001:001 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.
001:002 Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken:
I have nourished and brought up children, and they have
rebelled against me.
001:003 The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib;
but Israel doesn't know, my people don't consider.
001:004 Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed
of evil-doers, children who deal corruptly! They have
forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel.
They are estranged and backward.
001:005 Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more?
The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
001:006 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness
in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven't been closed,
neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.
001:007 Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire.
Strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate,
as overthrown by strangers.
001:008 The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.
001:009 Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant,
we would have been as Sodom; we would have been like Gomorrah.
001:010 Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law
of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
001:011 "What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says Yahweh.
"I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat
of fed animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls,
or of lambs, or of male goats.
001:012 When you come to appear before me, who has required this
at your hand, to trample my courts?
001:013 Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me;
new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can't bear
with evil assemblies.
001:014 My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts.
They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.
001:015 When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you.
Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear.
Your hands are full of blood.
001:016 Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil
of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
001:017 Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed.
Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow."
001:018 "Come now, and let us reason together," says 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.
001:019 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good
of the land;
001:020 but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword;
for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it."
001:021 How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full
of justice; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
001:022 Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.
001:023 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves.
Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards.
They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause
of the widow come to them.
001:024 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One
of Israel, says: "Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries,
and avenge myself of my enemies;
001:025 and I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross,
and will take away all your tin.
001:026 I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors
as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called 'The city
of righteousness, a faithful town.'
001:027 Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts
with righteousness.
001:028 But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together,
and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.
001:029 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired,
and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.
001:030 For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden
that has no water.
001:031 The strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark.
They will both burn together, and no one will quench them."
002:001 This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning
Judah and Jerusalem.
002:002 It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh's
house shall be established on the top of the mountains,
and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall
flow to it.
002:003 Many peoples shall go and say, "Come, let's go up to
the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob;
and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths."
For out of Zion the law shall go forth, and the word of
Yahweh from Jerusalem.
002:004 He will judge between the nations, and will decide
concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords
into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war any more.
002:005 House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.
002:006 For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob,
because they are filled from the east, with those who practice
divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with
the children of foreigners.
002:007 Their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any
end of their treasures. Their land also is full of horses,
neither is there any end of their chariots.
002:008 Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work
of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.
002:009 Man is brought low, and mankind is humbled; therefore don't
forgive them.
002:010 Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from before the terror
of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty.
002:011 The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness
of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted
in that day.
002:012 For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that
is proud and haughty, and for all that is lifted up;
and it shall be brought low:
002:013 For all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up,
for all the oaks of Bashan,
002:014 For all the high mountains, for all the hills that are lifted up,
002:015 For every lofty tower, for every fortified wall,
002:016 For all the ships of Tarshish, and for all pleasant imagery.
002:017 The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness
of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted
in that day.
002:018 The idols shall utterly pass away.
002:019 Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes
of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory
of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
002:020 In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver,
and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves
to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
002:021 To go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts
of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Yahweh,
and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake
the earth mightily.
002:022 Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils;
for of what account is he?
003:001 For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem
and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread,
and the whole supply of water;
003:002 the mighty man, the man of war, the judge, the prophet,
the diviner, the elder,
003:003 the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counselor,
the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.
003:004 I will give boys to be their princes, and children shall
rule over them.
003:005 The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone
by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly
against the old man, and the base against the honorable.
003:006 Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house
of his father, saying, "You have clothing, you be our ruler,
and let this ruin be under your hand."
003:007 In that day he will cry out, saying, I will not be a healer;
for in my house is neither bread nor clothing.
You shall not make me ruler of the people.
003:008 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their
tongue and their doings are against Yahweh, to provoke the eyes
of his glory.
003:009 The look of their faces testify against them. They parade
their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul!
For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
003:010 Tell the righteous "Good!" For they shall eat the fruit
of their deeds.
003:011 Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds
of his hands will be paid back to him.
003:012 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule
over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err,
and destroy the way of your paths.
003:013 Yahweh stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples.
003:014 Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people,
and their leaders: "It is you who have eaten up the vineyard.
The spoil of the poor is in your houses.
003:015 What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face
of the poor?" says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
003:016 Moreover Yahweh said, "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty,
and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes,
walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;
003:017 therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head
of the women of Zion, and Yahweh will make their scalps bald."
003:018 In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets,
the headbands, the crescent necklaces,
003:019 the earrings, the bracelets, the veils,
003:020 the headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume
bottles, the charms,
003:021 the signet rings, the nose rings,
003:022 the fine robes, the capes, the cloaks, the purses,
003:023 the hand mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras,
and the shawls.
003:024 It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall
be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well
set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth;
and branding instead of beauty.
003:025 Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war.
003:026 Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate
and sit on the ground.
004:001 Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying,
"We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing:
only let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach."
004:002 In that day, Yahweh's branch will be beautiful and glorious,
and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory
of the survivors of Israel.
004:003 It will happen, that he who is left in Zion, and he who remains
in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even everyone who is
written among the living in Jerusalem;
004:004 when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters
of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from its midst,
by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning.
004:005 Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion,
and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day,
and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all
the glory will be a canopy.
004:006 There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat,
and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.
005:001 Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about
his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
005:002 He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with
the choicest vine, built a tower in its midst, and also cut
out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes,
but it yielded wild grapes.
005:003 "Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge
between me and my vineyard.
005:004 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have
not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes,
did it yield wild grapes?
005:005 Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard.
I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up.
I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.
005:006 I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed,
but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command
the clouds that they rain no rain on it."
005:007 For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked
for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness,
but, behold, a cry of distress.
005:008 Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field,
until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone
in the midst of the land!
005:009 In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: "Surely many houses will
be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
005:010 For ten acres{literally, ten yokes, or the amount of land
that ten yokes of oxen can plow in one day, which is about 10
acres or 4 hectares.} of vineyard shall yield one bath,{1
bath is about 22 litres, 5.8 U. S. gallons, or 4.8 imperial
gallons} and a homer{1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels}
of seed shall yield an ephah.{1 ephah is about 22 litres or 0.6
bushels or about 2 pecks)--only one tenth of what was sown.}"
005:011 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they
may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night,
until wine inflames them!
005:012 The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at
their feasts; but they don't regard the work of Yahweh,
neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
005:013 Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge.
Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are
parched with thirst.
005:014 Therefore Sheol{Sheol is the place of the dead.} has enlarged
its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory,
their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them,
descend into it.
005:015 So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes
of the arrogant ones are humbled;
005:016 but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One
is sanctified in righteousness.
005:017 Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers
will eat the ruins of the rich.
005:018 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood,
and wickedness as with cart rope;
005:019 Who say, "Let him make speed, let him hasten his work,
that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One
of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!"
005:020 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness
for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet,
and sweet for bitter!
005:021 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent
in their own sight!
005:022 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions
at mixing strong drink;
005:023 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice
for the innocent!
005:024 Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root
shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust;
because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies,
and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
005:025 Therefore Yahweh's anger burns against his people, and he has
stretched out his hand against them, and has struck them.
The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse
in the midst of the streets. For all this, his anger is not
turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.
005:026 He will lift up a banner to the nations from far,
and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth.
Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.
005:027 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber
nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their waist be untied,
nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
005:028 whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses'
hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.
005:029 Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like
young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey
and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.
005:030 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea.
If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress.
The light is darkened in its clouds.
006:001 In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on
a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
006:002 Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings.
With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet.
With two he flew.
006:003 One called to another, and said, "Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh
of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!"
006:004 The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him
who called, and the house was filled with smoke.
006:005 Then I said, "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 my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!"
006:006 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand,
which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.
006:007 He touched my mouth with it, and said, "Behold, this has
touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away,
and your sin forgiven."
006:008 I heard the Lord's voice, saying, "Whom shall I send,
and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here I am. Send me!"
006:009 He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed,
but don't understand; and you see indeed, but don't perceive.'
006:010 Make the heart of this people fat. 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 turn again, and be healed."
006:011 Then I said, "Lord, how long?" He answered, "Until cities
are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man,
and the land becomes utterly waste,
006:012 And Yahweh has removed men far away, and the forsaken places
are many in the midst of the land.
006:013 If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed:
as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains when they
are felled; so the holy seed is its stock."
007:001 It happened in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son
of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria,
and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to
Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
007:002 It was told the house of David, saying, "Syria is allied
with Ephraim." His heart trembled, and the heart of his people,
as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.
007:003 Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz,
you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit
of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller's field.
007:004 Tell him, 'Be careful, and keep calm. Don't be afraid,
neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails
of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria,
and of the son of Remaliah.
007:005 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted
evil against you, saying,
007:006 "Let's go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let's divide
it among ourselves, and set up a king in the midst of it,
even the son of Tabeel."
007:007 This is what the Lord Yahweh says: "It shall not stand,
neither shall it happen."
007:008 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin;
and within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces,
so that it shall not be a people;
007:009 and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria
is Remaliah's son. If you will not believe, surely you shall
not be established.'"
007:010 Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying,
007:011 "Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth,
or in the height above."
007:012 But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, neither will I tempt Yahweh."
007:013 He said, "Listen now, house of David: Is it not enough for you
to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience
of my God also?
007:014 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign.
Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall
call his name Immanuel.{"Immanuel" means "God with us."}
007:015 He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil,
and choose the good.
007:016 For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good,
the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
007:017 Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father's house,
days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed
from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
007:018 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly
that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt,
and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
007:019 They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys,
in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges,
and on all pastures.
007:020 In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired
in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria,
the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also
consume the beard.
007:021 It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow,
and two sheep;
007:022 and it shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk
which they shall give he shall eat butter: for everyone will
eat butter and honey that is left in the midst of the land.
007:023 It will happen in that day that every place where there
were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be
for briers and thorns.
007:024 People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all
the land will be briers and thorns.
007:025 All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall
not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be
for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep."
008:001 Yahweh said to me, "Take a large tablet, and write on it with a
man's pen, 'For Maher Shalal Hash Baz;{"Maher Shalal Hash Baz"
means "quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil."}'
008:002 and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify:
Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah."
008:003 I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son.
Then said Yahweh to me, "Call his name 'Maher Shalal Hash Baz.'
008:004 For before the child knows how to say, 'My father,' and, 'My mother,'
the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried
away by the king of Assyria."
008:005 Yahweh spoke to me yet again, saying,
008:006 "Because this people have refused the waters of Shiloah
that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
008:007 now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood
waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory.
It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.
008:008 It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through;
it will reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its
wings will fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel.
008:009 Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you
from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered!
Dress for battle, and be shattered!
008:010 Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing;
speak the word, and it will not stand: for God is with us."
008:011 For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed
me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
008:012 "Don't say, 'A conspiracy!' concerning all about which this
people say, 'A conspiracy!' neither fear their threats,
nor be terrorized.
008:013 Yahweh of Armies is who you must regard as holy.
He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.
008:014 He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel,
he will be a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
008:015 Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared,
and be captured."
008:016 Wrap up the testimony. Seal the law among my disciples.
008:017 I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob,
and I will look for him.
008:018 Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are
for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies,
who dwells in Mount Zion.
008:019 When they tell you, "Consult with those who have familiar
spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:"
shouldn't a people consult with their God? Should they
consult the dead on behalf of the living?
008:020 Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don't speak
according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
008:021 They will pass through it, sore distressed and hungry;
and it will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry,
and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn
their faces upward,
008:022 and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom
of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.
009:001 But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish.
In the former time, he brought into contempt the land
of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter
time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea,
beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
009:002 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light.
Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them
the light has shined.
009:003 You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy.
They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest,
as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
009:004 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder,
the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.
009:005 For all the armor of the armed man in the noisy battle,
and the garments rolled in blood, will be for burning,
fuel for the fire.
009:006 For to us a child is born. To us a son is given;
and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be
called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father,
Prince of Peace.
009:007 Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall
be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom,
to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and
with righteousness from that time on, even forever.
The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.
009:008 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it falls on Israel.
009:009 All the people will know, including Ephraim and the inhabitants
of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,
009:010 "The bricks have fallen, but we will build with hewn stone.
The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put
cedars in their place."
009:011 Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him the adversaries
of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies,
009:012 The Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they
will devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, his anger
is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
009:013 Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them,
neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.
009:014 Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail,
palm branch and reed, in one day.
009:015 The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet
who teaches lies is the tail.
009:016 For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those
who are led by them are destroyed.
009:017 Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men,
neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows;
for everyone is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth
speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still.
009:018 For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers
and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest,
and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
009:019 Through the wrath of Yahweh of Armies, the land is
burnt up; and the people are the fuel for the fire.
No one spares his brother.
009:020 One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will
eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied.
Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:
009:021 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall
be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still.
010:001 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers
who write oppressive decrees;
010:002 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among
my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil,
and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
010:003 What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation
which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help?
Where will you leave your wealth?
010:004 They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall
under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still.
010:005 Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand
is my indignation!
010:006 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people
who anger me 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.
010:007 However he doesn't mean so, neither does his heart think so;
but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not
a few nations.
010:008 For he says, "Aren't all of my princes kings?
010:009 Isn't Calno like Carchemish? Isn't Hamath like Arpad?
Isn't Samaria like Damascus?"
010:010 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved
images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
010:011 shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols,
so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
010:012 Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed
his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish
the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria,
and the insolence of his haughty looks.
010:013 For he has said, "By the strength of my hand I have done it,
and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed
the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures.
Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.
010:014 My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest,
and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, have I gathered
all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing,
or that opened their mouth, or chirped."
010:015 Should an axe brag against him who chops with it?
Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it?
As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff
should lift up someone who is not wood.
010:016 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat
ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled
like the burning of fire.
010:017 The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One
for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his
briers in one day.
010:018 He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field,
both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.
010:019 The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few,
so that a child could write their number.
010:020 It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel,
and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more
again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh,
the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
010:021 A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob,
to the mighty God.
010:022 For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea,
only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined,
overflowing with righteousness.
010:023 For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full end,
and that determined, in the midst of all the earth.
010:024 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, says "My people who dwell
in Zion, don't be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike
you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you,
as Egypt did.
010:025 For yet a very little while, and the indignation against
you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed
to his destruction."
010:026 Yahweh of Armies will stir up a scourge against him,
as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb.
His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like
he did against Egypt.
010:027 It will happen in that day, that his burden will depart
from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck,
and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.
010:028 He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron.
At Michmash he stores his baggage.
010:029 They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging
at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.
010:030 Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah!
You poor Anathoth!
010:031 Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.
010:032 This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at
the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
010:033 Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror.
The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.
010:034 He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron,
and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.
011:001 A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch
out of his roots will bear fruit.
011:002 The Spirit of Yahweh will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom
and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit
of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
011:003 His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge
by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing
of his ears;
011:004 but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide
with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike
the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath
of his lips he will kill the wicked.
011:005 Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness
the belt of his waist.
011:006 The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down
with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened
calf together; and a little child will lead them.
011:007 The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie
down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox.
011:008 The nursing child will play near a cobra's hole, and the weaned
child will put his hand on the viper's den.
011:009 They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain;
for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh,
as the waters cover the sea.
011:010 It will happen in that day that the nations will seek
the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples;
and his resting place will be glorious.
011:011 It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand
again the second time to recover the remnant that is left
of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush,
from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands
of the sea.
011:012 He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble
the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed
of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
011:013 The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute
Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won't envy Judah, and Judah
won't persecute Ephraim.
011:014 They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west.
Together they will plunder the children of the east.
They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children
of Ammon will obey them.
011:015 Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea;
and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River,
and will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march
over in sandals.
011:016 There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his
people from Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day
that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
012:001 In that day you will say, "I will give thanks to you, Yahweh;
for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away
and you comfort me.
012:002 Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not
be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song;
and he has become my salvation."
012:003 Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.
012:004 In that day you will say, "Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name.
Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his
name is exalted!
012:005 Sing to Yahweh, for he has done excellent things!
Let this be known in all the earth!
012:006 Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One
of Israel is great in the midst of you!"
013:001 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:
013:002 Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them!
Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
013:003 I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called
my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
013:004 The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people;
the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations
gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army
for the battle.
013:005 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven,
even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy
the whole land.
013:006 Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand! It will come as
destruction from the Almighty.
013:007 Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone's heart will melt.
013:008 They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them.
They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look
in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.
013:009 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger;
to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners
out of it.
013:010 For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give
their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth,
and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
013:011 I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked
for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud
to cease, and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible.
013:012 I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person
than the pure gold of Ophir.
013:013 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will
be shaken out of its place in the wrath of Yahweh of Armies,
and in the day of his fierce anger.
013:014 It will happen that like a a hunted gazelle, and like sheep
that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people,
and will each flee to their own land.
013:015 Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is
captured will fall by the sword.
013:016 Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes.
Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
013:017 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not
value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.
013:018 Their bows will dash the young men in pieces;
and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb.
Their eyes will not spare children.
013:019 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans'
pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
013:020 It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from
generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there,
neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
013:021 But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their
houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there,
and wild goats will frolic there.
013:022 Wolves will cry in their castles, and jackals in the
pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days
will not be prolonged.
014:001 For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will
yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land.
The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite
with the house of Jacob.
014:002 The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place.
The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh's land for servants
and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose
captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
014:003 It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give you rest from
your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service
in which you were made to serve,
014:004 that you will take up this parable against the king
of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased!
The golden city has ceased!"
014:005 Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter
of the rulers,
014:006 who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled
the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.
014:007 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out song.
014:008 Yes, the fir trees rejoice with you, with the cedars
of Lebanon, saying, "Since you are humbled, no lumberjack
has come up against us."
014:009 Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming.
It stirs up the dead for you, even all the rulers of the earth.
It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
014:010 They all will answer and ask you, "Have you also become as weak
as we are? Have you become like us?"
014:011 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your
stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you,
and worms cover you.
014:012 How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!
014:013 You said in your heart, "I will ascend into heaven!
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit
on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!
014:014 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make
myself like the Most High!"
014:015 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.
014:016 Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you,
saying, "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble,
who shook kingdoms;
014:017 who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities;
who didn't release his prisoners to their home?"
014:018 All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in
his own house.
014:019 But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch,
clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword,
who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body
trodden under foot.
014:020 You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed
your land. You have killed your people. The seed of evil-doers
will not be named forever.
014:021 Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity
of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth,
and fill the surface of the world with cities.
014:022 "I will rise up against them," says Yahweh of Armies,
"and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and
son's son," says Yahweh.
014:023 "I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools
of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,"
says Yahweh of Armies.
014:024 Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have thought,
so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
014:025 that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him
under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them,
and his burden leave their shoulders.
014:026 This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth.
This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
014:027 For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it?
His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?"
014:028 This burden was in the year that king Ahaz died.
014:029 Don't rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that
struck you is broken; for out of the serpent's root an adder
will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.
014:030 The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie
down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine,
and your remnant will be killed.
014:031 Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of you;
for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler
in his ranks.
014:032 What will they answer the messengers of the nation?
That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his
people will take refuge.
015:001 The burden of Moab: for in a night, Ar of Moab is laid waste,
and brought to nothing; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste,
and brought to nothing.
015:002 They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places,
to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba.
Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off.
015:003 In their streets, they dress themselves in sackcloth.
In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails,
weeping abundantly.
015:004 Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even
to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud.
Their souls tremble within them.
015:005 My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar,
to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith
with weeping; for in the way of Horonaim, they raise up
a cry of destruction.
015:006 For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has
withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.
015:007 Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten,
and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows.
015:008 For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab; its wailing
to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beer Elim.
015:009 For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring
yet more on Dimon, a lion on those of Moab who escape,
and on the remnant of the land.
016:001 Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness,
to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.
016:002 For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest,
so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.
016:003 Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like
the night in the midst of the noonday! Hide the outcasts!
Don't betray the fugitive!
016:004 Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a
hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer.
For the extortioner is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases.
The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
016:005 A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit
on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice,
and swift to do righteousness.
016:006 We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud;
even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath.
His boastings are nothing.
016:007 Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail.
You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth,
utterly stricken.
016:008 For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah.
The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches,
which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness.
Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea.
016:009 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine
of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh:
for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle
shout has fallen.
016:010 Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field;
and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither
joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses.
I have made the shouting stop.
016:011 Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward
parts for Kir Heres.
016:012 It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies
himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray,
that he will not prevail.
016:013 This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time past.
016:014 But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, "Within three years,
as a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Moab
shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude;
and the remnant will be very small and feeble."
017:001 The burden of Damascus: "Behold, Damascus is taken away
from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.
017:002 The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks,
which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
017:003 The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom
from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as
the glory of the children of Israel," says Yahweh of Armies.
017:004 "It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be
made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.
017:005 It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his
arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans
grain in the valley of Rephaim.
017:006 Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree,
two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough,
four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,"
says Yahweh, the God of Israel.
017:007 In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes
will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
017:008 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands;
neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made,
either the Asherim, or the incense altars.
017:009 In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places
in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from
before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.