Ethiopia to be destroyed. CHAP. XVIII, XIX. The confusion of Egypt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst with strange slips: of it. 11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant 2 And I will set the Egyptians against to grow, and in the morning shalt thou the Egyptians: and they shall fight every make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest one against his brother, and every one shall be a heap in the day of grief and of against his neighbour; city against city, desperate sorrow. and kingdom against kingdom. 12 Wo to the multitude of many peo- 3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in ple, which make a noise like the noise of the midst thereof: and I will destroy the the seas; and to the rushing of nations, counsel thereof; and they shall seek to the that make a rushing like the rushing of idols, and to the charmers, and to them mighty waters! that have familiar spirits, and to the 13 The nations shall rush like the rush-wizards. ing of many waters: but God shall rebuke 4 And the Egyptians will I give over them, and they shall flee far off, and shall into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce be chased as the chaff of the mountains king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, before the wind, and like a rolling thing the LORD of hosts. before the whirlwind. 14 And behold at evening-tide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us. CHAP. XVIII. to the land shadowing with 5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. 6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither. The paper-reeds by the brooks, by W wings, which is beyond the rivers of the mouth of the brooks, and every thing Ethiopia: sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more. 2. That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the wa- 8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all ters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to they that cast angle into the brooks shall a nation scattered and peeled, to a people lament, and they that spread nets upon terrible from their beginning hitherto; a the waters shall languish. nation meted out and trodden down, 9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, whose land the rivers have spoiled! and they that weave net-works, shall be confounded. 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. 10 And they shall be broken in the purposes hereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish. 4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will 11 ¶ Surely the princes of Zoan are take my rest, and I will consider in my fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors dwelling-place like a clear heat upon of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, of harvest. 5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and take away and cut down the branches. 6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. the son of ancient kings? 12 Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let thein know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. 13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. 14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof; and they have 7 In that time shall the present be caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit. scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion. CHAP. XIX. 15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do. 16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear, because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it, HE burden of Egypt. Behold, the 17 And the land of Judah shall be a ter LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and ror unto Egypt, every one that maketh shall come into Egypt: and the idols of mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and because of the counsel of the LORD of THE The calling of Egypt. ISAIAH. The fall of Babylon foreshown. hosts, which he hath determined against it. through; so it cometh from the desert, from 18 T In that day shall five cities in the a terrible land. land of Egypt speak the language of Ca- 2 Agrievous vision is declared unto me naan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; The treacherous dealer dealeth treache. one shall be called, The city of destruction. rously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, 19 In that day shall there be an altar to O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sigh. the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, ing thereof have I made to cease. and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD. 3 Therefore are my loins filled with 20 And it shall be for a sign and for a pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land the pangs of a woman that travaileth: 1 of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD was bowed down at the hearing of it; I because of the oppressors, and he shall send was dismayed at the seeing of it. them a saviour, and a great one, and he 4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrightshall deliver them. ed me: the night of my pleasure hath be turned into fear unto me. 21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it. . 5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield. 6 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth. 22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be en- 7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of treated of them, and shall heal them. horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot 23 ¶ In that day shall there be a high- of camels; and he hearkened diligently way out of Egypt to Assyria, and the As- with much heed: syrian shall come into Egypt, and the 8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians stand continually upon the watch-tower shall serve with the Assyrians. in the day time, and I am set in my ward whole nights. 24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: 9 And behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And be 25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and fallen; and all the graven images of her Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel gods he hath broken unto the ground.. mine inheritance. IN CHAP. XX. N the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it; 10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you. 11 T The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of 2 At the same time spake the LORD by the night? Watchman, what of the night? Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and 12 The watchman said, The morning loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and cometh, and also the night: if ye will input off thy shoe from thy foot. And he quire, inquire ye: return, come. did so, walking naked and barefoot. 13 The burden upon Arabia. In the 3 And the LORD said, Like as my ser- forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travant Isaiah hath walked naked and bare-velling companies of Dedanim. foot three years for a sign and wonder up- 14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema on Egypt and upon Ethiopia; brought water to him that was thirsty, they 4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away prevented with their bread him that fled. the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopi- 15 For they fled from the swords, from ans captives, young and old, naked and the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, barefoot, even with their buttocks unco- and from the grievousness of war vered, to the shame of Egypt. 16 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, 5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed Within a year, according to the years of an of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt hireling, and all the glory of Kedarshall fail: their glory. 17 And the residue of the number of 6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall archers, the mighty men of the children of say, in that day, Behold, such is our ex- Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD pectation,whither we flee for help to be God of Israel hath spoken it. delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape? THE CHAP. XXI. CHAP. XXII. THE burden of the valley of vision. HE burden of the desert of the sea. CHAP. XXIII. city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. 3 All thy rulers are fled together, they down. are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far. 4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. 20 T And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: 21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants 5 For it is a day of trouble, and of tread- of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. ing down, and of perplexity by the Lord 22 And the key of the house of David GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, break-will I lay upon his shoulder: so he shall ing down the walls, and of crying to the open, and none shall shut; and he shall mountains. shut, and none shall open.. 6 And Elam bare the quiver with cha- 23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a riots of men and horsemen, and Kir un-sure place; and he shall be for a glorious covered the shield. throne to his father's house.. 7 And it shall come to pass, that thy 24 And they shall hang upon him all choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, the glory of his father's house, the offand the horsemen shall set themselves in spring and the issue, all vessels of small array at the gate. quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons. 8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest. 9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool. 10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall. 25 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it. CHAP. XXIII. burshish; for it is laid waste, so HE burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of that there is no house, no entering in: from 11 Ye made also a ditch between the the land of Chittim it is revealed to them. two walls for the water of the old pool; 2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; but ye have not looked unto the maker thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that thereof, neither had respect unto him that pass over the sea, have replenished. fashioned it long ago. 12 And in that day did the Lord GoD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: 13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we shall die. 3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations. 4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins. 5 As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report 14 And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity of Tyre. shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GoD of hosts. 6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle. 15 T Thus saith the Lord GoD of hosts, 7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry Shebna, which is over the house, and say, her afar off to sojourn. 16 What hast thou here? and whom 8 Who hath taken this counsel against hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth are princes, whose traffickers are the hohim out a sepulchre on high, and that nourable of the earth? graveth a habitation for himself in a rock? 9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, 17 Behold, the LORD will carry thee to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring away with a mighty captivity, and will into contempt all the honourable of the surely cover thee. earth. 18 He will surely violently turn and toss 10 Pass through thy land as a river, O thee like a ball into a large country: there daughter of Tarshish: there is no more shalt thou die, and there the chariots of strength. thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's! bouse, 11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the 8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise merchant-city, to destroy the strong holds of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the thereof. harp ceaseth. 12 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest. 13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof, and he brought it to ruin. 14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. 10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. 12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. 13¶ When thus it shall be in the midst 15 And it shall come to pass in that day, of the land among the people, there shall that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as according to the days of one king after the gleaning-grapes when the vintage is the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing done. as a harlot. 16 Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. 17¶ And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. 18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing. CHAP. XXIV. 14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea. 15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea. 16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, wo unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. 17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. 18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up EHOLD, the LORD maketh the earth out of the midst of the pit shall be taken empty, and maketh it waste, and in the snare for the windows from on turneth it upside down, and scattereth high are open, and the foundations of the abroad the inhabitants thereof. earth do shake. BE 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so 19 The earth is utterly broken down, with the priest; as with the servant, so the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is with his master; as with the maid, so with moved exceedingly. her mistress; as with the buyer, so with 20 The earth shall reel to and fro like the seller; as with the lender, so with the a drunkard, and shall be removed like a borrower; as with the taker of usury, so cottage; and the transgression thereof with the giver of usury to him. shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. 3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word. 4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. 5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. 22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited. 23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously. CHAP. XXV. 7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh. for LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; thou hast done wonderful things; thy Of confidence in God. CHAP. XXVI. His coming to judgment. counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. 6 The foot shall tread it down, even the 2 For thou hast made of a city a heap; feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy. of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of stran- 7 The way of the just is uprightness: gers to be no city; it shall never be built. thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of 3 Therefore shall the strong people the just. glorify thee, the city of the terrible na- 8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O tions shall fear thee. LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. 4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. : 9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early for when thy judg 5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of ments are in the earth; the inhabitants of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the world will learn righteousness. the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the 10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, branch of the terrible ones shall be brought yet will he not learn righteousness: in the low. land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, 6 And in this mountain shall the LORD and will not behold the majesty of the of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat LORD. things, a feast of wines on the lees; of fat 11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, things full of marrow, of wines on the lees they will not see: but they shall see, and well refined. be ashamed for their envy at the people; 7 And he will destroy in this mountain yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour the face of the covering cast over all peo-them. ple, and the vail that is spread over all na- 12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our 8 He will swallow up death in victory; works in us. and the Lord God will wipe away tears 13 O LORD our God, other lords besides from off all faces; and the rebuke of his thee have had dominion over us; but by people shall he take away from off all the thee only will we make mention of thy earth: for the LORD hath spoken it. tions. name. 9 T And it shall be said in that day, Lo, 14 They are dead, they shall not live; this is our God; we have waited for him, they are deceased, they shall not rise: and he will save us this is the LORD; we therefore hast thou visited and destroyed have waited for him, we will be glad and them, and made all their memory to perish. rejoice in his salvation. 15 Thou hast increased the nation, O 10 For in this mountain shall the hand LORD, thou hast increased the nation; of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trod- thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far den down under him, even as straw is unto all the ends of the earth. trodden down for the dunghill. 11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands. 12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust." CHAP. XXVI. 16 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. 17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD. 18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deHahat dayda, eartha malen N that day shall this song be sung in the liverance in the earth; neither have the salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. 19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. 2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for nation which keepeth the ruth may enterin. thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the 3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, earth shall cast out the dead. whose mind is stayed on thee: because he 20 ¶ Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about 4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for thee: hide thyself as it were for a little in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting moment, until the indignation be overpast. strength: 21 For behold, the LORD cometh out of trusteth in thee. 5 For he bringeth down them that his place to punish the inhabitants of the dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it earth for their iniquity: the earth also low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; shall disclose her blood, and shall no more he bringeth it even to the dust. cover her slain. |