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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 24 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, nations in anger, is persecuted, and none saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall 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 artlaid down, no feller is come up againstu againstus. 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.

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

12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O broken: for out of the serpent's root shall Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall cut down to the ground, which didst be a fiery flying serpent.

weaken the nations!

30 And the first-born of the poor shall

13 For thou hast said in thy heart, I feed, and the needy shall lie down in safewill ascend into heaven, I will exalt my ty: and I will kill thy root with famine, throne above the stars of God: I will sit and he shall slay thy remnant. also upon the mount of the congregation, 31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, in the sides of the north: whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and

14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High. none shall be alone in his appointed times 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to 32 What shall one then answer the meshell, to the sides of the pit. sengers 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:

CHAP. XV. THE burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and

17 That made the world as a wilderness, 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 silence; of them, lie in glory, every one in his own 2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dihouse. bon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall 19 But thou art cast out of thy grave howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on like an abominable branch, and as the all their heads shall be baldness, and every raiment of those that are slain, thrust beard cut off.

through with a sword, that go down to the 3 In their streets they shall gird themstones of the pit; as a carcass trodden selves with sackcloth: on the tops of their under feet. 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 vineyards there shall be no singing, neither

him.

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 12 And it shall come to pass, when desolate: for the hay is withered away, the it is seen that Moab is weary on the high grass faileth, there is no green thing. place, that he shall come to his sanctuary

7 Therefore the abundance they have to pray; but he shall not prevail. gotten, and that which they have laid up, 13 This is the word that the LORD hath shall they carry away to the brook of the spoken concerning Moab since that time. willows. 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.

9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land. CHAP. XVI.

to the ruler of the

END ye the lamb SENI land from Sela to the wilderness, unto

the mount of the daughter of Zion.

2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

CHAP. XVII.

THE burden of Damascus. Behold, is taken away from being

a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damas cus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall saith the LORD of hosts.

3 Take counsel, execute judgment; be as the glory of the children of Israel,

make thy shadow as the night in the midst 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 Tatness of his flesh shall wax

4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab be thou a covert to them from the lean. face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is 5 And it shall be as when the harvest

at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

man gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be

as he

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 6Yet 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 upperniost

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 of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn; surely

they are stricken.

the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars, the
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 In that day shall his strong cities be plants thereof, they are come even unto as a forsaken bough, and an uppermest 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 desoare gone over the sea.

lation.

9 Therefore I will bewail with the 10 Because thou hast forgotten the God weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: Iof thy salvation, and hast not been mindial will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, of the Rock of thy strength, therefore shalt

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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 before the wind, and like a rolling thing 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.

W TO to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:

2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.

king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted anddried 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 the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.

8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave net-works, shall be confounded.

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 ing in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.

13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived;

6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts they have also seduced Egypt, even they of the earth: and the fowls shall summer that are the stay of the tribes thereof. upon them, and all the beasts of the earth

shall winter upon them.

14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have

7 In that time shall the present be caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit. scattered and peeled, and from a people. 15 Neither shall there be any work for terrible from their beginning hitherto; a Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or nation meted out and trodden under foot, rush, may do.

whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.

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 CHAP. XIX. LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it. T HE burden of Egypt. 17 And the land of Judah shall be a terLORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and ror unto Egypt, every one 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

Behold, the

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 Ca2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; naan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; The treacherous dealer dealeth treacheone 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. Egypt, 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 because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a savious, 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.

22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be entreated of them, and shall heal them.

23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.

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.

CHAP. XX.

was bowed down at the hearing of it; 1 was dismayed at the seeing of it.

4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he 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.

7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:

8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watch-tower in the day time, and I am set in my ward whole nights.

9 And behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.

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.

N the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and 11 The burden of Dumah. He calltook it; eth 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 Joose 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.

3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;

13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye tra velling companies of Dedanim. The

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The inhabitants Companies of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.

4 Soshall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopi- 15 For they fled from the swords, from ans captives, young and old, naked and the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, barefoot, even with their buttocks unco- and from the grievousness of war. vered, to the shame of Egypt.

16 For thus hath the LORD said unto me,

5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed Within a year, according to the years of a of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail: 17 And the residue of the number of

their glory.

nished: for the LORD

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: pectation, whither we flee for help to be God of Israel hath spoken it. delivered from the king of Assyria: and CHAP. XXII. how shall we escape? THE burden of the valley of vision.

T

CHẬP. XXI.

HE burden of the desert of the
As whirlwinds in the south pass

TH What aileth thee now, that thou art

wholly gone up to the house-tops?
2 Thouthat 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 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 1 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 God of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.

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

23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a

6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir un-sure place; and he shall be for a glorious covered the shield.

7 And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.

throne to his father's house.

24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.

8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to 25 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, the armour of the house of the forest. shall the nail that is fastened in the sure 9 Ye have seen also the breaches of place be removed, and be cut down, and the city of David, that they are many: fall; and the burden that was upon it shall and ye gathered together the waters of be cut off for the LORD hath spoken it. the lower pool. CHAP. XXIII.

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

11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool; but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.

12 And in that day did the Lord Gop of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

THE burden of

T

Tyre. Howl, ye ships

of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou when the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.

4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the 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, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we shall die.

children, neither do I nourish up young
men, nor bring up virgins.

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 Gop of hosts.

6 Pass ye over to Tarshish: howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.

15 Thus saith the Lord Gop 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

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