LORD, and he shall be entreated of them, and shall heal them. dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. 3 Therefore are my loins filled 23 1 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into As-with pain: pangs have taken hold syria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. 24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: b 25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance. CHAP. XX. g 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. g3 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; r4 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. 5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. 6 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? TH CHAP. XXI. HE burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. g2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; The treacherous dealer 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. 4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. 5 Prepare the table, watch in the watch-tower, eat, drink arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield. 6 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth. i 7 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: 8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the day time, and I am set in my ward whole nights. 9 And behold, here cometh a cha riot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And be answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground. i 10 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. g 11 ¶ The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? A 12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night if ye will inquire, inquire ye; return, come. g 13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of De danim. g 14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled. 15 For they fled from the swords, have ye broken down to fortify the from the drawn sword, and from the wall. bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. 11 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. g 16 For thus hath the LORD said CHAP. XXII. THE of taileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the house-tops? 12 And in that day did the Lord GoD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to 13 Ånd behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eateat and drink; for 10-morrow we ing flesh, and drinking wine: let us shall die. w 14 And it was revealed in mine 2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tu-ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely multuous city, a joyous city: thy this iniquity shall not be purged slain men are not slain with the from you till ye die, saith the Lord sword, nor dead in battle. GOD of hosts. the house, and say, 3 All thy rulers are fled together, 15 Thus saith the Lord Gop of they are bound by the archers: all hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasuthat are found in thee are bound to-rer, even unto Shebna, which is over gether, which have fled from far. f4 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. 16 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 a habitation for himself in a rock? 5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexityr 17 Behold, the LORD will carry by the Lord GOD of hosts in the thee away with a mighty captivity, valley of vision, breaking down the and will surely cover thee. walls, and of crying to the mountains. 6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. 7 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. 8 ¶ And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest. 9 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. 18 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. 19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down. 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah: 21 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. 10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses | A 22 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. posed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth. 10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength. 23 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. 11 He stretched out his hand over E 24 And they shall hang upon him the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the all the glory of his father's house, LORD hath given a commandment the offspring and the issue, all ves- against the merchant-city, to destroy sels of small quantity, from the ves-the strong holds thereof. sels of cups, even to all the vessels g 12 And he said, Thou shalt no of flagons. more rejoice, O thou oppressed vir25 In that day, saith the LORD gin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass of hosts, shall the nail that is fasten-over to Chittim; there also shalt ed in the sure place be removed, thou have no rest. and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it. CHAP. XXIII. & T 2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the sle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. 3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations. 13 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. 14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish : for your strength is laid waste. r 15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgot ten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as a harlot. 16 Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be re g4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon 17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she 5 As at the report concerning shall turn to her hire, and shall comEgypt, so shall they be sorely pain-mit fornication with all the kingdoms ed at the report of Tyre. g 6 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. g8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose of the world upon the face of the earth. D IS 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. CHAP. XXIV. traffickers are the honourable of the BEHOLD, the LORD maketh earth? the earth empty, and maketh r 9 The LORD of hosts hath pur-[it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabit-d 15 Wherefore glorify ye the ants thereof. LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea. 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with r 16 ¶ From the uttermost part of the maid, so with her mistress; as the earth have we heard songs, even with the buyer, so with the seller;iory to the righteous. But I said, as with the lender, so with the bor- my leanness, my leanness, wo unto rower; as with the taker of usury, me! the treacherous dealers have so with the giver of usury to him." dealt treacherously; yea, the trear 3 The land shall be utterly emp-cherous dealers have dealt very treatied, and utterly spoiled cherously. LORD hath spoken this word. 4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. for the 5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth." 18 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. 6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: there-down, the earth is clean dissolved, fore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. 19 The earth is utterly broken the earth is moved exceedingly. 20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be re i7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-moved like a cottage; and the transhearted do sigh. gression thereof shall be heavy up8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, on it; and it shall fall, and not rise the noise of them that rejoice end-again. eth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. 21 And it shall come to pass in 9 They shall not drink wine with that day, that the LORD shall pua song; strong drink shall be bitter nish the host of the high ones that to them that drink it. are on high, and the kings of the 10 The city of confusion is brok-earth upon the earth. en down every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. 22 And they shall be gathered to gether, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited. 12 In the city is left desolation, 23 Then the moon shall be conand the gate is smitten with destruc-founded, and the sun ashamed, when tion. the LORD of hosts shall reign in r13 ¶ When thus it shall be in the mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and midst of the land among the people, before his ancients gloriously. there shall be as the shaking of an olive-tree, and as the gleaninggrapes when the vintage is done. 14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea. CHAP. XXV. 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. 2 For thou hast made of a city a heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; r it shall never be built. CHAP. XXVI. N that day shall this song be 3 Therefore shall the strong peo-We have a strong city; salvation ple glorify thee, the city of the ter-will God appoint for walls and bulrible nations shall fear thee. warks. t 4 For thou hast been a strengta 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. c 2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. b 3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. w 5 Thou shalt bring down the noise d* 4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: of strangers, as the heat in a dry for in the LORD JEHOVAH is place; even the heat with the sha-everlasting strength: dow of a cloud: the branch of the w 5 For he bringeth down them terrible ones shall be brought low. that dwell on high; the lofty city, 46 And in this mountain shall the he layeth it low; he layeth it low, LORD of hosts make unto all peo-even to the ground; he bringeth it ple a feast of fat things, a feast of even to the dust. wines on the lees; of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. 7 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. t 8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord Gop 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. d 9¶ 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. g 10 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. r11 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 bringt down their pride together with the spoils of their hands. 12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, eren to the dust. 6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy. c The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just. d 8 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. 9 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. c 10 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. w11 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. 12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us. 13 O LORD our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us; but by thee ouly will we make meution of thy name. |