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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.
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.
001:003	The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
001:010	Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
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.
001:012	When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
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.
001:014	Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
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.
001:016	Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
001:017	Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
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.
001:019	If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
001:020	But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
001:021	How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
001:022	Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
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.
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:
001:025	And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
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.
001:027	Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
001:028	And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
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.
001:030	For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
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.

002:001	The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
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.
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.
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.
002:005	O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
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.
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:
002:008	Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
002:009	And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
002:010	Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
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.
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:
002:013	And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
002:014	And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
002:015	And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
002:016	And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
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.
002:018	And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
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.
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;
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.
002:022	Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?

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.
003:002	The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
003:003	The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
003:004	And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
003:010	Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
003:011	Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
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.
003:013	The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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,
003:019	The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
003:020	The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
003:021	The rings, and nose jewels,
003:022	The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
003:023	The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
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.
003:025	Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
003:026	And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.

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:
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.
005:003	And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
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?
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:
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.
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.
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!
005:009	In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
005:010	Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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:
005:016	But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
005:017	Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
005:018	Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
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!
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!
005:021	Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
005:022	Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
005:023	Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
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.
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.
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:
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:
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:
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.
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.

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.
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.
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.
006:004	And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
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.
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:
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.
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.
006:009	And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
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.
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,
006:012	And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
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.

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.
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.
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;
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.
007:005	Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
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:
007:007	Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
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.
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.
007:010	Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
007:011	Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
007:012	But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
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?
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.
007:015	Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
007:021	And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
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.
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.
007:024	With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
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.

008:001	Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
008:002	And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
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.
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.
008:005	The LORD spake also unto me again, saying,
008:006	Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
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:
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.
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.
008:010	Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
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,
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.
008:013	Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
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.
008:015	And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
008:016	Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
008:017	And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
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.
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?
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.
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.
008:022	And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
009:008	The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
009:009	And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
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.
009:011	Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
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.
009:013	For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
009:014	Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
009:015	The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
009:016	For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.

010:001	Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
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!
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?
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.
010:005	O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
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.
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.
010:008	For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
010:009	Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
010:010	As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
010:011	Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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;
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.
010:019	And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
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.
010:021	The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
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.
010:023	For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
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.
010:025	For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
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.
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.
010:028	He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
010:029	They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
010:030	Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
010:031	Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.
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.
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.
010:034	And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

011:001	And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
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;
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:
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.
011:005	And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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.
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.
012:003	Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
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.
012:005	Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.
012:006	Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

013:001	The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
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.
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.
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.
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.
013:006	Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
013:007	Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
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.
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.
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.
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.
013:012	I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
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.
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.
013:015	Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
013:016	Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
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.
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.
013:019	And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
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.
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.
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.

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.
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.
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,
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!
014:005	The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
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.
014:007	The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
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.
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.
014:010	All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
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.
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!
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:
014:014	I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
014:015	Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
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;
014:017	That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
014:018	All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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?
014:028	In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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;
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.
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.
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.
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.
015:006	For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
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.
015:008	For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.
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.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
016:007	Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.
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.
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.
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.
016:011	Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.
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.
016:013	This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.
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.

017:001	The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
017:002	The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
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.
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.
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.
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.
017:007	At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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!
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.
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.

018:001	Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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.
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.
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.
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.
019:005	And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
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.
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.
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.
019:009	Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
019:010	And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
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?
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.
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.
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.
019:015	Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
019:024	In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:
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.

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;
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.
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;
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.
020:005	And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
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?

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.
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.
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.
021:004	My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
021:005	Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
021:006	For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
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:
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:
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.
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.
021:011	The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
021:012	The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
021:013	The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
021:014	The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
021:015	For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
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:
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.

022:001	The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
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.
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.
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.
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.
022:006	And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
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.
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.
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.
022:010	And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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,
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?
022:017	Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.
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.
022:019	And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.
022:020	And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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.
023:002	Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
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.
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.
023:005	As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
023:006	Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
023:007	Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
023:008	Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
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.
023:010	Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.
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.
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.
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.
023:014	Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
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.
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.
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.
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.

024:001	Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
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.
024:003	The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
024:004	The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
024:005	The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
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.
024:007	The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
024:008	The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
024:009	They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
024:010	The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
024:011	There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
024:012	In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
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.
024:014	They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
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.
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.
024:017	Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
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.
024:019	The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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.
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.
025:003	Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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.
026:002	Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
026:003	Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
026:004	Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
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.
026:006	The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
026:007	The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
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.
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.
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.
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.
026:012	LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.
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.
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.
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.
026:016	LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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.
027:002	In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
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.
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.
027:005	Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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!
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.
028:003	The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
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.
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,
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.
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.
028:008	For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
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.
028:010	For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
028:011	For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
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.
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.
028:014	Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
028:023	Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
028:024	Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
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?
028:026	For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
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.
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.
028:029	This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

029:001	Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
029:002	Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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:
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.
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?
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?
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?
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.
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.
029:020	For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
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.
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.
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.
029:024	They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.

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:
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!
030:003	Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
030:004	For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
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.
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.
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.
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:
030:009	That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
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:
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.
030:012	Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
030:029	Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
030:030	And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
030:031	For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.
030:032	And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
030:033	For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

031:001	Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
031:002	Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
031:003	Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
031:004	For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
031:005	As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.
031:006	Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
031:007	For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
031:008	Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
031:009	And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

032:001	Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
032:002	And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
032:003	And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
032:004	The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
032:005	The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
032:006	For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
032:007	The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
032:008	But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
032:009	Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
032:010	Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
032:011	Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
032:012	They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
032:013	Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
032:014	Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
032:015	Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
032:016	Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
032:017	And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
032:018	And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
032:019	When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
032:020	Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.

033:001	Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
033:002	O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
033:003	At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
033:004	And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
033:005	The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
033:006	And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.
033:007	Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
033:008	The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
033:009	The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
033:010	Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
033:011	Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
033:012	And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
033:013	Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might.
033:014	The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
033:015	He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
033:016	He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
033:017	Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
033:018	Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
033:019	Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
033:020	Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
033:021	But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
033:022	For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
033:023	Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
033:024	And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.

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