18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceful mansion, And in habitations secure, And in resting places undisturbed. 19 But the hail shall fall, and the forest be brought down; And the city shall be laid level with the plain. 20 Blessed are ye, who sow your seed in every well-watered place ; Who send forth the foot of the ox and the ass. CHAP. XXXIII. 2 S 1 WO unto thee, thou spoiler, who hast not been spoiled thyself; And thou plunderer, who hast not been plundered : When thou art weary of plundering, they shall plunder thee. O JEHOVAH, have mercy on us; we have trusted in thee; Be thou our strength every morning; Even our salvation in the time of distress. From thy terrible voice the peoples fled; When thou didst raise thyself up, the nations were dispersed. 4 But your spoil shall be gathered, as the locust gathereth; 5 As the catterpillar runneth to and fro, so shall they run, and seize it. JEHOVAH is exalted; yea, he dwelleth on high: He hath filled Sion with judgement and justice. 6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, The possession of continued salvation; The fear of JEHOVAH, this shall be thy treasure. Behold the mighty men raise a grievous cry; The messengers of peace weep bitterly. 8 The high ways are desolate; the traveller ceaseth: He hath broken the covenant; he hath rejected the offered cities; Of men he maketh no account. 9 The land mourneth, it languisheth ; Libanus is put to shame, it withereth : Sharon is become like a desert; And Bashan and Carmel are stripped of their beauty. 10 Now will I arise, saith JEHOVAH; Now will I lift myself up on high; now will I be exalted. 11 Ye shall conceive chaff; ye shall bring forth stubble ; And my spirit like fire shall consume you. 12 And the peoples shall be burned, as the lime is burned; As the thorns are cut up, and consumed in the fire. 13 Hear, O ye that are afar off, my doings; And acknowledge, O ye that are near, my power. 14 The sinners in Sion are struck with dread; Terror hath seized the hypocrites : Who among us can abide this consuming fire? Who among us can abide these continued burnings ? 15 He who walketh in perfect righteousness, and speaketh right things; Who detesteth the lucre of oppression; Who shaketh his hands from bribery; Who stoppeth his ears to the proposal of blood-shed; 16 His dwelling shall be in the high places; The strong holds of the rocks shall be his lofty fortress: 17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty; They shall see thine own land far extended. 18 Thine heart shall reflect on the past terror: Where is now the accomptant? where the weigher of tribute? Where is he, that numbered the towers ? 19 Thou shalt see no more that barbarous people; 20 The people of a deep speech, which thou couldst not hear; And of a stammering tongue, which thou couldst not understand. Thou shalt see Sion, the city of our solemn feasts; Thine eyes shall behold Jerusalem, The quiet habitation, the tabernacle unshaken : Whose stakes shall not be plucked up for ever, And of whose cords none shall be broken. 21 But the glorious name of JEHOVAH shall be unto us, A place of confluent streams, of broad rivers; Which no oared ship shall pass, Neither shall any mighty vessel go through. 22 For JEHOVAH is our judge; JEHOVAH is our law-giver: JEHOVAH is our king: he shall save us. 23 Thy sails are loose; they cannot make them fast; Thy mast is not firm; they cannot spread the ensign. Even the lame shall seize the prey. 24 Neither shall the inhabitant say, I am disabled with sickness : The people, that dwelleth therein, is freed from the punishment of their iniquity. CHAP. XXXIV. 1 Draw near, O ye nations, and hearken; And attend unto me, O ye peoples! Let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof: The world, and all that spring from it. 2 For the wrath of JEHOVAH is kindled against all the nations; And his anger against all the orders thereof: He hath devoted them; he hath given them up to slaughter. 3 And their slain shall be cast out; And from their carcases their stink shall ascend; And the mountains shall melt down with their blood. 4 And all the host of heaven shall waste away : As the withered leaf falleth from the vine, 5 For my sword is made bare in the heavens : And on the people justly by me devoted to destruction. 6 The sword of JEHOVAH is glutted with blood; It is pampered with fat: With the blood of lambs, and of goats; With the fat of the reins of rams; For JEHOVAH celebrateth a sacrifice in Botsrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom. 7 And the wild goats shall fall down with them; And the bullocks, together with the bulls : And their own land shall be drunken with their blood, And their dust shall be enriched with fat. 8 For it is the day of vengeance to JEHOVAH: The year of recompence to the defender of the cause of Sion. 9 And her torrents shall be turned into pitch, And her dust into sulphur; And her whole land shall become burning pitch: 10 By night or by day it shall not be extinguished; For ever shall her smoke ascend: From generation to generation she shall lie desert; To everlasting ages no one shall pass through her ; 11 But the pelican and the porcupine shall inherit her; And the owl and the raven shall inhabit there: And He shall stretch over her the line of devastation, And the plummet of emptiness over her scorched plains, 12 No more shall they boast the renown of the kingdom; And all her princes shall utterly fail. 13 And in her palaces shall spring up thorns; The nettle and the bramble, in her fortresses: A court for the daughters of the ostrich. 14 And the jackals and the mountain-cats shall meet one another; 15 There shall the night-raven make her nest, and lay her eggs; And she shall hatch them, and gather her young under her shadow: There also shall the vultures be gathered together; Every one of them shall join her mate. 16 Consult ye the book of JEHOVAH, and read: Not one of these shall be missed; Not a female shall lack her mate: For the mouth of JEHOVAH hath given the command; 17 And he hath cast the lot for them; And his hand hath meted out their portion by the line : CHAP. XXXV. 1 THE desert, and the waste, shall be glad : 2 Like the rose s all it beautifully flourish; And the well-watered plain of Jordan shall rejoice: 3 These shall behold the glory of Jehovah, Strengthen ye the feeble hands, And confirm ye the tottering knees. 4 Say ye to the faint-hearted; Be ye strong; Fear ye not; behold your God! Vengeance will come; the retribution of God: He himself will come, and will deliver you. 5 Then shall be unclosed the eyes of the blind And the ears of the deaf shall be opened: 6 Then shall the lame bound like the hart, ; And the tongue of the dumb shall sing: 7 And the glowing sand shall become a pool, And in the haunt of dragons shall spring forth 8 And a highway shall be there; And it shall be called the way of holiness: No unclean person shall pass through it: But He himself shall be with them, walking in the way, 9 No lion shall be there; Nor shall the tyrant of the beasts come up Neither shall he be found there; But the redeemed shall walk in it. thither: 10 Yea the ransomed of JEHOVAH shall return; They shall come to Sion with triumph; And perpetual gladness shall crown their heads. And sorrow and sighing shall flee away. CHAP. XXXVI. 1 IN the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Senacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fenced cities of 2 Judah, and took them. And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh, from Lachish to Jerusalem, to the king Hezekiah, with a great body of forces: and he presented himself at the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway that leads to the fuller's field. 3 Then came out unto him Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was |