God's mercies ISALAII. towards his church. 21 That make a man an offender for unto us right thungs, speak unto us u word, and lay a snare for him that smooth things, prophesy deceits: reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought. 22 Therefore thus saith the LonD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale. 11 Get you out of the way,turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. 12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: 13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. 14 And he shall break it as the break24 They also that erred in spirit shalling of the potter's vessel that is broken come to understanding, and they that in pieces; he shall not spare: so that murmured shall learn doctrine. there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the bearth, or to take water withal out 23 But when he seeth his children, the work of my hands, in the inidst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel. CHAP. XXX. Wite the retinous c counsel,but 15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, O to the rebellious children,saith of the pit. the not of me ; and that cover with a cov- Holy One of Israel; In returning and ering, but not of my Spirit, that they rest shall ye be saved; in quietness may add sin to sin: and in confidence shall be your 2 That walk to go down into Egypt,|strength; and ye would not. and have not asked at my mouth; to 16 But ye said, No: for we will flee strengthen themselves in the strength upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadowland, We will ride upon the swift; of Egypt! therefore shall they that pursue you 3 Therefore shall the strength of Pha- be swift. raoh be your shame, and the trust in 17 One thousand shall flee at the rethe shadow of Egypt your confusion.[buke of one; at the rebuke of five 4 For bis princes were at Zoan, and shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon his ambassadors came to Hanes. upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill. 5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach. 18 T And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, 6 The burden of the beast of the that he may have mercy upon you: south into the land of trouble and for the LORD is a God of judgment: anguish, from whence come the young blessed are all they that wait for him. and old lion, the viper and fiery dying 19 For the people shall dwell in Zion serpent, they will carry their riches at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no upon the shoulders of young asses,and more: he will be very gracious unto their treasures upon the bunches of thee at the voice of thy cry; when he camels, to a people that shall not profit them. 7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have 1 cryed concerning this, Their strength is to sit still. 8¶ Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: 10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not shall bear it, he will answer thee. 22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as u The folly of CHAP. XXXI, XXXIL trusting in Egypt. menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto¡breath of the Lonn, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it it. Get thee hence. CHAP. XXXI. 23 Then shall be give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground for help, and stay on horses, and to them that go down to Egypt withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and pleu-trust in chariots, because they are teous: in that day shall thy cattle feed many; and in horsemen, because they in large pastures. are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord 1 24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean proveuder, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. 26 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every bigh hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. 2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of them that work iniquity. 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the Lone shal atretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is bolpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together. 26 Morcover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the eun ebatl be seven-fold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach 4 For thus hath the Lond spoken unof his people, and healeth the stroke to me, Like as the lion and the young of their wound. lion roaring on his prey, when a mul 27 T Behold, the name of the LORD titude of shepherds is called forth cometh from far, burning with hisfagainst him, he will not be afraid of unger, and the burden thereof is heavy; their voice, nor abase himself for the bis lips are full of indiguation, and his noise of them: so shall the LORD of tongue as a devouring fire: hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof. 28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the 5 As birds flying, so will the Lord of beck, to sift the nations with the sieve hosts defendJerusalem; defending also of vanity and there shall be a bridle she will deliver it; and passing over he in the jaws of the people, causing them will preserve it. to err. 20 Ye shall have a song, ns in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lond, to the mighty One of Israel 6 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted. 7 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his [idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin. 30 And the Lond shall cause his gio- 8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with rious voice to be heard, and shall show the sword, not of a mighty man; and the lightning down of his arm, with the the sword, not of a mean man, shall indignation of his anger, and with the devour him; but he shall flee from the flame of a devouring fire, with scatter-sword, and his young men shall be ing, and tempest, and bail-stones. discomfited. 31 For through the voice of the LORD 9 And he shall pass over to his strong shall the Assyrian he beaten down, hold for fear, and bis princes shall be which smote with a rod. afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and bis furnace in Jerusalem. 32 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the Lono shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will be fight with it. CHAP. XXXII. BEHOLD, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shali rule in judgment. 33 Fur Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he 2 And a man shall be as a hiding hath made it deep and large: the pile place from the wind, and a covert thereof is fire and much wood; the from the tempest; as rivers of water God's judgment against ISALAH. the enemies of the church. in a dry place, as the shadow of a dwellings, and in quiet resting-placess great rock in a weary land. 19 When it shall bail, coming down 3 And the eyes of them that see shall on the forest; and the city shall be not be dim, and the ears of them that low in a low place. bear stall hearken. 20 Blessed are ye that sow beside The heart also of the rash shall un-all waters, that send forth thither the derstand knowledge, andthe tongue of feet of the ox and the ass. the staminerers shall be ready to speak plainly. CHAP. XXXIII Wo to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest 5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be treacherously, and they dealt not bountiful treacherously with theel when thou 6 For the vile person will speak vil-shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be lany, and his heart will work iniquity, spoiled; and when thou shalt make to practice hypocrisy, and to utter an end to deal treacherously, they error against the LORD, to make empty shall deal treacherously with thee. the soul of the hungry; and he will 2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we cauce the drink of the thirsty to fail. have waited for thee: be thou their 7 The instruments also of the churl arm every morning, our salvation also are evil: he deviseth wicked devices in the time of trouble. to destroy the poor with lying words, 3 At the noise of the tumult the peoeven when the needy speaketh right. ple fled; at the liftmg up of thyself 8 But the liberal deviseth liberal the nations were scattered. things; and by liberal things shall be stand. 4 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar: as the running to and fro c locusts shall be run upon them. 9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech. 5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwell10 Many days and years shall ye befeth on high; he hath filled Zion with troubled, ye careless women; for the judgment and righteousness. vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. 11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins. 6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the Lond is his treasure. 7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without; the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly: 12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful 8 The highways lie waste, the wayvine. faring man ceaseth; he bath broken 13 Upon the land of my people shall the covenant, he hath despised the come up thorns and briers; yea, upou cities, he regardeth no man. all the houses of joy in the joyous city: 9 The earth mourneth and languish14 Because the palaces shall be for-Jeth; Lebanon is ashamed and hewn saken; the multitude of the city shall down; Sharon is like a wildernees; be left; the forts and towers shall be and Bashan and Carmel shake oil for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, their friats. a pasture of flocks; 10 Now will 1 rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift 15 Until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be alup myself, fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest. 16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. 17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of right-] ousness, quietness and assurance for 11 Ye shall conceive chaff; ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, us fire, shall devour you. 12 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime; as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire. 13 ¶ Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and ye that are near, acknowledge my might. 18 And my people shall dwell in a 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; peaceable habitation, and in sure fearfulness hath surprised the hype The desolation CHAP. XXXIV. of her enemies. crites. Who among us shall dwelljed them, he hath delivered them to with the devouring fire? who among the slaughter. us shall dwell with everlasting burn- 3 Their slain also shall be cast out, ings? and their stink shall come up out of 15 He that walketh righteously, and their carcases, and the mountains shall speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth be melted with their blood. the gain of oppressions, that shaketh) 4 And all the host of heaven shall be his hand from holding of bribes, that dissolved, and the heavens shall be stoppeth his ears from bearing of rolled together as a scroll: and all blood, and shutteth bis eyes from see-their host shall fall down, as the leaf ing evil; falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig-tree. 16 He shall dwell on high; his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks; bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure. 17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty; they shall behold the land] that is very far off. 6 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven; behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. 6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood; it is made fat with sat 18 Thy heart shall meditate terror. ness, and with the blood of lambs ang Where is the scribe? where is the re-goats, with the fat of the kidneys of ceiver? where is be that counted the towers ? rains: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. 19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of deeper speech than thou 7 And the unicorn shall come down caust perceive; of a stammering with them, and the bullocks with the tongue, that thou canst not under-bulls; and their land shall be soaked staud. with blood, and their dust made fut with fatness. 20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jeru salem a quiet babitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. 21 But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. 22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us. 23 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail; then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the Jame take the prey. 24 And the inhabitants shall not say, I am sick the people that dwell thereinshall be forgiven their iniquity. CHAP. XXXIV. COME HOME near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. 8 For it is the day of the Lond's vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion. 9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof Jinto brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. 10 It 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. 11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. 12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom,but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing. 13 And thorns shall come up in ber palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of dragons, and a court for owls. 14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his 2 For the indignation of the LORD is fellow; the screech-owl also shall rest upon all nations, and his fury upon all there, and find for herself a place of their armies: he hath utterly destroy-reet. Sennacherib ISAIAH. invadeth Judch. 75 There shall the great owl make¡ness, and sorrow and sighing shall flce her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gath-away. er under her shadow: there shall the CHAP. XXXVI. vultures also be gathered, every one Now it came to pass in the four with her mate. 16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read; no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them. 17 And he flath cast the lot for them, and his band hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein. THE CHAP. XXXV. teenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judul, and took them. 2T And the king of Assyria sent Rab shakel from Lachish to Jerusalem un to king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field. 3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and HE wilderness and the solitary Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder. place shall be glad for them; and| 4 ¶ And Rabehakch said unto them, the desert shall rejoice, and blossomas Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest? the rose. 2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto 5 I say, sayest thou, (but they are it, the excellency of Carmel and Sha- but vain words,) I have counsel and ron; they shall see the glory of the strength for war: now on whoin dost Lond, and the excellency of our God. thou trust, that thou rebellest against 3 T Strengthen ye the weak hands,[me ? and confirm the feeble knees. 6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this 4 Say to them that are of a fearful broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a beart, Be strong, fear not: behold, mau lean, it will go into his hand, and your God will come with vengeance, pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt rven God with a recompense; he will to all that trust in him. Come and save you. 5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. 6 The shall the lame man leap as a bart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. 7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay,shall be grass, with reeds and rushes. 8 And 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 it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not eir therein. 7 But if thou say to me, We trust in the Lond our God: is it not be, whose high places and whose altarsHezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalein, Ye shall worship before this altar ? 8 Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, 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. 9 How then wilt 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? 10 And am 1 now come up without the Lord against this land to destroy it? The LouD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it. 9 No lion shall be there, nor any Il T Then said Eliakim, and Shebna, ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it and Joah, upto Rabshakeb, Speak, I shall not be found there; but the re-pray thee, unto thy servants in the deemed shall walk there: Syrian language; for we understand 10 And the ransomed of the LORD it and speak not to us in the Jews' ehall return, and come to Zion with language, in the ears of the people Bongs and everlasting joy upon their that are on the wall. heads; they shall obtam joy and glad-[ 12 T But Rabshakeh said, Hath my |