remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant
pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.
017:011 In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning,
you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away
in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
017:012 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas;
and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing
of mighty waters!
017:013 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters:
but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will
be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind,
and like the whirling dust before the storm.
017:014 At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more.
This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot
of those who rob us.
018:001 Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond
the rivers of Ethiopia;
018:002 that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of
papyrus on the waters, saying, "Go, you swift messengers,
to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their
beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down,
whose land the rivers divide!"
018:003 All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth,
when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look!
When the trumpet is blown, listen!
018:004 For Yahweh said to me, "I will be still, and I will see in my
dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud
of dew in the heat of harvest."
018:005 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over,
and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off
the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take
away the spreading branches.
018:006 They will be left together for the ravenous birds
of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth.
The ravenous birds will summer on them, and all the animals
of the earth will winter on them.
018:007 In that time, a present will be brought to Yahweh of Armies
from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome
from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out
and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place
of the name of Yahweh of Armies, Mount Zion.
019:001 The burden of Egypt: "Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud,
and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence;
and the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst.
019:002 I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they
will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against
his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
019:003 The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst. I will destroy
its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers,
those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.
019:004 I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord.
A fierce king will rule over them," says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
019:005 The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted
and become dry.
019:006 The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be
diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.
019:007 The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all
the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away,
and be no more.
019:008 The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile
will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.
019:009 Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave
white cloth, will be confounded.
019:010 The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work
for hire will be grieved in soul.
019:011 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel
of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid.
How do you say to Pharaoh, "I am the son of the wise,
the son of ancient kings?"
019:012 Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let
them know what Yahweh of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt.
019:013 The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis
are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, who are
the cornerstone of her tribes.
019:014 Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her;
and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works,
like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
019:015 Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail,
palm branch or rush, may do.
019:016 In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble
and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Yahweh of Armies,
which he shakes over them.
019:017 The land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt. Everyone to whom
mention is made of it will be afraid, because of the plans
of Yahweh of Armies, which he determines against it.
019:018 In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that
speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of Armies.
One will be called "The city of destruction."
019:019 In that day, there will be an altar to Yahweh in the midst
of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to Yahweh at its border.
019:020 It will be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of Armies
in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to Yahweh because
of oppressors, and he will send them a savior and a defender,
and he will deliver them.
019:021 Yahweh will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know Yahweh
in that day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice and offering,
and will vow a vow to Yahweh, and will perform it.
019:022 Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing.
They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them,
and will heal them.
019:023 In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria,
and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian
into Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.
019:024 In that day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and with Assyria,
a blessing in the midst of the earth;
019:025 because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying,
"Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands,
and Israel my inheritance."
020:001 In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king
of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;
020:002 at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz,
saying, "Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist,
and take your shoes from off your feet." He did so,
walking naked and barefoot.
020:003 Yahweh said, "As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and
barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt
and concerning Ethiopia,
020:004 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt
and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot,
and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
020:005 They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia
their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
020:006 The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, 'Behold,
this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered
from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?'"
021:001 The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds
in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness,
from an awesome land.
021:002 A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous
man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys.
Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media's sighing.
021:003 Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have
taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor.
I am in so much pain that I can't hear. I so am dismayed
that I can't see.
021:004 My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight
that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
021:005 They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat.
They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
021:006 For the Lord said to me, "Go, set a watchman. Let him declare
what he sees.
021:007 When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop
of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness."
021:008 He cried like a lion: "Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower
in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
021:009 Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs."
He answered, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved
images of her gods are broken to the ground.
021:010 You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!"
That which I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God
of Israel, I have declared to you.
021:011 The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, "Watchman,
what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?"
021:012 The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night.
If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again."
021:013 The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge,
you caravans of Dedanites.
021:014 They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants
of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
021:015 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword,
from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.
021:016 For the Lord said to me, "Within a year, as a worker bound
by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,
021:017 and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty
men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh,
the God of Israel, has spoken it."
022:001 The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now,
that you have all gone up to the housetops?
022:002 You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town;
your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they
dead in battle.
022:003 All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by
the archers. All who were found by you were bound together.
They fled far away.
022:004 Therefore I said, "Look away from me. I will weep bitterly.
Don't labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter
of my people.
022:005 For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity,
from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, in the valley of vision;
a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains."
022:006 Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen;
and Kir uncovered the shield.
022:007 It happened that your choicest valleys were full of chariots,
and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.
022:008 He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day
to the armor in the house of the forest.
022:009 You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many;
and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
022:010 You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down
the houses to fortify the wall.
022:011 You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water
of the old pool. But you didn't look to him who had done this,
neither did you have respect for him who purposed it long ago.
022:012 In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping,
and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:
022:013 and behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and killing sheep,
eating flesh and drinking wine: "Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we will die."
022:014 Yahweh of Armies revealed himself in my ears, "Surely this
iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,"
says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
022:015 Thus says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, "Go, get yourself to
this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,
022:016 'What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have
dug out a tomb here?' Cutting himself out a tomb on high,
chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!"
022:017 Behold, Yahweh will overcome you and hurl you away violently.
Yes, he will grasp you firmly.
022:018 He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you
like a ball into a large country. There you will die,
and there the chariots of your glory will be, you shame
of your lord's house.
022:019 I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down
from your station.
022:020 It will happen in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim
the son of Hilkiah,
022:021 and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him
with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand;
and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and to the house of Judah.
022:022 I will lay the key of the house of David on his shoulder.
He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no
one will open.
022:023 I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place.
He will be for a throne of glory to his father's house.
022:024 They will hang on him all the glory of his father's house,
the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups
even to all the pitchers.
022:025 "In that day," says Yahweh of Armies, "the nail that was fastened
in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down, and fall.
The burden that was on it will be cut off, for Yahweh
has spoken it."
023:001 The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it
is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in.
From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.
023:002 Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants
of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
023:003 On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile,
was her revenue. She was the market of nations.
023:004 Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold
of the sea, saying, "I have not travailed, nor brought forth,
neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins."
023:005 When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at
the report of Tyre.
023:006 Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast!
023:007 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days,
whose feet carried her far away to travel?
023:008 Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns,
whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable
of the earth?
023:009 Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory,
to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
023:010 Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish.
There is no restraint any more.
023:011 He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has
shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction
of Canaan's strongholds.
023:012 He said, "You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed
virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim.
Even there you will have no rest."
023:013 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people was not.
The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness.
They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces.
They made it a ruin.
023:014 Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste!
023:015 It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten
seventy years, according to the days of one king.
After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in
the song of the prostitute.
023:016 Take a harp; go about the city, you prostitute that has
been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs,
that you may be remembered.
023:017 It will happen after the end of seventy years that Yahweh
will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her wages,
and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world
on the surface of the earth.
023:018 Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh.
It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise
will be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently,
and for durable clothing.
024:001 Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste,
turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.
024:002 It will 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 creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker
of interest, so with the giver of interest.
024:003 The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste;
for Yahweh has spoken this word.
024:004 The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and
fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.
024:005 The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they
have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken
the everlasting covenant.
024:006 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who
dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants
of the earth are burned, and few men left.
024:007 The new wine mourns. The vine languishes.
All the merry-hearted sigh.
024:008 The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who
rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.
024:009 They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be
bitter to those who drink it.
024:010 The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up,
that no man may come in.
024:011 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine.
All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.
024:012 The city is left in desolation, and the gate is
struck with destruction.
024:013 For it will be so in the midst of the earth among the peoples,
as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when
the vintage is done.
024:014 These shall lift up their voice. They will shout for the majesty
of Yahweh. They cry aloud from the sea.
024:015 Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh,
the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea!
024:016 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs.
Glory to the righteous! But I said, "I pine away!
I pine away! woe is me!" The treacherous have dealt treacherously.
Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.
024:017 Fear, the pit, and the snare, are on you who inhabitant the earth.
024:018 It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear
will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst
of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high
are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
024:019 The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart.
The earth is shaken violently.
024:020 The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back
and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it,
and it will fall and not rise again.
024:021 It shall happen in that day that Yahweh will punish the army
of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth
on the earth.
024:022 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.
024:023 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed;
for Yahweh of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem;
and before his elders will be glory.
025:001 Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name,
for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago,
in complete faithfulness and truth.
025:002 For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city
into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city.
It will never be built.
025:003 Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome
nations will fear you.
025:004 For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold
to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm,
a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones
is like a storm against the wall.
025:005 As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise
of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song
of the dreaded ones will be brought low.
025:006 In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast
of fat things, a feast of choice wines, of fat things full
of marrow, of well refined choice wines.
025:007 He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering
that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread
over all nations.
025:008 He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe
away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach
of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh
has spoken it.
025:009 It shall be said in that day, "Behold, 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!"
025:010 For in this mountain the hand of Yahweh will rest.
Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw
is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.
025:011 He will spread out his hands in its midst, like one who swims
spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled
together with the craft of his hands.
025:012 He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low,
and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
026:001 In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have
a strong city. God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.
026:002 Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter:
the one which keeps faith.
026:003 You will keep whoever's mind is steadfast in perfect peace,
because he trusts in you.
026:004 Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.
026:005 For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city.
He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground.
He brings it even to the dust.
026:006 The foot shall tread it down; Even the feet of the poor,
and the steps of the needy."
026:007 The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make
the path of the righteous level.
026:008 Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you.
Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.
026:009 With my soul have I desired you in the night.
Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly;
for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants
of the world learn righteousness.
026:010 Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not
learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will
deal wrongfully, and will not see Yahweh's majesty.
026:011 Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see; but they
will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed.
Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.
026:012 Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also worked
all our works for us.
026:013 Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us,
but by you only will we make mention of your name.
026:014 The dead shall not live. The deceased shall not rise.
Therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and caused
all memory of them to perish.
026:015 You have increased the nation, O Yahweh. You have increased
the nation! You are glorified! You have enlarged all
the borders of the land.
026:016 Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out
a prayer when your chastening was on them.
026:017 Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time
of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs;
so we have been before you, Yahweh.
026:018 We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth,
it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance
in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
026:019 Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise.
Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is
like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast forth the dead.
026:020 Come, my people, enter into your chambers, and shut your
doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment,
until the indignation is past.
026:021 For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish
the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity.
The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer
cover her slain.
027:001 In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword
will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan
the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is
in the sea.
027:002 In that day, sing to her, "A pleasant vineyard!
027:003 I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment.
Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.
027:004 Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns,
I would do battle! I would march on them and I would
burn them together.
027:005 Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make
peace with me. Let him make peace with me."
027:006 In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud.
They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.
027:007 Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them?
Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed?
027:008 In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them.
He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of
the east wind.
027:009 Therefore, by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven,
and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin:
that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones