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for we have made lies our refuge, and under out of the ground, and thy speech shall whis falsehood have we hid ourselves. per out of the dust.

16 ¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord GoD, 5 Moreover, the multitude of thy strangers Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, shall be like small dust, and the multitude of a tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth foundation: he that believeth shall not make away; yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly. baste. 6 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the Hame of devouring fire.

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.

13 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 8 It shall even be as when a hungry man down by it. dreameth, and behold, he eateth; but he

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.

19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a take you: for morning by morning shall it thirsty man dreameth, and behold, he drinkpass over, by day and by night; and it shall eth; but he awaketh, and behold, he is faint, be a vexation only to understand the report. and his soul bath appetite: so shall the mul20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can titude of all the nations be that fight against stretch himself on it; and the covering nar-mount Zion. rower than that he can wrap himself in it. 91 Stay yourselves,and wonder; cry ye out, 21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount and cry: they are drunken, but not with Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange 10 For the LORD hath poured out upon work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act. you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed 22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the your bands be made strong: for I have heard seers hath he covered. from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, 11 And the vision of all is become unto you even determined upon the whole earth. as the words of a book that is sealed, which 231 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; heark-men deliver to one that is learned, saying, en, and hear my speech. Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I can24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? not; for it is sealed. doth he open and break the clods of his ground? 12 And the book is delivered to him that

25 When he hath made plain the face is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and he saith, I am not learned. and scatter the cummin, and cast in the prin- 13 Wherefore the LORD said, Forasmuch cipal wheat, and the appointed barley, and as this people draw near me with their mouth, the rye, in their place? and with their lips do honour me, but have re26 For his God doth instruct him to dis-moved their heart far from me, and their fear cretion, and doth teach him. toward me is taught by the precept of men:

27 For the fitches are not thrashed with 14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a a thrashing instrument, neither is a cart-marvellous work among this people, even a wheel turned about upon the cummin; but marvellous work and a wonder; for the wisthe fitches are beaten out with a staff, and dom of their wise men shall perish, and the unthe cummin with a rod. derstanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

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?

28 Bread-corn is bruised; because he will not ever be thrashing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.

29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

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 under

CHAP. XXIX.

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JOE to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let standing? thein kill sacrifices.

17 Is it not yet a very little while, and

2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a unto me as Ariel. forest?

3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay seige against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee

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.

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,

19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

20 For the terrible one is brought to

nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all fire from the hearth, or to take water witha, that watch for iniquity are cut off:

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.

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.

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. 24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine. CHAP. XXX.

out of the pit.

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.

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.

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 moun. tain, and as an ensign on an hill.

181 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 judg

ment; blessed are all they that wait for him. 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. 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

WOE to the rebellious children, saith the
LORD, that take
but not of
me; and that cover with a covering, but not
of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and
have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen
themselves in the strength of Pharaoli, and
to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh
be your shame, and the trust in the shadow teachers:
of Egypt your confusion.

4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

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.

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.

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.

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 23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall to a people that shall not profit them. be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.

7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

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.

81 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;

25 And there shall be upon every high

9 That this is a rebellious people, lying mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers children, children that will not hear the law and streams of waters in the day of the great of the LORD: slaughter, when the towers fall.

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:

11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be seven-fold, 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.

27 ¶ Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the bur

12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in den thereof is heavy; his lips are full of indig oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: nation, and his tongue as a devouring fire: 13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you 28 And his breath as an overflowing stream, as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift

high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there at an instant. shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people,

14 And he shall break it as the breaking of causing them to err. the potter's vessel that is broken in pieces; 29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night he shall not spare: so that there shall not be when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness found in the bursting of it a sherd to take of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to

come into the mountain of the LORD, to the be dim; and the ears of them that hear shall mighty One of Israel.

hearken.

4 The heart also of the rash shall under

30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting stand knowledge, and the tongue of the stamdown of his arm, with the indignation of his merers shall be ready to speak plainly. anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, 5 The vile person shall be no more called with scattering, and tempest, and hail-stones. liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful. 31 For through the voice of the LORD shall 6 For the vile person will speak villany, and the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypowith a rod. crisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry; and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy

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.

33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the poor with lying words, even when the the king it is prepared: he hath made it deep needy speaketh right. and large; the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.

CHAP. XXXI.

WOR JOE to them that go down to Egypt for help, and stay on horses, and trust in 10 Many days and years shall ye be trouchariots, because they are many; and in horse-bled, ye careless women: for the vintage men, because they are very strong but they shall fail, the gathering shall not come. look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!

11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.

12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

13 Upon the land of my people shall come

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 evil-doers, and against the help of them that work iniquity. 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; up thorns, and briers, yea, upon all the houses and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When of joy in the joyous city: 14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen the multitude of the city shall be left; the shall fall down, and they all shall fail together. forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a

4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; Like as the lion and the young lion roaring 15 ¶ Until the Spirit be poured upon us on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitis called forth against him, he will not be ful field, and the fruitful field be counted for afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for a forest. the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.

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. 6 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

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.

81 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.

9 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his shall be the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem,

9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.

CHAP. XXXII.

EHOLD, a king shall reign in righteous

16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance for ever.

18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting-places,

19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.

CHAP. XXXIII.

OE to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal trea

2 And a man shall be as an hiding-place 20 LORD, be gracious unto us; we have from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; waited for thee: be thou their arm every as rivers of water in a dry place; as the sha-morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. dow of a great rock in a weary land.

3 And the eyes of them that see shall not

3 At the noise of the tumult the people

fled; at the lifting up of fayself the nations our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will were scattered.

save us.

4 And your spoil shall be gathered like the 23 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could gathering of the caterpillar: as the running not well strengthen their mast; they could to and fro of locusts shall be run upon them. not spread the sail: then is the prey of a 5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on great spoil divided; the lame take the prey. high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.

24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity. CHAP. XXXIV.

6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.

7 Behold, their valiant ones shall ery with-COME, near, ye nations, to hear; and hearlet the bear, and out: the ambassadors of peace shall weep all that is therein; the world, and all things bitterly. that come forth of it.

ken, ye

8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth; he hath broken the covenant, he nath despised the cities, he regardeth no

man.

9 The earth mourneth and languisheth; Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down; Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.

4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig-tree.

5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

131 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might.

6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood; it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sa

the land of Idumea.

14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fear-crifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in fulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? 7 And the unicorns shall come down with who among us shall dwell with everlasting them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and burnings? their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of 8 For it is the day of the LORD's vengeoppressions, that shaketh his hands from hold-ance, and the year of recompences for the ing of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from controversy of Zion. hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil.

9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burn. ing pitch.

16 He shall dwell on high; his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks; bread shall be given him, his waters shall be sure. 17 Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty; they shall behold the land that is very far off.

10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever:

11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of empti

10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.

11 Ye shall conceive chaff; ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall de

vour you.

12 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime; as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?

For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.

3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of deeper speech than thou canst per-ness. ceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.

13 And thorns shall come up in her pala

20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be ta-ces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses ken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall thereof; and it shall be an habitation of draever be removed, neither shall any of the gons, and a court for owls. cords thereof be broken:

14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screechowl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.

15 There shall the great owl make her nest,

21 But there the glorious LORD will be into us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. 22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is

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and lay, and hatch, and gather under her 51 say, sayest thou, (but they are but vair shadow: there shall the vultures also be ga-words.) I have counsel and strength for war: thered, every one with her mate. now, on whom dost thou trust, that thou re

16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and bellest against me? read; no one of these shall fail, none shall 6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this browant her mate for my mouth it hath com-ken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, manded, and his spirit it hath gathered them. it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him. 7 But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?

17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein. CHAP. XXXV.

8 Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able

THE wilderness, and the solitary place,

them; shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. 2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing; the glory of Le-on thy part to set riders upon them. banon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carme! and Sharon; they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.

3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

10 And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? The LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

1 Then said Eliakim, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee,

4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not; behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you. 5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be open-unto thy servants in the Syrian language; ed, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped: 6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart. and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

for we understand it and speak not to us in the Jews language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass, with reeds and rushes.

But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee, to speak these words hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?

131 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with And an highway shall be there, and a a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, way, and it shall be called, The way of holi-Hear ye the words of the great king, the ness; the unclean shail not pass over it; but king of Assyria: it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.

14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for he shall not be able to deliver you.

9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon. it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there.

15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely de

10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall re-liver us: this city shall not be delivered into turn, and come to ion with songs, and ever- the hand of the king of Assyria. Jasting joy upon their heads they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. CHAP. XXXVI.

16 Hearken not to Hezekiah; for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every ye every one

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year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.

9 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

21 And the king of Assyria sent Rabsliakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, unto king Hezekiah, with a great army: and he stood by the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fuller's field."

3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son,

the recorder.

4 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

and the waters of his own cistern; 17 Until i come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

18 Beware, lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

20 Who are they among all the gods of these lands that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

21 But they held their peace, and answered

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