ISALAHI. A prophecy of Chris's kingdom. 31 And the strong shall be as tow, flifted up; and he shall be brought low and the maker of it as a spark, and 13 And upon all the cedars of Leba they shall both burn together, and non, that are high and lifted up, and none shall quench them. upon all the oaks of Bashan, CHAP. II. THE HE word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 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 Cow unto it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lono, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plow-shares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 50 house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord. 14 And upou all the high mountains, and upon all the bills that are lifted up, is And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall, 16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures. 17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of inen shall be made low; and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. 18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish. 19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lead,and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for him. self to worship, to the moles and to the bats; 21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Loao,and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth 6 ¶ Threfore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because 22 Cease ye from man, whose breath they be replenished from the east, is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to and are soothsayers like the Philis-be accounted of? tines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers. 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; 8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: CHAP. III. Fonte doth take away from Jeru NOR,behold,the LORD, the LORD of salem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread,and the whole stay of water, 2 The mighty mau, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, 3 The captain of fifty, and the hon. ourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the elo. 9 And the mean man boweth down, 4 And I will give children to be their princes,and babes shall rule over them. 5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall be have himself proudly against the an cient, and the base against the bon 10 T Enter into the rock, and hide thee m the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. 11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. ourable. 12 For the day of the Lond of hosts] 6 When a man shall take hold of his shall be upon every one that is proud brother, of the house of his father, and lofty, and upon every one that is saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou Christ's kingdom shall CHAP. IV, V. be a sanctua3Ý our ruler, and let this ruin be under and the mantles, and the wimples, thy hand; and the crisping-pins, 7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people. 8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory. il not. 9 T The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide Wo unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves 10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 11 Wo unto the wicked it shall be ill with him; for the reward of his hands shall be given him. 121 As for my people, children are their oppressore, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. 13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people. 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. 15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of nusta. 16 Moreover, the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are laughty, and walk with stretched-forth necks and wauton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet; 17 Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts. 23 The glasses, and the fine liuen, and the hoods, and the vails. 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. 25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. 26 And her gates shall lament and inourn; and alie, being desolate, shall sit upon the ground. CHAP. IV. 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. 21 In that day shall tlie branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be ex cellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. 3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that re mainreth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written Jamong the living in Jerusalem: 4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion. and shall have purged the blood of Je rusalem from the midst thereof, by the spirt of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. 5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling-place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cload and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon al. the glory shall be a defence. 6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day-time from the 18 In that day the LORD will take heat, and for a place of refuge, and for away the bravery of their tinkling a covert from storm and from raiu. ornaments about their feet, and their CHAP. V. cauls, and their round tires like the NOW will 1 sing to my well belov moon, 19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the muflers, 20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the head-bands, and the tablets, and the ear-rings, 21 The rings, and nose jewels, 22 The changeable suits of apparel,] ed a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well-beloved hau a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: 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 Judgmunts on ISAIAH. impidly and injustice. should bring forth grapes, and it brought humbled, and the eyes of the lofte shall be humbled. forth wild grapes. 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and ny vineyard. 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? 16 But the Lord of Hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness. 17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. 18 Wo unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart-rope: 6 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it 19 That say, Let him make speed, shall be eaten up; and break down and hasten his work, that we may see the wall thereof, and it shall be trod-it: and let the counsel of the Holy Ous den down: of Israel draw nigh and come, that 6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not we may know it! be pruned, nor digged; but there shall 20 Wo unto them that call evil come up briers and thorns: I will also good, and good evil; that put dark command the clouds that they rainness for light, and light for darkness; no rain upon it. that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 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. STT Wo 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! 9 In mine ears, said the LORD of hosts, of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. 10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah. 11 T Wo unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them! 21 Wo uuto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their. own sight! 22 Wo unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: 23 Which justify the wicked for re ward, and take away the righteous ness of the righteous from him! 24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenuess, 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. 25 Therefore is the anger of the LORU kindled against his people, and he hatu stretched forth bis hand against them, 12 And the harp, and the viol, the and hath smitten them; and the hills tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their did tremble, and their carcases were feasts: but they regard not the work torn in the midst of the streets. For of the LORD, neither consider the ope-all this his anger is not turned away, ration of his hands. but his band is stretched out still. 13 TTherefore my people are gone] 26 T And he will lift up an ensign to into captivity, because they have no the nations from far, and will, hiss knowledge; and their honourable unto them from the end of the earth : inen are famished, and their multi-fand, behold, they shall come with tude dried up with thirst. 14 Therefore hell bath enlarged her self, and opened her mouth without ineasure and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it. 15And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be speed swiftly : 27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: 28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs Isaiah'vision. CHAP. VI, VII. Ahaz is comforted shall be counted like flint, and their without man, and the land be utterly wheels like a whirlwind: 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. desolate, 12 And the LORD have removed mes far away, and there be a great forsuking in the midst of the land. 13 But yet in it shal; be a tenths, |and it shall return, and shall be eaten: 30 And in that day they shall roar as a teil-tree, and as an oak, whose against them like the roaring of the substance is in them, when they cast sea: and if one look unto the land, be- their leaves, so the holy seed shall be hold darkness and sorrow,and the light the substance thereof. is darkened in the heavens thereof. CHAP. VL IN sitting upon a N the year that king Uzziah died throne, high and lifted up,and his train filled the temple. 2 Above it stood the seraphims: each Que had six wingo; with twain be covered bis face, and with twain be covered his feet, and with twain he uid Лy. 3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of nosta: the whole carth is full of his glory, And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 Then said I, Wo is me! for I am audone; 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 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: 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 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; seud me. CHAP. VII. AND it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the sou 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. 2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with E phraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind. 3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou,and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the high way of the fullers's field: 4 And say unto him, Take beed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of those smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. 5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah,have taken evil coun sel against thee, saying, 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 Thus saith the Lord GoD, It shall not stand,neither shall it come to pass. 8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, 9 ¶ And he said, Go, and tell this and the head of Damascus is Rezin; people, Hear ye indeed, but under-and within threescore and five years stand not; and see ye indeed, but per-shall Ephraim be broken,that it be not ceive not. a people. 10 Make the heart of this people fat, 9 And the bead of Ephraim is Sama and make their eyes heavy, and shut ria, and the head of Samaria is Remas their eyes: lest they nee with their lialı's son, If ye will not believe, eyes, and hear with their ears, and un-surely ye shall not be established. derstand with their heart, and con- 10 T Moreover the LORD spake again vert, and be healed. unto Ahaz, saying, 11 Then said I,Lono, how long? And be answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses 11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. Christ promised. ISAIAH. 12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask,neiher will 1 tempt the LORD. Israei threatened CHAP. VIII. 13 And he said, Hear ye now, 0 house MOREOVER, the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and of David; Is it a small thing for you write in it with a man's pen concernto weary men, but will ye weary my ing Maher-shalal-hash-baz. God also? 14 Therefore the Lond himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. 16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings. 2 And I took unto me faithful wit nesses to record, Uriah the priest,and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah. 3 And I went unto the prophetess and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Maher shalal-hash-baz; 4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria. 17 ¶ The LORD shall bring upon thee, 6 T The LORD spake also unto me and upon thy people, and upon thy fa-again, saying, ther's house, days that have not come, 6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth from the day that Ephraim departed the waters of Shiloal that go softly, and from Judah; even the king of Assyria. | rejoice in Rezin and Remaliab's son ; 18. And it shall come to pass in that 7 Now therefore, behold, the Lond day, that the LORD shall hiss for the bringeth up upon them the waters of fly that is in the uttermost part of the the river, strong and many, even the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that king of Assyria, and all his glory; and is in the land of Assyria. he shall come up over all his channels, 19 And they shall come, and shall and go over all his banks. rest all of them in the desolate valleys, 8 And he shall pass through Judab ; and in the holes of the rocks, and upou be shall overflow and go over; he shall all thorus, and upon all bushes. reach even to the neck and the 27 In the same day shall the LORD stretching out of his wings shall fill shave with a razor that is hired, name-the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel. Ty, by them beyond the river, by the 9T Associate yourselves,O ye people, king of Assyria, the head, and the hair and ye shall be broken in pieces; and of the feet: and it shall also consume 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. the beard. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow and two sheep: 10 Take counsel together,and it shall 22. And it shall come to pass, for the come to nought; speak the word, and abundance of milk that they shall give, it shall not stand: for God is with us. that he shall eat butter: for butter and 11 For the LORD spake thus to me honey shall every one eat that is left|with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, in the land. 23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines, at a thousand silverings, it sliall even be for briers and thorns. 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, 13 Sauctify the LORD of hosts hiniself'; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. 24 With arrows and with bows shall] men come thither because all the land shall become briers and thorns. 25. And on all hills that shall be dig. 14 And he shall be for a sanctuary ; ged with the mattock, there shall not but for a stone of stumbling, and fora Come thither the fear of briers and rock of offence, to both the houses of thorus: but it shall be for the sending Israel; for a gin and for a snare to the forth of oxen, and for the treading of inhabitants of Jerusalem. lesser cattle. 15 And many among them shall stum |