[Isaiah 1]
1:1 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.
1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath
spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have
rebelled against me.
1:3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib:
[but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of
evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the
LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger,
they are gone away backward.
1:5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more
and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
1:6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head [there is]
no soundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and putrifying
sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither
mollified with ointment.
1:7 Your country [is] desolate, your cities [are] burned with
fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and [it
is] desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
1:8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a
vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged
city.
1:9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small
remnant, we should have been as Sodom, [and] we should have
been like unto Gomorrah.
1:10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear
unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
1:11 To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices
unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of
rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood
of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
1:12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this
at your hand, to tread my courts?
1:13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination
unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies,
I cannot away with; [it is] iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth:
they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [them].
1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine
eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear:
your hands are full of blood.
1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your
doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed,
judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD:
though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
1:19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of
the land:
1:20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with
the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].
1:21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full
of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
1:22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
1:23 Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves:
every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge
not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come
unto them.
1:24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty
One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and
avenge me of mine enemies:
1:25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away
thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
1:26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy
counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be
called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
1:27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts
with righteousness.
1:28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the
sinners [shall be] together, and they that forsake the LORD
shall be consumed.
1:29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have
desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye
have chosen.
1:30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a
garden that hath no water.
1:31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a
spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench
[them].
[Isaiah 2]
2:1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah
and Jerusalem.
2:2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, [that] the
mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of
the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all
nations shall flow unto it.
2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go
up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of
Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in
his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word
of the LORD from Jerusalem.
2:4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke
many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up
sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
2:5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light
of the LORD.
2:6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of
Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and [are]
soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in
the children of strangers.
2:7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither [is
there any] end of their treasures; their land is also full of
horses, neither [is there any] end of their chariots:
2:8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work
of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
2:9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth
himself: therefore forgive them not.
2:10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear
of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
2:11 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.
2:12 For the day of the LORD of hosts [shall be] upon every
[one that is] proud and lofty, and upon every [one that is]
lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
2:13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, [that are] high and
lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
2:14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that
are lifted up.
2:15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
2:16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant
pictures.
2:17 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.
2:18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
2:19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the
caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his
majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
2:20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols
of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the
moles and to the bats;
2:21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the
ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty,
when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
2:22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein
is he to be accounted of?
[Isaiah 3]
3:1 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.
3:2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the
prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
3:3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the
counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
3:4 And I will give children [to be] their princes, and babes
shall rule over them.
3:5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another,
and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself
proudly against the ancient, and the base against the
honourable.
3:6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of
his father, [saying], Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler,
and [let] this ruin [be] under thy hand:
3:7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an
healer; for in my house [is] neither bread nor clothing: make
me not a ruler of the people.
3:8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because
their tongue and their doings [are] against the LORD, to
provoke the eyes of his glory.
3:9 The show of their countenance doth witness against them;
and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide [it] not. Woe
unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
3:10 Say ye to the righteous, that [it shall be] well [with
him]: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
3:11 Woe unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him]: for
the reward of his hands shall be given him.
3:12 [As for] my people, children [are] their oppressors, and
women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause
[thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
3:13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the
people.
3:14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of
his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the
vineyard; the spoil of the poor [is] in your houses.
3:15 What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces, and
grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
3:16 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion
are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton
eyes, walking and mincing [as] they go, and making a tinkling
with their feet:
3:17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of
the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover
their secret parts.
3:18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of
[their] tinkling ornaments [about their feet], and [their]
cauls, and [their] round tires like the moon,
3:19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
3:20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the
headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
3:21 The rings, and nose jewels,
3:22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and
the wimples, and the crisping pins,
3:23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the
veils.
3:24 And it shall come to pass, [that] instead of sweet smell
there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and
instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a
girding of sackcloth; [and] burning instead of beauty.
3:25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the
war.
3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she [being]
desolate shall sit upon the ground.
[Isaiah 4]
4:1 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 us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
4:2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and
glorious, and the fruit of the earth [shall be] excellent and
comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
4:3 And it shall come to pass, [that he that is] left in
Zion, and [he that] remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called
holy, [even] every one that is written among the living in
Jerusalem:
4:4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the
daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem
from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the
spirit of burning.
4:5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of
mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day,
and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the
glory [shall be] a defence.
4:6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the
daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a
covert from storm and from rain.
[Isaiah 5]
5:1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved
touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very
fruitful hill:
5:2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof,
and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the
midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked
that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild
grapes.
5:3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah,
judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
5:4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I
have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should
bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
5:5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my
vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be
eaten up; [and] break down the wall thereof, and it shall be
trodden down:
5:6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor
digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also
command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of
Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked
for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but
behold a cry.
5:8 Woe unto them that join house to house, [that] lay field
to field, till [there be] no place, that they may be placed
alone in the midst of the earth!
5:9 In mine ears [said] the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many
houses shall be desolate, [even] great and fair, without
inhabitant.
5:10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the
seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
5:11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, [that]
they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, [till]
wine inflame them!
5:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and
wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the
LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
5:13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because
[they have] no knowledge: and their honourable men [are]
famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
5:14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her
mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude,
and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
5:15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty
man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be
humbled:
5:16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and
God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
5:17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the
waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
5:18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity,
and sin as it were with a cart rope:
5:19 That say, Let him make speed, [and] hasten his work,
that we may see [it]: and let the counsel of the Holy One of
Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know [it]!
5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that
put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter
for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
5:21 Woe unto [them that are] wise in their own eyes, and
prudent in their own sight!
5:22 Woe unto [them that are] mighty to drink wine, and men
of strength to mingle strong drink:
5:23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the
righteousness of the righteous from him!
5:24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the
flame consumeth the chaff, [so] their root shall be as
rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they
have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the
word of the Holy One of Israel.
5:25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his
people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and
hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their
carcases [were] torn in the midst of the streets. For all this
his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out
still.
5:26 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:
5:27 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:
5:28 Whose arrows [are] sharp, and all their bows bent, their
horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels
like a whirlwind.
5:29 Their roaring [shall be] like a lion, they shall roar
like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the
prey, and shall carry [it] away safe, and none shall deliver
[it].
5:30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the
roaring of the sea: and if [one] look unto the land, behold
darkness [and] sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens
thereof.
[Isaiah 6]
6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord
sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled
the temple.
6:2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings;
with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his
feet, and with twain he did fly.
6:3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy,
[is] the LORD of hosts: the whole earth [is] full of his glory.
6:4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that
cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
6:5 Then said I, Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because I [am]
a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of
unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of
hosts.
6:6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live
coal in his hand, [which] he had taken with the tongs from off
the altar:
6:7 And he laid [it] upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath
touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin
purged.
6:8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I
send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here [am] I; send
me.
6:9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed,
but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears
heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and
hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and
convert, and be healed.
6:11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the
cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without
man, and the land be utterly desolate,
6:12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and [there be] a
great forsaking in the midst of the land.
6:13 But yet in it [shall be] a tenth, and [it] shall return,
and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose
substance [is] in them, when they cast [their leaves: so] the
holy seed [shall be] the substance thereof.
[Isaiah 7]
7:1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of
Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, [that] Rezin the king
of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went
up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail
against it.
7:2 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.
7:3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet
Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit
of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
7:4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not,
neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking
firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of
the son of Remaliah.
7:5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have
taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
7:6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a
breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it,
[even] the son of Tabeal:
7:7 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither
shall it come to pass.
7:8 For the head of Syria [is] Damascus, and the head of
Damascus [is] Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall
Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
7:9 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.
7:10 Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
7:11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in
the depth, or in the height above.
7:12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the
LORD.
7:13 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?
7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign;
Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call
his name Immanuel.
7:15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to
refuse the evil, and choose the good.
7:16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and
choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken
of both her kings.
7:17 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.
7:18 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.
7:19 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.
7:20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that
is hired, [namely], by them beyond the river, by the king of
Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also
consume the beard.
7:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] a man
shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
7:22 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.
7:23 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] every
place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand
silverlings, it shall [even] be for briers and thorns.
7:24 With arrows and with bows shall [men] come thither;
because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
7:25 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.
[Isaiah 8]
8:1 Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll,
and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
8:2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah
the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
8:3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and
bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name
Mahershalalhashbaz.
8:4 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.
8:5 The LORD spake also unto me again, saying,
8:6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah
that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
8:7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the
waters of the river, strong and many, [even] the king of
Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his
channels, and go over all his banks:
8:8 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.
8:9 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.
8:10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought;
speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God [is] with us.
8:11 For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and
instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people,
saying,
8:12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all [them to] whom this
people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear,
nor be afraid.
8:13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and [let] him [be]
your fear, and [let] him [be] your dread.
8:14 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 gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem.
8:15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be
broken, and be snared, and be taken.
8:16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
8:17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from
the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
8:18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me
[are] for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of
hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
8:19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that
have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that
mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living
to the dead?
8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not
according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no light in
them.
8:21 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.
8:22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble
and darkness, dimness of anguish; and [they shall be] driven to
darkness.
[Isaiah 9]
9:1 Nevertheless the dimness [shall] not [be] such as [was]
in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the
land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did
more grievously afflict [her by] the way of the sea, beyond
Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
9:2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great
light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon
them hath the light shined.
9:3 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.
9:4 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.
9:5 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.
9:6 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.
9:7 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.
9:8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon
Israel.
9:9 And all the people shall know, [even] Ephraim and the
inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of
heart,
9:10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn
stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change [them
into] cedars.
9:11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin
against him, and join his enemies together;
9:12 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.
9:13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them,
neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
9:14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and
tail, branch and rush, in one day.
9:15 The ancient and honourable, he [is] the head; and the
prophet that teacheth lies, he [is] the tail.
9:16 For the leaders of this people cause [them] to err; and
[they that are] led of them [are] destroyed.
9:17 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 evildoer, and every mouth
speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but
his hand [is] stretched out still.
9:18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the
briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the
forest, and they shall mount up [like] the lifting up of smoke.
9:19 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land
darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no
man shall spare his brother.
9:20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry;
and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be
satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
9:21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: [and] they
together [shall be] against Judah. For all this his anger is
not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.
[Isaiah 10]
10:1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that
write grievousness [which] they have prescribed;
10:2 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!
10:3 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?
10:4 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.
10:5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in
their hand is mine indignation.
10:6 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.
10:7 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.
10:8 For he saith, [Are] not my princes altogether kings?
10:9 [Is] not Calno as Carchemish? [is] not Hamath as Arpad?
[is] not Samaria as Damascus?
10:10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and
whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria:
10:11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols,
so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
10:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, [that] when the Lord
hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem,
I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of
Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
10:13 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]:
10:14 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.
10:15 Shall the ax boast itself against him that heweth
therewith? [or] shall the saw magnify itself against him that
shaketh it? as if the rod should shake [itself] against them
that lift it up, [or] as if the staff should lift up [itself,
as if it were] no wood.
10:16 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.
10:17 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;
10:18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his
fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a
standardbearer fainteth.
10:19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few,
that a child may write them.
10:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the
remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of
Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but
shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
10:21 The remnant shall return, [even] the remnant of Jacob,
unto the mighty God.
10:22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea,
[yet] a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed
shall overflow with righteousness.
10:23 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption,
even determined, in the midst of all the land.
10:24 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.
10:25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall
cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
10:26 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.
10:27 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] his
burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke
from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of
the anointing.
10:28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at
Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
10:29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up
their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
10:30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be
heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
10:31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather
themselves to flee.
10:32 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.
10:33 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.
10:34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with
iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
[Isaiah 11]
11:1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of
Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
11:2 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;
11:3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of
the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes,
neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
11:4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and
reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall
smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath
of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
11:5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and
faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
11:6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard
shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion
and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
11:7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones
shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the
ox.
11:8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp,
and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
11:9 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.
11:10 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.
11:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the Lord
shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant
of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from
Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from
Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
11:12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and
shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the
dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
11:13 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.
11:14 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.
11:15 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.
11:16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his
people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to
Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
[Isaiah 12]
12:1 And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise
thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned
away, and thou comfortedst me.
12:2 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.
12:3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells
of salvation.
12:4 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.
12:5 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things:
this [is] known in all the earth.
12:6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great
[is] the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
[Isaiah 13]
13:1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did
see.
13:2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the
voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the
gates of the nobles.
13:3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called
my mighty ones for mine anger, [even] them that rejoice in my
highness.
13:4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a
great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations
gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the
battle.
13:5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven,
[even] the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy
the whole land.
13:6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD [is] at hand; it shall
come as a destruction from the Almighty.
13:7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's
heart shall melt:
13:8 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.
13:9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with
wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall
destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
13:10 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.
13:11 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.
13:12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a
man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13:13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall
remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and
in the day of his fierce anger.
13:14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that
no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people,
and flee every one into his own land.
13:15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and
every one that is joined [unto them] shall fall by the sword.
13:16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before
their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives
ravished.
13:17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which
shall not regard silver; and [as for] gold, they shall not
delight in it.
13:18 [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.
13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the
Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and
Gomorrah.
13:20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt
in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian
pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold
there.
13:21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and
their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall
dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
13:22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their
desolate houses, and dragons in [their] pleasant palaces: and
her time [is] near to come, and her days shall not be
prolonged.
[Isaiah 14]
14:1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet
choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the
strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to
the house of Jacob.
14:2 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 oppressors.
14:3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall
give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the
hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve.
14:4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of
Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden
city ceased!
14:5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, [and] the
sceptre of the rulers.
14:6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual
stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted,
[and] none hindereth.
14:7 The whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet: they break
forth into singing.
14:8 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.
14:9 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.
14:10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also
become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
14:11 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.
14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the
morning! [how] art thou cut down to the ground, which didst
weaken the nations!
14:13 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:
14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will
be like the most High.
14:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of
the pit.
14:16 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;
14:17 [That] made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed
the cities thereof; [that] opened not the house of his
prisoners?
14:18 All the kings of the nations, [even] all of them, lie
in glory, every one in his own house.
14:19 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.
14:20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because
thou hast destroyed thy land, [and] slain thy people: the seed
of evildoers shall never be renowned.
14:21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of
their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor
fill the face of the world with cities.
14:22 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.
14:23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and
pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of
destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
14:24 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:
14:25 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.
14:26 This [is] the purpose that is purposed upon the whole
earth: and this [is] the hand that is stretched out upon all
the nations.
14:27 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall
disannul [it]? and his hand [is] stretched out, and who shall
turn it back?
14:28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
14:29 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.
14:30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy
shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine,
and he shall slay thy remnant.
14:31 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.
14:32 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.
[Isaiah 15]
15:1 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is
laid waste, [and] brought to silence; because in the night Kir
of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to silence;
15:2 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 heads [shall be] baldness, [and] every beard cut off.
15:3 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.
15:4 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.
15:5 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.
15:6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay
is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
15:7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which
they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the
willows.
15:8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the
howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto
Beerelim.
15:9 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.
[Isaiah 16]
16:1 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to
the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
16:2 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.
16:3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the
night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray
not him that wandereth.
16:4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a
covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the
extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors
are consumed out of the land.
16:5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he
shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging,
and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
16:6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; [he is] very proud:
[even] of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: [but]
his lies [shall] not [be] so.
16:7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall
howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely
[they are] stricken.
16:8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of
Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal
plants thereof, they are come [even] unto Jazer, they wandered
[through] the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they
are gone over the sea.
16:9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the
vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and
Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy
harvest is fallen.
16:10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the
plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no
singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall
tread out no wine in [their] presses; I have made [their
vintage] shouting to cease.
16:11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab,
and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.
16:12 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.
16:13 This [is] the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning
Moab since that time.
16:14 But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three
years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall
be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant
[shall be] very small [and] feeble.
[Isaiah 17]
17:1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away
from [being] a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
17:2 The cities of Aroer [are] forsaken: they shall be for
flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make [them]
afraid.
17:3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the
kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be
as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of
hosts.
17:4 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 lean.
17:5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the
corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he
that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
17:6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking
of an olive tree, two [or] three berries in the top of the
uppermost bough, four [or] five in the outmost fruitful
branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.
17:7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes
shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
17:8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his
hands, neither shall respect [that] which his fingers have
made, either the groves, or the images.
17:9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken
bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the
children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
17:10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation,
and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength,
therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it
with strange slips:
17:11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in
the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: [but] the
harvest [shall be] a heap in the day of grief and of desperate
sorrow.
17:12 Woe to the multitude of many people, [which] make a
noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of
nations, [that] make a rushing like the rushing of mighty
waters!
17:13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters:
but [God] shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and
shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind,
and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
17:14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; [and] before the
morning he [is] not. This [is] the portion of them that spoil
us, and the lot of them that rob us.
[Isaiah 18]
18:1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which [is] beyond
the rivers of Ethiopia:
18:2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of
bulrushes upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers,
to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from
their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down,
whose land the rivers have spoiled!
18:3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the
earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains;
and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
18:4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I
will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon
herbs, [and] like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
18:5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the
sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the
sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away [and] cut down the
branches.
18:6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the
mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall
summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter
upon them.
18:7 In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD
of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people
terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and
trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the
place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
[Isaiah 19]
19:1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a
swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt
shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall
melt in the midst of it.
19:2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and
they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one
against his neighbour; city against city, [and] kingdom against
kingdom.
19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof;
and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to
the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar
spirits, and to the wizards.
19:4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a
cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the
Lord, the LORD of hosts.
19:5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river
shall be wasted and dried up.
19:6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; [and] the
brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and
flags shall wither.
19:7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the
brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be
driven away, and be no [more].
19:8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast
angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets
upon the waters shall languish.
19:9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that
weave networks, shall be confounded.
19:10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all
that make sluices [and] ponds for fish.
19:11 Surely the princes of Zoan [are] fools, the counsel of
the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye
unto Pharaoh, I [am] the son of the wise, the son of ancient
kings?
19:12 Where [are] they? where [are] thy wise [men]? and let
them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts
hath purposed upon Egypt.
19:13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of
Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, [even they
that are] the stay of the tribes thereof.
19:14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst
thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work
thereof, as a drunken [man] staggereth in his vomit.
19:15 Neither shall there be [any] work for Egypt, which the
head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
19:16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it
shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of
the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.
19:17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt,
every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in
himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he
hath determined against it.
19:18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt
speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts;
one shall be called, The city of destruction.
19:19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the
midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof
to the LORD.
19:20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the
LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the
LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a
saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
19:21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians
shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and
oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform
[it].
19:22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal
[it]: and they shall return [even] to the LORD, and he shall be
entreated of them, and shall heal them.
19:23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to
Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the
Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the
Assyrians.
19:24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and
with Assyria, [even] a blessing in the midst of the land:
19:25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed
[be] Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and
Israel mine inheritance.
[Isaiah 20]
20:1 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod (when Sargon
the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and
took it;
20:2 At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of
Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins,
and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking
naked and barefoot.
20:3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked
naked and barefoot three years [for] a sign and wonder upon
Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
20:4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians
prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked
and barefoot, even with [their] buttocks uncovered, to the
shame of Egypt.
20:5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their
expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
20:6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day,
Behold, such [is] our expectation, whither we flee for help to
be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?
[Isaiah 21]
21:1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in
the south pass through; [so] it cometh from the desert, from a
terrible land.
21:2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous
dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up,
O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made
to cease.
21:3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have
taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I
was bowed down at the hearing [of it]; I was dismayed at the
seeing [of it].
21:4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of
my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
21:5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink:
arise, ye princes, [and] anoint the shield.
21:6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman,
let him declare what he seeth.
21:7 And he saw a chariot [with] a couple of horsemen, a
chariot of asses, [and] a chariot of camels; and he hearkened
diligently with much heed:
21:8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon
the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole
nights:
21:9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, [with] a
couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is
fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he
hath broken unto the ground.
21:10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I
have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I
declared unto you.
21:11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir,
Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
21:12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the
night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come.
21:13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall
ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
21:14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to
him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that
fled.
21:15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword,
and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
21:16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year,
according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of
Kedar shall fail:
21:17 And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty
men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD
God of Israel hath spoken [it].
[Isaiah 22]
22:1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee
now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
22:2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous
city: thy slain [men are] not slain with the sword, nor dead in
battle.
22:3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the
archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, [which]
have fled from far.
22:4 Therefore said I, Look away from me: I will weep
bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of
the daughter of my people.
22:5 For [it is] a day of trouble, and of treading down, and
of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision,
breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
22:6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men [and]
horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
22:7 And it shall come to pass, [that] thy choicest valleys
shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set
themselves in array at the gate.
22:8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst
look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
22:9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David,
that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the
lower pool.
22:10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the
houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
22:11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the
water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker
thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long
ago.
22:12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to
weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with
sackcloth:
22:13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing
sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink;
for to morrow we shall die.
22:14 And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts,
Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die,
saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
22:15 Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto
this treasurer, [even] unto Shebna, which [is] over the house,
[and say],
22:16 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou
hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, [as] he that heweth him
out a sepulchre on high, [and] that graveth an habitation for
himself in a rock?
22:17 Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty
captivity, and will surely cover thee.
22:18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee [like] a
ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the
chariots of thy glory [shall be] the shame of thy lord's house.
22:19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy
state shall he pull thee down.
22:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call
my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
22:21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him
with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his
hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and to the house of Judah.
22:22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his
shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall
shut, and none shall open.
22:23 And I will fasten him [as] a nail in a sure place; and
he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.
22:24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his
father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of
small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the
vessels of flagons.
22:25 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail
that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down,
and fall; and the burden that [was] upon it shall be cut off:
for the LORD hath spoken [it].
[Isaiah 23]
23:1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it
is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from
the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
23:2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the
merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
23:3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of
the river, [is] her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
23:4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken,
[even] the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor
bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, [nor]
bring up virgins.
23:5 As at the report concerning Egypt, [so] shall they be
sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
23:6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the
isle.
23:7 [Is] this your joyous [city], whose antiquity [is] of
ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
23:8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning
[city], whose merchants [are] princes, whose traffickers [are]
the honourable of the earth?
23:9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride
of all glory, [and] to bring into contempt all the honourable
of the earth.
23:10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of
Tarshish: [there is] no more strength.
23:11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the
kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the
merchant [city], to destroy the strong holds thereof.
23:12 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou
oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to
Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.
23:13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not,
[till] the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the
wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the
palaces thereof; [and] he brought it to ruin.
23:14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid
waste.
23:15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall
be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king:
after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
23:16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast
been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou
mayest be remembered.
23:17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy
years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her
hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the
world upon the face of the earth.
23:18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to
the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her
merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to
eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
[Isaiah 24]
24:1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it
waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the
inhabitants thereof.
24:2 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.
24:3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled:
for the LORD hath spoken this word.
24:4 The earth mourneth [and] fadeth away, the world
languisheth [and] fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth
do languish.
24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof;
because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance,
broken the everlasting covenant.
24:6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they
that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of
the earth are burned, and few men left.
24:7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the
merryhearted do sigh.
24:8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that
rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
24:9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink
shall be bitter to them that drink it.
24:10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is
shut up, that no man may come in.
24:11 [There is] a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is
darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
24:12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten
with destruction.
24:13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among
the people, [there shall be] as the shaking of an olive tree,
[and] as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
24:14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the
majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
24:15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, [even] the
name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
24:16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard
songs, [even] glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness,
my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt
treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very
treacherously.
24:17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, [are] upon thee, O
inhabitant of the earth.
24:18 And it shall come to pass, [that] he who fleeth from
the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that
cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the
snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the
foundations of the earth do shake.
24:19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean
dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
24:20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and
shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof
shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
24:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD
shall punish the host of the high ones [that are] on high, and
the kings of the earth upon the earth.
24:22 And they shall be gathered together, [as] prisoners are
gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and
after many days shall they be visited.
24:23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed,
when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in
Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
[Isaiah 25]
25:1 O LORD, thou [art] my God; I will exalt thee, I will
praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful [things; thy]
counsels of old [are] faithfulness [and] truth.
25:2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; [of] a defenced
city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall
never be built.
25:3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city
of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
25:4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to
the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow
from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones [is] as a
storm [against] the wall.
25:5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the
heat in a dry place; [even] the heat with the shadow of a
cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
25:6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto
all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees,
of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well
refined.
25:7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the
covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over
all nations.
25:8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD
will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his
people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD
hath spoken [it].
25:9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this [is] our God;
we have waited for him, and he will save us: this [is] the
LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in
his salvation.
25:10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest,
and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is
trodden down for the dunghill.
25:11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of
them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth [his hands] to swim:
and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of
their hands.
25:12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he
bring down, lay low, [and] bring to the ground, [even] to the
dust.
[Isaiah 26]
26:1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of
Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will [God] appoint
[for] walls and bulwarks.
26:2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which
keepeth the truth may enter in.
26:3 Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is]
stayed [on thee]: because he trusteth in thee.
26:4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH
[is] everlasting strength:
26:5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty
city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, [even] to the ground;
he bringeth it [even] to the dust.
26:6 The foot shall tread it down, [even] the feet of the
poor, [and] the steps of the needy.
26:7 The way of the just [is] uprightness: thou, most
upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
26:8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited
for thee; the desire of [our] soul [is] to thy name, and to the
remembrance of thee.
26:9 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] in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will
learn righteousness.
26:10 Let favour be showed to the wicked, [yet] will he not
learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal
unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
26:11 LORD, [when] thy hand is lifted up, they will not see:
[but] they shall see, and be ashamed for [their] envy at the
people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
26:12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast
wrought all our works in us.
26:13 O LORD our God, [other] lords beside thee have had
dominion over us: [but] by thee only will we make mention of
thy name.
26:14 [They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are]
deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and
destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
26:15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast
increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed
[it] far [unto] all the ends of the earth.
26:16 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured
out a prayer [when] thy chastening [was] upon them.
26:17 Like as a woman with child, [that] draweth near the
time of her delivery, is in pain, [and] crieth out in her
pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
26:18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have
as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any
deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the
world fallen.
26:19 Thy dead [men] shall live, [together with] my dead body
shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for
thy dew [is as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out
the dead.
26:20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut
thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little
moment, until the indignation be overpast.
26:21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish
the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also
shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
[Isaiah 27]
27:1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong
sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even
leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon
that [is] in the sea.
27:2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
27:3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment:
lest [any] hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
27:4 Fury [is] not in me: who would set the briers [and]
thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would
burn them together.
27:5 Or let him take hold of my strength, [that] he may make
peace with me; [and] he shall make peace with me.
27:6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root:
Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world
with fruit.
27:7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him?
[or] is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are
slain by him?
27:8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate
with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
27:9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged;
and this [is] all the fruit to take away his sin; when he
maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are
beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
27:10 Yet the defenced city [shall be] desolate, [and] the
habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall
the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the
branches thereof.
27:11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be
broken off: the women come, [and] set them on fire: for it [is]
a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will
not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them
no favour.
27:12 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD
shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of
Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of
Israel.
27:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the great
trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to
perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of
Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at
Jerusalem.
[Isaiah 28]
28:1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim,
whose glorious beauty [is] a fading flower, which [are] on the
head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
28:2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, [which]
as a tempest of hail [and] a destroying storm, as a flood of
mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with
the hand.
28:3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be
trodden under feet:
28:4 And the glorious beauty, which [is] on the head of the
fat valley, shall be a fading flower, [and] as the hasty fruit
before the summer; which [when] he that looketh upon it seeth,
while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
28:5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of
glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his
people,
28:6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in
judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the
gate.
28:7 But they also have erred through wine, and through
strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet
have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine,
they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in
vision, they stumble [in] judgment.
28:8 For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so
that there is] no place [clean].
28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to
understand doctrine? [them that are] weaned from the milk,
[and] drawn from the breasts.
28:10 For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon
precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and]
there a little:
28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he
speak to this people.
28:12 To whom he said, This [is] the rest [wherewith] ye may
cause the weary to rest; and this [is] the refreshing: yet they
would not hear.
28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon
precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line;
here a little, [and] there a little; that they might go, and
fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
28:14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men,
that rule this people which [is] in Jerusalem.
28:15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with
death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing
scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we
have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid
ourselves:
28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in
Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner
[stone], a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make
haste.
28:17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness
to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of
lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
28:18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and
your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing
scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by
it.
28:19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you:
for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night:
and it shall be a vexation only [to] understand the report.
28:20 For the bed is shorter than that [a man] can stretch
himself [on it]: and the covering narrower than that he can
wrap himself [in it].
28:21 For the LORD shall rise up as [in] mount Perazim, he
shall be wroth as [in] the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his
work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange
act.
28:22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be
made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a
consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
28:23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my
speech.
28:24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and
break the clods of his ground?
28:25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not
cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in
the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in
their place?
28:26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, [and] doth
teach him.
28:27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing
instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the
cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the
cummin with a rod.
28:28 Bread [corn] is bruised; because he will not ever be
threshing it, nor break [it with] the wheel of his cart, nor
bruise it [with] his horsemen.
28:29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, [which]
is wonderful in counsel, [and] excellent in working.
[Isaiah 29]
29:1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city [where] David dwelt!
add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
29:2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness
and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
29:3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay
siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against
thee.
29:4 And thou shalt be brought down, [and] shalt speak out of
the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and
thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out
of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
29:5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like
small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones [shall be]
as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant
suddenly.
29:6 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder,
and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest,
and the flame of devouring fire.
29:7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against
Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and
that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
29:8 It shall even be as when an hungry [man] dreameth, and,
behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as
when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he
awaketh, and, behold, [he is] faint, and his soul hath
appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that
fight against mount Zion.
29:9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they
are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with
strong drink.
29:10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of
deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your
rulers, the seers hath he covered.
29:11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words
of a book that is sealed, which [men] deliver to one that is
learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I
cannot; for it [is] sealed:
29:12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned,
saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
29:13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw
near [me] with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me,
but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward
me is taught by the precept of men:
29:14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous
work among this people, [even] a marvellous work and a wonder:
for the wisdom of their wise [men] shall perish, and the
understanding of their prudent [men] shall be hid.
29:15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from
the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who
seeth us? and who knoweth us?
29:16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be
esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him
that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of
him that framed it, He had no understanding?
29:17 [Is] it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall
be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall
be esteemed as a forest?
29:18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the
book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and
out of darkness.
29:19 The meek also shall increase [their] joy in the LORD,
and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
29:20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the
scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut
off:
29:21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare
for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for
a thing of nought.
29:22 Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham,
concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed,
neither shall his face now wax pale.
29:23 But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands,
in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify
the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
29:24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to
understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
[Isaiah 30]
30:1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that
take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering,
but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
30:2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at
my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh,
and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
30:3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame,
and the trust in the shadow of Egypt [your] confusion.
30:4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came
to Hanes.
30:5 They were all ashamed of a people [that] could not
profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a
reproach.
30:6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of
trouble and anguish, from whence [come] the young and old lion,
the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their
riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures
upon the bunches of camels, to a people [that] shall not profit
[them].
30:7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose:
therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength [is] to
sit still.
30:8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in
a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
30:9 That this [is] a rebellious people, lying children,
children [that] will not hear the law of the LORD:
30:10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets,
Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things,
prophesy deceits:
30:11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path,
cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
30:12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye
despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness,
and stay thereon:
30:13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach
ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking
cometh suddenly at an instant.
30:14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters'
vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that
there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take
fire from the hearth, or to take water [withal] out of the pit.
30:15 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 would not.
30:16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses;
therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift;
therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
30:17 One thousand [shall flee] at the rebuke of one; at the
rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon
the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
30:18 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:
blessed [are] all they that wait for him.
30:19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou
shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the
voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
30:20 And [though] the Lord give you the bread of adversity,
and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be
removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy
teachers:
30:21 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.
30:22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images
of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou
shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto
it, Get thee hence.
30:23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou
shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the
earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy
cattle feed in large pastures.
30:24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the
ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with
the shovel and with the fan.
30:25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon
every high hill, rivers [and] streams of waters in the day of
the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
30:26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of
the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the
light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the
breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
30:27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning
[with] his anger, and the burden [thereof is] heavy: his lips
are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
30:28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach
to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of
vanity: and [there shall be] a bridle in the jaws of the
people, causing [them] to err.
30:29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night [when] a holy
solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth
with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the
mighty One of Israel.
30:30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be
heard, and shall show the lighting down of his arm, with the
indignation of [his] anger, and [with] the flame of a devouring
fire, [with] scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
30:31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be
beaten down, [which] smote with a rod.
30:32 And [in] every place where the grounded staff shall
pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, [it] shall be with
tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with
it.
30:33 For Tophet [is] ordained of old; yea, for the king it
is prepared; he hath made [it] deep [and] large: the pile
thereof [is] fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a
stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
[Isaiah 31]
31:1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on
horses, and trust in chariots, because [they are] many; and in
horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto
the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
31:2 Yet he also [is] wise, and will bring evil, and will not
call back his words: but will arise against the house of the
evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
31:3 Now the Egyptians [are] men, and not God; and their
horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out
his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is
holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
31:4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion
and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of
shepherds is called forth against him, [he] will not be afraid
of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so
shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and
for the hill thereof.
31:5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend
Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver [it; and] passing
over he will preserve it.
31:6 Turn ye unto [him from] whom the children of Israel have
deeply revolted.
31:7 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of
silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made
unto you [for] a sin.
31:8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a
mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him:
but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be
discomfited.
31:9 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and
his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD,
whose fire [is] in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
[Isaiah 32]
32:1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes
shall rule in judgment.
32:2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and
a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place,
as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
32:3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the
ears of them that hear shall hearken.
32:4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge,
and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak
plainly.