ylon. CHAP. XIV, XV. God's purpose against Assyria ad in the day of his fierce fof the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; the chased roe, and as a I will be like the Most High. eth up: they shall every 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to eople, and flee every one the sides of the pit. 16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon found shall be thrust thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man e that is joined unto them that made the earth to tremble, that did shake

shall be dashed to pieces 17 That made the world as a wilderness, and houses shall be spoiled, destroyed the cities thereof: that opened not

ed. the house of his prisoners ? up the Medes against 18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them egard silver; and as for lie in glory, every one in his own house. ght in it. 19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an II dash the young men to abominable branch, and as the raiment of those ve no pity on the fruit of that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that all not spare children. go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass glory of kingdoms, the trodden under feet.

excellency, shall be as 20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, dom and Gomorrah. because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain nabited, neither shall it thy people: the seed of evil-doers shall never be tion to generation: nei-renowned.

itch tent there; neither 21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the e their fold there: iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, e desert shall lie there; nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the De fuil of doleful crea- world with cities.

well there, and satyrs 22 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the of the islands shall cry name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith and dragons in their the LORD. r time is near to come, 23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, prolonged.

and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts. 24 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, ve mercy on Jacob, and Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to 1, and set them in their pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: ers shall be joined with 25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, e to the house of Jacob. and upon my mountains tread him under foot: take them, and bring then shall his yoke depart from off them, and he house of Israel shall his burden depart from off their shoulders.

of the LORD for ser- 26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon d they shall take them the whole earth: and this is the hand that is they were; and they stretched out upon all the nations.

essors.

ass in the day that the from thy sorrow, and e hard bondage where

p this proverb against say, How hath the opcity ceased!

the staff of the wick

rulers.S

ople in wrath with a uled the nations in an

ne hindereth.

est, and is quiet: they

e at thee, and the ceSince thou art laid against us.

27 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.

291 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. 30 And the first-born 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.

31 Howl, O gate; cry, Ocity; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: d: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.

32 What shall one then answer the messengers oved for thee to meet of the nation? That the LORD hath founded rreth up the dead for Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

s of the earth: it hath

es all the kings of the

ad say unto thee, Art Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to ve? Art thou become silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;

own to the grave, and 2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the worm is spread un-high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall

Over thee.

rom heaven, O Luci- be baldness, and every beard cut off. ow art thou cut down 3 In their streets they shall gird themselves weaken the nations! with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and - thy heart, I will as- in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping alt my throne above abundantly.

Folge upon the mount 4 And Hosbhon shall cry and Elealeh: their

The wo of Isra

CHAP. XVII.
Syria and Israel threaten
HE burden of Damascus. Beh
cus is taken away from being

his fugitives TH

shall flee unto Zoar, a heifer of three years old: it shall be a ruinous heap. for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim be for flocks, which shall lie dow they shall raise up a cry of destruction.

shall make them afraid.

6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: 3 The fortress also shall cease fro

for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth,

there is no green thing.

7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.

8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab, the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim.

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

CHAP. XVI.

Moab exhorted to obedience.

and the kingdom from Damascus, a nant of Syria: they shall be as the children of Israel, saith the LORD O 4 And in that day it shall come the glory of Jacob shall be made th fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.

5 And it shall be as when the harv thereth the corn, and reapeth the ea arm; and it shall be as he that gat in the valley of Rephaim.

61 Yet gleaning-grapes shall be le the shaking of an olive-tree, two o ries in the top of the uppermost bou five in the outmost fruitful branch

SEND ye the lamb to the ruler of the land saith the Lord God of Israel.

the wilderness, unto the mount 7 At that day shall a man look to

of the daughter of Zion.

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

3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.

4 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.

5 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.

61 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.

and his eyes shall have respect to th of Israel.

8 And he shall not look to the altar of his hands, neither shall respect tha fingers have made, either the gro images.

9 In that day shall his strong ci forsaken bough, and an uppermost bra they left because of the children of there shall be desolation.

10 Because thou hast forgotten the salvation, and hast not been mindful of thy strength, therefore shalt thou ant plants, and shalt set it with stra 11 In the day shalt thou make thy pla and in the morning shalt thou make flourish but the harvest shall be al day of grief and of desperate sorrow. 121 Wo to the multitude of many pe make a noise like the noise of the se

7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every the rushing of nations, that make a r one shall howl: for the foundations of Kir-ha- the rushing of mighty waters! reseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken. 13 The nations shall rush like the 8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the many waters: but God shall rebuke vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have they shall flee far off, and shall be ch broken down the principal plants thereof they chaff of the mountains before the win are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through a rolling thing before the whirlwind. the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.

9

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.

14 And behold at evening-tide troubl fore the morning he is not. This is the them that spoil us, and the lot of them 1 CHAP. XVIII. Ethiopia is threatened.

W to the land shadowing with win

is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia

10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of 2 That sendeth ambassadors by the se the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, so shall be no singing, neither shall there be shout-ye swift messengers, to a nation scat ing. the treaders shall tread out no wine in peeled, to a people terrible from their their presses; I have made their vintage-shout- hitherto; a nation meted out and trod ing to cease.

11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-ha

resh

12 11 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.

whose land the rivers have spoiled!
3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and
on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth
sign on the mountains; and when hel
trumpet, hear ye.

4 For so the Lord said unto me, I wil rest, and I will consider in my dwell

like a clear heat upon herbs, and like &

13 This is the word that the LORD hath spo- dew in the heat of harvest. ken concerning Moab since that time.

14 But now the Lord hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall

5 For afore the harvest, when the br fect, and the sour grape is ripening in er, he shall both cut off the sprigs with hooks, and take away and cut down thel 6 They shall be left together unto the

princes. CHAP. XIX, XX, XXI. Covenant of Egypt, Assyria, &c. - upon them, and all the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, winter upon them. and a great one, and he shall deliver them. the present be brought 21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and of a people scattered and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, le terrible from their be- and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they ion meted out and trod-shall vow a vow unto the Lord, and perform it. nd the rivers have spoil

me of the LORD of hosts,

Behold, the LORD riDud, and shall come into Egypt shall be moved eart of Egypt shall melt

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

23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. 24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:

tians against the Egypat every one against his 25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, against his neighbour; Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the gdom against kingdom. work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance ot shall fail in the midst

by the counsel thereof: idols, and to the charm

e familiar spirits, and

11 I give over into the

the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it; 2 At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah a fierce king shall rule the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sack1, the LORD of hosts. cloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from fail from the sea, and thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and and dried up. barefoot.

e rivers far away; and 3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah 1 be emptied and dried hath walked naked and barefoot three years for all wither. a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;

brooks, by the mouth Ing sown by the brooks, 4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the ay, and be no more. Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, Durn, and all they that young and old, naked and barefoot, even with shall lament, and they their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. waters shall languish. 5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiin fine flax, and they opia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. Il be confounded. 6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say, in ken in the purposes that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whices and ponds for fish. ther we flee for help to be delivered from the f Zoan are fools, the king of Assyria: and how shali we escape?

sellors of Pharaoh is

e unto Pharaoh, I am The fall of Babylon foreshewn. of ancient kings? of the desert of the sea. As whirlre are thy wise men? winds in the south pass through; so it com and let them know eth from the desert, from a terrible land. purposed upon Egypt. 2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; The re become fools, the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the ved; they have also spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Methat are the stay of dia; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. 3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs

d a perverse spirit in have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woy have caused Egypt man that travaileth: I was bowed down at the f, as a drunken man hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

any work for Egypt, nch or rush, may do. be like unto women: fear, because of the LORD of hosts, which

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

5 Prepare the table, watch in the watch-tower eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield. 6 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Co set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth

shall be a terror unto 7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horse. eth mention thereof men, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; cause of the counsel and he hearkened diligently with much heed: he hath determined 8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watch-tower in the day time, cities in the land of and I am set in my ward whole nights. Canaan, and swear 9 And behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with shall be called, The a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the gra- be an altar to the ven images of her gods he hath broken unto the nd of Egypt, and a ground. to the LORD. 10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: n and for a witness that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the land of Egypt: the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.

The set time of Arabia's calamity. ISAIAH. ARI Prophecy concerni out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? 18 He will surely violently turn a Watchman, what of the night? like a ball into a large country: ther 12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, die, and there the chariots of thy g and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire the shame of thy lord's house. ye: return, come. 19 And I will drive thee from thy 13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest from thy state shall he pull thee dov in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling com- 20 And it shall come to pass i panies of Dedanim. that I will call my servant Eliakim

14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought Hilkiah: water to him that was thirsty, they prevented 21 And I will clothe him with th with their bread him that fled. strengthen him with thy girdle, and

15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn mit thy government into his hand: a sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

16 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:

17 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.

be a father to the inhabitants of Jer to the house of Judah.

22 And the key of the house of Dav upon his shoulder: so he shall oper shall shut; and he shall shut, and none 23 And I will fasten him as a nai place; and he shall be for a gloriou his father's house.

24 And they shall hang upon him a of his father's house, the offspring and all vessels of small quantity, from the cups, even to all the vessels of flagon 25 In that day, saith the LORD of h the nail that is fastened in the sure p moved, and be cut down, and fall burden that was upon it shall be cut o LORD hath spoken it.

CHAP. XXIII. Miserable overthrow of Tyre

THE burden of Tyreid Howl, ye

3 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. 4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because is no house, no entering in: from t of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. Chittim it is revealed to them. 5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading 2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; th down, and of perplexity by the Lord God of the merchants of Zidon, that pass OVO hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the have replenished.

3 And by great waters the seed of 6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots harvest of the river, is her revenue; a of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the a mart of nations. shield.

4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the 7 And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest spoken, even the strength of the sea, valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horse- travail not, nor bring forth children, n men shall set themselves in array at the gate. I nourish up young men, nor bring up

8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.

9 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.

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

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

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

5 As at the report concerning Egypt they be sorely pained at the report of ' 6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, y tants of the isle.

7 Is this your joyous city, whose ant of ancient days? her own feet shall ( afar off to sojourn.

8 Who hath taken this counsel again the crowning city, whose merchants are whose traffickers are the honourable of t] 9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it the pride of all glory, and to bring into ( all the honourable of the earth.

10 Pass through thy land as a river, O of Tarshish: there is no more strength. 11 He stretched out his hand over the

16 What hast thou here, and whom hast thou thereof, and he brought it to ruin. here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre 14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: foryours here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on is laid waste. high, and that graveth a habitation for himself in a rock?

17 Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with amighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.

15 And it shall come to pass in that da Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, ac to the days of one king: after the end of ty years shall Tyre sing as a harlot.

e God. CHAP. XXIV, XXV, XXVI. His benefits and salvation Dout the city, thou harlot the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; en; make sweet melody, and it shall fall, and not rise again.

thou mayest be remem- 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones me to pass after the end of that are on high, and the kings of the earth upe LORD will visit Tyre, on the earth. mer hire, and shall commit 22 And they shall be gathered together, as pri e kingdoms of the world soners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they

arth.
Lise and her hire shall be be visited.

it shall not be treasured 23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and merchandise shall be for the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall the LORD, to eat suffi- reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and be

its on the land.

maketh the earth empty,

abroad the inhabitants

fore his ancients gloriously.

CHAP. XXV.

The prophet praiseth God.

the mod I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faith fulness and truth.

ith the people, so with 2 For thou hast made of a city a heap; of u ervant, so with his mas- defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be o with her mistress; as no city; it shall never be built. the seller; as with the 3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee,

wer; as with the taker er of usury to him.

rly emptied, and utterly ath spoken this word.

the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. 4 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. 5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with d under the inhabitants the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrihave transgressed the ble ones shall be brought low.

and fadeth away, the leth away, the haughty nguish.

ance, broken the ever- 6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, -se devoured the earth, a feast of wines on the lees; of fat things full in are desolate: there- of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. earth are burned, and

eth, the vine languishdo sigh.

seth, the noise of them y of the harp ceaseth. me with a sorg; strong m that drink it.

broken down: every

man may come in.

ine in the streets; all of the land is gone. ation, and the gate is

De in the midst of the here shall be as the and as the gleaning

7 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.

8 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.

91 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. 10 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.

11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth voice, they shall sing forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring , they shall cry aloud down their pride together with the spoils of their

hands. he LORD in the fires, 12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls God of Israel in the shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

art of the earth have ry to the righteous. y leanness, wo unto s have dealt treache- of Judah; have a strong city; salvation as dealers have dealt

rth.

IN that day shall this song be sung in the land

will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation
which keepeth the truth may enter in.

3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose ss, that he who fleeth mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in mall fall into the pit; thee. Hosik

of the midst of the 4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the re: for the windows LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength: ■ the foundations of 5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth

ken down, the earth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even 5 moved exceedingly. to the dust.

and fro like a drunk- 6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of like a cottage and the poor and the steps of the needy