God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Assyria to be broken. CHAP. X. 7 Of the increase of his government and Wunto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievouspeace there shall be no end, upon the throne ness which they have prescribed; of David, and upon his kingdom, to order 2 To turn aside the needy from judg it, and to establish it with judgment and ment, and to take away the right from the with justice from henceforth even for ever. poor of my people, that widows may be The zeal of the LORD of hosts will per- their prey, and that they may rob the form this. fatherless! 8 The LORD sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. 9 And al 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 we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. 11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together; 12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 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, in one day. 15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth 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. 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 a 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 to destroy and cut off nations not a few. 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? 17 Therefore the LORD shall have no 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that joy in their young men, neither shall have when the LORD hath performed his whole mercy on their fatherless and widows: for work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, every one is a hypocrite and an evil-doer, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of and every mouth speaketh folly. For all the king of Assyria, and the glory of his this his anger is not turned away, but his high looks. hand is stretched out still. 13 For he saith, By the strength of my 18 T For wickedness burneth as the hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; fire; it shall devour the briers and thorns, for I am prudent: and I have removed the and shall kindle in the thickets of the bounds of the people, and have robbed forest, and they shall mount up like the lift- their treasures, and I have put down the ing up of smoke. inhabitants like a valiant man: 19 Through the wrath of the LORD of 14 And my hand hath found as a nest hosts is the land darkened, and the people the riches of the people and as one gashall be as the fuel of the fire: no man thereth eggs that are left, have I gathered shall spare his brother. all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or arm: 20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left peeped. hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they 15 Shall the axe boast itself against him shall eat every man the flesh of his own that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? 21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, as if the rod should shake itself against Manasseh and they together shall be them that lift it up, or as if the staff should against Judah. For all this his anger is lift up itself, as if it were no wood. not turned away, but his hand is stretched 16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lond out still. lof hosts, send among his fat ones leanness, A remnant shall be saved. CHAP. XI. The peaceable kingdom of Christ. and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. 34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forests with iron, and Lebanon shall 17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fall by a mighty one. fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it CHAP. XI. shall burn and devour his thorns and his AND there shall come forth a rod out briers in one day; the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots: 18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul 2 And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest and body and they shall be as when a upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understandard-bearer fainteth. standing, the spirit of counsel and might, 19 And the rest of the trees of his forest the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of shall be few, that a child may write them. the LORD; 20 T And it shall come to pass in that 3 And shall make him of quick underday, that the remnant of Israel, and such as standing in the fear of the LORD: and he are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, more again stay upon him that smote them; neither reprove after the hearing of his but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy ears: One of Israel, in truth. 4 But with righteousness shall he judge 21 The remnant shall return, even the the poor, and reprove with equity for the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. meek of the earth: and he shall smite the 22 For though thy people Israel be as earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them the breath of his lips shall he slay the shall return the consumption decreed wicked. shall overflow with righteousness. 5 And righteousness shall be the girdle 23 For the Lord GoD of hosts shall of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of make a consumption, even determined, in his reins. the midst of all the land. 6 The wolf also shall dwell with the 24 T Therefore thus saith the Lord GoD lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with of hosts, O my people that dwellest in the kid; and the calf and the young lion Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he and the fatling together; and a little child/ shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift shall lead them. up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt. 25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction. 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. 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's 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. 27 And it shall come to pass in that day, 10 ¶ And in that day there shall be a that his burden shall be taken away from root of Jesse, which shall stand for an enoff thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy sign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed be- seek: and his rest shall be glorious. cause of the anointing. 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, 28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to that the LORD shall set his hand again the 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. second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands 30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of of the sca. Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish,| 12 And he shall set up an ensign for the O poor Anathoth. nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of 31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabit-Israel, and gather together the dispersed of ants of Gebim gather themselves to flee. Judah from the four corners of the earth. 32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that 13 The envy also of Ephraim shall deday: he shall shake his hand against the part, and the adversaries of Judah shall mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, Jerusalem. and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. 33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts 14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders shall lop the bough with terror: and the of the Philistines toward the west; they high ones of stature shall be hewn down, shall spoil them of the east together: they and the haughty shall be humbled. shall lay their hand upon Edom and A thanksgiving for mercies. ISAIAH. The desolation of Babylon. Moab; and the children of Ammon shall cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to 15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 16 And there shall be a highway for 11 And I will punish the world for their the remnant of his people, which shall be evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel and I will cause the arrogancy of the in the day that he came up out of the land proud to cease, and will lay low the of Egypt. haughtiness of the terrible. CHAP. XII. 12 I will make a man more precious ND in that day thou shalt say, O than fine gold; even a man than the golden A LORD, I will praise thee: though wedge of Ophir. thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. 13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, 2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD the day of his fierce anger. JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; 14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and '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. 6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion; for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee. as a sheep that no man taketh up: they 15 Every one that is found shall be 16 Their children also 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 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 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, 20 It shall never be inhabited, neither I have also called my mighty ones for shall it be dwelt in from generation to mine anger, even them that rejoice in my generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch highness. tent there; neither shall the shepherds 4 The noise of a multitude in the moun-make their fold there: tains, like as of a great people; a tumult- 21 But wild beasts of the desert shall uous noise of the kingdoms of nations lie there; and their houses shall be full of gathered together: the LORD of hosts mus-doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. tereth the host of the battle. 5 They come from a far country, from 22 And the wild beasts of the islands the end of heaven, even the LORD, and shall cry in their desolate houses, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her the whole land. time is near to come, and her days shall 6 T Howl ye; for the day of the LORD not be prolonged. as at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. CHAP. XIV. FOR the LORD will have mercy on Ja 7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, cob, and will yet choose Israel, and and every man's heart shall melt; set them in their own land: and the 8 And they shall be afraid; pangs and strangers shall be joined with them, and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. 9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, 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 1 Israel's triumph over Babylon. CHAP. XV. The lamentable state of Moab. they shall take them captives, whose cap-in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy tives they were; and they shall rule over land, and slain thy people: the seed of evil-doers shall never be renowned. their oppressors. 3 And it shall come to pass in the day 21 Prepare slaughter for his children that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy for the iniquity of their fathers; that they sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill hard bondage wherein thou wast made to the face of the world with cities. serve, 22 For I will rise up against them, saith 4 That thou shalt take up this proverb the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babyagainst the king of Babylon, and say, How lon the name, and remnant, and son, and hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city nephew, saith the LORD. 23 I will also make it a possession for ceased! 5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the bittern, and pools of water: and I the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. will sweep it with the besom of destruc6 He who smote the people in wrath tion, saith the LORD of hosts. 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 hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. 10 All they shall 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. 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 upon the whole earth: and this is 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 hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? 28 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 12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O broken: for out of the serpent's root shall Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall cut down to the ground, which didst be a fiery flying serpent. weaken the nations! 30 And the first-born of the poor shall 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I feed, and the needy shall lie down in safewill ascend into heaven, I will exalt my ty: and I will kill thy root with famine, throne above the stars of God: I will sit and he shall stay thy remnant. also upon the mount of the congregation, 31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, 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. 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 inessengers of the nation? That the LORD 16 They that see thee shall narrowly hath founded Zion, and the poor of his look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, people shall trust in it. Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms: THE CHAP. XV. THE burden of Moab. Because in the 17 That made the world as a wilder- night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and ness, and destroyed the cities thereof: brought to silence; because in the night that opened not the house of his prisoners? Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to 18 All the kings of the nations, even all silence; house. of them, lie in glory, every one in his own 2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall 19 But thou art cast out of thy grave howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on like an abominable branch, and as the all their heads shall be baldness, and every raiment of those that are slain, thrust beard cut off. through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet. 20 Thou shalt not be joined with them howl, weeping abundantly. 3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall Moab is threatened for pride." ISAIAH. Syria and Israel threatened. 4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh; and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy sumtheir voice shall be heard even unto Jabaz mer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen. therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall 10 And gladness is taken away, and cry out; his life shall be grievous unto joy out of the plentiful field; and in the him. vineyards there shall be no singing, neither 5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his shall there be shouting: the treaders shall fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, a heifer of tread out no wine in their presses; I have three years old: for by the mounting up made their vintage-shouting to cease. of Luhith with weeping shall they go it 11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall like a harp for Moab, and mine inward raise up a cry of destruction. parts for Kir-haresh. 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. 12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail. 13 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time. 14 But now the LORD hath spoken, 8 For the cry is gone round about the saying, Within three years, as the years of borders of Moab, the howling thereof unto a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer- contemned, with all that great multitude; elim. and the remnant shall be very small and feeble. 9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood; for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land. CHAP. XVI. SEND ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. CHAP. XVII. HE burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. 2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering 3 The fortress also shall cease from bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damasof Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon. cus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall 3 Take counsel, execute judgment; be as the glory of the children of Israel, make thy shadow as the night in the midst saith the LORD of hosts. of the noon-day; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. 4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax 4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the lean. face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is 5 And it shall be as when the harvestat an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppres- man gathereth the corn, and reapeth the sors are consumed out of the land. ears with his arm; and it shall be as he 5 And in mercy shall the throne be es- that gathereth ears in the valley of Retablished: and he shall sit upon it in truth phaim. ness. in the tabernacle of David, judging, and 6 Yet gleaning-grapes shall be left in seeking judgment, and hasting righteous-it, as the shaking of an olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost 6 We have heard of the pride of bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful Moab he is very proud: even of his branches thereof, saith the LORD God of haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: Israel. but his lies shall not be so. 7 At that day shall a man look to bis 7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to every one shall howl: for the foundations the Holy One of Israel. of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn; surely 8 And he shall not look to the altars, the they are stricken. work of his hands, neither shall respect 8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, that which his fingers have made, either and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the the groves, or the images. heathen have broken down the principal 9¶ In that day shall his strong cities be plants thereof, they are come even unto as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost Jazer, they wandered through the wilder-branch, which they left because of the ness: her branches are stretched out, they children of Israel: and there shall be desoare gone over the sea. lation. 9 ¶ Therefore I will bewail with the 10 Because thou hast forgotten the God weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: 1 of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful will water thee with my tears, O Hesbbon, of the Rock of thy strength, therefore shalt |