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.
23:016:009 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.
23:016:010 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.
23:016:011 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and
mine inward parts for Kirharesh.
23:016:012 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary
on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to
pray; but he shall not prevail.
23:016:013 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab
since that time.
23:016:014 But now the LORD 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.
23:017:001 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from
being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
23:017:002 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks,
which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
23:017:003 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom
from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the
glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
23:017:004 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.
23:017:005 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 valley of Rephaim.
23:017:006 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 the LORD God of Israel.
23:017:007 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall
have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
23:017:008 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.
23:017:009 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough,
and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the
children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
23:017:010 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:
23:017:011 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.
23:017:012 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!
23:017:013 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.
23:017:014 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.
23:018:001 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the
rivers of Ethiopia:
23:018:002 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!
23:018:003 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.
23:018:004 For so the LORD 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.
23:018:005 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.
23:018:006 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.
23:018:007 In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD 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 the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
23:019:001 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift
cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall
be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in
the midst of it.
23:019:002 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.
23:019:003 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I
will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the
idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar
spirits, and to the wizards.
23:019:004 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,
the LORD of hosts.
23:019:005 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be
wasted and dried up.
23:019:006 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.
23:019:007 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.
23:019:008 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.
23:019:009 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave
networks, shall be confounded.
23:019:010 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that
make sluices and ponds for fish.
23:019:011 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?
23:019:012 Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee
now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed
upon Egypt.
23:019:013 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.
23:019:014 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof:
and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a
drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
23:019:015 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or
tail, branch or rush, may do.
23:019:016 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.
23:019:017 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one
that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself,
because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath
determined against it.
23:019:018 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the
language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall
be called, The city of destruction.
23:019:019 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst
of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to
the LORD.
23:019:020 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of
hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD
because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour,
and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
23:019:021 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.
23:019:022 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it:
and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be
intreated of them, and shall heal them.
23:019:023 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria,
and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into
Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
23:019:024 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with
Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:
23:019:025 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt
my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine
inheritance.
23:020:001 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the
king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took
it;
23:020:002 At the same time spake the LORD 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.
23:020:003 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked
and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and
upon Ethiopia;
23:020:004 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.
23:020:005 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their
expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
23:020:006 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 Assyria: and how shall we escape?
23:021:001 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.
23:021:002 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.
23:021:003 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.
23:021:004 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my
pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
23:021:005 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise,
ye princes, and anoint the shield.
23:021:006 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let
him declare what he seeth.
23:021:007 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:
23:021:008 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the
watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole
nights:
23:021:009 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of
horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is
fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken
unto the ground.
23:021:010 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.
23:021:011 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman,
what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
23:021:012 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if
ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
23:021:013 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye
lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
23:021:014 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that
was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
23:021:015 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from
the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
23:021:016 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Within a year, according
to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall
fail:
23:021:017 And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of
the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God
of Israel hath spoken it.
23:022:001 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that
thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
23:022:002 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city:
thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in
battle.
23:022:003 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.
23:022:004 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.
23:022:005 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of
perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision,
breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
23:022:006 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen,
and Kir uncovered the shield.
23:022:007 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.
23:022:008 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look
in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
23:022:009 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.
23:022:010 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses
have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
23:022:011 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.
23:022:012 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and
to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
23:022:013 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.
23:022:014 And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely
this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith
the Lord GOD of hosts.
23:022:015 Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this
treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,
23:022:016 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?
23:022:017 Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity,
and will surely cover thee.
23:022:018 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.
23:022:019 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state
shall he pull thee down.
23:022:020 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my
servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
23:022:021 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.
23:022:022 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.
23:022:023 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.
23:022:024 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.
23:022:025 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.
23:023:001 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid
waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the
land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
23:023:002 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants
of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
23:023:003 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the
river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
23:023:004 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.
23:023:005 As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely
pained at the report of Tyre.
23:023:006 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
23:023:007 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days?
her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
23:023:008 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city,
whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the
honourable of the earth?
23:023:009 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all
glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the
earth.
23:023:010 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish:
there is no more strength.
23:023:011 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms:
the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city,
to destroy the strong holds thereof.
23:023:012 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.
23:023:013 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.
23:023:014 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
23:023:015 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be
forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king:
after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
23:023:016 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been
forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou
mayest be remembered.
23:023:017 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.
23:023:018 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.
23:024:001 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste,
and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the
inhabitants thereof.
23:024:002 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.
23:024:003 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for
the LORD hath spoken this word.
23:024:004 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and
fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
23:024:005 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof;
because they have transgressed the laws, changed the
ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
23:024:006 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.
23:024:007 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the
merryhearted do sigh.
23:024:008 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice
endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
23:024:009 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be
bitter to them that drink it.
23:024:010 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up,
that no man may come in.
23:024:011 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is
darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
23:024:012 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with
destruction.
23:024:013 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.
23:024:014 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the
majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
23:024:015 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of
the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
23:024:016 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.
23:024:017 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant
of the earth.
23:024:018 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.
23:024:019 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean
dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
23:024:020 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.
23:024:021 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.
23:024:022 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.
23:024:023 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.
23:025:001 O Lord, 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.
23:025:002 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.
23:025:003 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of
the terrible nations shall fear thee.
23:025:004 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.
23:025:005 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.
23:025:006 And in this mountain shall the LORD 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.
23:025:007 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.
23:025:008 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will
wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his
people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD
hath spoken it.
23:025:009 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 the LORD; we have
waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
23:025:010 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab
shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down
for the dunghill.
23:025:011 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.
23:025:012 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.