Ahas comforted. Chap. vii, viii. AND it came to pass, in the days of Abaz God's judgments irresistible, 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and twe king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, went up towards Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. 2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with, Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind. 3 Then said the LORD unto Tsaiah, 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 he quiet; fear not, neither be faint-hearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. 5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, 6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and sheep,, 22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land. 23 And it sball come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns. 24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns. 25 And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle. CHAP. VIII. 14 prophecy against Syria and Israel, 5 and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of MOREOVER the LORD said unto me, Take Tabeal: thee a great roll, and write in it with 7 Thus saith the Lord God, It shall not a man's pen, concerning Maher-shalal-bashstand, neither shall it come to pass. 8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezio; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. 9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established. 10 Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying, 11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. 12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD. 13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also? 14 Therefore the LORD himself shall give you a sign, Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good. 16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abborrest shall be forsaken of both her kings. 17 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king| of Assyria. 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes. baz. 2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, 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 to me, Call his name Maher-sbalal-hashbaz. 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 The LORD spake also unto me again, saying, Forasmuch as this people refuseth the wa ters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son; 7 Now therefore, behold; the LORD bring. eth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: 8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel. 9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. 10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us. 11 For the Lond spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, 12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. 20 In the same day shall the LORD shave 13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and with a razor that is hired, namely, by them be-let him be your fear, and let him be your yond the river, by the king of Assyria, the dread. head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also 14 And he shall be for a sanctuary but for a consume the beard. Istone of stumbling and for a rock of offence Christ's kingdom and birth. ISAIAH. The wo of tyrants. to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a will build with hewn stones: the sycamores spare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. 15 And many among them shail stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. 16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. 11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join bis enemies together; 12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines 17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that behind; and they shall devour Israel with bideth bis face from the house of Jacob, and open mouth. For all this his anger is not I will look for him. turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 18 Behold 1, and the children whom the LORD hath given me, are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. 19 And when they shall say unto you. Seck unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter should not a people seek unto their God? for the I ving to the dead? 20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. 21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward. 13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts. 14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, ip one day. 15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacbeth lies, he is the tail. 16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. 17 Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men. neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evil-doer, and every 22 And they shall look unto the earth; and mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger behold trouble and darkness, dimness of an-is not turned away, but his hand is stretched guish; and they shall be driven to darkness. out still. CHAP. IX. 18 For wickedness burneth as the fire; it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shail I What joy shall be in the midst of afflictions kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they by the birth and kingdom of Christ. & The shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke. judgments upon Israel for their pride, 13 for 19 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts their hypocrisy, 18 and for their impenitency.is the land darkened, and the people shall be NEVERTHELESS, the dimness shall not as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his be such in her vexation, when at brother. the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebu- 20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, Jun, and the land of Naphtali, and afterward and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left did more grievously afflict her by the way of hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the na-shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm: tions. 21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Ma 2 The people that walked in darkness have nasseh: and they together shall be against Juseen a great light: they that dwell in the land dah. For all this his anger is not turned away, of the shadow of death, upon them hath the but his hand is stretched out still. light shined. 3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. 4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian. 5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire. 6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 7 of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this. 8 The LORD sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. 9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart, 10 The bricks are fallen down, but 1 CHAP. X. The wo of tyrants. 5 Assyria, the rod o hypocrites, for his pride shall be broken. 20 A remnant of Israel shall be saved. W% 70 unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; 2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! 3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? 4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 5 TO Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. 6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 7 Howbeit, he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart we to destroy and cut off nations not a few.. Israel's deliverance. Chap xi. 8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings? 9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad?! is not Samaria as Damascus 10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria, 11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the LORD hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, 1 will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. 13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man. 14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people; and as one gathereth! eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. 15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that beweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? Christ's peaceable kingdom. 27 And it shall come to pass in that day that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from of thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. 23 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages: 29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid, Gibeah of Saul is fled. 30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth. 31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee. 32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. 33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled. 34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forests with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one. CHAP. XI. 1 The peaceable kingdom of the Branch out of the root of Jesse. 10 The restoration of Israel, and vocation of the Gentiles. as if the rod should share itaff against the AND there shall come forth a rod out of the that lift it up, or as if the staff sho: lift up itself, as if it were no wood. 16 Therefore shall the Lord, the LORD of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. 17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a fame 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 fruitful feld, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth. 19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them. stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: 2 And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of the LORD; 3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Loan: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: 4 But with righteousness shall be judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. 5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of Lis loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are 6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, escaped of the house of Jaroh, shall no more and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; again stay upon him that smote them, but shall and the calf and the young lion and the fatstay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel,ling together; and a little child shall lead in truth. 24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt. them. 7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; 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 put his hand on the cockatrice-den. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea. 10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. 25 For yet a very little while, and the indig- 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that nation shall cease, and mine anger in their de-the LORD shall set his hand again the second struction. 26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a Scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt. time to recover the remnant of his people. which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. 12 And he shall set up an ensign for the Babylon threatened. ISAIAH. Israel's restoration. nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Is- 9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cru rael, and gather together the dispersed of Ju-el both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the dah from the four corners of the earth. land desolate; and be shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart. and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. 14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west: they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them. 15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod. 16 And there shall be an highway for the rennant of his people which shall be left from Assyria, like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. CHAP. XII. A thanksgiving for the mercies of God. 10 For the stars of heaven, and the constellations thereof, shall not give their light the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. 11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. 12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir 13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shail remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. 14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up they shall AND in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I every man turn to his own people, and dee will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. 2 Behold, God is my salvation! I will trust, and not be afraid for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. 3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. 4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted. 5 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth. every one into his own land. 15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined wato them shall fall by the sword 16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. 17 Bold I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. 18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children. 19 T And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, sball 6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of be as when God overthrew Sodom and GomorZion: for great is the Holy One of Israel the midst of thee. CHAP. XIII. in rah. 20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to ge1 God mustereth the armies of his wrath: 6 heneration: neither shall the Arabian pitch threateneth to destroy Babylon by the Medes: tert there, neither shall the shepherds make 19 the desolation thereof. their fold there : THE burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see. 21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of dole2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high moun-ful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and tain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the satyrs shall dance there. hand, that they may go into the gates of the 22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall ery in their desolate houses, and dragons in 3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I their pleasant palaces and her time is near bave also called my mighty ones for mine an-to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. ger, even them that rejoice in my highness. Dobles. 4 The noise of a multitude in the moun-1 tains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle. 5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole Jand.. 6 T Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at band: it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. 7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: 8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. CHAP. XIV. God's merciful restoration of Israel: 4 their and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. 2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppres sors. 3¶ And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sor row, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, 4 That thou shalt take up this proverb Israel's triumph over Babylon. Chap. XV, xvI. The lamentable state of Moab. against the king of Babylon, and say, How upon the whole earth: and this is the hand hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city that is stretched out upon all the nations. ceased! 5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the weked, and the sceptre of the rulers. & He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. 7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. 8 Yea, the fir-trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us. 9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it bath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. 10 All they shail speak, and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we art thou become like unto us? 11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. 27 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul if ? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? 20 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden. 29 ¶ Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. 30 And the first-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant. 31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times. 32 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it. CHAP. XV. The lamentable state of Moab. 12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the THE burden of Moab. Because in the night nations! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north! 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High. 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. 16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms: 17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? 18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. 19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. 20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evil-doers shail never be renowned. 21 Prepare slighter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. 22 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD. - 23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water and I will sweep Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence: 2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their beads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off. 3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly. 4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh; their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him. 5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up: for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction. 6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing 7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows. 8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim. 9 For the waters of Dimen shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land. - CHAP. XVI. 1 Moab is exhorted to yield obedience unto Christ's kingdom, 6 and threatened for pride. with the bosom of destruction, saith the SEND ye the lamb to the ruler of the land LORD of hosts. 24 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: 25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders. 26 This is the purpose that is purposed from Seja to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. 2 For it shall be, that as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon. 3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the Doon day; hide the outcasts, bewray not him that wandereth. |