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FROM HEBREW
I. 1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, (and) Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
2 Hear, Ο heavens, and give ear, Ο earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up sons, and they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his ’s crib: Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
4 Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons that deal corruptly; they have forsaken the LORD, they have scorned the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backward.
5 Why will ye be still stricken, (that) ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head (there is) no soundness in it; wound, and weal, and putrefying sore: they have not been pressed out, neither bound up, neither is it mollified with oil.
7 Your country is a desolation, your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is a desolation, like an overthrow of strangers.
8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a ’tent in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
9 Except the LORD of Hosts had left us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ye ear unto the law of our God, people of Gomorrah.
11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am sated with the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
13 Bring no more vain (meal-) offerings; incense is an abomination unto me; new moons and sabbaths, callings of assemblies; I cannot away with iniquity and the solemn meetings.
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a cumbrance unto me: I am weary of bearing.
15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye multiply prayer, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash you, make you clean; remove the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil,
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, correct the oppressore judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18 Come now, and let us confer 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.
19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be eaten (by) the sword for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! she (that) was full of judgment, righteousness lodged in her; but now murderers:
22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine impaired with water:
23 Thy princes (are) rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one of them loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, ’doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
24 Therefore thus 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.
25 And I will bring back mine hand upon thee, and purge away as (with) lye thy dross, and take away all thine alloy:
26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called Citadel of righteousness, faithful city.
27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
28 And (there shall be) a shattering of the rebels and of the sinners together, and they that forsake the LORD shall come to an end.
29 For they shall be ashamed of the terebinths which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
30 For ye shall be as a terebinth whose leaf withereth, and as a garden that hath no water.
31 And the strong shall become as tow, and his work as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
II. 1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the end of the days, the mountain of the ’S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up tothe 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.
4 And he shall judge between the nations, and shall decide for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
6 For thou hast forsaken thy people, the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the East, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and strike hands with the children of aliens.
7 And their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; and their land is full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:
8 And their land is full of false gods: they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
9 And the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is brought low; and forgive them not.
10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, from before the fear of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty.
11 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.
12 For the LORD of Hosts hath a day upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
15 And upon every lofty tower, and upon every fenced wall,
16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all images of desire;
17 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.
18 And the false gods—the whole shall pass away.
19 And they shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the dust, from before the fear of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to terrify the earth.
20 In that day a man shall cast his false gods of silver, and his false gods of gold, which they made for him to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the crevices of the crags, from before the fear of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to terrify the earth.
22 Cease ye from man, in whose nostrils is a breath; for wherein is he to be accounted of ?
III. 1 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,
2 Mighty man, and man of war, judge, and prophet, and diviner, and elder,
3 Captain of fifty, and him that is high of face, and counsellor, and cunning artificer, and skilled enchanter,
4 And I will give children to be their princes, and freakishness shall rule over them.
5 And the people shall oppress one another, each against another, and each against his neighbour; the child shall be insolent against the ancient, and the vile against the honourable.
6 When a man shall take hold of his brother in) the house of his father: Thou hast clothing, thou shalt be our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:
7 In that day shall he lift up (his voice) saying, I will not be a binder up: for in my house is neither bread nor clothing; ye shall not make me a ruler of the people.
8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to defy the eyes of his glory.
9 The show of their face doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have awarded evil unto themselves.
10 Say ye to the righteous, that it is well; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11 Woe unto the wicked, it is ill! for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
12 My people, their oppressors are children, and women rule over them. My people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and swallow up the way of thy paths.
13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the peoples.
14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof; and ye—ye have eaten up vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What mean ye, that ye crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of Hosts.
16 And the LORD said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with throat stretched out and staring eyes; tripping along they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the-crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will lay bare their secret parts.
18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of the anklets, and headbands, and crescents,
19 The pendants, and the bracelets, and the veils,
20 The head-tires, and the stepping chains, and the sashes, and the scent-boxes, and the amulets,
21 The (seal) rings, and nose-jewels,
22 The festal robes, and the mantles, and the shawls, and the satchels,
23 The glasses, and the linen shifts, and the turbans, and the scarfs.
24 And it shall be, instead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle a rope; and instead of curled hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; brandinginstead of beauty.
25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy might in the war.
26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be emptied; on the ground shall she sit.
IV. 1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel; only let thy name be called upon us; take away our reproach.
2 In that day. shall the sprout of the LORD be for ornament and for glory, and the fruit of the earth shall be for pride and for beauty to them that are escaped of Israel.
3 And it shall be, that he that is left in Zion, and remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, every one that is written down for living in Jerusalem.
4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged away the blood of Jerusalem from the midst of her by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
5 And the LORD will create upon every habitation of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud by day, and smoke, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for upon all the glory is a canopy,
6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day-time from the heat, and for a refuge and for a covert from storm and from rain.
V. I Let me, I pray, sing for my beloved a song of my loved one for his vineyard. My beloved bath a vineyard, on a hill-top, the son of oil;
2 And he digged it, and cleared it of stones, and planted it with the vine of Sorek, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a wine-fat therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild-grapes.
3 And now, ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and man of Judah, judge, I pray, betwixt me and my vineyard.
4 What is there yet to do to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild-grapes?
5 And now let me, I pray, tell you what I will do to my vineyard; Ι will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be consumed; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down;
6 And I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned, nor hoed; and there shall come up briers and thorns; and I will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
7 For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the man of Judah his pleasant plant 3 and he looked for judg- ment, and behold oppression; for righteousness, and behold a cry.
8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there is no room, and ye are made to dwell alone in the midst of the earth!
9 In mine ears (said) the LORD of Hosts, If there be not many houses desolate, great ones and fair, without inhabitant!
10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.
11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that tarry late in the dusk, while wine inflames them!
12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are their banquet; but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, for lack of knowledge: and their glory are men of famine, and their abundance dried up with thirst.
14 Therefore Sheol hath enlarged her appetite, and opened her mouth without measure: and her honour, and her abundance, and her uproar, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into her.
15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be. humbled:
16 And the LORD of Hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy sheweth himself holy in righteousness.
17 Then shall the lambs feed as (in) their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall sojourners eat.
18 Woe, they that drag iniquity with cords of vanity, and (their) sin as it were with a cart rope:
19 That say, Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know;
20 Woe, they that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe, they that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
22 Woe, they that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to ’strong drink:
23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the justice of the just from him!
24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and the dry grass sinketh down in flame, their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have rejected the law of the LORD of Hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched ’ his hand against them, and hath smitten them; and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were as refuse in the midst of the open places. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
27 None shall be weary, nor stumble among. them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
28 Whose arrows are sharpened, and all his bows bent, his ’ hoofs shall be counted like flint. and his wheels like. a whirlwind:
29 His roar is like a ’; he shall roar like young lions; and he growleth, and seizeth the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
30 And in that day he shall growl over him, as the growling of the sea; and if one look unto the earth, behold darkness, distress, and light; it groweth dark in the heavens thereof.
VI. 1 In the year that king Uzziah died saw I the Lord sitting ’upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
2 Seraphim stood above him; each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
3 And one kept crying unto another, and saying, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of Hosts; all the earth is full of his glory.
4 And the bases of the thresholds were shaken at the voice (of him) that cried, and the house began to fill with smoke.
5 And I said, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.
6 And there flew one of the seraphim unto me, and in his ’ hand a live coal, which. he had taken with the tongs from OH the altar;
7 And he made it touch my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin atoned for.
8 And 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.
9 And. he-said, Go, and say to this people, Certainly hear ye, but understand not; and see ye, but perceive not.
10 Make the heart of this people fat, and makeitheir ears heavy, and smear over their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and one heal them.
11 And I said, Until when, Lord? And he said, Until the cities be wasted, without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
12 And the LORD removed men far away, and great be the forsaken (tract) in the midst of the land.
13 And still in it (there is) a tenth, and it shall turn again, and be for consuming: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock is in them when they are felled: a holy seed is the stock thereof.
VII. 1 And it came to pass the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uaziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Aram, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but succeeded not in warring against it.
2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Aram rested
upon Ephraim. And his heart was shaken, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are shaken with the wind.
3 And the LORD said unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be faint-hearted for these two tails of smoking firebrands. for the fierce anger of Rezin with Aram, and of the son of Remaliah.
5 Because Aram hath taken evil counsel against thee, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying,
6 Let us go up against Judah, and terrify it, and let us take it by storm for ourselves, and set up a king in the midst of it, even ’ the son of Tabeal:
7 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
8 For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years Vshall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the-head of Samaria is ’s son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
10 And the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God: ask, going deep or mounting high.
12 And Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
13 And he said, Hear ye now, house of David; is its too little for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, the is with child, and beareth a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
15 Butter and honey shall he eat, as he leameth to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
16 For before the child learn to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land shall be forsaken, whose two kings thou fearest.
17 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy ’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; the king of Assyria.
18 And it shall be in that. day, that the LORD shall hiss to the fly that is at the end of the rivers of Egypt, and to the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the precipitous valleys, and in the crevices of the rocks, and upon all thorn bushes, and upon all pastures.
20 In that day shall the LORD shave with the razor that is hired, (which is) beyond the river, the king of Assyria; the head, and. the hair of the feet, and the beard also shall it sweep away.
21 And it shall be in that day, that a man shall nourish a heifer of kine, and two sheep;
22 And it sheu be, from the abundance of milk they give, he shall eat butter; for butter and honey shall everyone eat, that is ’ left in the land.
23 And it shall be, in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall be I for briers and thorns.
24 With arrows and with bows shall one come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
25 And all the hills thatwere hoed with the hoe, thou shalt not come hither for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.
VIII. 1 And the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great ’ and write upon it with a ’s pen, For Maher-shalal- hash-baz.
2 And I will take unto me faithful witnesses to witness, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD unto me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
4 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.
5 And the LORD spake also unto me again, saying,
6 Forasmuch as this people hath rejected the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice with Rezin and ’s son:
7 Now therefore, behold, the LORD bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, the king of Assyria, and all his glory; and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
8 And he shall sweep on into Judah; he shall overflow and pass through; to the neck shall he reach, and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, Immanuel.
9 Rage, ye peoples, and be broken; and give ear, all distant parts of the earth; gird yourselves, and be broken! gird yourselves, and be broken!
10 Take counsel, and it shall come to nought; speak a word, and it shall not stand; for God is with us.
11 For the LORD spake thus to me with strength. of hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
12 Say ye not, A conspiracy, of all whereof this people saith, A conspiracy 3 and fear not the fear of it, nor be afraid:
13 The LORD of Hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of offence, to both the houses of Israel, for a and for. a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 And many shall stumble upon them, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
16 Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
17 And I will wait for the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob; and will hope in him.
18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and portents in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say unto you, Inquire of the necromancers and the wizards, that peep and that mutter; should not a people inquire of its God? (should they inquire) of the dead on behalf of the living?
20 To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no dawn for him.
21 And he shall pass through it, hardly arid hungry; and it shall be, when he shall be hungry, he shall fret himself, and revile his king and his God, and shall face upward:
22 And he shall look unto the earth; and behold, trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and into gloom is be driven away.
IX. I Yet there is no darkness to her that had distress. As at the first he brought into contempt the land of Zabulon and the land of Naphthali, so in the‘latter time he (hath) brought honour to the way of the sea, beyond— Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
2 The people that walk in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them ’ · hath the light shined.
3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast increased its joyz’ they joy before thee like the joy in harvest, and as men exult when they divide the spoil.
4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the stafl’ of his shoulder, the rod of his exactor, as in the day of Midian.
5 For every boot of him that is booted with tumult, and the cloke rolled in blood—it shall be for burning, for fuel of fire.
6 For a child is born unto us, a son is given unto us; and the government is upon his shoulder; and his name is called Wonder, Counsellor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace. ’
7 To the increase of his government and to peace there is no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to establish it and to sustain it with judgment and with righteous- ness from henceforth and for ever. The jealousy of the LORD of Hosts will do this.
8 The LORD sent a word into Jacob, and it shall fall upon Israel.
9 And the whole people, they shall know, Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in pride and stoutness of heart,
10 Bricks are fallen, and we will build with hewn stones; sycamores are cut down, and we will change (them) forcedars.
11 Therefore the LORD hath set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and stirred up his enemies;
12 Aram before, and the Philistines behind: and they devoUr Israelwith open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
13 And the people hath not turned unto him that smiteth them, neither have they sought the LORD of hosts.
14 And the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and rush, in one day.
15 The elder and honourable, he is the head: and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
16 And the leaders of this people cause them to err; and those of them that are led are swallowed up.
17 Therefore the Lord shall not rejoice over its young men, neither shall have mercy on its fatherless and widows; for every one thereof is impious and an evil doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
18 For wickedness burned as a fire: briers and thorns it devoured, and it kindled the thickets of the forest, and they were. whirled upward with a lifting-up of smoke.
19 With the wrath of the LORD of Hosts is the land turned black, and the people are become as food for fire; they spared not a man his brother.
20 And one snatched on the right hand, and was hungry; and ate on the left hand, and they were not satisfied: every man the flesh of his arm did they eat:
21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Mahasseh: they together against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
X. 1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to scribes that prescribe oppression:
2 To turn aside the weak from judgment, and to strip the right from the poor of I my people, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may prey on orphans.
3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the ruin that cometh from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
4 (Nought remains), but to crouch under the prisoners, and fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
5 Ah, Asshur, the rod of mine anger, and a staff is it in. their hand, mine indignation.
6 I will send him against an impious nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to spoil the spoil and to prey on the prey, and to make them a treading down like the mire of the streets.
7 And he, he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to work destruction, and to cut off nations not a few.
8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
9 Is not Calno as Carchemish, or Hamath as Arpad, or Samaria as Damascus?
10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the false— and their images were more than Jerusalem and— rr Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her false gods, so do to Jerusalem and her offences?
12 And it shall be, when the Lord hath finished his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will visit upon the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glorying of his loftiness of eyes.
13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I (can) discern: and I have removed the bounds of peoples, and robbed their treasures, and brought down, like a mighty one, them that ’enthroned:
14 And my hand hath reached, as a nest, the riches of the peoples; and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there. was none that fluttered a wing, or opened a mouth, or peeped.
15 Shall the axe glory against him that heweth therewith? Shall the saw magnify itself against him that plieth it? as if a rod should ply them that lift it up, as if a staff should lift up what is not wood.
16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall burn a burning like the burning of fire.
17 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;
18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his garden-land, from soul and even to. flesh; and it shall be as when a sick ’man pinetb away.
19 And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, and a child may write them.
20 And it shall be in that day, the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean upon him that smote them; but shall lean upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 The remnant shall return, the remnant of Jacob, unto the Mighty God.
22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant (only) of it shall return; destruction is decided, overflowing in righteousness.
23 For a destruction and a decision shall the Lord GOD of Hosts make, in the midst of all the earth.
24 Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Hosts, Be not afraid, my people that dwellest in Zion, of Asshur; though he smite thee with a rod, and lift up his staff against thee, in the way of Egypt.
25 For yet a very little while, and indignation shall be at an end, and mine anger shall be to their destruction.
26 And the LORD of Hosts shall stir up a scourge against him like the smiting of Midian at the rock Oreb ; and his rod is upon the sea, and he lifteth it up, in the way of Egypt.
27 And it shall be in that day, his burden shall remove from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from of? thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed by reason of fatness.
28 He is come upon Aiath, he is passed through Migron; at Michmash he layeth up his baggage;
29 They pass through the pass: in Geba they make their lodging; Ramah trembleth: Gibeah of Saul fleeth.
30 Cry out with thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: listen, Laishah; O thou poor Anathoth!
31 Madmenah wandereth away; the inhabitants of Gebim gather (their goods) to flee.
32 Within this very day he halteth at Nob, waving his hand (at) the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, shall lop the leafy bough with terror; and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a majestic one.
XI. 1 And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a Branch out of his roots shall bear fruit;
2 And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, a spirit of wisdom and discernment, a spirit of counsel and might, a spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD:
3 And he shall breathe in the fear of l the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears:
4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for ’ meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breather his lips shall he slay the wicked.
5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of. his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
6 And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child their leader.
7 And the cow and the bear shall graze: their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall stretch his hand upon the ’s den.
9 They shall not do evil or deal corruptly in all my. holy mountain; for the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
10 And it shall be in that day; the root of Jesse, which standeth for an ensign of the peoples, of him shall the nations inquire: and his resting-place shall be glory.
11 And it shall be in that day, the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to purchase the remnant of his people which shall remain from ASsyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from llamath, and from the isles of the sea.
12 And he shalllift up an ensign for the nations, and shall gather the outcasts of Israel, and collect the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
13 And the jealousy of Ephraim shall remove, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut 06; Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah, and Judah shall not be adverse to Ephraim.
14 And they shall light upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil the children of the east to- gether; Edom and Moab shall be the putting forth of their hand, and the children of Ammon their obedience.
15 And. the LORD shall lay under a ban the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with the violence of his wind shall he wave his hand over the river, and shall smite it into seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, which shall remain from Assyria; as there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
XII. I And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will thank thee; for thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
2 Behold, God my salvation: I will trust, and not be afraid; for JAH the LORD is my strength and song; and he is become my salvation.
3 And ye shall draw water with joy out of the wells of- salvation.
4 And in that day shall ye say, Give thanks to the LORD, proclaim in his name, make known his deeds among the peoples, make mention that his name is exalted.
5 Make music to the LORD, for he hath wrought excellence: let this be known in all the earth.
6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitress of Zion; for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
XIII. 1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
2 Lift ye up an ensign upon a bare mountain; raise (the voice) unto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
3 I, I have charged my consecrated ones, ’have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, that exult in my excellence.
4 The voice of an uproar, like as of a great people; the voice of a tumult of the kingdoms of nations gathered together; the LORD of Hosts mustereth a host of war.
5 They come from a far country, from the end of the heavens; the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole earth.
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD ’is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be slack, and every ’s heart shall melt,
8 And they shall be dismayed: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall writhe as a travailing woman; they shall look aghast one at another: faces of flame are their faces.
9 Behold, the ’day of the LORD cometh, cruel, and wrath and fierce anger, to make the earth a desolation, and he will destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven, and the Orions thereof, shall not give forth their light; the sun shall be dark at his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold, and man- kind than the (pure) gold of. Ophir.
13 Therefore will make the heavens tremble, and the earth shall be disquieted from her place, at the wrath of the LORD of Hosts, and in the day of the heat of his anger.
14 And it shall be as (with) a chased roe; and as sheep, and there is none that gathereth; they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee everyone to his own land.
15. Everyone that is found shall be thrust through, and every- one that is taken shall fall by the sword.
16 And their infants shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
18 And bows shall dash youths in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not have mercy on children.
19 And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldees, shall be as ’s overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 It shall not inhabited for ever, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there, neither shall shepherds make (flocks) to lie down dwarf. But desert creatures shall lie there; and their houses shall groaners fill; and ostriches shall dwell there; and shaggy beasts shall dance there.
22 And wolves shall howl in their castles, and jackals in palaces ’of pleasure; and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
XIV. 1 For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet (again) choose Israel, and set them on their own ground: and the stranger shall join himself unto them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
2 And peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place and the house of Israel shall take them as their possession upon the ’s ground for servants and for handmaids; and they shall be captors to their captors 3 and they shall rule over their oppressors.
3 And it shall be in that day that the LORD giveth thee rest from thy pain and thy disquiet, and from the hard bondage which was laid upon thee,
4 That thou shalt take up this ’parable over the king Of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased, the insolence ceased!
5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the the rod of rulers,
6 Which smote peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, ruled over nations in anger with a pursuit that none restrained.
7 The whole earth is at rest, is quiet; they break forth into Singing.
8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, the cedars of Lebanon, (saying,) Since thou hast lain down, the feller cometh not up against us.
9 Hell (from) beneath is disquieted for thee, to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth up the Shades for thee, all the chief ones of the earth; ’ raiseth from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
10 All they shall answer and say ’unto thee, Thou also art made weak as we ἦ thou art made like unto us!
11 Thy pride is brought down to hell, the noise of thy viols; the maggot is spread under thee, and the worm is thy covering.
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the dawn; how art thou hewn down to the ground, which didst lay low the nations!
13 And thou, thou sajdst in thy heart, I will ascend the heavens; I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit upon the mount of assembly, in the recesses of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the recesses of the pit.
16 They that see thee shall look narrowly on thee, shall gaze earnestly on thee: Is this the man that did disquiet the earth, that made kingdoms tremble?
17 (That) made the world as a wilderness, and broke down the cities thereof; that loosed not his prisoners homeward 18 All ’s of nations, all of them, have lain down in glory, each in his house.
19 But thou art cast out away from thy sepulchre like a rejected branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit, like a trampled carcase.
20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou ’destroyed thy land, slain thy people: the seed of evil doers shall not be named, for ever.
21 Prepare for his sons (a place of) slaughter, for the iniquity of their fathers; that they rise not up, and possess the earth, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
22 And I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of Hosts, and cut off from Babylon name, and remnant, and issue, and offspring: saith the LORD.
23 And I will make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water; and I will sweep it away with the besom of destruction, ’the LORD of Hosts.
24 The LORD of Hosts hath- Sworn, saying, Surely as I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, that shall stand:
25 To break Asshur in my land, and on my mountains I will trample him; and his yoke shall remove from off them, and his burden shall remove from off his shoulder.
26 This is the purpose which is purposed upon the whole earth; and this the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
27 For the LORD of Hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his is the outstretched hand, and who shall turn it back?
28 In the year of the death of king Ahaz was this burden.
29 Rejoice not, Philistia, all. of thee, that the rod which smote thee is broken: for out of the ’s root shall come forth a viper, and its fruit a flying fiery serpent.
30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in security; and I will kill-thy root with. famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
31 Howl, gate; cry, city; melt away, Philistia, all of thee; for there cometh from the north a smoke, and there is no straggler in his ranks.
32 And what shall one answer the messengers of a nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his ’e take refuge.
XV. 1 The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, is destroyed; for in a night Kit- of Moab is laid waste, is destroyed:
2 He is gone up to the house, and Dibon, the high places, to weep; Moab howleth upon Nebo, and upon Medeba; on all his heads (is) baldness, every beard cut off.
3 In his streets they are girded with sackcloth; on her roofs and in her broad places all of her howleth, running down with weeping.
4 And Heshbon crieth, and Elealeh; their voiCe is heard unto Jahaz; therefore the armed men of Moab cry out; his soul trembleth within him.
5 My heart crieth out for Moab; her bars reach unto Zoar; a heifer of three years old: for the ascent of Luhith, with weeping doth he go up by it; for in the way of Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction.
6 For the waters of Nimrim are desolations; the grass is withered, the herbage is consumed, there is no green thing.
7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and their treasure, shall they carry away over the brook of willows.
8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of ’ Moab; her howling (hath reached) unto Eglaim, and to Beer-elim her howling.
9 For ’waters of Dimon are full of blood; forI will bring more upon Dimon, a lion for the escaped of Moab, and for the remnant of the land.
XVI. 1. Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land, from Sela toward the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
2 And it shall be, like wandering birds, a scattered nest, shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of Arnon.
3 Apply counsel, execute a decision; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide outcasts; discover not him that wandereth.
4 Let the outcasts of Moab dwell with thee; be thou a hiding place to them from the face of the destroyer; for the extortioner is brought to an end, destruction is finished, the trampler is consumed out of the land.
5 And a throne is established in mercy, and one shall sit upon it in truth in the tent of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and swift to do righteousness.
6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, proud ekceedingly; his proudness, and his pride, and his wrath; not so are his boastings.
7 Therefore Moab shall howl for Moab, altogether shall he howl; for the raisin cakes of Kir-haresheth shall ye mourn, utterly smltten.
8 For the fields of Heshbon languish; the vine of Sibmah, the lords of nations struck down her choice plants; they reached unto Jazer, they strayed into the wilderness; her offshoots spread abroad, they went over the Sea.
9 Therefore I will weep with theweeping of Jazer (for) the vine of Sibmah; I will water thee with my tears, OHeshbon and Elealeh; for on thy summer fruit and on thy harvest shouting is fallen.
10 And taken away is joy, and gladness, from the garden land; and iri the vineyards there is no singing, no calling; the treader treadeth no wine in the presses; I have made shouting to cease.
11 Therefore my bowels shall sound like the harp for Moab, and mine inward. parts for Kir-hares.
12 And it shall be, when Moab hath appeared, when he hath wearied himself upon the high place, and entereth his sanctuary to pray, (then) he shall not prevail.
13 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab hitherto:
14 And now the LORD hath spoken, saying: Within three years, as the years of a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all the great multitude; and the. remnant shall be small, little, not strong.
XVII. 1 The burden of Damascus.
Behold, Damascus is removed from (being) a city, and be- cometh a heap, a ruin.
2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, and they shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
3 And the fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Aram: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of Hosts.
4 And it shall be in that day, the glory of ’Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
5 And it shall be as when the harvestman graspeth the standing Corn, and his arm reapeth the ears 3 and it shall be as one that gleaneth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
6 And there shall be left therein gleanings, as at the beating of an olive tree, two or three berries at the top of a crest, four or five in the fruit ’s branches, saith the LORD God of Israel.
7 In that day shall (a) man look toward -his Maker, and his eyes shall gaze upon the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall gaze upon what his fingers made, either the Asherim or the sun-images.
9 In that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken tract of -the woodland and the mountain crest, which men forsook from before the children of Israel 5 and there shall be a desolation.
10 For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore thou plantest plants of pleasantness, and settest them with slips of a stranger;
11 In the day of thy planting dost thou make a hedge, and in the morning thou makest thy seed to bud; a harvest heap in the day; of pain and deadly sorrow.
12 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, they roar like the roaring of seas; and the tumult of nations, they are tumultuous like the tumult of mighty waters l
13 Nations are tumultuous like the tumult of many waters; and (one) rebuketh him, and he fleeth afar off, and is chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and as whirling dust before the tempest.
14 At eventide, and behold terror; before the morning, he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
XVIII. 1 Ah, land of the rustling of wings, whichart beyond the rivers of Cush !
2 That sendest envoys on the sea, and in vessels of papyrus on the face of the waters: Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and polished, to a people terrible since it was and onward, a nation of line, line, and treading down, whose land the rivers divide.
3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, when a standard is lifted up on (the) mountains, see ye: and when a trumpet is blown, hear ye.
4 For so the Lord said unto me: I will be quiet, and I will behold in my dwelling place, while there is clear heat upon the light, a mist-cloud in the heat of harvest.
5 For afore the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape-bunch, he shall cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and remove and cut down the branches.
6 They shall be left together unto the bird of prey of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the bird-of prey shall summer upon it, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon it.
7 In that time shall a present be brought unto the Lord of Hosts, a people tall and polished, and from a people terrible since it was and onward: a nation of line, line, and treading down, whose land the rivers divide: unto the place of the name of the Lord of Hosts, mount Zion.
XIX. The burden of Egypt.
1 Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and cometh to Egypt; and the false gods of Egypt shall shake at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will stir up Egypt against Egypt, and they shall fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbour; city against city, kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall be made empty in the midst of it; and I will swallow up the counsel thereof; and they shall inquire of the false gods, and the mutterers, and them that have familiar spirits, and the wizards.
4 And I will confine Egypt into the hand of a hard lord; and a harsh king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of Hosts.
5 And the waters shall waste fromthe sea, and the river shall be parched and dried up.
6 And the rivers shall stink, the canals of Mazor are emptied and parched up ; reed and flag wither.
7 The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and every sown field by the Nile, shall dry up, be driven away, and be no more.
8 And the fishers shall sigh, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the face of the waters shall languish.
9 And they that work combed flax, and they that weave white cloth, shall be ashamed.
6. ‘canals’: lit. Niles (Nile-arms): Mazor, a rare singular form of Mizraim, Egypt: the word prob. meaning ‘fortification.’
10 And her pillars shall be broken in pieces ; all that work for hire (shall be) grieved in soul.
11 Merely fools are the princes of Zoanf as for the wise counsellors of Pharaoh, counsel is become brutish; how can ye say unto Pharaoh, I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings?
12 Where, then, are thy wise men? (and) let them declare now unto thee, and let them know, what the Lord of Hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan are befooled, the princes of Noph are deceived: they have led Egypt astray, the cornerstone of her tribes.
14 The Lord hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have led Egypt astray in all his work, as a drunkard strays in his vomit.
15 Neither shall there be a work for Egypt, whichihead or tail, palm branch or rush, can do.
16 In that day shall Egypt be as women, and shall tremble and fear before the face of the waving of the hand of the Lord of Hosts, which he waveth over it.
17 And the land of Judah shall be for a terror to Egypt; whosoever maketh mention of it, unto him they turn in fear, before the purpose of the LORD of Hosts, which he purposeth concerning it.
18 In that day shall there be five cities in the land of Egypt speaking the language of Canaan, and swearing to the Lord of Hosts; one shall be called, City of destruction.
19 In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar near the border of it to the Lord.
20 And it shall be for a sign and 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 mighty one, and shall deliver them.
21 And the Lord shall make himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day, and shall serve with sacrifice and (meal) offering; and they shall vow a vow unto the Lord, and perform it
22 And the Lord shall smite Egypt, smiting, and healing: and they shall return unto the Lord, and he shall (let himself) be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria; and Assyria shall come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. 14 In that day shall Israel be a third to Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth ;
25 Forasmuch as the Lord of Hosts hath blessed him, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and mine inheritance, Israel.
XX. 1 In the year that the Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it:
2 At that timi spake the Lord by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and pull off thy shoe from thy foot And he did so, going naked and barefoot.
3 And the Lord said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath gone naked and barefoot, three years a sign and a portent upon Egypt and upon Cush:
4 So shall the king of Asshur lead the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt.
5 And they shall be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their expectation and Egypt their glorying.
6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, thus is our expectation, whither we tied for help, to be delivered from the face of the king of Asshur; and how shall we, we, escape?
XXI. 1 The burden of the desert of the sea; Like whirlwinds in the south, sweeping along; it cometh from the wilderness, from a terrible land.
2 A hard vision is declared unto me: the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the destroyer destroyeth. Go up, Ο Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
3 Therefore my loins are filled with anguish ; pangs have taken hold upon me, like the pangs of a woman in travail; I am bowed with pain, so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed, so that I cannot see.
4 My heart wandereth, horror affrighteth me; the twilight of my desire hath he turned into trembling for me.
5 They prepare the table, they set the watch, eat, drink. Arise, ye princes, anoint the shield.
5. Verbs in former part of verse are infinitives. ‘set the watch’: or,‘spread the carpets.
6 For thus bath the Lord said unto me, Go, place the watchman; what he shall see, let him declare.
7 And he saw a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels; and he hearkened with utmost hearkenings.
8 And he cried (as) a lion, O Lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower by day, and I am placed at my post all the nights:
9 And behold there cometh a troop of men, horsemen in pairs; and he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the (graven) images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
10 O my threshing, and the son of my (threshing) floor; that which I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
11 The burden of Dumah.
One crieth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what (hour) of the night? Watchman, what (hour) of the night?
12 The watchman said, Morning cometh, and also night. If ye will inquire, inquire ye; return, come.
13 The burden upon Arabia.
In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, ye caravans of Dedanim.
14 Bring ye water, to meet him that is thirsty; the inhabitants of the land of Tema welcome the fugitive with his bread.
15 For they are fugitives from the face of the swords, from the face of the drawn sword, and of the bent bow, and of the weight of war.
16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, as the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall be consumed;
17 And the remnant of the number of bows, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, shall be few; for the Lord, the God of Israel, hath spoken it.
XXII. The burden of the valley of vision.
1 What aileth thee, then, that thou art gone up, all of thee, to the house tops?
2 She is filled with tumult, an uproarious city, a jubilant town; thy smitten ones are not smitten with the sword, nor dead in battle.
3 All thy rulers are fled together; without the bow they are made captive; all that are found of thee are made captive, they fled afar off
4 Therefore I said, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; press not to comfort me, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
5 For the Lord God of Hosts hath a day of discomfiture, and treading down, and perplexity, in the valley of vision; digging down the wall, and a cry (goeth) to the mountain.
6 And Elam bare a quiver, with troops of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
7 And it cometh to pass, thy choice valleys are full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.
8 And he removed the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
9 And ye saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool
10 And ye numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses did ye break down to fortify the wall.
11 And ye made a lake between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye looked not unto him that made it, neither had respect unto him that formed it long ago.
12 And in that day did the Lord God of Hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen slaughtering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: (Let us) eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.
14 And the Lord of Hosts revealed himself in mine ears: Surely this iniquity shall not be expiated for you till ye die, saith the Lord God of Hosts.
15 Thus saith the Lord God of Hosts, Go, get thee unto this steward, unto Shebna which is over the house;
16 What hast thou here, and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here? Hewing him out his sepulchre on high, graving a habitation in the rock for him !
17 Behold, the Lord will hurl thee with the hurling of a mighty man, and seize thee with a seizing.
18 He will roll thee, rolling up into a roll, like a ball into a far country; there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be: thou shame of thy lord’s house.
19 And I will thrust thee from thy station, and from thine office shall he pull thee down.
20 And it shall be in that day, I will call my servant Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah;
21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will give thy authority into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
22 And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut, and he shall shut, and none shall open:
23 I will fix him as a peg in a sure place; and he shall be for a throne of honour to his father's house.
24 And they shall hang upon him all the honour of his father's house, the offspring and the offshoots, all small vessels, from the vessels of bowls and even to the vessels of jars.
25 In that day, saith the LORD of Hosts, shall the peg that is fixed in a sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and :the burden that is upon it shall be cut off; for the Lord hath spoken it.
XXIII. The burden of Tyre.
1 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there isno house, no entering in : from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
2 Be silent, ye inhabitants of the isle: the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, replenished thee.
3 And on great waters the seed of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue ; and it was the gain of nations.
4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon ; for the sea, the stronghold of the sea, speaketh: I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished up young men, nor brought up virgins.
5 When the report cometh to Egypt, they shall be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
7 Is this your jubilant one? from the ancient days is her antiquity; her feet bore her far away to sojourn.
8 Who hath ’this against Tyre, the crowning city? whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers were the honourable of the earth.
9 The Lord of Hosts hath purposed it, to profane the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
10 Pass through thy land as the river, daughter of Tarshish 3 there is no girdle any more.
11 He hath stretched out his hand Over the sea, he hath disquieted kingdoms 3 the Lord hath given commandment concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds thereof.
12 And he said, Thou shalt no more be jubilant, thou outraged virgin-daughter of Zidon 3 arise, pass over to Chittim; there also thou shalt have no rest.
13 Behold the land of the Chaldaeans; 3 this people not: Asshur founded it for desert creatures; they set up his (watch-) towers, they roused up her palaces 3 he hath made her a ruin.
14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; 3 for your stronghold is destroyed
15 And it shall be in that day, that Tyre shall beforgotten seventy years, as the days of one king; from the end of seventy years shall it be to Tyre as the song of the harlot.
16 Take a harp, go about the city, forgotten harlot; 3 do well in playing, do much singing, that thou mayest be remembered.
17 And it shall be, from the end of seventy years, the Lord shall visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the earth on the face of the ground.
18 And her gain and her hire shall be holy to the Lord: it shall not be treasured nor stored up ; but her gain shall belong to those that dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for stately clothing.
XXIV. 1 Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it void, and overturneth the face thereof, and scattereth the inhabitants thereof.
2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
3 The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled; for the Lord hath spoken this word.
4 The earth mourneth, fadeth ; the world languisheth, fadeth; the highness of the people of the earth languisheth.
5 And the earth is become impious under her inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, overstepped the statute, broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore hath a curse devoured the earth, and the inhabitants of it are held guilty; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the uproar of the jubilant endeth, the of the harp ceaseth.
9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it,
10 The city of wasteness is broken down; every house is shut up, not to enter.
11 There is a crying in the streets for wine; all joy is grown dark; the mirth of the land is gone.
12 There remaineth in the city desolation, and into ruin the gate is beaten down.
13 For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth among the peoples; as at the beating of an olive tree, as at the gleanings when the vintage is done.
14 These shall lift up their voice, they shall sing; because of the majesty of the Lord, they cry aloud from the sea.
15 Therefore glorify ye the Lord in the lights, the name of the Lord God of Israel in the isles of the sea
16 From the comer of the earth have we heard songs, Honour to the righteous. And I said, Wasting for me, wasting for me, woe to me ! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have indeed dealt treacherously.
17 Fear, and a pit, and a snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth
18 And it shall be, he who fleeth from the voice 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 windows from on high are opended, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken, the earth is utterly shattered, the earth is utterly uprooted.
20 The earth staggereth like a drunkard, and swayeth to and fro like a but; and the rebellion thereof is heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall be in that day, the Lord shall visit (upon) the host of the height in the height, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered, as prisoners are gathered, into a pit, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 And the moon shall blush, and the sun be ashamed; for the LORD of Hosts is King in mount Zion, and before his elders (there is) glory.
XXV. 1 O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done a wonder; counsels from of old, truth, true.
2 For thou hast made of a city a heap; a fenced town to be a ruin; a castle of strangers to be no city; it shall not be built, for ever.
3 Therefore shall a strong people honour thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
4 For thou hast been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat; for the blast of the terrible (ones) is as a (rain)storm upon a wall.
5 Thou shalt subdue the uproar of strangers, like heat in a parched land 3 (as) heat by the shadow of a cloud 3 the song of the terrible shall be brought low.
6 And in this mountain shall the Lord of Hosts make unto all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined
7 And he will swallow up in this mountain the face of the veil that veileth all peoples, and the covering that covereth all nations.
8 He hath swallowed up death for ever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces 3 and the reproach of his people shall he take away from 06 the earth 3 for the Lord hath spoken it.
9 And one shall say in that day, Lo, this is our God 3 we waited for him, and he will save us ; this is the LORD, we waited for him 3 we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation
10 For on this mountain shall the hand of the Lord rest, and Moab shall be trampled in his place, as straw is trampled in the water of the dung pit.
11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst thereof, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth (his hands) to swim 3 and he shall lay low his haughtiness, together With the wiles of his hands. ’
12 And the fortress of the high place of thy walls hath he brought down, laid low, brought to the ground, even to the dust.
XXVI. 1 In. that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: We have a city of strength; salvation will he appoint for walls and rampart.
2 Open ye the gates, that a righteous nation which keepeth truth may enter in.,
3 A steadfast mind thou keepest in peace, peace; because he is secure in thee.
4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever ; for in Jah the Lord is a Rock of Ages.
5 For he hath brought doWn the dwellers in the height, the lofty city 3 he bringeth. it low, bringeth it low even to the earth ; he bringeth it even to the dust.
6 The foot shall trample on it, the feet Of the afflicted, the steps of the poor.
7 The way for the righteous is straightness; thou levellest straight the path of the righteous.
8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee 3 the desire of our soul is for thy Name and thy memorial.
9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night: yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early ; for when thy judgments are upon the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, he learneth not righteousness ; in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not look upon the majesty of the Lord
11 Lord, thy hand is lifted up, they will not see ; they shall see, and be ashamed at the jealousy for a people ; yea, fire shall devour thine enemies.
12 Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us ; for all our works also hast thou wrought for us.
13 O Lord our God, otherllords beside thee have had dominion over us 3 through thee only will we make mention of thy name.
14 Dead, they shall not live; shades, they shall not rise; therefore hast thou visited ahd destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
15 Thou hast increased, the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation; thou hast gotten thee glory; thou hast enlarged all the borders of the land.
16 Lord, in trouble have they inquired for thee; they uttered a whisper]; thy correction was upon them.
17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, doth writhe, crieth out in her pangs; so were we at thy presence, O Loan.
18 We were with child, we writhed, we brought forth as it were wind; we wrought not salvation (for) the earth, neither have inhabitants of the earth fallen.
19 Thy dead ones shall live, my dead body shall arise: Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is the dew of lights, and the earth shall cast forth shades.
20 Go, my people, enter into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be passed by.
21 For behold, the Lord cometh out of his place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth upon him; and the earth shall disclose her bloodshed, and shall no more cover her slain.
XXVII. 1 In that day the lord with his hard and great and strong sword will visit (upon) leviathan the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the coiled serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
2 In that day, a vineyard of foaming wine ; sing ye to it ;
3 I the LORD am its keeper 3 every moment I water it; lest any hurt it, I keep it night and day.
4 Wrath have I none; who will set briers and thorns against me in battle? I would march against it, I would burn it all tothether
5 Or else let him lay hold of my stronghold, make peace with me: let him make peace with me.
6 As to what cometh, Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall fill the face of the earth with fruit.
7 Hath he smitten him according to thesmiting of those that smote him 3 or is he slain according to the slaying of his slain?
8 In exact measure, by sending her away, thou contendest with her; he driveth her away with his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
9 Therefore by this shall the guilt of Jacob be expiated; and this is all the fruit, taking away his sin ; when he maketh all the stones of the altar like chalkstones dashed in pieces, the Asherim and sun-pillars arise no more.
10 For the defenced city is solitary, an habitation deserted and forsaken like the wilderness ; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume her branches. ’
11 In the ’withering of her boughs they shall be broken off 3 women cOme, and set them on fire ; for it is not a people of discernment: therefore he that made them hath no compassion on them, and he that formed them sheweth them no favour.
12 And it shall be in that day, the Lord shall beat out (corn) from the stream of the River, unto the brook of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, Ο ye children of Israel.
13 And it shall be in that day, a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come which were lost in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
XXVIII. 1 Ah, the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, and the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are smitten down with wine!
2 Behold, the Lord hath a strong and mighty One, like a storm of hail, a tempest of destruction; like a storm of mighty overflowing waters, he casteth it down to the ground with force.
3 The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden with feet;
4 And the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as an early fig before the summer, which when any seeth, he swalloweth it while it is yet in his hand.
5 In that day shall the Lord of Hosts be for a crown of beauty and a diadem of glory unto the remnant of his people,
6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth ’over the judgment, and for might to them that turn back war at the gate.
7 And these also have erred with wine, and are gone astray with strong drink; priest and prophet have erred with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are gone astray with strong drink; they have erred. in vision, have wavered in decision.
8 For all tables are full of filthy vomit; there is no place (left).
9 Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to discern the message? those that are weaned from the milk, removed from the breasts?
10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line line upon line; here a little, there a little.
11 For with stamrnerings of lip and another tongue will he speak to this people.
12 He who said to them, This is the. rest, give ye rest to the weary ; and this is the refreshing; and they would not hear.
13 And the word of the Lord shall be unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line ; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and stumble backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14 Therefore hear the word of the lord, ye men of scorn, rulers of this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said: We have made a covenant with death, and have made an agreement with hell; the overflowing scourge, when it passeth through, shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I am he that hath founded in Zion a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-, stone of sure foundation; he that believeth shall not be in haste.
17 And I will set judgment for a line, and righteousness for a, plummet ; and hail sweepeth the refuge of lies, and waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; the overflowing scourge, when it passeth through, ye shall be for it to tread down.
19 As oft as it passeth through, it shall take you away; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night; and it shall be sheer vexation to discern the message.
20 For the bed is too short for stretching oneself out, and the covering too narrow when wrapping oneself.
21 For the Lord shall rise up as (in) mount Perazim, he shall be disquieted as (in) the valley of Gibeon, to do his deed— strange is his deed: and to work his work—alien is his work.
22 And now deal ye not scoffingly, lest your bonds grow strong; for a destruction and a decision have I heard from the Lord God of Hosts, upon the whole earth.
23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; attend, and hear my speech.
24 Is the ploughman always ploughing, to sow? (always) opening and harrowing his ground?
25 Doth he not, when he hath made plain the face thereof, cast abroad fennel, and scatter cummin, and set the wheat in rows, and barley in the appointed place, and spelt in the border thereof?
26 And he instructeth him according to judgment; his God teacheth him.
27 For fennel is not threshed with a sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled upon cummin; for fennel is beaten out with a staff, and cummin with a rod.
28 Bread (corn) is crushed ; for not for ever is he threshing it, and driving his cart wheel and his horses; he doth not crush it.
29 This also cometh forth from the Lord of Hosts; he maketh counsel wonderful, he maketh wisdom great.
XXIX. 1 Ah, Ariel, Ariel, city (where) David camped! add ye year to year; let the feasts go round.
2 And I will distress Ariel, and there shall be lamentation and lament; and she shall be unto me as Ariel.
3 And I will encamp against thee round about, and will lay ’ siege against thee with a mound, and raise siege works against thee :
4 And thou shalt be brought down, out of the earth shalt thou speak, and thy speech shall come low from the dust; and thy voice shall be as that of a ghost from the ground, and thy speech shall chirp out of the dust.
5 And the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones like passing chaff; and it shall be in a moment suddenly.
6 From the LORD of Hosts shall she be visited with thunder, and earthquake, and great noise; whirlwind, and tempest, and flame of devouring fire.
7 And as a dream, a vision of the night, shall the multitude of all the nations be, that are arrayed against Ariel, even all that are arrayed against her and her fortress, and distress her.
8 And it shall be as when a hungry man dreameth, and behold, he eateth ; and he awaketh, and his SOul is empty; and as a thirsty man dreameth, and behold, he drinketh; and he awaketh, and behold, he is faint, and his soul craveth; so shall all the multitude of the nations be, that are arrayed against mount Zion.
1. ‘ ’ i.e. prob. ‘lion of ’ or ‘(altar) hearth of ’
2. ‘there shall be moaning and ’ (Cheyne). Heb. words are from same root.
3. ‘round ’: lit. ‘like a ’: differs from ‘like ’ only by
5. ‘multitude’: word sometimes rendered ‘uproar.’
9 Astonish yourselves, and be astonished; blind yourselves, and be blind: they are drunken, and not with wine; they reel, and not with strong drink.
10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and bath closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, hath he covered.
11 And the vision of it all is become unto you as the words of the sealed writing, which they give ’ to one that knoweth writing, saying, Read this, pray: and he saith, I cannot, for it is sealed.
12 And the writing is given unto one that knoweth not writing, saying, Read this, pray; and he saith, I know not writing.
13 And the Lord said, F orasmuch as this people draweth near, honoureth me with its mouth and with its lips; and hath removed its heart away from me; and their fear of me is a precept of men, that is taught:
14 Therefore, behold, I am he that will again deal wonderquy with this people, wonderfully and a wonder; and the wisdom of its wise men shall perish, andthe discernment of its discerning men shall hide itself.
15 Ah, they that go deep from the Lord to hide counsel and their-works are in darkness, and they say, Who seeth us? and Who knoweth us?
16 The perverseness of you! shall the potter be reckoned as clay? that the thing made should say of him that made it, He made me not! and the thing formed of him that formed it, ’ discerneth not!
17 Is it not yet but a very little while, and Lebanon shall turn to garden-land, and the garden-land be reckoned as a forest?
18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of a writing, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of gloom and out of darkness.
19 And the meek shall add to their. joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the terrible one is at an end, and all is overylwith the scoffer, and that watched for iniquity are cut off .
21 That make a man offend by a word, and lay a snare for him that convinceth in the gate; and turn aside the righteous with emptiness.
22 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the house of Jacob, he that redeemed Abraham 3 Not now shall Jacob be ashamed, neither shall his face now be pale.
23 For when he seeth his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall count my name holy, and countholy the Holy One of Jacob, and fear the God of Israel.
24 And they that err in spirit shall learn discernment, and they that murmur shall receive instruction.
XXX. 1 Ah, the rebellious sons, saith the LORD, that take counsel, and not of me ; and weave a web, and not with my spirit, that they may add sin to sin
2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the stronghold of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt.
3 Therefore shall the stronghold of. Pharaoh be to yOu a shame, I and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
4 For his princes are at Zoan, and his messengers have reached Hanes.
5 All shall be. ashamed of a people · shall not profit them, not for a help nor profit, but for a shame, and also a reproach.
6 The burden of the beasts of the south country. Through a land of distress and anguish, whence are the lioness and lion, viper and flying fiery serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulder of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit
7 And Egypt, vain and empty will be their help: therefore I cry concerning this, Rahab are they, a sitting still.
8 Now go, write it on a tablet before them, and inscribe it in a book, and let it be for an after day, for ever and ever:
9 For it is a rebellious people, lying sons, sons that will not hear the law of the LORD:
10 Which say to the seers, Ye shall not see, and to them that have vision, Have visions not of right things, speak unto us smooth things, see delusive visions.
11 Remove you out of the way, turn aside out of the path; make to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.
12 Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because ye reject this word, and trust in oppression and crookedness, and stay thereon;
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as afalling breach, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometb suddenly, in a moment.
14 And he shall break it as a ’s jar is broken, shivering it unsparingly; and there shall not be found a sherd among the shivered fragments thereof, to take fire. from the hearth, or to draw water from a cistern.
15 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 were unwilling.
16 And ye said, No: for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee; and. We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
17 one thousand from before the rebuke of one, before the rebuke of five shall ye flee, till ye be left as a mast upon the top of a mountain, and like the ensign on the hill.
18 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; happy are all that wait for him.
19 For a people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; thdu shalt weep no mOre; he will surely be gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry ; as he heareth it, he answereth thee.
20 And the Lord shall give you the bread of affliction, and water of oppression; and thy teachers shall not withdraw any more, and thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
21 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.
22 And ye shall defile the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the overlaying of thy molten images of gold; thou shalt scatter them as an unclean thing; thou shalt say unto it, Begone!
23 And he shall give. the rain of thy seed, with which thou shalt sow the ground; and bread, the increase of the ground, and - it shall be rich and fat: in that day shall thy cattle feed in a broad pasture.
24 And the oxen and. the young asses that till the ground shall eat salted provender, winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
25 And there shall be, upon every high mountain, and on every uplifted hill, channels and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter when the towers fall.
26 And 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 hurt of his people, and healeth the stroke of its wound.
27 Behold, the Name of the LORD cometh from far; burning his anger, and denseness of rising smoke; his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue like devouring fire.
28 And his breath is as an overflowing stream, dividing even to the neck, to shake the nations in the shaking sieve of vanity; and a bridle that leadeth astray shall be in the jaws of peoples.
29 Your song shall be like the night When a feast is kept holy; and joy of heart, like his that marcheth with the flute, to go into the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.
30 And the Lord shall cause the majesty of his voice to be heard, and the lighting down of his arm to be seen, with fury of anger, and flame of devouring fire; scattering, rainstorm, and hailstone. . ’
31 For at the voice of the Lord shall Asshur be affrighted ; with the rod shall he smite.
32 every passing of the staff of destiny, which the Lord shall make to light on him, shall be with tabrets and harps; and with waving wars shall he fight against her. ’
33 For a burning place is made ready from yesterday; even it is prepared for the king; he hath made it deep, and hath made it broad; its pile fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, bumeth against it.
XXXI. 1 Ah, they that go down to Egypt for help; and. they stay on horses, and trust in chariots, for they are many, and in horsemen, for they are very strong; and they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither. inquire of the Lord!
2 And he also is wise; and bringeth evil, and removeth not his words; and he riseth up against the house of evil doers, and against the help of them that work naughtiness.
3 And the Egyptians are men, and not God: and their horses flesh, and not spirit: and the Lord shall stretch out his hand, and he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is holpen shall fall, and they all shall come to an end together.
4 For thus said the LORD unto me, As the lion growleth, and the young lion over his prey, against whom a multitude of ’ shepherds is called forth: at their voice he is not affrighted, and at their uproar he is not dismayed; so shall the LORD of Hosts come down to fight against mount Zion, and against the hill thereof.
5 As birds hovering, so will the LORD of Hosts protect Jeru- salem; protecting and rescuing, passing over, and setting free.
6 Return ye unto him from whom they have deeply revolted, Ο children of Israel.
7 For in that day they shall reject every man his false gods of silver, and his false gods of gold, which your own hands have made you, a sin.
8 And Asshur shall fall, by the sword of no man, and the sword, of none born of men, shall devour him; and he shall flee from before the sword, and his young men shall be for tribute.
9 And his rock shall pass away, from fear, and his princes be frighted from the standard, saith the LORD, who hath his fire in. Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem. ’
XXXII. 1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and (as) for princes, they shall rule in judgment.
2 And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the rainstorm; as channels of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be closed, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
4 And the heart of the hasty shall have discernment to know, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be quick to speak clearly. ·
5 The fool shall no more be called noble, nor the mean spoken of as liberal.
6 For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work naughtiness, todo impiety, and to speak error against the Lord, to empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
7 And the means of the mean are evil; it is he that deviseth plots to destroy the meek with words of falsehood, even when the needy speaketh judgment.
8 But the noble deviseth noble things; and he shall stand firm on noble things.
9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice: ye confident daughters, give ear unto my speech.
10 In a year, and days over, shall ye be disquieted, ye confident Ones ; for the vintage is at an end, the gathering shall not come.
11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease: be disquieted, ye confident ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird (sackcloth) upon your loins.
12 They shall smite upon the breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers ; yea, upon all houses of joy the exultant city.
14 For the palace is forsaken: the uproar of the city deserted; hill and watchtower serve for caves for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks:
15 Until a spirit be poured out upon us from on high, and the wilderness become a garden-land, and the garden-land be counted for a forest.
16 And judgment shall rest in the wilderness, and righteousness. dwell in the garden-land. -
17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteousness quietness and confidence for ever.
18 And my people shall abide in a home of peace, and in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.
19 And it shall hail at the downfall of the forest; and the city shall lie low in lowliness.
20 Happy are ye, that sow beside all waters; that send forth the foot of the ox and the ass.
XXXIII. 1 Ah, thou that spoilest, and thyself art not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they have not dealt treacherously with thee! When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; when thou shalt have succeeded in dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
2 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.
3 At the voice of the uproar the’peoples flee; at the lifting up of thyself the nations are scattered.
4 And your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathereth; as locusts run to and fro, shall they run upon it.
5 The LORD is exalted, for he dwelleth in the height; he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
6 And there shall be faithfulness in thy times; power of salvation, wisdom and knowledge: the fear of the Lord, that is his treasure. ’
7 Behold, their valiant ones cry without; the mesSengers of peace weep bitterly.
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man is ceased; he hath broken the covenant, despised cities, not man.
9 The earth mourneth, languisheth; Lebanon is ashamed, withereth; Sharon becometh like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off (their leaves).
10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I exalt myself; now will I lift up myself.
11 Ye shall conceive hay, ye shall bring forth stubble; your breath is fire which shall devour you.
12 And peoples shall become burnings of lime; thorns cut up, they shall burn in the fire.
13 Hear, ye that are far, what I have done; and ye that are near, acknowledge my might.
14 The sinners are afraid in Zion; trembling hath seized the impious. Who among us can sojourn with deVOuring fire? who among us can sojourn with everlasting burnings?
15 He that walketh in righteousness, and speaketh upright- ness; that rejecteth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking hold on a bribe, that stoppeth his ear from hearing of bloodshed, and closeth his eyes from seeing evil:
16 He shall inhabit heights, fortresses of rocks (are) his high place; his bread is given him, his water is sure.
17 Thine eyes shall see a king in his beauty; they shall behold a land of distances.
18 Thine heart shall meditate on terror. Where is he that counted? Where he that weighed? where he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see the stubborn people, a people too deep of language to be heard; of a stammering tongue, there is no discerning.
20 Look upon. Zion, the city of our appointed assembly; thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a habitation of security, a tent that shall not be removed; its stakes shall not be plucked up for ever, and all its cords are unbroken.
21 But there in majesty the Lord will be for us a place of rivers, of canals wide stretching; thereon shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king: he will save us.
23 Thy cords are loosed, they cannot firmly fix their pole; they have not spread out the banner; then was divided the prey of plunder in abundance; lame men do spoil spoil.
24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick; the people that dwelleth therein is forgiven (its) iniquity.
XXXIV. 1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples; let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; the world, and all that come forth of it.
2 For the LORD hath indignation against all nations, and fury against all their host; he hath laid them under the ban, he hath given them to slaughter.
3 And their smitten shall be cast out, and their carcases, their stink shall go up, and mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4 And all the host of heaven shall waste away, and the heavens shall be rolled up as a scroll, and all their host shall fade, as a leaf fadeth from a vine, and as a fading (leaf) from a fig tree.
5 For my sword hath drenched itself in heaven; behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my ban, for judgment.
6 The LORD hath a sword, it is filled with blood, it is made rich with fat, with the blood of lambs and he goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for the ’LORD bath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter ’the land of Edom.
7 And ’ oxen shall come down with them, and bullocks with bulls; and their land shall be drenched with blood, and their dust made rich with fat.
8 For the Lord hatha day of vengeance, and a year of recompense for the quarrel of Zion.
9 And her streams shall be turned into pitch, and her dust into brimstone; and the land thereof shall become pitch that burneth.
10 Night and day it shall not be quenched; for ever its smoke shall go up; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; for ever and ever there shall be none passing through it.
11 But the pelican and the bittern shall possess it; and the horned owl and the raven shall dwell in it; and he shall stretch out upon it the line of wasteness and the plummet of void.
12 As for the nobles thereof, none shall be there to proclaim the kingdom ; and all her princes shall be no more.
13 And her castles shall spring up (with) thorns; nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation for jackals, a court for [daughters of ] ostriches.
14 And desert creatures shall meet the wolves, and the shaggy beast shall call to his fellow; the screech owl surely shall repose there, and find for herself a resting-place.
15 There shall the arrowsnake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather in her shadow; there surely shall the kites be , brought together, each with her mate.
16 Inquire ye out of the book of the Lord, and read; none of these is missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his spirit, it hath brought them together.
17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line; they shall possess it for ever, to generation and generation shall they dwell therein.
XXXV. 1 The wilderness and the dry place shall rejoice; and the desert shall exult, and blossom like the narcissus.
2 It shall. blossom abundantly and exult, yea with exultation. and singing; there shall be given to it the glory of Lebanon, the honour of Carmel and Sharon: they shall see the glory of the Lord, the honour of our God.
3 Strengthen ye the slack hands, and confirm the stumbling, knees.
4 Say to the hasty of heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God, vengeance cometh, retribution of God; himself cometh, and will save you.
5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped:
6 Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
7 And the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water; in the habitation of jackals, their lair, a court for reed and rush.
8 And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the holy way; there shall not pass over it (any) unclean; and his for them; and whosoever walketh in the way, and fools, shall not go astray.
9 No lion shall be there, nor shall the (most) violent of beasts go up thereon; it shall not be found there; and redeemed ones shall walk (there),
10 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with song, and everlasting joy upon their head 3 they shall attain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
XXXVI. 1 And it came to pass, in the fourteenth year of the king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.
2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to the king Hezekiah with a great army. And he took his stand by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.
3 And there went out to him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder;
4 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say, I pray, to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What trust is this wherewith thou trustest?
5 I say, It is only a word of -the lips, counsel and strength for war: now, in whom trustest thou, that thou rebellest against me?
6 Lo, thou trustest on this bruised reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh ’of Egypt to all that trust in him.
7 And if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath removed, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
8 And now, exchange pledges, I pray, with my lord the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able to set for thyself riders upon them.
9 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one governor among the least of my ’s servants, and puttest thy trust in - Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
10 And now is it without the LORD that I am come up against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
11 And Eliakim said, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, pray, unto thy servants in the Aramaean tongue, for we understand it: and speak not unto us in the Jewish tongue, in-the ears of the people which are on the wall.
12 And Rabshakeh said, Is it to thy lord, and to thee, that my lord hath sent me, to speak these words? Is it not to the men that sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and drink their own water with you?
13 And Rabshakeh Stood, and cried with a great voice in the Jewish tongue, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the ἦ king of AsSyria
14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for he shall not be able to deliver you. ὁ .
15 And let not Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will safely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. ’
16 Hearken not to Hezekiah; for thus saith the king of Assyria., Make agreement with me, and come ’out to me; and eat ye everyone of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and drink ye everyone the waters of his cistern :
17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own - land, a land of corn and new wine, a land, of bread and vine- yards:
18 Lest Hezekiah entice you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Have the gods of the nations delivered everyone his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
19 Where are the gods-of Hamath and Arpad? where the ’ gods of Sepharvaim? and verily they have delivered Samaria out ’ of my hand! .
20 Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have ’ delivered their land out of my hand? that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand!
21 But they ’held their peace, arid answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was thus, saying, Ye shall not answer ’ him. ’
22 And Eliakim came, the son of Hilkiah, that’was over the house, and Shebna the secretary, and J-oah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, unto Hezekiah, with clothes rent, and told him the ’ words of Rabshakeh.
XXXVII. 1 And it came to pass, when the king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth. and went into the house of the Lord
2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the secretary, and the elders of the people, covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet, the son. of Amoz.
3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and chastisement, and contempt; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rab- shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his lord hath sent to reproach the living God, and will chastise the words which the Lord thy God hath heard; and thou wilt lift up prayer for the remnant that is found.
5 And the servants of the king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 And- Isaiah said unto them, Thus- shall ye say unto your lord, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, wherewith the young men of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. ᾇ Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall bear a message, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
8 And Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria waning against Libnah, for he had heard that he had broken up from Lachish.
9 Ahd he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, He is gone forth to war against thee. And he heard, and sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
10 Thus shall ye say to Hezekiah, king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive ’ saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11 Behold, thyself hast heard what the kings of Assyria have I done to all the lands, putting them under the ban; and shalt thou be delivered;
12 Did the gods of the nations, which my fathers destroyed, deliver them? as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena and IvvahP
14 And Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the Lord
15 And Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord saying,
16 O Lord of Hosts, God of Israel, that sittest upon the cherubim, thou art the God, thou alone, for all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made the heavens and the earth.
17 Incline thine ear, Lord, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he hath sent to reproach the living God.
18 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the lands, and their land,
19 And have given their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of ’s hands, wood and stone; and have destroyed them. ’
20 And now, LORD our God, save us from his hand: and all the kingdoms of the earth shall know that thou art the LORD, thou alone.
21 And Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, As to what thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:
22 This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion hath despised thee, hath mocked thee; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head after thee.
23 Whom hast thou reproached and reviled? and against whom hast thou raised high thy voice? thou hast lifted up thine eyes on high against the Holy One of Israel.
24 By the hand of thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I have ascended the height of the mountains, the recesses of Lebanon; and I will cut down the ’loftiness of his cedars, the choice of his fir-trees; and I will come into the height of his border, the forest of his garden-land.
25 I have digged, and drunk waters; and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the canals of Mazor. ’
26 Hast thou not heard? from long ago I made it, from ancient days I formed it; now have I brought it to pass, and thou hast been (destined) to lay waste, as ruinous heaps, fortified cities.
27 And their inhabitants were short of hand, they were dis- mayed and ashamed: they were (as) grass of the field, and green ’algke, grass of the hoUse tops, and a cornfield before it stands in stalk
28 And thy down-sitting, and thy going out and thy coming in I know, andthy rage, against me.
29 Because thy rage against me and. thy recklessness is come up into mine ears, I will put my ring in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
30 And this shall be the sign unto thee: ye shall eat this year that which groweth of itself, and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
31 And the escaped of the house of Judah that are left, shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion; the jealousy of the LORD of Hosts shall do this.
33 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast up a bank against it. By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord.
35 And I will protect this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant ’s sake.
36 And the. angel ’the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of Assyria an hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and (men) arose earl in the morning, and behold, they were all dead corpses.
37 And Sennacherib king of Assyria broke up, and went, and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
38 And it came ’pass, as he was worshipping in the house of - Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote ’ him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat; and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
XXXVIII. 1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Give orders to thine house; for thou diest, and shalt not live.
2 And Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the Lord,
3 And said, Ah LORD, remember, I pray thee, how that I have walked before thee in truth and with whole heart, and have done that which is good in thine eyes. And Hezekiah wept, a great weeping.
4 And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying,
5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I am adding to thy days fifteen years.
6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the grasp of the king of Assyria, and I will protect this city.
7 And this shall be the sign unto thee from the Lord, that the LORD will do this thing which he hath spoken
8 Behold, I am turning the shadow of the steps, which it has gone down on the steps. of Ahaz by the sun, ten steps back- ward. And the sun returned ten steps, on the steps whereon it was gone down.
9 Α writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, when he had been sick, and come to life from his sickness:
10 I said, In the stillness of my days I shall go into the gates of hell; I am deprived of the residue of my years.
11 I said, I shall not see Jah, Jab in the land of the living; Ι shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of ceasing.
12 My habitation is plucked up, and carried away from me like a ’s tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he ’ cutteth me off from the thrum; from day to night thou wilt make an end of me.
13 I quieted myself till morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones; from day to night thou wilt make an end of me.
14 Like a swift, a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan like a dove; mine eyes failed towards the height; LORD, I am oppressed; be thou surety for me.
15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it; I shall go softly all my years, because of the bitterness of ’my soul.
16 O Lord, by these things men live, and wholly in them is the life of my spirit; and thou wilt recover me, and make me to live.
17 Behold, for peace it was bitter to me, bitter; and thou hast ’ loved my soul from the pit of destruction; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. 18 For hell cannot give thee thanks, death praise thee; they that go down to the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
19 The living, the living, he shall give thee thanks, as I do this day; the father shall. make the sons to know concerning thy truth.
20 The LORD (was ready) to save me; and we will play on my stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
21 And Isaiah said, They shall take a cake of figs, and apply it to the boil, and he shall live.
22 And Hezekiah said, What sign is there, that I shall go up to the house of the LORD? ’
XXXIX. 1 At that time Merodach Baladan, son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent a letter and a present to Hezekiah; and he heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.
2 And Hezekiah was glad because of them, and shewed them his treasure-house, the silver and the gold, and the spices, and the fine oil, and all his armoury, and all that was found among his treasures; there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not.
3 Isaiah the prophet came unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said men, and whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They came from a far country unto me, from Babylon.
4 And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah said, All that is in my house have they seen; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.
5 And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord of Hosts:
6 Behold, the days are coming, and all that is in thine house, and that thy fathers have stored up until this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left, saith the Lord
7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the kings of Babylon.
8. And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken. And he said, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.
XL. 1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
2 Speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is filled, that her guilt is satisfied; for she hath received of the ’s hand double fOr all her sins.
3 A voice of one crying: In the wilderness clear ye the way of the LORD, make level in the desert a highway for our God.
4 Every ’valley shall ’ exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the rugged shall become a level, and the rough places a plain:
5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh together shall see: forthe mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
6 A voice of one saying, Cry! land he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodness thereof like a flower of the field.
7 The grass is withered, the flower faded: because the breath of the LORD hath blown upon it; surely the people is grass.
8 The grass is withered, the flower faded; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
9 Get thee up upon a high mountain, thou that bringest good tidings to Zion; lift up thy voice with strength, thou that bringest good tidings to Jerusalem; lift it up, be not afraid! say unto the cities of Judah, Behdld your God
10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come as a strong one, his arm ruling for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry (them) in his bosom: he shall tend those that give suck.
12 Who hath measured the waters with the hollow of his hand, and meted out the heavens with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in a balance, and the hills in scales?
13 Who hath meted out the Spirit of the Lord, and, as the man of his counsel, made him to know;
14 With whom took he counsel, and he caused him to discern, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him know- ledge, and made him to know the way of discernment?
15 Behold, nations (are) as a drop from a bucket, and are counted as a grain on the scales: behold, he will lift up the isles as fine dust.
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient for burning, nor its beasts sufficient for (a burnt) sacrifice.
17 All the nations are as nothing before him, and are counted to him as of nought, and waste. ’
18 And to whom will ye liken God? and what likeness will ye compare unto him?
19 The graven image, a craftsman melteth it, and the smelter] ’covereth it with gold, and smelteth silver chains.
20 He that is impoverished as to an offering chooseth a tree that will not rot: he seeketh unto him a cunning craftsman, to set up a graven image, that will not totter.
21 Do ye not know? do ye not hear? hath it not been told to you from the beginning? have ye not discerned from the founda- ’of the earth?
22 He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants habitants are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as fine gauze, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;
23 That giveth over chiefs to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as waste.
24 Yea, they have not been planted, yea, they have not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth; and he - even bloweth upon them, and they wither, and a whirlwind taketh ’ - them away as stubble.
25 To whom then will ye liken me, and I shall be equal to him? saith the Holy One.
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see: who hath created these? he who bringeth out their host by number; he calleth them all by name, from the greatness of his might, and being strong in power: not one is missing.
27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment will pass away from my God?
28 Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard? an everlasting God is the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth; he fainteth not, neither is—there is no searching of his—
29 Giving power to the weary; and to the powerless he in- ’ creaseth strength. ’
30 And youths faint and are weary, and young men stumble:
31 But they that wait for the LORD shall renew strength; they ’shall lift up wings like the eagles: they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
XLI. 1 Keep silence before me, O isles; and the peoples shall renew strength; let them come near, then let them speak; let us draw near together to judgment.
2 Who raised up from the East him (whom) Righteousness calleth to his foot; gave up nations before him, maketh him subdue kings; giveth them as dust for his sword, as driven stubble for his bow?
3 He pursueth them, passeth on in peace: a path he shall not go with his feet.
4 Who hath wrought and done it? He that calleth the gene- rations from the beginning; I the LORD am the first, and with the last, I am he.
5 The isles have seen it, and are afraid: the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near, and come. ’
6 They help everyone his neighbour; and one saith to his brother, Be strong!
7 And the craftsman strengthened the smelter, he that smootheth with the hammer him that smiteth the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good: and he fasteneth it with nails, that it should not totter.
8 And thou, Israel my sevant, Jacob whom I have chosen; the seed of Abraham that loved me;
9 Thou on whom I have taken hold from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the corners thereof; and said to thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not rejected thee.
10 Behold, all they that were hot against thee shall be ashamed and cofounded; they shall be as nought, ans shall perish, the men of thy strife.
12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, the men of thy contention; the men of thy war shall be as nought, and as nothingess.
13 For I, the LORD thy Gid, do hold fast thy right hadn; he that saith to thee, Fear not, I have helped thee.
14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, ye few men of Israel; I do help thee, saith the LORD, and the Holy One of Israel is thy redeemer.
15 Behold, I have set thee for a threshing sledge, sharp, new, with edges; thou shalt thresh mountains, and grind them fine, and shalt make hills as chaff.
16 Thou shalt winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt exult in the LORD, shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17 The afflicted and needy are seeking water, and there is none; their tongue is parched with thirst: I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
18 I will open rivers on bare heights, and fountains in the midst of valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and dry land springs of water.
19 I will give in the wilderness cedar, acacia, and myrtle, and oil-tree; I will set in the desert fir, plane, and larch together.
20 That they may see, and learn, and consider, and under- stand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
21 Bring near your cause, saith the LORD; bring up your strengths, saith the King of Jacob.
22 Let them bring them up, and tell us what shall happen; tell ye of the former things, what they be, that we may apply our heart, and learn their issue; or make us to hear the things that are coming.
23 Tell the things that are. to come hereafter, that, we may learn that ye are gods; yea, do good and do evil, that we may look around, and see (it) together.
24 Behold ye are of nought, and your work of nothingness: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
25 I have roused up one from the north, and he came: from the rising of the sun one that ’calleth on my name; and he shall come upon rulers as morter, and as a ‘potter (that) treadeth clay.
26 Who hath told from the beginning, that we may know? and from before, that we may say, It is right! Yea, there, is nOne that telleth, yea none that maketh to be heard, yea none that heareth your words. ’
27 First to Zion, Behold, behold them; and to Jerusalem will I give one that bringeth good tidings.
28 And I saw, and there was no man; and among these, and there was no counsellor, that I should ask of them, and they should answer a word.
29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are ’; their molten images are wind and wasteness.
XLII. 1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, (in whom) my soul is well pleased: I have put my soul upon him; he shall bring forth judgment to the nations.
2 He shall not cry out, nor lift up, nor make his voice heard in the street.
3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and a dimly burning wick shall he not quench; according to truth shall he bring forth judgment.
4 He shall not burn dimly nor be bruised, till he (shall) set judgment in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law.
5 Thus saith the God, the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and the things that come forth of it; that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
6 Ι the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will take hold of thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for -a light of the nations:
7 To open blind eyes, to bring out a captivefrom prison, and them that sit in darkness from a house of confinement
8 Iam the Lord; that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, and my praise to graven images.
9 The first things, behold, they have come, andI am telling new things; before they spring up I cause you to hear of them.
10 Sing unto the Lord a new song, his praise from the end of the earth; ye that go down (to) the sea, and the fulness thereof; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up (their voice): the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of Sela shout, let them cry aloud from the top of mountains.
12 They shall give honour to the Lord, and tell his praise among the isles.
13 The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall rouse up zeal like a man of war: he shall shout, yea, roar; he shall do mightily against his enemies.
14 I have been silent from of old: I have been still, and refrained myself; (now) will I cry like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.
15 I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbage; and I will turn rivers to islands, and I will dry up pools.
16 And I will make the blind walk by a way that they knew not; I will make them tread in paths they knew not; I will turn darkness to light before them, and uneven places into a plain. These are the things, I will do them, and will not abandon them.
17 They are turned back; they shall be ashamed, that trust in the graven images, that say to the molten image, Ye are our gods.
18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
19 Who is blind, but my servant, and deaf, but my messenger whom I (shall) send? who is blind as the surrendered one, and blind as the Lord's servant?
20 Thou hast seen many things, but thou observest Inot: opening the ears, and he heareth not.
21 The Lord was pleased for his righteousness’ sake: he make the law great, and make it glorious.
22 And it is a people spoiled and robbed: snared in holes all of them, and hidden in houses of confinement; they are for a spoil, and there is none that delivereth; a prey, and none that saith, Restore.
23 Who among you will give ear to this? will hearken, and hear for the time to come?
24 Who gave up Jacob for a prey, and Israel to spoilers? was it not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? And they would not walk in his ways, and heard not his law.
25 And be poured upon him fury, his anger, and the violence of war; and it set him on fire round about, and he knew not; and kindled upon him, and he laid it not to heart.
XLIII. 1 And now thus saith the Lord, that created thee, O Jacob, and that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not; for I have redeemed thee, I have called (thee) by thy name, thou (art) mine.
2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be scorched, and the flame shall not kindle upon thee.
3 For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour; I have given Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in thy stead.
4 Since thou art (become) precious in mine eyes, hast been honoured, and I have loved thee; therefore I will give man in thy stead, and people for thy life.
5 Fear not; for I am with thee: I Will bring thy seed from the East, and gather thee from the West:
6 I will say to the North, Give up; and to the South, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth:
7 Everyone that is called by my name, and that I have created for my glory; that I have formed, yea, have made.
8 Bring forth a blind people, and they have eyes; and deaf ones, and they have ears.
9 All the nations are gathered together, and the peoples are assembled: who among them will tell this, and cause us to hear former things? let them produce their witnesses, and appear righteous, and let them hear, and say, (It is) truth
10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant, whom I have chosen; that ye may know, and believe me, and discern that I am he; before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
11 I, I am the Lord, and beside me is no Saviour.
12 Myself have told, and have saved, and have caused it to be heard, and there was no stranger among you; and ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and I am God.
13 Yea, from the beginning I am he: and there is none that delivereth out of my hand: I will work, and who shall turn it back?
14 Thus saith the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and will bring down all of them as fugitives, and the Chaldaeans in the ships of their shouting
15 I the Lord am your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.
16 Thus saith the Lord, which giveth a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters:
17 Which bringeth forth chariot and horse, force and warrior: they lie down together, they shall not rise: they are quenched, they are gone out like a wick:
18 Remember ye not the first things, neither consider the things of old.
19 Behold, I do a new thing; now is it springing forth; will ye not know it? Yea, I will set a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.
20 The beast of the field shall honour. me, jackals and (daughters of) ostriches : for I have given ’waters in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
21 The people which 1,Ι have formed for myself, they shall recount my praise.
22 And thou hast noi: called upon me, Jacob : for thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.
23 Thou hast not brought me the’lambs of thy burnt offerings, neither hast thou honoured me with tb’y sacrifices: I have not caused thee to serve with a (meal) offering,nor wearied thee with . incense.
24 Thou hast not bought me sweet cane with silver, neither hast thou steeped me with the fat of thy sacrifices: only thou hast caused me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with a thine iniquities.
25 I, I am he that blotteth out thy rebellions for mine own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.
26 Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: do thou recount, that thou mayest appear righteous.
27 Thy first father sinned, and thine interpreters rebelled ” against me.
28 And I will profane princes of holiness, and will give up Jacob to the ban, and Israel to reproaches.
XLIV. 1 And now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen;
2 Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, that will help thee: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, and (thou) Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and flowing streams upon the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon them that go forth of thee.
4 And they shall spring up in the midst of the grass, as willows by the water courses.
5 This one shall say, I am the ’s; and this shall call on the name of Jacob; and this shall write with his hand, The Lord's and entitle, In the name of Israel.
6 Thus saith the Lord, the King of Israel, and his redeemer, the Lord of Hosts; I am the first, and I, am the last; and beside me there is no God.
7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall tell it, and state it in order for me? since I set up the people of old time? and things which are coming, and things which shall come, let them tell it to them.
8 Shudder not, and fear not: have I not caused thee to hear, from that time, and told it? and ye are my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? and there is no Rock: I know not (any).
9 They that form a graven image are all of them waste; and their desirable things shall not profit; and their witnesses, they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
10 Who hath formed a god, and molten a graven, image, to no profit?
11 Behold, all his company shall be ashamed; and the craftsmen, they are of men; they shall all be gathered together, they shall stand up; they shall fear, they shall be ashamed together.
12 The craftsman in iron (hath) an adze, and worketh in the coals, and formeth it with hammers, with the arm of his strehgth moreover he is hungry, and there is no strength: he drinketh no water, and is faint.
13 The craftsman in wood stretcheth out a line, he marketh it with a pencil; he shapeth it with planes, and marketh it out with the compass; and maketh it like the figure of a man, like the beauty of mankind: to dwell in a house.
14 He will hew him down cedars, and taketh ilex and oak, and strengtheneth for himself (one) among the trees of the forest: he planteth a pine, and the rain maketh it great.
15 And it shall be for man for burning: and he taketh of them, and warmeth himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he fashioneth a god, and boweth himself; he maketh it a grav image, and falleth down thereto.
16 He burneth half thereof in the fire: with half thereof he eateth flesh: he roasteth roast, and is satisfied; yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen fire:
17 And the remainder thereof he maketh to be a god, to be his (graven) image 3 he falleth down unto it, and boweth himself, and prayeth unto it, saith, Deliver me 3 for thou (art) my god.
18 They know not, and they discern not; for one hath daubed their eyes, that they see not, and their hearts, that they consider not.
19 And he recalleth it not to his heart, and there is no knowledge, and no discernment to say, I have burned half of it in the fire, and also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof: I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I bow myself to the produce of a tree?
20 He is a feeder on ashes; a deluded heart hath turned him aside, and he delivereth not his soul, nor saith, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
21 Remember these things, O Jacob; and Israel, for thou art my servant; I have formed thee, thou art my servant: Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.
22 I have blotted out, as a mist, thy rebellions, and as a cloud thy sins; return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
23 Sing, O ye heavens, for the Lord hath done it; shout, ye lowest parts of the earth; break forth, ye mountains, into singing; the forest, and every tree therein; for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and will beautify himself in Israel.
24 Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord, that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth forth the earth: who was with me?
25 That shattereth the signs of the praters, and diviners he will madden; that tumeth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish:
26 That setteth up the word of his servant, and fulfilleth the counsel of his messengers: that saith to Jerusalem, She shall be inhabited, and to the cities of Judah, They shall be built, and I will set up the wastes thereof:
27 That saith to the deep, Be wasted, I will dry up thy rivers:
28 That saith to Cyrus, My shepherd, and all my pleasure shall he fulfil; 3 and saying to Jerusalem, She shall be built, and a temple shall be founded.
XLV. 1 Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, of whose right hand I have taken hold, to bring down nations before him, and I will loose the loins of kings, to loose before his face two-leaved doors, and gates shall not be shut:
2 I will go before thee, and make swelling ground a I will break in pieces doors of brass, and cut in sunder bars of iron:
3 And I will give thee treasures of darkness, and hidden things of secret places, that thou mayest know that I am the Lord, which call thee by thy name, the God of Israel.
4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel's mine elect, therefore I have called thee by thy name: I have named thee honourably, and thou hast not known me.
5 I am the Lord, and there is none else: there is no God. beside me: I have girded thee, and thou hast not known me.
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the setting thereof, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else,
7 That form light, and create darkness, that make peace, and create evil: I am the Lord, that do all these things
8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness; let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let her cause righteousness to spring up together: I the Lord have created it.
9, Ah, he that. striveth with him that formed him ! a potsherd among potsherds of the ground. Shall the clay say to the potter, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands!
10 Ah, he that saith unto a father, What begettest thou? or to a woman, Wherewith travailest thou?
11 Thus saith the Lord, the Holy one of Israel, and he that formed him; Ask me of coming things concerning my sons, and command me concerning the work of my hands.
12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
13 I have roused him up in righteousness, and I will level all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall send forthl my captivity, not for hire, and not for a present, saith the Lord of hosts.
14 Thus saith the Lord, The labour of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall pass over unto thee, and becOme thine; they shall go after thee, in chains shall they pass over, and they shall bow down to thee, they shall pray unto thee: Only in thee is God, and there is none else, no God at all.
15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, Saviour.
16 They are ashamed and also confounded, all of them; the craftsmen of idols are gone into confusion together.
17 Israel is saved in the Lord with everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded to all eternity.
18 For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; (he is God:) that formed the earth, and made it: he set it in order; he created it not a waste, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord, and there is none else.
19 I have not, spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness 3 I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me, (as in) a waste: I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
20 Assemble yourselves, and come; draw near together, ye escaped of the nations; they know not, that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a God that cannot save.
21 Declare ye, and bring near: yea, let them take counsel together; who hath caused this to be heard from of old, hath declared it from that time? Is it not I, the Lord? and there is no God else beside me: a righteous God and a Saviour; there is none except me.
22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth for I am God, and there is none else.
23 I have sworn by myself, a word is gone forth from a mouth of righteousness, and it shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
24 Only in the Lord, saith one, have I righteousness and strength; unto him shall one come, and all that were inflamed against him shall be ashamed.
25 In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be held righteous, and boast themselves.
XLVI. 1 Bel croucheth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols are for beast and cattle; the things ye carried are borne heavily, a burden to the weary.
2 They stoop, they crouch together; they cannot deliver the burden, their soul is gone into captivity.
3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel: which are heavily borne from the womb, which are carried from the bosom:
4 And to old age I am he, and to grey hairs I will support; I have made, and I will carry; and I will support, and will deliver you.
5 To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, and we shall be like?
6 They that pour forth gold from the bag, and weigh silver with the balance; they hire a goldsmith, and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they bow themselves.
7 They lift him upon the shoulder; they support him, they set him in his place, and he standeth; he moveth not from his place; yea, one shall cry unto him, and he shall not answer, he shall not save him from his distress,
8 Remember this, and stand firm; recall it to mind, O ye rebels.
9 Remember the first things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; God, and there is none like me.
10 Declaring the after-things from the beginning, and from of old what is not done; saying, My purpose shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
11 Calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of his counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken, yea, I will bring it to pass: I have purposed it, I will also do it.
12 Hearken unto me, ye stout of heart, that are far from righteousness;
13 I bring near my righteousness: it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry; and I will give in Zion salvation, for Israel my glory.
XLVII. 1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O Virgin daughter of Babylon: sit on the earth, there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldaeans; for thou shaltno more be (one) they call tender and delicate.
2 Take the millstones, and grind meal; take off thy veil, lift up thy train, uncover the leg, pass through rivers.
3 Let thy nakedness be uncovered, yea, let thy shame be seen; I will take vengeance, and I will not meet man.
4 Our redeemer, the LORD of Hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
5 Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldaeans; for thou shalt no more be (one) they call lady of kingdoms.
6 I was wroth with my people, I profaned mine inheritance, and gave them into thy hand; thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the aged thou didst make thy yoke exceeding heavy.
7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: until thou didst not lay these things to thine heart, thou didst not remember the latter end of it.
8 And now hear this, thou given to pleasure, that sittest securely, that sayest in thine heart, I and none else beside: I shall not sit a widow. neither shall I know bereavement.
9 And these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, bereavement, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in full measure, for the multitude of thy ’orceries, for the exceeding number of thy spells.
10 And thou hast been secure in thine evil: thou hast said, There is none that seeth me; thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath turned thee aside; and thou hast said in thine heart, I, and none else beside.
11 And evil shall come upon thee; thou shalt not know the dawning thereof; and ruin shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to avert it: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, (which) thou shalt not know.
12 Stand forth, I pray, with thy spells, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth: peradventure thou wilt be able to profit, peradventure thou wilt strike terror.
13 Thou art wearied with the multitude of thy counsels: let them, I pray thee, stand forth and save thee—they who the heavens, who gaze on the stars, who make known at the new moons—from what shall come upon
14 Behold, they are become as stubble, fire hath burned them; they shall not deliver their soul from the hand of the flame; it is no coal to be warm, fire to sit before.
15 Thus are the things to thee wherein thou hast laboured: thy traffickers from thy youth go astray everyone his own way: there is none that saveth thee.
XLVIII. 1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah; which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, not in truth, and not in righteousness.
2 For they are called of the holy city, and lean upon the God of Israel: the Lord of Hosts is his name.
3 I have declared the first things from that time; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them; I wrought suddenly, and they came to pass.
4 Because I knew that thou art hard, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass:
5 Therefore I have from that time declared it to thee 3 before it came to pass I showed it thee; lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
6 Thou hast heard 3 see it all: and ye, will not ye declare it? I have caused thee to hear new things from now, and things reserved, and thou didst not know them. ‘
7 They are created now, and not from that time 3 and before to-day, and thou heardest them not 3 lest thou shouldest say,- Behold, I knew them.
8 Nay, thou hast not heard 3 nay, thou hast not known 3 nay, from that. time thine ear opened not 3 for I knew that thou gigs; (33:1 very treacherously, and wast‘ called a rebel from the womb.
9 For my name’s sake I defer mine anger, and for my praise do I refrain it for thee, that I cut thee not off.
10 Behold, I have refined thee, and not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
11 For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do (it) 3 for how is it profaned? and I will not give my glory unto another.
12 Hearken unto me, Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he, I am the first, I also am the last.
13 Mine hand also laid the foundation of the earth, and my ’ right hand spread out the heavens; I call unto them, they will stand up together. ·
14 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do lgiausre on Babylon, and his arm (shall be) on the Chaldaeans.
15 I, I, have spoken; yea, I have called him; I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
16 Draw near unto me, hear ye this; not from the beginning have I spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I and now the Lord God, and his spirit, hath sent me.
17 Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord thy God, which teacheth thee to profit. which leadeth thee by the way thou shouldest walk.
18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! and ’ thy peace had been as the river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the seal
19 And thy seed had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains thereof: his name should not be cut off nor destroyed before me.
20 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldaeans; with a voice of singing declare ye, make this heard, send it forth to the end of the earth; say ye, The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.
21. And they thirsted not in the deserts (where) he made them go; he caused the waters to flow out Of the rock for them; and he clave the rock, and the waters gushed out.
22 There is no peace, saith the Lord, to the wicked.
XLIX. 1 Hearken, ye isles, to me, and listen, ye peoples, from afar; the Lord hath called me from the. womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
2 And he made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand he hid me; and set me for a polished arrow; in his quiver be concealed me,
3 And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will glorify myself.
4 And I said, I have laboured in vain, for waste and vanity have I consumed my strength; surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my recompense with my God.
5 And now, saith the Lord, that formed me from the womb for a servant to him, to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be not swept away—and I shall be honoured in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my—
6 And he said, It is too light a thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel; and I will give thee for a light of the nations, that my salvation may be to the end of the earth.
7 Thus saith the Lord, the redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to the despised of soul, to the abhorred of a nation, to a servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall bow themselves; for the sake of the LORD, that is faithful; the Holy One of Israel, and he hath chosen thee.
8 Thus saith the Lord, In a time of favour have I answered thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee; and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to allot the desolate allotments,
9 Saying tothe captives, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights is their feeding place.
10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; and the burning sand and sun shall not smite them; for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, and by springs of water shall he guide them.
11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
12 Behold, these shall come from afar; and behold, these from the north and from the sea; and these from the land of Sinim.
13 Sing, O heavens, and rejoice, O earth; and break forth into, singing, ye mountains; for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
14 And Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me.
15 Will a woman forget her suckling, not to have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, these may forget, and I will not forget thee.
16 Behold, upon both palms have I engraved thee; thy walls are continually before me.
17 Thy sons make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see; they all are gathered together, they come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all as with an ornament, and gird them on (thee) like a bride.
19 For (as for) thy ruins and thy waste places, and the land of thy destruction, surely now shalt thou be too strait for the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
29 The sons of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me, and I will dwell.
21 And thou shalt say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, and I was bereaved and barren, an exile, and outcast? and who hath nourished up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?
22 Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up my hand toward the nations, and set up my standard to the peoples; and they shall bring thy sons in the bosom, and thy daughters shall be carried on the shoulder,
23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their princesses thy nursing mothers: they shall bow themselves to thee face to the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord, on whom they that wait shall not be ashamed.
24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the captive of the righteous delivered?
25 For thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered, and I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.
26 And I will make them that oppress thee to eat their own flesh, and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with new wine; and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy saviour and thy redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
L. 1 Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your rebellions was your mother put away.
2 Why came I, and there was no man? Whycalled I, and. there was none that answered? Is my hand utterly too shortened to redeem? and is there no power in me to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I will dry up the sea, I will make rivers a wilderness; their fish stink for want of water, and die with thirst.
3 I will clothe the heavens in blackness, and make sackcloth their covering.
4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of disciples, that I should know how to sustain the weary with a word ; he wakeneth every morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as disciples.
5 The Lord GOD hath opened me an ear, and I resisted not,.I drew not back.
6 I gave my back to smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked 96 the hair; I hid not my face from ignominies and spitting. θ .
7 And the Lord GOD will help ‘me; therefore I am not confounded ; therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
8 Near is he that justifieth me: who will contend with me? let us stand forth together ; who is the master of my judgment? let him come near to me.
9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? 10, they all shall wear out like a garment; the moth shall eat them.
10 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that hearkeneth‘ to the voice of his servant? He that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Loan, and lean ἶ upon his God.
11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that gird yourselves with firebrands; walk amid the light of your fire, and amid the brands that ye have kindled. From my hand is this for you; ye shall lie down in pain.
LI. 1 Hearken to me, ye that pursue righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you; for I called him, being one, and blessed him, and increased him.
3 For the Lord hath comforted Zion; he hath comforted all her waste places; and he hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of song.
4 Listen unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation; for a law shall go forth from me, and I will settle my judgment for a light of the peoples.
5 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall, judge the peoples; the isles shall wait for me, and on mine arm shall they trust.
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wear out like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die as in like manner; but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be dismayed.
7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, ’a people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of (weak) men, and be ye not dismayed at their revilings.
8 For the moth shall eat them like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake as in the ancient days, the generations of old. Art thou not it that hewed Rahab in pieces, that pierced the dragon?
10 Art thou not it that dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
11 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with song, and everlasting joy upon their head; they shall attain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing are fled away.
12 I, I, (am) he that Comforteth you; who artthou, that thou fearest (weak) man that shall die, and the son of man that shall be made as grass;
13 And hast forgotten the Lord thy maker, that stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? and hast trembled continually all the day before the fury of the oppressor, as he made ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor ?
14 He that is bowed down hasteneth to be loosed, and shall not die in the pit, nor shall his bread fail.
15 And Ipam the Lord thy God, that stirreth up the sea, and its waves roared; the Lord of Hosts is his name.
16 put my words in thy mouth, and with the shadow of my hand have. I covered thee, to plant the heavens, and to lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.
17 Wake, wake thee up, arise, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the bowl of the cup of bewilderment, thou hast drained it out.
18 There is no guide for her among all the sons that she hath brought forth, neither is there any, that taketh hold of her hand of all the sons that she bought up.
19 These two things are come upon thee: who will mourn with thee? wasting and destruction, and the famine and the sword: how shall I comfort thee?
20 Thy sons have fainted: they lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net; they that are filled with the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, and not with wine:
22 Thus saith thy Lord, the Lord, and thy God, that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I take out of thine hand the cup of bewilderment, the bowl of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
23 And I will putit into the hand of thy tormentors; which said to thy soul, Bow down, and we will pass over; and thou didst set thy back as the earth, and as the street, to them that passed over.
LII. 1 Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion! Put on thy garments of beauty, O Jerusalem, holy city: for there shall no more come into thee again the uncircumcised and the unclean.
2 Shake thyself from the dust: arise, sit, Jerusalem! the bands of thy neck are loosed, O Captive daughter of Zion‘. ’
3 For thus saith the LORD, .Ye were sold for nought; and not with silver shall ye be redeemed.
4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down into Egypt at the first to sojourn there; and Asshur oppressed them without cause.
5 And now, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my peopl is taken away for nought? they that rule over him howl, saith the LORD ; and my name continually all the day is despised.
6 I‘herefore my people shall know my name; therefore (they shall know) in that day that I am he that doth speak: Here am L
7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth glad tidings, that causeth peace to be heard ; that bringeth glad tidings of good, that causeth salvation to be heard; that saith unto Zion, Thy God doth reign
8 The voice of thy watchmen! they lifl: up the voice, they - sing together; for they shall see eye to eye, at the LoitD’s return to Zion. ·
9 Break forth, sing together, y’e wastes of .Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of. ’ all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye. out from thence, touch not. what is unclean; goye out of the midst of her; purify your- - selves, ye that bear the vessels of the LORD.
12 For ye shall not go out in haste, nor go in flight: for the Lord goeth before you, and the God of Israel is your rereward.
13 Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be high, and lifted up, and exalted exceedingly.
14 Like as many were appalled at thee; his sightliness was so marred from (that of) a man, and his form from (that of) the sons of men: ’
15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; kingsshall shut their mouths because of him; for that which was not recounted to them shall they see, and that which they heard not shall they discern.
LIII. 1 Who hath believed our message? and the arm of the Lord, to whom was it revealed?
2 And he grew up before him as a sapling, and as a root out of a dry ground: he had no form nor majesty; and we saw him, and there was no sightliness, that we should desire him.
3 Despised and avoided of men; a man of pains, and one that knew sickness; and as one from whom faces are hid despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he bore- our sicknesses; and our pains, he supported them; and we, (on our part,) did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 And he was pierced for our rebellions, bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and in his stripes was there healing for us.
6 All we like sheep did go astray; we turned every one to his own way; and the lord made to fall upon him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he humbled himself, and opened not his mouth; as a lamb (that) is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep (that) is dumb before her shearers; and he opened not his mouth.
8 From restraint and from judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considereth, that he was cut off out of the land of the living? for the rebellion of my people was he stricken.
9 And one appointed his grave with wicked men, and with a rich man in his death; because he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10 And the LORD was pleased to bruise him; he laid sickness on him; if his soul should make a guilt-offering, he should see a seed, he should prolong days, and the pleasure of the Lord should prosper in his hand.
11 Out of the travail of his. soul he shall see, he shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant make many righteous; for he will bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I give him part among the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death; and he was numbered with the rebellious; and himself bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the rebellious.
LIV. 1 Sing, Ο barren, that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail; for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.
2 Widen the place of. thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitation; withhold not; lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes:
3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; ’thy seed shall possess nations, and make desolate. nations to be inhabited.
4 Fear not, for thou shalt not be ashamed; and be not confounded, for thou shalt not blush; for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
5 For thy husband is thy Maker; the LORD of Hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel: the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
6 For the LORD hath called thee as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when she is rejected, saith ᾖ thy God.
7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great - mercies I gather thee.
8 In a gush of wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; and with everlasting lovingkindness will I have mercy on thee; saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
9 For this is the waters of Noah unto me; as I have sworn i that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I will not be wrbth with thee, nor re? buke thee
10 For the mountains shall remove, and the hills totter; yet my lovingkindness shall not remove from thee, nor my covenant of peace totter, saith he that hath mercy on thee, the Lord.
11 Ο thou afficted, tossed with tempest, not comforted ; behold I lay thy stones in antimony, and thy foundations with sapphires.
12 And I will make thy battlements rubies, and thy gates. to be fiery stones, and all thy border stones of pleasure.
13 And all thy sons shall be disciples of the LORD, andgreat shallbe the peace of thy sons.
14 In righteousness shalt thou be established; be thou far from oppression, for thou shalt not fear, and from destruction, for it shall not come near thee.
15 Behold, they surely gather together; it is not of me; who gathereth against thee? he shall fall because of thee.
16 Behold, I have created the craftsman, that bloweth on the fire of coals, and that bringeth forth a weapon for its work; and Ι have created the waster to destroy.
17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue (that) shall rise up against thee in judgment thou shalt convict. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness from me, saith the Lord.
LV. 1 Ah, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no silver; come ye, buy and eat: and come, buy wine and milk, for no silver and for no price.
2 Wherefore do ye weigh silver for no bread, and your earnings for that which is not to satisfy? hearken, (only) hearken unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you; the faithful lovingkindnesses of David.
4 Behold, I have given him for a witness of peoples, a chief and commander of peoples.
5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and a nationthat knoweth not thee shall run unto thee; for the sake of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.
6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of iniquity his thoughts; and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
9 “For (as) the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, unless it have watered the earth, and made it bringtforth and sprout, and given seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth; it shall not return unto me void, unless it have accomplished that which I please, and made to prosper thatfor which I sent it.
12 For ye shall go forth with joy, and be led in peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you [into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap the hand.
13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree; and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
LVI. 1 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and. do righteousness 3 for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
2 Happy is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that boldeth fast by it; that keepeth the sabbath, not to profane it, and keepeth his hand, not to do any evil.
3 And let not the alien, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD will surely separate me from his people; and let not the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
4 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast by my covenant:
5 I Will even give unto them in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give him an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
6 And the aliens, that have joined themselves to the LORD, to minister unto him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath, not to profane it, and boldeth fast by my covenant :
7 Them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices (shall be) acceptable upon mine altar; for mine house ’ shall be called a house of prayer for all the peoples.
8 Saith the Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel, Yet I gather (more) unto him, to his gathered ones.
9 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour; all beasts of the forest.
10 His watchmen are blind, they know not, all of them; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
11 And the dogs are strong of soul, they know not satiety; and they, the shepherds, know not how to discern; they are all turned to their own. way, every one to his gain, from the furthest end of it.
12 Come ye, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to-morrow shall be as this day, very exceeding great.
LVII. 1 The. righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and men of lovingkindness are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the face of the evil.
2 He entereth into peace; they rest on their beds, whoso walketh straight forward.
3 And ye, draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, seed of an adulterer and a whore.
4 At whom do ye make sport? at whom widen ye the mouth, and lengthen the tongue? Are ye not children of rebellion, a seed of falsehood?
5 Inflaming yourselves among the terebinths; under every green tree; slaying the children in the torrent-valleys under the clefts of the rocks.
6 Among the smooth (stones) of the torrent-valley is thy portion; they, they are thy lot; even to them hast thou poured out a drink-offering, thou hast offered a meat-offering. Shall I relent for these things?
7 Upon a mountain exalted and lifted up hast thou set thy bed; even there hast thou gone up to offer sacrifice.
8 And behind the door and the post hast thou set thy memorial; for away from me hast thou uncovered, and gone up, hast enlarged thy bed, and gotten thee a covenant from them; thou hast loved their bed, hast looked on a hand.
9 And thou hast travelled to the king with oil, and hast multiplied thy perfumes, and hast sent thine envoys far off, and hast brought (thyself )1 down, even to hell.
10 Thou hast wearied thyself with the abundance of thy travel; thou saidst not, It is hopeless; thou hast found revival of thy strength; therefore thou wast not faint.
11 And of whom hast thou been afraid, and feared, that thou shouldest lie, and hast not remembered me, hast not laid it to thine heart? Have I not held my peace, and that from of old, and thou fearest not me?
12 I will declare thy righteousness; and thy works, and they shall not profit thee.
13 When thou criest, let thy gatherings deliver thee; and a wind shall lift them all up, a breath shall take them away; and he that trusteth in me shall inherit the land, and shall. possess my holy mountain:
14 And (one) saith, Cast up, cast up, clear a. way; take up the stumbling block out of the way of my people.
15 For thus saith he. that is high and lifted up, that dwelleth for ever, and. holy 15 ms name ; I dwell in the high andholy place, and with him that is crushed and humble of spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the crushed ones.
16 For I will not contend forever, and not always I be, wroth; for the spirit would fail from before me, and the souls which I have made.
17 For the iniquity of his gain was I wroth, and smote him I hid myself and was ’wroth, and he wenton perversely in the way of his heart.
18 I have seen his ways, and I will heal him; and I will lead him, and requite with comfort him and his mourners;
19 Creating fruit of the lips, Peace, peace, to the far off and the near, saith the LORD, and I will heal him.
20 And the wicked are like the stirred up sea; for it cannot. rest, and its waters stir up mire and
21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
LVIII. 1 Cry with the throat, withhold not, raise thy voice like a trumpet, and tell my people their rebellion, and the house of Jacob their sins. ’
2 And (yet) they inquire of me day by day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my, ways; as a nation that hath done righteousness, and not forsaken the judgment of its God; they ask of me the judgments of righteousness; they take pleasure in drawing near to God.
3 Wherefore have we fasted, and thou seest not? afflited our soul, and thou knowest not? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your tasks.
4 Behold, ye fast for contention and quarrel, and to smite with the fist of wickedness; ye shall not fast as to-day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
5 Shall such be the fast I will choose? a day of man's afflicting his soul? is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and spread out sackcloth and ashes (as a bed)? Wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the-LORD?
6 Is not this the fast that I will choose? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and that ye should break every yoke?
7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring afflicted outcasts home? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him, and hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
8 Then shall thy light break forth as the dawn, and thy healing shall spring up speedily; and thy righteousness shall go before thee, the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou remove from the midst of thee the yoke, the pointing of the finger, and speaking iniquity:
10 And furnish thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul ; then shall thy light arise in the darkness, and thy gloom be as the noonday:
11 And the LORD shall lead thee perpetually, and satisfy thy soul in dry places, and make strong thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, ahd like a spring of water whose waters fail not.
12 And they that are of thee shall build up ruins of old time: thou shalt raise up the foundations of generation upon generation; and thou shalt be called Repairer of the breach, Restorer of paths to dwell in.
13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, as to doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy (day) of the LORD honourable; and honour it, not doing thine own ways, not finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking words:
14 Then shalt thou have thy delight in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the heights of the earth, and to eat the heritage of Jacob thy father; for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
LIX. 1 Behold, the ’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save ; neither his ear grown heavy, that it cannot hear:
2 But your iniquities have been separating between you and your God, and your sins have hidden the Face from you, that he hear not.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken falsehood, your tongue will mutter wickedness.
4 There is none that sueth in righteousness, and none that pleadeth in truth; they trust in emptiness, and speak vanity; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch ’s eggs, and weave spider's webs; he that eateth of their eggs shall die, and that which is crushed, it hatcheth out into an adder.
6 Their webs shall not serve for a garment, neither shall they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of iniquity, and the practice of violence is in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, wasting and destruction are in their highways.
8 The way of peace they know not, and there is no judgment in their tracks; they have made them their paths crooked; whosoever goeth therein knoweth not peace.
9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us; we wait for light, and behold darkness; for brightness,—we walk in
10 We grope along the wall like blind men, and we grope as men without eyes; we have stumbled at noonday as in the dusk; among the vigorous as the dead.
11 We all groan like bears, and moan piteously like doves; we wait for judgment, and there is none; for salvation, it is far off from us.
12 For our rebellions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our rebellions are with us, and our iniquities, we know them:
13 Rebelling and denying the LORD, and drawing back from following our God: speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14 And judgment is driven backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth hath stumbled in the broad place, and uprightness cannot enter.
15 And truth is (found) missing, and he that removeth from evil maketh himself a prey; and the LORD saw it, and it was evil in his eyes that there was no judgment.
16 And he saw that there was no man, and was amazed that there was none that interposed; therefore his own arm wrought salvation for him, and his righteousness, it upheld him.
17 And he put on righteousness as a coat of mail, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped himself in jealousy as a cloke.
18 According to their deeds, accordingly will he requite, fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the isles he will requite recompense.
19 And they shall fear the name of the LORD from the setting, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he shall come as a pent-up stream, which the breath of the LORD driveth.
20 And a redeemer shall come to Zion, and to them that turn from rebellion in Jacob, saith the LORD.
21 And as for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; my Spirit that is upon thee, and my words that I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
LX. 1 Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD hath risen upon thee.
2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep gloom the peoples; but the LORD shall rise upon thee, and his glory shall appear upon thee.
3 And nations shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see; they are all gathered, they come to thee; thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be carried on the side.
5 Then thou shalt see, and be bright, and thy heart shall throb, and be enlarged; for the abundance of the sea shall turn unto thee, the wealth of nations shall come to thee.
6 A stream of camels shall cover thee, young camels of Midian and Ephah; all of them shall come from Sheba, they shall bear gold and incense, and they shall tell tidings of the praises of the LORD.
7 All the flocks of Kedar shall gather together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee; they shall go up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will beautify the house of my beauty.
8 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as doves to their lattices?
9 Surely the isles are waiting for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel; for he hath beautified thee.
10 And aliens shall build thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee; for in my wrath I smote thee, and in my favour have I had mercy upon thee.
11 And thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut, day and night; to bring unto thee the wealth of nations, and their kings led along;
12 For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; and the nations shall be utterly wasted.
13 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the plane tree and the larch together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet honourable.
14 And the sons of them that afflicted thee shall go unto thee, bowing down; and all they that scorned thee shall bow themselves to the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
15 Instead of thy being forsaken and hated, and none passing through thee; I will set thee for an everlasting pride, a gladness of generation upon generation.
16 And thou shalt suck the milk of nations, and shalt suck the breast of kings; and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob.
17 Instead of brass I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver, and instead of wood brass, and instead of stones iron; and I will make thy government peace, and thine overseers righteousness.
18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction in thy borders; and thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
19 The sun shall no more be thy light by day; and as for shining, the moon shall not give light to thee; and the LORD shall be to thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy beauty.
20 Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself; for the LORD shall be to thee an everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be fulfilled
21 And thy people shall be all of them righteous; they shall possess the land for ever; the shoot of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may beautify myself.
22 The smallest shall become a thousand, and the least a strong nation; I the LORD will hasten it in its time.
LXI. 1 The spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to bring glad tidings unto the afflicted; hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to captives, and opening of eyes to the bound:
2 To proclaim a year of acceptance for the LORD, and a day of vengeance for our God; to comfort all mourners
3 To appoint for the mourners of Zion, to give unto them. a garland instead of ashes, the Oil of gladness instead Of mourning, a garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; and they shall be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may beautify himself.
4 And they shall build up ruins of old time; they shall raise up desolations of the first days; and they shall restore ruined cities, desolations of generation upon generation.
5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and aliens shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
6 And ye shall be called the Priests of the LORD; men shall say of you, The Ministers of our God; ye shall eat the wealth of nations, and in their glory shall ye boast.
7 Instead of your shame, (ye shall have) twofold; and as for confusion, they shall sing of their portion; therefore in their land they shall possess twofold; everlasting joy shall be unto them
8 For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery with injustice; and I will give them their earnings with truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
9 And their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are a seed which the LORD hath blessed.
10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall exult in my God; for he hath put on me garments of salvation, he hath wrapped me in a cloke of righteousness, as a bridegroom putteth on priestly garland, and as a bride doth don her jewels.
11 For as the earth which putteth forth her sprout, and as a garden which causeth its plants to sprout, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to sprout forth before all the nations.
LXII. 1 For Zion's sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as a shining, and her salvation as a torch that burneth.
2 And nations shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory; and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall pronounce.
3 And thou shalt be a crown of beauty in the hand of the LORD, and a diadem of kingship in the open hand of thy God.
4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land be any more termed Desolation; for thou shalt be called My delight in her, and thy land Married: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
5 For (as) a young man marrieth a virgin, thy sons shall marry thee; and with the rejoicing of a bridegroom over a bride, thy God shall rejoice over thee.
6 Ι have set watchmen upon thy walls, Jerusalem; all the day and all the night continually they shall not hold their peace. Ye remembrancers of the LORD, no rest for you,
7 And give no rest to him, until he establish, and until he set Jerusalem (as) a praise in the earth.
8 The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn (as) food to thine enemies; and aliens shall not drink thy new wine, at which thou hast laboured
9 For they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have stored it shall drink it in my holy courts.
10 Pass through, pass through at the gates; clear ye the people's way; cast up, cast up the highway; clear it of stones; lift up a banner over the peoples.
11 Behold, the LORD hath caused it to be heard unto the end of the earth, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his hire is with him, and his recompence before him.
12 And they shall call them The holy people, the redeemed of the LORD; and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
LXIII. 1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with bright red garments from Bozrah? this, that is glorious in his raiment, swaying in the mightiness of his strength? I, that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
2 Wherefore is there red upon thy raiment, and thy garments like one that treadeth in a winepress?
3 Ι have trodden the wine trough alone, and of the peoples there was not a man with me; and I trode them in mine anger, and trampled them in my fury; and their life blood was sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my raiment.
4 For a day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed ones is come.
5 And I looked, and there was none that helped; and I was amazed, and there was none that supported; and mine own arm wrought salvation for me, and my fury, it supported me.
6 Ahd I trampled the people in mine anger, and made them drunk in my fury, and brought down their life blood to the earth.
7 I will recall the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath recompensed to us, and the abundance of good toward the house of Israel which he hath recompensed to them, according to his mercies, and according to the abundance of his lovingkindnesses.
8 And he said, Only they are my people, sons that will not deal falsely; and he became their Saviour.
9 In all their distress he was distressed, and the angel of his Face saved them; in his love and in his forbearance he re deemed them; and be lifted them up, and carried them all the days of old.
10 And they rebelled and grieved his holy Spirit; and he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.
11 And he remembered the days of old, Moses, his people; Where is he that brought them up out of the sea, with the shepherd of his flock? Where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?
12 That caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses, dividing the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
13 That caused them to go through the deeps, like a horse in the wilderness, without stumbling?
14 As a beast goeth down ’the valley, the Spirit of the LORD brought him to rest; so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a name of beauty.
15 Look from heaven, and see from the habitation of thy holiness and thy beauty: where is thy jealousy, and thy mighty acts? the sounding of thy bowels and thy mercies are restrained towards me.
16 For thou art our father; for Abraham knoweth us not, Israel doth not recognize us: thy name is Our Redeemer from of old.
17 Why dost thou make us stray, O LORD, from thy ways, and harden our heart from fearing thee? Return, for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
18 Thy holy people have possessed for a little while; our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
19 We are become as they over whom thou never barest rule, upon whom thy name was not called.
LXIV. 1 O that thou hadst rent the heavens, that thou hadst come down, that the mountains had quaked at thy Presence!
2 As when kindleth brushwood, (as) fire maketh water boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, (that) nations should tremble at thy presence,
3 While thou didst terrible things (which) we hoped not for; that thou hadst come down, the mountains had quaked at thy presence!
4 And from old they have not heard, have not perceived by the ear, eye hath not seen a God beside thee, who will work for him that waiteth for him.
5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness in thy ways they will remember thee; behold, thou wast wroth, and we sinned; in them (have we been) long time, and shall we be saved?
6 And we are all become as one unclean, and all our righteousnesses as a polluted garment; and we are all withered as the leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, will take us away.
7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that rouseth himself to hold fast by thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and melted us by the hand of our iniquities.
8 And now, LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
9 Be not wroth, O LORD, to the uttermost, and remember not iniquity for ever; behold, look, we beseech thee, we are all of us thy people.
10 Thy holy cities are become wilderness, Zion is become a wildemess, Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our house of holiness and beauty, (in) which our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire, and all our desirable things are laid waste.
12 Wilt thou, for all this, refrain thyself, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and affict us to the uttermost ?
LXV. 1 I was to be inquired of by them that asked not, have let myself be found by them that sought me not; I said, Here am I, Here am I, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a refractory people, which walk in a way which is not good, after their own thoughts.
3 The people that irritate me continually to my face; which sacrifice in the gardens, and burn incense upon the bricks:
4 Which sit in the graves, and lodge in guarded places, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominations is in their vessels:
5 Which say, Keep to thyself, come not near to me; for I am holy to thee. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not hold my peace, unless I requite, and I will requite into their bosom,
7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD; which burned incense on the mountains, and reproached me upon the hills: and I will measure their recompense first into their bosom.
8 Thus saith the LORD, As when the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it; so will I do for my servants’ sake, not to destroy the whole.
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah a possessor of my mountains; and my chosen ones shall possess it, and my servants shall (go to) dwell there.
10 And Sharon shall become a home for flocks, and the valley of Achor a resting place for oxen, for my people that have inquired of me.
11 And as for you, that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that set in order a table for Fortune, that fill up a mingled draught for Destiny:
12 I will (even) destine you for the sword, and ye shall all crouch down to the slaughter; because I called, and ye did not answer; I spake, and ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I took not pleasure.
13 Therefore, thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, and ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, and ye shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, and ye shall be ashamed:
14 Behold, my servants shall sing for happiness of heart, and ye shall cry out for pain of heart, and shall howl for breaking of spirit.
15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen and the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name;
16 So that he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself by the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the first distresses are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.
17 For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the first things shall not be remembered, nor come up into the heart.
18 But rejoice ye and exult for ever at that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem an exultation, and her people a joy.
19 And I Will exult in Jerusalem, and rejoice in my people, and the voice of weeping shall no more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying out.
20 There shall be no more from thence an infant of days, or an old man, that shall not fulfil his days: for the youth a hundred years old shall die, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed
21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat; for as the days of the tree are the days of my people, and my chosen shall wear out the works of their hands.
23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for terror; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring (shall be) with them.
24 And it shall be, before they shall call, I will answer; still shall they be speaking, and I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb shall graze together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and (as. for) the serpent, dust his food. They shall not do evil nor deal corruptly in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
LXVI. 1 Thus saith the LORD, The heavens are my throne, and the earth the footstool of my feet; where is this house ye will build unto me? and where is this place of my rest?
2 And all these things hath my hand made, and all these things came to be, saith the LORD; and to this one will I look, to him who is afflicted and contrite in spirit, and trembleth at my word.
3 He that slaughtereth the ox, slayeth a man; he that sacrificeth the sheep, breaketh a ’s neck; he that offereth a meal offering, sweene's blood: he that maketh a memorial of incense, blesseth iniquity. Also they have chosen their own ways, and their soul taketh pleasure in their abominations.
4 Also I will choose their mockeries, and will bring their fears upon them; because I called, and there was none that answered; I spake, and there was none that heard; and they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I took not pleasure.
5 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; your brethren say, that hate you, that drive you away for my name's sake, Let the LORD show himself glorious, and we shall see your joy; and they shall be ashamed.
6 A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD rendering retribution to his enemies.
7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before pain came to her, she was delivered of a man child.
8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall a land be travailed with in one day? shall a nation be born at once? for Zion travailed, she also brought forth her sons.
9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD; shall I, that cause to bring forth, shut up (the womb)? saith thy God.
10 Be ye glad with Jerusalem, and exult in her, all ye that love her: rejoice with her, all that mourn with her.
11 That ye may suck, and be satisfied from the breast of her consolations: that ye may milk out, and delight yourselves from the fulness of her glory.
12 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I extend to her peace like a river, and the glory of nations like an flowing stream: and ye shall suck; ye shall be borne upon the side, be fondled upon the knees.
13 As a man whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you: and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
14 And ye shall see this, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall shoot up like the young grass; and the hand of the LORD shall make itself known toward his servants, and he shall be indignant toward his enemies.
15 For behold, the LORD shall come in fire, and his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For with fire will the LORD enter into judgment, and with his sword with all flesh; and the smitten of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that hallow themselves, and purify themselves for the gardens behind one in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall come to an end together, saith the LORD.
18 And I . . . . . . their works and their thoughts: it cometh, to gather all nations and tongues: and they shall come, and see my glory.
19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send the escaped of them unto the nations, Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, Tubal and Javan, the isles afar off, that have not heard my message, neither have seen my glory; and they shall tell my glory among the nations.
20 And they shall bring all your brethren out of all nations, a (meal) offering unto the LORD, upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring the (meal) offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.
21 And also of them will I take for the priests, for the Levites, saith the LORD.
22 For as the. new heavens and the new earth, which I make, stand before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name stand.
23 And it shall be, from new moon to new moon, and from sabbath to sabbath, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have rebelled against me: for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched; and they shall be a horror unto all flesh.
ℵ (Codex Sinaiticus), 9, 10 ff., 17 ff., 47, 56
A (Codex Alexandrinus), 9, 10 ff., 14 ff., 18 ff., 47, 55 ff.
Abraham, 174, 224, 268, 314
Achor, 318
Adrammelech. 210
Africa, 17
Ahaz. 60, 84—89, 120
Aiath (Ai), 104, 107
Alexander the Great, 35
Alexander, Prof. J. A., 184, 252, 273
Alexandria, 1 f., 17, 35
‘Alexandrian’ text of N.T., 16f.
‘aliens,’ 66, 286, 308
Ammon, 108
Amorites, 129
Amoz, 60, 66, 110, 136, 204, 208- 211
Anathoth, 106
Aorist, 42 ff.
Aquila, 4 f., 9, 23 ff., 37 f., 39, 49, 51, 37, 61, 69, 83, 97, 99, 119, 171, 195, 201, 249, 265, 271, 287, 291, 299, 309, 319
Ar of Moab, 120
Arabia, Arabians, 103, 114, 123, 140
Aram, see Syria
Ararat, 210
Ariel, 123, 170
- Aristarchus, 5
Aristeas, letter of, 1 f.
Armenia, 211
Arnon, 124
Amer, 126
Arpad, 102, 206
Asaph. 200—203
Asedek, 135
Ashdod, 136
Asherim, 128, 162
Asshur, Assyria, Assyrians, 88—93, 100—105, 108—110, 136—139, 148, 164, 182—185, 198—213, 274
Atbash, 49
Augustine, 33, 87, 89, 279
Azotus, see Ashdod
ἀπάρχῃς (?) 30
ἀπατηθήσῃ, 23, 32 (183)
ἀπειθεῖ, 89
ἀπηλειμμένων, 79
ἀποσυρεῖς ιεῖς), 27, 32, 179
ἄρωμεν. 71
ἁσεδέκ, 31, 49, 135
ἀχθῇς, 30
Β (Codex Vaticanus), 9 ff., 13, 15, 18 ff., 47, 55 ff
Babel, Babylon, 103, 109, 110, 114- 119, 140,—217, 234, 252, 256- 259
Barnabas, 259 Epistle of, 10, 17, 71
Barnes, Albert, 184
Barnes, Prof. W. E., 104, 134, 184 192
Bashan, 68, 190
Beer-elim, 122
Bel, 248
Berechiah, 91
Beulah, 308
bittern, 118, 196
Bozrah, 194, 310
Burkitt, C., 1, 4 f., 7, 8 ff., 13, 16 f., 19, 26 f., 29, 31, 33, 134, 173, 163, 295
βρῶμα, 71
Calno, 100
Canun, 134, 148
Carchemish, 100
Carmel, 171, 189, 100, 196
Carthage. 17, 147, 140
Cases In Hebrew, 38 ff.
Ceriani, A., 6, 14 f., 31, 147
Chzldneans, 114, 148. 234, 252, 256— 259
Chevne. Prof. T. K., 79, 86, 128 158, 170. 184, 272, 316
Chittim, 148
Clement ofAleundrin. 10. 17. 25 71
Clement of Rome 10. 33, 63, 279
Codex Alexandrinu. 9, 10 ff., 14 ff., 18 ff., 47, 55 ff.
— Marchalianus, 10 ff., 14 f., 18 ff. 46 f. 57
— Sinaiticus, 9, 10 ff., 17 ff., 47, 56
— Vaticanus, 9 ff., 13, 15, 18 ff. 47, 55 ff.
—— Venetus, 15, 57
Conditional Sentences. 44 f.
Comm. C. H., 3, 6, 14 f.
Cursive MSS. of LXX., 14, 57 f.
Cush. see Ethiopia
Cvprian. 3. 12, 13, 17. 37 ff., 33, 34, 81, 87. 237, 240, 251. 279, 295, 311, 317
Cyrene, 2
Cyrus: 242, 244
Dagon, 249
Damascus, 86, 91, 126
Daniel. Book of. 4, 9
David, 98, 124. 147, 170. 210, 212, 284: city of, 141; house of, 84, 88, 146
Davidson. Prof. A. B., 41
Dedanim. 140
destruction. city of. 134
Dibon, 122
Differences between LXX. and Hebrew. 45 ff.: special instances of, 69, 71, 79, 87, 89, 93, 97, 103, 113, 123, 120, 141, 165, 167, 183, 215, 219, 229, 235, 273, 289, 325
Dimon. 122
Driver. Prof. S. R., 41, 49. 184
Dumah. 149
Duplicate renderings, 24, 25. 28. 31, 35, 71, 97 (147), 193, 295
δέ. 38 (Errata)
δεηθήσονται. 335
διαζόμενοι, 30 135
Ecclesiastes, Book of, 9
Ecclesiasticus, Book of 2
Eden. 206
Eden Garden of, 268
Editions of LXX., 55 ff.
Edom. 108. 141, 194. 310
Eglaim. 122
Egypt, Egyptians, 1, 6, 17, 88, 104, 108—111, 132—139, 146, 164, 174— 177, 182, 200, 232, 246, 274
Elam, Elamites, 108, 138, 142
Elealeh, 122, 124
Eliakim. 144, 200—205
Ephah, 302
ephah, 78
Ephraim. 86 88. 98. 100. 126. 164
Esarhaddon 210
Ethiopia, 130. 294. 232. 246 (Errata)
Ensebius 6
ἐλάλησεν, 123
ἐλπίς, 50
ἐξουσιαστής, 25
‘Face’ (of God), 296, 312
Field. Dr F., 3, 14, 16, 23. 27, 29, 30, 31, 57 f., 95. 135. 147, 235
Galilee, 96, 191
Gallim. 106
Geba, 106
Gebim, 106
Gebir(?), 107
Gibeah (of Saul), Gibeon. 106
Gomorrah, see Sodom
Good win. Prof. W. W., 37, 44
Gozan. 206
Graecus Venetus,’ 5
Greece. Greeks, 99, 327
Hades, 79
Hanes, 176
Haran, 206 Hatch. Dr E., 8, 18, 33, 89
‘Hebraisms,’ 38, 44. 77
Hebrew eccents. 7; questions involving, 62, 220, 288, 300, 324
Hebrew forms, unusual, 28, 86, 88, 132, 178, 226
Hebrew margin, 96, 106, 182, 242, 260, 274, 304, 312, 326
Hebrew tenses, 41 RI, 82, 230, 236, 278, 310
Hebrewstext, 86, 96, 106, 124, 162, 190, 242, 274, 304, 312, 326; proposed emendations of, 92, 128, 134, 152, 188, 200, 212, 214, 264, 266, 290, 314, 316, 326; various read ings, 102, 162, 178, 256, 262, 280, 288, 292, 300, 306, 312. See Massoretic Text
Hebrew vowel-points, 7, 42, 43; renderings involving change of, 86, 122, 124, 154, 162, 166, 170, 190, 218, 236, 280, 286, 06, 310
‘hell,—119,—169, 214. See Hades, Sheol
‘Hellenistic’ Greek, 2, 35
Hena, 206
Hephzibah, 308
Herodotus, 44, 133
Heshbon, 122, 124
Hesychius, 6f., 17; ‘Hesychian’ MSS., 6 f., 14 ff., 25, 57
Hexapla, 3, 5 f., 27, 29, 46, 56, 95; Hexaplaric additions, 15, 17, 20ff., 23 ff., 46 ff., 57, 61, 85, 101 (147), 151, 173, 207, 231, 263, 289, 309, 311; Hexaplaric MSS., 6, 14 f., 57
Hezekiah, 60, 198—217
Hilkiah, 144, 200—203
Hivites, 129
Holmes, R., and Parsons, J., 9, 16, 26, 56 f.
Homer, Homeric studies, 5, 38, 81
Horonaim, 122
Hort, Prof. F. J. A., 10, 13, 16 f., 34, 311
‘Hosts, Lord ’ 62—72, 76—83, 92— 95, 98—100, 102—107, 112—115, 118—121, 126, 130—137, 142—149, 156, 164, 168—171. 184, 206, 210, 216, 252—255, 270, 280
Hug, J. L., 16
Idumaea, see Edom, Ἰδουμαία
Immanuel, 88, 92
Irenaeus, 3, 10, 25 ff., 33, 295
Isaiah, 60, 66, 86, 110, 136—139, 204, 208—217
Israel, 64, 67, 74, 84, 94, 98, 102, 104, 110, 114, 126—129, 136, 140—143, 152, 162—165, 171, 174, 206, 208, 222—227, 229, 232—239, 242—245, 248—251, 254—257, 260, 276, 281, 286, 305, 314, 326: Holy One of, 60, 80, 104, 110, 128, 174, 176—179, 182, 208, 224—227, 232—235, 246, 252, 258, 260, 280, 284, 302
Ivvah. 206
Ἰδουμαία, misreading for Ἰουδαία, 87, 243
Jacob, 66, 94, 98, 104, 126, 162, 174, 222—227, 229, 232, 236—239, 242- 245, 248—251, 254—261, 264, 292, 296, 300, 304, 318
Jahaz, 122
Javan, 326
Jazer, 124
Jeberechiah, 90
eremiah, Book of, 12, 38, 56
Jerome, 27, 32, 34, 87, 131, 273, 295
Jerusalem, 60, 66, 70, 74—77, 84, 94, 102, 106, 142—145, 154 (errata) 164—167, 171, 178, 184, 192, 198, 202, 208—211,—219, 228, 242, 271—275, 301, 308, 316, 320, 324— 329
Lesse, 106, 108
Joah, 200—203
Jordan, 96, 197
Jotham, 60, 84
Judah, 60,66, 70, 76, 84—89, 92, 97, 100, 108, 134, 142, 156, 198, 206, 210—213, 218, 254, 318
Justin Martyr, 10, 71, 279, 295
Kay, Dr W., 88, 102, 104, 178, 184 192
Kedgar, 140—143, 230, 302
Kenyon, Dr F. G., 1, 8, 14, 56
Kir, 142
Kir-haresheth, Kinhares, 116, 124
Klostermann, Dr E., 14, 58
κατάκλιτα, κλειστα), 75
Lachish, 198, 204
Laconian gauzes, 73
Lagarde, P. A. de, 8, 12, 14, 56, 128
Laishah, 106
Lebanon, 68, 106, 116, 172, 190, 196, 208, 220, 302
Leviathan, 160
Libnah, 204
Lowth, Bp R., 86, 316
Lucian, 6f., 17; Lucianic 1155., 14, 2182, 25 f., 291.. 35, 46, 57, 69, 85, 91, 97, 113, 121, 171, 197, 265, 28 , 311
Lucifer (of Cagliari), 3, 27, 295
Lud, 326
Luhith, 122
λοιμοί, 24, 79
Madmenah, 106
Maher-shalal-hash-baz, 90
Manasseh, 100
MSS., Heb., Lxx., and O. L., date of. 7
MSS. of LXX. (Isaiah), 7, 8ff, 14, 17ff., 47, 5 ff.
Margoliouth. Prof. D. S., 2ff., 51, 254
Massoretic Text, 12, 42, 49 ff.
Mazor, 132, 208
Medeba, 122
Medes, Media, 114, 138
Megiddo, 107
Memphis, 135
Merodach-Baladan, 214
Meroë, 29, 49
Meshech, 326
Michmash, 106
Midian, 96, 104, 302
Misreadings of Hebrew by Lxx., 28, 49 ff; instances of, 71, 73, 77, 79, 91, 93, 107, 119, 123, 141, 165, 167, 183, 223
Mizraim, 132. See Egypt.
Moab, 108, 120—127, 156, 171
Moses, 312
μακρῷ, 81
μέν, 38
Naphtali, 96
Nebaioth, 302
Nebo, 248
Nebo (Moab), 122
Nestle, Dr E., 1
‘ Neutral’ text of N. T., 16
Nile, 132, 146
Nimrim, 122
Nineveh, 210
Nisroch, 210
Noah, 280
Nob, 106
Noph (Memphis), 134
νομός, 133
Oesterley, W. O. Ε., 8, 14, 16
Old Latin Version, 2f., 7, 8, 9 13, 16 f., 19, 32 f., 47 f., 56, 63 71, 81, 87, 89, 113, 133, 171, 179 295. 317. See Augustine, Cyprian, Lucifer, ‘Speculum,’ Tertullian, Tyconius, Wurzburg Fragment
Ophir, 112
Optative mood, 36 f.
Oreb, 104
Origen, 3, 5 f., 17, 46
Orion. 112
ἂν τρόπον, 45
ὀργῶσιν, 27
ὁρμῶσιν, 27
οὐ μή, 37, 44
Papyrus of the Ten Commandments,7
Pathros, 108
Paul of Tella, 3
Pekah, 84
Perazim, 168
Persians, 139, 263
Peshitta (Syriac Version), 81, 171, 264, 266, 280, 316
Pharaoh, 134, 174
Philistia, Philistines, 66, 98, 120
Phoenima, 147
Phut, 327
Pindar, 30. 125
Plato. 35, 95
Prepositions, 39
‘Prince of Peace,’ 96
Ptolemy II. (Phila el hus), 1f.
Ptolemy VI. [VII.] ( hilometor), 2
Pul, 326
παραδίδωμι, 50
παρακαλέειν, παράκλησις, 50
παταχρα, 29, 95
πάτρια, 29
πετλημμε ἥμενοί, 31
πλανάω, 31, 50
πλήρης, 34, 311
προελέσθαι, 20, 28
πτῶμα, 71
πύργον, 47
Q (Codex Marchalianus), 10ff., 14 f., 18 ΕΖ, 46 f., 57
Quinta, 5
Rabshakeh, 198—205
Rahab, 176, 270
Remaliah, 84—87, 92
Rephaim, 128
Rezeph, 207
Rezin, 84—87 92
Rhinocolura, 165
‘rock,’ 68, 88, 104, 128, 158, 180, 184, 238, 258, 266, 268: (Sela) 122, 230; term avoided in LXX., 129, 159, 181, 239; accidentally(?) omitted, 105, 185
Sabaoth, see ‘Hosts, Lord of ’
Sabeans, see Seba
Saintsbury, Prof. G., 40
Salmon, Dr G., 16
Samaria, 86, 92, 98, 102, 202
Sanday, Prof. W., 17
Sarah, 268
Sargon, 136
Scholz, Dr A., 38, 48f, 53
Seba, Sabeans, 232, 246
Seir, 140
Sela, 122, 230
Semitic words in LXX., 38
Sennacherib, 198, 206—211
Sepharvaim, 206
Septima, 5
Septuagint, additions and omissions of, 46 ff., history of, 1 ff.; MSS. of, 7, 8 ff., 14, 56 ff.; style and methods of, 35 ff.; text of, in Isaiah, 8 ff.; editions of, 6, 9, 56 f.
Seraphim, 82
‘Servile’ letters, 40
Sexta, 5
Shaddai, 112
Sharezer, 210
Sharon, 190, 196, 318
Shear-jashub, 86
Sheba, 302
Shebna, 144, 200—205
Sheol, 78, 86, 117
Shihor. 146
Shiloah, 92
Shinar, 108
Sibmah, 124
Siloam, 93
Sinim, 262
Sinker, Dr R., 14
Sixtine edition of LXX., 9, 33, 48
Sodom, 70; S. and Gomorrah, 62, 112
Song of Solomon, 3
Soothsayers, sorcery, see Witchcraft
Sophocles, 203
Sorek, 38, 76
‘Speculum,’ 3, 8, 27, 81, 295
Swete, Prof. H. B., 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 10, 12, 18, 33, 56 f.
Syene, 233
Symmachus, 4 f., 20 ff., 57, 81, 83, 89, 95, 97, 99, 119, 157, 171, 195 201, 207, 231, 271, 291, 309, 311, 319
Syria, Syrians, 84—87 98, 126; Syriar tongue, 200
‘Syrian’ text of N. T., 17
Syro-hexaplar version, 3, 25, 27, 29 30, 32
σκληρόν, 50
συμπᾶσα. 26
σύν, 39
συριεῖ, 27, 81
Tabeal. 86
Tanis, 135, 177
Tarshish, 68, 146, 148, 302, 326
Tartan, 136
Telassar, 206
Tema, 140
Teman, 141 (207)
Tenses, Hebrew, 82, 230,236, 278 310; method of rendering, 41 ff
Terminations, 39, 40, 50
Tertullian, 29, 33, 34, 71, 87, 279 295, 311
Text, see Hebrew Text, Massoretic
Text: of LXX., 8 ff., 46 ff., 55
Thackeray, H. St J., 3, 12, 50
Theocritus, 3, 271
Theodoret, 29, 95
Theodotion, 4 f., 9, 20 5., 37, 46, 57, 65, 83, 85, 89, 97, 99, 119, 151, 157, 159, 171, 185, 195, 201, 207, 211, 231, 237. 239, 247, 249, 271, 289, 291, 309, 311
Thucydides, 35, 95
Tirhakah, 204
Tophteh, 182
Tubal, 26, 326
Tyconius, 3, 8, 9 ff., 17, 19, 26 f. 29, 47, 113, 133, 173, 263, 295
Tyre, 146 149
τέρετρον, 241
Uriah. 90, 141
Uzziah, 60, 81, 84
Vineyard, vines, 60, 76, 90, 124—127, —153, 161, 186, 194, 202, 320
Virgin, 88, 146, 148, 208, 252, 308
Vulgate, referred to, 30, 48, 60, 75, 79, 87, 111, 141, 183, 264, 274, 280, 288, 208, 306
‘Western’ text of N. T., 16 f
Wisdom, Book of, 37. 71
Witchcraft, 66, 94, 252 255
Wunburg Fragment. 3. 17, 32, 171
Zechariah. 90
Zebulun, 96
Zidon, 146—8
Zion, 60, 64—67,—75, 94, 102 107 110, 120—123, 130, 143, 149, 154 157, 166, 170, 178, 184, 190 195 198, 208—211, 218, 225, 262, 268— 275, 300—303, 306—311, 316—324
Zoan (Tanis), 134, 176
Zoar. 122
INDEX OF TEXTS REFERRED TO
Genesis i., ii. 38 x. 10 103 x. 17 262 xi. 1 103 xi. 4 47, 99 xxiv. 33 37 xxv. 15 141 xxxii. 26 37 xxxiv. 7 83 xxxvi. 11 141
Exodus viii. 12 268 xii. 43 287 xiv. 19 277 xvi. 36 79 xvii. 6 47 xx. 7 80 xxiii. 17 102 xxxiv. 23 102
Leviticus x. 3 83 xxv. 5 210
Numbers i. 24—37 45 vi. 23—27 45
Deuteronomyxiv. 5 273
oshua vii. 12 37
Joshua vii. 12 37
Judges v. 9 192 xvi. 13, 14 30, 131
I. Samuel xii. 19 37
Ι. Kings xiii. 31 41 xx., xxi. 45
II. Kings vii. 19 37 xix. 16 207 xxi. 13 79
I. Chronicles i. 15 262
Job i. 2 109 iv. 6 37 vi. 19 141 xxxi. 27 183 xli. 11 219
Psalms xviii. 11 76 xxvi. 4 37 xxxii. 3, xxxiv. 13 34 xl. 14 267 xlii. 4 214 lxx. 2 267 lxxiii. 20 30 lxxviii. 31, 63 184 lxxxviii. 12 149 cvi. 9 312 cxix. 67 31
Jeremiah viii. 19 192 xxv.—li. 45 xxv. 15 12 xxxi. 2 270 xxxvi. 5 37 xlviii. 2 156 l. 8 116 l. 34 270
Ezekiel vii. 39 45
Ezekiel xxvii. 13 109 xxviii. 7 79 xxvm. 10 11 xxxi. 4 60 xxxii. 18 119 xxxviii. 13 3 xl. 38 3
Daniel ix. 18 207 xii. 1 75
Hosea ii. 18, ix. 10, xiii. 15 13
Amos i. 9, 11 87
Micah v. 5 13
Nahum i. 5 109
Habakkuk i. 8 109 ii. 14 26
Zechariah x. 3 116
Malachi iii. 1 102 iv. 4—6 45
Wisdom ii. 12 71 iii. 1 37
Ecclesiasticus ii. 8 37 l. 3 203
Baruch ii. 17 207 iii. 34 37 I. Maccabees ii. 63 37
Matthew i. 23 89
iv. 15, 16 97 v. 11 61 vii. 16 77 xv. 7 173 xvi 22 281 xix. 18 37
Mark iv. 28 34, 311 vii. 6 173 x. 19 37
Luke xii. 6 149 xviii. 20 37
Acts ii. 37 83 iii. 16 61 vi. 13 61 viii. 40 137 xiii. 41 37 xxviii. 26 37
Romans xi. 34 219 xiv. 11 249
Philippians ii. 11 249
I. Peter ii. 22 279
Revelation xviii. 2 141 xxi. 27 75