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.