CHAPTERS 17-33
ISAIAH#17
1 ¶ The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken
away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
2
The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall
lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
3 The fortress
also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant
of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD
of hosts.
4
And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be
made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
5 And it shall be
as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm;
and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
6 ¶ Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the
shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of
the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof,
saith the LORD God of Israel.
7 At that day
shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One
of Israel.
8 And he shall
not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the
images.
9 ¶ In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken
bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of
Israel: and there shall be desolation.
10 Because thou
hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant
plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
11 In the day
shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed
to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of
desperate sorrow.
12 ¶ Woe to the multitude of many
people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of
nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations
shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they
shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at
eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of
them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
1 ¶ Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond
the rivers of Ethiopia:
2
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon
the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled,
to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and
trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
3 All ye
inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet,
hear ye.
4 For so the LORD
said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place
like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
5 For afore the harvest,
when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the
flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and
cut down the branches.
6 They shall be
left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth:
and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall
winter upon them.
7
In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a
people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning
hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have
spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
1 ¶ The burden of Egypt. Behold, the
LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of
Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the
midst of it.
2 And I will set
the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his
brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit
of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel
thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them
that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
4 And the
Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
5 And the waters
shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
6 And they shall
turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried
up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
7 The paper reeds
by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by
the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
8 The fishers
also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament,
and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
9 Moreover they
that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
10
And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices
and ponds for fish.
11 Surely the
princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is
become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of
ancient kings?
12
Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and
let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
13 The princes of
Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced
Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
14 The LORD hath
mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused
Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
15 Neither shall
there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
16 In that day
shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because
of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.
17 And the land
of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof
shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which
he hath determined against it.
18 ¶ In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt
speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts;
one shall be called, The city of destruction.
19 In that day shall
there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar
at the border thereof to the LORD.
20 And it shall
be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt:
for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
21 And the LORD
shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and
shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and
perform it.
22 And the LORD
shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return
even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
23 In that day
shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come
into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with
the Assyrians.
24 In that day
shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:
25 Whom the LORD
of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work
of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
1 ¶ In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when
Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against
Ashdod, and took it;
2 At the same
time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the
sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did
so, walking naked and barefoot.
3 And the LORD
said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three
years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
4 So shall the
king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives,
young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the
shame of Egypt.
5 And they shall
be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
6 And the inhabitant
of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we
flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we
escape?
1 ¶ The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in
the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a
terrible land.
2 A grievous
vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and
the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof
have I made to cease.
3 Therefore are
my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs
of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was
dismayed at the seeing of it.
4 My heart
panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into
fear unto me.
5 Prepare the
table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
6 For thus hath
the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
7 And he saw a
chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels;
and he hearkened diligently with much heed:
8
And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower
in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
9 And, behold,
here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and
said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he
hath broken unto the ground.
10
O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the
LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
11 ¶ The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir,
Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
12 The watchman
said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
13 ¶ The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia
shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
14 The
inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they
prevented with their bread him that fled.
15
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent
bow, and from the grievousness of war.
16 For thus hath
the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling,
and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:
17 And the
residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath
spoken it.
1 ¶ The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee
now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
2 Thou that art
full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
3 All thy rulers
are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are
bound together, which have fled from far.
4 Therefore said
I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because
of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
5
For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by
the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of
crying to the mountains.
6 And Elam bare
the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
7
And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of
chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
8 ¶ And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou
didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
9 Ye have seen
also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
10 And ye have
numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify
the wall.
11 Ye made also a
ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not
looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
12 And in that
day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness,
and to girding with sackcloth:
13 And behold joy
and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine:
let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
14
And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity
shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
15 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto
this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,
16 What hast thou
here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre
here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an
habitation for himself in a rock?
17 Behold, the
LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.
18 He will surely
violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the
shame of thy lord's house.
19 And I will
drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.
20 And it shall
come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
21 And I will
clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit
thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
22 And the key of
the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
23 And I will
fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to
his father's house.
24 And they shall
hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue,
all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
25 In that day,
saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be
removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be
cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
1 ¶ The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships
of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in:
from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
2 Be still, ye
inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the
sea, have replenished.
3 And by great
waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
4 Be thou
ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea,
saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young
men, nor bring up virgins.
5 As at the
report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
6 Pass ye over to
Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
7 Is this your
joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her
afar off to sojourn.
8 Who hath taken this
counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are
princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
9 The LORD of
hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into
contempt all the honourable of the earth.
10 Pass through
thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.
11
He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD
hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds
thereof.
12 And he said,
Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise,
pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.
13
Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian
founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers
thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
14 Howl, ye ships
of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
15 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre
shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of
one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
16 Take an harp,
go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody,
sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
17 And it shall
come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit
fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
18 And her
merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be
treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before
the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
1 ¶ Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh
it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants
thereof.
2 And it shall
be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his
master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the
taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
3 The land shall
be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
4 The earth
mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
5 The earth also
is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the
laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore hath
the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate:
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
7
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do
sigh.
8 The mirth of
tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp
ceaseth.
9 They shall not
drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
10
The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no
man may come in.
11 There is a
crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is
gone.
12 In the city is
left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
13 ¶ When thus it shall be in the midst
of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree,
and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
14 They shall
lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall
cry aloud from the sea.
15 Wherefore
glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
16 ¶ From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard
songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe
unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous
dealers have dealt very treacherously.
17
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the
earth.
18 And it shall
come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the
pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the
snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth
do shake.
19
The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the
earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth
shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and
the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not
rise again.
21
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the
host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the
earth.
22 And they shall
be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut
up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon
shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts
shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients
gloriously.
1 ¶ O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will
praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are
faithfulness and truth.
2
For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a
palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
3 Therefore shall
the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear
thee.
4 For thou hast
been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of
the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
5 Thou shalt
bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat
with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought
low.
6 ¶ And in this mountain shall the LORD
of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the
lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
7 And he will
destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the
vail that is spread over all nations.
8
He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away
tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from
off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
9 ¶ And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our
God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have
waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10 For in this mountain
shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even
as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
11 And he shall
spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth
forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
12 And the
fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring
to the ground, even to the dust.
1 ¶ In that day shall this song be sung in the land of
Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for
walls and bulwarks.
2 Open ye the
gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
3 Thou wilt keep
him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in
thee.
4 Trust ye in the
LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
5 ¶ For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the
lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth
it even to the dust.
6 The foot shall
tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
7 The way of the
just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
8 Yea, in the way
of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to
thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
9 With my soul
have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek
thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
10 Let favour be
shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of
uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
11 LORD, when thy
hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed
for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
12 ¶ LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also
hast wrought all our works in us.
13 O LORD our
God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee
only will we make mention of thy name.
14 They are dead,
they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast
thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
15 Thou hast
increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of
the earth.
16 LORD, in
trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening
was upon them.
17 Like as a
woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and
crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
18
We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were
brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither
have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
19 Thy dead men
shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye
that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20 ¶ Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut
thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the
indignation be overpast.
21 For, behold,
the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for
their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
1 ¶ In that day the LORD with his sore and great and
strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that
crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
2
In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
3 I the LORD do
keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night
and day.
4 Fury is not in
me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go
through them, I would burn them together.
5
Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and
he shall make peace with me.
6 He shall cause
them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill
the face of the world with fruit.
7 ¶ Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote
him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that
are slain by him?
8 In measure,
when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in
the day of the east wind.
9 By this
therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to
take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones
that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not
stand up.
10 Yet the
defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a
wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume
the branches thereof.
11 When the
boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come,
and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that
made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them
no favour.
12 And it shall
come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the
river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
13 And it shall
come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall
come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the
land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
1 ¶ Woe to the crown of pride, to the
drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on
the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
2 Behold, the
Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm,
as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth
with the hand.
3 The crown of
pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
4 And the
glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower,
and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it
seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
5
In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a
diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
6 And for a
spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them
that turn the battle to the gate.
7 But they also
have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way;
the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed
up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision,
they stumble in judgment.
8 For all tables
are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
9 ¶ Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make
to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk,
and drawn from the breasts.
10 For precept
must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line;
here a little, and there a little:
11 For with
stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
12 To whom he
said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
13 But the word
of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon
line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go,
and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14 ¶ Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful
men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye
have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at
agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come
unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid
ourselves:
16
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a
foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation:
he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also
will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall
sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your
covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall
not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be
trodden down by it.
19 From the time
that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation
only to understand the report.
20 For the bed is
shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower
than that he can wrap himself in it.
21 For the LORD
shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley
of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his
act, his strange act.
22 Now therefore
be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the
Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
23 ¶ Give ye ear, and hear my voice;
hearken, and hear my speech.
24 Doth the
plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
25 When he hath
made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter
the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
26 For his God
doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
27 For the
fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel
turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and
the cummin with a rod.
28
Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor
break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
29 This also
cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and
excellent in working.
1 ¶ Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city
where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
2 Yet I will
distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto
me as Ariel.
3 And I will camp
against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount,
and I will raise forts against thee.
4 And thou shalt
be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low
out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit,
out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
5 Moreover the
multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude
of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at
an instant suddenly.
6 Thou shalt be
visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great
noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
7 And the
multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as
a dream of a night vision.
8 It shall even
be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and
his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh;
but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against
mount Zion.
9 ¶ Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry:
they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
10 For the LORD
hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes:
the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
11
And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is
sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray
thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
12 And the book
is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he
saith, I am not learned.
13
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with
their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far
from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
14 Therefore,
behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a
marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
15 Woe unto them
that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the
dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
16 Surely your
turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall
the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
17 ¶ Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall
be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a
forest?
18 And in that
day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall
see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
19
The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among
men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the
terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that
watch for iniquity are cut off:
21 That make a
man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
22 Therefore thus
saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob
shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
23 But when he
seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall
sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
24 They also that
erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn
doctrine.
1 ¶ Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that
take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering,
but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
2 That walk to go
down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in
the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
3 Therefore shall
the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt
your confusion.
4
For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
5 They were all
ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but
a shame, and also a reproach.
6 The burden of
the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come
the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their
treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
7 For the
Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried
concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
8 ¶ Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it
in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and
ever:
9 That this is a
rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the
LORD:
10 Which say to
the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things,
speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11
Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One
of Israel to cease from before us.
12 Wherefore thus
saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in
oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
13 Therefore this
iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
14 And he shall
break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he
shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd
to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
15 For thus saith
the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your
strength: and ye would not.
16 But ye said,
No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride
upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
17 One thousand
shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye
be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
18 ¶ And therefore will the LORD wait,
that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may
have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they
that wait for him.
19 For the people
shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very
gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
20 And though the
Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall
not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see
thy teachers:
21 And thine ears
shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the
left.
22 Ye shall
defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of
thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou
shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
23 Then shall he
give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and
plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
24 The oxen
likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender,
which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
25 And there
shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when
the towers fall.
26 Moreover the
light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun
shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD
bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 ¶ Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far,
burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his
lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
28 And his
breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift
the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws
of the people, causing them to err.
29
Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and
gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of
the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
30 And the LORD
shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of
his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
31 For through
the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a
rod.
32 And in every
place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him,
it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
33 For Tophet is
ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and
large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a
stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
1 ¶ Woe to them that go down to Egypt
for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and
in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One
of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
2 Yet he also is
wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise
against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
3 Now the
Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When
the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he
that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
4 For thus hath
the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring
on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will
not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall
the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
5 As birds
flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will
deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.
6 ¶ Turn ye unto him from whom the
children of Israel have deeply revolted.
7 For in that day
every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which
your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
8 Then shall the
Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean
man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young
men shall be discomfited.
9 And he shall
pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the
ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
1 ¶ Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and
princes shall rule in judgment.
2
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from
the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock
in a weary land.
3 And the eyes of
them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
4
The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of
the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
5 The vile person
shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
6 For the vile
person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise
hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
7 The instruments
also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with
lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
8 But the liberal
deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
9 ¶ Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye
careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
10 Many days and
years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the
gathering shall not come.
11 Tremble, ye
women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you
bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
12
They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the
fruitful vine.
13 Upon the land
of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy
in the joyous city:
14 Because the
palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts
and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of
flocks;
15
Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a
fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
16 Then judgment
shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
17 And the work
of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness
and assurance for ever.
18 And my people
shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet
resting places;
19 When it shall
hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
20
Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the
feet of the ox and the ass.
1 ¶ Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled;
and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when
thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when
thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously
with thee.
2 O LORD, be
gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our
salvation also in the time of trouble.
3 At the noise of
the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
4 And your spoil
shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and
fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
5 The LORD is
exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and
righteousness.
6
And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and
strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.
7 Behold, their
valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
8 The highways
lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
9 The earth
mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a
wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
10 Now will I
rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
11 Ye shall
conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
12 And the people
shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the
fire.
13 ¶ Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye
that are near, acknowledge my might.
14
The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the
hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us
shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
15 He that
walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of
oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his
ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing
evil;
16 He shall dwell
on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be
given him; his waters shall be sure.
17 Thine eyes
shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far
off.
18
Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the
receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not
see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a
stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
20 Look upon
Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not
one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords
thereof be broken.
21 But there the
glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall
go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
22
For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our
king; he will save us.
23 Thy tacklings
are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread
the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
24 And the
inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.