Bible, King James Version
Isaiah
Isa.1
[1] 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.
[2] 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.
[3] The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass
his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not
consider.
[4] 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.
[5] Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more
and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
[6] 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.
[7] 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.
[8] 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.
[9] 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.
[10] Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom;
give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
[11] 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.
[12] When ye come
to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my
courts?
[13] 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.
[14] Your new moons and
your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to
bear them.
[15] 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.
[16] Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of
your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
[17] Learn to do
well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the
widow.
[18] 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.
[19] If ye be willing and
obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
[20] But if ye refuse and
rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath
spoken it.
[21] How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full
of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
[22] Thy
silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
[23] 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.
[24] 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:
[25] And I will turn my hand upon thee, and
purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
[26] And I
will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at the
beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the
faithful city.
[27] Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her
converts with righteousness.
[28] And the destruction of the
transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the
LORD shall be consumed.
[29] For they shall be ashamed of the oaks
which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have
chosen.
[30] For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a
garden that hath no water.
[31] 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.
Isa.2
[1] the word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning
Judah and Jerusalem.
[2] 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.
[3] 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.
[4] 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.
[5] O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of
the LORD.
[6] 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.
[7] 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:
[8] Their land also is full of idols;
they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have
made:
[9] And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth
himself: therefore forgive them not.
[10] Enter into the rock, and
hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his
majesty.
[11] 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.
[12] 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:
[13] And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high
and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
[14] And upon all the
high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
[15] And
upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
[16] And upon all
the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
[17] 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.
[18] And the
idols he shall utterly abolish.
[19] 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.
[20] 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;
[21] 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.
[22] Cease ye
from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted
of?
Isa.3
[1] 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,
[2] The mighty man, and the man of
war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
[3]
The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counseller, and the
cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
[4] And I will give
children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
[5] 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.
[6] 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:
[7] 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.
[8] 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.
[9] 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.
[10] Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with
him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
[11] Woe unto the
wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given
him.
[12] 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.
[13] The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth
to judge the people.
[14] 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.
[15] What mean ye
that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the
LORD GOD of hosts.
[16] 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:
[17] 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.
[18] 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,
[19] The chains, and the bracelets, and the
mufflers,
[20] The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the
headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
[21] The rings, and nose
jewels,
[22] The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the
wimples, and the crisping pins,
[23] The glasses, and the fine linen,
and the hoods, and the vails.
[24] 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.
[25] Thy men shall fall by
the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
[26] And her gates shall lament
and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
Isa.4
[1] 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.
[2] 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.
[3]
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:
[4] 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.
[5] 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.
[6] And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the
daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm
and from rain.
Isa.5
[1] 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:
[2] 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.
[3] And now, O inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my
vineyard.
[4] 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?
[5] 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:
[6] 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.
[7] 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.
[8] 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!
[9] In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses
shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
[10] Yea,
ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield
an ephah.
[11] Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that
they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame
them!
[12] 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.
[13] 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.
[14] 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.
[15] And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty
man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
[16]
But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall
be sanctified in righteousness.
[17] Then shall the lambs feed after
their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers
eat.
[18] Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and
sin as it were with a cart rope:
[19] 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!
[20] 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!
[21] Woe
unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own
sight!
[22] Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of
strength to mingle strong drink:
[23] Which justify the wicked for
reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from
him!
[24] 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.
[25] 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.
[26] 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:
[27]
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:
[28] Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent,
their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a
whirlwind:
[29] 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.
[30] 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.
Isa.6
[1] 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.
[2] 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.
[3] And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy,
is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
[4] And
the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was
filled with smoke.
[5] 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.
[6]
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:
[7] 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.
[8] 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.
[9] And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but
understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
[10] 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.
[11] 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,
[12] And the LORD have
removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the
land.
[13] 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.
Isa.7
[1] 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.
[2] 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.
[3] Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz,
thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in
the highway of the fuller's field;
[4] 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.
[5] Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have
taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
[6] 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:
[7] Thus saith the Lord GOD,
It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
[8] 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.
[9] 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.
[10] Moreover
the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
[11] Ask thee a sign of the
LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
[12]
But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
[13] 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?
[14] Therefore the Lord himself
shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and
shall call his name Immanuel.
[15] Butter and honey shall he eat, that
he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
[16] 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.
[17] 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.
[18] 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.
[19] 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.
[20] In the same day
shall the Lord shave with a rasor 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.
[21] And it shall come to pass in that day,
that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
[22] 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.
[23] 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.
[24] With arrows and with bows shall
men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and
thorns.
[25] 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.
Isa.8
[1] Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll,
and write in it with a man's pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
[2]
And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah
the son of Jeberechiah.
[3] And I went unto the prophetess; and she
conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name
Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
[4] 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.
[5] The LORD
spake also unto me again, saying,
[6] Forasmuch as this people
refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and
Remaliah's son;
[7] 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:
[8] 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.
[9] 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.
[10] Take counsel together, and it
shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with
us.
[11] 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,
[12] Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this
people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be
afraid.
[13] Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your
fear, and let him be your dread.
[14] 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.
[15] And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be
broken, and be snared, and be taken.
[16] Bind up the testimony, seal
the law among my disciples.
[17] And I will wait upon the LORD, that
hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
[18]
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.
[19] 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?
[20] To the
law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is
because there is no light in them.
[21] 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.
[22] And they shall look unto the earth; and behold
trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to
darkness.
Isa.9
[1] 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.
[2] 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.
[3] 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.
[4] 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.
[5] 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.
[6] 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,
Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of
Peace.
[7] 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.
[8] The Lord sent a word
into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
[9] And all the people
shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride
and stoutness of heart,
[10] The bricks are fallen down, but we will
build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into
cedars.
[11] Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin
against him, and join his enemies together;
[12] 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.
[13] For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them,
neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
[14] Therefore the LORD will
cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
[15]
The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies,
he is the tail.
[16] For the leaders of this people cause them to err;
and they that are led of them are destroyed.
[17] 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.
[18] 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.
[19] 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.
[20] 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:
[21] 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.
Isa.10
[1] Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and
that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
[2] 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!
[3] 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?
[4] 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.
[5] O
Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine
indignation.
[6] 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.
[7] 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.
[8] For he saith, Are not my princes altogether
kings?
[9] Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not
Samaria as Damascus?
[10] As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the
idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of
Samaria;
[11] Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols,
so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
[12] 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.
[13] 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:
[14] 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.
[15] 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.
[16] 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.
[17]
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;
[18]
And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul
and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.
[19]
And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write
them.
[20] 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.
[21] The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob,
unto the mighty God.
[22] 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.
[23] For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make
a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
[24]
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.
[25] For yet a very
little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their
destruction.
[26] 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.
[27]
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.
[28] He is come to Aiath, he is
passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
[29] They
are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is
afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
[30] Lift up thy voice, O daughter of
Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
[31]
Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to
flee.
[32] 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.
[33] 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.
[34] And he shall cut down the thickets of
the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
Isa.11
[1] And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of
Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
[2] 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;
[3] 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:
[4] 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.
[5] And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins,
and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
[6] 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.
[7] And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall
lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
[8] And
the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall
put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
[9] 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.
[10] 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.
[11] 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.
[12]
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.
[13] 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.
[14] 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.
[15] 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.
[16] 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.
Isa.12
[1] 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.
[2] 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.
[3] Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells
of salvation.
[4] 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.
[5] Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things:
this is known in all the earth.
[6] Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant
of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
Isa.13
[1] The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz
did see.
[2] 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.
[3] I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my
mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
[4]
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.
[5] 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.
[6] Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at
hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
[7] Therefore
shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
[8] 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.
[9] 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.
[10] 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.
[11] 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.
[12] I will make a man
more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of
Ophir.
[13] 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.
[14] 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.
[15] Every one that is found shall
be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the
sword.
[16] Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their
eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
[17]
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver;
and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
[18] Their bows also
shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of
the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
[19] And Babylon, the
glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God
overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
[20] 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.
[21] 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.
[22] 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.
Isa.14
[1] 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.
[2] 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.
[3] 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,
[4] That thou shalt take up
this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor
ceased! the golden city ceased!
[5] The LORD hath broken the staff of
the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
[6] He who smote the people
in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is
persecuted, and none hindereth.
[7] The whole earth is at rest, and is
quiet: they break forth into singing.
[8] 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.
[9] 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.
[10] All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also
become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
[11] 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.
[12] 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!
[13] 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:
[14] I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be
like the most High.
[15] Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to
the sides of the pit.
[16] 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;
[17] That made the world as a wilderness, and
destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his
prisoners?
[18] All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in
glory, every one in his own house.
[19] 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.
[20] 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.
[21] 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.
[22] 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.
[23] 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.
[24] 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:
[25] 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.
[26] This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole
earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the
nations.
[27] For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall
disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it
back?
[28] In the year that king Ahaz died was this
burden.
[29] 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.
[30] 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.
[31] 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.
[32] 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.
Isa.15
[1] 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;
[2] 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.
[3] 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.
[4] 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.
[5] 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.
[6] For the waters
of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth,
there is no green thing.
[7] Therefore the abundance they have gotten,
and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the
willows.
[8] For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the
howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto
Beer-elim.
[9] 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.
Isa.16
[1] Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to
the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
[2] 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.
[3] Take counsel, execute
judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the
outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
[4] 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.
[5] 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.
[6] 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.
[7] Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab,
every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn; surely
they are stricken.
[8] 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.
[9]
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.
[10] 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.
[11] Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and
mine inward parts for Kir-haresh.
[12] 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.
[13] This is the word
that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.
[14] 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.
Isa.17
[1] The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away
from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
[2] The cities of
Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none
shall make them afraid.
[3] 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.
[4]
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.
[5] 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.
[6] 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.
[7] At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes
shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
[8] 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.
[9] 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.
[10] 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:
[11] 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.
[12] 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!
[13] 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.
[14] 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.
Isa.18
[1] Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond
the rivers of Ethiopia:
[2] 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!
[3] 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.
[4] 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.
[5] 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.
[6] 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.
[7]
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.
Isa.19
[1] 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.
[2] 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.
[3] 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.
[4] 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.
[5] And the waters shall fail from
the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
[6] 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.
[7] 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.
[8] 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.
[9] Moreover they that
work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be
confounded.
[10] And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all
that make sluices and ponds for fish.
[11] Surely the princes of Zoan
are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellers of Pharaoh is become brutish: how
say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient
kings?
[12] 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.
[13] 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.
[14] 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.
[15] Neither shall there be any
work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
[16]
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.
[17] 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.
[18] 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.
[19] 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.
[20] 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.
[21] 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.
[22] 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.
[23] 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.
[24] In that day
shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the
midst of the land:
[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.
Isa.20
[1] In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon
the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took
it;
[2] 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.
[3] 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;
[4] 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?
Isa.21
[1] 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.
[2] 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.
[3] 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.
[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 watchtower, 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.
[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 daytime, and I am set in my ward whole
nights:
[9] 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.
[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.
[11] The burden of
Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what
of the night?
[12] The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the
night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come.
[13] The burden
upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies
of Dedanim.
[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, from the drawn sword, and
from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
[16] 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:
[17] 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.
Isa.22
[1] The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee
now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
[2] Thou that art
full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain
with the sword, nor dead in battle.
[3] 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.
[4] 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.
[5] 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.
[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.
[10] And ye have numbered the
houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the
wall.
[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.
[12] And in that day did the Lord
GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding
with sackcloth:
[13] 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.
[14] 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.
[15] Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get
thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and
say,
[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 an habitation for himself in a rock?
[17] Behold, the
LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover
thee.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[24] 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.
[25] 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.
Isa.23
[1] 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.
[2] Be still, ye inhabitants of the
isle; 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.
[4] 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.
[5] As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they
be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
[6] Pass ye over to Tarshish;
howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
[7] Is this your joyous city, whose
antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to
sojourn.
[8] Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning
city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the
earth?
[9] 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.
[10] Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish:
there is no more strength.
[11] 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.
[12] 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.
[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.
[15] 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.
[16] Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast
been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be
remembered.
[17] 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.
[18] 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.
Isa.24
[1] Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it
waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants
thereof.
[2] 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.
[3] The
land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the 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.
[5] The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof;
because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the
everlasting covenant.
[6] 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.
[7] The new wine mourneth, the vine
languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
[8] The mirth of tabrets
ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp
ceaseth.
[9] They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall
be bitter to them that drink it.
[10] The city of confusion is broken
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.
[12] In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten
with destruction.
[13] 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.
[14] They shall lift up
their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud
from the sea.
[15] Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even
the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
[16] 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.
[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.
[19] The
earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved
exceedingly.
[20] 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.
[21] 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.
[22] 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.
[23]
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.
Isa.25
[1] 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.
[2] 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.
[3] Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of
the terrible nations shall fear thee.
[4] 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.
[5] 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.
[6] 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.
[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.
[8] 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.
[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.
[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.
[11] 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.
[12] 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.
Isa.26
[1] 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.
[2] Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which
keepeth the truth may enter in.
[3] Thou wilt keep him in perfect
peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
[4]
Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting
strength:
[5] 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.
[6] The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of
the poor, and the steps of the needy.
[7] The way of the just is
uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
[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.
[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.
[11] 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
beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of
thy name.
[14] 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.
[15] 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.
[16] LORD, in trouble have they
visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon
them.
[17] 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.
[18] 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.
[19] 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.
[20] 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.
[21] 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.
Isa.27
[1] 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.
[2]
In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
[3] I the LORD
do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night
and day.
[4] 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.
[5] Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make
peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.
[6] 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.
[7] 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?
[8] In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate
with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
[9] 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.
[10] 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.
[11] 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.
[12] 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.
[13] 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.
Isa.28
[1] 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!
[2] 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.
[3] The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be
trodden under feet:
[4] 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.
[5] 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,
[6] And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in
judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the
gate.
[7] 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.
[8] For all
tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place
clean.
[9] 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.
[10] For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept;
line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a
little:
[11] For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak
to this people.
[12] 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.
[13] 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.
[14] Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye
scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
[15]
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:
[16] 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.
[17] 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.
[18] 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.
[19] 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.
[20] 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.
[21] 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.
[22] 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.
[23] Give
ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
[24] Doth the
plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his
ground?
[25] 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 rie in their place?
[26] For his God doth
instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
[27] 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.
[28] 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.
[29] This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts,
which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.
Isa.29
[1] Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt!
add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
[2] Yet I will distress
Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as
Ariel.
[3] And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay
siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against
thee.
[4] 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.
[5] 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.
[6]
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.
[7] 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.
[8] 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.
[9]
Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with
wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
[10] 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.
[11] 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:
[12] And the book is delivered to
him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not
learned.
[13] 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:
[14] 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.
[15] 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?
[16] 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?
[17] 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?
[18] 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.
[19] The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and
the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
[20] For
the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that
watch for iniquity are cut off:
[21] 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.
[22] 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.
[23] 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.
[24] They also that erred in spirit shall come to
understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
Isa.30
[1] 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:
[2] 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!
[3] Therefore shall
the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your
confusion.
[4] For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came
to Hanes.
[5] 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.
[6]
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.
[7] For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose:
therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit
still.
[8] 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:
[9] That
this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law
of the LORD:
[10] Which say to the seers, See not; and to the
prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things,
prophesy deceits:
[11] Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the
path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
[12]
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and
trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
[13] 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.
[14] 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.
[15] 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.
[16] 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.
[17] 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.
[18] 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.
[19] 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.
[20] 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:
[21] 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.
[22] 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.
[23] 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.
[24] 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.
[25] 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.
[26] 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.
[27] 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:
[28] 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.
[29]
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.
[30] 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.
[31] For through the voice of
the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a
rod.
[32] 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.
[33] 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.
Isa.31
[1] 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!
[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
evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
[3] 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.
[4]
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.
[5] As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend
Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve
it.
[6] Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply
revolted.
[7] 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.
[8] 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.
[9] 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.
Isa.32
[1] Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and
princes shall rule in judgment.
[2] 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.
[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.
[5]
The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be
bountiful.
[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.
[8] But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by
liberal things shall he stand.
[9] Rise up, ye women that are at ease;
hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
[10]
Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage
shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
[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 lament 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:
[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;
[15] 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.
[16] Then judgment shall dwell
in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful
field.
[17] And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the
effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
[18] And my
people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in
quiet resting places;
[19] When it shall hail, coming down on the
forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
[20] Blessed are ye
that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the
ass.
Isa.33
[1] 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.
[2] 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.
[3] At the noise
of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were
scattered.
[4] 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.
[5] The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled
Zion with judgment and righteousness.
[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.
[8] The
highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he
hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
[9] The earth mourneth
and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness;
and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
[10] Now will I rise,
saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
[11]
Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire,
shall devour you.
[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, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my
might.
[14] 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?
[15] 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;
[16] 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.
[17] Thine eyes shall
see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far
off.
[18] Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe?
where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
[19] 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.
[20]
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.
[21] 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.
[22] For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is
our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
[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
prey.
[24] And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people
that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
Isa.34
[1] 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.
[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.
[3] 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.
[4] 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.
[5] For my sword shall be bathed in
heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse,
to judgment.
[6] 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.
[7] 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.
[8] For it is the day of
the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of
Zion.
[9] And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the
dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning
pitch.
[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.
[11] 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.
[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 an habitation of dragons, and a court for
owls.
[14] 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.
[15]
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.
[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, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for
ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
Isa.35
[1] The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad
for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
[2]
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.
[3]
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
[4] 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.
[5] Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of
the deaf shall be unstopped.
[6] 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.
[7] 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.
[8] 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.
[9] 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:
[10] 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.
Isa.36
[1] 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.
[2] 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 them, Say ye now to Hezekiah,
Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein
thou trustest?
[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?
[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 he, 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 the face of one captain of the
least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for
horsemen?
[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.
[11] 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.
[12] 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?
[13] 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.
[14] Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for
he shall not be able to deliver you.
[15] 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.
[16] 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;
[17] 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.
[18]
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?
[19] Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the
gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my
hand?
[20] 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?
[21] But they held their peace, and answered him not a
word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
[22]
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.
Isa.37
[1] 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.
[2] 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.
[3] 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.
[4] 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.
[5] So the servants
of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
[6] 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.
[7] 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.
[8] So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king
of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from
Lachish.
[9] 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,
[10] 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.
[11] Behold,
thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying
them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?
[12] 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?
[13] Where is
the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of
Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
[14] 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.
[15] And Hezekiah prayed unto
the LORD, saying,
[16] 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.
[17] 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.
[18] Of a
truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their
countries,
[19] 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.
[20] 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.
[21] 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:
[22] 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.
[23] 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.
[24] 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.
[25] I have digged, and
drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the
besieged places.
[26] 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.
[27] 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.
[28] But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in,
and thy rage against me.
[29] 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.
[30] 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.
[31] And the remnant that is escaped of the house of
Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
[32] 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.
[33] 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.
[34] By the way that he came, by the same shall he return,
and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
[35] For I will
defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's
sake.
[36] 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.
[37]
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at
Nineveh.
[38] 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 Esar-haddon his son
reigned in his stead.
Isa.38
[1] 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.
[2]
Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the
LORD,
[3] 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.
[4] Then came the word
of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,
[5] 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.
[6] And I will
deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will
defend this city.
[7] And this shall be a sign unto thee from the
LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;
[8]
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.
[9] The writing of Hezekiah king of
Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
[10]
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.
[11] 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.
[12] 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.
[13] 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.
[14] 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.
[15] 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.
[16] 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.
[17] 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.
[18] For the grave cannot praise thee, death
can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy
truth.
[19] The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this
day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
[20] 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.
[21]
For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister
upon the boil, and he shall recover.
[22] Hezekiah also had said, What
is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?
Isa.39
[1] At that time Merodach-baladan, 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.
[2] 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.
[3] 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.
[4] 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.
[5] Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of
hosts:
[6] 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.
[7] 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.
[8] 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.
Isa.40
[1] Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your
God.
[2] 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.
[3] 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.
[4] 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:
[5] 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.
[6] 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:
[7] The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the
spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
[8]
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for
ever.
[9] 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!
[10] 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.
[11] 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.
[12] 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?
[13] Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his
counseller hath taught him?
[14] 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?
[15] 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.
[16]
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a
burnt offering.
[17] All nations before him are as nothing; and they
are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
[18] To whom then
will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
[19] The
workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreade