'•i^: « '-'-■.■ '•• ^. _, .* - y. /. . -^ Division Section '^- _*?■■ :S\b\s., On<^\\jsW.Ci;. 'J. L^e.'^ ci IP>-.^. [First revision : — Private ami confidential?^ ISAIAH. I. I The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw, concerning Jiidah and Jerusalem; in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken : I have 1 nourished and brought up children, and they • Or, made have rebelled against me. 3 The ox knoweth fJS/"'^^''" his owner, and the ass his master's crib: Israel Ezek. xxxi.4. doth not know, my people doth not consider. 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that deal corruptly: they have forsaken the Lord, they have pro- voked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are estranged and gone backward. 5 Why will ye be stricken any more, why will ye revolt more and more ? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it ; but wounds, and bruises, and festering sores : they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil. 7 Your country is a desola- tion, your cities are burned with fire : your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is a desolation, ^as overthrown by strangers. 8 And l^;;^;^^. the daughter of Zion is left as a booth m a vine- siniu^n-rs. yard, as" a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. 9 Except the Lord of hosts had 2 ISAIAH. 1.9. left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah. 10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. 1 1 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 1 2 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, the trampling of my courts? 13 Bring no more a vain oblation ; incense is an abomination unto me ; new moon and sabbath, the calling of as- ' Or, I cannoi semblies, I cannot away with; ^even the solemn awaywu/i meeting is iniquity. 14 Your new moons and ttiK/utfv and * . i r 11 1 1 t/w soft'inn your appomted leasts my soul hateth : they are a trouble unto me ; I am weary to bear them. 1 5 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you : yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. 16 Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord : though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow ; though they be red like crim- son, they shall be as wool. 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land : 20 but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be de- voured with the sword : for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. 21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! VI id i Hi: I. 21. ISAIAH. 3 she that was full of judgment ; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers. 22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: 23 thy princes are rebellious, companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards : they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. 24 Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of • hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies: 25 and I will turn my hand upon thee, and will purge away thy dross as with lye, and will take away all thy 'tin: 26 and I will restore ' Or, lead. thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city. 27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and 2 her converts with righteousness. 28 But the ].^^;^^l^'^j' j^f ^destruction of the transgressors and of the ^Hch.break'. sinners shall be together, and they that for- '"s- sake the Lord shall be consumed. 29 For they shall be ashamed of the *oaks which ye \'^^^jj"''- have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. 30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. 31 And the strong shall become tow, and his work as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them. II. I The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 And it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the moun- tain 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 flow unto A 2 4 ISAIAH. n. 2. it. 3 And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, 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 between the nations, and shall reprove many peoples: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the li^ht of the Lord. 6 For thou hast for- saken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be filled luitk ciLstoms from the east, and with soothsayers like the Philistines, 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 also is 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. ' Or, is ixnved 9 And the mean man ^ boweth down, and the i%'i'ishu,n- great man ^humbleth himself : therefore forgive biedl them not. lo Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, from before the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty. 1 1 The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. 1 2 For there is a day of the Lord of hosts against all that is proud and haughty, and against all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low: 13 and against all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and Hfted up, and against all the oaks of Ba- slian, 14 and against all the high mountains, and II. 13. ISAIAH. 5 against all the hills that are lifted up, 15 and against every lofty tower, and against every fenced wall, 16 and against all the ships of Tar- shish, and against all pleasant imagery. 1 7 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low : and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. 18 And the idols shall utterly pass away. 19 And they shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the dust, from be- fore the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 20 In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made for him to worship, to the moles and to the bats; 21 to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils : for where- in, in is he to be accounted of.'* i For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, 2 the mighty man, and the man of war ; the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the ancient ; 3 the captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counseller, and the cunning artificer, and the skilful enchanter. 4 And I will give children to be their princes, and ^ babes shall rule over them. 5 And the • Or, t.vV// people shall be oppressed, every one by another, i/fjl^;'-;^,/^.. and every one by his neighbour : the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable. 6 When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying. Thou hast apparel, be thou 6 ISAIAH. III. 6. our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand : 7 in that day shall he lift up his voice, saying, I ' Heb. bin,ier will not be an Miealer; for in my house is neither "/• bread nor apparel : thou shalt not make me 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 -Or, TM7- eyes of his glory. 9 ^The shew of their counte- rt-spccting of nauce doth witness against them ; and they de- ^sons 0 , ^jg^j,^ their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. 10 Say ye of the righteous, that 2'^ shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 1 1 Woe unto the wicked ! it shall be ill ivith him: for the reward of his 3 Heb. done to hands shall be ^given him. 12 As for my people, him. their oppressors are children, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee 4 Heb. cause thee to err, and ^destroy the way of thy nociiiou'iip. paths. 13 The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the peoples. 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 crush my people, and grind the faces of the poor ? saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts. 16 Moreover the Lord said. Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and w^alk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, w^alking 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 lay bare their secret parts. 18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their anklets, and iOx,,uiwo,i.s. the ''cauls, and the crescents, 19 the pendants. in. 19- ISAIAH. 7 and the bracelets, and the mufflers, 20 the head tires, and the ankle chains, and the sashes, and the ^perfume boxes, and the amulets, ' Heb. //^/wj 21 the rings, and the nose jewels, 22 the ^I'^''^^"^- changes of apparel, and the mantles, and the shawls, and the satchels, 23 the hand mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the veils. 24 And it shall come to pass, that in- stead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness ; and instead of a girdle a rope ; and instead of well set hair baldness ; and instead of a sto- macher a girding of sackcloth : branding instead of beauty. 25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy -mighty in the war. 26 And her gates - Heb. w/V/5/. shall lament and mourn ; and she being '^deso- ^ Or. emptied. IV. late shall sit upon the ground, i And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel : only let us be called by thy name ; take thou away our reproach. 2 In that day shall the branch of the Lord be glorious and honourable, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and beautiful for them that are escaped of Israel. 3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written ■* among the -• iicb. louo 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 spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. 5 And the Lord will create upon "'the whole habita- ^^^^^r-'^'O' (. ,-,. ^1 1 11- imdlnig place. tion of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night : for over all the glory shall be a canopy. 6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from 8 ISAIAH. IV. 6. the heat, and for a refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain. V. I Now will I sing ^of my wellbeloved a song 'Or, /c. of my beloved touching his vineyard. My Mieb. <7/w;/, wellbeloved had a vineyard in ^a very fruitful > ^"'".f^!%f hill : 2 and he ^made a trench about it, and t)^ii-k>foiir' gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it Ikmi'il^'^'''^ with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein : and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my 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 ? 5 And now go to ; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard ; I will take ^ Or, I'l/niL away the hedge thereof, and it shall be "* eaten up ; I will break down the fence thereof, and it shall be trodden down : 6 and I will lay it waste : it shall not be pruned, nor hoed ; but there shall come up briers and thorns : I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of sHcb. //r7/// Judah ^his pleasant plant: and he looked for oj his delight, judgment, but behold oppression ; for righteous- ness, but behold a cry. 8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no room, and ye be placed alone in the midst of the land ! 9 In mine ears saith the Lord of hosts. Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. 10 For tcn acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, V. lo. ISAIAH. 9 and the seed of an homer shall yield but an ephah. 1 1 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink ; that tarry late in the twilight, till wine ^inflame ■ Or, pursue them ! 1 2 And the harp and the lute, the '^'""• tabret and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts : but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither have they considered the operation of his hands. 13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, for lack of knowledge: and ^ their = Heb. ///«> honourable men are famished, and their ^multi- ^fjaZ^nT^" tude are parched with thirst. 14 Therefore ^Or.wm/M.or, * hell hath enlarged her desire, and opened her Tnih.sheoi. mouth without measure : and their glory, and their •'•multitude, and their pomp, and he that = Or, 7cw/m. rejoiceth among them, descend into it. 15 And the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is humbled, and the eyes of the lofty are humbled: 16 but the Lord of hosts is exalted in judgment, and God the Holy One is sancti- fied in righteousness. 1 7 Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall ^wanderers eat. <>is. stood above him : each one had six wings ; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts : his glory -filleth the whole earth. 4 And the =Heb. wM<' foundations of the thresholds were moved at ^^kouStT the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 Then said I, Woe is me ! for I am ^ undone ; because I am a man 3 Heb. cut off. 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 seraphim unto me, having in his hand a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs from . ofl" the altar : 7 and he made it to touch my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips ; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin '^purged. 8 And I heard •» Or, expiated. the voice of the Lord, saying. Whom shall I send, and who will go for us ? Then said I, Here am I ; send me. 9 And he said. Go, and tell this people. Hear ye ^indeed, but under- ^0\;conti- stand not ; and see ye ^indeed, but perceive not. """ ^' 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes ; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and be healed. 1 1 Then said I, Lord, how long ? And he answered, Until cities be wasted without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land be wasted to desolation, 12 and the Lord have removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many in the midst of the land. 13 And though there be left in it a tenth, it shall again be \^il);'l'//l i,, consumed : as a terebinth, and as an oak, ^' whose than. 12 I SAT AH. VI. I ' Or, cast their leaves. = Or, tin- hdv )s<»4 sJmH he'the ^ substance thereof. VII. stock remaineth, when they ^ are felled stock thereof is a holy seed. the :? Ileb. hath \ rested on Ephraim. * That is, A remnant shall return. I And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to 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 Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest 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 highway of the fuller's field. 4 And thou shalt say unto him. Take heed, and be quiet ; fear not, neither let thine heart faint because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. 5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have coun- selled evil 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 Tabeel : 7 Thus saith the Lord God, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass. 8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin : and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken in pieces, that it be not a people : 9 and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established. 10 And the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, saying, 11 Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy VII. II. ISAIAH. 13 God; ^ask it either in the depth, or in the ' According to 1-1, 1 T-« Ai -IT -11 some ancient height above. 12 But Ahaz said, I will not authorities, ask, neither will I tempt the Lord, n And »'"'''- i^ f/^'P ^ he said, Hear ye now, O house of David ; Is it too small a thing for you to weary men, but ye will weary my God also ? 14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign ; Behold, ^ ^a virgin ^shall conceive, and bear a son, and J S""' '^'''t • ,\ ^ shall call his name ^Immanuel. 15 Butter and child anT '^ ^ honey shall he eat, ^when he knoweth to refuse ("q'''"''''') the evil, and choose the good. 16 For before o virgin, ' the child shall know to refuse the evil, and fy^at'fs* choose the good, the land shall be forsaken, God -with us. .. of whose two kings thou art sore afraid. 1 7 The \2l'hmt *^^' Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim de- parted from Judah ; even the king of Assyria. 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all pas- tures. 20 In that day shall the Lord shave with the hired razor that is in the borders of the river, even with the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet : and it shall also consume the beard. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep ; 2 2 and it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter : for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the midst of the land. 23 And it shall come to pass in that day. 14 ISAIAH. VIII. 23. ' Or, thoH shall vol come tliither for fear of briers and thorns, bid il shall be, &'c. Or, there shall vot come thither, &=€. VIII. = That is, Speed t/ie spoil, hasten the prey. 3 See vii. 14, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns, 24 With arrows and with bow shall one come thither ; because all the land shall be briers and thorns. 25 And all the hills that were digged with the Ouju mattock, ^ where never came the fear of briers {^>jl^ and thorns, shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep. I And the Lord said unto me. Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it with the pen of a man, Concerning ^Maher-shalal-hash-baz ; 2 and I will take unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah, 3 And I went unto the pro- phetess ; and she conceived, and bare a son. And the Lord said unto 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 carried away before the king of Assyria. 5 The Lord spake also unto me yet again, saying, 6 Forasmuch as this people hath re- fused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son ; 7 now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory : and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks : 8 and he shall pass through Judah ; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck ; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, ^ O Immanuel. v^' w;/SS/v. 9 /Associate yourselves, O ye peoples, and ye shall be broken in pieces ; and give ear, all VIII. 9- ISAIAH. 15 ye of far countries : gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in -pieces ; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. 10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought ; speak the word, and it shall not stand : for ^ God is • iieb. imma- with us. ""-'■'^' II For the Lord spake thus to me -in the '^ Heb. in might of his hand, and instructed me that I should f„Zf.^ "^ not walk in the way of this people, saying, 1 2 Say ye not, A conspiracy, concerning all whereof this people shall say, A conspiracy ; neither shall ye fear their fear, nor be in dread. 13 The Lord of hosts, him shall ye sanctify ; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread, 14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And ^many shall stumble thereon, and fall, ^ Or, many and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. Thaiuunuhie, 16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among ««'^>^A ^<:' my disciples, i 7 And I will wait for the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. 18 Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me arc for siorns and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. 19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits and unto 4 or, if they ^vW the wizards, that chirp and that mutter : should ;^)!fy/„rA/M/j not a people seek unto their God ? sJioiild they 7 . shall fret themselves, and curse by then- king ///,„. 1 6 ISAIAH. Yiii. 21. and by their God ; and they shall turn their faces upward, 22 and they shall look unto the earth ; and behold trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish and thick darkness, driven away. IX. I ^ For there shall be no gloom to her that was fviii. 23 in in anguish. In the former time he abased the > Or,£,it. land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he hath made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of [ix. I in Heb.] the nations. 2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light : they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. 3 Thou hast mul- ' Another tiplied the nation, ^thou hast not increased the ]mh^lfiZ'n joy • they joy before thee according to the joy hast increased. [^ harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. 4 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, hast thou broken as in the day of Midian. 5 For all the armour of the armed man in the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, they shall be for burning, for the fuel of fire. 6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given : 3 Or, f>rinci- and the ^government shall be upon his shoulder: ^'^'"■^'' and his name shall be called Wonderful, Coun- seller, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his ^govern- ment and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with judgment and with righteousness from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts shall perform this. 8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. 9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in pride and in stoutness of heart, 10 The bricks are fallen, but wc will build with hewn stone : the syco- IX. lo. ISAIAH. 17 mores are cut down, but we will change them for cedars. 1 1 Therefore the Lord shall set up on high the adversaries of Rezin against him, and shall ^ stir up his enemies; 12 the '^^, Join to- Syrians -on the East, and the Philistines ^on the 'tn?!*^' °'' West; and they shall devour Israel with open ' S'' ^■^'/'''• , T- 11 1 • 1 • • ^ ■, ^ Or> behind. mouth, ror all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. > 13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts. 14 Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day. 15 The ancient and the honourable man, he is the head ; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. 16 For they that lead this people cause them to err ; and they that are led of them are ^ destroyed. 17 There- -• Heb. .w,.-/- fore the Lord shall not rejoice over their young ^"''""'^ "f- men, neither shall he have mercy on their fatherless and widows : for every one is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 1 8 For wickedness burneth as the fire ; it shall devour the briers and thorns : and it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in towering smoke. 19 Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people are as the fuel of fire : no man shall spare his brother. 20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry ; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied : they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm: 21 Manasseh, Ephraim ; and Ephraim, ^ Manasseh: aftd. they together shall be against ^ Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. i8 ISAIAH. X. I. X. I Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write grievous- ness. 2 To turn aside the needy from their right, and to take away the judgment of the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and they rob the fatherless ! 3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far ? to whom will ye flee for help ? and where will ye leave your glory ? 4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. /£^Ox,Ho 5 -^Woe to Asshur, the rod of mine anger ; Assyrian. |-|-jg staff in whose hand is mine indignation. 6 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the » Heb. to prey, and '^to tread them down like the mire ^"akefhcm a ^f ^^ strects. 7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, treading down. i i i • i i • i ... ^Tt^'-J neither doth his heart think so ; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few. 8 For he saith. Are not my princes all together kings ? 9 Is not Calno as Carche- mish ? is not Hamath as Arpad ? is not Sama- ria as Damascus ? 10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols ; and their graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria ; 1 1 shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols ? 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath finished all his work upon 3Hcb. zmv mount Zion and on Jerusalem, Twill ^punish u/>on. ^-^Q fruit of the stout heart of the king of As- syria, and the glory of his high looks. 13 For he hath said, By the strength of my hand I X. 13. ISAIAH. 19 have done it, and by my wisdom ; for I am prudent : and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and I have brought down ^the inhabitants hke ^ Or, thos^ that a mighty man : 14 and my hand hath found SrJne"]. as a nest the riches of the peoples : and as one gathereth eggs that are forsaken, have I gathered all the earth ; and there was none that moved the wing, or that opened the mouth, or chirped. 15 Shall the ax boast itself against him that heweth therewith ? shall the saw mag- nify itself against him that shaketh it ? as if a rod should shake them that lift it up, as if a staff should lift up hiin that is no wood. 16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness ; and ^under his glory there shall burn a burning ^ Ov, instead like the burning of fire. 17 And the light of "-^" Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame : and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day ; 1 8 and shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body : and it . shall be ^as when a standardbearer fainteth. ^ Or, as -w/n-n ^^ 19 And the remnant of the trees of his forest j>i,u-th a-liy. ''^ shall be ^few, that a child may write them. < Heb. a .._ 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, """'^'■'''■ that the remnant of Israel, and they that are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them ; but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 21 ^A remnant shall return, siuh. s/icar- even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty -^'"e'vii. 3. God. 22 For though *^thy people, O Israel, ^Or, thy peopu be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall return ^thereof: a consumption is determined, ? iieb. /;/ //. overflowing with righteousness. 23 For a consummation, and that determined, shall the B 2 20 ISAIAH. X. 23. Lord, the Lord of hosts, make in the midst « Or, land. of all the ^ earth. 24 Therefore thus saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of Asshur : though he smite thee with the rod, and lift up his staff against thee, = Ox,intiie 2^f(-gj. ^he manner of Egypt. 25 For yet a '"'-^'' very litde while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger, in their destruction. 26 And the. Lord of hosts shall stir up against him a scourge, as in the slaughter of IVIidian at 3 Or, as his the rock of Oreb : and ^his rod shall be over 7ki^^'ska!i the sea, and he shall lift it up after the manner he, &c. of Egypt. 27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall depart from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and * Or, becaKse thg yoke shall be destroyed ^by reason of fat- o/n^eancmt- ^^^^^ ^g y^^ .^ come uuto Aiath, he is passed through Migron ; at Michmash he layeth up his baggage : 29 they are gone over the passage : they have taken up their lodging at Geba ; Ramah trembleth ; Gibeah of Saul is fled. 30 Cry aloud with thy voice, O daughter of ^' Gallim : hearken, O Laishah, O thou poor Ana- / thoth. 31 Madmenah is a fugitive; the in- habitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee. 32 As yet to day shall he halt at Nob : he shaketh his hand at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. 33 Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror : and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the lofty shall be brought low. 34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one. XI. I And there shall come forth a shoot out of XI. I. ISAIAH. 21 the stock of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots : 2 and the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding-, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; 3 and Miis -delight shall be in the fear ^Or, shall of the Lord : and he shall not judge after the '""';'''"»'// sight 01 his eyes, neither reprove after the standing. hearing of his ears : 4 but he shall judge the "" ^^*^^" •^'''■'"'* ' poor with righteousness, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth : and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. 5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. 6 And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid ; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together ; and a little child shall lead them. 7 And the cow and the bear shall feed ; their young ones shall lie down together : and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the ^basilisk's den. 9 They shall not hurt ^Q)x,adacr's. nor destroy in all my holy mountain : for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, *as the waters that cover the sea. * Ox, as waters 10 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the root of Jesse, which standeth for an ensign of the peoples, unto him shall the nations seek : and his resting-place shall be ^glorious. ^ Heb. ^lory. 1 1 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall again the second time re- cover with his hand the remnant of his people, which shall remain, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and 22 ISAIAH. XI. II. » Heb. Edo>?i and Moab shall be the putting forth of their hand. = Heb. the children of A in mo 71 their clk'dience. j^i 3 Or, dcTote. '^ < Or, mighty. XII. s Or, let thine anger turn away and comfort thoii tne. 6 Ileb. J AH JEHOVAH. 7 Or, proclaim his name. " Heb. inha- /•itrcss. from Elam. and from Shinar, and from Ha- math, and from the islands of the sea. 1 2 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall gather the outcasts of Israel, and assemble together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. 13 And the envy of Ephraim shall depart, and they that vex Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. 14 And they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the west ; they shall spoil the children of the east together : ^ they shall put forth their hand upon Edom and Moab ; ^and the children of Ammon shall obey them. 15 And the Lord shall ^utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea ; and with his '^scorching wind shall he shake his hand over the River, and shall smite it into seven streams, and cause men to march over dryshod. 16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall remain, from Assyria ; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt, i And in that day thou shalt say, I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, for thou wast angry with me ; ^ thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortest me. 2 Behold, God is my salvation ; I will trust, and will not be afraid: for^the Lord JE- HOVAH is my strength and song; he also is become my salvation. 3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salva- tion. 4 And in that day shall ye say. Give thanks unto the Lord, '''call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted. 5 Sing unto the Lord ; for he hath done excellent things : let this be known in all the earth. b Cry aloud and shout, thou ^inhabitant of XII. 6. ISAIAH. 23 Zion : for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee. XIII. I The ^burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the ^ Or, oracu son of Amoz did see. 2 Set ye up a banner '^"'^'■'•^''""s- upon the bare mountain, lift up the voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. 3 I have commanded my sanctified, I have also called .my mighty ones for mine anger, even ^my proudly exulting ones. ' Or, than that 4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, )Trknc's's. '"^ * like as of a great people ; the noise of a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered to- gether : the Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle. 5 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. 6 Howl ye ; for the day of the Lord is at hand; as destruction from '^the ^^^"^-Shad- Almighty shall it come. 7 Therefore shall all xvii. i, ^^^' / hands be feeble and every heart of man shall melt: 8 and they shall be troubled : pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them ; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail : they shall be amazed one at another ; their faces are faces of flame. 9 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and he shall destroy the sin- ners thereof out of it. 10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light : the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. 1 1 And I will visit upon the world their evil, and upon the wicked their iniquity ; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. 12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold ; even a man than the 24 ISAIAH. XIII. 13. golden wedge of Ophir. 13 Therefore I will » Heb. as GoiVs oz'cr- ihrowing of. beasts of 0 '^« r- * <^r, wild C bea"s(s of the islands. Ileb. lim. I L I 5 Or, answer. ^4'^^^ Or, jackals. XIV. make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. 14 And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathereth, they shall turn every man to his own people, and flee every man to his own land. 15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through ; and every one that is joined imio them shall fall by the sword. 16 Their infants shall also be dashed in pieces before their eyes ; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. 1 7 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them; which shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. 18 And their bows shall dash the young men in pieces ; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb ; their eye shall not spare the children. 19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be ^as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall shepherds make their flocks to lie down there. 21 But ^hissing creatures shall lie there ; and their houses shall be full of ^screech owls; and ostriches shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. 22 And "^howling creatures shall ^cry in their castles, and ^dragons in the pleasant palaces : and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. I For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land : and the stranger shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacol). 2 And the peoples shall take them, and XIV. 2. ISAIAH. 25 bring them to their place : and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and for handmaids: and they shall take them captive, whose captives they were ; and they shall rule over their oppressors. 3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy trouble, and from the hard service wherein thou wast made to serve, 4 that thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased ! the ^golden city ceased ! 5 The Lord « Or, exiuin-si hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre ^Is^^^^- of the rulers; 6 ^that smote the peoples in wrath \Or, He who. with a continual stroke, "^hat ruled the nations ^Ohliethat. in anger, ■^with a persecution that spared not. ^ q^ /jkyj-,?- 7 The wdiole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they atted,aud none break forth into singing. 8 Yea, the fir trees ^'""^"''^''^ rejoice at thee, the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no hewer cometh up against us. 9 ^Hell from beneath is moved for ^ iieb. i,7;.w. thee to meet thy coming : it stirreth up the ^dead for thee, even all the '^ chief ones of the * Heb. _^ earth ; it hath raised up from their thrones all ,f.'^^^ r the kings of the nations. 10 All they shall s^^*^ answer and say unto thee, Thou also art be- come weak as we ; thou art become like unto us. 1 1 Thy pomp is brought down to ^'hell, a?id » iieb. sheoi. the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee. 12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the morn- ing ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst lay the nations prostrate! 13 And thou saidst in thine heart, I will climb up into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God ; and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north : 14 I will climb up upon the heights 26 ISAIAH. XIV. 14. of the clouds; I will be like the most High. ^ n&h. s/uvi. 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to Miell, to the uttermost parts of the pit. 1 6 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, they shall consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake king- doms : 1 7 that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cites thereof; that let not ' loose his prisoners to their home ? 18 All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, every one in his own house. 19 But thou art cast out away from thy sepulchre like an abo- »0r, as///^ minable branch, -clothed with the slain, that are Tko'se'thafare thrust through with the sword, that go down slain. to the stoues of the pit ; as a carcase trodden under foot. 20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people ; the seed of evildoers shall not be named for ever. 2 1 Pre- pare ye slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they rise not up, and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities. 22 And I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and cut oft' from Babylon name and remnant, and son, and son's son, saith the Lord. 23 I will also make it a 3 Or, hedgehog, a possessiou for the ^bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruc- tion, saith the Lord of hosts. 24 The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so hath it come to pass ; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand : 25 to break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains will I tread him under foot : that his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulder. 26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth : XIV. 26. ISAIAH. 27 XV. Or, adder. JL "Or, places of assembly. 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 Philistia, because the rod that smote thee is broken : for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a ^ basilisk, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. 30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety : and I will kill thy root with famine, and thy remnant shall be slain. 31 Howl, O gate ; cry, O city ; thou whol-e- Philistia art, melted away : for there cometh a smoke out of the north, and none standeth aloof at his ^ appointed times. 32 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation ? That the Lord hath founded Zion, and in her shall the poor of his people take refuge. I The "^ burden of Moab. For in a night Ar ^Ox, oracle of Moab is laid waste, it is brought to nought ; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, it is brought to nought. 2 He is gone up to the house, even to Dibon, to the high places, to weep : Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba : on all their heads shall be baldness, every beard shall be cut off. 3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth : on their housetops, and in their broad places, every one of them shall howl, weeping abundantly. 4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh : their voice shall be heard even unto J ahaz: there- fore the armed men of Moab shall shout ; his life is grievous unto him. 5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; her fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, ^as an heifer of three years old : for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping shall they conccrniiii. < Or, to Ej^ath shelisliiiah. 28 ISAIAH. XV. 5. go up ; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction. 6 For the waters « iieb. dc'sohi- of Nimrim shall be ^ desolate : for the grass is ''""'' withered away, the tender grass faileth, there is no crreen 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. 8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab ; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer- elim. 9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood : for I will bring yet more upon Dimon, a lion upon him that escapeth of Moab, and XVI. upon the remnant of the land, i Send ye the 'Or, Petm: lamb for the ruler of the land from ^Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. 2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird, a nest deserted, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon. 3 Give coun- sel, execute judgment ; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday : hide 3 Or, accord- the outcasts ; bewray not the wanderer. 4 ^Let anac^it ver-^ mine outcasts dwell with thee ; as for Moab be 'ss\on^. Let the thou 2, covert to him from the face of the outcasts of ., r A ^ • • i i Moab dwell spoiler : lor * the extortioner is brought to Tox^^xtortion ^o'^g^^'t, spoiHng ccascth, the ^oppressors are ^s,5 HeV>. the consumed out of the land. treaders down. _ ^ p^^^ ^ thronc is established in mercy, and one sitteth thereon in truth, in the tent of Da- ^ Uch. s/eedjf. yid, judging, and seeking judgment, and ^prac- tised in righteousness. 6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud ; of his arrogancy, and his pride, and his wrath ; his boastings are nought. 7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl : y Or, /o,aria- for the ^raisin-cakes of Kir-hareseth shall ye moan, utterly stricken. 8 For the fields of Ileshbon languish, the vine of Sibmah ; «' I. SI XVII. XVI. 8. ISAIAH. 29 ^ the lords of the nations have broken down the « Or, her choice plants thereof, they reached even unto '^^'f'<^f pi<'"j^ \ ii-"^! Ml 1 did break d(mn Jazer, they wandered into the wilderness; her the lords of \ branches were spread abroad, they passed over "'''"''"• the sea. 9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah : I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh : for upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest a shout is fallen. 10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field ; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither joyful noise : no treader shall tread out wine in the presses ; I have made the vintage shout to cease. 1 1 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-heres. 12 And it shall come to pass, when Moab hath presented himself, when he hath wearied himself upon 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 spake concerning Moab -of old. 14 But now the -- Ox, pom that Lord hath spoken, saying. Within three years, ^"'"• as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude ; and the remnant shall be very small and ^of no account. ^?\l!'»""'"^' I The ^burden of Damascus. Behold, Da- ^Jrr'/iji". mascus is taken away from beinq- a city, and it ' ^J""- '"':'^^' shall be a ruinous heap. 2 1 he cities ot 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 ^ Damascus ; and the 'y^l'IZ'", ' remnant of S)Tia, they shall be as the glory of amnh.-rem-^ the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts. Zy/t'/''''' 4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that 30 ISAIAH. XVII. 4. the o-lory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. 5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the standing corn, and his arm reapeth the ears ; yea it shall be as one that gleaneth ears in the valley of Rephaim. 6 And there shall be left ^v •Or,.?r^/ iicb. //ort concern- ing Egypt, so, &^c. 5 Or, 7v/iose feet carried, ^c. * I leb. pro- fane. 7 Thai is, the Kile. I The ^burden of 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 ; the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished thee. 3 And by great waters the seed of Shihor, the harvest of the River, was her revenue ; and she was the mart of nations. 4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon : for the sea hath spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins. 5 ^ When the report cometh to Egypt, they shall be sorely pained at the report of Tyre. 6 Pass ye over to Tarshish ; howl, ye in- habitants of the isle. 7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days ? ^'her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. 8 Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth ? 9 The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to *^ stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth. 10 Pass through thy land as ^the River, O daugh- ter of Tarshish : there is no band any more. 11 He hath stretched out his hand over the XXIII. II. ISAIAH. 39 sea, he hath shaken the kingdoms : the Lord hath given commandment concerning ^Canaan, 'Or, m 16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot iiiZreUe'^^ that hast been forgotten ; make sweet melody, ^on.yf '^"' sing many songs, that thou mayest be remem- bered. 1 7 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. 18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the Lord : it shall not be treasured nor laid up ; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for ^ durable clothinsf, •• Or, statdy. t 't>' XXIV. I Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest ; as with the servant, so with his master ; as with the maid, so with her mis- 40 ISAIAH. XXIV. 2. tress ; as with the buyer, so with the seller ; as with the lender, so with the borrower ; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. 3 The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled ; for the Lord hath spoken this word. 4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, 'OY,ihi'high 1 the lofty people of the earth do languish, "peopil/^' 5 Fo^ the earth is polluted under the inha- bitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore hath a curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty : therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. 7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. 8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the mirth of the harp ceaseth. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song ; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. 10 The » Gen. i. 2. city of ^wasteness is broken down : every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 1 1 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine ; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is 3 Yi^\,.gonein- 3crone. 12 In the city is left desolation, and the to coptivitxu . . 4 Or, When g^-te is Smitten into ruin. 13 *For tiwis. shall it £0 thus it shall be be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, shall hlZs, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gtape (M^CtUy «5^^' gleanings when the vintage is done. 14 These ^ shall lift up their voice, they shall shout ; for the majesty of the Lord they cry aloud from the sea. 15 Wherefore glorify ye the Lord fi^el^^'^^^'^''""' ^^ t^^ ^East, even the name of the Lord the God of Israel in the isles of the sea. 16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, glory to the righteous. .• ^ XXIV. 1 6. ISAIAH. 41 But I said, ^ I pine away, I pine away, woe « Heb. Lean- is me ! the treacherous dealers have dealt ""■'" '" '"'' treacherously ; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. 17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. 18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit ; and he that cometh up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare : for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth do shake. 19 The earth is utterly broken, the earth is clean dis- solved, the earth is moved exceedingly. 20 The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall be moved to and fro like a hut ; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it ; and it shall fall, and not rise again. 2 I And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall ^ punish the host of the ^high 'iieh. visit ones on high, and the kings of the earth upon f^/^j^^ ^.^^^^ ._. the earth. 22 And they shall be gathered to- gether, as prisoners are gathered in the '^pit, and ^ Or, duuoeon.^ shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be ^visited. 23 Then the sOr,/««- moon shall be confounded, and the sun "''" • ashamed ; for the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and ^before his ^ Oy, k-forc his ^ - . ■, "^ atuieiits shall ancients gloriously. _ h^ glory. XXV. I O Lord, thou art my God ; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name ; for thou hast done wonderful things ; counsels of old m. faith- fulness and truth. 2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city ; it shall not be built for ever. 3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible na- tions shall fear thee. 4 For thou hast been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the 42 ISAIAH. XXV. 4. tip. V- needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. 5 As the heat in a dry place shalt thou bring down the noise of strangers ; as the heat by the shadow of a cloud, the song of the terrible ones shall be brought low. 6 And in this mountain shall the Lord of 'Hosts make unto all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines ■ \\^\,.yiuaiiow on the lees well refined. 7 And he will ^ de- stroy in this mountain the face of the covering that is cast over all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations. 8 He hath swallowed up death for ever ; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces ; and the re- proach of his people shall he take away from off all the earth : for the Lord hath spoken it. 9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God ; we have waited for him, and he will save us : this is the Lord ; we have waited for him, we w^ill be glad and rejoice in his salva- tion. 10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the Lord rest, and Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden down ^in the water of -rf^^ dunghill. 1 1 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst ^thereof, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth Jiis hands to swim : and he shall lay low ^his pride ^for all the craft of ^ his hands. 12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls hath he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust. 2 Another reading is in the dunghill. 3 Or, of them. '^ 4 Or, their. s Or, together with the craft. Ou XXVI. I In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah ; We have a strong city ; salva- tion will he appoint for walls and bulwarks. 2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation XXVI. 2. ISAIAH. 43 which keepeth truth may enter in. 3 Thou ^Ox,/raiin\ wilt ^keep///;;^ ^in perfect peace, luJiose •'^mind is l^^^^"-^'""' stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. 3 Or, imagina- . 4 Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in ^ the /w«,or,/^ww. Lord JEHOVAH is ^an everlasting rock; 5 for 2^_t!n.l"''' he hath brought down them that dwell on high, 5 or, a rock the lofty city : he layeth it low, he layeth it low <^/"S<^^- even to the ground • he bringeth it even to the dust. 6 The foot shall tread it down ; even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy. 7 The way of the just is ^ an even way : evenly * Or, tipng/a- dost thou '^ level the path of the iust. 8 Yea, "/!t . . 1 r 1 • 1 /-\ T 1 ' 7 Or, 7oeig/i. m the way 01 thy judgments, (J Lord, have we waited for thee ; to thy name, and to thy me- morial is the desire of our soul. 9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night ; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early : for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inha- bitants of the world learn righteousness. 10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet doth he not learn righteousness ; in the land of upright- ness will he deal wrongfully, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord. 1 1 Lord, thy hand is lifted up, yet they see not: but thev shall see, and ^be ashamed, thy ^ 9""' ''"'^ ^ 1 Qr 1111 ^ • ashamed for zeal for the people; yea, ^nre shall devour thme timremyat adversaries. 12 Lord, thou wilt ordain peace fi^f''^j';._^ for us : for thou hast also wrought all our works oftidncadvcr- for us. I X O Lord our God, other lords be- •^''"''•^ ^'''f 11 1 1 1 • • 11 dii'our t/icm. Side thee have had dommion over us; but by thee only will we make mention of thy name. 14 ^^They a7^e dead, they shall not live; they 2?/J)ilf/i!rf ^r^^Meceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast the deceased' thou visited and destroyed them, and made all if'J'j' ' their memory to perish. 1 5 Thou hast increased Kepi the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hast removed far all the ends oV the lands. shall not rise. [leb. 'ha'un. 44 ISAIAH. XXVI. 1 6. » Ileb. whis- per. ^»v » Or, away from. 3 Or, Jteither have inhabit- ants of the luorld been born. t Heb. Rephaim, XXVII. s Or, gliding * Or, accord- ing to many ancient au- thorities, A pleasant vine- yard. 1 Or, unto. * Or, -would that there ivere briers, ^c. 1 6 Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a Sprayer when thy chastening was upon them. ij Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her de- livery, that is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been ^at thy presence, O Lord. i8 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind ; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth ; ^neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. 19 Thy dead shall live ; my dead bodies they shall arise. Awake and sing, ye f that dwell in dust : for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the 4 dead. 20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself for a little moment, until the indigna- tion be overpast. 21 For, behold, the Lord Cometh out of his place to punish the inhabit- ants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. 1 In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the ^ swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked ser- pent ; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. 2 In that day: ^A vineyard of wine, sing ye 7of it. 3 I the Lord do keep it ; I will water it every moment: Lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. 4 Fury is not in me: ^Who would set briers and thorns against me in battle? XXVII. 4. ISAIAH. 45 I would march upon them, I would burn them together. 5 Or else let him take hold of my strength, That he may make peace with me; Peace he shall make with me. 6 ^ In days to come shall Jacob take root; ' Or, i„ the Israel shall blossom and bud : ST.tr And they shall fill the face of the world with increase. 7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain accordingf to the slaughter ^ of their slain } 8 ^With measure, with - Or, of them sending her away, thou dost debate with her; 'i!v'},lmf ^''^''"' he ^hath removed her with his rough wind in ^Ox,By the day of the east wind. 9 Therefore by this {Z't"!,''/^/'^ shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this abroad, thou is all the fruit ^of taking away his sin ; when he .l',ififi''."/fg maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones sifted unth his that are beaten in sunder, so that the ^ Asherim ^^f" ' ^" ' and the sun-images shall not stand up. 10 For '■Or, stayetk the defenced city is solitary, an habitation de- ^^'.^-Jf^^^ serted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there 5 or, to taie shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, ''^''''-''• and consume the branches thereof 11 When xvirs!^' the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding; therefore he that made them will not have com- passion upon them, and he that formed them will shew them no mercy. 1 2 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall beat off his fruit from the flood of the River unto the brook of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel. 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown ; and they shall come which were lost in the land of Assyria, 46 ISAIAH. XXVII. 13. XXVIII. ' Or, Woe to the crmvn of pride, to the drunkards. = Or, The crown of pride, the drunkards, 3 Or, at. 1 Or, stagger. 5 Or, stam- mering. «0r, ir/iereas and they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem. I ^ Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glori- ous beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with wine! 2 Behold, a mighty and strong one from the Lord, as a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tem- pest of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand, 3 ^The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot: 4 and the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the firstripe fruit before the summer ; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up. 5 In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people : 6 and for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn back the battle ^to the gate. 7 But these also have erred through wine, and through strong drink *are gone astray ; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are gone astray through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in giving judgment. 8 For all tables are full of filthy vomit, so that there is no place left. 9 Whom will he teach knowledge ? and whom will he make to understand the message ? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? 10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line ; here a litde, there a little. 11 Nay but with ^strange lips and another tongue will he speak to this people: 12 ^to whom he said, This xxviii. 12. ISAIAH. 47 is the rest, give ye rest to the weary; and this hcmidmito is the refreshing : yet they would not hear : ^'"''"'' 13 therefore shall the word of the Lord be unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little ; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. 14 Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem: 15 because ye have said. We have made a covenant with death, and with ^hell are " Heb. ^V/.w. we at agreement ; when the overflowing scourge xxxvii!'35. shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and in false- hood have we hid ourselves. 16 Wherefore thus saith the Lord God, Be- hold, I have laid in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone of sure foundation : he that believeth shall not make haste. 1 7 And I will set judgment for a line, and righteousness for a plummet : and J;he hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. 18 And your covenant with death shall be dis- annulled, and your agreement with -hell shall ^ i^eij- -S"/''"/. not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. 19 As often as it passeth through it shall take you : for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night: and it shall be nought but terror to understand the report. 20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it : and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. 21 For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act. 48 ISAIAH. XXVIII. 22. 22 Now therefore be ye not scorners, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from « Or, and that the Lord GoD of hosts a consummation ^and that «;ltl"'^''"" determined upon the whole ^earth. Dan. xi. 36. ' O""' '''""^- 23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice ; hearken, and hear my speech. 24 Doth the plowman plow continually to sow ? doth he open and break the clods of his ground ? 25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, ^ Or, it, the and cast in the wheat ^in rows and the barley in pilce?"'' the appointed place and the spelt in the border thereof? 26 For he doth instruct him aright; his God doth teach him. 27 For the fitches are not threshed with a sharp instrument, nei- ther is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin ; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. 28 Bread com is ground : for he will not ever be thresh- 'i Or, and j^ig jt;, "^nor driving it with the wheel of his drive merit cart, nor grinding it with his horsemen. 29 This ike wheel of his ^jgQ comcth forth from the Lord of hosts, which cart and his , . . . . - , ,- . . horsemen, he IS wondedul m counscl, and excellent m wis- doth not giind Af>.ry> XXIX. I ^O Ariel, Ariel, the city where David en- s Or, the lion Camped ! add ye year to year ; let the feasts %i?}^arthlf come round ; 2 then will I distress Ariel, and God. there shall be lamenting and lamentation : and she shall be unto me as ^ Ariel. 3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a fort, and I will raise siege works against thee. 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, out of the ground, and thy ^ Or, chirp. speech shall ^whisper out of the dust. 5 But XXIX. 5- ISAIAH. 49 the multitude of thy ^ foes shall be like small ' "e'^- 1-1 r 1 '11 s(m/nv/'S. dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away : yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly. 6 ^ There shall be a visi- ]2i]l rviliud tation from the Lord of hosts with thunder, of the Lord,' and with earthquake, and great noise, with ^'■ storm and tempest, and the flame of a devour- ing fire. 7 And the multitude of all the na- tions that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her stronghold, and that dis- tress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision. 8 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth ; but he awak- eth, and his soul is empty : or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite : so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion, 9 3 Be ye amazed and wonder; blind your- ^\J*;;^J^;2,^; selves and be blind : they are drunken, but not wonder; ddigkt with wine ; they stagger, but not with strong ^^"^I'^'^J^^ drink, i o For the Lord hath poured out upon be blind. you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes, the prophets, and your heads, the seers, hath he covered. 1 1 And all vision is become unto you as the words of a ^book that is ' O""' '"'''^'"s- sealed, v/hich men deliver to one that is learned, saying. Read this, I pray thee : and he saith, I cannot ; for it is sealed : 1 2 and the book is de- livered to him that is not learned, saying. Read this, I pray thee : and he saith, I am not learned. 13 And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw nigh unto me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is the commandment of men which they have been taught : 14 therefore, behold, I will again do a marvellous work among this people, 50 ISAIAH. XXIX. 14. ' See ver. ir. » Or, for a word. 3 Or, But •what he seeth his children. ^ Heb. shall knmv under- standinsr. even a marvellous work and a wonder : and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding 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 ? 16 Oh your turning of things upside down ! shall the potter be counted as clay : that the thing made should say of him that made it, He made me not ? or the thing framed say of him that framed it, He hath no understanding? 17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruit- ful field, and the fruitful field shall be counted for a forest ? 1 8 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. 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 ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity are cut off: 21 that make a man an offender ^ in a cause, and lay a snare for him that pleadeth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought. 22 Therefore thus saith the Lord unto the house of Jacob, even he who redeemed Abra- ham ; Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale. 23 ^But when his children see the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name ; and they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall stand in awe of the God of Israel. 24 They also that err in spirit ^shall come to understanding, and they that murmur shall learn doctrine. XXX. I. ISAIAH. 51 XXX. I Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me ; and that ^pour out a drink offering, but not of my 'Or, weave a 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 ' Or, _fl,rto i/,e in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the '"''"^''"''^■ shadow of Egypt ! 3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. 4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his am- bassadors came to Hanes. 5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, that were not for help nor profit, but for shame, and also for reproach. 6 The burden of the beasts of the South : in the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come ^ the young and old lion, the viper and ^ Or, the Uoncsi fiery fiying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit. 7 For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose : therefore have I called her, ^ Rahab that sitteth still. 8 Now go, write it '^^^/; '^'^"J^ before them on a tablet, and note it in a book, rs. ixxxvii. 4, that it may be for the time to come ^ for ever ''"'^^^- '°- and ever. 9 For it is a rebellious people, lying ing'ioToiiie" children, children that will not hear the law of ancient amho- • IT 1*1 1 c^ ritics, A'r (7 the Lord : 10 which say to the seers. See not ; uniness/or and to the prophets. Prophesy not unto us right '^''■^• things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits : 1 1 get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. 12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay there- on : 13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you 52 ISAIAH. XXX. 13. • Or, a tuast. 'Or, 0 people of Z ion that divellcst at Jerusalem. 3 Or, And though the Lord give you, (s'c. yet shall ■not thy teachers, as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, the breaking whereof cometh sud- denly at an instant. 14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel, breaking it in pieces without sparing : so that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the cistern. 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. 1 6 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. 1 7 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 mountain, and as an ensign on a hill. 18 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 judgment : blessed are all they that wait for him. 19 2 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem : thou shalt weep no more : he will surely be gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry ; when he shall hear, he will answer thee. 20 ^And the Lord will give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, and thy teachers shall not be hidden any, more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers : 2 1 and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying. This is the v/ay, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left, 22 Ye shall defile also the over- laying of thy graven images of silver, and the XXX. 22. ISAIAH. 53 plating of thy molten images of gold : thou shalt ^cast them away as an '-^unclean thing; • Heb. :rra//^. thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. 23 And sinLs!"""' he shall give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal ; and bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous : in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures. 24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat savoury provender, which hath been win- nowed with the shovel and with the fan. ^ 25 And there shall be upon every lofty moun- A/^'V.^.J'-: tain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter when the towers fall. 26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord bindeth up the hurt 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 in thick rising smoke : his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire : 28 and his breath as an overflowing stream, that reach- eth even unto the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity : and there shall be a bridle that causeth to err in the jaws of the peoples. 29 Ye shall have a song as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and glad- ness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel. 30 And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with indig- nation of anger, and the flame of a devourmg 54 ISAIAH. XXX. 30. ^ Ox, flood. fire, with a ^ blast, and tempest, and hailstones. 31 For through the voice of the Lord shall Asshur be broken in pieces, that smiteth ^\i€b. Passvig. y^\)^^ ^ j-od. 32 And every ^ stroke of the ^^tdatim"^ 2 appointed staff, which the Lord shall lay upon him, shall be with tabrets and harps : and in battles of shaking will he fight with 4 Another ^\\_, 33 For ^a Tophet is prepared of old; /■w^SeJjer. Y^a, for the king it is made ready, both deep ^■'" 1''^""^ ^^^ large : the pile thereof is fire and much 5 Heb. wood ; the breath of the Lord, like a stream Tophieh. See of brimstone, doth kindle it. 1 Kings xxiii. 10; Jer.vii.31. XXXI. I Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many ; and in horsemen, be- cause they are very strong ; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord ! 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 evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity. 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God ; and their horses flesh, and not spirit ; and when the Lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is holpen shall fall, and they all shall fail together. 4 For thus saith the Lord unto me, Like as when the lion growleth and the young lion over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds be called forth against him, he will not be dis- mayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them : so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight ^upon mount Zion, and ^upon the hill thereof. 5 As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem ; he will defend and deliver; he will pass over and preserve. * Or, against. XXXI. 6. ISAIAH. 55 6 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted. 7 For in that day they shall cast away every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin. 8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of man ; and the sword, not of men, shall devour him: and he shall flee ^from the sword, and 'According to his young men shall become tributary. 9 And authorities, «'/ 2 his rock shall pass away for fear, and his from the nvord. princes shall be dismayed at the ensign, saith passbyhh the Lord, which hath his fire in Zion, and his stronghold. furnace in Jerusalem. XXXII. I Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. 2 And ^a man shall be as an hiding place from the ^ Or, every one. wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. 3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be Mim, and the * Or, dosed. ears of them that hear shall hearken. 4 The heart also of the hasty shall understand know- ledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. 5 The ^ niggard '^^^'/^^v^" shall be no more called liberal, nor the ^ churl 25. said to be bountiful. 6 For the niggard will * ^'■' '"'"fy- speak niggardness, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise profaneness, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and the drink of the thirsty will he cause to fail. 7 And the churl, his ^ ^^ instruments are evil : he deviseth wicked de- /' ''^*'' , . ^^ I'll- J Or, wnen he Vices to destroy the 'meek with lymg words, spmh-th even ^when the needy speaketh right. 8 But again,t//;./,.^r Ti 1 1- JQU \n judgment. the liberal deviseth liberal things; and "^ ^y , q^j,, iu,erai liberal things shall he stand. thin;^^ shall he 9 Rise up, hear my voice, ye women that 'T^^l'' confid- are at ease; ^^ye careless daughters, give ear .-,//. 56 ISAIAH. XXXII. 9. « Heb. Days unto my spcech. 10 ^ In days beyond the year above a year. gj^^|j yg ^g troubled, ye careless women : for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. 1 1 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 breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers ; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city : 14 for the palace shall be forsaken ; the multitude of the city shall be left ; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks ; 1 5 until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be- come a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest. 16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field. 17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace ; and the effect of righteousness quietness and confidence for ever. 18 And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places. 19 Yet it shall hail, amid the downfall of the forest ; and the city shall be utterly laid low. 20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth XXXIII. the feet of the ox and the ass. i Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou art not spoiled ; and dealest treacherously, and they have not dealt treacherously with thee ! when thou hast ceased to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled ; and when thou hast made an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee. 2 O Lord, be gracious unto us ; we have waited for thee : be thou their arm every morn- XXXIII. 2. ISAIAH. 57 ing, our salvation also in the time of trouble. 3 At the noise of the tumult the peoples fled ; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered. 4 And your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpiller gathereth : as locusts leap shall they leap upon it. 5 The Lord is ex- alted ; for he dwelleth on high : he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness. 6 Then shall there be stability of thy times, abund- ance of salvation, wisdom and knowledge : the fear of the Lord, that is his treasure. 7 Behold, their valiant ones cry without : the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly. 8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth : he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth not man. 9 The earth mourneth and laneuisheth : Lebanon is ashamed and withereth away : Sharon is like a desert ; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves. 10 Now will I arise, saith the Lord; now will I lift up myself ; now will I be exalted. 1 1 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stub- ble : your breath is a fire that shall devour you. 1 2 And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime : as thorns cut down that are burned in the fire. 13 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done ; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might. 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling hath surprised the ^ hypocrites. Who 'Or, profane. among us shall dwell with the devouring fire } who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings } 1 5 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly ; he that despiseth the gain of ^oppressions, that shaketh his hands from ^ Or jraud. holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from 58 ISAIAH. XXXIII. 15. ' Or, scribe. lip. 3 Or, stam mering. looking- Upon evil ; 16 he shall dwell on high : his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks : his bread shall be given him ; his waters shall be sure. 1 7 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty : they shall behold the land that is very far off. 18 Thine heart shall muse on the terror. Where is ^ he that counted, where is he that weio^hed the tribute f where is he that counted the towers.'* 19 Thou Wth.deepof shalt not See the fierce people, a people ^of a deep speech that thou canst not perceive ; of a ^strange tongue, that thou canst not under- stand. 20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemn assembly: thine eyes shall see Jeru- salem a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not be taken down ; the stakes whereof shall never be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. 21 But there the Lord will be glorious unto us, a place of broad rivers and streams ; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass there- by. 22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king ; he will save us. 23 Thy tacklings are loosed ; they could not strengthen the foot of their mast, they could not spread the sail : then shall the prey of the spoil be divided in abundance ; the lame shall take the prey. 24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick : the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity. I Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples : let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; the world, and all things that come forth of it. 2 For the Lord hath indignation against all nations, and fury against all their host: he hath devoted them to the curse, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. 3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stink of their carcases shall XXXIV. XXXIV. 3- ISAIAH. 59 come up, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. 4 And all the host of heaven shall ^be dissolved, and the heavens shall be ^ Or, viouidir rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall "'"''^' fade away, as the leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as a fading leaf from the fig tree. 5 For my sword hath drunk its fill In heaven : behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. 6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, It Is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams : for the Lord hath a sacrifice In Bozrah, and a great slaughter In the land of Edom. 7 And the wild oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls ; and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. 8 For the Lord hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompences to plead for ZIon. 9 And the streams thereof shall be turned Into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. 10 It shall not be quenched night nor day ; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever : from o-eneration to o-eneration it shall lie waste ; none shall pass through It for ever and ever. 1 1 But the pelican and the bittern shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein : and he shall stretch over it the line of confusion, and the ^stones o{ "Ox^piummci. emptiness. 12 They shall call the nobles there- of to the kingdom, but none shall be there ; and all her princes shall be nothing. 13 And thorns shall come up In her palaces, nettles and bram- 3 or, jackals. bles In the fortresses thereof: and it shall be ♦Or, w/v«. and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the nations ; 7 to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. 8 I am the Lord : that is my name : and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven images. 9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare : before they spring forth I tell you of them. 10 Sing unto the Lord a new song. And his praise from the end of the earth. Ye that eo down to the sea, and all that is therein; The isles, and the inhabitants thereof. 1 1 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up iheir voice, The villages that Kedar doth inhabit: Let the inhabitants of ''the rock sing, sor,Scia. Let them shout from the top of the moun- tains. 1 2 Let them give glory unto the Lord, 76 ISAIAH. XLII. 12. ' Or, destroy and devour. = Or, These things ivill I do unto them, and not forsake them. 3 Or, tnade perfect, or, recompensed. * Or, to give a great and glorious law. ness ..g, straight. And declare his praise in the islands, 1 3 The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man. He shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: He shall cry, yea, he shall shout aloud; He shall do mightily against his enemies. 14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I wilPgasp and pant together, 1 5 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs ; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. 16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they have not known; in paths that they have not known will I lead them : I will make dark- lieht before them, and crooked places 2 These are the things that I will do, and will not forbear. 1 7 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods. 18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. 19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I send.-^ who is blind as he that is ^at peace with me, and blind as the Lord's servant? 20 Thou seest many things, but thou observest not ; his ears are open, but he heareth not. 21 It pleased the Lord, for his righteousness' sake, "^to magnify the law, and make it honourable. 22 But this a people robbed and spoiled ; they are all they are hid in are tor a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore. 23 Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come? 24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the Lord? he against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they IS of them snared in holes, and prison houses : they are for XLii. 24. ISAIAH. yj would not walk, neither were they obedient unto his law. 25 Therefore he poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he layeth it not to heart. XLIII. I But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. 2 When thou passest through the waters, I ■ will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee : when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned ; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. 3 For I am the Lord thy God, the holy one of Israel, thy saviour; I have given Egypt as thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. 4 Since thou hast been precious in my sight, and honourable, and I have loved thee ; therefore will I give men for thee, and peoples for thy life. 5 Fear not: for I am with thee : I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; 6 I will say to the north. Give up ; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth ; 7 every one that is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory; I have formed him; yea, I have made him. 8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears. 9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be as- sembled: who among them can shew this, and declare unto us former things? let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified: 'or 'Ox, and that ,, , , T-1 AT- tlicv Diav hair. let them hear, and say. It is truth. 10 \e are - ' my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and 78 ISAIAH. XLIII. lO. day forth /, = Heb. turn it back ? believe me, and understand that I am he: be- fore me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. II I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour. 12 I have shewed, and I have saved, and I have declared, and there was no strange god among you: ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and I am God, 'Or,/;w«this i^ Yea, ^ beforc the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall ^let it? 14 Thus saith the Lord, your redeemer, the holy one of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring them all down as 3 Or, as other- fugitives, ^even the Chaldeans, in the ships of 7rJli^^gl/!L ^h^i^ rejoicing. 15 I am the Lord, your holy one, the creator of Israel, your king. 16 Thus saith the Lord, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters ; I 7 which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they lie down to- gether, they shall not rise ; they are extinct, they are quenched as tow : 18 Remember not the former things, neither consider the things of old. 19 Behold, I will do a new thing; even now it springeth forth ; shall ye not know it } I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in ^the desert. 20 The beast of the s'or, Jackals, field shall honour me, the ^dragons and the ostriches: because I give waters in the wilder- ness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen : Chaldeans unto wailin t Or, Jcshi- rnon 2 1 The people w^hich I have formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise. 22 And thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob ; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel. Thou hast not broucrht me the XLiii. 23. ISAIAH. 79 small cattle of thy burnt ofiferincrs; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices, I have not made thee to serve with ^ offerings, nor - Or, a meat wearied thee with frankincense. 24 Thou hast ''■^"''"s- bought me no sweet cane with money, nei- ther hast thou 2 filled me with the fat of thy ^ Ox, satiated. sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniqui- ties. 25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake; and I will not remember thy sins. 26 Put me in re- membrance : let us plead together : set thou forth thy caitse, that thou mayest be justified. 27 Thy first father hath sinned, and thine interpreters have transgressed against me. 28 Therefore I have profaned the holy princes, and have made Jacob a ^curse, and Israel a revilino-, ^ Or, devoted XLIV. I Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant ; and "'^' Israel, whom I have chosen: 2 Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob my servant; and thou, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. 3 For I will pour water upon the thirsty, and streams upon the dry ground : I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring : 4 and they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the water courses. 5 One shall say, 1 am the Lord's; and another shall call kim- self hy the name of Jacob; and another shall * subscribe with his hand unto the Lord, and ■*, ^'l' ^''''""ff" surname kimselj by the name 01 Israel. the Lord. 6 Thus saith the Lord the king of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts ; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God. 7 ^And who, as I, shall call, and ^ Or, And shall shew it, and set it in order for me. since proclaim ?let I appointed the ancient people.'* and the things iii'n siu-w it. can 8o ISAIAH. XLiv. 7. that are coming', and that shall come to pass, let ^0\;sknv them ^shew. 8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: unto them. j^^ye I not declared unto thee of old, and shewed it, and ye are my witnesses ? Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no rock; I know not any. 9 They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity ; and their delectable things shall not profit ; and their own witnesses, they see not, nor know ; that they may be ashamed. 10 Who hath fashioned a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? 1 1 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed : and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together : let them stand up ; they shall fear, they shall be ashamed to- = Or, sharpen- gether. 1 2 The smith ^ maketh an ax, and worketh it in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with his strong^ arm: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint. 13 The car- penter stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out ^ Ox, red ochre. ^^\\\'^ 3^ pencil; he shapeth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compasses, and shapeth it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in the house. 14 He heweth him down cedars, and taketh 4 Or, en- the liolm tree and the oak, and he ^getteth '^sdf'bi' ^c"^' himself a strong one among the trees of the forest: he planteth a fir tree, and the rain doth nourish it. 15 Then shall it be for a man to burn: and he will take thereof, and warm him- self ; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread ; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth ; he maketh It a graven image, and faileth down s Or, the half, thereto. 16 He burneth ^part thereof in the fire; with ^part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied : yea, he warmeth himself, and saith. Aha, I am warm, I have XLiv. 1 6. ISAIAH. 8 1 seen the fire: 17 and the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth and prayeth unto it, and saith, DeHver me; for thou art my god. 1 8 They know not, neither do they under- stand : for he hath ^shut their eyes, that they ' Heb. ^a«^.v