Israel's triumph over Babylon. CHAP. XV. The lamentable state of Moab. they shall take them captives, whose cap-in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy tives they were; and they shall rule over land, and slain thy people: the seed of their oppressors. evil-doers shall never be renowned. 3 And it shall come to pass in the day 21 Prepare slaughter for his children that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy for the iniquity of their fathers; that they sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill hard bondage wherein thou wast made to the face of the world with cities. serve, 22 For I will rise up against them, saith 4 That thou shalt take up this proverb the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babyagainst the king of Babylon, and say, How lon the name, and remnant, and son, and hath the oppressor ceased, the golden city nephew, saith the LORD. ceased! 23 I will also make it a possession for 5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the bittern, and pools of water: and I the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. will sweep it with the besom of destruc 6 He who smote the people in wrath tion, saith the LORD of hosts. with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. 7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.. 8 Yea, the fir-trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us. 9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth: it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. 10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us? 11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. 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! 24 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: 25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders. 26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. 27 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? 28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden. 29 ¶ Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. 30 And the first-born 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. 13 For thou hast said in thy 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, 31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High. 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times 32 What shall one then answer the inessengers of the nation? That the LORD 16 They that see thee shall narrowly hath founded Zion, and the poor of his look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, people shall trust in it. Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms: HE CHAP. XV. 17 That made the world as a wilder burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and ness, and destroyed the cities thereof: brought to silence; because in the night that opened not the house of his prisoners? Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to 18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own bouse. 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 carcass trodden under feet. silence; 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. 3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall 20 Thou shalt not be joined with them how!, weeping abundantly. Moab is threatened for pride. ISAIAH. Syria and Israel threatened. 4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh ; and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy sumtheir voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: mer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen. therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall 10 And gladness is taken away, and cry out; his life shall be grievous unto joy out of the plentiful field; and in the him. vineyards there shall be no singing, neither 5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his shall there be shouting: the treaders shall fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, a heifer of tread out no wine in their presses; I have three years old: for by the mounting up made their vintage-shouting to cease. of Luhith with weeping shall they go it 11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall like a harp for Moab, and mine inward raise up a cry of destruction. parts for Kir-haresh. 6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing. 7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows. 12 ¶ And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail. 13 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time. 14 But now the LORD hath spoken, 8 For the cry is gone round about the saying, Within three years, as the years of borders of Moab, the howling thereof unto a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer- contemned, with all that great multitude; elim. and the remnant shall be very small and 9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full feeble. of blood: for I will bring more upon Di CHAP. XVII. HE burden of Damascus. Behold, mon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab,muscus is taken away from being and upon the remnant of the land. CHAP. XVI. END ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. 2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering 3 The fortress also shall cease from bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damasof Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon. cus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall 3 Take counsel, execute judgment; be as the glory of the children of Israel, make thy shadow as the night in the midst saith the LORD of hosts. of the noon-day; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. 4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. 4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is 5 And it shall be as when the harvestat an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppres-man gathereth the corn, and reapeth the sors are consumed out of the land. ears with his arm; and it shall be as be 5 And in mercy shall the throne be es-that gathereth ears in the valley of Retablished: and he shall sit upon it in truth phaim. in the tabernacle of David, judging, and 6 ¶ Yet gleaning-grapes shall be left in seeking judgment, and hasting righteous- it, as the shaking of an olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost ness. 6 We have heard of the pride of bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful Moab; he is very proud: even of his branches thereof, saith the LORD God of haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath : Israel. but his lies shall not be so. 7 At that day shall a man look to his 7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to every one shall howl for the foundations the Holy One of Israel. of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn; surely 8 And he shall not look to the altars, the they are stricken. work of his hands, neither shall respect 8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, that which his fingers have made, either and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the the groves, or the images. heathen have broken down the principal 9 T In that day shall his strong cities be plants thereof, they are come even unto as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost Jazer, they wandered through the wilder-branch, which they left because of the ness: her branches are stretched out, they children of Israel: and there shall be deso are gone over the sea. 9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, lation. 10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the Rock of thy strength, therefore shalt Ethiopia to be destroyed. CHAP. XVIII, XIX. The confusion of Egypt. thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst with strange slips: of it. 11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant 2 And I will set the Egyptians against to grow, and in the morning shalt thou the Egyptians: and they shall fight every make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest one against his brother, and every one shall be a heap in the day of grief and of against his neighbour; city against city, desperate sorrow. and kingdom against kingdom. 12 Wo to the multitude of many peo- 3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in ple, which make a noise like the noise of the midst thereof: and I will destroy the the seas; and to the rushing of nations, counsel thereof; and they shall seek to the that make a rushing like the rushing of idols, and to the charmers, and to them mighty waters ! that have familiar spirits, and to the 13 The nations shall rush like the rush-wizards. ing of many waters: but God shall rebuke 4 And the Egyptians will I give over them, and they shall flee far off, and shall into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce be chased as the chaff of the mountains king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, before the wind, and like a rolling thing the LORD of hosts. before the whirlwind. 14 And behold at evening-tide 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. CHAP. XVIII. O to the land shadowing with 5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. 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. 7 The paper-reeds by the brooks, by W wings, which is beyond the rivers of the mouth of the brooks, and every thing Ethiopia: sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more. 2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the wa8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all ters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to they that cast angle into the brooks shall a nation scattered and peeled, to a people lament, and they that spread nets upon terrible from their beginning hitherto; a the waters shall languish. nation meted out and trodden down, 9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, whose land the rivers have spoiled! and they that weave net-works, shall be 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and confounded. dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. 10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish. 4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will 11 Surely the princes of Zoan are take my rest, and I will consider in my fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors dwelling-place like a clear heat upon of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, of harvest. the son of ancient kings? 5 For afore the harvest, when the bud 12 Where are they? where are thy is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in wise men? and let them tell thee now, the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs and let them know what the LORD of hosts with pruning-hooks, and take away and hath purposed upon Egypt. cut down the branches. 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. 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. CHAP. XIX. THE burden of Egypt. 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. 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. 15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do. 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. 17 And the land of Judah shall be ter To prideth upon swift cloud, and ror unto Es pt, every dare that maketh shall come into Egypt: and the idols of mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and because of the counsel of the LORD of The calling of Egypt. ISAIAH. The fall of Babylon foreshown. hosts, which he hath determined against it. through; so it cometh from the desert, from 18 In that day shall five cities in the a terrible land. land of Egypt speak the language of Ca- 2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; naan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; The treacherous dealer dealeth treache one shall be called, The city of destruction. rously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, 19 In that day shall there be an altar to O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighthe LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, ing thereof have I made to cease. and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD. 3 Therefore are my loins filled with 20 And it shall be for a sign and for a pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD was bowed down at the hearing of it; I because of the oppressors, and he shall send was dismayed at the seeing of it. them a saviou, and a great one, and he shall deliver them. 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. 4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath be turned into fear unto me. 5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield. 6 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth. 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 en- 7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of treated of them, and shall heal them. horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot 23 In that day shall there be a high- of camels; and he hearkened diligently way out of Egypt to Assyria, and the As- with much heed: syrian shall come into Egypt, and the 8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians stand continually upon the watch-tower shall serve with the Assyrians. in the day time, and I am set in my ward whole nights. 24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: 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. IN CHAP. XX. N the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it; 9 And behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And be answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground. 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. 11 T The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of 2 At the same time spake the LORD by the night? Watchman, what of the night! Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and 12 The watchman said, The morning loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and cometh, and also the night: if ye will input off thy shoe from thy foot. And he quire, inquire ye: return, come. did so, walking naked and barefoot. 13 The burden upon Arabia. In the 3 And the LORD said, Like as my ser- forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye tra vant Isaiah hath walked naked and bare-velling companies of Dedanim. foot three years for a sign and wonder up- 14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema on Egypt and upon Ethiopia; 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. 5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled. 15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. 16 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedarshall fail: 17 And the residue of the number of 6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall archers, the mighty men of the children of say, in that day, Behold, such is our ex- Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD pectation, whither we flee for help to be God of Israel hath spoken it. delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape? CHAP. XXI. THE burden of the desert of the sea. CHAP. XXII. HE burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the house-tops? 2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous The invasion of Jewry. CHAP. XXIII. The overthrow of Tyre. city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not 19 And I will drive thee from thy staslain with the sword, nor dead in battle. tion, and from thy state shall he pull thee 3 All thy rulers are fled together, they down. are bound by the archers: all that are 20 T And it shall come to pass in that found in thee are bound together, which day, that I will call my servant Eliakim, have fled from far. the son of Hilkiah: 4 Therefore said I, Look away from 21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I comfort me, because of the spoiling of the will commit thy government into his hand: daughter of my people. and he shall be a father to the inhabitants 5 For it is a day of trouble, and of tread- of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. ing down, and of perplexity by the Lord 22 And the key of the house of David GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, break-will I lay upon his shoulder: so he shall ing down the walls, and of crying to the open, and none shall shuf; and he shall mountains. shut, and none shall open. 6 And Elam bare the quiver with cha- 23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a riots of men and horsemen, and Kir un-sure place; and he shall be for a glorious covered the shield. throne to his father's house. 7 And it shall come to pass, that thy 24 And they shall hang upon him all choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, the glory of his father's house, the offand the horsemen shall set themselves in spring and the issue, all vessels of small array at the gate. quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons. 8 ¶ And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest. 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. 10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall. 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. CHAP. XXIII. of Parshish; for it is laid waste, so HE burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships that there is no house, no entering in: from 11 Ye made also a ditch between the the land of Chittim it is revealed to them. two walls for the water of the old pool; 2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; but ye have not looked unto the maker thou when the merchants of Zidon, that thereof, neither had respect unto him that pass over the sea, have replenished. fashioned it long ago. 3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations. 12 And in that day did the Lord GoD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sack- 4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the cloth : sea hath spoken, even the strength of the 13 And behold joy and gladness, slay-sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth ing oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, children, neither do I nourish up young and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; men, nor bring up virgins. for to-morrow we shall die. 5 As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report 14 And it was revealed in mine cars by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity of Tyre. shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GoD of hosts. 6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle. 15 Thus saith the Lord GoD of hosts, 7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry Shebna, which is over the house, and soy, her afar off to sojourn. 16 What hast thou here. and whom 8 Who hath taken this counsel against hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth are princes, whose traffickers are the hohim out a sepulchre on high, and that nourable of the earth? graveth a habitation for himself in a rock? 9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, 17 Behold, the LORD will carry thee to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring away with a mighty captivity, and will into contempt all the honourable of the surely cover thee. earth. 18 He will surely violently turn and toss 10 Pass through thy land as a river, O thee like a ball into a large country: there daughter of Tarshish: there is no more shalt thou die, and there the chariots of strength. thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house. 11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD |