diadem of beauty, Unto the residue of His people; 6And for a spirit of judgment to him ' that sitteth in judgment, And for strength to them that turn back the battle at the gate.
7But these also reel through wine, And stagger through strong drink; The priest and the prophet reel through strong drink, They are confused because of wine, They stagger because of strong drink; They reel in vision, they totter in judgment.
8For all tables are full of filthy vomit, And no place is clean.
9Whom shall one teach knowledge?
And whom shall one make to under- stand the message?
Them that are weaned from the milk, Them that are drawn from the breasts?
10For it is precept by precept, pre- cept by precept, line by line, line by line,; Here a little, there a little. uFor with stammering lips and with a strange tongue Shall it be spoken to this people; 12To whom it was said: 'This 1 the rest, is Give ye rest to the weary; And this is the refreshing'; Yet they would not hear. 13And so the word of the LORD is unto them Precept by precept, precept by precept, Line by line, line by line; Here a little, there a little; That they may go, and fall back- ward, and be broken, And snared, and taken.
"Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scoffers, The ballad-mongers of this people which is in Jerusalem: "Because ye have said: 'We have made a covenant with death, And with the nether-world are we at agreement; When the scouring scourge shall pass through, It shall not come unto us; For we have made lies our refuge, And in falsehood have we hid our- selves '; 16Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I lay in Zion for a founda- tion a stone, A tried stone, a costly corner-stone of sure foundation; He that believeth shall not make haste. 17And I will make justice the line, And righteousness the plummet; And the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, And ^he waters shall overflow the hiding-place.
18And your covenant with death shall be disannulled.
And your agreement with the nether- world shall not stand; When the scouring scourge shall pass through, Then ye shall be trodden down by it.
ISAIAH "As often as it pa^seth through, it fchaii take you; For morning by morning shall it pass through, By day and by night; And itVhall be bheer terror to under- stand the message. 20For the bed is too short for a man to bt retch himself; And the covering too narrow when he gather eth himself up. aFor the LOUD will rise up as in mount Pcrazim, He will be wroth as in the valley of j Gibeon; | That He may do His work, strange t is His work, And bring to pass His act, strange is His act. ^Now therefore be ye not scoffers, Lest your bandg be made strong; For an extermination wholly deter- mined have I heard from the Lord, the GOD of hosts, Upon the whole land.
Hiive ye ear, and hear my voice; Attend, and hear my speech. "Is the plowman never done with plowing to sow, With the opening and harrowing of his ground? "When he hath made plain the face thereof, Doth he not cast abroad the black cummin, and scatter the cum- And put in the wheat in rows and the barley in the appointed place And the spelt in the border there- of? *For He doth instruct him aright; His God doth teach him. ^For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing-sledge, Neither is a cart-wheel turned about; upon the cummin; \ * That w, The hearth of God.
But the black cummin is beaten out with a staff, And the cummin with a rod. 28Is bread corn crushed? Nay, he will not ever be threshing it; And though the roller of his wagon and its sharp edges move noisily, He doth not crush it. 39This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts: Wonderful is His counsel, and great His wisdom.
-Ah, *Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add ye year to year, Let the feasts come round' 2Then will I distress Ariel, And there shall be mourning and moaning; And she shall be unto Me as a hearth of God. *And I will encamp against thee round about, And will lay siege against thee with a mound, And I will raise siege works against thee. 4And brought down thou shalt speak out of the ground, And thy speech shall be low out of the dust; And thy voice shall be as of a ghost out of the ground, And thy speech shall chirp out of the dust. 6But the multitude of thy foes shall be like small dust, And the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away; Yea, it shall be at an instant sud- denly— There shall be a visitation from the LOUD of hosts With thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, ISAIAH With whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire. 7And the multitude of all the nations that war against Ariel, Even all that war against her, and the bulwarks about her, and they that distress her, Shall be as a dream, a vision of the night. 8And it shall be as when a 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.
9Stupefy yourselves, and be stupid! Blind yourselves, and be blind! Ye that are drunken, but not with wine, That stagger, but not with strong drink. 10For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, And hath closed your eyes; The prophets, and your heads, the seers, hath He covered. uAnd the vision of all this is become unto you as the words of a writing 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'; ^and the writing is delivered to him that is not learned, saying: 'Read this, I pray thee'; and he saith: ' I am not learned/ 13 And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near, And with their mouth and with their lips do honour Me, But have removed their heart far from Me, And their fear of Me is a command- ment of men learned by rote; 14Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvellous work among this peo- ple, Even a marvellous work and a wonder; And the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, And the prudence of their prudent men shall be hid.
"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?' 160 your perversity! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; That the thing made should say of him that made it: 'He made me not'; Or the thing framed say of him that framed it: 'He hath no understanding?'
"Is it not yet a very little while, And Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, And the fruitful field shall be es- teemed as a forest? 18And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of a book, And the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of dark- ness. 19The humble also shall increase their joy in the LORD, And the neediest among men shall exult in the Holy One of Israel. 20For the terrible one is brought to nought, And the scorner ceaseth, And all they that watch for iniquity are cut off; ISAIAH "That make a man an offender by And lay a snare for him that reprovt'th in the Rate*, And turn aside the just with a thing of nought.
1 thus saith the LOKD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the hou»e of Jacob: Jacob bhall not now be ashamed, Neither shall his face now wax pale; ^When he seeth his children, the work of My hands, in the midst of him, That they sanctify My name; Yea, they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, And fhall stand in awe of the God of Israel. "They abo that err in spirit shall come to understanding, And they^that murmur shall learn instruction.
OA Woe to the rebellious children, v saith the LOBD, That take counsel, but not of Me; And that form projects, but not of My spirit, That they may add sin to sin; That walk to go down into Egypt, And have not asked at My mouth; To take refuge in the stronghold of Pharaoh, And to take shelter in the shadow of Egypt! 'Therefore shall the stronghold of Pharaoh turn to your shame, And the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your confusion. 4For hifi princes are at Zoan, And his ambassadors are come to Hanes.
*They shall all be ashamed of a peo- ple that cannot profit them, That are not a help nor profit, But a shame, and also a reproach.
6The burden of the beasts of the South.
Through the land of trouble and anguish, From whence come the lioness and the lion, The viper and flying serpent, They carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, And their treasures upon the humps of camels, To a people that shall not profit them. 7For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose; Therefore have I called her Arrogancy that sitteth still. "Now go, write it before them on a tablet, < And inscribe it in a book, That it may be for the time to come For ever and ever. 9For it is a rebellious people, Lying children, Children that refuse to hear the teaching of the LORD; 10That say to the seers: ' See not', And to the prophets: 'Prophesy not unto us right things, Speak unto us smooth things, proph- esy delusions; nGet you out of the way, Turn aside out of the path, Cause the Holy One of Israel To cease from before us.' ^Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because ye despise this word, And trust in oppression and perverseness, And stay thereon; ^Therefore this iniquity shall be to you ISAIAH As a breach ready to fall, swelling j out in a high wall, j Whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
14And He shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, Breaking it in pieces without &par- Jag; So that there shall not be found; among the pieces thereof a sherd j To take fire from the hearth, Or to take water out of the cistern.
15For thus said the Lord Gor>r the ( Holy One of Israel. > In sitting still and rest shall ye be!
saved, | In quietness and in confidence shall; be your strength; | And ye would not. 10But 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.
17One thousand shall flee at the re- buke of one, At the rebuke of five shall ye flee, Till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, And as an ensign on a hill. 18And therefore will the LORD wait, that He may be gracious unto you, And therefore will He be exalted, that He may have compassion upon you; For the LORD is a God of justice, Happy are all they that wait for Him.
"For, O people that dwellest in Zion at Jerusalem, Thou shalt weep no more; He will surely be gracious unto thee at the voice of thv cry, When He s>hall hear, He will an- swer thee. 20And though the Lord give you bparing bread and scant water, Yet shall not thy Teacher hide Himself any more, But thine eyes shall see thy Teach- er; 21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, baying: 'This is the way, walk ye in it, When ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.* fr-And ye shall defile thy graven im- ages overlaid with silver, And thy molten images covered with gold; Thou shalt put them far away as one unclean; Thou shalt say unto it: *Get thee hence.' MAiid He will give the rain tor thy beed, wherewith thou sowest the ground, And bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous; In that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures. 24The oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground Shall eat savoury provender, Which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan MAnd there shall be upon every- lofty mountain, and upon every high hill, Streams and watercourses, In the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. 26Moreover 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 the seven days, In the day that the LORD bindetn up the bruise of His people, ISAIAH And hiMleth the stroke of their wuuud.
"Behold, th« name of the LORD cometh from far, With Hid anger burning, and in thick uplifting of smoke;_ His lips arc full of indignation, And His tongue is as a devouring fire; 2*An<i His breath is as an overflowing stream.
That divideth even unto the neck, To sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; And a bridle that causeth to err shall be in the jaws of the peoples.
*9Ye fchall have a song As in the night when a feast is hallowed; And gladness of heart, as when one goeth with the pipe To come into the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel. *DAnd the LORD will cause His glorious voice to be heard, And will show the lighting down of His arm, With furious anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, With a bursting of clouds, and a storm of rain, and hailstones. 3lFor through the voice of the LORD shall Asshur be dismayed, The rod with which He smote. ^And in every place where the ap- pointed staff shall pass, Which the LORD shall lay upon him, It shall be with tabrets and harps; And in battles of wielding will He fight with them, **For a hearth is ordered of old; Yea, for the king it is prepared, Deep and large; The pile thereof is fire and much The breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Q1 Woe to them that go down to f~* x Egypt for help, And rely on horses, And trust in chariots, because they are many, And in horsemen, because they are exceeding mighty; But they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, Neither seek the LORD! 2Yet He also is wise, And bringeth evil, And doth not callback His words; But will arise against the house of the evil-doers, And against the help of them that work iniquity. 3Now the Egyptians are men, and not God, And their horses flesh, and not spirit; So when the LORD shall stretch out His hand, Both he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall fall, And they all shall perish together.
4For thus saith the LORD unto me: Like as the lion, or the young lion, growling over his prey, Though a multitude of shepherds be called forth against him, Will not be dismayed at their voice, Nor abase himself for the noise of them; So will the LORD of hosts come down To fight upon mount Zion, and upon the hill thereof. 5As birds hovering, So will the LORD of hosts protect Jerusalem; He will deliver it as He protecteth it, He will rescue it as He passeth over.
ISAIAH ^urn ye unto Him Against whom ye have deeply rebelled, 0 children of Israel. 7For in that day they shall cast away Every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, Which your own hands have made unto you for a sin. 8Then shall Asshur fall with the sword, not of man, And the sword, not of men, shall devour him; And he shall flee from the sword, And his young men shall become tributary. 9And his rock shall pass away by reason of terror, And his princes shall be dismayed at the ensign, Saith the LOUD, whose fire is in Zion, And His furnace in Jerusalem.
OO Behold, a king shall reign in ^^ righteousness, And as for princes, they shall rule in justice.
2And a man shall be as in a hiding- place from the wind, And a covert from the tempest; As by the watercourses in a dry place, As in the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. 8And the eyes of them that see shall not be closed, And the ears of them that hear shall attend. 4The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, And the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. The vile person shall be no more called liberal, Nor the churl said to be noble. 6For the vile person will speak villany, And his heart will work iniquity, To practise ungodliness, and to utter wickedness against the LORD, To make empty the soul of the hungry, And to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. 7The instruments aJso of the churl are evil; He deviseth wicked devices To destroy the poor with lying words, And the needy when he speaketh right. 8But the liberal deviseth liberal things; And by liberal things shall he stand.
9RIse up, ye women that are at ease, and hear my voice; Ye confident daughters, give ear unto my speech. 10After a year and days shall ye be troubled, ye confident women; For the vintage shall fail, the in- gathering shall not come. "Tremble, ye women that are at ease; Be troubled, ye confident ones; Strip you, and make you bare, And gird sackcloth upon your loins, 12Smiting upon the breasts For the pleasant fields, for the fruit- ful vine; 13For the land of my people Whereon thorns and briers come up; Yea, for all the houses of joy And the joyous city. I4For the palace shall be forsaken; The city with its stir shall be de- The mound and the tower shall be for dens for ever, A joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; 15Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, ISAIAH And the wilderness become a fruitful Md, And tho fruitful field be countec for a forest. lThen jti.stic<».shall dwell in the wilderness, Arid right oouMiew shall abide in the fruitful field. 17 And the work of righteousness shall l>e peace; And the effect of righteousness quietness and confidence for ever.
1HAnd my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation. And in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting-places. "And it shall hail, in the Downfall of the forest; But the city shall descend into the valley. SMH:ippy are ye that sow beside all waters, That send forth freely the feet of the ox and the ass.
thou wast not spoiled; And dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with ihee! When thou hast ceased to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; And when thou art weary with dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
K) LORD, be gracious unto us; We have waited for Thee; Be Thou their arm every morning, Our salvation also in the time of trouble. *At the noise of the tumult the peoples are fled; At the lifting up of Thyself the nations are scattered. 4And your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathereth; As locusts leap do they leap upon it. 5The LORD is exalted, for He dwelleth on high; He hath filled Zion with justice and righteousness. •And the stability of thy times shall be A hoard of salvation — wisdom and knowledge, And the fear of the LORD which is His treasure.
7Behpld, their valiant ones cry- without; The ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
8The highways lie waste, The wayfaring man ceaseth; He hath broken the covenant, He hath despised the cities, He regardeth not man.
*The land mourneth and languisheth; Lebanon is ashamed, it withereth; Sharon is like a wilderness; And Bashan and Carmel are clean bare. 10Now will I arise, saith the LORD; Now will I be exalted; Now will I lift Myself up. uYe conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble; Your breath is a fire that shall de- vour you.
MAnd the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime; As thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.
uHear, ye that are far off, what I have done; And, ye that are near, acknowledge My might.
"The sinners in Zion are afraid; Trembling hath seized the ungodly: ' Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire?
ISAIAH Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?' 15He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; He that despiseth the gain of op- pressions, That shaketh his hands from hold- ing of bribes, That stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, And shutteth his eyes from looking upon evil; 16He shall dwell on high; His place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks; His bread shall be given, his waters shall be sure.
17Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty; They shall behold a land stretching afar.
18Thy heart shall muse on the terror: 'Where is he that counted, where is he that weighed? Where is he that counted the towers?'
"Thou shalt not see the fierce peo- ple: A people of a deep speech that thou canst not perceive, Of a stammering tongue that thou canst not understand. 20Look upon Zion, the city of our solemn gatherings; Thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a peaceful habitation, A tent that shall not be removed, The stakes whereof shall never be plucked up, Neither ahall any of the cords there- of be broken. 2lBut there the LORD will be with us in majesty, In a place of broad rivers and streams; Wherein snail go no galley with oars, Neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
^For the LORD is our Judge, The LORD is our Lawgiver, The LORD is our King; He will save us. MThy tacklings are loosed; They do not hold the stand of their mast, They do not spread the sail; Then is the prey of a great spoil divided; The lame take the prey. ^And the inhabitant shall not say: 'I am sick'; The people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
CM Come near, ye nations, to hear, ^ •*- And attend, ye peoples; Let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof, The world, and all things that come forth of it. 2For the LORD hath indignation against all the nations, And fury against all their host; He hath utterly destroyed them, He hath delivered them to the slaughter.
3Their slain also shall be cast out, And the stench of their carcasses shall come up, And the mountains shall be melted with their blood. 4And all the host of heaven shall moulder away, And the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; And all their host shall fall down, As the leaf falleth off from the vine, And as a falling fig from the fig- tree. *»For My sword hath drunk ifcs fill hi heaven; Behold, it pha-fl come down upon ' Edom, ISAIAH And upon the people of My ban, to judgment.
The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, It is made fat with fatness, With the blood of luniks and goats, With the fat of the kidneys of rams; For the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, And the bullocks with the bulls; And their land shall l>e drunken with blood, And their dust made fat with fat- ness.
8For the LORD hath a day of ven- geance, A year of recompense for the con- troversy of Zion.
*And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, And the dust thereof into brim- stone, And the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
lolt shall not be quenched night nor day, The smoke thereof shall go up for ever; From generation to generation it shall lie waste: None shall pass through it for ever and ever.
"But the pelican and the bittern shall possess it, And the owl and the raven shall dwell therein; And He shall stretch over it The line of confusion, and the plum- met of emptiness.
ttAs for her nobles, none shall be there to be called to the king- dom: And all her princes shall be nothing.
13And thorns shall come up in her palaces, Nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; And it shall be a habitation of wild-dogs, An enclosure for ostriches. uAnd the wild-cats shall meet with the jackals, And the satyr shall cry to his fellow; Yea, the night-monster shall re- pose there, And shall find her a place of rest. "There shall the arrowsnake make her nest, and lay, And hatch, and brood under her shadow; Yea, there shall the kites be gath- ered, Every one with her mate. 16Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read; No one of these shall be missing, None shall want her mate; For My mouth it hath commanded, And the breath thereof it hath gathered them. "And He hath cast the lot for them, And His hand hath divided it unto them by line; They shaft possess it for ever, From generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
The wilderness and the parched land shall be glad; And the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. 2It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice, Even with joy and singirfg; The glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, The excellency of Carmel and Sharon; They shall see the glory of the LORD, The excellency of our God.
ISAIAH Strengthen ye the weak hands, And make firm the tottering knees. 4Say to them that are of a fearful heart: 'Be strong, fear not '; Behold, your God will come with vengeance, They shall obtain gladness and joy, And sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Heze- i kiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria With the recompense of God He ' came up against all the fortified cities will come and save you.
the eyes of the blind shall be opened, And the ears of the deaf shall be un- stopped. 6Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, And the tongue of the dumb shall sing; For in the wilderness shall waters break out, And streams in the desert. 7And the parched land shall become a pool, And the thirsty ground springs of water; In the habitation of jackals herds shall lie down, It shall be an enclosure for reeds and rushes. 8And a highway shall be there, and away, And it shall be called The way of holiness; The unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for those; The wayfaring men, yea fools, shall not err therein. 9No lion shall be there, Nor shall any ravenous beast go up thereon, They shall not be found there; But the redeemed shall walk there; 10And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, And come with singing unto Zion, And everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; of Judah, and took them. 2And the king of Assyria sent Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fullers' field. *Then came forth unto him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder. 4And Rab-shakeh said unto them: 'Say ye now to Hezekiah- Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria: What confidence is this wherein thou trustest? *I said: It is but vain words; for counsel and strength are for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled against me? €Behpld, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it; so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust on him. 7But if thou say unto me: We trust in the LORD our God; is not that He, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and to Jerusalem: Ye shall worship before this altar? 8Now therefore, I pray thee, make a wager with my master " the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. 9How then canst thou turn away the face of one captain, even of the least of my master's servants? yet thou puttest thy trust on Egypt for chariots and ISAIAH for horsemen! IOAnd am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? The LORD said unto me: CJo up against this land, arid destroy it,' "Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joiih unto Rab-shakeh: ' Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Aramean language, for we under- stand it; and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.' wBut Rab-shakeh said: *Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, to eat their own clung, and to drink their own water with you9' 13Then Itab-shakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews1 language, and said: 'Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria. "Thus saith the king: Let not Hezekiah beguile you, for he will not be able to deliver 'you; lsneither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying: The LORD will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. lcHeark- ea not to Hezekiah; for thus saith the king of Assyria: Make your peace with me, and come out to -me; and cut ye every one of his vine, and every- one of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern; 17until I come and take you away to a land like your own land "a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vine- yards. 1&Beware lest Hezekiah per- suade you, saying:.The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 19Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? where are the gods of Seph- arvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand9 s°Whoi