THE BOOK OF ISAIAH
King James Version
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 counsellors 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.
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?
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 counsellor, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Shearjashub
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 razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair
of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
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.
1 ¶ Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great
roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning
Mahershalalhashbaz.
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 Mahershalalhashbaz.
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.
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, Counsellor, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Beerelim.
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.
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 Kirhareseth
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
Kirharesh.
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.