Isaiah

Book 23        Isaiah

23:001:001 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning

           Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and

           Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

23:001:002 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath

           spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they

           have rebelled against me.

23:001:003 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but

           Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

23:001:004 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of

           evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken

           the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto

           anger, they are gone away backward.

23:001:005 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and

           more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

23:001:006 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no

           soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying

           sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither

           mollified with ointment.

23:001:007 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire:

           your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is

           desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

23:001:008 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard,

           as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

23:001:009 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small

           remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been

           like unto Gomorrah.

23:001:010 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto

           the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

23:001:011 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.

23:001:012 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at

           your hand, to tread my courts?

23:001:013 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto

           me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I

           cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

23:001:014 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they

           are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

23:001:015 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.

23:001:016 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings

           from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

23:001:017 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge

           the fatherless, plead for the widow.

23:001:018 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though

           your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;

           though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

23:001:019 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the

           land:

23:001:020 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the

           sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

23:001:021 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of

           judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

23:001:022 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:

23:001:023 Thy princes are rebellious, and 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.

23:001:024 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:

23:001:025 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy

           dross, and take away all thy tin:

23:001:026 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy

           counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be

           called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

23:001:027 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with

           righteousness.

23:001:028 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners

           shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be

           consumed.

23:001:029 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired,

           and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have

           chosen.

23:001:030 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden

           that hath no water.

23:001:031 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a

           spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall

           quench them.

23:002:001 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and

           Jerusalem.

23:002:002 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain

           of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the

           mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all

           nations shall flow unto it.

23:002:003 And many people 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.

23:002:004 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many

           people: 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.

23:002:005 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the

           LORD.

23:002:006 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob,

           because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers

           like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the

           children of strangers.

23:002:007 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there

           any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses,

           neither is there any end of their chariots:

23:002:008 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of

           their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

23:002:009 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth

           himself: therefore forgive them not.

23:002:010 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of

           the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.

23:002:011 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness

           of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be

           exalted in that day.

23:002:012 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that

           is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and

           he shall be brought low:

23:002:013 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted

           up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

23:002:014 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that

           are lifted up,

23:002:015 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,

23:002:016 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant

           pictures.

23:002:017 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the

           haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall

           be exalted in that day.

23:002:018 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.

23:002:019 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the

           caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of

           his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

23:002:020 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his

           idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to

           worship, to the moles and to the bats;

23:002:021 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the

           ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his

           majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

23:002:022 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for

           wherein is he to be accounted of?

23:003:001 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from

           Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole

           stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.

23:003:002 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the

           prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,

23:003:003 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the

           counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent

           orator.

23:003:004 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall

           rule over them.

23:003:005 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and

           every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself

           proudly against the ancient, and the base against the

           honourable.

23:003:006 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his

           father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let

           this ruin be under thy hand:

23:003:007 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer;

           for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a

           ruler of the people.

23:003:008 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their

           tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the

           eyes of his glory.

23:003:009 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and

           they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto

           their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

23:003:010 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for

           they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

23:003:011 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward

           of his hands shall be given him.

23:003:012 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women

           rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee

           to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

23:003:013 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the

           people.

23:003:014 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.

23:003:015 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the

           faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

23:003:016 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are

           haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes,

           walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with

           their feet:

23:003:017 Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the

           head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover

           their secret parts.

23:003:018 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their

           tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and

           their round tires like the moon,

23:003:019 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,

23:003:020 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands,

           and the tablets, and the earrings,

23:003:021 The rings, and nose jewels,

23:003:022 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the

           wimples, and the crisping pins,

23:003:023 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.

23:003:024 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there

           shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of

           well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding

           of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.

23:003:025 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.

23:003:026 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate

           shall sit upon the ground.

23:004:001 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man,

           saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel:

           only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

23:004:002 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and

           glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and

           comely for them that are escaped of Israel.

23:004:003 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 living in Jerusalem:

23:004:004 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the

           daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of

           Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment,

           and by the spirit of burning.

23:004:005 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount

           Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and

           the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory

           shall be a defence.

23:004:006 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time

           from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert

           from storm and from rain.

23:005:001 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved

           touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a

           very fruitful hill:

23:005:002 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and

           planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the

           midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked

           that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild

           grapes.

23:005:003 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge,

           I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

23:005:004 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?

23:005:005 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard:

           I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up;

           and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:

23:005:006 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged;

           but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command

           the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

23:005:007 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel,

           and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for

           judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold

           a cry.

23:005:008 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to

           field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone

           in the midst of the earth!

23:005:009 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses

           shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

23:005:010 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed

           of an homer shall yield an ephah.

23:005:011 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may

           follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine

           inflame them!

23:005:012 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine,

           are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD,

           neither consider the operation of his hands.

23:005:013 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have

           no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their

           multitude dried up with thirst.

23:005:014 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth

           without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and

           their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

23:005:015 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man

           shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:

23:005:016 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God

           that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

23:005:017 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste

           places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

23:005:018 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin

           as it were with a cart rope:

23:005:019 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may

           see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw

           nigh and come, that we may know it!

23:005:020 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put

           darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter

           for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

23:005:021 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in

           their own sight!

23:005:022 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of

           strength to mingle strong drink:

23:005:023 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the

           righteousness of the righteous from him!

23:005:024 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame

           consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and

           their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away

           the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the

           Holy One of Israel.

23:005:025 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people,

           and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath

           smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases

           were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger

           is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

23:005:026 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and

           will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold,

           they shall come with speed swiftly:

23:005:027 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber

           nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed,

           nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

23:005:028 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses'

           hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a

           whirlwind:

23:005:029 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young

           lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and

           shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

23:005:030 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring

           of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and

           sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

23:006:001 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting

           upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the

           temple.

23:006:002 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with

           twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet,

           and with twain he did fly.

23:006:003 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the

           LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

23:006:004 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that

           cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

23:006:005 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of

           unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean

           lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

23:006:006 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in

           his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the

           altar:

23:006:007 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched

           thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin

           purged.

23:006:008 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send,

           and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

23:006:009 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but

           understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

23:006:010 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 convert,

           and be healed.

23:006:011 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities

           be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and

           the land be utterly desolate,

23:006:012 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great

           forsaking in the midst of the land.

23:006:013 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall

           be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in

           them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be

           the substance thereof.

23:007:001 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 toward

           Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

23:007:002 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 wood are moved with

           the wind.

23:007:003 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz,

           thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of

           the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;

23:007:004 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither

           be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands,

           for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of

           Remaliah.

23:007:005 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken

           evil counsel against thee, saying,

23:007:006 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a

           breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even

           the son of Tabeal:

23:007:007 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it

           come to pass.

23:007:008 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is

           Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be

           broken, that it be not a people.

23:007:009 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is

           Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be

           established.

23:007:010 Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,

23:007:011 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the

           depth, or in the height above.

23:007:012 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.

23:007:013 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small

           thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?

23:007:014 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a

           virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name

           Immanuel.

23:007:015 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the

           evil, and choose the good.

23:007:016 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose

           the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of

           both her kings.

23:007:017 The 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 departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.

23:007:018 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.

23:007:019 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 bushes.

23:007:020 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is

           hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of

           Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also

           consume the beard.

23:007:021 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall

           nourish a young cow, and two sheep;

23:007:022 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 land.

23:007:023 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall

           be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand

           silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.

23:007:024 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all

           the land shall become briers and thorns.

23:007:025 And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there

           shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it

           shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading

           of lesser cattle.

23:008:001 Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and

           write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.

23:008:002 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the

           priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.

23:008:003 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a

           son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name

           Mahershalalhashbaz.

23:008:004 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father,

           and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria

           shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

23:008:005 The LORD spake also unto me again, saying,

23:008:006 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that

           go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;

23:008:007 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:

23:008:008 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.

23:008:009 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in

           pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird

           yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves,

           and ye shall be broken in pieces.

23:008:010 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the

           word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

23:008:011 For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and

           instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this

           people, saying,

23:008:012 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people

           shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be

           afraid.

23:008:013 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear,

           and let him be your dread.

23:008:014 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.

23:008:015 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken,

           and be snared, and be taken.

23:008:016 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

23:008:017 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the

           house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

23:008:018 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for

           signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which

           dwelleth in mount Zion.

23:008:019 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have

           familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter:

           should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the

           dead?

23:008:020 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according

           to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

23:008:021 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and

           it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they

           shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and

           look upward.

23:008:022 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and

           darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to

           darkness.

23:009:001 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her

           vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of

           Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more

           grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan,

           in Galilee of the nations.

23:009:002 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.

23:009:003 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy:

           they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as

           men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

23:009:004 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of

           his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of

           Midian.

23:009:005 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and

           garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and

           fuel of fire.

23:009:006 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the

           government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be

           called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting

           Father, The Prince of Peace.

23:009:007 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no

           end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order

           it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from

           henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will

           perform this.

23:009:008 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon

           Israel.

23:009:009 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant

           of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,

23:009:010 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn

           stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them

           into cedars.

23:009:011 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin

           against him, and join his enemies together;

23:009:012 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall

           devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not

           turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

23:009:013 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither

           do they seek the LORD of hosts.

23:009:014 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail,

           branch and rush, in one day.

23:009:015 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet

           that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

23:009:016 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they

           that are led of them are destroyed.

23:009:017 Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men,

           neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for

           every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth

           speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but

           his hand is stretched out still.

23:009:018 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers

           and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest,

           and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

23:009:019 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened,

           and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall

           spare his brother.

23:009:020 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:

23:009:021 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together

           shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned

           away, but his hand is stretched out still.

23:010:001 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write

           grievousness which they have prescribed;

23:010:002 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the

           right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their

           prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

23:010:003 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?

23:010:004 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.

23:010:005 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand

           is mine indignation.

23:010:006 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against

           the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the

           spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the

           mire of the streets.

23:010:007 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so;

           but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a

           few.

23:010:008 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?

23:010:009 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not

           Samaria as Damascus?

23:010:010 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose

           graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

23:010:011 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do

           to Jerusalem and her idols?

23:010:012 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath

           performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I

           will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of

           Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

23:010:013 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and

           by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds

           of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put

           down the inhabitants like a valiant man:

23:010:014 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and

           as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the

           earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the

           mouth, or peeped.

23:010:015 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith?

           or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it?

           as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it

           up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no

           wood.

23:010:016 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his

           fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a

           burning like the burning of a fire.

23:010:017 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;

23:010:018 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful

           field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a

           standard-bearer fainteth.

23:010:019 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a

           child may write them.

23:010:020 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of

           Israel, and such as 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.

23:010:021 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the

           mighty God.

23:010:022 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a

           remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall

           overflow with righteousness.

23:010:023 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even

           determined, in the midst of all the land.

23:010:024 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that

           dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall

           smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against

           thee, after the manner of Egypt.

23:010:025 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease,

           and mine anger in their destruction.

23:010:026 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him

           according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and

           as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the

           manner of Egypt.

23:010:027 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall

           be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy

           neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the

           anointing.

23:010:028 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he

           hath laid up his carriages:

23:010:029 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their

           lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.

23:010:030 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard

           unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.

23:010:031 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather

           themselves to flee.

23:010:032 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his

           hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of

           Jerusalem.

23:010:033 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 haughty shall be humbled.

23:010:034 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron,

           and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

23:011:001 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and

           a Branch shall grow out of his roots:

23:011:002 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;

23:011:003 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the

           LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes,

           neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:

23:011:004 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, 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.

23:011:005 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and

           faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

23:011:006 The wolf also 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.

23:011:007 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall

           lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

23:011:008 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and

           the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

23:011:009 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for

           the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the

           waters cover the sea.

23:011:010 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall

           stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles

           seek: and his rest shall be glorious.

23:011:011 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set

           his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his

           people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and

           from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar,

           and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

23:011:012 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall

           assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the

           dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

23:011:013 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of

           Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and

           Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

23:011:014 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines

           toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together:

           they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children

           of Ammon shall obey them.

23:011:015 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian

           sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the

           river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men

           go over dryshod.

23:011:016 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people,

           which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in

           the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

23:012:001 And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee:

           though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away,

           and thou comfortedst me.

23:012:002 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid:

           for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is

           become my salvation.

23:012:003 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of

           salvation.

23:012:004 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his

           name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that

           his name is exalted.

23:012:005 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is

           known in all the earth.

23:012:006 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the

           Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

23:013:001 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.

23:013:002 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice

           unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of

           the nobles.

23:013:003 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my

           mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my

           highness.

23:013:004 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great

           people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered

           together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.

23:013:005 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the

           LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole

           land.

23:013:006 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as

           a destruction from the Almighty.

23:013:007 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart

           shall melt:

23:013:008 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of

           them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they

           shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as

           flames.

23:013:009 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and

           fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy

           the sinners thereof out of it.

23:013:010 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.

23:013:011 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for

           their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to

           cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

23:013:012 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man

           than the golden wedge of Ophir.

23:013:013 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove

           out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in

           the day of his fierce anger.

23:013:014 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man

           taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and

           flee every one into his own land.

23:013:015 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one

           that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.

23:013:016 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their

           eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

23:013:017 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not

           regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

23:013:018 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they

           shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall

           not spare children.

23:013:019 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the

           Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and

           Gomorrah.

23:013:020 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from

           generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent

           there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

23:013:021 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their

           houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall

           dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

23:013:022 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate

           houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is

           near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

23:014:001 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose

           Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers

           shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house

           of Jacob.

23:014:002 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place:

           and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the

           LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them

           captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over

           their oppressors.

23:014:003 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give

           thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the

           hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,

23:014:004 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of

           Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden

           city ceased!

23:014:005 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre

           of the rulers.

23:014:006 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he

           that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none

           hindereth.

23:014:007 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth

           into singing.

23:014:008 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon,

           saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against

           us.

23:014:009 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy

           coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief

           ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all

           the kings of the nations.

23:014:010 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become

           weak as we? art thou become like unto us?

23:014:011 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy

           viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover

           thee.

23:014:012 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the

           morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst

           weaken the nations!

23:014:013 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven,

           I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also

           upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

23:014:014 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like

           the most High.

23:014:015 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the

           pit.

23:014:016 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider

           thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble,

           that did shake kingdoms;

23:014:017 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities

           thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

23:014:018 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory,

           every one in his own house.

23:014:019 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch,

           and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through

           with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a

           carcase trodden under feet.

23:014:020 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou

           hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of

           evildoers shall never be renowned.

23:014:021 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their

           fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill

           the face of the world with cities.

23:014:022 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and

           cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and

           nephew, saith the LORD.

23:014:023 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of

           water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction,

           saith the LORD of hosts.

23:014:024 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have

           thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so

           shall it stand:

23:014:025 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my

           mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart

           from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.

23:014:026 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and

           this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

23:014:027 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul

           it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

23:014:028 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.

23:014:029 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that

           smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come

           forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying

           serpent.

23:014:030 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

           he shall slay thy remnant.

23:014:031 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art

           dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and

           none shall be alone in his appointed times.

23:014:032 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That

           the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall

           trust in it.

23:015:001 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid

           waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of

           Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;

23:015:002 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to

           weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their

           heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

23:015:003 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on

           the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one

           shall howl, weeping abundantly.

23:015:004 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard

           even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall

           cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.

23:015:005 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto

           Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of

           Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of

           Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.

23:015:006 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is

           withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.

23:015:007 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they

           have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the

           willows.

23:015:008 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the

           howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto

           Beerelim.

23:015:009 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will

           bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab,

           and upon the remnant of the land.

23:016:001 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the

           wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

23:016:002 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the

           nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

23:016:003 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night

           in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him

           that wandereth.

23:016:004 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to

           them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at

           an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out

           of the land.

23:016:005 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit

           upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and

           seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.

23:016:006 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of

           his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies

           shall not be so.

23:016:007 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for

           the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are

           stricken.

23:016:008 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah:

           the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants

           thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through

           the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone

           over the sea.

23:016:009 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of

           Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and

           Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy

           harvest is fallen.

23:016:010 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful

           field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither

           shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine

           in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.

23:016:011 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and

           mine inward parts for Kirharesh.

23:016:012 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary

           on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to

           pray; but he shall not prevail.

23:016:013 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab

           since that time.

23:016:014 But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as

           the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be

           contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant

           shall be very small and feeble.

23:017:001 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from

           being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

23:017:002 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks,

           which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

23:017:003 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom

           from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the

           glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.

23:017:004 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob

           shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax

           lean.

23:017:005 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and

           reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that

           gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

23:017:006 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an

           olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost

           bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof,

           saith the LORD God of Israel.

23:017:007 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall

           have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

23:017:008 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands,

           neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either

           the groves, or the images.

23:017:009 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough,

           and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the

           children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

23:017:010 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast

           not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt

           thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange

           slips:

23:017:011 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the

           morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest

           shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

23:017:012 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like

           the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that

           make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

23:017:013 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but

           God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall

           be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and

           like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

23:017:014 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he

           is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot

           of them that rob us.

23:018:001 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the

           rivers of Ethiopia:

23:018:002 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of

           bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to

           a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their

           beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose

           land the rivers have spoiled!

23:018:003 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth,

           see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and

           when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.

23:018:004 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will

           consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs,

           and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

23:018:005 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour

           grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the

           sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the

           branches.

23:018:006 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains,

           and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer

           upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon

           them.

23:018:007 In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of

           hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people

           terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and

           trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the

           place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.

23:019:001 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift

           cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall

           be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in

           the midst of it.

23:019:002 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they

           shall fight every one against his brother, and every one

           against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against

           kingdom.

23:019:003 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I

           will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the

           idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar

           spirits, and to the wizards.

23:019:004 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel

           lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord,

           the LORD of hosts.

23:019:005 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be

           wasted and dried up.

23:019:006 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of

           defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags

           shall wither.

23:019:007 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and

           every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away,

           and be no more.

23:019:008 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle

           into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon

           the waters shall languish.

23:019:009 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave

           networks, shall be confounded.

23:019:010 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that

           make sluices and ponds for fish.

23:019:011 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise

           counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto

           Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

23:019:012 Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee

           now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed

           upon Egypt.

23:019:013 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are

           deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the

           stay of the tribes thereof.

23:019:014 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof:

           and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a

           drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

23:019:015 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or

           tail, branch or rush, may do.

23:019:016 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be

           afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD

           of hosts, which he shaketh over it.

23:019:017 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one

           that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself,

           because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath

           determined against it.

23:019:018 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the

           language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall

           be called, The city of destruction.

23:019:019 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst

           of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to

           the LORD.

23:019:020 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of

           hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD

           because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour,

           and a great one, and he shall deliver them.

23:019:021 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall

           know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and

           oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform

           it.

23:019:022 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it:

           and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be

           intreated of them, and shall heal them.

23:019:023 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria,

           and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into

           Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.

23:019:024 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with

           Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:

23:019:025 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt

           my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine

           inheritance.

23:020:001 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the

           king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took

           it;

23:020:002 At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz,

           saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put

           off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and

           barefoot.

23:020:003 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked

           and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and

           upon Ethiopia;

23:020:004 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians

           prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked

           and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame

           of Egypt.

23:020:005 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their

           expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

23:020:006 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold,

           such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be

           delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?

23:021:001 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the

           south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a

           terrible land.

23:021:002 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer

           dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O

           Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to

           cease.

23:021:003 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold

           upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed

           down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

23:021:004 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my

           pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

23:021:005 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise,

           ye princes, and anoint the shield.

23:021:006 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let

           him declare what he seeth.

23:021:007 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of

           asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently

           with much heed:

23:021:008 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the

           watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole

           nights:

23:021:009 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of

           horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is

           fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken

           unto the ground.

23:021:010 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have

           heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared

           unto you.

23:021:011 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman,

           what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

23:021:012 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if

           ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.

23:021:013 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye

           lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.

23:021:014 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that

           was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.

23:021:015 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from

           the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

23:021:016 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Within a year, according

           to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall

           fail:

23:021:017 And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of

           the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God

           of Israel hath spoken it.

23:022:001 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that

           thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

23:022:002 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city:

           thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in

           battle.

23:022:003 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the

           archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which

           have fled from far.

23:022:004 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly,

           labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the

           daughter of my people.

23:022:005 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of

           perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision,

           breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.

23:022:006 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen,

           and Kir uncovered the shield.

23:022:007 And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be

           full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in

           array at the gate.

23:022:008 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look

           in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.

23:022:009 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they

           are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower

           pool.

23:022:010 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses

           have ye broken down to fortify the wall.

23:022:011 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of

           the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof,

           neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.

23:022:012 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and

           to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

23:022:013 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep,

           eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to

           morrow we shall die.

23:022:014 And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely

           this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith

           the Lord GOD of hosts.

23:022:015 Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this

           treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,

23:022:016 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast

           hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a

           sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself

           in a rock?

23:022:017 Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity,

           and will surely cover thee.

23:022:018 He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a

           large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of

           thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.

23:022:019 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state

           shall he pull thee down.

23:022:020 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my

           servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:

23:022:021 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with

           thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand:

           and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and

           to the house of Judah.

23:022:022 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his

           shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall

           shut, and none shall open.

23:022:023 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall

           be for a glorious throne to his father's house.

23:022:024 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's

           house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small

           quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of

           flagons.

23:022:025 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is

           fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and

           fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for

           the LORD hath spoken it.

23:023:001 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.

23:023:002 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants

           of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

23:023:003 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the

           river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.

23:023:004 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the

           strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth

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

           virgins.

23:023:005 As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely

           pained at the report of Tyre.

23:023:006 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.

23:023:007 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days?

           her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

23:023:008 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city,

           whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the

           honourable of the earth?

23:023:009 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all

           glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the

           earth.

23:023:010 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish:

           there is no more strength.

23:023:011 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms:

           the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city,

           to destroy the strong holds thereof.

23:023:012 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed

           virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there

           also shalt thou have no rest.

23:023:013 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till

           the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness:

           they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces

           thereof; and he brought it to ruin.

23:023:014 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.

23:023:015 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be

           forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king:

           after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.

23:023:016 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been

           forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou

           mayest be remembered.

23:023:017 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that

           the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and

           shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world

           upon the face of the earth.

23:023:018 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 clothing.

23:024:001 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste,

           and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the

           inhabitants thereof.

23:024:002 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 mistress; 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.

23:024:003 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for

           the LORD hath spoken this word.

23:024:004 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and

           fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

23:024:005 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof;

           because they have transgressed the laws, changed the

           ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

23:024:006 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that

           dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the

           earth are burned, and few men left.

23:024:007 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the

           merryhearted do sigh.

23:024:008 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice

           endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

23:024:009 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be

           bitter to them that drink it.

23:024:010 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up,

           that no man may come in.

23:024:011 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is

           darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

23:024:012 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with

           destruction.

23:024:013 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the

           people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as

           the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.

23:024:014 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the

           majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.

23:024:015 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of

           the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.

23:024:016 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even

           glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness,

           woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously;

           yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

23:024:017 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant

           of the earth.

23:024:018 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 midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the

           windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the

           earth do shake.

23:024:019 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean

           dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.

23:024:020 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be

           removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be

           heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

23:024:021 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall

           punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the

           kings of the earth upon the earth.

23:024:022 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered

           in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many

           days shall they be visited.

23:024:023 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when

           the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem,

           and before his ancients gloriously.

23:025:001 O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy

           name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old

           are faithfulness and truth.

23:025:002 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 never be

           built.

23:025:003 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of

           the terrible nations shall fear thee.

23:025:004 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the

           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.

23:025:005 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a

           dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the

           branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

23:025:006 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all

           people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of

           fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.

23:025:007 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering

           cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all

           nations.

23:025:008 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will

           wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his

           people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD

           hath spoken it.

23:025:009 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 will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

23:025:010 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab

           shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down

           for the dunghill.

23:025:011 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as

           he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he

           shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their

           hands.

23:025:012 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring

           down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

23:026:001 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We

           have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and

           bulwarks.

23:026:002 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the

           truth may enter in.

23:026:003 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on

           thee: because he trusteth in thee.

23:026:004 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is

           everlasting strength:

23:026:005 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city,

           he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he

           bringeth it even to the dust.

23:026:006 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and

           the steps of the needy.

23:026:007 The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost

           weigh the path of the just.

23:026:008 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for

           thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the

           remembrance of thee.

23:026:009 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 inhabitants of the world will

           learn righteousness.

23:026:010 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn

           righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal

           unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.

23:026:011 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they

           shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea,

           the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.

23:026:012 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast

           wrought all our works in us.

23:026:013 O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over

           us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.

23:026:014 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they

           shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed

           them, and made all their memory to perish.

23:026:015 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased

           the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto

           all the ends of the earth.

23:026:016 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a

           prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

23:026:017 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her

           delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we

           been in thy sight, O LORD.

23:026:018 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.

23:026:019 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they

           arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is

           as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

23:026:020 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy

           doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment,

           until the indignation be overpast.

23:026:021 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the

           inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also

           shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

23:027:001 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword

           shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan

           that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in

           the sea.

23:027:002 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.

23:027:003 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any

           hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

23:027:004 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against

           me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them

           together.

23:027:005 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace

           with me; and he shall make peace with me.

23:027:006 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel

           shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with

           fruit.

23:027:007 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is

           he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by

           him?

23:027:008 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it:

           he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

23:027:009 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and

           this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all

           the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in

           sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

23:027:010 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation

           forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf

           feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches

           thereof.

23:027:011 When 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

           mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no

           favour.

23:027:012 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall

           beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of

           Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of

           Israel.

23:027:013 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet

           shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish

           in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt,

           and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

23:028:001 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose

           glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of

           the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

23:028:002 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a

           tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty

           waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the

           hand.

23:028:003 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden

           under feet:

23:028:004 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat

           valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit

           before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth,

           while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

23:028:005 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,

23:028:006 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment,

           and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

23:028:007 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong

           drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have

           erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine,

           they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in

           vision, they stumble in judgment.

23:028:008 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there

           is no place clean.

23:028:009 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to

           understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and

           drawn from the breasts.

23:028:010 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line

           upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

23:028:011 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to

           this people.

23:028:012 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the

           weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not

           hear.

23:028:013 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept,

           precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a

           little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall

           backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

23:028:014 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that

           rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

23:028:015 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and

           with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge

           shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have

           made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid

           ourselves:

23:028:016 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a

           foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a

           sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

23:028:017 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the

           plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and

           the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

23:028:018 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your

           agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing

           scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by

           it.

23:028:019 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for

           morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night:

           and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

23:028:020 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.

23:028:021 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.

23:028:022 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made

           strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a

           consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.

23:028:023 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

23:028:024 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break

           the clods of his ground?

23:028:025 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast

           abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the

           principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their

           place?

23:028:026 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach

           him.

23:028:027 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument,

           neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the

           fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a

           rod.

23:028:028 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing

           it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it

           with his horsemen.

23:028:029 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is

           wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

23:029:001 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye

           year to year; let them kill sacrifices.

23:029:002 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and

           sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.

23:029:003 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege

           against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against

           thee.

23:029:004 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 speech shall whisper out of the dust.

23:029:005 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small

           dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff

           that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

23:029:006 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and

           with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and

           the flame of devouring fire.

23:029:007 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel,

           even all that fight against her and her munition, and that

           distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.

23:029:008 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold,

           he eateth; but he awaketh, 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.

23:029:009 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are

           drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong

           drink.

23:029:010 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep

           sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your

           rulers, the seers hath he covered.

23:029:011 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a

           book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned,

           saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it

           is sealed:

23:029:012 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying,

           Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

23:029:013 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me

           with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have

           removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is

           taught by the precept of men:

23:029:014 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work

           among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for

           the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the

           understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

23:029:015 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?

23:029:016 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as

           the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it,

           He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that

           framed it, He had no understanding?

23:029:017 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned

           into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be

           esteemed as a forest?

23:029:018 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.

23:029:019 The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the

           poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

23:029:020 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is

           consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:

23:029:021 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for

           him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a

           thing of nought.

23:029:022 Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham,

           concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed,

           neither shall his face now wax pale.

23:029:023 But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the

           midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the

           Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.

23:029:024 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding,

           and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.

23:030:001 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take

           counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but

           not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

23:030:002 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my

           mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh,

           and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

23:030:003 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the

           trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

23:030:004 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to

           Hanes.

23:030:005 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them,

           nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

23:030:006 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of

           trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion,

           the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their

           riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures

           upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit

           them.

23:030:007 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose:

           therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to

           sit still.

23:030:008 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a

           book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

23:030:009 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children

           that will not hear the law of the LORD:

23:030:010 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy

           not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things,

           prophesy deceits:

23:030:011 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the

           Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

23:030:012 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye

           despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness,

           and stay thereon:

23:030:013 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to

           fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh

           suddenly at an instant.

23:030:014 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel

           that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there

           shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire

           from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.

23:030:015 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.

23:030:016 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.

23:030:017 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 an hill.

23:030:018 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.

23:030:019 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt

           weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice

           of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.

23:030:020 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the

           water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed

           into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:

23:030:021 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is

           the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and

           when ye turn to the left.

23:030:022 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of

           silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou

           shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say

           unto it, Get thee hence.

23:030:023 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow

           the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and

           it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle

           feed in large pastures.

23:030:024 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground

           shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the

           shovel and with the fan.

23:030:025 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every

           high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the

           great slaughter, when the towers fall.

23:030:026 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 breach

           of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

23:030:027 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his

           anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of

           indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

23:030:028 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the

           midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of

           vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people,

           causing them to err.

23:030:029 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is