23:001:001 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.
23:001:002 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath
spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have
rebelled against me.
23:001:003 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but
Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
23:001:004 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of
evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD,
they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone
away backward.
23:001:005 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and
more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
23:001:006 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no
soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they
have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with
ointment.
23:001:007 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire:
your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as
overthrown by strangers.
23:001:008 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard,
as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
23:001:009 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small
remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like
unto Gomorrah.
23:001:010 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto
the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
23:001:011 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me?
saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat
of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs,
or of he goats.
23:001:012 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at
your hand, to tread my courts?
23:001:013 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto
me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot
away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
23:001:014 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth:
they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
23:001:015 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes
from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands
are full of blood.
23:001:016 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings
from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
23:001:017 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed,
judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
23:001:018 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though
your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be
red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
23:001:019 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the
land:
23:001:020 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the
sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
23:001:021 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of
judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
23:001:022 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
23:001:023 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every
one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the
fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
23:001:024 Therefore saith the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One
of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of
mine enemies:
23:001:025 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy
dross, and take away all thy tin:
23:001:026 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy
counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The
city of righteousness, the faithful city.
23:001:027 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with
righteousness.
23:001:028 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners
shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
23:001:029 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired,
and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
23:001:030 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden
that hath no water.
23:001:031 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a
spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
23:002:001 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah
and Jerusalem.
23:002:002 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the
mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the
mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall
flow unto it.
23:002:003 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up
to the mountain of the LORD, 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 shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
23:002:004 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many
people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their
spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against
nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
23:002:005 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of
the LORD.
23:002:006 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob,
because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the
Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
23:002:007 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there
any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither
is there any end of their chariots:
23:002:008 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of
their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
23:002:009 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth
himself: therefore forgive them not.
23:002:010 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of
the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
23:002:011 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness
of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that
day.
23:002:012 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one
that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he
shall be brought low:
23:002:013 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted
up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
23:002:014 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that
are lifted up,
23:002:015 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
23:002:016 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant
pictures.
23:002:017 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the
haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be
exalted in that day.
23:002:018 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
23:002:019 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the
caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his
majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
23:002:020 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his
idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the
moles and to the bats;
23:002:021 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the
ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty,
when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
23:002:022 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for
wherein is he to be accounted of?
23:003:001 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away
from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of
bread, and the whole stay of water.
23:003:002 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the
prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
23:003:003 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the
counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
23:003:004 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes
shall rule over them.
23:003:005 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and
every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly
against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
23:003:006 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of
his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this
ruin be under thy hand:
23:003:007 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer;
for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of
the people.
23:003:008 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their
tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of
his glory.
23:003:009 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and
they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul!
for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
23:003:010 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for
they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
23:003:011 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the
reward of his hands shall be given him.
23:003:012 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women
rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err,
and destroy the way of thy paths.
23:003:013 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the
people.
23:003:014 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his
people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the
spoil of the poor is in your houses.
23:003:015 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the
faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
23:003:016 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are
haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking
and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
23:003:017 Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the
head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret
parts.
23:003:018 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their
tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round
tires like the moon,
23:003:019 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
23:003:020 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the
headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
23:003:021 The rings, and nose jewels,
23:003:022 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the
wimples, and the crisping pins,
23:003:023 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the
vails.
23:003:024 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there
shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set
hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and
burning instead of beauty.
23:003:025 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
23:003:026 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate
shall sit upon the ground.
23:004:001 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man,
saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let
us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
23:004:002 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and
glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for
them that are escaped of Israel.
23:004:003 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and
he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one
that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
23:004:004 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the
daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from
the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of
burning.
23:004:005 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount
Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the
shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a
defence.
23:004:006 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time
from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm
and from rain.
23:005:001 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved
touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very
fruitful hill:
23:005:002 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and
planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of
it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should
bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
23:005:003 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah,
judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
23:005:004 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have
not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth
grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
23:005:005 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my
vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up;
and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
23:005:006 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged;
but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the
clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
23:005:007 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of
Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for
judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
23:005:008 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to
field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the
midst of the earth!
23:005:009 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses
shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
23:005:010 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the
seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
23:005:011 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they
may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame
them!
23:005:012 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine,
are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither
consider the operation of his hands.
23:005:013 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they
have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their
multitude dried up with thirst.
23:005:014 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth
without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp,
and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
23:005:015 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man
shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
23:005:016 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God
that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
23:005:017 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste
places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
23:005:018 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and
sin as it were with a cart rope:
23:005:019 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we
may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and
come, that we may know it!
23:005:020 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put
darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet,
and sweet for bitter!
23:005:021 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent
in their own sight!
23:005:022 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of
strength to mingle strong drink:
23:005:023 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the
righteousness of the righteous from him!
23:005:024 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame
consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their
blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the
LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
23:005:025 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his
people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath
smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn
in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still.
23:005:026 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and
will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall
come with speed swiftly:
23:005:027 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall
slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed,
nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
23:005:028 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their
horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a
whirlwind:
23:005:029 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like
young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall
carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
23:005:030 And in that day they shall roar against them like the
roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and
sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
23:006:001 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD
sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the
temple.
23:006:002 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with
twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with
twain he did fly.
23:006:003 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is
the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
23:006:004 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that
cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
23:006:005 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man
of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips:
for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
23:006:006 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal
in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
23:006:007 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath
touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
23:006:008 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I
send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
23:006:009 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but
understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
23:006:010 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears
heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear
with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be
healed.
23:006:011 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the
cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and
the land be utterly desolate,
23:006:012 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great
forsaking in the midst of the land.
23:006:013 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and
shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in
them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the
substance thereof.
23:007:001 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham,
the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and
Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to
war against it, but could not prevail against it.
23:007:002 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is
confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his
people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
23:007:003 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz,
thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper
pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
23:007:004 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither
be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the
fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
23:007:005 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken
evil counsel against thee, saying,
23:007:006 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a
breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son
of Tabeal:
23:007:007 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall
it come to pass.
23:007:008 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus
is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken,
that it be not a people.
23:007:009 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria
is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be
established.
23:007:010 Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
23:007:011 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the
depth, or in the height above.
23:007:012 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the
LORD.
23:007:013 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small
thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
23:007:014 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a
virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name
Immanuel.
23:007:015 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse
the evil, and choose the good.
23:007:016 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and
choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both
her kings.
23:007:017 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and
upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that
Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
23:007:018 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall
hiss 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.
23:007:019 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the
desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns,
and upon all bushes.
23:007:020 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is
hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the
head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
23:007:021 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall
nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
23:007:022 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that
they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every
one eat that is left in the land.
23:007:023 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place
shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings,
it shall even be for briers and thorns.
23:007:024 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because
all the land shall become briers and thorns.
23:007:025 And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock,
there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it
shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser
cattle.
23:008:001 Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and
write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
23:008:002 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the
priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
23:008:003 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare
a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.
23:008:004 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father,
and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be
taken away before the king of Assyria.
23:008:005 The LORD spake also unto me again, saying,
23:008:006 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that
go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
23:008:007 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the
waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all
his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all
his banks:
23:008:008 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go
over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his
wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
23:008:009 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in
pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye
shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in
pieces.
23:008:010 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak
the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
23:008:011 For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and
instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
23:008:012 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people
shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
23:008:013 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your
fear, and let him be your dread.
23:008:014 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of
stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a
gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
23:008:015 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken,
and be snared, and be taken.
23:008:016 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
23:008:017 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the
house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
23:008:018 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are
for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which
dwelleth in mount Zion.
23:008:019 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have
familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should
not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
23:008:020 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according
to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
23:008:021 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry:
and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall
fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
23:008:022 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and
darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
23:009:001 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her
vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun
and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her
by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
23:009:002 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light:
they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the
light shined.
23:009:003 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy:
they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men
rejoice when they divide the spoil.
23:009:004 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff
of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
23:009:005 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and
garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of
fire.
23:009:006 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the
government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called
Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The
Prince of Peace.
23:009:007 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be
no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it,
and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even
for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
23:009:008 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon
Israel.
23:009:009 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the
inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
23:009:010 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn
stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into
cedars.
23:009:011 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin
against him, and join his enemies together;
23:009:012 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they
shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not
turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
23:009:013 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them,
neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
23:009:014 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail,
branch and rush, in one day.
23:009:015 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet
that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
23:009:016 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they
that are led of them are destroyed.
23:009:017 Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men,
neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one
is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For
all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out
still.
23:009:018 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the
briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and
they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
23:009:019 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened,
and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his
brother.
23:009:020 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he
shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall
eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
23:009:021 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.
23:010:001 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that
write grievousness which they have prescribed;
23:010:002 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the
right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and
that they may rob the fatherless!
23:010:003 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the
desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help?
and where will ye leave your glory?
23:010:004 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they
shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still.
23:010:005 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their
hand is mine indignation.
23:010:006 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against
the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and
to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
23:010:007 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so;
but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
23:010:008 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
23:010:009 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not
Samaria as Damascus?
23:010:010 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose
graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
23:010:011 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so
do to Jerusalem and her idols?
23:010:012 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath
performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will
punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the
glory of his high looks.
23:010:013 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and
by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the
people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the
inhabitants like a valiant man:
23:010:014 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people:
and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth;
and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
23:010:015 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth
therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it?
as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as
if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
23:010:016 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his
fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like
the burning of a fire.
23:010:017 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy
One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers
in one day;
23:010:018 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his
fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a
standard-bearer fainteth.
23:010:019 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a
child may write them.
23:010:020 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of
Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more
again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the
Holy One of Israel, in truth.
23:010:021 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto
the mighty God.
23:010:022 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet
a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow
with righteousness.
23:010:023 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even
determined, in the midst of all the land.
23:010:024 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that
dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee
with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner
of Egypt.
23:010:025 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall
cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
23:010:026 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him
according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his
rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
23:010:027 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall
be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck,
and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
23:010:028 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he
hath laid up his carriages:
23:010:029 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their
lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
23:010:030 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be
heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
23:010:031 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather
themselves to flee.
23:010:032 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his
hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
23:010:033 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough
with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the
haughty shall be humbled.
23:010:034 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron,
and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
23:011:001 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse,
and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
23:011:002 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit
of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the
spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
23:011:003 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the
LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither
reprove after the hearing of his ears:
23:011:004 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove
with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth:
with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he
slay the wicked.
23:011:005 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and
faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
23:011:006 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard
shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the
fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
23:011:007 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall
lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
23:011:008 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and
the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
23:011:009 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for
the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters
cover the sea.
23:011:010 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall
stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and
his rest shall be glorious.
23:011:011 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall
set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his
people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from
Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from
Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
23:011:012 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall
assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of
Judah from the four corners of the earth.
23:011:013 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries
of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah
shall not vex Ephraim.
23:011:014 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines
toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall
lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey
them.
23:011:015 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the
Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the
river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over
dryshod.
23:011:016 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people,
which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day
that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
23:012:001 And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee:
though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou
comfortedst me.
23:012:002 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be
afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is
become my salvation.
23:012:003 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of
salvation.
23:012:004 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his
name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name
is exalted.
23:012:005 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this
is known in all the earth.
23:012:006 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the
Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
23:013:001 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
23:013:002 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice
unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the
nobles.
23:013:003 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my
mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
23:013:004 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a
great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered
together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
23:013:005 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even
the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole
land.
23:013:006 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come
as a destruction from the Almighty.
23:013:007 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart
shall melt:
23:013:008 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold
of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall
be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
23:013:009 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath
and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the
sinners thereof out of it.
23:013:010 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall
not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and
the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
23:013:011 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked
for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to
cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
23:013:012 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man
than the golden wedge of Ophir.
23:013:013 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall
remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the
day of his fierce anger.
23:013:014 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no
man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee
every one into his own land.
23:013:015 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every
one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
23:013:016 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their
eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
23:013:017 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall
not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
23:013:018 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they
shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare
children.
23:013:019 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the
Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and
Gomorrah.
23:013:020 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in
from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent
there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
23:013:021 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their
houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there,
and satyrs shall dance there.
23:013:022 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their
desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is
near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
23:014:001 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose
Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be
joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
23:014:002 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their
place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the
LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives,
whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
23:014:003 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall
give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard
bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
23:014:004 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of
Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city
ceased!
23:014:005 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the
sceptre of the rulers.
23:014:006 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he
that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
23:014:007 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth
into singing.
23:014:008 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of
Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against
us.
23:014:009 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy
coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of
the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the
nations.
23:014:010 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become
weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
23:014:011 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy
viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
23:014:012 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the
morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the
nations!
23:014:013 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into
heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also
upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
23:014:014 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be
like the most High.
23:014:015 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the
pit.
23:014:016 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and
consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble,
that did shake kingdoms;
23:014:017 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the
cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
23:014:018 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in
glory, every one in his own house.
23:014:019 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable
branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with
a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden
under feet.
23:014:020 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou
hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers
shall never be renowned.
23:014:021 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their
fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face
of the world with cities.
23:014:022 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts,
and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew,
saith the LORD.
23:014:023 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools
of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the
LORD of hosts.
23:014:024 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have
thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it
stand:
23:014:025 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my
mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off
them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
23:014:026 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth:
and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
23:014:027 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul
it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
23:014:028 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
23:014:029 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him
that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come
forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
23:014:030 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy
shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he
shall slay thy remnant.
23:014:031 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art
dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall
be alone in his appointed times.
23:014:032 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation?
That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust
in it.
23:015:001 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid
waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid
waste, and brought to silence;
23:015:002 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to
weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads
shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
23:015:003 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth:
on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall
howl, weeping abundantly.
23:015:004 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be
heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry
out; his life shall be grievous unto him.
23:015:005 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee
unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of
Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim
they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
23:015:006 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is
withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
23:015:007 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which
they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
23:015:008 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the
howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.
23:015:009 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will
bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon
the remnant of the land.
23:016:001 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the
wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
23:016:002 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the
nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
23:016:003 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night
in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that
wandereth.
23:016:004 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to
them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end,
the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
23:016:005 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall
sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking
judgment, and hasting righteousness.
23:016:006 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even
of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall
not be so.
23:016:007 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl:
for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are
stricken.
23:016:008 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah:
the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof,
they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness:
her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
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.
23:026:001 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We
have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
23:026:002 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth
the truth may enter in.
23:026:003 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on
thee: because he trusteth in thee.
23:026:004 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is
everlasting strength:
23:026:005 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty
city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he
bringeth it even to the dust.
23:026:006 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and
the steps of the needy.
23:026:007 The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost
weigh the path of the just.
23:026:008 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for
thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of
thee.
23:026:009 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my
spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in
the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
23:026:010 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn
righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and
will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
23:026:011 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but
they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the
fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
23:026:012 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast
wrought all our works in us.
23:026:013 O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion
over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
23:026:014 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they
shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and
made all their memory to perish.
23:026:015 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased
the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the
ends of the earth.
23:026:016 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a
prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
23:026:017 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of
her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been
in thy sight, O LORD.
23:026:018 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it
were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the
earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
23:026:019 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall
they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as
the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
23:026:020 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy
doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until
the indignation be overpast.
23:026:021 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the
inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall
disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
23:027:001 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong
sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that
crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
23:027:002 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
23:027:003 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest
any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
23:027:004 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns
against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them
together.
23:027:005 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace
with me; and he shall make peace with me.
23:027:006 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel
shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
23:027:007 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is
he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
23:027:008 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with
it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
23:027:009 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and
this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the
stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the
groves and images shall not stand up.
23:027:010 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation
forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and
there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
23:027:011 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken
off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no
understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them,
and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
23:027:012 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall
beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye
shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
23:027:013 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great
trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish
in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and
shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
23:028:001 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim,
whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the
fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
23:028:002 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a
tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters
overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
23:028:003 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be
trodden under feet:
23:028:004 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat
valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the
summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in
his hand he eateth it up.
23:028:005 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory,
and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
23:028:006 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in
judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
23:028:007 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong
drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through
strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way
through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
23:028:008 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that
there is no place clean.
23:028:009 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to
understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from
the breasts.
23:028:010 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line
upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
23:028:011 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to
this people.
23:028:012 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the
weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
23:028:013 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept,
precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little,
and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be
broken, and snared, and taken.
23:028:014 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that
rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
23:028:015 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death,
and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall
pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our
refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
23:028:016 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for
a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure
foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
23:028:017 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to
the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the
waters shall overflow the hiding place.
23:028:018 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your
agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall
pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
23:028:019 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for
morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it
shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
23:028:020 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself
on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
23:028:021 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be
wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange
work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
23:028:022 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made
strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even
determined upon the whole earth.
23:028:023 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
23:028:024 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break
the clods of his ground?
23:028:025 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast
abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal
wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
23:028:026 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach
him.
23:028:027 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing
instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but
the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
23:028:028 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing
it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his
horsemen.
23:028:029 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is
wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.
23:029:001 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye
year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
23:029:002 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and
sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
23:029:003 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege
against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
23:029:004 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the
ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice
shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and
thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
23:029:005 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small
dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that
passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
23:029:006 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and
with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame
of devouring fire.
23:029:007 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against
Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that
distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
23:029:008 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and,
behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a
thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and,
behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude
of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
23:029:009 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are
drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
23:029:010 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep
sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the
seers hath he covered.
23:029:011 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a
book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying,
Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
23:029:012 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned,
saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
23:029:013 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near
me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed
their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the
precept of men:
23:029:014 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work
among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom
of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent
men shall be hid.
23:029:015 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the
LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and
who knoweth us?
23:029:016 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed
as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He
made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He
had no understanding?
23:029:017 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be
turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed
as a forest?
23:029:018 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book,
and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of
darkness.
23:029:019 The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the
poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
23:029:020 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner
is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
23:029:021 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for
him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of
nought.
23:029:022 Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham,
concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither
shall his face now wax pale.
23:029:023 But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in
the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy
One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
23:029:024 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding,
and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
23:030:001 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take
counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my
spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
23:030:002 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my
mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to
trust in the shadow of Egypt!
23:030:003 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and
the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
23:030:004 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to
Hanes.
23:030:005 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit
them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
23:030:006 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of
trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper
and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the
shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of
camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
23:030:007 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose:
therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
23:030:008 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a
book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
23:030:009 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children
that will not hear the law of the LORD:
23:030:010 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets,
Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things,
prophesy deceits:
23:030:011 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause
the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
23:030:012 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye
despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay
thereon:
23:030:013 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to
fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an
instant.
23:030:014 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel
that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not
be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or
to take water withal out of the pit.
23:030:015 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In
returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence
shall be your strength: and ye would not.
23:030:016 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore
shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they
that pursue you be swift.
23:030:017 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke
of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a
mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
23:030:018 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious
unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon
you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait
for him.
23:030:019 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt
weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy
cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
23:030:020 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the
water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a
corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
23:030:021 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This
is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye
turn to the left.
23:030:022 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of
silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast
them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee
hence.
23:030:023 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow
the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall
be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large
pastures.
23:030:024 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground
shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and
with the fan.
23:030:025 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every
high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great
slaughter, when the towers fall.
23:030:026 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the
sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven
days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and
healeth the stroke of their wound.
23:030:027 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with
his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of
indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
23:030:028 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the
midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and
there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
23:030:029 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity
is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come
into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
23:030:030 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and
shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his
anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and
tempest, and hailstones.
23:030:031 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be
beaten down, which smote with a rod.
23:030:032 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass,
which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps:
and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
23:030:033 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is
prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and
much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth
kindle it.
23:031:001 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on
horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen,
because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of
Israel, neither seek the LORD!
23:031:002 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call
back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and
against the help of them that work iniquity.
23:031:003 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses
flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both
he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and
they all shall fail together.
23:031:004 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and
the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is
called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor
abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come
down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
23:031:005 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;
defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve
it.
23:031:006 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have
deeply revolted.
23:031:007 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of
silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you
for a sin.
23:031:008 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty
man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall
flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
23:031:009 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his
princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in
Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
23:032:001 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes
shall rule in judgment.
23:032:002 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a
covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the
shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
23:032:003 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears
of them that hear shall hearken.
23:032:004 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and
the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
23:032:005 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the
churl said to be bountiful.
23:032:006 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will
work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the
LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink
of the thirsty to fail.
23:032:007 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth
wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the
needy speaketh right.
23:032:008 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal
things shall he stand.
23:032:009 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye
careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
23:032:010 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women:
for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
23:032:011 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless
ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
23:032:012 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields,
for the fruitful vine.
23:032:013 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers;
yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
23:032:014 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the
city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a
joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
23:032:015 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the
wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a
forest.
23:032:016 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and
righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
23:032:017 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect
of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
23:032:018 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in
sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
23:032:019 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city
shall be low in a low place.
23:032:020 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth
thither the feet of the ox and the ass.
23:033:001 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and
dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when
thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt
make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with
thee.
23:033:002 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be
thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of
trouble.
23:033:003 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting
up of thyself the nations were scattered.
23:033:004 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the
caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon
them.
23:033:005 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled
Zion with judgment and righteousness.
23:033:006 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy
times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.
23:033:007 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the
ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
23:033:008 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath
broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
23:033:009 The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and
hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off
their fruits.
23:033:010 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now
will I lift up myself.
23:033:011 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your
breath, as fire, shall devour you.
23:033:012 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns
cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
23:033:013 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that
are near, acknowledge my might.
23:033:014 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised
the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who
among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
23:033:015 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that
despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding
of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth
his eyes from seeing evil;
23:033:016 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the
munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
23:033:017 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall
behold the land that is very far off.
23:033:018 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe?
where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
23:033:019 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper
speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou
canst not understand.
23:033:020 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes
shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be
taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed,
neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
23:033:021 But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad
rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall
gallant ship pass thereby.
23:033:022 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the
LORD is our king; he will save us.
23:033:023 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen
their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great
spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
23:033:024 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that
dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
23:034:001 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let
the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that
come forth of it.
23:034:002 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his
fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath
delivered them to the slaughter.
23:034:003 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall
come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with
their blood.
23:034:004 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the
heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall
fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig
from the fig tree.
23:034:005 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall
come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
23:034:006 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat
with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of
the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a
great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
23:034:007 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks
with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their
dust made fat with fatness.
23:034:008 For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of
recompences for the controversy of Zion.
23:034:009 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the
dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning
pitch.
23:034:010 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof
shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste;
none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
23:034:011 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl
also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it
the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
23:034:012 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none
shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.