands
of the sea.
And
he shall set up
an ensign
for the nations,
and shall assemble
the outcasts
of Israel,
and gather
together the dispersed
of Judah
from the four
corners
of the earth.
The envy
also of Ephraim
shall depart,
and the adversaries
of Judah
shall be cut off:
Ephraim shall not envy Judah,
and Judah
shall not vex
Ephraim.
But
they shall fly upon the shoulders
of the Philistines
toward the west;
they shall spoil them
of the east
together:
they shall lay
their hand
upon Edom
and Moab;
and the children
of Ammon
shall obey them.
And the LORD
shall utterly destroy
the tongue
of the Egyptian sea;
and
with his mighty wind
shall
he shake
his hand over the river,
and shall smite
it in the seven streams,
and make men
go over dryshod.
And there shall be an highway
for the remnant
of his people,
which shall be left,
from Assyria;
like as it
was to Israel
in the day
that
he
came up
out of the land
of Egypt.
And
in that day thou
shalt say,
O LORD,
I will praise thee:
though thou
wast angry
with me,
thine anger
is turned away,
and
thou comfortedst me.
Behold,
God is my salvation;
I will trust,
and not be afraid:
for the LORD JEHOVAH
is my strength
and my song;
he also is become
my salvation.
Therefore with joy
shall
ye draw
water out of the
wells of salvation.
And in that day
shall
ye say,
Praise the LORD,
call
upon his name,
declare his doings
among the people,
make
mention
that his name
is exalted.
Sing
unto the LORD;
for he
hath done
excellent things:
this is known
in all the earth.
Cry out and shout,
thou inhabitant
of Zion:
for great
is the Holy One
of Israel
in the midst
of thee.
The burden
of Babylon,
which Isaiah
the son
of Amoz
did see.
Lift
ye up a banner
upon the high mountain,
exalt the voice
unto them,
shake the hand,
that they
may go into the gates
of the nobles.
I have commanded
my sanctified ones,
I have also called
my mighty
ones for mine anger,
even
them that
rejoice
in my highness.
The noise
of a multitude
in the mountains,
like as
of a great people;
a tumultuous noise
of the kingdoms
of nations
gathered together:
the LORD
of hosts mustereth
the host
of the battle.
They come
from a far country,
from the end
of heaven,
even the LORD,
and the weapons
of his indignation,
to destroy
the whole land.
Howl ye;
for the day
of the LORD
is at hand;
it shall come
as a destruction
from the Almighty.
Therefore shall
all hands
be faint,
and every man's heart
shall melt:
And
they shall be afraid:
pangs
and sorrows
shall take
hold of them;
they shall be
in pain
as a woman
that travaileth:
they shall be amazed one
at another;
their faces
shall be
as flames.
Behold,
the day
of the LORD cometh,
cruel both
with wrath
and fierce anger,
to lay the land desolate:
and
he shall destroy
the sinners
thereof out of it.
For the stars
of heaven
and the constellations
thereof shall not give
their light:
the sun
shall be darkened
in his going forth,
and the moon
shall not cause
her light
to shine.
And I
will punish
the world
for their evil,
and the wicked
for their iniquity;
and I
will cause
the arrogancy
of the proud
to cease,
and will lay low
the haughtiness
of the terrible.
I will make
a man more precious
than fine gold;
even a man
than the golden wedge
of Ophir.
Therefore I
will shake
the heavens,
and the earth
shall remove
out of her place,
in the wrath
of the LORD
of hosts,
and in the day
of his fierce anger.
And it
shall be
as the chased roe,
and as a sheep
that no man
taketh up:
they
shall
every man
turn
to his own people,
and flee every one
into his own land.
Every one
that is found
shall be
thrust through;
and every one
that is joined
unto them
shall fall
by the sword.
Their children
also shall be dashed
to pieces
before their eyes;
their houses
shall be spoiled,
and their wives ravished.
Behold,
I will stir
up the Medes
against them,
which shall not regard silver;
and as for gold,
they shall not delight in it.
Their bows
also shall dash
the young men
to pieces;
and they
shall have
no pity
on the fruit
of the womb;
their eyes
shall not spare children.
And Babylon,
the glory
of kingdoms,
the beauty
of the Chaldees' excellency,
shall be
as when God
overthrew Sodom
and Gomorrah.
It shall never be inhabited,
neither shall
it be
dwelt in
from generation to generation:
neither shall
the Arabian
pitch tent there;
neither shall
the shepherds
make
their fold there.
But wild beasts
of the desert
shall lie there;
and their houses
shall be
full of doleful creatures;
and owls
shall dwell there,
and satyrs
shall dance there.
And
the wild beasts
of the islands
shall cry
in their desolate houses,
and dragons
in their pleasant palaces:
and her time
is near
to come,
and her days
shall not be prolonged.
For the LORD
will have mercy
on Jacob,
and will yet choose
Israel,
and set them
in their own land:
and the strangers
shall be joined with them,
and
they shall cleave to the house
of Jacob.
And the people
shall take them,
and bring them
to their place:
and
the house
of Israel
shall possess them
in the land
of the LORD
for servants
and handmaids:
and
they shall take them
captives,
whose captives
they were;
and
they shall rule
over their oppressors.
And it
shall come
to pass
in the day
that the LORD
shall give
thee rest
from thy sorrow,
and from thy fear,
and
from the hard bondage
wherein thou
wast made
to serve,
That thou
shalt take up this proverb
against the king
of Babylon,
and say,
How hath
the oppressor ceased!
the golden city ceased!
The LORD
hath broken the staff
of the wicked,
and the sceptre
of the rulers.
He who
smote
the people
in wrath
with a continual stroke,
he that
ruled
the nations
in anger,
is persecuted,
and none hindereth.
The whole earth
is at rest,
and is quiet:
they break forth
into singing.
Yea,
the fir trees
rejoice at thee,
and the cedars
of Lebanon,
saying,
Since
thou art laid down,
no feller
is come up against us.
Hell from
beneath is moved
for thee to meet
thee at thy coming:
it stirreth up the dead
for thee,
even all
the chief
ones of the earth;
it hath raised up
from their thrones all
the kings
of the nations.
All
they shall speak
and say
unto thee,
Art
thou also become weak
as we?
art
thou become
like unto us?
Thy pomp
is brought down
to the grave,
and the noise
of thy viols:
the worm
is spread
under thee,
and the worms
cover thee.
How art
thou fallen
from heaven,
O Lucifer,
son
of the morning!
how art
thou cut down
to the ground,
which didst weaken
the nations!
For thou
hast said
in thine heart,
I will ascend
into heaven,
I will exalt
my throne above the stars
of God:
I will sit also
upon the mount
of the congregation,
in the sides
of the north:
I will ascend
above the heights
of the clouds;
I will be like
the most High.
Yet
thou shalt be brought down
to hell,
to the sides
of the pit.
They that
see thee
shall narrowly look
upon thee,
and consider thee,
saying,
Is this
the man
that made
the earth
to tremble,
that did shake
kingdoms;
That made
the world
as a wilderness,
and
destroyed
the cities thereof;
that opened not the house
of his prisoners?
All the kings
of the nations,
even all of them,
lie in glory,
every one
in his own house.
But thou
art cast
out of thy grave like
an abominable branch,
and
as the raiment
of those
that are slain,
thrust through
with a sword,
that go down
to the stones
of the pit;
as a carcase
trodden
under feet.
Thou shalt not be joined
with them
in burial,
because
thou hast destroyed
thy land,
and slain
thy people:
the seed
of evildoers
shall never be renowned.
Prepare
slaughter
for his children
for the iniquity
of their fathers;
that they
do not rise,
nor possess
the land,
nor fill
the face
of the world
with cities.
For I will rise up
against them,
saith the LORD
of hosts,
and cut off
from Babylon the name,
and remnant,
and son,
and nephew,
saith the LORD.
I will also make it
a possession
for the bittern,
and pools
of water:
and
I will sweep it
with the besom
of destruction,
saith the LORD
of hosts.
The LORD of hosts
hath sworn,
saying,
Surely as I
have thought,
so shall it come
to pass;
and as I
have purposed,
so shall
it stand:
That I
will break
the Assyrian
in my land,
and
upon my mountains
tread him
under foot:
then shall
his yoke
depart from off them,
and his burden
depart from
off their shoulders.
This is the purpose
that is purposed
upon the whole earth:
and this
is the hand
that is stretched out
upon all the nations.
For the LORD
of hosts
hath purposed,
and
who shall disannul it?
and his hand
is stretched out,
and who
shall turn it back?
In the year
that king
Ahaz died
was this burden.
Rejoice not thou,
whole Palestina,
because the rod
of him that
smote
thee is broken:
for out of the serpent's root
shall come
forth a cockatrice,
and his fruit
shall be
a fiery flying serpent.
And the firstborn
of the poor
shall feed,
and the needy
shall lie down
in safety:
and I
will kill
thy root
with famine,
and he
shall slay thy remnant.
Howl,
O gate;
cry,
O city;
thou,
whole Palestina,
art dissolved:
for there shall come
from the north a smoke,
and none
shall be alone
in his appointed times.
What shall one
then answer
the messengers
of the nation?
That the LORD
hath founded Zion,
and the poor
of his people
shall trust in it.
The burden
of Moab.
Because in the night Ar
of Moab
is laid waste,
and brought
to silence;
because in the night Kir
of Moab
is laid waste,
and brought
to silence;
He is gone
up to Bajith,
and to Dibon,
the high places,
to weep:
Moab
shall howl
over Nebo,
and over Medeba:
on all their heads
shall be baldness,
and every beard cut off.
In their streets
they shall gird themselves
with sackcloth:
on the tops
of their houses,
and
in their streets,
every one
shall howl,
weeping abundantly.
And Heshbon
shall cry,
and Elealeh:
their voice
shall be heard even
unto Jahaz:
therefore the armed soldiers
of Moab
shall cry out;
his life
shall be grievous
unto him.
My heart
shall cry out for Moab;
his fugitives
shall flee
unto Zoar,
an heifer
of three years old:
for by the mounting up
of Luhith
with weeping
shall
they go it up;
for in the way
of Horonaim
they shall raise up a cry
of destruction.
For the waters
of Nimrim
shall be desolate:
for the hay
is withered away,
the grass faileth,
there is
no green thing.
Therefore the abundance
they have gotten,
and
that which
they have laid up,
shall
they carry away
to the brook
of the willows.
For the cry
is gone round
about the borders
of Moab;
the howling thereof
unto Eglaim,
and the howling thereof
unto Beerelim.
For the waters
of Dimon
shall be
full of blood:
for I
will bring more
upon Dimon,
lions upon him that
escapeth of Moab,
and
upon the remnant
of the land.
Send
ye the lamb
to the ruler
of the land
from Sela
to the wilderness,
unto the mount
of the daughter
of Zion.
For it
shall be,
that,
as a wandering bird
cast out of the nest,
so the daughters
of Moab
shall be at the fords
of Arnon.
Take counsel,
execute judgment;
make
thy shadow
as the night
in the midst
of the noonday;
hide the outcasts;
bewray not him
that wandereth.
Let mine outcasts
dwell with thee,
Moab;
be thou a covert
to them
from the face
of the spoiler:
for the extortioner
is at an end,
the spoiler ceaseth,
the oppressors
are consumed
out of the land.
And in mercy
shall
the throne
be established:
and he
shall sit
upon it
in truth
in the tabernacle
of David,
judging,
and seeking judgment,
and hasting righteousness.
We have heard
of the pride
of Moab;
he is very proud:
even of his haughtiness,
and his pride,
and his wrath:
but his lies
shall not be so.
Therefore shall
Moab
howl
for Moab,
every one
shall howl:
for the foundations
of Kirhareseth
shall
ye mourn;
surely
they are stricken.
For the fields
of Heshbon languish,
and the vine
of Sibmah:
the lords
of the heathen
have broken down
the principal plants
thereof,
they are come even
unto Jazer,
they wandered
through the wilderness:
her branches
are stretched out,
they are gone over
the sea.
Therefore I
will bewail
with the weeping
of Jazer
the vine
of Sibmah:
I will water thee
with my tears,
O Heshbon,
and Elealeh:
for the shouting
for thy
summer fruits
and
for thy
harvest
is fallen.
And gladness
is taken away,
and joy
out of the plentiful field;
and
in the vineyards
there shall be
no singing,
neither shall there be shouting:
the treaders
shall tread
out no wine
in their presses;
I have made
their vintage
shouting
to cease.
Wherefore
my bowels
shall sound like
an harp for Moab,
and mine
inward parts
for Kirharesh.
And it
shall come
to pass,
when it
is seen
that Moab
is weary
on the high place,
that he
shall come
to his sanctuary
to pray;
but
he shall not prevail.
This is
the word
that the LORD
hath spoken concerning Moab
since that time.
But now
the LORD
hath spoken,
saying,
Within three years,
as the years
of an hireling,
and
the glory
of Moab
shall be contemned,
with all
that great multitude;
and the remnant
shall be
very small
and feeble.
The burden
of Damascus.
Behold,
Damascus
is taken away
from being
a city,
and it
shall be
a ruinous heap.
The cities
of Aroer
are forsaken:
they shall be
for flocks,
which shall lie down,
and none
shall make them afraid.
The fortress
also shall cease
from Ephraim,
and the kingdom
from Damascus,
and the remnant
of Syria:
they shall be
as the glory
of the children
of Israel,
saith the LORD
of hosts.
And
in that day
it shall come
to pass,
that the glory
of Jacob
shall be made thin,
and the fatness
of his flesh
shall wax lean.
And it
shall be as when
the harvestman
gathereth the corn,
and reapeth
the ears
with his arm;
and it
shall be as he
that gathereth ears
in the valley
of Rephaim.
Yet gleaning grapes
shall be left in it,
as the shaking
of an olive tree,
two
or three berries
in the top
of the uppermost bough,
four or five
in the outmost fruitful branches
thereof,
saith the LORD God
of Israel.
At that day
shall a man
look
to his Maker,
and his eyes
shall have
respect
to the Holy One
of Israel.
And
he shall not look
to the altars,
the work
of his hands,
neither shall respect
that which his fingers
have made,
either the groves,
or the images.
In that day
shall his strong cities
be as a forsaken bough,
and an uppermost branch,
which they
left
because of the children
of Israel:
and there shall be
desolation.
Because
thou hast forgotten
the God
of thy salvation,
and hast not been mindful
of the rock
of thy strength,
therefore shalt thou
plant pleasant plants,
and shalt set
it with strange slips:
In the day
shalt
thou make thy
plant to grow,
and
in the morning
shalt
thou make thy
seed to flourish:
but the harvest
shall be a heap
in the day
of grief
and of desperate sorrow.
Woe to the multitude
of many people,
which make
a noise like
the noise
of the seas;
and to the rushing
of nations,
that make a
rushing like
the rushing
of mighty waters!
The nations
shall rush like
the rushing
of many waters:
but God
shall rebuke them,
and
they shall flee
far off,
and shall be
chased
as the chaff
of the mountains
before the wind,
and like
a rolling thing
before the whirlwind.
And behold
at eveningtide trouble;
and
before the morning
he is not.
This is
the portion
of them that
spoil us,
and the lot
of them that
rob us.
Woe to the land
shadowing
with wings,
which is beyond the rivers
of Ethiopia:
That sendeth ambassadors
by the sea,
even in vessels
of bulrushes
upon the waters,
saying,
Go,
ye swift messengers,
to a nation scattered
and peeled,
to a people terrible
from their beginning hitherto;
a nation
meted out
and trodden down,
whose land the rivers
have spoiled!
All
ye inhabitants
of the world,
and dwellers
on the earth,
see ye,
when
he lifteth up an ensign
on the mountains;
and
when
he bloweth a trumpet,
hear ye.
For so
the LORD
said unto me,
I will take
my rest,
and I
will consider
in my dwelling
place like
a clear heat
upon herbs,
and like
a cloud
of dew
in the heat
of harvest.
For afore the harvest,
when the bud
is perfect,
and the sour
grape is ripening
in the flower,
he shall
both cut off the sprigs
with pruning hooks,
and take away
and cut down
the branches.
They shall be left together
unto the fowls
of the mountains,
and to the beasts
of the earth:
and the fowls
shall summer upon them,
and all
the beasts
of the earth
shall winter upon them.
In that time
shall
the present
be brought
unto the LORD
of hosts
of a people scattered
and peeled,
and
from a people terrible
from their beginning hitherto;
a nation
meted out
and trodden
under foot,
whose land the rivers
have spoiled,
to the place
of the name
of the LORD
of hosts,
the mount Zion.
The burden
of Egypt.
Behold,
the LORD
rideth upon a swift cloud,
and shall come
into Egypt:
and the idols
of Egypt
shall be moved
at his presence,
and
the heart
of Egypt
shall melt
in the midst of it.
And I
will set
the Egyptians
against the Egyptians:
and
they shall fight every one
against his brother,
and every one
against his neighbour;
city against city,
and kingdom
against kingdom.
And
the spirit
of Egypt
shall fail
in the midst
thereof;
and I
will destroy
the counsel
thereof:
and
they shall seek
to the idols,
and
to the charmers,
and to them
that have
familiar spirits,
and
to the wizards.
And the Egyptians
will
I give over
into the hand
of a cruel lord;
and a fierce king
shall rule over them,
saith the Lord,
the LORD
of hosts.
And the waters
shall fail
from the sea,
and the river
shall be wasted
and dried up.
And
they shall turn
the rivers
far away;
and the brooks
of defence
shall be emptied
and dried up:
the reeds
and flags
shall wither.
The paper reeds
by the brooks,
by the mouth
of the brooks,
and every thing
sown
by the brooks,
shall wither,
be driven away,
and be
no more.
The fishers
also shall mourn,
and all
they that
cast
angle
into the brooks
shall lament,
and
they that
spread
nets
upon the waters
shall languish.
Moreover they
that work
in fine flax,
and
they that weave networks,
shall be confounded.
And they
shall be broken in
the purposes
thereof,
all that make
sluices and ponds
for fish.
Surely
the princes
of Zoan
are fools,
the counsel
of the wise counsellors
of Pharaoh
is become brutish:
how say
ye unto Pharaoh,
I am the son
of the wise,
the son
of ancient kings?
Where are they?
where are thy wise men?
and let them
tell thee now,
and let them
know
what the LORD
of hosts
hath purposed
upon Egypt.
The princes
of Zoan
are become fools,
the princes
of Noph
are deceived;
they have also seduced Egypt,
even
they
that are
the stay
of the tribes
thereof.
The LORD
hath mingled
a perverse spirit
in the midst
thereof:
and
they have caused Egypt
to err in every work
thereof,
as a drunken man
staggereth in his vomit.
Neither shall there be
any work
for Egypt,
which the head
or tail,
branch or rush,
may do.
In that day
shall
Egypt be like
unto women:
and it
shall be afraid
and fear
because of the shaking
of the hand
of the LORD
of hosts,
which he
shaketh over it.
And
the land
of Judah
shall be a terror
unto Egypt,
every one that
maketh
mention
thereof shall be afraid
in himself,
because
of the counsel
of the LORD
of hosts,
which he
hath determined
against it.
In that day
shall
five cities
in the land
of Egypt
speak the language
of Canaan,
and swear
to the LORD
of hosts;
one shall be called,
The city
of destruction.
In that day
shall there be an altar
to the LORD
in the midst
of the land
of Egypt,
and a pillar
at the border
thereof to the LORD.
And it
shall be
for a sign
and for a witness
unto the LORD
of hosts
in the land
of Egypt:
for they
shall cry
unto the LORD
because
of the oppressors,
and
he shall send them
a saviour,
and a great one,
and
he shall deliver them.
And the LORD
shall be known
to Egypt,
and the Egyptians
shall know
the LORD
in that day,
and shall do sacrifice
and oblation;
yea,
they shall vow a vow
unto the LORD,
and perform it.
And the LORD
shall smite Egypt:
he shall smite
and heal it:
and
they shall return
even to the LORD,
and
he shall be intreated of them,
and shall heal them.
In that day
shall there be a highway
out of Egypt
to Assyria,
and the Assyrian
shall come
into Egypt,
and the Egyptian
into Assyria,
and the Egyptians
shall serve
with the Assyrians.
In that day
shall Israel
be the third
with Egypt
and with Assyria,
even
a blessing
in the midst
of the land:
Whom the LORD
of hosts
shall bless,
saying,
Blessed be Egypt
my people,
and Assyria
the work
of my hands,
and Israel mine inheritance.
In the year
that Tartan
came
unto Ashdod,
(when Sargon
the king
of Assyria
sent him,)
and fought
against Ashdod,
and took it;
At the same time
spake the LORD
by Isaiah
the son of Amoz,
saying,
Go and loose
the sackcloth from
off thy loins,
and put off
thy shoe from thy foot.
And he
did so,
walking naked
and barefoot.
And the LORD said,
Like as my servant Isaiah
hath walked
naked
and barefoot three years
for a sign
and wonder
upon Egypt
and upon Ethiopia;
So shall
the king
of Assyria
lead away
the Egyptians prisoners,
and the Ethiopians captives,
young
and old,
naked
and barefoot,
even with their buttocks uncovered,
to the shame
of Egypt.
And they
shall be
afraid
and ashamed
of Ethiopia
their expectation,
and
of Egypt their glory.
And the inhabitant
of this isle
shall say
in that day,
Behold,
such is our expectation,
whither
we flee
for help
to be delivered
from the king
of Assyria:
and how shall
we escape?
The burden
of the desert
of the sea.
As whirlwinds
in the south pass
through;
so it
cometh from the desert,
from a terrible land.
A grievous vision
is declared unto me;
the treacherous dealer
dealeth treacherously,
and the spoiler spoileth.
Go up,
O Elam:
besiege,
O Media;
all the sighing
thereof have
I made
to cease.
Therefore are
my loins
filled with pain:
pangs have taken
hold upon me,
as the pangs
of a woman
that travaileth:
I was bowed down
at the hearing of it;
I was dismayed
at the seeing of it.
My heart panted,
fearfulness affrighted me:
the night
of my pleasure
hath
he turned into
fear unto me.
Prepare the table,
watch
in the watchtower,
eat,
drink:
arise,
ye princes,
and anoint
the shield.
For thus
hath
the LORD
said unto me,
Go,
set a watchman,
let him
declare
what he seeth.
And
he saw
a chariot
with a couple
of horsemen,
a chariot
of asses,
and a chariot
of camels;
and
he hearkened diligently
with much heed:
And he cried,
A lion:
My lord,
I stand continually
upon the watchtower
in the daytime,
and I
am set
in my ward whole nights:
And,
behold,
here
cometh
a chariot
of men,
with a couple
of horsemen.
And he
answered
and said,
Babylon is fallen,
is fallen;
and all
the graven
images
of her gods
he hath broken
unto the ground.
O my threshing,
and the corn
of my floor:
that which
I have heard
of the LORD
of hosts,
the God
of Israel,
have
I declared
unto you.
The burden
of Dumah.
He calleth to me
out of Seir, Watchman,
what of the night?
Watchman,
what of the night?
The watchman said,
The morning cometh,
and
also the night:
if ye
will enquire,
enquire ye:
return,
come.
The burden
upon Arabia.
In the forest
in Arabia
shall
ye lodge,
O ye
travelling companies
of Dedanim.
The inhabitants
of the land
of Tema
brought
water
to him
that was thirsty,
they prevented
with their bread
him that fled.
For they
fled
from the swords,
from the drawn sword,
and
from the bent bow,
and
from the grievousness
of war.
For thus
hath
the LORD
said unto me,
Within a year,
according to
the years
of an hireling,
and all
the glory
of Kedar
shall fail:
And the residue
of the number
of archers,
the mighty men
of the children
of Kedar,
shall be diminished:
for the LORD God
of Israel
hath spoken it.
The burden
of the valley
of vision.
What aileth thee now,
that thou art
wholly gone up to
the housetops?
Thou that art
full of stirs,
a tumultuous city,
joyous city:
thy slain men
are not slain
with the sword,
nor dead
in battle.
All thy rulers
are fled together,
they are bound
by the archers:
all that
are found
in thee
are bound together,
which have fled
from far.
Therefore said I,
Look
away from me;
I will weep bitterly,
labour not
to comfort me,
because of the spoiling
of the daughter
of my people.
For it
is a day
of trouble,
and of treading down,
and of perplexity
by the Lord GOD
of hosts
in the valley
of vision,
breaking down
the walls,
and
of crying
to the mountains.
And Elam
bare
the quiver
with chariots
of men
and horsemen,
and Kir
uncovered
the shield.
And it
shall come
to pass,
that thy choicest valleys
shall be
full of chariots,
and the horsemen
shall set themselves
in array
at the gate.
And he
discovered
the covering
of Judah,
and
thou didst look
in that day
to the armour
of the house
of the forest.
Ye have seen also
the breaches
of the city
of David,
that they
are many:
and ye
gathered
together the waters
of the lower pool.
And
ye have numbered
the houses
of Jerusalem,
and the houses
have
ye broken down
to fortify the wall.
Ye made also
a ditch
between the two
walls for the water
of the old pool:
but
ye have not looked
unto the maker
thereof,
neither had
respect unto him that
fashioned it long ago.
And in that day
did
the Lord GOD
of hosts
call
to weeping,
and to mourning,
and to baldness,
and to girding
with sackcloth:
And behold
joy and gladness,
slaying oxen,
and killing sheep,
eating flesh,
and drinking wine:
let us
eat and drink;
for to morrow
we shall die.
And it
was revealed
in mine ears
by the LORD
of hosts,
Surely this iniquity
shall not be purged
from you
till ye die,
saith the Lord GOD
of hosts.
Thus
saith
the Lord GOD
of hosts,
Go,
get thee
unto this treasurer,
even unto Shebna,
which is over the house,
and say,
What hast
thou here?
and whom hast
thou here,
that thou
hast hewed thee
out a sepulchre here,
as he
that heweth him
out a sepulchre
on high,
and that graveth
an habitation
for himself
in a rock?
Behold,
the LORD
will carry thee
away with a mighty captivity,
and will surely cover thee.
He will surely violently turn
and toss thee like
a ball
into a large country:
there shalt
thou die,
and
there the chariots
of thy
glory
shall be the shame
of thy lord's house.
And I
will drive
thee from thy station,
and from thy
state
shall
he pull thee down.
And it
shall come
to pass
in that day,
that I
will call
my servant Eliakim
the son
of Hilkiah:
And
I will clothe him
with thy robe,
and strengthen him
with thy girdle,
and I
will commit
thy government
into his hand:
and
he shall be a father
to the inhabitants
of Jerusalem,
and to the house
of Judah.
And the key
of the house
of David
will
I lay
upon his shoulder;
so he
shall open,
and none
shall shut;
and
he shall shut,
and none
shall open.
And
I will fasten him
as a nail
in a sure place;
and
he shall be
for a glorious throne
to his father's house.
And
they shall hang
upon him all
the glory
of his father's house,
the offspring
and the issue,
all vessels
of small quantity,
from the vessels
of cups,
even to all
the vessels
of flagons.
In that day,
saith the LORD
of hosts,
shall the nail
that is fastened
in the sure place
be removed,
and be cut down,
and fall;
and the burden
that
was upon it
shall be cut off:
for the LORD
hath spoken it.
The burden
of Tyre.
Howl,
ye ships
of Tarshish;
for it
is laid waste,
so that
there is
no house,
no entering in:
from the land
of Chittim
it is revealed
to them.
Be still,
ye inhabitants
of the isle;
thou
whom the merchants
of Zidon,
that pass
over the sea,
have replenished.
And
by great waters
the seed
of Sihor,
the harvest
of the river,
is her revenue;
and
she is a mart
of nations.
Be thou ashamed,
O Zidon:
for the sea
hath spoken,
even the strength
of the sea,
saying,
I travail not,
nor bring forth children,
neither do
I nourish
up young men,
nor bring
up virgins.
As at the report
concerning Egypt,
so shall
they be sorely pained
at the report
of Tyre.
Pass
ye over
to Tarshish;
howl,
ye inhabitants
of the isle.
Is this
your joyous city,
whose antiquity
is of ancient days?
her own feet
shall carry
her afar off
to sojourn.
Who hath taken
this counsel
against Tyre,
the crowning city,
whose merchants
are princes,
whose traffickers
are the honourable
of the earth?
The LORD of hosts
hath purposed it,
to stain the pride
of all glory,
and
to bring
into contempt
all the honourable
of the earth.
Pass through thy
land as a river,
O daughter
of Tarshish:
there is
no more strength.
He stretched out
his hand over the sea,
he shook the kingdoms:
the LORD
hath given a commandment
against the merchant city,
to destroy
the strong holds
thereof.
And he said,
Thou
shalt
no more rejoice,
O thou
oppressed virgin,
daughter
of Zidon:
arise,
pass over
to Chittim;
there also shalt
thou have
no rest.
Behold the land
of the Chaldeans;
this people was not,
till the Assyrian
founded
it for them that
dwell
in the wilderness:
they set up
the towers thereof,
they raised
up the palaces
thereof;
and he
brought it to ruin.
Howl,
ye ships
of Tarshish:
for your strength
is laid waste.
And it
shall come
to pass
in that day,
that Tyre
shall be forgotten
seventy years,
according to
the days
of one king:
after the end
of seventy years
shall
Tyre sing
as an harlot.
Take an harp,
go about the city,
thou harlot
that hast been forgotten;
make sweet melody,
sing many songs,
that thou
mayest be remembered.
And it
shall come
to pass
after the end
of seventy years,
that the LORD
will visit Tyre,
and
she shall turn
to her hire,
and shall commit fornication
with all the kingdoms
of the world
upon the face
of the earth.
And her merchandise
and her hire
shall be holiness
to the LORD:
it shall not be treasured
nor laid up;
for her merchandise
shall be
for them that
dwell
before the LORD,
to eat sufficiently,
and
for durable clothing.
Behold,
the LORD
maketh the earth empty,
and maketh
it waste,
and turneth it upside down,
and
scattereth abroad
the inhabitants
thereof.
And it
shall be,
as with the people,
so with the priest;
as with the servant,
so with his master;
as with the maid,
so with her mistress;
as with the buyer,
so with the seller;
as with the lender,
so with the borrower;
as with the taker
of usury,
so with the giver
of usury
to him.
The land
shall be utterly emptied,
and utterly spoiled:
for the LORD
hath spoken
this word.
The earth
mourneth and fadeth away,
the world
languisheth and fadeth away,
the haughty people
of the earth
do languish.
The earth
also is defiled
under the inhabitants
thereof;
because
they have transgressed
the laws,
changed the ordinance,
broken the everlasting covenant.
Therefore hath
the curse
devoured
the earth,
and
they that
dwell
therein are desolate:
therefore the inhabitants
of the earth
are burned,
and few men left.
The new wine mourneth,
the vine languisheth,
all the merryhearted
do sigh.
The mirth
of tabrets ceaseth,
the noise
of them that
rejoice endeth,
the joy
of the harp ceaseth.
They shall not drink wine
with a song;
strong drink
shall be bitter
to them that drink it.
The city
of confusion
is broken down:
every house
is shut up,
that no man
may come in.
There is
a crying
for wine
in the streets;
all joy
is darkened,
the mirth
of the land
is gone.
In the city
is left desolation,
and the gate
is smitten
with destruction.
When thus it
shall be in the midst
of the land
among the people,
there shall be
as the shaking
of an olive tree,
and
as the gleaning grapes
when the vintage
is done.
They shall lift
up their voice,
they shall sing for the majesty
of the LORD,
they shall cry aloud
from the sea.
Wherefore glorify
ye the LORD
in the fires,
even the name
of the LORD God
of Israel
in the isles
of the sea.
From 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!
the treacherous dealers
have dealt treacherously;
yea,
the treacherous dealers
have dealt
very treacherously.
Fear,
and the pit,
and the snare,
are upon thee,
O inhabitant
of the earth.
And 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 the windows from
on high
are open,
and
the foundations
of the earth
do shake.
The earth
is utterly broken down,
the earth
is clean dissolved,
the earth
is moved exceedingly.
The earth
shall reel
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.
And it
shall come
to pass
in that day,
that the LORD
shall punish
the host
of the high ones
that are on high,
and the kings
of the earth
upon the earth.
And
they
shall be gathered together,
as prisoners
are gathered
in the pit,
and shall be shut up
in the prison,
and
after many days
shall
they be visited.
Then the moon
shall be confounded,
and the sun ashamed,
when the LORD
of hosts
shall reign
in mount Zion,
and in Jerusalem,
and
before his ancients gloriously.
O Lord,
thou art
my God;
I will exalt thee,
I will praise
thy name;
for thou
hast done
wonderful things;
thy counsels of old
are faithfulness
and truth.
For thou
hast made
of a city an heap;
of a
defenced city
a ruin:
a palace
of strangers to be
no city;
it shall never be built.
Therefore shall
the strong people
glorify thee,
the city
of the terrible nations
shall fear thee.
For thou
hast been
a strength
to the poor,
a strength
to the needy
in his distress,
a refuge
from the storm,
a shadow
from the heat,
when
the blast
of the terrible
ones is as a storm
against the wall.
Thou 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.
And in this mountain
shall
the LORD of hosts
make
unto all
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.
And
he will destroy
in this
mountain the face
of the covering
cast
over all people,
and the vail
that is spread
over all nations.
He will swallow up death
in victory;
and the Lord GOD
will wipe 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.
And it
shall be said
in that day,
Lo,
this is our God;
we have waited for him,
and
he will save us:
this is the LORD;
we have waited for him,
we will be glad
and rejoice
in his salvation.
For in this mountain
shall the hand
of the LORD rest,
and Moab
shall be trodden down under him,
even as straw
is trodden down
for the dunghill.
And
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 pride
together with the spoils
of their hands.
And the fortress
of the high fort
of thy
walls
shall
he bring down,
lay low,
and bring
to the ground,
even to the dust.
In that day
shall
this song
be sung
in the land
of Judah;
We have
a strong city;
salvation
will
God appoint
for walls and bulwarks.
Open ye
the gates,
that the righteous nation
which keepeth
the truth
may enter in.
Thou wilt keep him
in perfect peace,
whose mind
is stayed
on thee:
because
he trusteth in thee.
Trust ye
in the LORD
for ever:
for in the LORD JEHOVAH
is everlasting strength:
For he
bringeth down them that
dwell
on high;
the lofty city,
he layeth it low;
he layeth it low,
even to the ground;
he bringeth it even
to the dust.
The foot
shall tread it down,
even the feet
of the poor,
and the steps
of the needy.
The way
of the just is uprightness:
thou,
most upright,
dost weigh
the path
of the just.
Yea,
in the way
of thy judgments,
O LORD,
have
we waited
for thee;
the desire
of our soul
is to thy name,
and
to the remembrance
of thee.
With 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.
Let favour
be shewed
to the wicked,
yet will
he not learn
righteousness:
in the land
of uprightness
will
he deal unjustly,
and will not behold
the majesty
of the LORD.
LORD,
when thy hand
is lifted up,
they 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.
LORD,
thou wilt ordain peace
for us:
for thou
also hast wrought all
our works in us.
O LORD our God,
other lords beside
thee have had dominion
over us:
but by thee
only will
we make mention
of thy name.
They are dead,
they shall not live;
they are deceased,
they shall not rise:
therefore hast thou
visited and destroyed them,
and made all
their memory
to perish.
Thou hast increased
the nation,
O LORD,
thou hast increased
the nation:
thou art glorified:
thou hadst
removed it far
unto all
the ends
of the earth.
LORD,
in trouble
have
they visited thee,
they poured
out a prayer
when thy
chastening
was upon them.
Like as a woman with child,
that draweth near the time
of her delivery,
is in pain,
and crieth out
in her pangs;
so have
we been
in thy sight,
O LORD.
We 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
the inhabitants
of the world fallen.
Thy dead men
shall live,
together with my dead body
shall they arise.
Awake and sing,
ye that
dwell
in dust:
for thy dew
is as the dew
of herbs,
and the earth
shall cast
out the dead.
Come,
my people,
enter
thou into thy chambers,
and shut
thy doors
about thee:
hide thyself as it
were for a little moment,
until the indignation
be overpast.
For,
behold,
the LORD
cometh
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.
In that day
the LORD
with his sore
and great
and strong sword
shall punish leviathan
the piercing serpent,
even leviathan
that crooked serpent;
and he
shall slay
the dragon
that is
in the sea.
In that day
sing ye unto her,
A vineyard
of red wine.
I the LORD
do keep it;
I will water it every moment:
lest any hurt it,
I will keep it
night and day.
Fury
is not in me:
who would set
the briers
and thorns
against me in battle?
I would go through them,
I would burn them together.
Or let him
take
hold
of my strength,
that he
may make peace
with me;
and
he shall make peace
with me.
He shall cause them
that come
of Jacob
to take root:
Israel
shall blossom
and bud,
and fill
the face
of the world
with fruit.
Hath
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?
In measure,
when it
shooteth forth,
thou wilt debate
with it:
he stayeth
his rough wind
in the day
of the east wind.
By 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.
Yet the defenced city
shall be desolate,
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.
When the boughs
thereof are withered,
they shall be broken off:
the women come,
and set them
on fire:
for it
is
a people
of no understanding:
therefore he that
made them
will not have mercy
on them,
and he
that formed them
will shew them
no favour.
And 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 gathered
one by one,
O ye children
of Israel.
And it
shall come
to pass
in that day,
that 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 Egypt,
and shall worship
the LORD
in the holy mount
at Jerusalem.
Woe 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!
Behold,
the Lord
hath a
mighty
and strong one,
which 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.
The crown
of pride,
the drunkards
of Ephraim,
shall be trodden
under feet:
And 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.
In 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,
And for a spirit
of judgment
to him
that sitteth in judgment,
and
for strength
to them that turn
the battle
to the gate.
But
they also have erred
through wine,
and
through strong drink
are out of the way;
the 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.
For all tables
are full of
vomit
and filthiness,
so that
there is
no place clean.
Whom shall
he teach knowledge?
and whom shall
he make
to understand doctrine?
them that
are weaned
from the milk,
and drawn
from the breasts.
For precept
must be
upon precept,
precept
upon precept;
line upon line,
line upon line;
here a little,
and
there a little:
For with stammering lips
and
another tongue
will
he speak
to this people.
To whom
he said,
This is the rest
wherewith
ye may cause
the weary
to rest;
and this
is the refreshing:
yet
they would not hear.
But
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.
Wherefore hear the word
of the LORD,
ye scornful men,
that rule this people
which is in Jerusalem.
Because
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:
for we
have made
lies our refuge,
and
under falsehood
have
we hid ourselves:
Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD, Behold,
I lay in Zion
for a foundation a stone,
a tried stone,
a precious corner stone,
a sure foundation:
he that believeth
shall not make haste.
Judgment
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.
And 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.
From 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.
For the bed
is shorter than
that a man
can stretch himself on it:
and the covering narrower
than
that he
can wrap himself in it.
For the LORD
shall rise up as
in mount Perazim,
he shall be wroth
as in the valley
of Gibeon,
that he
may do his work,
his strange work;
and bring
to pass his act,
his strange act.
Now therefore be
ye not mockers,
lest your bands
be made strong:
for I
have heard
from the Lord GOD
of hosts
a consumption,
even determined
upon the whole earth.
Give ye ear,
and hear
my voice;
hearken,
and hear
my speech.
Doth
the plowman
plow all day
to sow?
doth
he open
and break
the clods
of his ground?
When 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?
For his God
doth instruct him
to discretion,
and doth teach him.
For 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.
Bread 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.
This also cometh forth
from the LORD
of hosts,
which is wonderful
in counsel,
and excellent
in working.
Woe to Ariel,
to Ariel,
the city
where David dwelt!
add
ye year to year;
let them
kill sacrifices.
Yet
I will distress Ariel,
and there shall be heaviness
and sorrow:
and it
shall be
unto me
as Ariel.
And I
will camp
against thee round about,
and will lay siege
against thee
with a mount,
and
I will raise forts
against thee.
And
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,
out of the ground,
and thy speech
shall whisper
out of the dust.
Moreover the multitude
of thy strangers
shall be like small dust,
and
the multitude
of the terrible
ones shall be
as chaff that passeth away:
yea,
it shall be
at an instant
suddenly.
Thou shalt be visited
of the LORD
of hosts
with thunder,
and with earthquake,
and great noise,
with storm
and tempest,
and the flame
of devouring fire.
And 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
as a dream
of a night vision.
It 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.
Stay yourselves,
and wonder;
cry ye out,
and cry:
they are drunken,
but not with wine;
they stagger,
but not with strong drink.
For the LORD
hath poured out
upon you the spirit
of deep sleep,
and hath closed
your eyes:
the prophets
and your rulers,
the seers
hath he covered.
And the vision
of all is become
unto you
as the words
of a book
that is sealed,
which men
deliver to one
that is learned,
saying,
Read this,
I pray thee:
and he saith,
I cannot;
for it
is sealed:
And the book
is delivered
to him
that is not learned,
saying,
Read this,
I pray thee:
and he saith,
I am not learned.
Wherefore
the Lord said,
Forasmuch
as this people
draw near me
with their mouth,
and
with 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:
Therefore,
behold,
I will proceed
to do a marvellous work
among this people,
even a marvellous work
and a wonder:
for the wisdom
of their wise men
shall perish,
and the understanding
of their prudent men
shall be hid.
Woe unto them that seek deep
to hide their counsel
from the LORD,
and their works
are in the dark,
and they say,
Who seeth us?
and
who knoweth us?
Surely your turning
of things upside
down shall be esteemed
as the potter's clay:
for shall
the work
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?
Is it
not yet
a very little while,
and Lebanon
shall be turned into
a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field
shall be esteemed
as a forest?
And in 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.
The meek
also shall increase
their joy
in the LORD,
and the poor
among men
shall rejoice in the Holy One
of Israel.
For the terrible one
is brought
to nought,
and the scorner
is consumed,
and all
that watch
for iniquity
are cut off:
That make
a man
an offender
for a word,
and lay
a snare
for him that
reproveth in the gate,
and turn
aside the just for a thing
of nought.
Therefore thus
saith the LORD,
who redeemed
Abraham,
concerning the house
of Jacob,
Jacob shall not now be ashamed,
neither shall
his face now wax pale.
But
when
he seeth his children,
the 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.
They also
that erred
in spirit
shall come
to understanding,
and
they
that murmured
shall learn
doctrine.
Woe to the rebellious children,
saith the LORD,
that take counsel,
but not of me;
and that cover
with a covering,
but not of my spirit,
that they
may add sin to sin:
That walk
to go down
into Egypt,
and have not asked
at my mouth;
to strengthen themselves
in the strength
of Pharaoh,
and
to trust
in the shadow
of Egypt!
Therefore shall
the strength
of Pharaoh
be your shame,
and the trust
in the shadow
of Egypt your confusion.
For his princes
were at Zoan,
and his ambassadors
came
to Hanes.
They were all ashamed
of a people
that could not profit them,
nor be
an help
nor profit,
but a shame,
and
also a reproach.
The burden
of the beasts
of the south:
into the land
of trouble
and anguish,
from whence come the young
and old lion,
the 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.
For the Egyptians
shall help
in vain,
and
to no purpose:
therefore have
I cried concerning this,
Their strength
is to sit still.
Now go,
write 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:
That this
is a rebellious people,
lying children,
children
that will not hear
the law
of the LORD:
Which say
to the seers,
See not;
and
to the prophets,
Prophesy not unto us right things,
speak unto us smooth things,
prophesy deceits:
Get you
out of the way,
turn aside
out of the path,
cause the Holy One
of Israel
to cease from
before us.
Wherefore thus
saith the Holy One
of Israel,
Because
ye despise
this word,
and trust
in oppression
and perverseness,
and stay thereon:
Therefore this iniquity
shall be
to you
as a breach ready
to fall,
swelling out
in a high wall,
whose breaking
cometh suddenly
at an instant.
And he
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.
For thus
saith the Lord GOD,
the Holy One
of Israel;
In returning
and rest
shall
ye be saved;
in quietness
and in confidence
shall be
your strength:
and ye would not.
But 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.
One 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.
And therefore will
the LORD wait,
that he
may be gracious
unto you,
and therefore will
he be exalted,
that he
may have mercy
upon you:
for the LORD
is a God
of judgment:
blessed
are all
they that wait
for him.
For the people
shall dwell
in Zion
at Jerusalem:
thou shalt weep
no more:
he will be very gracious
unto thee
at the voice
of thy cry;
when
he shall hear it,
he will answer thee.
And
though the Lord
give
you the bread
of adversity,
and the water
of affliction,
yet shall not
thy teachers
be removed
into a corner any more,
but thine
eyes
shall see
thy teachers:
And thine ears
shall hear
a word
behind thee,
saying,
This is the way,
walk ye in it,
when ye
turn
to the right hand,
and
when ye
turn
to the left.
Ye 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;
thou shalt say
unto it,
Get thee hence.
Then 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.
The 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.
And there shall be
upon every high mountain,
and
upon every high hill,
rivers
and streams
of waters
in the day
of the great slaughter,
when the towers fall.
Moreover the 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.
Behold,
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:
And his breath,
as an overflowing stream,
shall reach
to the midst
of the neck,
to sift the nations
with the sieve
of vanity:
and there shall be a bridle
in the jaws
of the people,
causing them
to err.
Ye 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 the mountain
of the LORD,
to the mighty One
of Israel.
And 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,
and hailstones.
For through the voice
of the LORD
shall
the Assyrian
be beaten down,
which smote with a rod.
And
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 shaking
will
he fight
with it.
For 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 to them
that go down
to Egypt
for help;
and stay
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,
neither seek the LORD!
Yet
he also is wise,
and will bring evil,
and will not call
back his words:
but will arise
against the house
of the evildoers,
and
against the help
of them that work iniquity.
Now 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 together.
For thus
hath the LORD spoken
unto me,
Like
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.
As birds flying,
so will
the LORD of hosts
defend Jerusalem;
defending also
he will deliver it;
and passing
over he
will preserve it.
Turn
ye unto him
from whom
the children
of Israel
have deeply revolted.
For in that day
every man
shall cast away
his idols
of silver,
and his idols
of gold,
which your own hands
have made
unto you
for a sin.
Then shall
the Assyrian fall
with the sword,
not of a mighty man;
and the sword,
not of a mean man,
shall devour him:
but
he shall flee
from the sword,
and his young men
shall be discomfited.
And
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.
Behold,
a king
shall reign
in righteousness,
and princes
shall rule
in judgment.
And a man
shall be
as an hiding
place
from the wind,
and a covert
from the tempest;
as rivers
of water
in a dry place,
as the shadow
of a great rock
in a weary land.
And the eyes
of them that
see
shall not be dim,
and the ears
of them that
hear shall hearken.
The heart
also of the rash
shall understand
knowledge,
and
the tongue
of the stammerers
shall be ready
to speak plainly.
The vile person
shall be
no more called liberal,
nor the churl said
to be bountiful.
For the vile person
will speak villany,
and his heart
will work iniquity,
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.
The instruments
also of the churl
are evil:
he deviseth
wicked devices
to destroy the poor
with lying words,
even
when the needy
speaketh right.
But the liberal
deviseth liberal things;
and
by liberal things
shall he stand.
Rise up,
ye women
that are at ease;
hear my voice,
ye careless daughters;
give ear
unto my speech.
Many days
and years
shall
ye be troubled,
ye careless women:
for the vintage
shall fail,
the gathering
shall not come.
Tremble,
ye women
that are at ease;
be troubled,
ye careless ones:
strip you,
and make
you bare,
and gird sackcloth
upon your loins.
They shall lament
for the teats,
for the pleasant fields,
for the fruitful vine.
Upon the land
of my people
shall come
up thorns
and briers;
yea,
upon all the houses
of joy
in the joyous city:
Because
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;
Until the spirit
be poured
upon us from
on high,
and the wilderness
be a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field
be counted
for a forest.
Then judgment
shall dwell
in the wilderness,
and righteousness
remain
in the fruitful field.
And
the work
of righteousness
shall be peace;
and the effect
of righteousness quietness
and assurance
for ever.
And my people
shall dwell
in a peaceable habitation,
and
in sure dwellings,
and
in quiet resting places;
When it
shall hail,
coming down
on the forest;
and the city
shall be low
in a low place.
Blessed
are
ye that sow
beside all waters,
that send
forth thither the feet
of the ox and the ass.
Woe to thee
that spoilest,
and
thou wast not spoiled;
and dealest treacherously,
and
they dealt not
treacherously with thee!
when thou
shalt cease
to spoil,
thou shalt be spoiled;
and
when
thou shalt make
an end
to deal treacherously,
they shall deal treacherously
with thee.
O LORD,
be gracious
unto us;
we have waited
for thee:
be thou
their arm every morning,
our salvation
also in the time
of trouble.
At the noise
of the tumult
the people fled;
at the lifting up
of thyself
the nations
were scattered.
And 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 LORD
is exalted;
for he
dwelleth on high:
he hath filled Zion
with judgment
and righteousness.
And wisdom
and knowledge
shall be the stability
of thy times,
and strength
of salvation:
the fear
of the LORD
is his treasure.
Behold,
their valiant
ones shall cry without:
the ambassadors
of peace
shall weep bitterly.
The highways lie waste,
the wayfaring man ceaseth:
he hath broken
the covenant,
he hath despised
the cities,
he regardeth
no man.
The earth
mourneth and languisheth:
Lebanon
is
ashamed
and hewn down:
Sharon is like
a wilderness;
and Bashan
and Carmel
shake
off their fruits.
Now will
I rise,
saith the LORD;
now will
I be exalted;
now will
I lift
up myself.
Ye shall conceive chaff,
ye shall bring forth
stubble:
your breath,
as fire,
shall devour you.
And the people
shall be as the burnings
of lime:
as thorns
cut
up shall
they be burned
in the fire.
Hear,
ye that
are
far off,
what I
have done;
and,
ye that are near,
acknowledge
my might.
The sinners
in Zion
are afraid;
fearfulness
hath surprised
the hypocrites.
Who
among us shall dwell
with the devouring fire?
who
among us shall dwell
with everlasting burnings?
He that
walketh 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 shutteth
his eyes
from seeing evil;
He shall dwell
on high:
his place
of defence
shall be the munitions
of rocks:
bread shall be given him;
his waters shall be sure.
Thine eyes
shall see
the king
in his beauty:
they
shall behold
the land
that is very far off.
Thine heart
shall meditate terror.
Where is the scribe?
where is the receiver?
where is
he that
counted the towers?
Thou shalt not see
a fierce people,
a people
of a deeper speech than
thou canst perceive;
of a stammering tongue,
that thou canst
not understand.
Look upon Zion,
the city
of our solemnities:
thine eyes
shall see
Jerusalem a quiet habitation,
a tabernacle that
shall not be taken down;
not one
of the stakes
thereof shall ever be removed,
neither shall
any of the cords
thereof be broken.
But 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.
For the LORD
is our judge,
the LORD
is our lawgiver,
the LORD
is our king;
he will save us.
Thy 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.
And the inhabitant
shall not say,
I am sick:
the people that
dwell
therein shall be forgiven
their iniquity.
Come near,
ye nations,
to hear;
and hearken,
ye people:
let the earth hear,
and all that is
therein;
the world,
and all
things that
come forth of it.
For 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 slaughter.
Their slain
also shall be cast out,
and their stink
shall come up
out of their carcases,
and the mountains
shall be melted
with their blood.
And all
the host
of heaven
shall be dissolved,
and the heavens
shall be rolled together
as a scroll:
and all
their host
shall fall down,
as the leaf
falleth off
from the vine,
and
as a falling fig
from the fig tree.
For my sword
shall be bathed
in heaven:
behold,
it shall come down
upon Idumea,
and
upon the people
of my curse,
to judgment.
The sword
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 the LORD
hath
a sacrifice
in Bozrah,
and a great slaughter
in the land
of Idumea.
And 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.
For it
is the day
of the LORD's vengeance,
and the year
of recompences for the controversy
of Zion.
And the streams
thereof shall be turned into
pitch,
and the dust
thereof into brimstone,
and the land
thereof shall become burning pitch.
It shall not be quenched night
nor day;
the smoke
thereof shall go up
for ever:
from generation to generation
it
shall lie waste;
none shall pass
through it
for ever and ever.
But the cormorant
and the bittern
shall possess it;
the owl
also and the raven
shall dwell in it:
and
he shall stretch out
upon it
the line
of confusion,
and the stones
of emptiness.
They shall call the nobles
thereof to the kingdom,
but none
shall be there,
and all her princes
shall be nothing.
And thorns
shall come up
in her palaces,
nettles
and brambles
in the fortresses
thereof:
and it
shall be an habitation
of dragons,
and a court
for owls.
The 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.
There 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.
Seek
ye out of the 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.
And 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 wilderness
and the solitary place
shall be glad
for them;
and the desert
shall rejoice,
and blossom
as the rose.
It 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 glory
of the LORD,
and the excellency
of our God.
Strengthen
ye the weak hands,
and confirm
the feeble knees.
Say to them
that are of a fearful heart,
Be strong,
fear not:
behold,
your God
will come
with vengeance,
even God
with a recompence;
he will come
and save you.
Then the eyes
of the blind
shall be opened,
and the ears
of the deaf
shall be unstopped.
Then shall
the lame man
leap as an hart,
and the tongue
of the dumb sing:
for in the wilderness
shall waters
break out,
and streams
in the desert.
And the parched
ground
shall become
a pool,
and the thirsty
land
springs of water:
in the habitation
of dragons,
where each lay,
shall be grass
with reeds and rushes.
And an highway
shall be there,
and a way,
and it
shall be called The way
of holiness;
the unclean
shall not pass
over it;
but it
shall be
for those:
the wayfaring men,
though fools,
shall not err
therein.
No lion
shall be there,
nor any ravenous beast
shall go
up thereon,
it shall not be found there;
but the redeemed
shall walk there:
And the ransomed
of the LORD
shall return,
and come
to Zion
with songs
and everlasting joy
upon their heads:
they shall obtain
joy and gladness,
and sorrow
and sighing
shall flee away.
Now it
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.
And the king
of Assyria sent Rabshakeh
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.
Then came forth
unto him Eliakim,
Hilkiah's son,
which was over the house,
and Shebna
the scribe,
and Joah,
Asaph's son,
the recorder.
And Rabshakeh
said unto them,
Say
ye
now to Hezekiah,
Thus saith the great king,
the king
of Assyria,
What confidence
is this
wherein thou trustest?
I 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?
Lo,
thou trustest in the staff
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 trust
in him.
But
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?
Now 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.
How 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?
And 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.
Then said Eliakim
and Shebna
and Joah
unto Rabshakeh, 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.
But Rabshakeh 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?
Then Rabshakeh 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.
Thus saith the king,
Let
not Hezekiah
deceive you:
for he
shall not be able
to deliver you.
Neither 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.
Hearken not
to Hezekiah:
for thus
saith the king
of Assyria,
Make an agreement
with me
by a present,
and come out to me:
and 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;
Until 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.
Beware lest Hezekiah
persuade you,
saying,
the LORD
will deliver us.
Hath
any of the gods
of the nations
delivered his land
out of the hand
of the king
of Assyria?
Where are the gods
of Hamath
and Arphad?
where are the gods
of Sepharvaim?
and have
they delivered Samaria
out of my hand?
Who 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?
But
they held
their peace,
and answered him not
a word:
for the king's commandment was,
saying,
Answer him not.
Then 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 Rabshakeh.
And it
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.
And
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.
And
they
said unto him,
Thus saith Hezekiah,
This day
is a day
of trouble,
and of rebuke,
and of blasphemy:
for the children
are come
to the birth,
and there is not
strength
to bring forth.
It may be
the LORD thy God
will hear
the words
of Rabshakeh,
whom the king
of Assyria
his master
hath sent
to reproach
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.
So the servants
of king
Hezekiah
came
to Isaiah.
And 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.
Behold,
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.
So Rabshakeh returned,
and found
the king
of Assyria
warring
against Libnah:
for he
had heard
that he
was departed
from Lachish.
And
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,
Thus
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.
Behold,
thou hast heard
what the kings
of Assyria
have done
to all lands
by destroying them utterly;
and shalt
thou be delivered?
Have
the gods
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?
Where is the king
of Hamath,
and the king
of Arphad,
and the king
of the city
of Sepharvaim, Hena,
and Ivah?
And 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.
And Hezekiah
prayed
unto the LORD,
saying,
O LORD of hosts,
God of Israel,
that dwellest between the cherubims,
thou art
the God,
even thou alone,
of all the kingdoms
of the earth:
thou hast made heaven
and earth.
Incline thine ear,
O LORD,
and hear;
open thine eyes,
O LORD,
and see:
and hear all
the words
of Sennacherib,
which hath sent
to reproach
the living God.
Of a truth,
LORD,
the kings
of Assyria
have laid waste all
the nations,
and their countries,
And have cast
their gods
into the fire:
for they
were no gods,
but the work
of men's hands,
wood and stone:
therefore they
have destroyed them.
Now therefore,
O LORD our God,
save us
from his hand,
that all the kingdoms
of the earth
may know that
thou art
the LORD,
even thou only.
Then 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:
This 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.
Whom 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.
By 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.
I have digged,
and drunk water;
and
with the sole
of my feet
have
I dried
up all the rivers
of the besieged places.
Hast
thou not heard
long 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.
Therefore
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.
But
I know thy abode,
and thy going out,
and thy coming in,
and thy
rage against me.
Because
thy
rage against me,
and thy tumult,
is come up
into mine ears,
therefore will
I put
my hook
in thy nose,
and my bridle
in thy lips,
and
I will turn thee back
by the way
by which thou camest.
And 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.
And the remnant
that is escaped of the house
of Judah
shall again take
root downward,
and bear fruit upward:
For out of Jerusalem shall go
forth a remnant,
and
they that escape
out of mount Zion:
the zeal
of the LORD
of hosts shall do this.
Therefore 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.
By the way
that he came,
by the same
shall
he return,
and shall not come
into this city,
saith the LORD.
For I
will defend
this city
to save it
for mine own sake,
and
for my servant David's sake.
Then
the angel
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.
So Sennacherib king
of Assyria departed,
and went
and returned,
and dwelt
at Nineveh.
And 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 Esarhaddon
his son
reigned
in his stead.
In those days
was Hezekiah sick
unto death.
And Isaiah
the prophet
the son
of Amoz
came unto him,
and
said unto him,
Thus saith the LORD,
Set thine
house
in order:
for thou
shalt die,
and not live.
Then Hezekiah
turned
his face
toward the wall,
and prayed
unto the LORD,
And said,
Remember now,
O LORD,
I beseech thee,
how I
have walked
before thee
in truth
and with a perfect heart,
and have done
that which
is good
in thy sight.
And Hezekiah
wept sore.
Then came
the word
of the LORD
to Isaiah,
saying,
Go,
and say
to Hezekiah,
Thus saith the LORD,
the God of David
thy father,
I have heard
thy prayer,
I have seen
thy tears:
behold,
I will add
unto thy days fifteen years.
And
I will deliver
thee and this city
out of the hand
of the king
of Assyria:
and I
will defend this city.
And this
shall be a sign
unto thee
from the LORD,
that the LORD
will do
this thing that
he hath spoken;
Behold,
I will bring again the shadow
of the degrees,
which is gone down
in the sun dial
of Ahaz,
ten degrees backward.
So the sun
returned ten degrees,
by which degrees
it was gone down.
The writing
of Hezekiah king
of Judah,
when
he had been sick,
and was recovered
of his sickness:
I said
in the cutting off
of my days,
I shall go to the gates
of the grave:
I am deprived of the residue
of my years.
I said,
I shall not see
the LORD,
even the LORD,
in the land
of the living:
I shall behold man no more
with the inhabitants
of the world.
Mine
age
is departed,
and is removed
from me
as a shepherd's tent:
I have cut off like
a weaver my life:
he will cut
me off
with pining sickness:
from day
even to night
wilt
thou make
an end of me.
I reckoned
till morning,
that,
as a lion,
so will
he break all
my bones:
from day
even to night
wilt
thou make
an end of me.
Like a crane
or a swallow,
so did
I chatter:
I did mourn
as a dove:
mine
eyes
fail
with looking upward:
O LORD,
I am oppressed;
undertake for me.
What shall
I say?
he hath both spoken
unto me,
and himself
hath done it:
I shall go softly all
my years
in the bitterness
of my soul.
O LORD,
by these things men live,
and
in all
these things
is the life
of my spirit:
so wilt
thou recover me,
and make me
to live.
Behold,
for peace
I had
great bitterness:
but
thou hast
in love
to my soul
delivered it
from the pit
of corruption:
for thou
hast cast all
my sins
behind thy back.
For the grave
cannot praise thee,
death can not celebrate thee:
they
that go down
into the pit
cannot hope
for thy truth.
The living,
the living,
he shall praise thee,
as I
do this day:
the father
to the children
shall make
known
thy truth.
The LORD
was ready
to save me:
therefore we
will sing
my songs
to the stringed
instruments all
the days
of our life
in the house
of the LORD.
For Isaiah
had said,
Let them
take
a lump
of figs,
and lay it
for a plaister
upon the boil,
and
he shall recover.
Hezekiah also had said,
What is the sign
that I
shall go
up to the house
of the LORD?
At that time Merodachbaladan,
the son
of Baladan,
king of Babylon,
sent letters
and a present
to Hezekiah:
for he
had heard that
he had been sick,
and was recovered.
And Hezekiah
was glad
of them,
and shewed them
the house
of his precious things,
the silver,
and the gold,
and the spices,
and the precious ointment,
and all
the house
of his armour,
and all
that was found
in his treasures:
there was nothing
in his house,
nor
in all his dominion,
that Hezekiah
shewed them not.
Then came Isaiah
the prophet
unto king Hezekiah,
and
said unto him,
What
said
these men?
and
from whence came
they unto thee?
And Hezekiah said,
They
are come
from a far country
unto me,
even from Babylon.
Then said he,
What
have
they seen
in thine house?
And Hezekiah answered,
All that is
in mine
house
have
they seen:
there is
nothing
among my treasures
that
I have not shewed them.
Then said Isaiah
to Hezekiah,
Hear the word
of the LORD
of hosts:
Behold,
the days come,
that all that is
in thine house,
and
that which
thy fathers
have laid up
in store
until this day,
shall be carried
to Babylon:
nothing shall be left,
saith the LORD.
And of thy sons
that shall issue
from thee,
which thou
shalt beget,
shall
they take away;
and
they shall be eunuchs
in the palace
of the king
of Babylon.
Then said Hezekiah
to Isaiah,
Good is the word
of the LORD which
thou hast spoken.
He said moreover,
For there shall be peace
and truth
in my days.
Comfort ye,
comfort
ye my people,
saith your God.
Speak
ye comfortably to Jerusalem,
and cry unto her,
that her warfare
is accomplished,
that her iniquity
is pardoned:
for she
hath received
of the LORD's hand double
for all
her sins.
The voice
of him that
crieth in the wilderness,
Prepare
ye the way
of the LORD,
make straight
in the desert
a highway
for our God.
Every valley
shall be exalted,
and every mountain
and hill
shall be made low:
and the crooked
shall be made straight,
and the rough places plain:
And
the glory
of the LORD
shall be revealed,
and all flesh
shall see it
together:
for the mouth
of the LORD
hath spoken it.
The voice said,
Cry.
And he said,
What
shall I cry?
All flesh
is grass,
and all
the goodliness
thereof is
as the flower
of the field:
The grass withereth,
the flower fadeth:
because
the spirit
of the LORD
bloweth upon it:
surely the people
is grass.
The grass withereth,
the flower fadeth:
but
the word
of our God
shall stand for ever.
O Zion,
that bringest good tidings,
get thee up
into the high mountain;
O Jerusalem,
that bringest good tidings,
lift up thy
voice
with strength;
lift it up,
be not afraid;
say
unto the cities
of Judah,
Behold your God!
Behold,
the Lord GOD
will come
with strong hand,
and his arm
shall rule for him:
behold,
his reward
is with him,
and his work
before him.
He shall feed
his flock like a shepherd:
he shall gather the lambs
with his arm,
and carry them
in his bosom,
and shall gently lead
those that
are with young.
Who hath measured
the waters
in the hollow
of his hand,
and meted out heaven
with the span,
and comprehended
the dust
of the earth
in a measure,
and weighed
the mountains
in scales,
and the hills
in a balance?
Who hath directed
the Spirit
of the LORD,
or being
his counsellor
hath taught him?
With whom
took
he counsel,
and
who instructed him,
and taught him
in the path
of judgment,
and taught him
knowledge,
and shewed
to him the way
of understanding?
Behold,
the nations
are as a drop
of a bucket,
and are counted
as the small dust
of the balance:
behold,
he taketh up the isles
as a very little thing.
And Lebanon
is not sufficient
to burn,
nor the beasts
thereof sufficient
for a burnt offering.
All nations
before him
are as nothing;
and
they are counted
to him less than nothing,
and vanity.
To whom
then will
ye liken God?
or what likeness
will
ye compare unto him?
The workman
melteth a graven image,
and the goldsmith
spreadeth it over
with gold,
and casteth silver chains.
He that is so
impoverished that
he hath no oblation
chooseth
a tree
that will not rot;
he seeketh
unto him a cunning workman
to prepare
a graven image,
that shall not be moved.
Have
ye not known?
have
ye not heard?
hath
it not been told you
from the beginning?
have
ye not understood
from the foundations
of the earth?
It is
he that
sitteth upon the circle
of the earth,
and the inhabitants
thereof are
as grasshoppers;
that stretcheth out the heavens
as a curtain,
and spreadeth
them out
as a tent
to dwell in:
That bringeth
the princes
to nothing;
he maketh the judges
of the earth
as vanity.
Yea,
they shall not be planted;
yea,
they shall not be sown:
yea,
their stock
shall not take
root
in the earth:
and
he shall also blow upon them,
and
they shall wither,
and the whirlwind
shall take them away
as stubble.
To whom
then will
ye liken me,
or shall
I be equal?
saith the Holy One.
Lift
up your eyes
on high,
and behold who
hath created
these things,
that bringeth out their host
by number:
he calleth them
all by names
by the greatness
of his might,
for that
he is strong
in power;
not one faileth.
Why sayest thou,
O Jacob,
and speakest,
O Israel,
My way
is hid from the LORD,
and my judgment
is passed over
from my God?
Hast
thou not known?
hast
thou not heard,
that the everlasting God,
the LORD,
the Creator
of the ends
of the earth,
fainteth not,
neither is weary?
there is
no
searching
of his understanding.
He giveth
power
to the faint;
and to them
that have no
might
he increaseth strength.
Even
the youths
shall faint
and be weary,
and the young men
shall utterly fall:
But
they
that wait
upon the LORD
shall renew
their strength;
they shall mount up
with wings
as eagles;
they shall run,
and not be weary;
and
they shall walk,
and not faint.
Keep silence
before me,
O islands;
and let
the people
renew their strength:
let them
come near;
then let them speak:
let us
come near together
to judgment.
Who raised
up the righteous man
from the east,
called him
to his foot,
gave the nations
before him,
and made him
rule
over kings?
he gave them as the dust
to his sword,
and as driven stubble
to his bow.
He pursued them,
and passed safely;
even by the way
that he
had not gone
with his feet.
Who hath wrought
and done it,
calling the generations
from the beginning?
I the LORD,
the first,
and
with the last;
I am he.
The isles
saw it,
and feared;
the ends
of the earth
were afraid,
drew near,
and came.
They helped every one
his neighbour;
and every one
said
to his brother,
Be of good courage.
So the carpenter
encouraged
the goldsmith,
and he
that smootheth with the hammer
him that
smote the anvil,
saying,
It is ready
for the sodering:
and
he fastened it
with nails,
that it
should not be moved.
But thou,
Israel,
art my servant,
Jacob whom
I have chosen,
the seed
of Abraham my friend.
Thou whom
I have taken
from the ends
of the earth,
and called thee
from the chief men
thereof,
and said
unto thee,
Thou art my servant;
I have chosen thee,
and not cast thee away.
Fear thou not;
for I
am with thee:
be not dismayed;
for I
am thy God:
I will strengthen thee;
yea,
I will help thee;
yea,
I will uphold thee
with the right hand
of my righteousness.
Behold,
all they
that
were incensed
against thee
shall be
ashamed
and confounded:
they shall be
as nothing;
and
they
that strive
with thee
shall perish.
Thou shalt seek them,
and shalt not find them,
even
them that
contended
with thee:
they that war
against thee
shall be
as nothing,
and as a thing
of nought.
For I the LORD
thy God
will hold
thy right hand,
saying unto thee,
Fear not;
I will help thee.
Fear not,
thou worm Jacob,
and
ye men of Israel;
I will help thee,
saith the LORD,
and thy redeemer,
the Holy One
of Israel.
Behold,
I will make
thee a new sharp threshing
instrument
having teeth:
thou shalt thresh
the mountains,
and beat them small,
and shalt make
the hills
as chaff.
Thou shalt fan them,
and the wind
shall carry them away,
and the whirlwind
shall scatter them:
and
thou shalt rejoice
in the LORD,
and shalt glory
in the Holy One
of Israel.
When the poor
and needy seek water,
and there is none,
and their tongue
faileth
for thirst,
I the LORD
will hear them,
I the God
of Israel
will not forsake them.
I will open rivers
in high places,
and fountains
in the midst
of the valleys:
I will make
the wilderness
a pool of water,
and the dry land
springs
of water.
I will plant
in the wilderness
the cedar,
the shittah tree,
and the myrtle,
and the oil tree;
I will set
in the desert
the fir tree,
and the pine,
and the box tree
together:
That they
may see,
and know,
and consider,
and
understand together,
that the hand
of the LORD
hath done this,
and the Holy One
of Israel
hath created it.
Produce your cause,
saith the LORD;
bring forth
your strong reasons,
saith the King
of Jacob.
Let them
bring them forth,
and shew us
what shall happen:
let them
shew the former things,
what they be,
that we
may consider them,
and know
the latter end
of them;
or declare us things
for to come.
Shew the things
that are to come hereafter,
that we
may know that
ye are gods:
yea,
do good,
or do evil,
that we
may be dismayed,
and behold it
together.
Behold,
ye are of nothing,
and your work
of nought:
an abomination
is
he that
chooseth you.
I have raised
up one
from the north,
and
he shall come:
from the rising
of the sun
shall
he call
upon my name:
and
he shall come upon princes
as upon morter,
and as the potter
treadeth clay.
Who hath declared
from the beginning,
that we
may know?
and beforetime,
that we
may say,
He is righteous?
yea,
there is none
that sheweth,
yea,
there is none
that declareth,
yea,
there is none
that heareth your words.
The first shall say
to Zion, Behold,
behold them:
and
I will give
to Jerusalem one
that bringeth good tidings.
For I beheld,
and there was
no man;
even among them,
and there was
no counsellor,
that,
when
I asked of them,
could answer
a word.
Behold,
they are all vanity;
their works
are nothing:
their molten images
are wind
and confusion.
Behold my servant,
whom
I uphold;
mine elect,
in whom
my soul delighteth;
I have put
my spirit
upon him:
he shall bring forth judgment
to the Gentiles.
He shall not cry,
nor lift up,
nor cause
his voice
to be heard
in the street.
A bruised reed
shall
he not break,
and the smoking flax
shall
he not quench:
he shall bring forth judgment
unto truth.
He shall not fail nor
be discouraged,
till he
have set judgment
in the earth:
and the isles
shall wait
for his law.
Thus saith God
the LORD,
he that
created the heavens,
and
stretched them out;
he that spread
forth the earth,
and
that which
cometh out of it;
he that
giveth breath
unto the people
upon it,
and spirit
to them that walk
therein:
I the LORD
have called thee
in righteousness,
and will hold
thine hand,
and will keep thee,
and give thee
for a covenant
of the people,
for a light
of the Gentiles;
To open the blind eyes,
to bring
out the prisoners
from the prison,
and them that sit
in darkness
out of the prison house.
I am the LORD:
that is my name:
and my glory
will
I not give
to another,
neither my praise
to graven images.
Behold,
the former things
are come to pass,
and new things
do
I declare:
before they spring
forth I
tell you
of them.
Sing
unto the LORD
a new song,
and his praise
from the end
of the earth,
ye that go down
to the sea,
and all that is
therein;
the isles,
and the inhabitants
thereof.
Let the wilderness
and the cities
thereof lift
up their voice,
the villages that Kedar
doth inhabit:
let
the inhabitants
of the rock sing,
let them
shout
from the top
of the mountains.
Let them
give glory
unto the LORD,
and declare
his praise
in the islands.
The LORD
shall go forth
as a mighty man,
he shall stir
up jealousy like a man
of war:
he shall cry,
yea,
roar;
he shall prevail
against his enemies.
I have
long time holden my peace;
I have been still,
and refrained
myself:
now will
I cry like
a travailing woman;
I will destroy
and devour
at once.
I will make waste mountains
and hills,
and dry
up all their herbs;
and
I will make
the rivers islands,
and
I will dry
up the pools.
And I
will bring
the blind
by a way
that
they knew not;
I will lead them
in paths that
they have not known:
I will make
darkness
light
before them,
and crooked things straight.
These things
will
I do unto them,
and not forsake them.
They shall be turned back,
they shall be greatly ashamed,
that trust
in graven images,
that say
to the molten images,
Ye are our gods.
Hear,
ye deaf;
and look,
ye blind,
that ye
may see.
Who is blind,
but my servant?
or deaf,
as my messenger
that I sent?
who is
blind as he
that is perfect,
and blind
as the LORD's servant?
Seeing many things,
but
thou observest not;
opening the ears,
but
he heareth not.
The LORD
is well pleased
for his righteousness' sake;
he will magnify
the law,
and make it honourable.
But this
is a people
robbed
and spoiled;
they
are all of them
snared in holes,
and
they are
hid in prison houses:
they are for a prey,
and none delivereth;
for a spoil,
and none saith,
Restore.
Who among you
will give ear
to this?
who will hearken
and hear
for the time
to come?
Who gave
Jacob for a spoil,
and Israel
to the robbers?
did not the LORD,
he against whom
we have sinned?
for they
would not walk
in his ways,
neither were
they obedient
unto his law.
Therefore he
hath poured
upon him the fury
of his anger,
and the strength
of battle:
and it
hath set him
on fire round about,
yet he
knew not;
and it
burned him,
yet he
laid it
not to heart.
But now thus
saith the LORD
that created thee,
O Jacob,
and
he that
formed thee,
O Israel,
Fear not:
for I
have redeemed thee,
I have called thee
by thy name;
thou art mine.
When thou
passest through the waters,
I will be
with thee;
and
through the rivers,
they shall not overflow thee:
when thou
walkest through the fire,
thou shalt not be burned;
neither shall
the flame
kindle upon thee.
For I
am the LORD
thy God,
the Holy One
of Israel,
thy Saviour:
I gave
Egypt for thy ransom,
Ethiopia and Seba
for thee.
Since thou
wast precious
in my sight,
thou hast been honourable,
and
I have loved thee:
therefore will
I give men
for thee,
and people
for thy life.
Fear not:
for I
am with thee:
I will bring
thy seed
from the east,
and gather thee
from the west;
I will say
to the north,
Give up;
and to the south,
Keep not back:
bring my sons
from far,
and my daughters
from the ends
of the earth;
Even every one
that is called
by my name:
for I
have created him
for my glory,
I have formed him;
yea,
I have made him.
Bring forth
the blind people
that have eyes,
and the deaf that
have ears.
Let all
the nations
be gathered together,
and let
the people
be assembled:
who among them can declare this,
and shew us
former things?
let them
bring forth
their witnesses,
that they
may be justified:
or let them hear,
and say,
It is truth.
Ye are my witnesses,
saith the LORD,
and my servant whom
I have chosen:
that ye
may know
and believe me,
and understand that
I am he:
before me
there was
no God formed,
neither shall there be
after me.
I,
even I,
am the LORD;
and beside me
there is no saviour.
I have declared,
and have saved,
and
I have shewed,
when there was
no strange god
among you:
therefore ye
are my witnesses,
saith the LORD,
that I
am God.
Yea,
before the day
was
I am he;
and there is none
that can deliver
out of my hand:
I will work,
and
who shall let it?
Thus saith the LORD,
your redeemer,
the Holy One
of Israel;
For your sake
I have sent
to Babylon,
and have brought down all
their nobles,
and the Chaldeans,
whose cry
is in the ships.
I am the LORD,
your Holy One,
the creator
of Israel,
your King.
Thus saith the LORD,
which maketh a way
in the sea,
and a path
in the mighty waters;
Which bringeth forth the chariot
and horse,
the army
and the power;
they shall lie down together,
they shall not rise:
they are extinct,
they are quenched
as tow.
Remember
ye not
the former things,
neither consider
the things
of old.
Behold,
I will do
a new thing;
now it
shall spring forth;
shall
ye not know it?
I will even make a way
in the wilderness,
and rivers
in the desert.
The beast
of the field
shall honour me,
the dragons
and the owls:
because
I give
waters
in the wilderness,
and rivers
in the desert,
to give
drink
to my people,
my chosen.
This people
have
I formed
for myself;
they shall shew
forth my praise.
But
thou
hast not called upon me,
O Jacob;
but
thou hast been
weary of me,
O Israel.
Thou hast not brought me
the small cattle
of thy
burnt offerings;
neither hast
thou honoured me
with thy sacrifices.
I have not caused thee
to serve
with an offering,
nor wearied thee
with incense.
Thou hast bought me
no sweet cane
with money,
neither hast
thou filled me
with the fat
of thy sacrifices:
but
thou hast made me
to serve
with thy sins,
thou hast wearied me
with thine iniquities.
I,
even I,
am he
that
blotteth out thy transgressions
for mine own sake,
and will not remember
thy sins.
Put me
in remembrance:
let us
plead together:
declare thou,
that thou
mayest be justified.
Thy first father
hath sinned,
and thy teachers
have transgressed against me.
Therefore I
have profaned
the princes
of the sanctuary,
and have given Jacob
to the curse,
and Israel
to reproaches.
Yet now hear,
O Jacob my servant;
and Israel,
whom
I have chosen:
Thus
saith
the LORD
that made thee,
and formed thee
from the womb,
which will help thee;
Fear not,
O Jacob,
my servant;
and thou,
Jesurun,
whom I have chosen.
For I
will pour
water upon him that is thirsty,
and floods
upon the dry ground:
I will pour
my spirit
upon thy seed,
and my blessing
upon thine offspring:
And
they shall spring up as
among the grass,
as willows
by the water courses.
One shall say,
I am the LORD's;
and another
shall call himself
by the name
of Jacob;
and another
shall subscribe
with his hand
unto the LORD,
and surname himself
by the name
of Israel.
Thus
saith
the LORD
the King
of Israel,
and his redeemer
the LORD
of hosts;
I am the first,
and
I am the last;
and beside me there is
no God.
And who,
as I,
shall call,
and shall declare it,
and set it
in order for me,
since I
appointed
the ancient people?
and the things
that are coming,
and shall come,
let them
shew unto them.
Fear ye not,
neither be afraid:
have not
I told thee
from that time,
and have declared it?
ye are even
my witnesses.
Is there
a God
beside me?
yea,
there is no God;
I know not any.
They
that make a graven
image
are all of them vanity;
and their delectable things
shall not profit;
and they
are their own witnesses;
they see not,
nor know;
that they
may be ashamed.
Who hath formed a god,
or molten
a graven
image
that is profitable
for nothing?
Behold,
all his fellows
shall be ashamed:
and the workmen,
they are of men:
let them
all be gathered together,
let them stand up;
yet
they shall fear,
and
they shall be ashamed
together.
The smith
with the tongs both
worketh in the coals,
and fashioneth
it with hammers,
and worketh it
with the strength
of his arms:
yea,
he is hungry,
and his strength faileth:
he drinketh
no water,
and is faint.
The carpenter
stretcheth out
his rule;
he marketh it out
with a line;
he fitteth it
with planes,
and
he marketh it out
with the compass,
and maketh it
after the figure
of a man,
according to the beauty
of a man;
that it
may remain
in the house.
He heweth him
down cedars,
and taketh
the cypress
and the oak,
which he
strengtheneth for himself
among the trees
of the forest:
he planteth an ash,
and the rain
doth nourish it.
Then shall
it be
for a man
to burn:
for he
will take thereof,
and warm himself;
yea,
he kindleth it,
and baketh bread;
yea,
he maketh a god,
and worshippeth it;
he maketh
it a graven image,
and falleth down thereto.
He burneth
part
thereof
in the fire;
with part thereof
he eateth flesh;
he roasteth roast,
and is satisfied:
yea,
he warmeth himself,
and saith,
Aha,
I am warm,
I have seen
the fire:
And the residue
thereof
he maketh a god,
even his graven image:
he falleth down
unto it,
and worshippeth it,
and prayeth unto it,
and saith,
Deliver me;
for thou art
my god.
They have not known
nor understood:
for he
hath shut
their eyes,
that they
cannot see;
and their hearts,
that they
cannot understand.
And none
considereth in his heart,
neither is there knowledge nor
understanding to say,
I have burned
part of it
in the fire;
yea,
also I
have baked bread
upon the coals
thereof;
I have roasted flesh,
and eaten it:
and shall
I make
the residue
thereof an abomination?
shall
I fall down
to the stock
of a tree?
He feedeth on ashes:
a deceived heart
hath turned him aside,
that he
cannot deliver
his soul,
nor say,
Is there not
a lie
in my right hand?
Remember these,
O Jacob
and Israel;
for thou art
my servant:
I have formed thee;
thou art
my servant:
O Israel,
thou
shalt not be forgotten of me.
I have blotted out,
as a thick cloud,
thy transgressions,
and,
as a cloud,
thy sins:
return unto me;
for I
have redeemed thee.
Sing,
O ye heavens;
for the LORD
hath done it:
shout,
ye lower
parts
of the earth:
break forth
into singing,
ye mountains,
O forest,
and every tree
therein:
for the LORD
hath redeemed Jacob,
and glorified himself
in Israel.
Thus saith the LORD,
thy redeemer,
and
he that
formed thee
from the womb,
I am the LORD
that maketh all things;
that stretcheth forth the heavens alone;
that spreadeth abroad the earth
by myself;
That frustrateth
the tokens
of the liars,
and maketh diviners mad;
that turneth
wise men backward,
and maketh their knowledge foolish;
That confirmeth
the word
of his servant,
and performeth
the counsel
of his messengers;
that saith to Jerusalem,
Thou shalt be inhabited;
and to the cities
of Judah,
Ye shall be built,
and I
will raise
up the decayed
places thereof:
That saith
to the deep,
Be dry,
and
I will dry
up thy rivers:
That saith
of Cyrus,
He is my shepherd,
and shall perform all
my pleasure:
even saying
to Jerusalem,
Thou shalt be built;
and
to the temple,
Thy foundation
shall be laid.
Thus
saith
the LORD
to his anointed,
to Cyrus,
whose right hand
I have holden,
to subdue nations
before him;
and I
will loose
the loins
of kings,
to open
before him
the two leaved gates;
and the gates
shall not be shut;
I will go
before thee,
and make
the crooked places straight:
I will break
in pieces
the gates
of brass,
and cut
in sunder
the bars
of iron:
And I
will give
thee the treasures
of darkness,
and hidden riches
of secret places,
that thou
mayest know
that I,
the LORD,
which call
thee by thy name,
am the God
of Israel.
For Jacob
my servant's sake,
and Israel mine elect,
I have even called thee
by thy name:
I have surnamed thee,
though thou
hast not known me.
I am the LORD,
and there is none else,
there is no God
beside me:
I girded thee,
though thou
hast not known me:
That they
may know
from the rising
of the sun,
and
from the west,
that there is none
beside me.
I am the LORD,
and there is none else.
I form the light,
and create darkness:
I make peace,
and create evil:
I the LORD
do all
these things.
Drop down,
ye heavens,
from above,
and let
the skies
pour
down righteousness:
let the earth open,
and let them
bring forth
salvation,
and let
righteousness
spring up together;
I the LORD
have created it.
Woe unto him that
striveth with his Maker!
Let the potsherd strive
with the potsherds
of the earth.
Shall
the clay
say
to him
that fashioneth it,
What makest thou?
or thy work,
He hath
no hands?
Woe unto him that
saith unto his father,
What begettest thou?
or to the woman,
What
hast
thou brought forth?
Thus saith the LORD,
the Holy One
of Israel,
and his Maker,
Ask me
of things
to come concerning my sons,
and concerning the work
of my hands command
ye me.
I have made
the earth,
and created man
upon it:
I,
even my hands,
have stretched out
the heavens,
and all
their host
have I commanded.
I have raised
him up
in righteousness,
and
I will direct all
his ways:
he shall build
my city,
and
he shall let go
my captives,
not for price
nor reward,
saith the LORD
of hosts.
Thus saith the LORD,
The labour
of Egypt,
and merchandise
of Ethiopia
and of the Sabeans,
men of stature,
shall come over
unto thee,
and
they shall be thine:
they shall come
after thee;
in chains
they shall come over,
and
they shall fall down
unto thee,
they shall make supplication
unto thee,
saying,
Surely God
is in thee;
and there is none else,
there is no God.
Verily
thou art a God
that hidest thyself,
O God of Israel,
the Saviour.
They shall be ashamed,
and also confounded,
all of them:
they
shall go
to confusion together that
are makers
of idols.
But Israel
shall be saved in the LORD
with an everlasting salvation:
ye shall not be ashamed
nor confounded world
without end.
For thus
saith the LORD
that created
the heavens;
God himself that
formed
the earth
and made it;
he hath established it,
he created it
not in vain,
he formed it
to be inhabited:
I am the LORD;
and there is none else.
I have not spoken
in secret,
in a dark place
of the earth:
I said not
unto the seed
of Jacob,
Seek
ye me in vain:
I the LORD
speak
righteousness,
I declare things that
are right.
Assemble yourselves
and come;
draw near together,
ye that
are escaped
of the nations:
they have
no knowledge that set up
the wood
of their graven image,
and pray
unto a god
that cannot save.
Tell ye,
and
bring them near;
yea,
let them
take
counsel together:
who hath declared this
from ancient time?
who hath told it
from that time?
have not
I the LORD?
and there is
no God else
beside me;
a just God
and a Saviour;
there is none
beside me.
Look unto me,
and be
ye saved,
all the ends
of the earth:
for I
am God,
and there is none else.
I have sworn
by myself,
the word
is gone
out of my mouth
in righteousness,
and shall not return,
That unto me every knee
shall bow,
every tongue
shall swear.
Surely,
shall
one say,
in the LORD
have
I righteousness
and strength:
even to him
shall men come;
and all
that are incensed
against him shall be ashamed.
In the LORD
shall all
the seed
of Israel
be justified,
and shall glory.
Bel boweth down,
Nebo stoopeth,
their idols
were upon the beasts,
and
upon the cattle:
your carriages
were heavy
loaden;
they are a burden
to the weary beast.
They stoop,
they bow down together;
they could not deliver
the burden,
but themselves
are gone
into captivity.
Hearken unto me,
O house of Jacob,
and all
the remnant
of the house
of Israel,
which are borne by me
from the belly,
which are carried
from the womb:
And
even to your old age
I am he;
and
even to hoar hairs
will
I carry you:
I have made,
and I
will bear;
even
I will carry,
and will deliver you.
To whom
will
ye liken me,
and make me equal,
and compare me,
that we
may be like?
They lavish gold
out of the bag,
and weigh silver
in the balance,
and hire
a goldsmith;
and
he maketh it a god:
they fall down,
yea,
they worship.
They bear him
upon the shoulder,
they carry him,
and set him
in his place,
and he standeth;
from his place
shall
he not remove:
yea,
one
shall cry unto him,
yet can
he not answer,
nor save him
out of his trouble.
Remember this,
and shew yourselves men:
bring it
again to mind,
O ye transgressors.
Remember
the former things
of old:
for I
am God,
and there is none else;
I am God,
and there is none like me,
Declaring the end
from the beginning,
and from ancient
times
the things
that are not yet done,
saying,
My counsel
shall stand,
and
I will do all
my pleasure:
Calling a ravenous bird
from the east,
the man that
executeth
my counsel
from a far country:
yea,
I have spoken it,
I will also bring it
to pass;
I have purposed it,
I will also do it.
Hearken unto me,
ye stouthearted,
that are far
from righteousness:
I bring
near my righteousness;
it shall not be
far off,
and my salvation
shall not tarry:
and
I will place salvation
in Zion
for Israel my glory.
Come down,
and sit
in the dust,
O virgin daughter
of Babylon,
sit on the ground:
there is no throne,
O daughter
of the Chaldeans:
for thou
shalt no more
be called
tender and delicate.
Take the millstones,
and grind meal:
uncover thy locks,
make bare
the leg,
uncover the thigh,
pass
over the rivers.
Thy nakedness
shall be uncovered,
yea,
thy shame
shall be seen:
I will take vengeance,
and
I will not meet thee
as a man.
As for our redeemer,
the LORD of hosts
is his name,
the Holy One
of Israel.
Sit thou silent,
and get thee
into darkness,
O daughter
of the Chaldeans:
for thou
shalt no more
be called,
The lady
of kingdoms.
I was wroth
with my people,
I have polluted
mine inheritance,
and given them
into thine hand:
thou didst shew them
no mercy;
upon the ancient
hast
thou very heavily laid
thy yoke.
And thou saidst,
I shall be a lady
for ever:
so that
thou didst not lay
these things
to thy heart,
neither didst remember
the latter end of it.
Therefore hear now this,
thou
that art
given
to pleasures,
that dwellest carelessly,
that sayest in thine heart,
I am,
and none else
beside me;
I shall not sit
as a widow,
neither shall
I know
the loss
of children:
But these two things
shall come
to thee
in a moment
in one day,
the loss
of children,
and widowhood:
they shall come upon thee
in their perfection
for the multitude
of thy sorceries,
and
for the great abundance
of thine enchantments.
For thou
hast trusted
in thy wickedness:
thou hast said,
None seeth me.
Thy wisdom
and thy knowledge,
it hath perverted thee;
and
thou hast said
in thine heart,
I am,
and none else
beside me.
Therefore shall
evil come upon thee;
thou shalt not know
from whence
it riseth:
and mischief
shall fall
upon thee;
thou shalt not be able
to put it off:
and desolation
shall come upon thee
suddenly,
which thou
shalt not know.
Stand
now with thine enchantments,
and
with the multitude
of thy sorceries,
wherein thou
hast laboured
from thy youth;
if so
be
thou shalt be able
to profit,
if so
be
thou mayest prevail.
Thou
art wearied
in the multitude
of thy counsels.
Let now the astrologers,
the stargazers,
the monthly prognosticators,
stand up,
and save thee
from these things
that shall come upon thee.
Behold,
they shall be
as stubble;
the fire
shall burn them;
they shall not deliver themselves
from the power
of the flame:
there shall not be
a coal
to warm at,
nor fire to
sit before it.
Thus
shall
they be unto thee
with whom
thou hast laboured,
even thy merchants,
from thy youth:
they shall wander every one
to his quarter;
none shall save thee.
Hear ye this,
O house of Jacob,
which are called by the name
of Israel,
and are come forth
out of the waters
of Judah,
which swear
by the name
of the LORD,
and make
mention
of the God
of Israel,
but not in truth,
nor
in righteousness.
For they
call themselves
of the holy city,
and stay themselves
upon the God
of Israel;
The LORD of hosts
is his name.
I have declared
the former things
from the beginning;
and
they went forth
out of my mouth,
and
I shewed them;
I did them suddenly,
and they
came
to pass.
Because
I knew that
thou art obstinate,
and thy
neck
is an iron sinew,
and thy brow brass;
I have
even from the beginning
declared
it to thee;
before it
came to pass
I shewed it thee:
lest
thou shouldest say,
Mine idol
hath done them,
and my graven image,
and my molten image,
hath commanded them.
Thou hast heard,
see all this;
and will not
ye declare it?
I have shewed
thee new things
from this time,
even hidden
things,
and
thou didst not know them.
They are created now,
and not from the beginning;
even before the day
when
thou heardest them not;
lest
thou shouldest say,
Behold,
I knew them.
Yea,
thou heardest not;
yea,
thou knewest not;
yea,
from that time
that thine ear
was not opened:
for I
knew that thou
wouldest deal
very treacherously,
and wast called
a transgressor
from the womb.
For my name's sake
will
I defer mine anger,
and for my praise
will
I refrain
for thee,
that I cut thee
not off.
Behold,
I have refined thee,
but not with silver;
I have chosen thee
in the furnace
of affliction.
For mine own sake,
even for mine own sake,
will
I do it:
for how should
my name
be polluted?
and
I will not give
my glory
unto another.
Hearken unto me,
O Jacob
and Israel,
my called;
I am he;
I am the first,
I also am
the last.
Mine hand
also hath laid the foundation
of the earth,
and my right hand
hath spanned
the heavens:
when
I call unto them,
they stand up together.
All ye,
assemble yourselves,
and hear;
which among them hath declared
these things?
The LORD
hath loved him:
he will do his pleasure
on Babylon,
and his arm
shall be
on the Chaldeans.
I,
even I,
have spoken;
yea,
I have called him:
I have brought him,
and
he shall make
his way prosperous.
Come
ye near unto me,
hear ye this;
I have not spoken
in secret
from the beginning;
from the time
that it was,
there am I:
and
now the Lord GOD,
and his Spirit,
hath sent me.
Thus saith the LORD,
thy Redeemer,
the Holy One
of Israel;
I am
the LORD thy God
which teacheth thee
to profit,
which leadeth thee
by the way
that thou
shouldest go.
O that thou
hadst
hearkened
to my commandments!
then had
thy peace
been as a river,
and thy righteousness
as the waves
of the sea:
Thy seed
also had been
as the sand,
and the offspring
of thy bowels like
the gravel thereof;
his name
should not have been cut off
nor
destroyed from
before me.
Go ye forth
of Babylon,
flee
ye from the Chaldeans,
with a voice
of singing
declare ye,
tell this,
utter it even
to the end
of the earth;
say ye,
The LORD
hath redeemed
his servant Jacob.
And
they thirsted not
when
he led them
through the deserts:
he caused
the waters
to flow
out of the rock for them:
he clave
the rock also,
and the waters
gushed out.
There is no peace,
saith the LORD,
unto the wicked.
Listen,
O isles,
unto me;
and hearken,
ye people,
from far;
The LORD
hath called me
from the womb;
from the bowels
of my mother
hath
he made
mention
of my name.
And he
hath made
my mouth like
a sharp sword;
in the shadow
of his hand
hath
he hid me,
and made me
a polished shaft;
in his quiver
hath
he hid me;
And said unto me,
Thou art my servant,
O Israel,
in whom
I will be glorified.
Then I said,
I have laboured
in vain,
I have spent
my strength
for nought,
and in vain:
yet surely
my judgment
is with the LORD,
and my work
with my God.
And now,
saith
the LORD
that
formed me
from the womb
to be his servant,
to bring Jacob
again to him, Though Israel
be not gathered,
yet shall
I be glorious
in the eyes
of the LORD,
and my God
shall be
my strength.
And he said,
It is
a light thing
that thou
shouldest be my servant
to raise
up the tribes
of Jacob,
and
to restore the preserved
of Israel:
I will also give thee
for a light
to the Gentiles,
that thou
mayest be my salvation
unto the end
of the earth.
Thus saith the LORD,
the Redeemer
of Israel,
and his Holy One,
to him
whom man despiseth,
to him whom
the nation abhorreth,
to a servant
of rulers,
Kings
shall see
and arise,
princes also shall worship,
because
of the LORD
that is faithful,
and the Holy One
of Israel,
and
he shall choose thee.
Thus saith the LORD,
In an acceptable time
have
I heard thee,
and in a day
of salvation
have
I helped thee:
and
I will preserve thee,
and give thee
for a covenant
of the people,
to establish the earth,
to cause
to inherit the desolate heritages;
That thou
mayest say
to the prisoners,
Go forth;
to them
that are in darkness,
Shew yourselves.
They shall feed
in the ways,
and their pastures
shall be
in all high places.
They shall not hunger
nor thirst;
neither shall
the heat nor
sun
smite them:
for he
that hath mercy
on them shall lead them,
even by the springs
of water
shall he guide them.
And
I will make all
my mountains a way,
and my highways
shall be exalted.
Behold,
these shall come
from far:
and,
lo,
these from the north
and from the west;
and these
from the land
of Sinim.
Sing,
O heavens;
and be joyful,
O earth;
and break forth
into singing,
O mountains:
for the LORD
hath comforted
his people,
and will have mercy
upon his afflicted.
But Zion said,
The LORD
hath forsaken me,
and my Lord
hath forgotten me.
Can a woman
forget her
sucking child,
that she
should not have compassion
on the son
of her womb?
yea,
they may forget,
yet will
I not forget thee.
Behold,
I have graven thee
upon the palms
of my hands;
thy walls
are continually
before me.
Thy children
shall make haste;
thy destroyers
and they
that made thee waste
shall go forth
of thee.
Lift up thine
eyes round about,
and behold:
all these
gather themselves together,
and come
to thee.
As I live,
saith the LORD,
thou shalt surely clothe thee
with them all,
as with an ornament,
and bind them
on thee,
as a bride doeth.
For thy
waste
and thy
desolate places,
and the land
of thy destruction,
shall even now be too
narrow
by reason
of the inhabitants,
and they
that swallowed thee
up shall be
far away.
The children which
thou shalt have,
after thou
hast lost
the other,
shall say again
in thine ears,
The place
is too strait
for me:
give place to me
that I may dwell.
Then shalt thou
say in thine heart,
Who hath begotten me these,
seeing
I have lost
my children,
and am desolate,
a captive,
and removing
to and fro?
and
who hath brought
up these?
Behold,
I was left alone;
these,
where had
they been?
Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold,
I will lift
up mine hand
to the Gentiles,
and set up
my standard
to the people:
and
they shall bring
thy sons
in their arms,
and thy daughters
shall be carried
upon their shoulders.
And kings
shall be
thy nursing fathers,
and their queens thy
nursing mothers:
they shall bow down
to thee
with their face
toward the earth,
and lick
up the dust
of thy feet;
and
thou shalt know
that I
am the LORD:
for they
shall not be ashamed
that wait
for me.
Shall
the prey
be taken
from the mighty,
or the lawful captive delivered?
But thus
saith the LORD,
Even the captives
of the mighty
shall be taken away,
and
the prey
of the terrible
shall be delivered:
for I
will contend
with him that
contendeth with thee,
and I
will save thy children.
And I
will feed them
that oppress thee
with their own flesh;
and
they shall be drunken
with their own blood,
as with sweet wine:
and all flesh
shall know
that I
the LORD
am thy Saviour
and thy Redeemer,
the mighty One
of Jacob.
Thus saith the LORD,
Where is the bill
of your mother's divorcement,
whom
I have put away?
or which
of my creditors
is it
to whom
I have sold you?
Behold,
for your iniquities
have
ye sold yourselves,
and
for your transgressions
is
your mother put away.
Wherefore,
when I came,
was there
no man?
when I called,
was there none
to answer?
Is my hand
shortened at all,
that it
cannot redeem?
or have
I no power
to deliver?
behold,
at my rebuke
I dry
up the sea,
I make
the rivers a wilderness:
their fish stinketh,
because
there is
no water,
and dieth
for thirst.
I clothe
the heavens
with blackness,
and
I make sackcloth
their covering.
The Lord GOD
hath given me the tongue
of the learned,
that I
should know how
to speak
a word
in season to him
that is weary:
he wakeneth
morning by morning,
he wakeneth
mine ear
to hear
as the learned.
The Lord GOD
hath opened
mine ear,
and
I was not rebellious,
neither turned
away back.
I gave my back
to the smiters,
and my cheeks
to them
that plucked
off the hair:
I hid not
my face
from shame and spitting.
For the Lord GOD
will help me;
therefore shall
I not be confounded:
therefore have
I set
my face like a flint,
and I
know that
I shall not be ashamed.
He is near that
justifieth me;
who will contend
with me?
let us
stand together:
who is mine adversary?
let him
come near to me.
Behold,
the Lord GOD
will help me;
who is
he that
shall condemn me?
lo,
they all shall wax old
as a garment;
the moth
shall eat them up.
Who is among you
that feareth the LORD,
that obeyeth the voice
of his servant,
that walketh in darkness,
and hath
no light?
let him
trust in the name
of the LORD,
and stay
upon his God.
Behold,
all
ye that
kindle
a fire,
that compass yourselves about
with sparks:
walk in the light
of your fire,
and in the sparks
that
ye have kindled.
This shall
ye have
of mine hand;
ye shall lie down
in sorrow.
Hearken to me,
ye that
follow
after righteousness,
ye that
seek
the LORD:
look
unto the rock
whence ye
are hewn,
and to the hole
of the pit
whence ye
are digged.
Look
unto Abraham your father,
and
unto Sarah that bare you:
for I
called him alone,
and blessed him,
and increased him.
For the LORD
shall comfort Zion:
he will comfort
all her waste places;
and he
will make
her wilderness like Eden,
and her desert like
the garden
of the LORD;
joy
and gladness
shall be found
therein,
thanksgiving,
and the voice
of melody.
Hearken unto me,
my people;
and give ear
unto me, O
my nation:
for a law
shall proceed from me,
and I
will make
my judgment
to rest
for a light
of the people.
My righteousness
is near;
my salvation
is gone forth,
and mine
arms
shall judge
the people;
the isles
shall wait upon me,
and on mine
arm
shall they trust.
Lift up your eyes
to the heavens,
and look
upon the earth
beneath:
for the heavens
shall vanish away like smoke,
and the earth
shall wax old like
a garment,
and
they that
dwell
therein shall die
in like manner:
but my salvation
shall be
for ever,
and my righteousness
shall not be abolished.
Hearken unto me,
ye that
know
righteousness,
the people
in whose heart
is my law;
fear
ye not
the reproach
of men,
neither be
ye afraid
of their revilings.
For the moth
shall eat them
up like a garment,
and the worm
shall eat them like wool:
but my righteousness
shall be
for ever,
and my salvation
from generation to generation.
Awake,
awake,
put on strength,
O arm
of the LORD;
awake,
as in the ancient days,
in the generations
of old.
Art
thou
not it that
hath cut Rahab,
and wounded
the dragon?
Art
thou not it
which hath dried
the sea,
the waters
of the great deep;
that hath made
the depths
of the sea a way
for the ransomed
to pass over?
Therefore the redeemed
of the LORD
shall return,
and come
with singing
unto Zion;
and everlasting joy
shall be
upon their head:
they shall obtain gladness
and joy;
and sorrow
and mourning
shall flee away.
I,
even I,
am he
that comforteth you:
who art thou,
that thou
shouldest be afraid
of a man
that shall die,
and
of the son
of man which
shall be made
as grass;
And forgettest
the LORD thy maker,
that hath stretched
forth the heavens,
and laid
the foundations
of the earth;
and hast feared continually
every day
because
of the fury
of the oppressor,
as if
he were ready
to destroy?
and
where is the fury
of the oppressor?
The captive exile
hasteneth that
he may be loosed,
and
that he
should not die
in the pit,
nor
that his bread
should fail.
But
I am the LORD
thy God,
that divided
the sea,
whose waves roared:
The LORD of hosts
is his name.
And I
have put my words
in thy mouth,
and
I have covered thee
in the shadow
of mine hand,
that I
may plant
the heavens,
and lay
the foundations
of the earth,
and say
unto Zion,
Thou art my people.
Awake,
awake,
stand up,
O Jerusalem,
which hast drunk at the hand
of the LORD
the cup
of his fury;
thou hast drunken
the dregs
of the cup
of trembling,
and
wrung them out.
There is none
to guide her
among all the sons whom
she hath brought forth;
neither is there
any that
taketh her
by the hand
of all
the sons
that she
hath brought up.
These two things
are come
unto thee;
who shall be sorry
for thee?
desolation,
and destruction,
and the famine,
and the sword:
by whom shall
I comfort thee?
Thy sons
have fainted,
they lie
at the head
of all the streets,
as a wild bull
in a net:
they are full of
the fury
of the LORD,
the rebuke
of thy God.
Therefore hear now this,
thou afflicted,
and drunken,
but not with wine:
Thus
saith
thy Lord the LORD,
and thy God
that pleadeth
the cause
of his people,
Behold,
I have taken
out of thine hand
the cup
of trembling,
even the dregs
of the cup
of my fury;
thou shalt
no more drink it again:
But I
will put
it
into the hand
of them that
afflict thee;
which have said
to thy soul,
Bow down,
that we
may go over:
and
thou hast laid
thy body
as the ground,
and
as the street,
to them
that went over.
Awake,
awake;
put on thy strength,
O Zion;
put on
thy beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem,
the holy city:
for henceforth there shall
no more
come
into thee
the uncircumcised
and the unclean.
Shake thyself
from the dust;
arise,
and sit down,
O Jerusalem:
loose thyself
from the bands
of thy neck,
O captive daughter
of Zion.
For thus
saith the LORD,
Ye have sold yourselves
for nought;
and
ye shall be redeemed
without money.
For thus
saith the Lord GOD,
My people
went down aforetime
into Egypt
to sojourn there;
and the Assyrian
oppressed them
without cause.
Now therefore,
what have I here,
saith the LORD,
that my people
is taken away
for nought?
they that rule
over them make them
to howl,
saith the LORD;
and my name
continually every day
is blasphemed.
Therefore my people
shall know
my name:
therefore they
shall know
in that day
that
I am
he that
doth speak:
behold,
it is I.
How beautiful
upon the mountains
are
the feet
of him that
bringeth good tidings,
that publisheth peace;
that bringeth good tidings
of good,
that publisheth salvation;
that saith unto Zion,
Thy God reigneth!
Thy watchmen
shall lift
up the voice;
with the voice
together shall
they sing:
for they
shall see eye to eye,
when the LORD
shall bring again Zion.
Break forth
into joy,
sing together,
ye waste
places
of Jerusalem:
for the LORD
hath comforted
his people,
he hath redeemed
Jerusalem.
The LORD
hath made
bare his holy arm
in the eyes
of all the nations;
and all
the ends
of the earth
shall see
the salvation
of our God.
Depart ye,
depart ye,
go ye out
from thence,
touch no unclean thing;
go ye
out of the midst
of her;
be ye clean,
that bear
the vessels
of the LORD.
For ye
shall not go out
with haste,
nor go by flight:
for the LORD
will go
before you;
and
the God
of Israel
will be
your rereward.
Behold,
my servant
shall deal prudently,
he shall be exalted
and extolled,
and be very high.
As many
were astonied
at thee;
his visage
was so
marred more than
any man,
and his form
more than
the sons
of men:
So shall
he sprinkle
many nations;
the kings
shall shut their mouths
at him:
for that which
had not been told them
shall
they see;
and
that which
they had not heard
shall they consider.
Who hath believed
our report?
and to whom
is the arm
of the LORD revealed?
For he
shall grow up
before him
as a tender plant,
and
as a root
out of a dry ground:
he hath
no form
nor comeliness;
and
when
we shall see him,
there is
no beauty that
we should desire him.
He is despised
and rejected
of men;
a man
of sorrows,
and acquainted
with grief:
and we
hid as it
were our faces
from him;
he was despised,
and
we esteemed him not.
Surely
he hath borne
our griefs,
and carried
our sorrows:
yet
we did esteem him
stricken,
smitten of God,
and afflicted.
But
he was wounded
for our transgressions,
he was bruised
for our iniquities:
the chastisement
of our peace
was upon him;
and
with his stripes
we are healed.
All we like sheep
have gone astray;
we have turned every one
to his own way;
and the LORD
hath laid
on him the iniquity
of us all.
He was oppressed,
and
he was afflicted,
yet
he opened not
his mouth:
he is brought as a lamb
to the slaughter,
and as a sheep
before her shearers
is dumb,
so he
openeth not
his mouth.
He was taken
from prison
and from judgment:
and
who shall declare
his generation?
for he
was cut off
out of the land
of the living:
for the transgression
of my people
was he stricken.
And he
made
his grave
with the wicked,
and
with the rich in his death;
because
he had done
no violence,
neither was any deceit
in his mouth.
Yet it
pleased
the LORD
to bruise him;
he hath put him
to grief:
when
thou shalt make
his soul an offering
for sin,
he shall see
his seed,
he shall prolong
his days,
and
the pleasure
of the LORD
shall prosper
in his hand.
He shall see of the travail
of his soul,
and shall be satisfied:
by his knowledge
shall my righteous servant
justify many;
for he
shall bear
their iniquities.
Therefore will
I divide him
a portion
with the great,
and
he shall divide
the spoil
with the strong;
because
he hath poured
out his soul
unto death:
and
he was numbered
with the transgressors;
and
he bare
the sin
of many,
and made intercession
for the transgressors.
Sing,
O barren,
thou
that didst not bear;
break forth
into singing,
and cry aloud,
thou
that didst not travail
with child:
for more
are the children
of the desolate
than the children
of the married wife,
saith the LORD.
Enlarge the place
of thy tent,
and let them
stretch
forth the curtains
of thine habitations:
spare not,
lengthen thy cords,
and strengthen
thy stakes;
For thou
shalt break forth
on the right hand
and
on the left;
and thy
seed
shall inherit
the Gentiles,
and make
the desolate cities
to be inhabited.
Fear not;
for thou
shalt not be ashamed:
neither be
thou confounded;
for thou
shalt not be put
to shame:
for thou
shalt forget
the shame
of thy youth,
and shalt not remember
the reproach
of thy widowhood any more.
For thy Maker
is
thine husband;
the LORD of hosts
is his name;
and thy Redeemer
the Holy One
of Israel;
The God
of the whole earth
shall he be called.
For the LORD
hath called thee
as a woman
forsaken
and grieved
in spirit,
and a wife
of youth,
when
thou wast refused,
saith thy God.
For a small moment
have
I forsaken thee;
but with great mercies
will
I gather thee.
In a little wrath
I hid
my face
from thee
for a moment;
but with everlasting kindness
will
I have mercy
on thee,
saith the LORD
thy Redeemer.
For this
is as the waters
of Noah unto me:
for as I
have sworn that
the waters
of Noah
should no more go over
the earth;
so have
I sworn that
I would not be wroth
with thee,
nor rebuke thee.
For the mountains
shall depart,
and the hills
be removed;
but my kindness
shall not depart
from thee,
neither shall
the covenant
of my peace
be removed,
saith the LORD that
hath mercy
on thee.
O thou afflicted,
tossed
with tempest,
and not comforted,
behold,
I will lay
thy stones
with fair colours,
and lay
thy foundations
with sapphires.
And I
will make
thy windows
of agates,
and thy
gates
of carbuncles,
and all thy
borders
of pleasant stones.
And all
thy children
shall be taught
of the LORD;
and great
shall be the peace
of thy children.
In righteousness
shalt
thou be established:
thou shalt be far
from oppression;
for thou
shalt not fear:
and from terror;
for it
shall not come
near thee.
Behold,
they shall surely gather together,
but not by me:
whosoever
shall gather together
against thee
shall fall
for thy sake.
Behold,
I have created
the smith
that bloweth
the coals
in the fire,
and that
bringeth forth an instrument
for his work;
and
I have created
the waster
to destroy.
No weapon
that is formed
against thee
shall prosper;
and every tongue
that shall rise
against thee
in judgment
thou shalt condemn.
This is the heritage
of the servants
of the LORD,
and their righteousness
is of me,
saith the LORD.
Ho,
every one that thirsteth,
come
ye to the waters,
and he that
hath no money;
come ye,
buy,
and eat;
yea,
come,
buy wine
and milk
without money
and without price.
Wherefore do
ye spend money
for that
which is not
bread?
and your labour
for that which
satisfieth not?
hearken diligently unto me,
and eat
ye that which
is good,
and let
your soul
delight itself
in fatness.
Incline your ear,
and come unto me:
hear,
and your soul
shall live;
and I
will make
an everlasting covenant
with you,
even the sure mercies
of David.
Behold,
I have given him
for a witness
to the people,
a leader
and commander
to the people.
Behold,
thou shalt call
a nation
that thou
knowest not,
and nations
that knew not
thee
shall run
unto thee
because
of the LORD thy God,
and
for the Holy One
of Israel;
for he
hath glorified thee.
Seek ye
the LORD
while he
may be found,
call
ye upon him
while he
is near:
Let the wicked
forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man
his thoughts:
and let him
return
unto the LORD,
and
he will have mercy
upon him;
and to our God,
for he
will abundantly pardon.
For my thoughts
are not
your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,
saith the LORD.
For as the heavens
are higher
than the earth,
so are
my ways higher
than your ways,
and my thoughts
than your thoughts.
For as the rain
cometh down,
and the snow
from heaven,
and returneth not thither,
but watereth the earth,
and maketh it
bring forth and bud,
that it
may give
seed
to the sower,
and bread
to the eater:
So shall
my word
be
that goeth forth
out of my mouth:
it shall not return
unto me void,
but it
shall accomplish that
which I please,
and it
shall prosper
in the thing whereto
I sent it.
For ye
shall go out
with joy,
and be led forth
with peace:
the mountains
and the hills
shall break forth
before you
into singing,
and all
the trees
of the field
shall clap
their hands.
Instead of the thorn
shall come
up the fir tree,
and
instead of the brier
shall come
up the myrtle tree:
and it
shall be to the LORD
for a name,
for an everlasting
sign that
shall not be cut off.
Thus saith the LORD,
Keep ye judgment,
and do justice:
for my salvation
is near to come,
and my righteousness
to be revealed.
Blessed is the man
that doeth this,
and the son
of man
that layeth
hold on it;
that keepeth
the sabbath
from polluting it,
and keepeth
his hand
from doing any evil.
Neither let
the son
of the stranger,
that hath joined himself
to the LORD,
speak,
saying,
The LORD
hath utterly separated me
from his people:
neither let
the eunuch say,
Behold,
I am a dry tree.
For thus
saith
the LORD
unto the eunuchs
that keep
my sabbaths,
and choose
the things that
please me,
and take
hold
of my covenant;
Even unto them will
I give in mine
house
and
within my walls
a place
and a name better
than of sons
and of daughters:
I will give them
an everlasting name,
that shall not be cut off.
Also the sons
of the stranger,
that join themselves
to the LORD,
to serve him,
and
to love the name
of the LORD,
to be his servants,
every one that
keepeth
the sabbath
from polluting it,
and taketh
hold
of my covenant;
Even
them will
I bring
to my holy mountain,
and make them joyful
in my house
of prayer:
their burnt offerings
and their sacrifices
shall be accepted
upon mine altar;
for mine
house
shall be called an house
of prayer
for all people.
The Lord GOD,
which gathereth
the outcasts
of Israel saith,
Yet will
I gather others
to him,
beside those
that are gathered unto him.
All
ye beasts
of the field,
come to devour,
yea,
all
ye beasts
in the forest.
His watchmen
are blind:
they are all ignorant,
they are all
dumb dogs,
they cannot bark;
sleeping,
lying down,
loving
to slumber.
Yea,
they are greedy dogs
which can never have
enough,
and
they are shepherds
that cannot understand:
they all look
to their own way,
every one
for his gain,
from his quarter.
Come ye,
say they,
I will fetch wine,
and
we will fill ourselves
with strong drink;
and to morrow
shall be
as this day,
and much more abundant.
The righteous perisheth,
and no man
layeth it
to heart:
and merciful men
are taken away,
none considering
that the righteous
is taken away
from the evil
to come.
He shall enter
into peace:
they shall rest
in their beds,
each one
walking
in his uprightness.
But draw near hither,
ye sons
of the sorceress,
the seed
of the adulterer
and the whore.
Against whom do
ye sport
yourselves?
against whom make
ye a wide mouth,
and draw
out the tongue?
are
ye not children
of transgression,
a seed
of falsehood.
Enflaming yourselves
with idols
under every green tree,
slaying the children
in the valleys
under the clifts
of the rocks?
Among the smooth stones
of the stream
is thy portion;
they,
they are thy lot:
even to them
hast
thou poured
a drink offering,
thou hast offered
a meat offering.
Should
I receive
comfort in these?
Upon a
lofty
and high mountain
hast
thou set
thy bed:
even thither
wentest
thou
up to offer sacrifice.
Behind the doors
also and the posts
hast
thou set up
thy remembrance:
for thou
hast discovered thyself
to another
than me,
and art gone up;
thou hast enlarged
thy bed,
and made thee
a covenant
with them;
thou lovedst
their bed
where thou
sawest it.
And
thou wentest
to the king
with ointment,
and didst increase
thy perfumes,
and didst send
thy messengers
far off,
and didst debase thyself
even unto hell.
Thou art
wearied
in the greatness
of thy way;
yet saidst
thou not,
There
is
no hope:
thou hast found
the life
of thine hand;
therefore thou
wast not grieved.
And of whom hast
thou been afraid
or feared,
that thou
hast lied,
and hast not remembered me,
nor laid it
to thy heart?
have not
I held
my peace
even of old,
and
thou fearest me not?
I will declare
thy righteousness,
and thy works;
for they
shall not profit thee.
When thou criest,
let thy companies
deliver thee;
but the wind
shall carry them
all away;
vanity shall take them:
but he
that putteth
his trust
in me shall possess the land,
and shall inherit
my holy mountain;
And shall say,
Cast ye up,
cast ye up,
prepare the way,
take up
the stumblingblock out of the way
of my people.
For thus
saith the high
and lofty One
that inhabiteth eternity,
whose name
is Holy;
I dwell
in the high
and holy place,
with him also that is
of a contrite
and humble spirit,
to revive the spirit
of the humble,
and
to revive
the heart
of the contrite
ones.
For I
will not contend
for ever,
neither will
I be always wroth:
for the spirit
should fail
before me,
and the souls
which I
have made.
For the iniquity
of his covetousness
was
I wroth,
and smote him:
I hid me,
and was wroth,
and
he went on frowardly
in the way
of his heart.
I have seen
his ways,
and will heal him:
I will lead him also,
and restore
comforts
unto him and
to his mourners.
I create
the fruit
of the lips;
Peace,
peace to him
that is far off,
and to him
that is near,
saith the LORD;
and
I will heal him.
But the wicked
are like
the troubled sea,
when it
cannot rest,
whose waters
cast up mire
and dirt.
There is no peace,
saith my God,
to the wicked.
Cry aloud,
spare not,
lift up thy
voice like
a trumpet,
and shew
my people
their transgression,
and the house
of Jacob their sins.
Yet
they seek me daily,
and delight
to know
my ways,
as a nation
that did righteousness,
and forsook not
the ordinance
of their God:
they ask
of me the ordinances
of justice;
they take
delight
in approaching
to God.
Wherefore have
we fasted,
say they,
and
thou seest not?
wherefore have
we afflicted
our soul,
and
thou takest no knowledge?
Behold,
in the day
of your fast
ye find pleasure,
and exact all
your labours.
Behold,
ye fast
for strife
and debate,
and
to smite
with the fist
of wickedness:
ye shall not fast as ye
do
this day,
to make
your voice
to be heard
on high.
Is it
such a fast that
I have chosen?
a day
for a man
to afflict his soul?
is it
to bow
down his head
as a bulrush,
and to spread sackcloth
and ashes
under him?
wilt
thou call
this a fast,
and an acceptable day
to the LORD?
Is not
this the fast that
I have chosen?
to loose the bands
of wickedness,
to undo
the heavy burdens,
and to let
the oppressed
go free,
and that
ye break
every yoke?
Is it
not
to deal thy bread
to the hungry,
and
that thou
bring
the poor
that
are cast out
to thy house?
when
thou seest the naked,
that thou
cover him;
and
that thou
hide not thyself
from thine own flesh?
Then shall
thy light
break forth
as the morning,
and thine health
shall spring
forth speedily:
and thy righteousness
shall go
before thee;
the glory
of the LORD
shall be
thy rereward.
Then shalt
thou call,
and the LORD
shall answer;
thou shalt cry,
and he
shall say,
Here I am.
If thou
take away
from the midst
of thee the yoke,
the putting forth
of the finger,
and speaking vanity;
And
if thou
draw out thy soul
to the hungry,
and satisfy
the afflicted soul;
then shall
thy light
rise
in obscurity,
and thy darkness
be
as the noon day:
And the LORD
shall guide
thee continually,
and satisfy
thy soul
in drought,
and make fat
thy bones:
and
thou shalt be like
a watered garden,
and like
a spring
of water,
whose waters
fail not.
And
they
that shall be
of thee
shall build
the old waste places:
thou shalt raise
up the foundations
of many generations;
and
thou shalt be called,
The repairer
of the breach,
The restorer
of paths
to dwell in.
If thou
turn away thy
foot
from the sabbath,
from doing
thy pleasure
on my holy day;
and call
the sabbath a delight,
the holy
of the LORD,
honourable;
and shalt honour him,
not doing
thine own ways,
nor finding
thine own pleasure,
nor speaking thine own words:
Then shalt thou
delight thyself
in the LORD;
and I
will cause
thee
to ride
upon the high places
of the earth,
and feed thee
with the heritage
of Jacob
thy father:
for the mouth
of the LORD
hath spoken it.
Behold,
the LORD's hand
is not shortened,
that it
cannot save;
neither his ear heavy,
that it
cannot hear:
But your iniquities
have separated
between you
and your God,
and your sins
have hid
his face
from you,
that he
will not hear.
For your hands
are defiled
with blood,
and your fingers
with iniquity;
your lips
have spoken lies,
your tongue
hath muttered perverseness.
None calleth
for justice,
nor any
pleadeth for truth:
they trust
in vanity,
and speak lies;
they conceive
mischief,
and bring forth
iniquity.
They hatch
cockatrice'
eggs,
and weave
the spider's web:
he that
eateth of their eggs dieth,
and that which
is crushed
breaketh out
into a viper.
Their webs
shall not become
garments,
neither shall
they cover themselves
with their works:
their works
are works
of iniquity,
and
the act
of violence
is in their hands.
Their feet
run to evil,
and
they make haste
to shed innocent blood:
their thoughts
are thoughts
of iniquity;
wasting
and destruction
are in their paths.
The way of peace
they know not;
and there is no judgment
in their goings:
they have made them
crooked paths:
whosoever
goeth
therein shall not know peace.
Therefore is judgment far
from us,
neither
doth
justice overtake us:
we wait
for light,
but behold
obscurity;
for brightness,
but we
walk
in darkness.
We grope
for the wall like
the blind,
and we
grope
as if we
had no eyes:
we stumble
at noon day
as in the night;
we are in desolate places
as dead men.
We roar all like bears,
and mourn sore like doves:
we look for judgment,
but there is none;
for salvation,
but it
is far
off from us.
For our transgressions
are multiplied
before thee,
and our sins
testify against us:
for our transgressions
are with us;
and
as for our iniquities,
we know them;
In transgressing
and lying
against the LORD,
and departing away
from our God,
speaking oppression
and revolt,
conceiving
and uttering
from the heart words
of falsehood.
And judgment
is turned
away backward,
and justice
standeth afar off:
for truth
is fallen
in the street,
and equity
cannot enter.
Yea,
truth faileth;
and
he that
departeth from evil
maketh himself
a prey:
and the LORD saw it,
and it
displeased him
that there was
no judgment.
And he
saw that
there was
no man,
and wondered
that there was
no intercessor:
therefore
his arm brought salvation
unto him;
and his righteousness,
it sustained him.
For he put on righteousness
as a breastplate,
and an helmet
of salvation
upon his head;
and he put on
the garments
of vengeance
for clothing,
and was clad
with zeal
as a cloak.
According to their deeds,
accordingly
he will repay,
fury
to his adversaries,
recompence
to his enemies;
to the islands
he will repay recompence.
So shall
they fear
the name
of the LORD
from the west,
and his glory
from the rising
of the sun.
When the enemy
shall come in like
a flood,
the Spirit
of the LORD
shall lift
up a standard
against him.
And the Redeemer
shall come
to Zion,
and unto them that turn
from transgression
in Jacob,
saith the LORD.
As for me,
this is my covenant
with them,
saith the LORD;
My spirit
that is
upon thee,
and my words which
I have put in
thy mouth,
shall not depart
out of thy mouth,
nor
out of the mouth
of thy seed,
nor
out of the mouth
of thy seed's seed,
saith the LORD,
from henceforth
and
for ever.
Arise,
shine;
for thy
light
is come,
and
the glory
of the LORD
is risen
upon thee.
For,
behold,
the darkness
shall cover
the earth,
and gross darkness
the people:
but the LORD
shall arise
upon thee,
and his glory
shall be seen
upon thee.
And the Gentiles
shall come
to thy light,
and kings
to the brightness
of thy rising.
Lift up thine
eyes round about,
and see:
all
they
gather themselves together,
they come
to thee:
thy sons
shall come
from far,
and thy daughters
shall be nursed
at thy side.
Then
thou shalt see,
and
flow together,
and thine heart
shall fear,
and be enlarged;
because
the abundance
of the sea
shall be converted
unto thee,
the forces
of the Gentiles
shall come
unto thee.
The multitude
of camels
shall cover thee,
the dromedaries
of Midian
and Ephah;
all
they from Sheba
shall come:
they shall bring gold
and incense;
and
they shall shew
forth the praises
of the LORD.
All the flocks
of Kedar
shall be gathered together
unto thee,
the rams
of Nebaioth
shall minister
unto thee:
they shall come up with acceptance
on mine altar,
and
I will glorify
the house
of my glory.
Who are these
that fly
as a cloud,
and as the doves
to their windows?
Surely
the isles
shall wait for me,
and the ships
of Tarshish first,
to bring thy sons
from far,
their silver
and their gold
with them,
unto the name
of the LORD thy God,
and
to the Holy One
of Israel,
because
he hath glorified thee.
And the sons
of strangers
shall build up
thy walls,
and their kings
shall minister
unto thee:
for in my wrath
I smote thee,
but in my favour
have
I had mercy
on thee.
Therefore thy
gates
shall be
open continually;
they shall not be shut day
nor night;
that men
may bring
unto thee
the forces
of the Gentiles,
and
that their kings
may be brought.
For the nation
and kingdom
that
will not serve
thee shall perish;
yea,
those nations
shall be utterly wasted.
The glory
of Lebanon
shall come
unto thee,
the fir tree,
the pine tree,
and the box
together,
to beautify the place
of my sanctuary;
and I
will make
the place
of my feet glorious.
The sons
also of them that
afflicted
thee shall come
bending unto thee;
and all
they
that
despised
thee shall bow themselves down
at the soles
of thy feet;
and
they shall call thee;
The city
of the LORD,
The Zion
of the Holy One
of Israel.
Whereas
thou has been forsaken
and hated,
so that
no man
went through thee,
I will make thee
an eternal excellency,
a joy
of many generations.
Thou shalt also suck
the milk
of the Gentiles,
and shalt suck
the breast
of kings:
and
thou shalt know
that I
the LORD
am thy Saviour
and thy Redeemer,
the mighty One
of Jacob.
For brass
I will bring gold,
and for iron
I will bring silver,
and for wood brass,
and
for stones iron:
I will also make
thy officers peace,
and thine exactors righteousness.
Violence
shall
no more
be heard
in thy land,
wasting
nor destruction
within thy borders;
but
thou shalt call
thy walls Salvation,
and thy
gates Praise.
The sun
shall be
no more thy
light
by day;
neither for brightness
shall
the moon
give
light
unto thee:
but the LORD
shall be
unto thee
an everlasting light,
and thy God thy glory.
Thy sun
shall no more go down;
neither shall
thy moon
withdraw itself:
for the LORD
shall be
thine everlasting light,
and the days
of thy
mourning
shall be ended.
Thy people
also shall be all righteous:
they shall inherit the land
for ever,
the branch
of my planting,
the work
of my hands,
that I
may be glorified.
A little one
shall become
a thousand,
and a small one
a strong nation:
I the LORD
will hasten it
in his time.
The Spirit
of the Lord GOD
is upon me;
because
the LORD
hath anointed me
to preach good tidings
unto the meek;
he hath sent me
to bind
up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty
to the captives,
and the opening
of the prison
to them
that are bound;
To proclaim
the acceptable year
of the LORD,
and the day
of vengeance
of our God;
to comfort all
that mourn;
To appoint
unto them that
mourn in Zion,
to give
unto them beauty
for ashes,
the oil
of joy
for mourning,
the garment
of praise
for the spirit
of heaviness;
that they
might be called trees
of righteousness,
the planting
of the LORD,
that he
might be glorified.
And they
shall build
the old wastes,
they shall raise
up the former desolations,
and
they shall repair
the waste cities,
the desolations
of many generations.
And strangers
shall stand
and feed
your flocks,
and the sons
of the alien
shall be
your plowmen
and your vinedressers.
But
ye shall be named
the Priests
of the LORD:
men shall call
you the Ministers
of our God:
ye shall eat the riches
of the Gentiles,
and
in their glory
shall
ye boast yourselves.
For your shame
ye shall have double;
and for confusion
they shall rejoice
in their portion:
therefore in their land
they shall possess
the double:
everlasting joy
shall be unto them.
For I
the LORD
love judgment,
I hate robbery
for burnt offering;
and I
will direct
their work
in truth,
and I
will make
an everlasting covenant
with them.
And their seed
shall be known
among the Gentiles,
and their offspring
among the people:
all that
see them
shall acknowledge them,
that they
are the seed
which the LORD
hath blessed.
I will greatly rejoice
in the LORD,
my soul
shall be joyful
in my God;
for he
hath clothed me
with the garments
of salvation,
he hath covered me
with the robe
of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decketh himself
with ornaments,
and
as a bride adorneth herself
with her jewels.
For as the earth
bringeth forth her bud,
and as the garden
causeth
the things
that are sown in it
to spring forth;
so the Lord GOD
will cause righteousness
and praise
to spring forth
before all the nations.
For Zion's sake
will
I not hold
my peace,
and
for Jerusalem's sake
I will not rest,
until the righteousness
thereof go forth
as brightness,
and the salvation
thereof as a lamp
that burneth.
And the Gentiles
shall see
thy righteousness,
and all
kings thy glory:
and
thou shalt be called
by a new name,
which the mouth
of the LORD
shall name.
Thou shalt also be a crown
of glory
in the hand
of the LORD,
and a royal diadem
in the hand
of thy God.
Thou shalt
no more
be termed Forsaken;
neither shall
thy land any more
be termed Desolate:
but
thou shalt be called
Hephzibah,
and thy
land Beulah:
for the LORD
delighteth in thee,
and thy
land
shall be married.
For as a
young man
marrieth a virgin,
so shall
thy sons
marry thee:
and
as the bridegroom
rejoiceth over the bride,
so shall
thy God
rejoice over thee.
I have set watchmen
upon thy walls,
O Jerusalem,
which shall never hold
their peace day
nor night:
ye that make
mention
of the LORD,
keep not silence,
And give him
no rest,
till he establish,
and
till he
make Jerusalem a praise
in the earth.
The LORD
hath sworn
by his right hand,
and by the arm
of his strength,
Surely I
will no more
give thy corn
to be meat
for thine enemies;
and the sons
of the stranger
shall not drink
thy wine,
for the which
thou hast laboured:
But they that
have gathered it
shall eat it,
and praise
the LORD;
and
they that
have brought it
together shall drink it
in the courts
of my holiness.
Go through,
go through the gates;
prepare
ye the way
of the people;
cast up,
cast
up the highway;
gather out the stones;
lift
up a standard
for the people.
Behold,
the LORD
hath proclaimed
unto the end
of the world,
Say
ye to the daughter
of Zion, Behold,
thy salvation cometh;
behold,
his reward
is with him,
and his work
before him.
And
they shall call them,
The holy people,
The redeemed
of the LORD:
and
thou shalt be called,
Sought out,
A city not forsaken.
Who is this
that cometh from Edom,
with dyed garments
from Bozrah?
this that is glorious
in his apparel,
travelling
in the greatness
of his strength?
I that
speak
in righteousness,
mighty to save.
Wherefore art
thou red
in thine apparel,
and thy garments like
him that
treadeth
in the winefat?
I have trodden the winepress alone;
and of the people
there was none
with me:
for I
will tread them
in mine anger,
and trample them
in my fury;
and their blood
shall be sprinkled
upon my garments,
and
I will stain all
my raiment.
For the day
of vengeance
is in mine heart,
and the year
of my redeemed
is come.
And I looked,
and there was none
to help;
and I
wondered
that there was none
to uphold:
therefore mine
own
arm
brought salvation
unto me;
and my fury,
it upheld me.
And I
will tread
down the people
in mine anger,
and make them
drunk in my fury,
and
I will bring down
their strength
to the earth.
I will mention
the lovingkindnesses
of the LORD,
and the praises
of the LORD,
according to all
that the LORD
hath bestowed on us,
and the great goodness
toward the house
of Israel,
which he
hath bestowed
on them according to
his mercies,
and
according to
the multitude
of his lovingkindnesses.
For he said,
Surely
they are my people,
children
that will not lie:
so he
was their Saviour.
In all
their affliction
he was afflicted,
and the angel
of his presence
saved them:
in his love
and in his pity
he redeemed them;
and he
bare them,
and carried them all
the days
of old.
But
they rebelled,
and vexed
his holy Spirit:
therefore he
was turned
to be their enemy,
and
he fought against them.
Then
he remembered
the days
of old,
Moses,
and his people,
saying,
Where
is
he that
brought
them up
out of the sea
with the shepherd
of his flock?
where is
he that put
his holy Spirit
within him?
That led them
by the right hand
of Moses
with his glorious arm,
dividing the water
before them,
to make himself
an everlasting name?
That led them
through the deep,
as an horse
in the wilderness,
that they
should not stumble?
As a beast
goeth down
into the valley,
the Spirit
of the LORD
caused him
to rest:
so didst thou
lead thy people,
to make thyself
a glorious name.
Look down
from heaven,
and behold
from the habitation
of thy holiness
and of thy glory:
where is thy zeal
and thy strength,
the sounding
of thy bowels
and of thy mercies
toward me?
are
they restrained?
Doubtless
thou art
our father,
though Abraham
be ignorant of us,
and Israel
acknowledge us not:
thou,
O LORD,
art our father,
our redeemer;
thy name
is from everlasting.
O LORD,
why hast
thou made us
to err from thy ways,
and hardened
our heart from thy fear?
Return for thy servants' sake,
the tribes
of thine inheritance.
The people
of thy holiness
have possessed
it but a little while:
our adversaries
have trodden
down thy sanctuary.
We are thine:
thou
never barest
rule over them;
they
were not called
by thy name.
Oh that thou
wouldest rend
the heavens,
that thou
wouldest come down,
that the mountains
might flow down
at thy presence,
As when
the melting fire burneth,
the fire
causeth
the waters
to boil,
to make
thy name
known to thine adversaries,
that the nations
may tremble
at thy presence!
When
thou didst terrible things
which we
looked not for,
thou camest down,
the mountains
flowed down
at thy presence.
For since the beginning
of the world men
have not heard,
nor perceived
by the ear,
neither hath
the eye seen,
O God,
beside thee,
what
he hath prepared
for him that
waiteth for him.
Thou meetest him
that
rejoiceth
and worketh
righteousness,
those that
remember thee
in thy ways:
behold,
thou art wroth;
for we have sinned:
in those
is continuance,
and
we shall be saved.
But
we are all
as an unclean thing,
and all
our righteousnesses
are as filthy rags;
and
we all do fade
as a leaf;
and our iniquities,
like the wind,
have taken us away.
And there is none
that calleth
upon thy name,
that stirreth
up himself
to take
hold of thee:
for thou
hast
hid
thy face from us,
and hast consumed us,
because
of our iniquities.
But now,
O LORD,
thou art
our father;
we are the clay,
and
thou our potter;
and
we all are the work
of thy hand.
Be not wroth very sore,
O LORD,
neither remember iniquity
for ever:
behold,
see,
we beseech thee,
we are all
thy people.
Thy holy cities
are a wilderness,
Zion is a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
Our holy
and our beautiful house,
where our fathers
praised thee,
is burned up
with fire:
and all
our pleasant things
are laid waste.
Wilt
thou refrain thyself
for these things,
O LORD?
wilt thou
hold thy peace,
and afflict us very sore?
I am sought
of them that
asked not for me;
I am found
of them that
sought me not:
I said,
Behold me,
behold me,
unto a nation
that was not called
by my name.
I have spread out
my hands
all
the day
unto a rebellious people,
which walketh in a way
that was not good,
after their own thoughts;
A people that
provoketh me
to anger continually
to my face;
that sacrificeth in gardens,
and burneth
incense
upon altars
of brick;
Which remain
among the graves,
and lodge
in the monuments,
which eat swine's flesh,
and broth
of abominable things
is in their vessels;
Which say,
Stand by thyself,
come not
near to me;
for I
am holier
than thou.
These are a smoke
in my nose,
a fire that
burneth all
the day.
Behold,
it is written
before me:
I will not keep
silence,
but will recompense,
even recompense
into their bosom,
Your iniquities,
and the iniquities
of your fathers
together,
saith the LORD,
which have burned
incense
upon the mountains,
and blasphemed me
upon the hills:
therefore will
I measure
their former work
into their bosom.
Thus saith the LORD,
As the new wine
is found
in the cluster,
and one saith,
Destroy it not;
for a
blessing
is in it:
so will
I do
for my servants' sakes,
that I
may not destroy them all.
And
I will bring forth
a seed
out of Jacob,
and
out of Judah an inheritor
of my mountains:
and mine
elect
shall inherit it,
and my servants
shall dwell there.
And Sharon
shall be a fold
of flocks,
and the valley
of Achor a place
for the herds
to lie down in,
for my people
that have sought me.
But
ye are they that
forsake the LORD,
that forget
my holy mountain,
that prepare
a table
for that troop,
and
that furnish
the drink
offering
unto that number.
Therefore will
I number you
to the sword,
and
ye shall all bow down
to the slaughter:
because
when I called,
ye did not answer;
when I spake,
ye did not hear;
but did evil
before mine eyes,
and did choose that
wherein I
delighted not.
Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD, Behold,
my servants
shall eat,
but
ye shall be hungry:
behold,
my servants
shall drink,
but
ye shall be thirsty:
behold,
my servants
shall rejoice,
but
ye shall be ashamed:
Behold,
my servants
shall sing
for joy of heart,
but ye
shall cry
for sorrow
of heart,
and shall howl
for vexation
of spirit.
And
ye shall leave
your name
for a curse
unto my chosen:
for the Lord GOD
shall slay thee,
and call
his servants
by another name:
That he
who blesseth himself
in the earth
shall bless himself
in the God
of truth;
and
he that
sweareth in the earth
shall swear
by the God
of truth;
because
the former troubles
are forgotten,
and
because
they are
hid from mine eyes.
For,
behold,
I create new heavens
and a new earth:
and the former
shall not be remembered,
nor come
into mind.
But be
ye glad
and rejoice for
ever in that
which I create:
for,
behold,
I create
Jerusalem a rejoicing,
and her people
a joy.
And
I will rejoice
in Jerusalem,
and joy
in my people:
and the voice
of weeping
shall be
no more heard
in her,
nor the voice
of crying.
There shall be no
more thence
an infant
of days,
nor an old man that
hath not filled
his days:
for the child
shall die
an hundred years old;
but the sinner
being
an hundred years old
shall be accursed.
And
they shall build houses,
and inhabit them;
and
they shall plant
vineyards,
and eat
the fruit
of them.
They shall not build,
and
another inhabit;
they shall not plant,
and another eat:
for as the days
of a tree
are the days
of my people,
and mine
elect
shall long
enjoy the work
of their hands.
They shall not labour
in vain,
nor bring forth
for trouble;
for they are
the seed
of the blessed
of the LORD,
and their offspring
with them.
And it
shall come
to pass,
that before they call,
I will answer;
and
while they
are yet speaking,
I will hear.
The wolf
and the lamb
shall feed together,
and the lion
shall eat
straw like
the bullock:
and dust
shall be
the serpent's meat.
They shall not hurt nor
destroy
in all my holy mountain,
saith the LORD.
Thus saith the LORD,
The heaven
is my throne,
and the earth
is my footstool:
where is the house
that ye
build
unto me?
and
where is the place
of my rest?
For all
those things
hath
mine hand made,
and all those things
have been,
saith the LORD:
but to this man
will
I look,
even to him
that is poor and
of a contrite spirit,
and trembleth at my word.
He that
killeth
an ox
is
as if
he slew a man;
he that
sacrificeth a lamb,
as if
he cut off
a dog's neck;
he that
offereth an oblation,
as if
he offered
swine's blood;
he that
burneth incense,
as if
he blessed
an idol.
Yea,
they have chosen
their own ways,
and their soul
delighteth in their abominations.
I also will choose
their delusions,
and will bring
their fears
upon them;
because
when I called,
none did answer;
when I spake,
they did not hear:
but they
did evil
before mine eyes,
and chose that
in which
I delighted not.
Hear the word
of the LORD,
ye that tremble
at his word;
Your brethren that
hated you,
that cast you out
for my name's sake,
said,
Let the LORD
be glorified:
but
he shall appear
to your joy,
and
they shall be ashamed.
A voice
of noise
from the city,
a voice
from the temple,
a voice
of the LORD
that rendereth
recompence
to his enemies.
Before she travailed,
she brought forth;
before her pain came,
she was delivered
of a man child.
Who hath heard
such a thing?
who hath seen
such things?
Shall
the earth
be made
to bring forth
in one day?
or shall
a nation
be born
at once?
for as
soon as Zion travailed,
she brought forth
her children.
Shall
I bring
to the birth,
and not cause
to bring forth?
saith the LORD:
shall
I cause
to bring forth,
and shut
the womb?
saith thy God.
Rejoice
ye with Jerusalem,
and be glad
with her,
all
ye that love her:
rejoice
for joy with her,
all ye that
mourn
for her:
That ye
may suck,
and be satisfied
with the breasts
of her consolations;
that ye
may milk out,
and be delighted
with the abundance
of her glory.
For thus
saith the LORD, Behold,
I will extend peace
to her like a river,
and the glory
of the Gentiles like
a flowing stream:
then shall
ye suck,
ye shall be borne
upon her sides,
and be dandled
upon her knees.
As one whom
his mother comforteth,
so will
I comfort you;
and
ye shall be comforted
in Jerusalem.
And
when ye
see this,
your heart
shall rejoice,
and your bones
shall flourish like
an herb:
and
the hand
of the LORD
shall be known toward
his servants,
and his indignation
toward his enemies.
For,
behold,
the LORD
will come
with fire,
and
with his chariots like
a whirlwind,
to render his anger
with fury,
and his rebuke
with flames
of fire.
For by
fire and
by his sword
will
the LORD
plead
with all flesh:
and the slain
of the LORD shall be many.
They that
sanctify themselves,
and purify themselves
in the gardens
behind one tree
in the midst,
eating swine's flesh,
and the abomination,
and the mouse,
shall be consumed together,
saith the LORD.
For I
know their works
and their thoughts:
it shall come,
that I
will gather all nations
and tongues;
and
they shall come,
and see
my glory.
And I
will set
a sign
among them,
and I
will send
those that escape
of them
unto the nations,
to Tarshish, Pul,
and Lud,
that draw the bow,
to Tubal,
and Javan,
to the isles
afar off,
that have not heard
my fame,
neither have seen
my glory;
and
they shall declare
my glory
among the Gentiles.
And
they shall bring all
your brethren
for an offering
unto the LORD
out of all nations
upon horses,
and in chariots,
and in litters,
and upon mules,
and
upon swift beasts,
to my holy mountain Jerusalem,
saith the LORD,
as the children
of Israel
bring
an offering
in a clean vessel
into the house
of the LORD.
And
I will also take
of them
for priests
and for Levites,
saith the LORD.
For as the new heavens
and the new earth,
which I
will make,
shall remain
before me,
saith the LORD,
so shall
your seed
and your name remain.
And it
shall come
to pass,
that from one new moon
to another,
and
from one sabbath
to another,
shall all
flesh
come to worship
before me,
saith the LORD.
And
they
shall go forth,
and look
upon the carcases
of the men
that have transgressed against me:
for their worm
shall not die,
neither shall
their fire
be quenched;
and
they shall be an abhorring
unto all flesh.