Christ birth

CHAP. IX. ble, und fall, aud be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

16 Bind up the testimony, seal the aw among my disciples.

and kingdom.

6 For unto us a child is boru, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,Coun17 And I will wait upon the LORD, sellor, The mighty God, The everlastthat bideth his face from the house of ling Father, The Prince of Peace. Jacob, and 1 will look for him, 7 of the increase of his government 18 Behold, I and the children whom and peace there shall be no end, upon the LORD hath given me are for signs the throne of David, and bis upon and for wonders in Israel from the kingdom, to order it, and to establish LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in it with judgment and with justice, The mount Zion. from henceforth even for ever.

19 And when they shall say unto you, zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform Seek unto them that have familiar this.

spirits, and unto wizards that peep 8 The LORD sent a word intoJacob, and that mutter; should not a people and it hath lighted upon Israel. seek unto their God? for the living to 9 And all the people shall know, even the dead? Ephraim and the inhabitant of Sama 20 To the law and to the testimony:ria, that say in the pride and stoutnesa if they speak not according to this of heart, word, it is because there is no light in them.

10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will

21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it change them into cedars.

shall come to pass, that, when they 11 Therefore the LORD shall set up shall be hungry, they shall fret them-the adversaries of Rezin against him, selves, and curse their king and their and join his enemies together;

but his

God, and look upward. 12 The Syrians before, and the Phil 22 And they shall look unto the|istines behind; and they shall devour earth; and behold trouble and dark-Israel with open mouth. For all this ness, dimness of anguish; and they his anger is not turned away, shall be driven to darkness. hand is stretched out still. 13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do

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EVERTHELESS, the dimness they seek the LORD of hosts. shall not be such as was in her 14 Therefore the LORD will cut off vexation, when at the first he lightly from Israel head and tail, branch and afflicted the land of Zebulun, and the rush, in one day. land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, be is the tail.

16 For the leaders of this people cause 2 The people that walked in dark-them to err; and they that are led of ness have seen a great light; they that them are destroyed.

dwell in the land of the shadow of 17 Therefore the LORD shall have no death, upon them hath the light shined. joy in their young men, neither shall 3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, have mercy on their fatherless and and not increased the joy: they joy widows; for every one is a bypocrite before thee according to the joy in and an evil-doer, and every mouth harvest, and as men rejoice when speaketh folly. For all this his anger they divide the spoil. is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor,as in the day of Midian

5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.

18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and eball kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

19 Through the wrath of the Lond of hosts is the land darkened, and the

The wo

ISAIAH. of tyrants. people shall be as the fuel of the fire: his whole work upon mount Zion and no man shall spare his brother. on Jerusalem, I will punish the frut 20 And he shall snatch on the right of the stout heart of the king of Ashand, and be hungry; and he shall eat syria, and the glory of his high looks. on the left hand, and they shall not 13 For he saith, By the strength of be satisfied: they shall eat every man my hand I have done it, and by my the flesh of his own arm: wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have 21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephra-removed the bounds of the people,and in, Manasseh: and they together have robbed their treasures, and I have shall be against Judah. For all this put down the inhabitants like a valiant his anger is not turned away, but his man: hand is stretched out still.

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14 And my hand bath found as a nest the riches of the people; and as one

"O unto them that decree unrigh-gathereth eggs that are lett, have I teous decrees, and that write gathered all the earth; and there was grievousness which they have pre-none that moved the wing, or opened scribed; the mouth, or peeped. 2 To turn aside the needy from judg- 15 Shall the axe boast itself against ment, and to take away the right from him that heweth therewith? or shall the poor of my people, that widows the saw maguify itself against him may be their prey, and that they may that shaketh it? as if the rod should rob the fatherless! shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.

3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye fee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is

stretched out still.

16 Therefore shall the Lond, the LORD of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.

17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame. and it shall burn and devour his thorus and his briers in oue day; 18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field,both 6 I will send him against a hypocrit-soul and body; and they shall be as ical nation, and against the people of when a standard-bearer fainteth.

5 TO Assyrian,the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

my wrath will I give him a charge, to 19 And the rest of the trees of his take the spoil, and to take the prey, forest shall be few, that a child may and to tread them down like the mire write them.

of the streets. 20 And it shall come pass in that 7 Howbeit he meaneth not so,neither day, that the remuazi of Israel, and doth his heart think so; but it is in [such as are escaped of the house of his heart to destroy and cut off nations Jacob, shall no more agaia stay upon not a few. him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth,

8 For he saith, Are not my priuces altogether kings?

9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad ? is not Samaria as Damascus ?

10 As my hand bath found the king doms of the idols, and whose grave images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jeru salem and ber idols ?

12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lond hath performed]

21 The remnant shall return,even the remuant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.

22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remuant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteous ness.

23 For the Lord GoD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land. 24 T Therefore thus saith the Lord

CHAP. XI.

The peaceable kingdom of Christ. GUD of hosts, O my people that dwell- 4 But with righteousness shall he est in Zion, be not afraid of the As-judge the poor, and reprove with syrian he shall smite thee with a rod, fequity for the meek of the earth: aud and shall lift up his staff against thee, he shall smite the earth with the rud after the manner of Egypt. of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. 5 And righteousness shall be the gir dle of his loins,and faithfulness the gir dle of his reins.

25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.

26 And the Lono of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him, according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the mauner of Egypt.

6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf, and the young lion, and the falling together; aud a little child shall lead them. 27 And it shall come to pass in that 7 And the cow and the bear eball day, that his burden shall be taken feed; their young ones shall lie down away from off thy shoulder, and his together: and the lion shall eat straw yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke like the ox.

shall be destroyed because of the 8 And the suckling child shall play anointing. on the hole of the asp, and the weaned 28 1 He is come to Aiath, he is pas-child shall put his band on the cockased to Migron; at Michmash be hath trice's den. laid up his carriages:

9 They shall not burt nor destroy in 29 They are gone over the passage:jall my holy mountain: for the earth they have taken up their lodging at shall be full of the knowledge of the Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of LoRD, as the waters cover the sea. Saul is fled.

30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim; cause it to be heard unto La ish, O poor Anathoth.

31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.

10 T And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.

11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall set his band 32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that again the second time to recover the day: he shall shake his hand against|remnant of his people, which shall be the mount of the daughters of Zion,the left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, bill of Jerusalem. and from Pathros, and from Cush, and 33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of from Elam, and from Shinar, and fron hosts, shall lop the bough with terror; Hamath, and from the islands of the and the high ones of stature shall be sea. hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.

12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the 34 And he shall cut down the thick-outcasts of Israel, and gather together ets of the forests with iron, and Leb-[the dispersed of Judah from the four anon shall fall by a mighty one. corners of the earth.

CHAP. XI.

13 The envy also of Ephraim shal:

AND there shall come forth a rod depart, and the adversaries of Judah

out of the stein of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: 2 And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of the Lono;

shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judab shall not vex Ephraim.

14 But they shall fly upon the shoul ders of the Philistines toward the west, they shall spoil them of the east to gether; they shall lay their hand upon 3 And shall make him of quick un-Edom and Mosb; and the children of derstanding in the fear of the LORD: Ammon shall obey them. and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither i prove after the bearing of his ears

15 And the LORD shail utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea: aud with his mighty wind shall he shat?

The desolation

ISAIAH

of Babylon. nis hand over the river, and shall smite another; their faces shall be as flumes, it in the seven streams, aud make men 9 Behold, the day of the Lord comgo over dry-shod. eth, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate; and be shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to lorael in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

CHAP. XII.

AND in that day thou shalt say, LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst

ine.

10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened

it is goes forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. 11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arro2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will gancy of the proud to cease, and will trust, and not be afraid : for the Lono lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. JEHOVAH is my strength and my 12 1 will make a mau more precious song; he also is become my salvation. [than fine gold; even a man than the 3. Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. 4 And in that day shall ye say,Praise the Loud, call upon bis name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.

5 Sung unto the LORD; for he bath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.

6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

CHAP. XIIL

golden wedge of Ophir.

13 Therefore I will shake the hea vens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lonv of hosts, and in the day of his fierce Anger.

14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no inan taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his Jown land.

15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is THE burden of Babylon, which joined unto them shall fall by the Isaiah the son of Amoz did see. [sword.

THE

2. Lift ye up a banner upou the high 16 Their children also shall be dashmountain, exalt the voice unto them, ed to pieces before their eyes; their shake the hand, that they may go into houses shall be spoiled, and their the gates of the nobles. wives ravished.

3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.

17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

4 The noise of a multitude in the 18 Their bows also shall dash the mountains, like as of a great people; young men to pieces; and they shat! a tumultuous uoise of the kingdoms of have no pity on the fruit of the womb; nations gathered together: the Lond their eye shall not spare children. of hosts mustereth the hostof the battle. 19 T And Babylon, the glory of king5 They come from a far country,¡doms, the beauty of the Chaldees' exfrom the end of heaven, even the cellency, shall be as when God over Loup, and the weapons of his indigna- threw Sodom and Gomorrah, tion, to destroy the whole land.

20 It shall never be inhabited, nei 6 T Howl ye; for the day of theLonother shall it be dwelt in from generais at hand; it shall come as a destruction to generation: neither shall the tion from the Almighty. Arabian pitch tent there; neither 7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, shall the shepherds make their fold and every man's heart shall melt : there.

8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take bold of them ; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: : they shall be amazed one at

21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses sha. I be ful of doleful creatures; and ow.s shall dwell there, & satyrs shall dance there

Israel's

CHAP. XIV.

restoration. 22 And the wild beasts of the islands, 13 For thou hast said m thy heart, I shall cry in their desolate houses, and will ascend into heaven, I will exali dragons in their pleasant palaces: and my throne above the stars of God; I her time is near to come, and her days will sit also upon the mount of the shall not be prolonged. congregation, in the sides of the north 14 I will accend above the heights of

CHAP. XIV.

FOR the LORD will have mercy on the clouds; I will be like the Most

and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to bell, to the sides of the pit.

doms;

16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, 2 And the people shall take them, saying, Is this the man that made the and bring them to their place: and earth to tremble, that did shake kingthe house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants 17 That made the world as a wilderand handmaids: and they shall take ness, and destroyed the cities thereol; them captives, whose captives they that opened not the house of his priswere; and they shall rule over their oners ? oppressors.

3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,

4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

5 The Lono bath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.

6.He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, lie that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted,and none hiudereth.

7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet they break forth into singing. S Yea, the fir-trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.

9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

10 Ail they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us ?

11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house;

19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable brauch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast de stroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evil-doers shall never be renowned.

21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, uor fill the face of the world with [cities.

22 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remuant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD. 23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts. 24 T The LORD of hosts bath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand :

25 That I will break the Assyrian in my laud, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them,and bis burden depart from off their shoulders. 12. How art thou fallen from heaven, 26 This is the purpose that is purposO Lucifer, son of the morning! howed upon the whole earth; and this is art thou cut down to the ground, which the hand that is stretched out upon all didst weaken the nations!

the nations.