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Isaiah 1
1 The 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.
2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for Yahweh hath spoken, I have
nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against
3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's
crib: [but]
4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children
that are corrupters: they have forsaken Yahweh, they have provoked the Holy One
of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt
more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head [there is] no soundness in it;
[but] wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they
have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
7 Your 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.
8 And the daughter of
9 Except Yahweh of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have
been as
10 Hear the word of Yahweh, ye rulers of
11 To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me? saith Yahweh: I am full 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.
12 When ye come to appear before Me, who hath required
this at your hand, to tread My courts?
13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto Me; the new moons and sabbaths,
the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; [it is] iniquity, even the
solemn meeting.
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts My soul hateth: they are a trouble unto Me; I am weary to bear
[them].
15 And 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;
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the
fatherless, plead for the widow.
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith Yahweh: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they
be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the
mouth of Yahweh hath spoken [it].
21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now
murderers.
22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
23 Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after
rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow
come unto them.
24 Therefore saith the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I
will ease Me of Mine adversaries, and avenge Me of Mine enemies:
25 And I will turn My hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take
away all thy tin:
26 And 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,
the faithful city.
27
28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners [shall be]
together, and they that forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.
29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be
confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and
as a garden that hath no water.
31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they
shall both burn together, and none shall quench [them].
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, [that]
the
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the
4 And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they
shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the
light of Yahweh.
6 Therefore Thou hast forsaken Thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and [are] soothsayers like the
Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither [is there any] end of
their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither [is there any] end
of their chariots:
8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands,
that which their own fingers have made:
9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of Yahweh, and for
the glory of His majesty.
11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be
bowed down, and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
12 For the day of Yahweh of hosts [shall be] upon every [one that is] proud and
lofty, and upon every [one that is] lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, [that are] high and lifted up, and upon
all the oaks of Bashan,
14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills [that are] lifted
up,
15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men
shall be made low: and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
18 And the idols He shall utterly abolish.
19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the
earth, for fear of Yahweh, and for the glory of His majesty, when He ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold,
which they made [each one] for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks,
for fear of Yahweh, and for the glory of His majesty, when He ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein [is] he to
be accounted of?
1 For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, doth take away from
2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the
prudent, and the ancient,
3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and
the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the
eloquent orator.
4 And I will give children [to be] their princes, and babes shall rule over
them.
5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his
neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the
base against the honourable.
6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father,
[saying], Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and [let] this ruin [be] under
thy hand:
7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house
[is] neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
8 For
9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare
their sin as
10 Say ye to the righteous, that [it shall be] well [with him]: for they shall
eat the fruit of their doings.
11 Woe unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him]:
for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
12 [As for] My people, children [are] their
oppressors, and women rule over them. O My people, they which lead thee cause
[thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
13 Yahweh standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
14 Yahweh will enter into judgment with the ancients of His people, and the
princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor [is]
in your houses.
15 What mean ye [that] ye beat My people to pieces,
and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord Yahweh
of hosts.
16 Moreover Yahweh saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk
with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing [as] they go, and
making a tinkling with their feet:
17 Therefore Yahweh will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the
daughters of Zion, and Yahweh will discover their secret parts.
18 In that day Yahweh will take away the bravery of [their] tinkling ornaments
[about their feet], and [their] cauls, and [their] round tires like the moon,
19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the
tablets, and the earrings,
21 The rings, and nose jewels,
22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the
crisping pins,
23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
24 And it shall come to pass, [that] instead of sweet smell there shall be
stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness;
and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; [and] burning instead of
beauty.
25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she [being] desolate shall sit
upon the ground.
1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only
let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
2 In that day shall the branch of Yahweh be beautiful and glorious, and the
fruit of the earth [shall be] excellent and comely for them that are escaped of
3 And 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:
4 When Yahweh 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 judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
5 And Yahweh will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her
assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by
night: for upon all the glory [shall be] a defence.
6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat,
and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
1 Now will I sing to My wellbeloved
a song of My beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved
hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
2 And he fenced 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 made a
winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it
brought forth wild grapes.
3 And now, O inhabitants of
4 What 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 go to; I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard: I will take
away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; [and] break down the wall
thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged;
but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that
they rain no rain upon it.
7 For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts [is] the house of
8 Woe unto them that join house to house, [that] lay field to field, till
[there be] no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
9 In Mine ears [said] Yahweh of hosts, Of a truth many
houses shall be desolate, [even] great and fair, without inhabitant.
10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, [that] they may follow
strong drink; that continue until night, [till] wine inflame
them!
12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe,
and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of Yahweh, neither
consider the operation of His hands.
13 Therefore My people are gone into captivity, because [they have] no
knowledge: and their honourable men [are] famished,
and their multitude dried up with thirst.
14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened
her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their
pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled,
and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
16 But Yahweh of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God That is holy shall
be sanctified in righteousness.
17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the
fat ones shall strangers eat.
18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were
with a cart rope:
19 That say, Let Him make speed, [and] 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]!
20 Woe 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!
21 Woe unto [them that are] wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own
sight!
22 Woe unto [them that are] mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle
strong drink:
23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the
righteous from him!
24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and
the flame consumeth the chaff, [so] their root shall
be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast
away the law of Yahweh of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of
Israel.
25 Therefore is the anger of Yahweh kindled against His people, and He hath
stretched forth His hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did
tremble, and their carcases [were] torn in the midst
of the streets. For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand [is]
stretched out still.
26 And He will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto
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:
28 Whose arrows [are] sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall
be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
29 Their roaring [shall be] like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea,
they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry [it] away safe, and
none shall deliver [it].
30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea:
and if [one] look unto the land, behold darkness [and] sorrow, and the light is
darkened in the heavens thereof.
1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also
Yahweh sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the
temple.
2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six
wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and
with twain he did fly.
3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, [is] Yahweh of hosts:
the whole earth [is] full of His glory.
4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house
was filled with smoke.
5 Then 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, Yahweh of hosts.
6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a
live coal in his hand, [which] he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
7 And he laid [it] upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and
thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
8 Also I heard the voice of Yahweh, saying, Whom shall
I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here [am] I; send me.
9 And He said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not;
and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and
shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and
understand with their heart, and convert, and be
healed.
11 Then said I, Yahweh, how long? And He answered, Until the cities be wasted
without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly
desolate,
12 And Yahweh have removed men far away, and [there be] a great forsaking in
the midst of the land.
13 But yet in it [shall be] a tenth, and [it] shall return, and shall be eaten:
as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance [is]
in them, when they cast [their leaves: so] the holy seed [shall be] the
substance thereof.
1 And 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
2 And it was told the house of David, saying,
3 Then said Yahweh unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz,
thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the
conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted
for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah,
have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for
us, and set a king in the midst of it, [even] the son of Tabeal:
7 Thus saith the Lord Yahweh, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to
pass.
8 For the head of
9 And the head of Ephraim [is]
10 Moreover Yahweh spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
11 Ask thee a sign of Yahweh thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the
height above.
12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I
tempt Yahweh.
13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; [Is it] a small thing for you to
weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
14 Therefore Yahweh Himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall
conceive, and bear a son, and shall call His name Immanuel.
15 Butter and honey shall He eat, that He may know to refuse the evil, and
choose the good.
16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the
land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both
her kings.
17 Yahweh shall 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
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] Yahweh shall hiss for the fly
that [is] in the uttermost part of the rivers of
19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and
in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.
20 In the same day shall Yahweh shave with a razor that is hired, [namely], by
them beyond the river, by the king of
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] a man shall nourish a young
cow, and two sheep;
22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk [that] they shall give
he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in
the land.
23 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] every place shall be, where
there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall [even] be for briers and thorns.
24 With arrows and with bows shall [men] come thither; because all the land
shall become briers and thorns.
25 And [on] all hills that shall be digged with the
mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it
shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
1 Moreover Yahweh said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with
a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
2 And I took 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 Yahweh to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.
4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My
father, and my mother, the riches of
5 Yahweh spake also unto me again, saying,
6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin
and Remaliah's son;
7 Now therefore, behold, Yahweh bringeth up upon them
the waters of the river, strong and many, [even] the king of Assyria, and all
his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his
banks:
8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall
reach [even] to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the
breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give
ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in
pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought;
speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God [is] with us.
11 For Yahweh spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I
should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all [them to] whom this people shall say, A
confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
13 Sanctify Yahweh of hosts Himself; and [let] Him [be] your fear, and [let]
Him [be] your dread.
14 And He shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock
of offence to both the houses of
15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared,
and be taken.
16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among My
disciples.
17 And I will wait upon Yahweh, That hideth His face
from the house of Jacob, and I will look for Him.
18 Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh hath given me [are] for signs and for
wonders in
19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits,
and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto
their God? for the living to the dead?
20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word,
[it is] because [there is] no light in them.
21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come
to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse
their king and their God, and look upward.
22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness
of anguish; and [they shall be] driven to darkness.
1 Nevertheless the dimness [shall] not [be] such as [was] in her vexation,
when at the first He lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun
and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more
grievously afflict [her by] the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of
the nations.
2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell
in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, [and] not increased the joy: they joy before
Thee according to the joy in harvest, [and] as [men] rejoice when they divide
the spoil.
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.
6 For 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, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of [His] government and peace [there shall be] no end, upon
the throne of David, and upon His kingdom, to order it, and to establish it
with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of
Yahweh of hosts will perform this.
8 Yahweh sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon
9 And all the people shall know, [even] Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria,
that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change [them into]
cedars.
11 Therefore Yahweh shall set up the adversaries of Rezin
against him, and join his enemies together;
12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour
13 For the people turneth not unto Him that smiteth them, neither do they seek Yahweh of hosts.
14 Therefore Yahweh will cut off from
15 The ancient and honourable, he [is] the head; and
the prophet that teacheth lies,
he [is] the tail.
16 For the leaders of this people cause [them] to err; and [they that are] led
of them [are] destroyed.
17 Therefore Yahweh shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have
mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one [is] an
hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh
folly. For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand [is] stretched
out still.
18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall
devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest,
and they shall mount up [like] the lifting up of smoke.
19 Through the wrath of Yahweh of hosts is the land darkened, and the people
shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
20 And he 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:
21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: [and] they together [shall be]
against
1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness
[which] they have prescribed;
2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the
poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and [that] they may rob the
fatherless!
3 And 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?
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.
5 O Assyrian, the rod of Mine anger, and the staff in their hand is Mine indignation.
6 I will send him against an hypocritical 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.
7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart
think so; but [it is] in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
8 For he saith, [Are] not my princes altogether kings?
9 [Is] not Calno as
10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did
excel them of
11 Shall I not, as I have done unto
12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, [that] when Yahweh hath performed His whole
work upon
13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done [it], and by my wisdom;
for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed
their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant [man]:
14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs [that are] left, have I gathered all the
earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth
therewith? [or] shall the saw magnify itself against
him that shaketh it? As if the rod
should shake [itself] against them that lift it up, [or] as if the staff should
lift up [itself, as if it were] no wood.
16 Therefore shall the Lord, Yahweh 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
18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both
soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer
fainteth.
19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write
them.
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the remnant of Israel, and
such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him
that smote them; but shall stay upon Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 The remnant shall return, [even] the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
22 For though Thy people
23 For the Lord Yahweh of hosts shall make a consumption,
even determined, in the midst of all the land.
24 Therefore thus saith the Lord Yahweh of hosts, O My people that dwellest in
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and Mine anger
in their destruction.
26 And Yahweh 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 manner of
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] his burden shall be taken away
from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck,
and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid
up his carriages:
29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of
Saul is fled.
30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it
to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.
32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall
shake his hand [against] the mount of the daughter of
33 Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the
high ones of stature [shall be] hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
34 And He shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and
1 And there shall come forth a Rod
out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
2 And the spirit of Yahweh 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 Yahweh;
3 And shall make Him of quick understanding in the fear of Yahweh: and He shall
not judge after the sight of His eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of His
ears:
4 But with righteousness shall He judge the poor, and reprove 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.
5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of His loins, and faithfulness the
girdle of His reins.
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 fatling together; and a little
child shall lead them.
7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down
together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
9 They shall not hurt nor destroy
in all My holy mountain: for the earth shall be full
of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
10 And in that day there shall be a Root of Jesse, Which shall stand for an
ensign of the people; to Him shall the Gentiles seek: and His rest shall be
glorious.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] Yahweh shall set His hand
again the second time to recover the remnant of His people, which shall be
left, 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.
12 And He shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the
outcasts of
13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of
14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west;
they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon
15 And Yahweh shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with
His mighty wind shall He shake His hand over the river, and shall smite it in
the seven streams, and make [men] go over dryshod.
16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of
His people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to
1 And in that day thou shalt say, O Yahweh, I will praise Thee: though Thou wast angry with me, Thine anger is turned away, and Thou comfortedst me.
2 Behold, God [is] my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for YAH
YAHWEH [is] my strength and [my] song; He also is become my salvation.
3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise Yahweh, call upon His name, declare His
doings among the people, make mention that His name is exalted.
5 Sing unto Yahweh; for He hath done excellent things: this [is] known in all
the earth.
6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of
Isaiah 13
1 The burden of
2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt
the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the
nobles.
3 I have commanded My sanctified ones, I have also
called My mighty ones for Mine anger, [even] them that rejoice in My highness.
4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a
tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: Yahweh of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, [even] Yahweh, and the
weapons of His indignation, to destroy the whole land.
6 Howl ye; for the day of Yahweh [is] at hand; it
shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they
shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they
shall be amazed one at another; their faces [shall be as] flames.
9 Behold, the day of Yahweh cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to
lay the land desolate: and He shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their
light: the sun shall be darkened in his going 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 arrogancy of the proud
to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden
wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her
place, in the wrath of Yahweh 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 man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and
flee every one into his own land.
15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is
joined [unto them] shall fall by the sword.
16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their
houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
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.
18 [Their] bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no
pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
19 And
20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to
generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the
shepherds make their fold there.
21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be
full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance
there.
22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and
dragons in [their] pleasant palaces: and her time [is] near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
1 For Yahweh will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose
2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house
of
3 And it shall come to pass in the day that Yahweh 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
5 Yahweh hath broken the staff of the wicked, [and] the scepter of the rulers.
6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the
nations in anger, is persecuted, [and] none hindereth.
7 The whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet: they break forth into singing.
8 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 All 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. 12 How art thou fallen
from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! [how] art
thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt
my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the
congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, [and] consider thee,
[saying, Is] this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake
kingdoms;
17 [That] made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof;
[that] opened not the house of his prisoners?
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 branch, [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 destroyed
thy land, [and] slain thy people: the seed of evildoers 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, nor fill the face of the world with
cities.
22 For I will rise up against them, saith Yahweh of hosts, and cut off from
23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I
will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith Yahweh of hosts.
24 Yahweh 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:
25 That 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 shoulders.
26 This [is] the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this [is]
the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
27 For Yahweh of hosts hath purposed, and who shall
disannul [it]? and His hand [is] stretched out, and
who shall turn it back?
28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod
of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come
forth a cockatrice, and his fruit [shall be] a fiery
flying serpent.
30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in
safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina,
[art] dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none [shall
be] alone in his appointed times.
32 What shall [one] then answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh hath
founded
1 The burden of
2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon,
the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads [shall be] baldness, [and] every
beard cut off.
3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of
their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh:
their voice shall be heard [even] unto Jahaz:
therefore the armed soldiers of
5 My heart shall cry out for
6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the
hay is withered away, the 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 to the brook of the willows.
8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of
9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for
I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of
Isaiah 16
1 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of
the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount
of the daughter of
2 For it shall be, [that], as a wandering bird cast
out of the nest, [so] the daughters of
3 Take counsel, execute judgment;
make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts;
bewray not him that wandereth.
4 Let Mine outcasts dwell with thee,
5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in
truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting
righteousness.
6 We have heard of the pride of
7 Therefore shall
8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine
of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down
the principal plants thereof, they are come [even] unto Jazer,
they wandered [through] the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they
are gone over the sea.
9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer
the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears,
O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for
the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.
10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the
vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in [their] presses; I have
made [their vintage] shouting to cease.
11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for
12 And it shall come to pass, when
it is seen that
13 This [is] the word that Yahweh
hath spoken concerning
14 But now Yahweh hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an
hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great
multitude; and the remnant [shall be] very small [and] feeble.
1 The burden of
2 The cities of Aroer [are] forsaken: they shall be
for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make [them] afraid.
3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from
4 And in that day it shall come to pass, [that] the glory of Jacob shall be
made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth
the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it
shall be as he that gathereth ears in the
6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two
[or] three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four [or] five in the
outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith Yahweh, God of Israel.
7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to
the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall
respect [that] which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken
bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of
10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been
mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant
plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou
make thy seed to flourish: [but] the harvest [shall be] a heap in the day of
grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, [which] make a noise like the noise of
the seas; and to the rushing of nations, [that] make a rushing like the rushing
of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but [God] shall
rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of
the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; [and] before
the morning he [is] not. This [is] the portion of them that spoil us, and the
lot of them that rob us.
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which [is] beyond the rivers of
Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in
vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers, to a
nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning
hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have
spoiled!
3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when He lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when He bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
4 For so Yahweh said unto me, I will take My rest, and
I will consider in My dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, [and] like a
cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is
ripening in the flower, He shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks,
and take away [and] cut down the branches.
6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the
beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts
of the earth shall winter upon them.
7 In that time shall the present be brought unto Yahweh of hosts of a people
scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto;
a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled,
to the place of the name of Yahweh of hosts, the
Isaiah 19
1 The burden of
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight
every one against his brother, and every one against
his neighbour; city against city, [and] kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of
4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a
fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, Yahweh of hosts.
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and
dried up.
6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; [and] the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags
shall wither.
7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing
sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no [more].
8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks
shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the
waters shall languish.
9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be
confounded.
10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that
make sluices [and] ponds for fish.
11 Surely the princes of Zoan [are] fools, the
counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become
brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I [am] the son of the wise, the son of
ancient kings?
12 Where [are] they? where [are] thy wise [men]? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what Yahweh of
hosts hath purposed upon
13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes
of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced
14 Yahweh hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have
caused
15 Neither shall there be [any] work for
16 In that day shall
17 And the
18 In that day shall five cities in the
19 In that day shall there be an altar to Yahweh in
the midst of the
20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto Yahweh of hosts in the
21 And Yahweh shall be known to
22 And Yahweh shall smite
23 In that day shall there be a highway out of
24 In that day shall
25 Whom Yahweh of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed [be]
1 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when
Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod,
and took it;
2 At the same time spake Yahweh by Isaiah the son of Amoz,
saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe
from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
3 And Yahweh said, Like as My servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot
three years [for] a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the
Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with [their]
buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of
6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such [is] our
expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of
Isaiah 21
1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in
the south pass through; [so] it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth.
Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as
the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed
down at the hearing [of it]; I was dismayed at the seeing [of it].
4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he
turned into fear unto me.
5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink:
arise, ye princes, [and] anoint the shield.
6 For thus hath Yahweh said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what
he seeth.
7 And he saw a chariot [with] a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, [and] a
chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:
8 And he cried, [As] a lion, O Yahweh, I stand continually upon the watchtower
in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, [with] a couple of horsemen. And
he answered and said,
10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of Yahweh
of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth
to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night?
Watchman, what of the night?
12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the
night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
13 The burden upon
14 The inhabitants of the
15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow,
and from the grievousness of war.
16 For thus hath Yahweh said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of
an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:
17 And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for Yahweh, God of Israel hath
spoken [it].
1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth
thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain [men
are] not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are
found in thee are bound together, [which] have fled from far.
4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the
daughter of my people.
5 For [it is] a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the
Lord Yahweh of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of
crying to the mountains.
6 And
7 And it shall come to pass, [that] thy choicest valleys shall be full of
chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
8 And he discovered the covering of
9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of
10 And ye have numbered the houses of
11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool:
but ye have not looked unto the Maker thereof, neither had respect unto Him That fashioned it long ago.
12 And in that day did the Lord Yahweh of hosts call to weeping, and to
mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh,
and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
14 And it was revealed in mine ears by Yahweh of hosts, Surely
this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord Yahweh
of hosts.
15 Thus saith the Lord Yahweh of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer,
[even] unto Shebna, which [is] over the house, [and
say],
16 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out
a sepulchre here, [as] he that heweth
him out a sepulchre on high, [and] that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?
17 Behold, Yahweh will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely
cover thee.
18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee [like] a ball into a large
country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory [shall be]
the shame of thy lord's house.
19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull
thee down.
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and
I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall
open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
23 And I will fasten him [as] a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a
glorious throne to his father's house.
24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the
offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of
cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
25 In that day, saith Yahweh 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 Yahweh hath spoken [it].
1 The burden of
2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest
of the river, [is] her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken,
[even] the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth
children, neither do I nourish up young men, [nor] bring up virgins.
5 As at the report concerning
6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of
the isle.
7 [Is] this your joyous [city],
whose antiquity [is] of ancient days? her own feet
shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
8 Who hath taken this counsel against
9 Yahweh of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, [and] to
bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish:
[there is] no more strength.
11 He stretched out His hand over the sea, He shook the kingdoms: Yahweh hath
given a commandment against the merchant [city], to destroy the strong holds
thereof.
12 And He said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter
of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim;
there also shalt thou have no rest.
13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, [till] the Assyrian founded it for them
that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up
the palaces thereof; [and] he brought it to ruin.
14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is
laid waste.
15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that
16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that
hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years,
that Yahweh will visit
18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to Yahweh: it shall not
be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell
before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
1 Behold, Yahweh maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it
upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant,
so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer,
so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker
of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for Yahweh hath
spoken this word.
4 The earth mourneth [and] fadeth
away, the world languisheth [and] fadeth
away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have
transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are
desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth,
all the merryhearted do sigh.
8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth,
the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the
harp ceaseth.
9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them
that drink it.
10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man
may come in.
11 [There is] a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth
of the land is gone.
12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is
smitten with destruction.
13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, [there
shall be] as the shaking of an olive tree, [and] as the gleaning grapes when
the vintage is done.
14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for
the majesty of Yahweh, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
15 Wherefore glorify ye Yahweh in the fires, [even]
the name of Yahweh, God of Israel, in the isles of the sea.
16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, [even] glory to
the righteous. But I said, My
leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous
dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very
treacherously.
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, [are] upon thee, O inhabitant of the
earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, [that] he who fleeth
from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out
of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on
high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a
cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall
fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] Yahweh 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 Yahweh of hosts
shall reign in
1 O Yahweh, Thou [art] my God; I will exalt Thee, I will praise Thy name;
for Thou hast done wonderful [things; Thy] counsels of old [are] faithfulness
[and] truth.
2 For Thou hast made of a city an heap; [of] a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city;
it shall never be built.
3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify Thee, the city of the terrible
nations shall fear Thee.
4 For Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his
distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of
the terrible ones [is] as a storm [against] the wall.
5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place;
[even] the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones
shall be brought low.
6 And in this mountain shall Yahweh of hosts make unto all people a feast of
fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of
wines on the lees well refined.
7 And He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all
people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears
from off all faces; and the rebuke of His people shall He take away from off
all the earth: for Yahweh hath spoken [it].
9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this [is] our
God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us: this [is] Yahweh; we have
waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.
10 For in this mountain shall the hand of Yahweh rest, and
11 And He shall spread forth His hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth [his
hands] to swim: and He shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of
their hands.
12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall He bring down, lay low, [and] bring to the ground, [even] to the dust.
1 In that day shall this song be sung in the
2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth
the truth may enter in.
3 Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on Thee]:
because he trusteth in Thee.
4 Trust ye in Yahweh for ever: for in YAH YAHWEH [is] everlasting strength:
5 For He bringeth down them that dwell on high; the
lofty city, He layeth it low; He layeth
it low, [even] to the ground; He bringeth it [even]
to the dust.
6 The foot shall tread it down, [even] the feet of the poor, [and] the steps of
the needy.
7 The way of the just [is] uprightness: Thou, most upright, dost weigh the path
of the just.
8 Yea, in the way of Thy judgments, O Yahweh, have we waited for Thee; the
desire of [our] soul [is] to Thy name, and to the remembrance of Thee.
9 With my soul have I desired Thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me
will I seek Thee early: for when Thy judgments [are] in the earth, the
inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, [yet] will he not learn righteousness:
in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the
majesty of Yahweh.
11 Yahweh, [when] Thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: [but] they shall
see, and be ashamed for [their] envy at the people; yea, the fire of Thine
enemies shall devour them.
12 Yahweh, Thou wilt ordain peace for us: for Thou also hast wrought all our
works in us.
13 O Yahweh our God, [other] lords beside Thee have had dominion over us: [but]
by Thee only will we make mention of Thy name.
14 [They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not
rise: therefore hast Thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory
to perish.
15 Thou hast increased the nation, O Yahweh, Thou hast increased the nation:
Thou art glorified: Thou hadst removed [it] far
[unto] all the ends of the earth.
16 Yahweh, 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 Yahweh.
18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth
wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the
inhabitants of the world fallen.
19 Thy dead [men] shall live, [together with] my dead
body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew [is
as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the
dead.
20 Come, My people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about
thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
21 For, behold, Yahweh cometh out of His place to
punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall
disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
1 In that day Yahweh with His sore
and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even
leviathan that crooked serpent; and He shall slay the dragon that [is] in the
sea.
2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
3 I Yahweh do keep it; I will water
it every moment: lest [any] hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
4 Fury [is] not in Me: who would set the briers [and]
thorns against Me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them
together.
5 Or let him take hold of My strength, [that] he may make peace with Me; [and]
he shall make peace with
6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root:
7 Hath He smitten him, as He smote those that smote him? [or]
is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, Thou wilt
debate with it: He stayeth His rough wind in the day
of the east wind.
9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this [is] all
the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all
the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves
and images shall not stand up.
10 Yet the defenced city [shall be] desolate, [and]
the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed,
and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women
come, [and] set them on fire: for it [is] a people of
no understanding: therefore He That made them will not have mercy on them, and
He That formed them will shew them no favour.
12 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] Yahweh shall beat off from the
channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by
one, O ye children of Israel.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall
come which were ready to perish in the
1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious
beauty [is] a fading flower, which [are] on the head of the fat valleys of them
that are overcome with wine!
2 Behold, Yahweh hath a mighty and strong one, [which] as a tempest of
hail [and] a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall
cast down to the earth with the hand.
3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
4 And the glorious beauty, which [is] on the head of the fat valley, shall be a
fading flower, [and] as the hasty fruit before the summer; which [when] he that
looketh upon it seeth,
while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
5 In that day shall Yahweh of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem
of beauty, unto the residue of His people,
6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in
judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of
the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are
swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in
vision, they stumble [in] judgment.
8 For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no
place [clean].
9 Whom shall He teach knowledge? and whom shall He
make to understand doctrine? [them that are] weaned
from the milk, [and] drawn from the breasts.
10 For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line,
line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will He speak to this people.
12 To whom He said, This [is] the rest [wherewith] ye
may cause the weary to rest; and this [is] the refreshing: yet they would not
hear.
13 But the word of Yahweh was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon
precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little;
that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14 Wherefore hear the word of Yahweh, ye scornful men, that rule this people
which [is] in
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are
we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not
come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid
ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation
a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner [stone], a sure foundation: he that
believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and
the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the
hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with
hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye
shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take
you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day
and by night: and it shall be a vexation only [to] understand the report.
20 For the bed is shorter than that [a man] can stretch himself [on it]: and
the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself [in it].
21 For Yahweh shall rise up as [in] mount Perazim, He
shall be wroth as [in] the valley of Gibeon, that He
may do His work, His strange work; and bring to pass His act, His strange act.
22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have
heard from the Lord Yahweh of hosts a consumption,
even determined upon the whole earth.
23 Give ye ear, and hear My voice; hearken, and hear
My speech.
24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open
and break the clods of his ground?
25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the
fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the
principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie
in their place?
26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, [and] doth teach him.
27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a
cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the
fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin
with a rod.
28 Bread [corn] is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break
[it with] the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it [with]
his horsemen.
29 This also cometh forth from Yahweh of hosts, [Which] is wonderful in
counsel, [and] excellent in working.
1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city [where] David dwelt! add
ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it
shall be unto Me as Ariel.
3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee
with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
4 And thou shalt be brought down, [and] shalt speak out of the ground, and thy
speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that
hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of
the dust.
5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the
multitude of the terrible ones [shall be] as chaff that passeth
away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
6 Thou shalt be visited of Yahweh of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake,
and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that
fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night
vision.
8 It shall even be as when an hungry [man] dreameth,
and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh,
and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth,
and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh,
and, behold, [he is] faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude
of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken,
but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
10 For Yahweh hath poured out upon you the spirit of
deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers
hath He covered.
11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is
sealed, which [men] deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray
thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it [is] sealed:
12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I
pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
13 Wherefore Yahweh said, Forasmuch as this people draw near [Me] with their
mouth, and with their lips do honour Me, but have
removed their heart far from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the
precept of men:
14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous
work among this people, [even] a marvellous work and
a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise [men] shall perish, and the
understanding of their prudent [men] shall be hid.
15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from Yahweh, and their
works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and Who knoweth us?
16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's
clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had
no understanding?
17 [Is] it not yet a very little while, and
18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of
the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
19 The meek also shall increase [their] joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men
shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the
scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing
of nought.
22 Therefore thus saith Yahweh, Who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of
Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall
his face now wax pale.
23 But when he seeth his children, the work of Mine
hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify My
name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that
murmured shall learn doctrine.
1 Woe to the rebellious children,
saith Yahweh, that take counsel, but not of Me; and that cover with a covering,
but not of My spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at My mouth; to strengthen
themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the
shadow of
4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors
came to Hanes.
5 They were all ashamed of a people [that] could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish,
from whence [come] the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent,
they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their
treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people
[that] shall not profit [them].
7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I
cried concerning this, Their strength [is] to sit
still.
8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book,
that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
9 That this [is] a rebellious
people, lying children, children [that] will not hear the law of Yahweh:
10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us
right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of
Israel to cease from before us.
12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word,
and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling
out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
14 And He shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken
in pieces; He shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting
of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to
take water [withal] out of the pit.
15 For thus saith the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel; In
returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be
your strength: and ye would not.
16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and,
We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that
pursue you be swift.
17 One thousand [shall flee] at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall
ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a
mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
18 And therefore will Yahweh wait, that He may be gracious unto you, and
therefore will He be exalted, that He may have mercy upon you: for Yahweh [is]
a God of judgment: blessed [are] all they that wait for Him.
19 For the people shall dwell in