idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin. ****

32 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall & ¶ Then shall the Asyrian fall

be with tabrets and harps and in
battles of shaking will he fight with
it.
433 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.

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CHAP. XXXI.

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:

9 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his prîstees shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

to them that go down to 7* Egypt for help; and stay

CHAP. XXXI. €¦. !

BEHOLD, a King shall reign
in righteousness, and princes

on horses, and trust in chariots, be-shall rule in judgment.
cause they are many; and in horse-
men, because they are very strong
but they look not unto the Holy One
of Israel, neither seek the LORD!

2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

203 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.

i4 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.

2 And a man shall be as a hidingplace 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.

3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.

4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly

c 5 The vile person shall be no
more called liberal, nor the eburl
said to be bountiful.
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6 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.

7 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

b 5 As birds flying, so will the d 8 But the liberal deviseth liberal LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem: things; and by liberal things shall defending also he will deliver it; he stand. and passing over he will preserver 9 ¶ Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye eareless daughters; give ear unto my speech.

it.

d 6 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women for 7 For in that day every man shall the vintage shall fail, the cheting cast away his idols of silver, and his I shall not come. ? anousu séu ba

11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins. 12 They shall fament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

4 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar: as the ruming to and fro of locusts shall be run upon them. t 5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.

b 6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.

7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.

14 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; 8 The highways lie waste, the 15 Until the Spirit be poured up-way-faring man ceaseth: he hath on us from on high, and the wilder-broken the covenant, he hath despisness be a fruitful field, and the fruit-ed the cities, he regardeth no man. ful field be counted for a forest. g 9 The earth mourneth and lan16 Then judgment shall dwell in guisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and the wilderness, and righteousness hewn down: Sharon is like a wilremain in the fruitful field. derness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.

b 17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance for ever.

10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.

18 And my people shall dwell in i 11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye a peaceable habitation, and in sure shall bring forth stubble: your dwellings, and in quiet resting-breath, as fire, shall devour you. places,

19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

w 12 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime; as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

13 Hear, ye that are far off, b 20 Blessed are ye that sow be- what I have done; and ye that are side all waters, that send forth thi-near, acknowledge my might. ther the feet of the ox and the ass. t 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypo

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CHAP. XXXIII.
TO to wee that spoilest, and crites. Who among us shall dwell

"Who were spoiled; and with the devouring hire ? who among
dealest treacherously, and they us shall dwell with everlasting
dealt not treacherously with thee! burnings?
when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou e 15 He that walketh righteously,
shalt be spoiled; and when thou
shalt make an end to deal treache-
rously, they shall deal treacherous-
ly with thee.

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;

2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our sal-16 He shall dwell on high: his vation also in the time of trouble. place of defence shall be the nani$3 At the noise of the tumult the tions of rocks: bread shall be given people fled; at the lifting up of thy-him; his waters shall be sure. welf the nations were scattered. 17 Thine eyes shall see the King

in his beauty: they shall behold the be rolled together as a scroll and land that is very far off. all their host shall fall down, as the

18 Thy heart shall meditate ter-leaf falleth off from the vine, and as ror. Where is the scribe? where a falling fig from the fig tree. b is the receiver? where is he that r 5 For my sword shall be bathed counted the towers ? in heaven: behold, it shall come r 19 Thou shalt not see a fierce down upon Idumea, and upon the people, a people of deeper speech people of my curse, to judgment.ds than thou canst perceive; of ag 6 The sword of the LORD is fillstammering tongue, that thou cansted with blood, it is made, fat with not understand."

fatness, and with the blood of lambs 20 Look upon Zion, the city of and goats, with the fat of the kidour solemnities: thine eyes shall neys of rams: for the LORD hath a see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great tabernacle that shall not be taken slaughter in the land of Idumea. 7 And the unicorns shall come down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall down with them, and the bullocks any of the cords thereof be broken. with the bulls; and their land shall 121 But there the glorious LORD be soaked with blood, and their dust will be unto us a place of broad ri-made fat with fatness. vers and streams; wherein shall go w 8 For it is the day of the LORD'S no galley with oars, neither shall vengeance, and the year of recomgallant ship pass thereby. penses for the controversy of Zion 22 For the LORD is our judge, 9 And the streams thereof shall the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD be turned into pitch, and the dust is our King; he will save us. thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

23 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

And the inhabitants shall not say, I am sick the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.

CHAP. XXXIV. NOME 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.

r 2 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.

ing

10 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. no biod

11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: aud he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.

13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof and it shall be a habitation of dragons, and a

3 Their slain also shall be cast court for owls. out, and their stink shall come up r 14 The wild beasts of the desert out of their carcasses, and the moun-shall also meet with the wild beasts tans shall be melted with their of the island, and the satyr shall cry blood. to his fellow; the screech-owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.

4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall

15 There shall the great owl A 9 No lion shall be there, nor any make her nest, and lay, and hatch, ravenous beast shall go up thereon, and gather under her shadow; there it shall not be found there but the shall the vultures also be gathered, redeemed shall walk there: every one with her mate. #16 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.

17 And he hath cast the lot for them,

unto them by line they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein. CHAP. XXXV.

THE wilderness and the solitar ry place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, cand blossom as the rose.

g2 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 excellenTey of our God.

b 10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtam joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

CHAP. XXXVI.

TOW it came to pass in the year

zekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.

3 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.

3 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..

4 And Rabshakeh said unto d3¶ Strengthen ye the weak hands, them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, and confirm the feeble knees. Thus saith the great king, the king 3 4 Say to them that are of a fear-of Assyria, What confidence is this bful heart, Be strong, fear not: be- wherein thou trustest? hold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense he will come and save you. 55 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

E6 Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall 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 babitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

8 And a 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 way-faring men, though fools, shall not err therein.

5 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?

g 6 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.

7 But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not be, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?

8 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.'

9 How then wilt thou turn away

c 10 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. f11 Then said Eliakim, and Sheb-f 21 But they held their peace, and na, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, answered him not a word: for the Speak, I pray thee, unto thy ser- king's commandment was, saying, vants in the Syrian language; for Answer him not. we understand it and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

5 So the servants of king Hezckiah came to Isaiah. d 6 And Isaiah said unto them, 18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade Thus shall ye say unto your master, you, saying, The LORD will deliver Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid us. Hath any of the gods of the na- of the words that thou hast heard, tions delivered his land out of the wherewith the servants of the king band of the king of Assyria? of Assyria have blasphemed me.. g19: Where are the gods. of Ha-r 7 Behold, I will send a blast upon