The Book of the Prophet Isaiah
American Standard Version, 1901 ed.
Chapter 1
1The 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. 2Hear, O heavens, and
give ear, O earth; for Jehovah 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. 4Ah
sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of
evil-doers, children that deal corruptly! they have forsaken
Jehovah, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are
estranged [and gone] backward. 5Why will ye be still
stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick,
and the whole heart faint. 6From the sole of the foot even
unto the head there is no soundness in it; [but] wounds, and
bruises, and fresh stripes: they have not been closed, neither
bound up, neither mollified with oil. 7Your 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. 8And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in
a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged
city. 9Except Jehovah of hosts had left unto us a very
small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been
like unto Gomorrah. 10Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers
of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of
Gomorrah. 11What unto me is the multitude of your
sacrifices? saith Jehovah: I have had enough 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. 12When ye come to appear before me, who hath
required this at your hand, to trample my courts? 13Bring
no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; new
moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies,- I cannot away with
iniquity and the solemn meeting. 14Your new moons and your
appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble unto me; I
am weary of bearing them. 15And 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; 17learn to do well;
seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead
for the widow. 18Come now, and let us reason together,
saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as
white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as
wool. 19If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the
good of the land: 20but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be
devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken
it. 21How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that
was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now
murderers. 22Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed
with water. 23Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of
thieves; every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards:
they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the
widow come unto them. 24Therefore saith the Lord, Jehovah
of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine
adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies; 25and I will
turn my hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge away thy dross, and
will take away all thy tin; 26and 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, a
faithful town. 27Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and
her converts with righteousness. 28But the destruction of
transgressors and sinners shall be together, and they that
forsake Jehovah shall be consumed. 29For they shall be
ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be
confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. 30For ye
shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath
no water. 31And the strong shall be as tow, and his work as
a spark; and they shall both burn together, and none shall
quench them.
Chapter 2
1The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning
Judah and Jerusalem. 2And it shall come to pass in the
latter days, that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be
established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted
above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3And
many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the
mountain of Jehovah, 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 Jehovah from
Jerusalem. 4And he will judge between the nations, and will
decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords
into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation
shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn
war any more. 5O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk
in the light of Jehovah. 6For thou hast forsaken thy people
the house of Jacob, because they are filled [with customs] from
the east, and [are] soothsayers like the Philistines, and they
strike hands with the children of foreigners. 7And their
land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of
their treasures; their land also is full of horses, neither is
there any end of their chariots. 8Their land also is full
of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which
their own fingers have made. 9And the mean man is bowed
down, and the great man is brought low: therefore forgive them
not. 10Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, from
before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty.
11The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the
haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah alone shall
be exalted in that day. 12For there shall be a day of
Jehovah of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon
all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low; 13and
upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and
upon all the oaks of Bashan, 14and upon all the high
mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, 15and
upon every lofty tower, and upon every fortified wall, 16
and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant
imagery. 17And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down,
and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Jehovah
alone shall be exalted in that day. 18And the idols shall
utterly pass away. 19And men shall go into the caves of the
rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror
of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth
to shake mightily the earth. 20In that day men shall cast
away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have
been made for them to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
21to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts
of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from
the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the
earth. 22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his
nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Chapter 3
1For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away
from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of
bread, and the whole stay of water; 2the mighty man, and
the man of war; the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and
the elder; 3the captain of fifty, and the honorable man,
and the counsellor, and the expert artificer, and the skilful
enchanter. 4And I will give children to be their princes,
and babes shall rule over them. 5And the people shall be
oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor:
the child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and
the base against the honorable. 6When a man shall take hold
of his brother in the house of his father, [saying], Thou hast
clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy
hand; 7in that day shall he lift up [his voice], saying, I
will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor
clothing: ye shall not make me ruler of the people. 8For
Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue
and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his
glory. 9The show 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 done evil unto themselves. 10
Say ye of the righteous, that [it shall be] well [with him]; for
they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 11Woe unto the
wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him]; for what his hands have
done shall be done unto him. 12As for my people, children
are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people,
they that lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of
thy paths. 13Jehovah standeth up to contend, and standeth
to judge the peoples. 14Jehovah will enter into judgment
with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof: It is ye
that have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in
your houses: 15what mean ye that ye crush my people, and
grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
16Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are
haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes,
walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their
feet; 17therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown
of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare
their secret parts. 18In that day the Lord will take away
the beauty of their anklets, and the cauls, and the crescents;
19the pendants, and the bracelets, and the mufflers; 20
the headtires, and the ankle chains, and the sashes, and the
perfume-boxes, and the amulets; 21the rings, and the
nose-jewels; 22the festival robes, and the mantles, and the
shawls, and the satchels; 23the hand-mirrors, and the fine
linen, and the turbans, and the veils. 24And it shall come
to pass, that instead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness;
and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well set hair,
baldness; and instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth;
branding instead of beauty. 25Thy men shall fall by the
sword, and thy mighty in the war. 26And her gates shall
lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the
ground.
Chapter 4
1And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day,
saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel:
only let us be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach.
2In that day shall the branch of Jehovah be beautiful and
glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be excellent and
comely for them that are escaped of Israel. 3And 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; 4when 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 justice, and by the spirit of burning.
5And Jehovah will create over the whole habitation of mount
Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the
shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory
[shall be spread] a covering. 6And there shall be a
pavilion for a shade in the day-time from the heat, and for a
refuge and for a covert from storm and from rain.
Chapter 5
1Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved
touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very
fruitful hill: 2and he digged 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 hewed out a winepress
therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it
brought forth wild grapes. 3And now, O inhabitants of
Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my
vineyard. 4What 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 I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will
take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I will
break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: 6
and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but
there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the
clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 7For the vineyard of
Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah
his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold,
oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry. 8Woe
unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field,
till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the
midst of the land! 9In mine ears [saith] Jehovah of hosts,
Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair,
without inhabitant. 10For ten acres of vineyard shall yield
one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield [but] an ephah. 11
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may
follow strong drink; that tarry late into the night, till wine
inflame them! 12And the harp and the lute, the tabret and
the pipe, and wine, are [in] their feasts; but they regard not
the work of Jehovah, neither have they considered the operation
of his hands. 13Therefore my people are gone into captivity
for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and
their multitude are parched with thirst. 14Therefore Sheol
hath enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure;
and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he
that rejoiceth among them, descend [into it]. 15And the
mean man is bowed down, and the great man is humbled, and the
eyes of the lofty are humbled: 16but Jehovah of hosts is
exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in
righteousness. 17Then shall the lambs feed as in their
pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers
eat. 18Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of
falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope; 19that say,
Let him make speed, let him 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! 20Woe 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!
21Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and
prudent in their own sight! 22Woe unto them that are mighty
to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink;
23that justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the
righteousness of the righteous from him! 24Therefore as the
tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass
sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness,
and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have
rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of
the Holy One of Israel. 25Therefore is the anger of Jehovah
kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand
against them, and hath smitten them; and the mountains tremble,
and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets.
For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is
stretched out still. 26And he will lift up an ensign to the
nations from far, and will hiss for 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: 28whose arrows
are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses' hoofs shall be
accounted as flint, and their wheels as a whirlwind: 29
their roaring shall be like a lioness, they shall roar like
young lions; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and
carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver. 30
And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of
the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness [and]
distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.
Chapter 6
1In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord
sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled
the temple. 2Above him stood the seraphim: each one had six
wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered
his feet, and with twain he did fly. 3And one cried unto
another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is Jehovah of hosts: the
whole earth is full of his glory. 4And the foundations of
the thresholds shook at the voice of him that cried, and the
house was filled with smoke. 5Then 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, Jehovah of hosts. 6Then flew one of the seraphim
unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with
the tongs from off the altar: 7and he touched my mouth with
it, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity
is taken away, and thy sin forgiven. 8And I heard the voice
of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?
Then I said, Here am I; send me. 9And he said, Go, and tell
this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye
indeed, but perceive not. 10Make the heart of this people
fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they
sea with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand
with their heart, and turn again, and be healed. 11Then
said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste
without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become
utterly waste, 12and Jehovah have removed men far away, and
the forsaken places be many in the midst of the land. 13And
if there be yet a tenth in it, it also shall in turn be eaten
up: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remaineth, when
they are felled; so the holy seed is the stock thereof.
Chapter 7
1And 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 to
Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
2And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is
confederate with Ephraim. And his heart trembled, and the heart
of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.
3Then said Jehovah unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz,
thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the
upper pool, in the highway of the fuller's field; 4and say
unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither let thy
heart be faint, because of these two tails of smoking
firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the
son of Remaliah. 5Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of
Remaliah, have purposed evil against thee, saying, 6Let us
go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach
therein for us, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the
son of Tabeel; 7thus saith the Lord Jehovah, It shall not
stand, neither shall it come to pass. 8For the head of
Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within
threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken in pieces, so
that is shall not be a people: 9and 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. 10And
Jehovah spake again unto Ahaz, saying, 11Ask thee a sign of
Jehovah thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height
above. 12But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I
tempt Jehovah. 13And he said, Hear ye now, O house of
David: Is it a small thing for you to weary men, that ye will
weary my God also? 14Therefore the Lord himself will give
you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and
shall call his name Immanuel. 15Butter and honey shall he
eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
16For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and
choose the good, the land whose two kings thou abhorrest shall
be forsaken. 17Jehovah will 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. 18And it shall come to pass in that day, that
Jehovah will 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. 19And they shall come, and shall rest all of them
in the desolate valleys, and in the clefts of the rocks, and
upon all thorn-hedges, and upon all pastures. 20In that day
will the Lord shave with a razor that is hired in the parts
beyond the River, [even] with the king of Assyria, the head and
the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.
21And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall
keep alive a young cow, and two sheep; 22and it shall come
to pass, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall
give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one
eat that is left in the midst of the land. 23And it shall
come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a
thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, shall be for briers
and thorns. 24With arrows and with bow shall one come
thither, because all the land shall be briers and thorns. 25
And all the hills that were digged with the mattock, thou shalt
not come thither for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be
for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.
Chapter 8
1And Jehovah said unto me, Take thee a great tablet, and
write upon it with the pen of a man, For Maher-shalal-hash-baz;
2and I will take 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 Jehovah unto me, Call his name
Maher-shalal-hash-baz. 4For before the child shall have
knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of
Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before
the king of Assyria. 5And Jehovah spake unto me yet again,
saying, 6Forasmuch as this people have refused the waters
of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's
son; 7now 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 it shall come up over all its
channels, and go over all its banks; 8and it shall sweep
onward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall
reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings
shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel. 9Make an
uproar, O ye peoples, and be broken in pieces; and give ear, all
ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces;
gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces. 10Take counsel
together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and
it shall not stand: for God is with us. 11For Jehovah spake
thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in
the way of this people, saying, 12Say ye not, A conspiracy,
concerning all whereof this people shall say, A conspiracy;
neither fear ye their fear, nor be in dread [thereof]. 13
Jehovah of hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be your
fear, and let him be your dread. 14And 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. 15And many shall stumble
thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
16Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among my
disciples. 17And I will wait for Jehovah, that hideth his
face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. 18
Behold, I and the children whom Jehovah hath given me are for
signs and for wonders in Israel from Jehovah of hosts, who
dwelleth in mount Zion. 19And when they shall say unto you,
Seek unto them that have familiar spirits and unto the wizards,
that chirp and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their
God? on behalf of the living [should they seek] unto the dead?
20To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not
according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
21And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and
hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be
hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and
by their God, and turn their faces upward: 22and they shall
look unto the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the
gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven
away.
Chapter 9
1But there shall be no gloom to her that was in anguish.
In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun
and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time hath he made it
glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of
the nations. 2The people that walked in darkness have seen
a great light: they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of
death, upon them hath the light shined. 3Thou hast
multiplied the nation, thou hast increased their joy: they joy
before thee according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when
they divide the spoil. 4For the yoke of his burden, and the
staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, thou hast
broken as in the day of Midian. 5For all the armor of the
armed man in the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall
be for burning, for fuel of fire. 6For 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, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
7Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall
be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to
establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with
righteousness from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of Jehovah
of hosts will perform this. 8The Lord sent a word into
Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. 9And all the people
shall know, [even] Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that
say in pride and in stoutness of heart, 10The bricks are
fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycomores are cut
down, but we will put cedars in their place. 11Therefore
Jehovah will set up on high against him the adversaries of
Rezin, and will stir up his enemies, 12the 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. 13Yet the people have not
turned unto him that smote them, neither have they sought
Jehovah of hosts. 14Therefore Jehovah will cut off from
Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day. 15
The elder and the honorable man, he is the head; and the prophet
that teacheth lies, he is the tail. 16For they that lead
this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are
destroyed. 17Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their
young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless
and widows; for every one is profane and an evil-doer, and every
mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still. 18For wickedness
burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns; yea, it
kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in
a column of smoke. 19Through the wrath of Jehovah of hosts
is the land burnt up; and the people are as the fuel of fire: no
man spareth his brother. 20And one 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: 21Manasseh, 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.
Chapter 10
1Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to
the writers that write perverseness; 2to turn aside the
needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their
right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make
the fatherless their prey! 3And 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? 4They shall only bow down under the prisoners, and
shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned
away, but his hand is stretched out still. 5Ho Assyrian,
the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine
indignation! 6I will send him against a profane 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. 7Howbeit he meaneth not so,
neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to
destroy, and to cut off nations not a few. 8For he saith,
Are not my princes all of them kings? 9Is not Calno as
Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
10As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, whose
graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
11shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols,
so do to Jerusalem and her idols? 12Wherefore 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. 13For he hath said, By the strength of my hand I
have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I
have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their
treasures, and like a valiant man I have brought down them that
sit [on thrones]: 14and my hand hath found as a nest the
riches of the peoples; and as one gathereth eggs that are
forsaken, have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that
moved the wing, or that opened the mouth, or chirped. 15
Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith?
shall the saw magnify itself against him that wieldeth it? as if
a rod should wield them that lift it up, [or] as if a staff
should lift up [him that is] not wood. 16Therefore will
the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness;
and under his glory there shall be kindled a burning like the
burning of fire. 17And the light of Israel will be for a
fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour
his thorns and his briers in one day. 18And he will
consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both
soul and body: and it shall be as when a standard-bearer
fainteth. 19And the remnant of the trees of his forest
shall be few, so that a child may write them. 20And it
shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and
they that are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again
lean upon him that smote them, but shall lean upon Jehovah, the
Holy One of Israel, in truth. 21A remnant shall return,
[even] the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. 22For
though thy people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, [only] a
remnant of them shall return: a destruction [is] determined,
overflowing with righteousness. 23For a full end, and that
determined, will the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, make in the midst
of all the earth. 24Therefore thus saith the Lord, Jehovah
of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of
the Assyrian, though he smite thee with the rod, and lift up his
staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt. 25For yet a
very little while, and the indignation [against thee] shall be
accomplished, and mine anger [shall be directed] to his
destruction. 26And Jehovah of hosts will stir up against
him a scourge, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of
Oreb: and his rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up
after the manner of Egypt. 27And it shall come to pass in
that day, that his burden shall depart from off thy shoulder,
and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed
by reason of fatness. 28He is come to Aiath, he is passed
through Migron; at Michmash he layeth up his baggage; 29
they are gone over the pass; they have taken up their lodging at
Geba; Ramah trembleth; Gibeah of Saul is fled. 30Cry aloud
with thy voice, O daughter of Gallim! hearken, O Laishah! O thou
poor Anathoth! 31Madmenah is a fugitive; the inhabitants
of Gebim flee for safety. 32This very day shall he halt at
Nob: he shaketh his hand at the mount of the daughter of Zion,
the hill of Jerusalem. 33Behold, the Lord, Jehovah of
hosts, will lop the boughs with terror: and the high of stature
shall be hewn down, and the lofty shall be brought low. 34
And he will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and
Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
Chapter 11
1And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of
Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit. 2
And the Spirit of Jehovah 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 Jehovah. 3And his
delight shall be in the fear of Jehovah; and he shall not judge
after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of
his ears; 4but with righteousness shall he judge the poor,
and decide 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. 5And righteousness
shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the girdle of
his loins. 6And the wolf 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. 7And the cow and the bear shall feed; their
young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw
like the ox. 8And the sucking child shall play on the hole
of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the
adder's den. 9They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my
holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of
Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea. 10And it shall come
to pass in that day, that the root of Jesse, that standeth for
an ensign of the peoples, unto him shall the nations seek; and
his resting-place shall be glorious. 11And it shall come
to pass in that day, that the Lord will set his hand again the
second time to recover the remnant of his people, that shall
remain, 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. 12And he will set up an ensign for
the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and
gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of
the earth. 13The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and
they that vex Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy
Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. 14And they shall
fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the west;
together shall they despoil the children of the east: they shall
put forth their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of
Ammon shall obey them. 15And Jehovah will utterly destroy
the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind will
he wave his hand over the River, and will smite it into seven
streams, and cause men to march over dryshod. 16And there
shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, that shall
remain, from Assyria; like as there was for Israel in the day
that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
Chapter 12
1And in that day thou shalt say, I will give thanks
unto thee, O Jehovah; for though thou wast angry with me, thine
anger is turned away and thou comfortest me. 2Behold, God
is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for
Jehovah, [even] Jehovah, is my strength and song; and he is
become my salvation. 3Therefore with joy shall ye draw
water out of the wells of salvation. 4And in that day
shall ye say, Give thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name,
declare his doings among the peoples, make mention that his name
is exalted. 5Sing unto Jehovah; for he hath done excellent
things: let this be known in all the earth. 6Cry aloud and
shout, thou inhabitant of Zion; for great in the midst of thee
is the Holy One of Israel.
Chapter 13
1The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz
did see. 2Set ye up an ensign upon the bare mountain, lift
up the voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the
gates of the nobles. 3I have commanded my consecrated
ones, yea, I have called my mighty men for mine anger, even my
proudly exulting ones. 4The noise of a multitude in the
mountains, as of a great people! the noise of a tumult of the
kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Jehovah of hosts is
mustering the host for the battle. 5They come from a far
country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Jehovah, and
the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
6Wail ye; for the day of Jehovah is at hand; as
destruction from the Almighty shall it come. 7Therefore
shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:
8and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take
hold [of them]; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail:
they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces [shall
be] faces of flame. 9Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh,
cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a
desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof
shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its
going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.
11And 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. 12I will make a man more rare than fine gold,
even a man than the pure gold of Ophir. 13Therefore I will
make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out
of its place, in the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day
of his fierce anger. 14And it shall come to pass, that as
the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathereth, they shall
turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to
his own land. 15Every one that is found shall be thrust
through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the sword.
16Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before
their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives
ravished. 17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them,
who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not
delight in it. 18And [their] bows shall dash the young men
in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb;
their eye shall not spare children. 19And Babylon, the
glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be
as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 20It shall never
be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to
generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither
shall shepherds make their flocks to lie down there. 21But
wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses
shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell
there, and wild goats shall dance there. 22And wolves
shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces:
and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be
prolonged.
Chapter 14
1For Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob, and will
yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the
sojourner shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to
the house of Jacob. 2And the peoples shall take them, and
bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess
them in the land of Jehovah for servants and for handmaids: and
they shall take them captive whose captives they were; and they
shall rule over their oppressors. 3And it shall come to
pass in the day that Jehovah shall give thee rest from thy
sorrow, and from thy trouble, and from the hard service wherein
thou wast made to serve, 4that thou shalt take up this
parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the
oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! 5Jehovah hath
broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers;
6that smote the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke,
that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none
restrained. 7The whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet:
they break forth into singing. 8Yea, the fir-trees rejoice
at thee, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since thou art
laid low, no hewer is come up against us. 9Sheol 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. 10All they shall answer and say unto thee, Art
thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
11Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, [and] the noise of
thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.
12How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the
morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low
the nations! 13And thou saidst in thy heart, I will ascend
into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and
I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the uttermost
parts of the north; 14I will ascend above the heights of
the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High. 15Yet
thou shalt be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of
the pit. 16They that see thee shall gaze at thee, they
shall consider thee, [saying], Is this the man that made the
earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; 17that made the
world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that
let not loose his prisoners to their home? 18All the kings
of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, every one in his
own house. 19But thou art cast forth away from thy
sepulchre like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain,
that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the
stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot. 20
Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast
destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people; the seed of
evil-doers shall not be named for ever. 21Prepare ye
slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers,
that they rise not up, and possess the earth, and fill the face
of the world with cities. 22And I will rise up against
them, saith Jehovah of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and
remnant, and son and son's son, saith Jehovah. 23I will
also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water:
and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith Jehovah
of hosts. 24Jehovah 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: 25that 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 shoulder. 26This is the purpose that is
purposed upon the whole earth; and this is the hand that is
stretched out upon all the nations. 27For Jehovah of hosts
hath purposed, and who shall annul it? and his hand is stretched
out, and who shall turn it back? 28In the year that king
Ahaz died was this burden. 29Rejoice not, O Philistia, all
of thee, because the rod that smote thee is broken; for out of
the serpent's root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit
shall be a fiery flying serpent. 30And the first-born of
the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; and
I will kill thy root with famine, and thy remnant shall be
slain. 31Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou art melted away,
O Philistia, all of thee; for there cometh a smoke out of the
north, and there is no straggler in his ranks. 32What then
shall one answer the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah hath
founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his people take
refuge.
Chapter 15
1The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid
waste, [and] brought to nought; for in a night Kir of Moab is
laid waste, [and] brought to nought. 2They are gone up to
Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab waileth
over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness,
every beard is cut off. 3In their streets they gird
themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their
broad places, every one waileth, weeping abundantly. 4And
Heshbon crieth out, and Elealeh; their voice is heard even unto
Jahaz: therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul
trembleth within him. 5My heart crieth out for Moab; her
nobles [flee] unto Zoar, to Eglath-shelishi-yah: for by the
ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of
Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction. 6For the
waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered
away, the tender 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 over the brook of the
willows. 8For the cry is gone round about the borders of
Moab; the wailing thereof unto Eglaim, and the wailing thereof
unto Beer-elim. 9For the waters of Dimon are full of
blood; for I will bring yet more upon Dimon, a lion upon them of
Moab that escape, and upon the remnant of the land.
Chapter 16
1Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah
to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
2For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered
nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the
Arnon. 3Give counsel, execute justice; make thy shade as
the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray
not the fugitive. 4Let mine outcasts dwell with thee; as
for Moab, be thou a covert to him from the face of the
destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nought, destruction
ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land. 5And
a throne shall be established in lovingkindness; and one shall
sit thereon in truth, in the tent of David, judging, and seeking
justice, and swift to do righteousness. 6We have heard of
the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; even of his
arrogancy, and his pride, and his wrath; his boastings are
nought. 7Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one
shall wail: for the raisin-cakes of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn,
utterly stricken. 8For the fields of Heshbon languish,
[and] the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken
down the choice branches thereof, which reached even unto Jazer,
which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread
abroad, they passed over the sea. 9Therefore I will weep
with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water
thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for upon thy summer
fruits and upon thy harvest the [battle] shout is fallen.
10And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful
field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither
joyful noise: no treader shall tread out wine in the presses; I
have made the [vintage] shout to cease. 11Wherefore my
heart soundeth like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for
Kir-heres. 12And it shall come to pass, when Moab
presenteth himself, when he wearieth himself upon the high
place, and shall come to his sanctuary to pray, that he shall
not prevail. 13This is the word that Jehovah spake
concerning Moab in time past. 14But now Jehovah hath
spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling,
the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his
great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and of no
account.
Chapter 17
1The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away
from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. 2The
cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which
shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. 3And the
fortress 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 Jehovah of hosts. 4And it
shall come to pass in that day, 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 standing
grain, and his arm reapeth the ears; yea, it shall be as when
one gleaneth ears in the valley of Rephaim. 6Yet there
shall be left therein gleanings, as the shaking of an
olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost
bough, four or five in the outmost branches of a fruitful tree,
saith Jehovah, the God of Israel. 7In that day shall men
look unto their Maker, and their eyes shall have respect to the
Holy One of Israel. 8And they shall not look to the
altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they have respect
to that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or
the sun-images. 9In that day shall their strong cities be
as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top,
which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it
shall be a desolation. 10For thou hast forgotten the God
of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy
strength; therefore thou plantest pleasant plants, and settest
it with strange slips. 11In the day of thy planting thou
hedgest it in, and in the morning thou makest thy seed to
blossom; but the harvest fleeth away in the day of grief and of
desperate sorrow. 12Ah, the uproar of many peoples, that
roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations,
that rush like the rushing of mighty waters! 13The nations
shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke
them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the
chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling
dust before the storm. 14At eventide, behold, terror;
[and] before the morning they are not. This is the portion of
them that despoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Chapter 18
1Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond
the rivers of Ethiopia; 2that sendeth ambassadors by the
sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, [saying], Go,
ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people
terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out
and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide! 3All ye
inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on the earth, when an
ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye; and when the
trumpet is blown, hear ye. 4For thus hath Jehovah said
unto me, I will be still, and I will behold in my
dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew
in the heat of harvest. 5For before the harvest, when the
blossom is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he
will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading
branches will he take away [and] cut down. 6They shall be
left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to
the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer
upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon
them. 7In that time shall a present be brought unto
Jehovah of hosts [from] a people tall and smooth, even from a
people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that
meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to
the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount Zion.
Chapter 19
1The burden of Egypt. Behold, Jehovah rideth upon a
swift cloud, and cometh unto Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall
tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt shall melt in
the midst of it. 2And I will stir up the Egyptians against
the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his
brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city,
[and] kingdom against kingdom. 3And the spirit of Egypt
shall fail in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel
thereof: and they shall seek unto the idols, and to the
charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the
wizards. 4And I will give over the Egyptians into the hand
of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith
the Lord, Jehovah of hosts. 5And the waters shall fail
from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry.
6And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt
shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall
wither away. 7The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the
Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, shall become dry, be
driven away, and be no more. 8And the fishers shall
lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn,
and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. 9
Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave
white cloth, shall be confounded. 10And the pillars [of
Egypt] shall be broken in pieces; all they that work for hire
[shall be] grieved in soul. 11The princes of Zoan are
utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counsellors of
Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son
of the wise, the son of ancient kings? 12Where then are
thy wise men? and let them tell thee now; and let them know what
Jehovah of hosts hath purposed concerning Egypt. 13The
princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Memphis are
deceived; they have caused Egypt to go astray, that are the
corner-stone of her tribes. 14Jehovah hath mingled a
spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused
Egypt to go astray in every work thereof, as a drunken man
staggereth in his vomit. 15Neither shall there be for
Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.
16In that day shall the Egyptians be like unto women; and
they shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand
of Jehovah of hosts, which he shaketh over them. 17And the
land of Judah shall become a terror unto Egypt; every one to
whom mention is made thereof shall be afraid, because of the
purpose of Jehovah of hosts, which he purposeth against it.
18In that day there shall be five cities in the land of
Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Jehovah of
hosts; one shall be called The city of destruction. 19In
that day shall there be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the
land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to Jehovah.
20And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto
Jehovah of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry unto
Jehovah because of oppressors, and he will send them a saviour,
and a defender, and he will deliver them. 21And Jehovah
shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know Jehovah in
that day; yea, they shall worship with sacrifice and oblation,
and shall vow a vow unto Jehovah, and shall perform it. 22
And Jehovah will smite Egypt, smiting and healing; and they
shall return unto Jehovah, and he will be entreated of them, and
will heal them. 23In 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 worship with
the Assyrians. 24In that day shall Israel be the third
with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the
earth; 25for that Jehovah of hosts hath blessed them,
saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my
hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
Chapter 20
1In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, when Sargon
the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and
took it; 2at that time Jehovah spake by Isaiah the son of
Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins,
and put thy shoe from off thy foot. And he did so, walking naked
and barefoot. 3And Jehovah said, Like as my servant Isaiah
hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a
wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia; 4so shall
the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the
exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with
buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. 5And they shall
be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their
expectation, and of Egypt their glory. 6And the inhabitant
of this coast-land shall say in that day, Behold, such is our
expectation, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the
king of Assyria: and we, how shall we escape?
Chapter 21
1The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds
in the South sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from
a terrible land. 2A grievous vision is declared unto me;
the treacherous man dealeth treacherously, and the destroyer
destroyeth. Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media; all the sighing
thereof have I made to cease. 3Therefore are my loins
filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs
of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am
dismayed so that I cannot see. 4My heart fluttereth,
horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been
turned into trembling unto me. 5They prepare the table,
they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes,
anoint the shield. 6For thus hath the Lord said unto me,
Go, set a watchman: let him declare what he seeth: 7and
when he seeth a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of asses, a
troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed.
8And he cried as a lion: O Lord, I stand continually upon
the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole
nights; 9and, behold, here cometh a troop of men, horsemen
in pairs. And he answered and said, Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
and all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the
ground. 10O thou my threshing, and the grain of my floor!
that which I have heard from Jehovah of hosts, the God of
Israel, have I declared unto you. 11The burden of Dumah.
One calleth unto me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night?
Watchman, what of the night? 12The watchman said, The
morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire
ye: turn ye, come. 13The burden upon Arabia. In the forest
in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites. 14
Unto him that was thirsty they brought water; the inhabitants of
the land of Tema did meet the fugitives with their bread.
15For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn
sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
16For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year,
according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar
shall fail; 17and the residue of the number of the
archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be few;
for Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath spoken it.
Chapter 22
1The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee
now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? 2O
thou that art full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous
town; thy slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they
dead in battle. 3All thy rulers fled away together, they
were bound by the archers; all that were found of thee were
bound together; they fled afar off. 4Therefore said I,
Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me
for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 5For it
is a day of discomfiture, and of treading down, and of
perplexity, from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the valley of
vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the
mountains. 6And Elam bare the quiver, with chariots of men
[and] horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield. 7And it came
to pass, that thy choicest valleys were full of chariots, and
the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate. 8And he
took away the covering of Judah; and thou didst look in that day
to the armor in the house of the forest. 9And ye saw the
breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and ye
gathered together the waters of the lower pool; 10and ye
numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and ye brake down the houses
to fortify the wall; 11ye made also a reservoir between
the two walls for the water of the old pool. But ye looked not
unto him that had done this, neither had ye respect unto him
that purposed it long ago. 12And in that day did the Lord,
Jehovah of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to
baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: 13and 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.
14And Jehovah of hosts revealed himself in mine ears,
Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till ye die,
saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts. 15Thus saith the Lord,
Jehovah of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto
Shebna, who is over the house, [and say], 16What doest
thou here? and whom has thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out
here a sepulchre? hewing him out a sepulchre on high, graving a
habitation for himself in the rock! 17Behold, Jehovah,
like a [strong] man, will hurl thee away violently; yea, he will
wrap thee up closely. 18He will surely wind thee round and
round, [and toss thee] like a ball into a large country; there
shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory,
thou shame of thy lord's house. 19And I will thrust thee
from thine office; and from thy station shalt thou be pulled
down. 20And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will
call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: 21and I will
cloth 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. 22And the key of the house of David will I lay upon
his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he
shall shut, and none shall open. 23And I will fasten him
as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a throne of glory
to his father's house. 24And they shall hang upon him all
the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue,
every small vessel, from the cups even to all the flagons.
25In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, shall the nail that
was fastened in a sure place give way; and it shall be hewn
down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut
off; for Jehovah hath spoken it.
Chapter 23
1The 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 Kittim it is revealed to them. 2Be still, ye
inhabitants of the coast, thou whom the merchants of Sidon, that
pass over the sea, have replenished. 3And on great waters
the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her
revenue; and she was the mart of nations. 4Be thou
ashamed, O Sidon; for the sea hath spoken, the stronghold of the
sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither
have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins. 5When
the report cometh to Egypt, they shall be sorely pained at the
report of Tyre. 6Pass ye over to Tarshish; wail, ye
inhabitants of the coast. 7Is this your joyous [city],
whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her afar
off to sojourn? 8Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the
bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose
traffickers are the honorable of the earth? 9Jehovah of
hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to
bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth. 10Pass
through thy land as the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is
no restraint any more. 11He hath stretched out his hand
over the sea, he hath shaken the kingdoms: Jehovah hath given
commandment concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds
thereof. 12And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou
oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon: arise, pass over to Kittim;
even there shalt thou have no rest. 13Behold, the land of
the Chaldeans: this people was not; the Assyrian founded it for
them that dwell in the wilderness; they set up their towers;
they overthrew the palaces thereof; they made it a ruin. 14
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for your stronghold is laid waste.
15And 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 it shall be unto Tyre as in the
song of the harlot. 16Take a harp, go about the city, thou
harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many
songs, that thou mayest be remembered. 17And it shall come
to pass after the end of seventy years, that Jehovah will visit
Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the
harlot with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the
earth. 18And her merchandise and her hire shall be
holiness to Jehovah: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for
her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before Jehovah, to
eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
Chapter 24
1Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it
waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the
inhabitants thereof. 2And 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 creditor, so with the debtor; as with
the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.
3The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid
waste; for Jehovah hath spoken this word. 4The earth
mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away,
the lofty people of the earth do languish. 5The earth also
is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have
transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the
everlasting covenant. 6Therefore hath the curse devoured
the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty:
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men
left. 7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all
the merry-hearted do sigh. 8The mirth of tabrets ceaseth,
the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp
ceaseth. 9They shall not drink wine with a song; strong
drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. 10The waste
city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may
come in. 11There is a crying in the streets because of the
wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
12In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten
with destruction. 13For thus shall it be in the midst of
the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive-tree, as
the gleanings when the vintage is done. 14These shall lift
up their voice, they shall shout; for the majesty of Jehovah
they cry aloud from the sea. 15Wherefore glorify ye
Jehovah in the east, even the name of Jehovah, the God of
Israel, in the isles of the sea. 16From the uttermost part
of the earth have we heard songs: Glory to the righteous. But I
said, I pine away, I pine away, woe is me! the treacherous have
dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous have dealt very
treacherously. 17Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are
upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. 18And 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 on high are
opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble. 19The
earth is utterly broken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is
shaken violently. 20The earth shall stagger like a drunken
man, and shall sway to and fro like a hammock; and the
transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall,
and not rise again. 21And it shall come to pass in that
day, that Jehovah will punish the host of the high ones on high,
and the kings of the earth upon the earth. 22And 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. 23Then the moon shall be
confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Jehovah of hosts will reign
in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders shall be
glory.
Chapter 25
1O Jehovah, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will
praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things, [even]
counsels of old, in faithfulness [and] truth. 2For thou
hast made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace
of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. 3
Therefore shall a strong people glorify thee; a city of terrible
nations shall fear thee. 4For thou hast been a stronghold
to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge
from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the
terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. 5As the heat
in a dry place wilt thou bring down the noise of strangers; as
the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the terrible ones
shall be brought low. 6And in this mountain will Jehovah
of hosts make unto all peoples 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. 7And he will destroy in this mountain
the face of the covering that covereth all peoples, and the veil
that is spread over all nations. 8He hath swallowed up
death for ever; and the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from
off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away
from off all the earth: for Jehovah hath spoken it. 9And
it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have
waited for him, and he will save us: this is Jehovah; we have
waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10For in this mountain will the hand of Jehovah rest; and
Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is
trodden down in the water of the dung-hill. 11And he shall
spread forth his hands in the midst thereof, as he that swimmeth
spreadeth forth [his hands] to swim; but [Jehovah] will lay low
his pride together with the craft of his hands. 12And the
high fortress of thy walls hath he brought down, laid low, and
brought to the ground, even to the dust.
Chapter 26
1In that day shall this song be sung in the land of
Judah: we have a strong city; salvation will he appoint for
walls and bulwarks. 2Open ye the gates, that the righteous
nation which keepeth faith may enter in. 3Thou wilt keep
[him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee];
because he trusteth in thee. 4Trust ye in Jehovah for
ever; for in Jehovah, [even] Jehovah, is an everlasting rock.
5For he hath brought 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. 6The foot shall
tread it down; even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the
needy. 7The way of the just is uprightness: thou that art
upright dost direct the path of the just. 8Yea, in the way
of thy judgments, O Jehovah, have we waited for thee; to thy
name, even to thy memorial [name], is the desire of our soul.
9With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with
my spirit within me will I seek thee earnestly: for when thy
judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn
righteousness. 10Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet
will he not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will
he deal wrongfully, and will not behold the majesty of Jehovah.
11Jehovah, thy hand is lifted up, yet they see not: but
they shall see [thy] zeal for the people, and be put to shame;
yea, fire shall devour thine adversaries. 12Jehovah, thou
wilt ordain peace for us; for thou hast also wrought all our
works for us. 13O Jehovah our God, other lords besides
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 remembrance of
them to perish. 15Thou hast increased the nation, O
Jehovah, thou hast increased the nation; thou art glorified;
thou hast enlarged all the borders of the land. 16Jehovah,
in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out a prayer
[when] thy chastening was upon them. 17Like as a woman
with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in
pain and crieth out in her pangs; so we have been before thee, O
Jehovah. 18We 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. 19Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall
arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is
[as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
20Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut
thy doors about thee: hide thyself for a little moment, until
the indignation be overpast. 21For, behold, Jehovah cometh
forth 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.
Chapter 27
1In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong
sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the
crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the
sea. 2In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing ye unto it.
3I Jehovah am its keeper; I will water it every moment:
lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. 4Wrath is
not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in
battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them together.
5Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may
make peace with me; [yea], let him make peace with me. 6In
days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and
bud; and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.
7Hath he smitten them as he smote those that smote them?
or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were
slain by them? 8In measure, when thou sendest them away,
thou dost content with them; he hath removed [them] with his
rough blast in the day of the east wind. 9Therefore by
this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all
the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones
of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, [so that]
the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more. 10For
the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and
forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and
there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be
broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it
is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them
will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will
show them no favor. 12And it shall come to pass in that
day, that Jehovah will beat off [his fruit] from the flood of
the River unto the brook of Egypt; and ye shall be gathered one
by one, O ye children of Israel. 13And it shall come to
pass in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they
shall come that were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and
they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall
worship Jehovah in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
Chapter 28
1Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim,
and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the
head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with wine!
2Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one; as a
tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty
waters overflowing, will he cast down to the earth with the
hand. 3The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim
shall be trodden under foot: 4and the fading flower of his
glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall
be as the first-ripe fig before the summer; which when he that
looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it
up. 5In that day will Jehovah of hosts become a crown of
glory, and a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people;
6and a spirit of justice to him that sitteth in judgment,
and strength to them that turn back the battle at the gate.
7And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong
drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they
are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they
err in vision, they stumble in judgment. 8For all tables
are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place
[clean]. 9Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he
make to understand the message? them that are weaned from the
milk, and drawn from the breasts? 10For it is precept upon
precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line;
here a little, there a little. 11Nay, but by [men of]
strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this
people; 12to whom he said, This is the rest, give ye rest
to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would
not hear. 13Therefore shall the word of Jehovah be unto
them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line,
line upon line; here a little, there a little; that they may go,
and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. 14
Wherefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, that rule this
people that is in Jerusalem: 15Because ye have said, We
have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol 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: 16therefore thus
saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a
stone, a tried stone, a precious corner -[stone] of sure
foundation: he that believeth shall not be in haste. 17And
I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and
the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters
shall overflow the hiding-place. 18And your covenant with
death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not
stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye
shall be trodden down by it. 19As often as it passeth
though, it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass
through, by day and by night: and it shall be nought but terror
to understand the message. 20For 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. 21For Jehovah will
rise up as in mount Perazim, he will 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. 22Now therefore be ye
not scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of
destruction have I heard from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, upon
the whole earth. 23Give ye ear, and hear my voice;
hearken, and hear my speech. 24Doth he that ploweth to sow
plow continually? doth he [continually] open and harrow his
ground? 25When he hath levelled the face thereof, doth he
not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and put in
the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and
the spelt in the border thereof? 26For his God doth
instruct him aright, [and] doth teach him. 27For the
fitches are not threshed with a sharp [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.
28Bread [grain] is ground; for he will not be always
threshing it: and though the wheel of his cart and his horses
scatter it, he doth not grind it. 29This also cometh forth
from Jehovah of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and
excellent in wisdom.
Chapter 29
1Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! add ye
year to year; let the feasts come round: 2then will I
distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation; and
she shall be unto me as Ariel. 3And I will encamp against
thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with posted
troops, and I will raise siege works against thee. 4And
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. 5But the
multitude of thy foes shall be like small dust, and the
multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away: yea,
it shall be in an instant suddenly. 6She shall be visited
of Jehovah of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great
noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring
fire. 7And the multitude of all the nations that fight
against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her
stronghold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision
of the night. 8And it shall be as when a 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. 9Tarry ye and wonder; take
your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine;
they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10For Jehovah
hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath
closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, hath
he covered. 11And all vision 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: 12and the book is delivered to him that
is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I
am not learned. 13And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this
people draw nigh [unto me], and with their mouth and with their
lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and
their fear of me is a commandment of men which hath been taught
[them]; 14therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a
marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a
wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the
understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. 15Woe
unto them that hide deep their counsel from Jehovah, and whose
works are in the dark, and that say, Who seeth us? and who
knoweth us? 16Ye turn things upside down! Shall the potter
be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him that
made it, He made me not; or the thing formed say of him that
formed it, He hath no understanding? 17Is 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?
18And 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. 19The meek also shall increase their joy
in Jehovah, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One
of Israel. 20For the terrible one is brought to nought,
and the scoffer ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity
are cut off; 21that make a man an offender in [his] cause,
and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn
aside the just with a thing of nought. 22Therefore thus
saith Jehovah, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of
Jacob: Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face
now wax pale. 23But when he seeth his children, the work
of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name;
yea, they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall stand
in awe of the God of Israel. 24They also that err in
spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmur shall
receive instruction.
Chapter 30
1Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, that
take counsel, but not of me; and that make a league, but not of
my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin, 2that set out to
go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to
strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take
refuge in the shadow of Egypt! 3Therefore shall the
strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow
of Egypt your confusion. 4For their princes are at Zoan,
and their ambassadors are come to Hanes. 5They shall all
be ashamed because of a people that cannot profit them, that are
not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach. 6
The burden of the beasts of the South. Through the land of
trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion,
the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon
the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the humps
of camels, to a people that shall not profit [them]. 7For
Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I
called her Rahab that sitteth still. 8Now go, write it
before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may
be for the time to come for ever and ever. 9For it is a
rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear
the law of Jehovah; 10that say to the seers, See not; and
to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto
us smooth things, prophesy deceits, 11get you out of the
way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to
cease from before us. 12Wherefore thus saith the Holy One
of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression
and perverseness, and rely thereon; 13therefore this
iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out
in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly in an instant.
14And he shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken,
breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not
be found among the pieces thereof a sherd wherewith to take fire
from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern. 15
For thus said the Lord Jehovah, 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: 16but
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. 17One thousand [shall flee] at
the threat of one; at the threat of five shall ye flee: till ye
be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign
on a hill. 18And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may
be gracious unto you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he
may have mercy upon you: for Jehovah is a God of justice;
blessed are all they that wait for him. 19For the people
shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; thou shalt weep no more; he
will surely be gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when
he shall hear, he will answer thee. 20And though the Lord
give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet
shall not thy teachers be hidden anymore, but thine eyes shall
see thy teachers; 21and 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
And ye shall defile the overlaying of thy graven images of
silver, and the plating of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt
cast them away as an unclean thing; thou shalt say unto it, Get
thee hence. 23And he will give the rain for thy seed,
wherewith thou shalt sow the ground; and bread of the increase
of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that day
shall thy cattle feed in large pastures; 24the oxen
likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat
savory provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and
with the fork. 25And there shall be upon every lofty
mountain, and upon every high hill, brooks [and] streams of
waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
26Moreover 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 Jehovah bindeth up the hurt
of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. 27
Behold, the name of Jehovah cometh from far, burning with his
anger, and in thick rising smoke: his lips are full of
indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire; 28and
his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reacheth even unto
the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction: and
a bridle that causeth to err [shall be] in the jaws of the
peoples. 29Ye shall have a song as in the night when a
holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth
with a pipe to come unto the mountain of Jehovah, to the Rock of
Israel. 30And Jehovah will cause his glorious voice to be
heard, and will show the lighting down of his arm, with the
indignation of [his] anger, and the flame of a devouring fire,
with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones. 31For through
the voice of Jehovah shall the Assyrian be dismayed; with his
rod will he smite [him]. 32And every stroke of the
appointed staff, which Jehovah shall lay upon him, shall be with
[the sound of] tabrets and harps; and in battles with the
brandishing [of his arm] will he fight with them. 33For a
Topheth is prepared of old; yea, for the king it is made ready;
he hath made it deep and large; the pile thereof is fire and
much wood; the breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone,
doth kindle it.
Chapter 31
1Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, and rely
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 Jehovah! 2Yet he also
is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words,
but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against
the help of them that work iniquity. 3Now the Egyptians
are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit:
and when Jehovah shall stretch out his hand, both he that
helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall fall, and
they all shall be consumed together. 4For thus saith
Jehovah unto me, As the lion and the young lion growling over
his prey, if a multitude of shepherds be called forth against
him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for
the noise of them: so will Jehovah of hosts come down to fight
upon mount Zion, and upon the hill thereof. 5As birds
hovering, so will Jehovah of hosts protect Jerusalem; he will
protect and deliver [it], he will pass over and preserve [it].
6Turn ye unto him from whom ye have deeply revolted, O
children of Israel. 7For in that day they shall cast away
every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your
own hands have made unto you for a sin. 8And the Assyrian
shall fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of men,
shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his
young men shall become subject to taskwork. 9And his rock
shall pass away by reason of terror, and his princes shall be
dismayed at the ensign, saith Jehovah, whose fire is in Zion,
and his furnace in Jerusalem.
Chapter 32
1Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and
princes shall rule in justice. 2And a man shall be as a
hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as
streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in
a weary land. 3And the eyes of them that see shall not be
dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken. 4And
the heart of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue
of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. 5The
fool shall be no more called noble, nor the churl said to be
bountiful. 6For the fool will speak folly, and his heart
will work iniquity, to practise profaneness, and to utter error
against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to
cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. 7And the
instruments of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to
destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh
right. 8But the noble deviseth noble things; and in noble
things shall he continue. 9Rise up, ye women that are at
ease, [and] hear my voice; ye careless daughters, give ear unto
my speech. 10For days beyond a year shall ye be troubled,
ye careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering
shall not come. 11Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be
troubled, ye careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and
gird [sackcloth] upon your loins. 12They shall smite upon
the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
13Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and
briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
14For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city
shall be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower 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 become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be
esteemed as a forest. 16Then justice shall dwell in the
wilderness; and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field.
17And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the
effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence for ever.
18And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and
in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places. 19But it
shall hail in the downfall of the forest; and the city shall be
utterly laid low. 20Blessed are yet that sow beside all
waters, that send forth the feet of the ox and the ass.
Chapter 33
1Woe to thee that destroyest, and thou wast not
destroyed; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not
treacherously with thee! When thou hast ceased to destroy, thou
shalt be destroyed; and when thou hast made an end of dealing
treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee. 2O
Jehovah, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou
our arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of
trouble. 3At the noise of the tumult the peoples are fled;
at the lifting up of thyself the nations are scattered. 4
And your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathereth:
as locusts leap shall men leap upon it. 5Jehovah is
exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with
justice and righteousness. 6And there shall be stability
in thy times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the
fear of Jehovah is thy treasure. 7Behold, their valiant
ones cry without; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly. 8
The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: [the enemy]
hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he
regardeth not man. 9The land mourneth and languisheth;
Lebanon is confounded and withereth away; Sharon is like a
desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their leaves]. 10
Now will I arise, saith Jehovah; now will I lift up myself; now
will I be exalted. 11Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall
bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour
you. 12And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime,
as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire. 13Hear,
ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near,
acknowledge my might. 14The sinners in Zion are afraid;
trembling hath seized the godless ones: Who among us can dwell
with the devouring fire? who among us can dwell with everlasting
burnings? 15He that walketh righteously, and speaketh
uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that
shaketh his hands from taking a bribe, that stoppeth his ears
from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from looking upon
evil: 16He shall dwell on high; his place of defence shall
be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given [him]; his
waters shall be sure. 17Thine eyes shall see the king in
his beauty: they shall behold a land that reacheth afar. 18
Thy heart shall muse on the terror: Where is he that counted,
where is he that weighed [the tribute]? where is he that counted
the towers? 19Thou shalt not see the fierce people, a
people of a deep speech that thou canst not comprehend, of a
strange tongue that thou canst not understand. 20Look upon
Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see
Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not be removed,
the stakes whereof shall never be plucked up, neither shall any
of the cords thereof be broken. 21But there Jehovah will
be with us in majesty, a place of broad rivers and streams,
wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship
pass thereby. 22For Jehovah is our judge, Jehovah is our
lawgiver, Jehovah is our king; he will save us. 23Thy
tacklings are loosed; they could not strengthen the foot of
their mast, they could not spread the sail: then was the prey of
a great spoil divided; the lame took the prey. 24And the
inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell
therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
Chapter 34
1Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye
peoples: let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; the world,
and all things that come forth from it. 2For Jehovah hath
indignation against all the nations, and wrath against all their
host: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to
the slaughter. 3Their slain also shall be cast out, and
the stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains
shall be melted with their blood. 4And all the host of
heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled
together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as the
leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as a fading [leaf] from the
fig-tree. 5For my sword hath drunk its fill in heaven:
behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my
curse, to judgment. 6The sword of Jehovah is filled with
blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and
goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a
sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the
bullocks with the bulls: and their land shall be drunken with
blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. 8For Jehovah
hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of
Zion. 9And the streams of [Edom] shall be turned into
pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof
shall become burning pitch. 10It shall not be quenched
night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever; from
generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass
through it for ever and ever. 11But the pelican and the
porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall
dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of
confusion, and the plummet of emptiness. 12They shall call
the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and
all its princes shall be nothing. 13And thorns shall come
up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses
thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for
ostriches. 14And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet
with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yea,
the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place
of rest. 15There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and
lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yea, there shall the
kites be gathered, every one with her mate. 16Seek ye out
of the book of Jehovah, and read: no one of these shall be
missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it hath
commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered them. 17And he
hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto
them by line: they shall possess it for ever; from generation to
generation shall they dwell therein.
Chapter 35
1The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; and the
desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. 2It shall
blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing; the
glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of
Carmel and Sharon: they shall see the glory of Jehovah, the
excellency of our God. 3Strengthen ye the weak hands, and
confirm the feeble knees. 4Say to them that are of a
fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come
[with] vengeance, [with] the recompense of God; he will come and
save you. 5Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and
the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. 6Then shall the
lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing;
for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the
desert. 7And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the
thirsty ground springs of water: in the habitation of jackals,
where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. 8And
a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The
way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but is
shall be for [the redeemed]: the wayfaring men, yea fools, shall
not err [therein]. 9No lion shall be there, nor shall any
ravenous beast go up thereon; they shall not be found there; but
the redeemed shall walk [there]: 10and the ransomed of
Jehovah shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and
everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain
gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Chapter 36
1Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king
Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all
the fortified cities of Judah, and took them. 2And the
king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto
king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of
the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field. 3Then
came forth unto him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph,
the recorder. 4And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to
Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What
confidence is this wherein thou trustest? 5I say, [thy]
counsel and strength for the war are but vain words: now on whom
dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled against me? 6
Behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even
upon Egypt, whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and
pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust on him.
7But if thou say unto me, We trust in Jehovah our God: is
not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath
taken away, and hath said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall
worship before this altar? 8Now therefore, I pray thee,
give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give
thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set
riders upon them. 9How then canst thou turn away the face
of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy
trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? 10And am I
now come up without Jehovah against this land to destroy it?
Jehovah said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
11Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh,
Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language;
for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language,
in the ears of the people that are on the wall. 12But
Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to
thee, to speak these words? [hath he] not [sent me] to the men
that sit upon the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink
their own water with you? 13Then Rabshakeh stood, and
cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye
the words of the great king, the king of Assyria. 14Thus
saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be
able to deliver you: 15neither let Hezekiah make you trust
in Jehovah, saying, Jehovah will surely deliver us; this city
shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. 16
Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria,
Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and eat ye every
one of his vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye
every one the waters of his own cistern; 17until I come
and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain
and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. 18Beware lest
Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us. Hath any
of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of
the king of Assyria? 19Where are the gods of Hamath and
Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered
Samaria out of my hand? 20Who are they among all the gods
of these countries, that have delivered their country out of my
hand, that Jehovah should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
21But they held their peace, and answered him not a word;
for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not. 22
Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, that was over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph,
the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him
the words of Rabshakeh.
Chapter 37
1And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that
he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and
went into the house of Jehovah. 2And he sent Eliakim, who
was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of
the priests, covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the
son of Amoz. 3And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah,
This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely;
for the children are come to the birth, and there is not
strength to bring forth. 4It may be Jehovah thy God will
hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master
hath sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words
which Jehovah thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer
for the remnant that is left. 5So the servants of king
Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6And Isaiah said unto them, Thus
shall ye say to your master, Thus saith Jehovah, Be not afraid
of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the
king of Assyria have blasphemed me. 7Behold, I will put a
spirit in him, and he shall hear tidings, and shall return unto
his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his
own land. 8So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of
Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was
departed from Lachish. 9And he heard say concerning
Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come out to fight against thee.
And when he heard it, he sent