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the kingdom from Damascus: and the rem-and in vessels of bulrushes upon the wanant of Syria shall be as the glory of theters. Go, ye swift angels, to a nation rent children of Israel: saith the Lord of hosts. and torn in pieces: to a terrible people, af4 And it shall come to pass in that day, ter which there is no other: to a nation exthat the glory of Jacob shall be made thin,pecting and trodden under foot, whose land and the fatness of his flesh shall grow lean. the rivers have spoiled: 5 And it shall be as when one gathereth 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, who in the harvest that which remaineth, and his dwell on the earth, when the sign shall be arm shall gather the ears of corn: and it lifted up on the mountains, you shall see, shall be as he that seeketh ears in the vale and you shall hear the sound of the trumpet: of Raphaim.

6 And the fruit thereof that shall be left upon it, shall be as one cluster of grapes, and as the shaking of the olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of a bough, or four or five upon the top of the tree, saith the Lord the God of Israel.

7 In that day man shall bow down himself to his Maker, and his eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel.

4 For thus saith the Lord to me: I will take my rest, and consider in my place, as the noon light is clear, and as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest.

5 For before the harvest it was all flourishing, and it shall bud without perfect ripeness, and the sprigs thereof shall be cut off with pruning hooks: and what is left shall be cut away and shaken out.

6 And they shall be left together to the 8 And he shall not look to the altars birds of the mountains, and the beasts of which his hands made: and he shall not the earth: and the fowls shall be upon them have respect to the things that his fingers all the summer, and all the beasts of the wrought, such as groves and temples of idols. earth shall winter upon them. 9 In that day his strong cities shall be forsaken, as the ploughs, and the corn that were left before the face of the children of Israel, and thou shalt be desolate.

7 At that time shall a present be brought to the Lord of hosts, from a people rent and torn in pieces: from a terrible people, after which there hath been no other, from a na10 Because thou hast forgotten God thy Sa- tion expecting, expecting and trodden unviour, and hast not remembered thy strong der foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, helper: therefore shalt thou plant good to the place of the name of the Lord of plants, and shalt sow strange seed. hosts, to mount Sion.

11 In the day of thy planting shall be the wild grape, and in the morning thy seed shall flourish: the harvest is taken away in

the day of inheritance, and shall grieve thee

much.

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HE burden of Egypt: Behold the Lord

will ascend upon a swift cloud, and will 12 Wo to the multitude † of many people, enter into Egypt, and the idols of Egypt like the multitude of the roaring sea: and shall be moved at his presence, and the the tumult of crowds, like the noise of heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst theremany waters. of.

13 Nations shall make a noise like the 2 And I will set the Egyptians to fight noise of waters overflowing, but he shall against the Egyptians: and they shall fight rebuke him, and he shall flee far off: brother against brother, and friend against and he shall be carried away as the dust friend, city against city, kingdom against of the mountains before the wind, and as a kingdom. whirlwind before a tempest.

14 In the time of the evening, behold there shall be trouble: the morning shall come, and he shall not be: this is the portion of them that have wasted us, and the lot of them that spoiled us.

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3 And the spirit of Egypt shall be broken in the bowels thereof, and I will cast down their counsel; and they shall consult their idols, and their diviners, and their wizards, and soothsayers.

4 And I will deliver Egypt into the hand of cruel masters, and a strong king shall rule over them, saith the Lord the God of hosts.

5 And the water of the sea shall be dried up, and the river shall be wasted and dry.

6 And the rivers shall fail: the streams of the banks shall be diminished, and be dried up. The reed and the bulrush shall wither away.

7 The channel of the river shall be laid bare from its fountain, and every thing sown by the water shall be dried up, it shall wither away, and shall be no more.

Angels. Or messengers.

8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all to the Assyrians, and the Egyptians shall that cast a hook into the river shall lament, serve the Assyrian.

and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish away.

9 They shall be confounded that wrought in flax, combing and weaving fine linen. 10 And its watery places shall be dry, all they shall mourn that made pools to take fishes.

11 The princes of Tanis are become fools, the wise counsellors of Pharao have given foolish counsel; how will you say to Pharao I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings:

24 In that day shall Israel be the third to the Egyptian and the Assyrian: a blessing in the midst of the land,

25 Which the Lord of hosts hath blessed, saying: Blessed be my people of Egypt, and the work of my hands to the Assyrian : but Israel is my inheritance.

CHAP. XX.

The ignominious captivity of the Egyptians, and the Ethiopians.

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IN the year that Tharthan entered into Azotus, when Sargon the king of the 12 Where are now thy wise men? let Assyrians had sent him, and he had fought them tell thee, and shew what the Lord of against Azotus, and had taken it: hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. 2 At that same time the Lord spoke by

13 The princes of Tanis are become the hand of Isaias the son of Amos, saying: fools, the princes of Memphis are gone Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy astray, they have deceived Egypt, the stay loins, and take off thy shoes from thy feet. of the people thereof. And he did so, and went naked, and bare

14 The Lord hath mingled in the midst foot. thereof the spirit of giddiness: and they 3 And the Lord said: As my servant have caused Egypt to err in all its works, Isaias hath walked naked and bare-foot, it as a drunken man staggereth and vomiteth. shall be a sign and a wonder of three years 15 And there shall be no work for Egypt, upon Egypt, and upon Ethiopia, to make head or tail, him that bendeth 4 So shall the king of the Assyrians lead down, or that holdeth back. away the prisoners of Egypt, and the cap16 In that day Egypt shall be like unto tivity of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and women, and they shall be amazed, and bare-foot, with their buttocks uncovered to afraid, because of the moving of the hand the shame of Egypt.

of the Lord of hosts, which he shall move 5 And they shall be afraid, and ashamed of Ethiopia their hope, and of Egypt their

over it.

17 And the land of Juda shall be a terror glory. to Egypt: every one that shall remember 6 And the inhabitants of this isle shall it shall tremble, because of the counsel ofsay in that day: Lo this was our hope, to the Lord of hosts, which he hath determin-whom we fled for help, to deliver us from ed concerning it. the face of the king of the Assyrians: and how shall we be able to escape!

18 In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt, speaking the language

CHAP. XXI.

of Chanaan, and swearing by the Lord of The destruction of Babylon by the Medes hosts: one shall be called the city of the

sun.

and Persians; a prophecy against the Edomites, and the Arabians.

whirlwinds come from the south, it

HE burden of the desert of the sea.

19 In that day there shall be an altar of the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt,| and a monument of the Lord at the borders cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. thereof: 2 A grievous vision is told me: he that is 20 It shall be for a sign, and for a testi- unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully: and he that mony, to the Lord of hosts in the land of is a spoiler, spoileth. Go up, O Elam,† be Egypt. For they shall cry to the Lord besiege, O Mede: I have made all the mourncause of the oppressor, and he shall sending thereof to cease. them a saviour and a defender to deliver 3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain,

them.

21 And the Lord shall be known by Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day, and shall worship him with sacrifices and offerings: and they shall make vows to the Lord, and perform them.

22 And the Lord shall strike Egypt with a scourge, and shall heal it, and they shall return to the Lord, and he shall be pacified towards them, and heal them.

23 In that day there shall be a way from Egypt to the Assyrians, and the Assyrian shall enter into Egypt, and the Egyptian

anguish hath taken hold of me, as the allthe hearing of it, I was troubled at the seeguish of a woman in labour: I fell down at ing of it.

Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to 4 My heart failed, darkness amazed me:

me.

5 Prepare the table, behold in the watch

*The desert of the sea. So Babylon is here called, because, from a city as full of people as the sea is with water, it was be come a desert.

to Elam. That is, O Persia.

tower them that eat and drink: arise, yel 2 Full of clamour, a populous city, a joyprinces, take up the shield. ous city: thy slain are not slain by the

6 For thus hath the Lord said to me:sword, nor dead in battle. Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever 3 All thy princes are fled together, and he shall see, let him tell. are bound hard: all that were found, are

7 And he saw a chariot with two horse-bound together; they are fled far off. men, a rider upon an ass, and a rider upon 4 Therefore have I said: Depart from a camel: and he beheld them diligently me; I will weep bitterly: labour not to with much heed. comfort me, for the devastation of the

8 And as a lion, he cried out: 1 am upon daughter of my people. the watch-tower of the Lord standing con- 5 For it is a day of slaughter, and of tinually by day and I am upon my ward, treading down, and of weeping to the Lord standing whole nights. the God of hosts in the valley of vision, 9 Behold this man cometh, the rider upon searching the wall, and magnificent upon the chariot with two horsemen, and he an-the mountain. swered, and said: Babylon is fallen, she is fallen, and all the graven gods thereof are broken unto the ground.

6 And Elam took the quiver, the chariot of the horseman, and the shield was taken down from the wall.

10 O my threshing, and the children of 7 And thy choice valleys shall be full of my floor, that which I have heard of the chariots, and the horsemen shall place themLord of hosts the God of Israel, I have de-selves in the gate. clared unto you.

8 And the covering of Juda shall be dis11 The burden of Duma† calleth to me covered, and thou shalt see in that day the out of Seir: Watchman, what of the night? armoury of the house of the forest. watchman, what of the night? 9 And you shall see the breaches of the 12 The watchman said: The morning city of David, that they are many and you cometh, also the night: if you seek, seek have gathered together the waters of the return, come.

13 The burden in Arabia. In the forest at evening you shall sleep, in the paths of Dedanim.

14 Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you that inhabit the land of the south, meet with bread him that fleeth.

lower pool,

10 And have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and broken down houses to fortify the wall.

11 And you made a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: and you have not looked up to the maker 15 For they are fled from before the thereof, nor regarded him even at a disswords, from the sword that hung overtance, that wrought it long ago. them, from the bent bow, from the face of 12 And the Lord the God of hosts in that a grievous battle. day shall call to weeping, and to mourning,

16 For thus saith the Lord to me: With-to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: in a year, according to the years of a hire- 13 And behold, joy and gladness, killing ling, all the glory of Cedart shall be taken calves, and slaying rams, eating flesh, and away. drinking wine: Let us eat, and drink; for 17 And the residue of the number of to-morrow we shall die. strong archers of the children of Cedar shall 14 And the voice of the Lord of hosts be diminished: for the Lord the God of was revealed in my ears: Surely this iniIsrael hath spoken it. quity shall not be forgiven you till you die, saith the Lord God of hosts.

CHAP. XXII.

15 Thus saith the Lord God of hosts; Go, The prophet laments the devastation of Juda. get thee in to him that dwelleth in the He foretels the deprivation of Sobna, and tabernacle, to Sobna who is over the temthe substitution of Eliacim, a figure of ple: and thou shalt say to him: 16 What dost thou here, or as if thou HE burden of the valley of vision. What wert somebody here? for thou hast hewed

Christ.

Taileth thee also, that thou too art wholly thee out a sepulchre here, thou hast hewed

gone up to the house tops?

• A rider upon an ass, &c. These two riders are the kings of the Persians and Medes.

† Duma. That is, Idumea, or Edom. Cedar. Arabia.

out a monument carefully in a high place, a dwelling for thyself in a rock.

17 Behold, the Lord will cause thee to be carried away, as a cock is carried away, and he will lift thee up as a garment.

18 He will crown thee with a crown of tribulation, he will toss thee like a ball into a large and spacious country: there shalt

The valley of vision. Jerusalem. The temple of Jerusalem was built upon mount because it was lower than the temple, or Moria, or the mountain of vision. But the because of the low condition to which it city is here called the valley of vision; either was to be reduced.

thou die, and there shall the chariot of thy 11 He stretched out his hand over the glory be, the shame of the house of thy sea, he troubled kingdoms: the Lord hath Lord.

19 And I will drive thee out from thy station, and depose thee from thy ministry. 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliacim the son of Helcias,

given a charge against Chanaan, to destroy the strong ones thereof,

12 And he said: Thou shalt glory no more, O virgin daughter of Sidon, who art oppressed: arise, and sail over to Cethim, there also thou shalt have no rest. 21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, 13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; and will strengthen him with thy girdle, there was not such a people; the Assyrian and will give thy power into his hand: and founded it: they have led away the strong he shall be as a father to the inhabitants of ones thereof into captivity; they have des Jerusalem, and to the house of Juda. troyed the houses thereof; they have brought it to ruin.

22 And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder: and he shall open, and none shall shut: and he shall shut, and none shall open.

23 And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place, and he shall be for a throne of glory to the house of his father.

14 Howl, O ye ships of the sea; for your strength is laid waste.

15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that thou, O Tyre, shalt be forgotten, seventy years, according to the days of one king but after seventy years, there shall be unto Tyre as the song of a harlot.

16 Take a harp; go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten: sing well, sing many a song, that thou mayst be re

24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, divers kinds of vessels, every little vessel, from the vessels of cups even to every instrument of music. 25 In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, membered. shall the peg be removed, that was fastened 17 And it shall come to pass after sevenin the sure place and it shall be broken ty years, that the Lord will visit Tyre, and and shall fall: and that which hung thereon, will bring her back again to her traffic; shall perish, because the Lord hath spoken and she shall commit fornication again with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

it.

CHAP. XXIII.

The destruction of Tyre. It shall be repaired again after seventy years.

THE burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of the sea, for the house is destroyed, from whence they were wont to come from the land of Cethim it is revealed to them.

2 Be silent, you that dwell in the island: the merchants of Sidon passing over the sea, have filled thee.

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18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be sanctified to the Lord: they shall not be kept in store, nor laid up: for her merchandise shall be for them that shall dwell before the Lord, that they may eat unto fulness, and be clothed for a continu ance.

CHAP. XXIV.

The judgments of God upon all the sinners of the world. A remnant shall joyfully praise

him.

EHOLD, the Lord shall lay waste the

3 The seed of the Nile in many waters, Beth, and shall strip it, and shall affict

:

the harvest of the river is her revenue and she is become the mart of the nations.

4 Be thou ashamed, O Sidon : for the sea speaketh, even the strength of the sea, saying: I have not been in labour, nor have I brought forth, nor have I nourished up young men, nor brought up virgins.

5 When it shall be heard in Egypt, they will be sorry when they shall hear of Tyre: 6 Pass over the seas, howl, ye inhabitants of the island.

the face thereof, and scatter abroad the inhabitants thereof.

2 And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest; and as with the servant, so with his master: as with the handmaid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with him that calleth for his money, so with him that oweth, 3 With desolation shall the earth be laid 7 Is not this your city, which gloried waste; and it shall be utterly spoiled; for from of old in her antiquity? her feet shall the Lord hath spoken this word. carry her afar off to sojourn. 4 The earth mourned, and faded away, 8 Who hath taken this counsel against and is weakened: the world faded away Tyre that was formerly crowned, whose the height of the people of the earth is merchants were princes, and her traders weakened. the nobles of the earth?

5 And the earth is infected by the inha9 The Lord of hosts hath designed it, to bitants thereof: because they have trans pull down the pride of all glory, and bring gressed the laws: they have changed the to disgrace all the glorious ones of the earth.

10 Pass thy land as a river, O daughter|| of the sea, thou hast a girdle no more.

Sanctified to the Lord. This alludes to the conversion of the Gentiles.

covenant.

ordinance; they have broken the everlasting|| 22 And they shall be gathered together 6 Therefore shall a curse devour the pit; and they shall be shut up there in prias in the gathering of one bundle into the earth; and the inhabitants thereof shall sin: son: and after many days they shall be visitand therefore they that dwell therein shall ed. be mad and few men shall be left. :

23 And the moon shall blush, and the sun 7 The vintage hath mourned; the vine shall be ashamed, when the Lord of hosts hath languished away; all the merry heart-shall reign in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, ed have sighed. and shall be glorified in the sight of his ancients.

8 The mirth of timbrels hath ceased: the noise of them that rejoice is ended; the melody of the harp is silent.

CHAP. XXV.

A canticle of thanksgiving for God's judg ments and benefits.

9 They shall not drink wine with a song: the drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. 10 The city of vanity is broken down : thee, and give glory to thy name; for LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt every house is shut up; no man cometh in. thou hast done wonderful things, thy de11 There shall be a crying for wine in signs of old, faithful, amen. the streets all mirth is forsaken: the joy of the earth is gone away.

12 Desolation is left in the city; and calamity shall oppress the gates.

2 For thou hast reduced the city to a strangers: to be no city, and to be no more heap, the strong city to ruin, the house of built up for ever:

3 Therefore shall a strong people praise thee: the city of mighty nations shall fear

13 For it shall be thus in the midst of the earth, in the midst of the people, as if a few olives, that remain, should be shaken out of thee. the olive-tree; or grapes, when the vintage is ended.

4 Because thou hast been a strength to 14 These shall lift up their voice, and tress; a refuge from the whirlwind, a shathe poor, a strength to the needy in his disshall give praise; when the Lord shall be dow from the heat. For the blast of the glorified, they shall make a joyful noise mighty is like a whirlwind beating against a from the sea. wall.

15 Therefore glorify ye the Lord in instruction; the name of the Lord God of Israel in the islands of the sea.

strangers, as heat in thirst: and as with 5 Thou shalt bring down the tumult of 16 From the ends of the earth we have the branch of the mighty to wither away. heat under a burning cloud, thou shalt make heard praises, the glory of the just one. 6 And the Lord of hosts shall make unto And I said: My secret to myself, my secret all people in this mountain, a feast of fat to myself, wo is me: the prevaricators have things, a feast of wine, of fat things full of prevaricated; and with the prevarication of marrow, of wine purified from the lees. transgressors they have prevaricated.

7 And he shall destroy in this mountain

17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are the face of the bond with which all people upon thee, O thou inhabitant of the earth. 18 And it shall come to pass, that he that all nations. were tied, and the web that he began over shall flee from the noise of the fear, shall fall into the pit: and he that shall rid him-ever: and the Lord God shall wipe away 8 He shall cast death down headlong for self out of the pit, shall be taken in the tears from every face: and the reproach of snare: for the flood-gates from on high are his people he shall take away from off the opened; and the foundations of the earthwhole earth: for the Lord hath spoken it. shall be shaken. 9 And they shall say in that day: Lo, this

19 With breaking shall the earth be bro-is our God; we have waited for him, and ken; with crushing shall the earth be crush-he will save us this is the Lord; we have ed; with trembling shall the earth be moved, patiently waited for him; we shall rejoice 20 With shaking shall the earth be and be joyful in his salvation. shaken as a drunken man, and shall be re- 10 For the hand of the Lord shall rest moved as the tent of one night: and the in this mountain: and Moabt shall be trodiniquity thereof shall be heavy upon it; and den down under him as straw is broken in it shall fall and not rise again. 21 And it shall come to pass, that in that 11 And he shall stretch forth his hands day the Lord shall visit upon the host of heaven on high, and upon the kings of the earth, on the earth.

pieces with the wain.

under him, as he that swimmeth stretcheth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down his glory with the dashing of his hands. 12 And the bulwarks of thy high walls The host of heaven on high. The stars, which in many places of the Scripture are so called. Some commentators explain that eternal punishment, from which they can Moab. That is, the reprobate, whose these words here signify the demons of the no way escape, is described under these air.

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