1   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.

2    ^noteHear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord ^note hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

3    ^noteThe ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

4   Ah sinful nation, a people laden with ^note iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they are ^note gone away backward.

5   ¶2; Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will ^note revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

6   From the sole of the foot even to 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 ^note ointment.

7    ^noteYour country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, ^note as overthrown by strangers.

8   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.

9    ^noteExcept the Lord of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we should have been as ^note Sodom; we should have been like Gomorrah.

10   ¶2; Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

11   To what purpose is the multitude of your ^note sacrifices to 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 ^note he-goats.

12   When ye come ^note to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

13   Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination to me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot endure; it is ^note iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

14   Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble to me; I am weary to bear them.

15   And ^note when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yes, when ye ^note make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of ^{note note} blood.

16   ¶2; Wash ye, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; ^note cease to do evil;

17   Learn to do well; seek judgment, ^note relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

18   Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be white as snow, though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

19   If ye are willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

20   But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

21   ¶2; How is the faithful city become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

22   Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:

23   Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they ^note judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come to them.

24   Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of my adversaries, and avenge me of my enemies:

25   ¶2; And I will turn my hand upon thee, and ^note thoroughly purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:

26   And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

27   Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and ^note her converts with righteousness.

28   ¶2; And the ^{note note} destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.

29   For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

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30   For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

31   And the strong shall be as tow, ^note and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them. CHAP. II. 1 Isaiah prophesieth the coming of Christ's kingdom. 6 Wickedness is the cause of God's forsaking: 10 He exhorteth to fear, because of the powerful effects of God's majesty.

1   The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

2   And ^note it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mount of the Lord's house shall be ^note established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.

3   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.

4   And he will judge among the nations, and will rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into ^note pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

5   O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.

6   ¶2; Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are replenished ^note from the east, and are sooth-sayers like the Philistines, and they ^note please themselves in the children of strangers.

7   Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:

8   Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

9   And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.

10   ¶2; Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty.

11   The ^note lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be abased, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

12   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:

13   And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

14   And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,

15   And upon every high tower, and upon every fortified wall,

16   And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all ^note pleasant pictures.

17   And the loftiness of man shall be abased, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

18   And ^note the idols he will utterly abolish.

19   And they shall go into the ^note holes of the rocks, and into the caves of ^note the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

20   In that day a man shall cast ^note his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, ^note which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

21   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.

22   Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of? CHAP. III. 1 The great confusion which cometh by sin. 9 The impudence of the people. 12 The oppression and covetousness of the rulers. 16 The judgments which shall be for the pride of the women.

1   For behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the rod and the staff, the whole support of bread, and the whole support of water,

2   The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,

3   The captain of fifty, and ^note the honorable man, and the counselor, and the skillful artificer, and the ^note eloquent orator.

4   And I will give ^note children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

5   And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the elder, and the base against the honorable.

6   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:

7   In that day shall he ^note swear, saying, I will not be a ^note healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.

8   For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

9   ¶2; The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as ^note Sodom, they hide it not. Woe to their soul! for they have rewarded evil to themselves.

10   Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

11   Woe to the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be ^note given him.

12   ¶2; As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, ^note they who lead

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13   The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.

14   The Lord will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and with their princes: for ye have ^note eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

15   What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.

16   ¶2; Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with extended necks and ^note wanton eyes, walking and ^note mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

17   Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will uncover their secret parts.

18   In that day the Lord will take away the show of their ^note tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their ^note cauls, and their round tires like the moon.

19   The ^note chains, and the bracelets, and the ^note mufflers,

20   The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the head-bands, and the ^note tablets, and the ear-rings,

21   The rings, and nose-jewels,

22   The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping-pins,

23   The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.

24   And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be an offensive odor; 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.

25   Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy ^note mighty in the war.

26   And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being ^{note note} desolate, shall sit upon the ground. CHAP. IV. In the extremity of evils, Christ's kingdom shall be a sanctuary.

1   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 ^note let us be called by thy name, ^note to take away our reproach.

2   In that day shall the branch of the Lord be ^note beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely ^note for them that have escaped of Israel.

3   And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written ^note among the living in Jerusalem:

4   When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst of it by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

5   And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a ^note cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for ^note upon all the glory shall be ^note a defense.

6   And there shall be a tabernacle for a shade in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain. CHAP. V. 1 Under the parable of a vineyard, God excuseth his severe judgment: 8 His judgments upon covetousness. 11 upon lasciviousness, 13 upon impiety, 20 and upon injustice. 26 The executioners of God's judgments.

1   Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a ^note vineyard in ^note a very fruitful hill:

2   And he ^note fenced it, and gathered out the stones of it, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also ^note made a wine-press therein: and he expected that it would bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

3   And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

4   What more could have been done to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I expected that it would bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

5   And now come; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall of it, and it shall be ^note trodden down:

6   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.

7   For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah ^note his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold ^note oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

8   ¶2; Woe to them that join ^note house to house, that lay field to field, till there is no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

9    ^noteIn my ears said the Lord of hosts, ^note Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

10   Yes, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.

11   ¶2; ^note Woe to them that rise early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that contiune until night, till wine ^note inflameth them!

12   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.

13   Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and ^note their honorable men

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14   Therefore ^note 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.

15   And ^note the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be abased.

16   But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and ^{note note} God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

17   Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

18   Woe to them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart-rope:

19   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!

20   ¶2; Woe to them ^note 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!

21   Woe to them that are ^note wise in their own eyes, and prudent ^note in their own sight!

22   Woe to them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

23   Who ^note justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

24   Therefore as ^note 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.

25   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 trembled, and their carcasses were ^note torn in the midst of the streets. ^noteFor all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

26   ¶2; And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from afar, and will hiss to them from the end of the earth: and behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:

27   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:

28   Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:

29   Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yes, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

30   And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one looketh to the land, behold darkness and ^note sorrow, ^note and the light is darkened in its heavens. CHAP. VI. 1 Isaiah, in a vision of the Lord in his glory, 5 being terrified, is confirmed for his message: 9 He showeth the obstinacy of the people to their desolation. 13 A remnant shall be saved.

1   In the year that king Uzziah died I ^note saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and elevated, and ^note his train filled the temple.

2   Above it stood seraphim: each one had six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

3   And ^note one cried to another, and said, ^note Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts: ^note the whole earth is full of his glory.

4   And the posts of the ^note door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

5   ¶2; Then said I, Woe is me! for I am ^note undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.

6   Then one of the seraphim flew to me, ^note having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:

7   And he ^note laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thy iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

8   Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for ^note us? Then said I, ^note Here am I; send me.

9   ¶2; And he said, Go, and tell this people, ^note Hear ye ^{note note} indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

10   Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

11   Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities shall be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be ^note utterly desolate;

12   And the Lord shall have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

13   ¶2; But yet in it shall be a tenth, ^note and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil-tree, and as an oak whose ^note substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance of it. CHAP. VII. 1 Ahaz being troubled with fear of Rezin and Pekah, is comforted by Isaiah. 10 Ahaz, having liberty to choose a sign, and refusing, hath for a sign, Christ promised: 17 His judgment is prophesied to come by Assyria.

1   And it came to pass in the days of ^note 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 towards

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2   And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria ^note 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.

3   Then said the Lord to Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and ^note Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the ^note conduit of the upper pool in the ^note highway of the fuller's field;

4   And say to him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, ^note neither be faint-hearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

5   Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,

6   Let us go up against Judah, and ^note harass it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:

7   Thus saith the Lord God, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.

8   For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty five years shall Ephraim be broken, ^note that it be not a people.

9   And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. ^noteIf ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.

10   ¶2; ^note Moreover, the Lord spoke again to Ahaz, saying,

11   Ask thee a sign from the Lord thy God; ^note ask it either in the depth, or in the hight above.

12   But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.

13   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?

14   Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign; ^note Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and ^note shall call his name Immanuel.

15   Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

16   For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken by both her kings.

17   ¶2; The Lord will 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.

18   And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord will hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

19   And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all ^note bushes.

20   In the same day will the Lord shave with a ^note 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.

21   And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;

22   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 ^note in the land.

23   And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand pieces of silver, it shall even be for briers and thorns.

24   With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

25   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 ^note sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle. CHAP. VIII. 1 In Maher-shalal-hash-baz, he prophesieth that Syria and Israel shall be subdued by Assyria; 5 Judah likewise for their infidelity. 9 God's judgments shall be irresistible. 11 Comfort shall be to them that fear God. 19 Great afflictions to idolaters.

1   Moreover, the Lord said to me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning ^note Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

2   And I took to me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.

3   And I ^note went to the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said the Lord to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

4   For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, ^note the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

5   ¶2; The Lord spoke also to me again, saying,

6   Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;

7   Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks:

8   And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and ^note the extension of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

9   ¶2; Associate yourselves, O ye people, ^note and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be ^note broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall ^note be broken in pieces.

10   Take counsel together, and it shall come to naught; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

11   ¶2; For the Lord spoke thus to me ^note with a strong hand, and instructed me

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12   Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.

13   Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

14   And he will be for a sanctuary; but for ^note a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a trap and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

15   And many among them shall ^note stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be insnared, and be taken.

16   Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

17   And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

18    ^noteBehold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion.

19   ¶2; And when they shall say to you, Seek to them that have familiar spirits, and to wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek to their God? for the living to the dead?

20    ^noteTo the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is ^note no light in them.

21   And they shall pass through it, distressed 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.

22   And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness. CHAP. IX. 1 What joy shall be in the midst of afflictions, by the kingdom and birth of Christ. 8 The judgments upon Israel for their pride: 13 for their hypocrisy, 18 and for their impenitence.

1   Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her distress, 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 ^note of the nations.

2    ^noteThe people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shades of death, upon them hath the light shined.

3   Thou hast multiplied the nation, and ^note not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

4    ^noteFor thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of ^note Midian.

5    ^noteFor every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; ^note but this shall be with burning and ^note fuel of fire.

6   For to us a child is born, to us a ^note son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

7   Of the increase of his government and peace ^note 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 ^note zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

8   ¶2; The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

9   And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,

10   The bricks have fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

11   Therefore the Lord will set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and ^note join his enemies together;

12   The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel ^note with open mouth. ^noteFor all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

13   ¶2; For the people turn not to him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts.

14   Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

15   The ancient and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

16   For ^note the leaders of this people cause them to err; and ^note they that are led by them are ^note destroyed.

17   Therefore the Lord will have no joy in their young men, neither will have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is a hypocrite and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh ^note folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

18   ¶2; 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 rising of smoke.

19   Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the ^note fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.

20   And he shall ^note snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:

21   Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. CHAP. X. 1 The woe of tyrants. 5 Assyria, the rod of hypocrites, for his pride shall be broken. 20 A remnant of Israel shall be saved. 24 Israel is comforted with promise of deliverance from Assyria.

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1   Woe to them that decree unrighteous decrees, and ^note that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

2   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!

3   And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

4   Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. ^noteFor all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

5   ¶2; ^note O ^note Assyrian, the rod of my anger, ^note and the staff in their hand is my indignation.

6   I will send him against a 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 ^note to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

7   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.

8    ^noteFor he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?

9   Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

10   As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images excelled them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

11   Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

12   Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work ^note upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will ^note punish the fruit ^note of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

13   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 ^note like a valiant man:

14   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 ^note peeped.

15   Shall the ax boast itself against him that heweth with it? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that moveth it? ^note as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it, or as if the staff should lift ^note itself, as if it were no wood.

16   Therefore will the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he will kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.

17   And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

18   And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, ^note both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.

19   And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be ^note few, that a child may write them.

20   ¶2; And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as have escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean upon him that smote them; but shall lean upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

21   The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

22    ^noteFor though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant ^note of them shall return: ^note the consumption decreed shall overflow ^note with righteousness.

23   For the Lord God of hosts will make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.

24   ¶2; 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, ^note and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of ^note Egypt.

25   For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and my anger in their destruction.

26   And the Lord of hosts will raise up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of ^note 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.

27   And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden ^note 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.

28   He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his ^note furniture.

29   They have gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul hath fled.

30    ^noteLift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard to Laish, O poor Anathoth.

31   Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.

32   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.

33   Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts will lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.

34   And he shall cut down the thickets of the forests with iron, and Lebanon shall fall ^note by a mighty one. CHAP. XI. 1 The peaceful kingdom of the branch out of the root of Jesse. 10 The victorious restoration of Israel, and vocation of the Gentiles.

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1   And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of ^note Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots:

2   And the spirit of the Lord will rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;

3   And will make him of ^note quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he will not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:

4   But with righteousness will he judge the poor, and ^note reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he will ^note smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips will he slay the wicked.

5   And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

6    ^noteThe 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.

7   And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

8   And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the den of the ^note basilisk.

9   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.

10   ¶2; And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the ^note Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be ^note glorious.

11   And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord will 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 isles of the sea.

12   And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four ^note corners of the earth.

13   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 distress Ephraim.

14   But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines towards the west; they shall spoil ^note them of the east together: ^note they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; ^note and the children of Ammon shall obey them.

15   And the Lord will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind will he shake his hand over the river, and will smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over ^note dry shod.

16   And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; ^note as it was to Israel in the day that he came up from the land of Egypt. CHAP. XII. A joyful thanksgiving of the faithful for the mercies of God.

1   And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thy anger is turned away, and thou hast comforted me.

2   Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord JEHOVAH is my ^note strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.

3   Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

4   And in that day shall ye say, ^note Praise the Lord, ^note call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.

5   Sing to the Lord; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.

6   Cry aloud and shout, thou ^note inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee. CHAP. XIII. 1 God mustereth the armies of his wrath: 6 He threateneth to destroy Babylon by the Medes: 19 The desolation of Babylon.

1   The ^note burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

2   Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice to them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

3   I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for my anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.

4   The noise of a multitude in the mountains, ^note as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations assembled: the Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.

5   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.

6   ¶2; Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

7   Therefore shall all hands ^note be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:

8   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 ^note be amazed ^note one at another; their faces shall be as ^note flames.

9   Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he will destroy its sinners out of it.

10   For the stars of heaven and its constellations shall not give their light: the sun shall be ^note darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

11   And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of

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12   I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

13   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.

14   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 to his own land.

15   Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined to them shall fall by the sword.

16   Their children also shall be ^note dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be plundered, and their wives ravished.

17   Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

18   Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.

19   ¶2; And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellence, shall be ^note as when God overthrew ^note Sodom and Gomorrah.

20   It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

21   But ^note wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of ^note doleful creatures; and ^{note note} owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

22   And ^note the wild beasts of the isles shall cry in their ^note desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. CHAP. XIV. 1 God's merciful restoration of Israel: 4 Their triumphant insultation over Babel. 24 God's purpose against Assyria. 29 Palestina is threatened.

1   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.

2   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, ^note whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

3   And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage in which thou wast made to serve,

4   ¶2; That thou shalt take up this ^note proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the ^note golden city ceased!

5   The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the scepter of the rulers.

6   He who smote the people in wrath with ^note a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.

7   The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.

8   Yes, the fir-trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.

9    ^noteHell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the ^{note note} chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

10   All they shall speak and say to thee, Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like us?

11   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.

12   How art thou fallen from heaven, ^note O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

13   For thou hast said in thy 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:

14   I will ascend above the hights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.

15   Yet thou shalt be brought down to ^note hell, to the sides of the pit.

16   They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that shook kingdoms:

17   That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; that ^note opened not the house of his prisoners?

18   All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.

19   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 carcass trodden under feet.

20   Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: ^note the seed of evil-doers shall never be renowned.

21   Prepare slaughter for his children ^note for the iniquity of their fathers; that they may not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

22   For I will arise against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the Lord.

23   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.

24   ¶2; The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall

Before CHRIST, 712. it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand.

25   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.

26   This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched over all the nations.

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

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

29   ¶2; Rejoice not thou, all Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a ^note basilisk, 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, O city; thou, all Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and ^note none shall be alone in his ^note appointed times.

32   What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That ^note the Lord hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall ^note trust in it. CHAP. XV. The lamentable state of Moab.

1   The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and ^note brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;

2   He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: ^note on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard shorn.

3   In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, ^note weeping abundantly.

4   And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even to Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous to him.

5   My heart shall cry out for Moab; ^note his fugitives shall flee to Zoar, a ^note heifer of three years old: for they shall go up the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise a cry of ^note destruction.

6   For the waters of Nimrim shall be ^note desolate: for the herb is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.

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

8   For the cry hath gone round the borders of Moab, her howling to Eglaim, and her howling to Beer-elim.

9   For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring ^note more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land. CHAP. XVI. 1 Moab is exhorted to yield obedience to Christ's kingdom. 6 Moab is threatened for her pride. 9 The prophet bewaileth her. 12 The judgment of Moab.

1   Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from ^{note note} Sela to the wilderness, to the mount of the daughter of Zion.

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

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

4   Let my outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the ^note extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, ^note the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

5   And in mercy ^note shall the throne be ^note established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.

6   ¶2; We have heard of the ^note pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

7   Therefore shall Moab ^note howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye ^note mourn; surely they are stricken.

8   For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down her principal plants, they have come even to Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are ^note extended, they have gone over the sea.

9   ¶2; 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 ^note the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.

10   And ^note gladness is taken away, and joy from 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.

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

12   ¶2; 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.

13   This is the word that the Lord hath spoken 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

Before CHRIST, 741. multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and ^note feeble. CHAP. XVII. 1 Syria and Israel are threatened. 6 A remnant shall forsake idolatry. 9 The rest shall be afflicted for their impiety. 12 The woe of Israel's enemies.

1   The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

2   The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

3   The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts.

4   And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be diminished, and the fatness of his flesh shall become lean.

5   And it shall be as when the harvest-man gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

6   ¶2; 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 of it, saith the Lord God of Israel.

7   At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

8   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 ^note images.

9   ¶2; 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.

10   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 foreign slips:

11   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 ^note heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

12   ¶2; Woe to the ^note multitude of many people, who make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of ^note mighty waters!

13   The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God will rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like ^note a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

14   And behold at the time of evening trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that ravage us, and the lot of them that rob us. CHAP. XVIII. 1 God in care of his people will destroy the Cushites. 7 An access by it shall be made to the church.

1   Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Cush:

2   That sendeth embassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers to a nation ^note scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; ^{note note} a nation measured by line and trodden down, whose land the rivers have laid waste.

3   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.

4   For so the Lord said to me, I will take my rest, and I will ^note consider in my dwelling-place like a clear heat ^note upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

5   For before 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.

6   They shall be left together to 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.

7   ¶2; In that time shall the present be brought to the Lord of hosts of a people ^note scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation measured by line and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Zion. CHAP. XIX. 1 The confusion of Egypt. 11 The foolishness of their princes. 18 The calling of Egypt to the church. 23 The covenant of Egypt, Assyria, and Israel.

1   The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and will 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.

2   And I will ^note set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

3   And the spirit of Egypt ^note shall fail in the midst of her, and I will ^note destroy her counsel: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

4   And the Egyptians will I ^note give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts.

5   And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the rivers shall be wasted and dried up.

6   And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the ^note brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

7   The paper-reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing

Before CHRIST, 714. sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, ^note and be no more.

8   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.

9   Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave ^note net-works shall be confounded.

10   And they shall be broken in the ^note purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds ^note for fish.

11   ¶2; Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

12   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.

13   The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even ^{note note} they that are the support of its tribes.

14   The Lord hath mingled ^note a perverse spirit in the midst of it: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work of it, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

15   Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may perform.

16   In that day shall Egypt be like 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.

17   And the land of Judah shall be a terror to Egypt, every one that maketh mention of it shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the Lord of hosts, which he hath determined against it.

18   ¶2; In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak ^note the language of Canaan, and swear to the Lord of hosts; one shall be called, The city ^note of destruction.

19   In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at its border to the Lord.

20   And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry to the Lord because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a savior, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.

21   And the Lord shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yes, they shall vow a vow to the Lord, and perform it.

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

23   ¶2; In that day shall there be a highway from 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:

25   Whom the Lord of hosts will bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance. CHAP. XX. A type prefiguring the shameful captivity of Egypt and Cush.

1   In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;

2   At the same time spoke the Lord ^note 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.

3   And the Lord said, As my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Cush;

4   So shall the king of Assyria lead away ^note the Egyptians prisoners, and the Cushites captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their hind-parts uncovered, to the ^note shame of Egypt.

5   And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Cush their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

6   And the inhabitant of this ^note 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? CHAP. XXI. 1 The prophet bewailing the captivity of his people, seeth in a vision the fall of Babylon by the Medes and Persians. 11 Edom scorning the prophet, is moved to repentance. 13 The set time of Arabia's calamity.

1   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.

2   A ^note grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler plundereth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all her sighing have I made to cease.

3   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.

4    ^noteMy heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he ^note turned into fear to 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 to me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.

7   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:

8   And ^note he cried, a lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the ^note watch-tower in the day time, and I am set in my ward ^note whole nights.

9   And behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And

Before CHRIST, 714. he answered and said, ^note Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken to the ground.

10   O my threshing, and the ^note corn of my floor; that which I have heard from the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared to you.

11   ¶2; The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

12   The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come.

13   ¶2; The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye traveling companies of Dedanim.

14   The inhabitants of the land of Tema ^note brought water to him that was thirsty, they met with their bread him that fled.

15   For they fled ^{note note} from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

16   For thus hath the Lord, said to 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 ^note archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the Lord God of Israel hath spoken it. CHAP. XXII. 1 The prophet lamenteth the invasion of Judea by the Persians: 8 He reproveth their human wisdom and worldly joy: 15 He prophesieth Shebna's deprivation, 20 and Eliakim, prefiguring the kingdom of Christ, his substitution.

1   The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou hast wholly gone up to the house-tops?

2   Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.

3   All thy rulers have fled together, they are bound ^note by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, who have fled from far.

4   Therefore said I, ^note Look away from me; ^note I will weep bitterly, labor not to comfort me, because of the devastation of the daughter of my people.

5   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.

6   And Elam bore the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir ^note uncovered the shield.

7   And it shall come to pass, that ^note thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array ^note at the gate.

8   ¶2; And he uncovered the coverings of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armor of the house of the forest.

9   Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye collected 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 to its maker, neither had respect to 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:

13   And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: ^note let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we shall die.

14   And it was revealed in my ears by the Lord of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord God of hosts.

15   ¶2; Thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Go, repair to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,

16   What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulcher here, ^note as he that heweth him out a sepulcher on high, and that graveth a habitation for himself in a rock?

17   Behold, ^note the Lord will carry thee away with ^note a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.

18   With violence he will surely turn and toss thee like a ball into ^note a wide country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.

19   And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.

20   ¶2; And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:

21   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.

22   And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall ^note open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.

23   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.

24   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 ^note vessels of flagons.

25   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. CHAP. XXIII. 1 The miserable overthrow of Tyre: 17 Their unhappy return.

1   The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in:

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2   Be ^note still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

3   And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.

4   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 young men, nor bring up virgins.

5   As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.

6   Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.

7   Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her ^note far off to sojourn.

8   Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?

9   The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, ^note to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

10   Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more ^note strength.

11   He stretched his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the Lord hath given a commandment ^note against ^note the merchant city, to destroy its ^note strong holds.

12   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.

13   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 its towers, they raised up its palaces; and he brought it to ruin.

14   Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.

15   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 ^note shall Tyre sing as a harlot.

16   Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

17   ¶2; 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.

18   And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the Lord: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the Lord, for sufficient food, and for ^note durable clothing. CHAP. XXIV. 1 The grievous judgments of God upon the land. 13 A remnant shall joyfully praise him. 16 God in his judgments shall advance his kingdom.

1   Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and ^note turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.

2   And it shall be, as with the people, so with the ^{note note} 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 interest, so with the giver of interest to him.

3   The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly ^note spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.

4   The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, ^note the haughty people of the earth do languish.

5   The earth also is defiled under its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

6   Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell in it are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

7   The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh.

8   The mirth ^note of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

9   They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

10   The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may enter.

11   There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

12   In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

13   ¶2; 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.

14   They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the Lord, they shall cry aloud from the sea.

15   Wherefore glorify ye the Lord in the ^note fires, even the name of the Lord God of Israel in the isles of the sea.

16   ¶2; From the ^note uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, ^note My leanness, my leanness, woe to me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yes, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

17    ^noteFear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

18   And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the 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.

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19   The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is entirely dissolved, the earth is exceedingly moved.

20   The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, aad shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression of it shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

21   And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall ^note punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

22   And they shall be gathered, ^note as prisoners are gathered in the ^note pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be ^note visited.

23   Then the ^note moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign on mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and ^note before his ancients gloriously. CHAP. XXV. 1 The prophet praiseth God for his judgments, 6 for his saving benefits, 9 and for his victorious salvation.

1   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.

2   For thou hast made of a city a heap; of a fortified city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

3   Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.

4   For thou hast been a defense to the poor, a defense to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

5   Thou wilt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shade of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

6   ¶2; And on this mountain will the Lord of hosts make to 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.

7   And he will ^note destroy on this mountain the face of the covering ^note cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.

8   He will ^note swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will ^note wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people will he remove from ^note all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.

9   ¶2; 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 on this mountain shall the hand of the Lord rest, and Moab shall be ^note trodden down under him, even as straw is ^note trodden down for the dunghill.

11   And he will spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he will bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

12   And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls will he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust. CHAP. XXVI. 1 A song inciting to confidence in God, 5 for his judgments, 12 and for his favor to his people. 20 An exhortation to wait on God.

1   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.

2   Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the ^note truth may enter in.

3   Thou wilt keep him in ^note perfect peace, whose ^note mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

4   Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord JEHOVAH is ^note everlasting strength:

5   ¶2; 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.

6   The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

7   The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.

8   Yes, 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.

9   With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yes, 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.

10   Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.

11   Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy ^note at the people; yes, the fire of thy enemies shall devour them.

12   ¶2; Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works ^note in us.

13   O Lord our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us; but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.

14   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.

15   Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation; thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far to all the ends of the earth.

16   Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a ^note prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

17   As a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in

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18   We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance on the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

19   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.

20   ¶2; 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 shall be overpast.

21   For behold, the Lord ^note cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her ^note blood, and shall no more cover her slain. CHAP. XXVII. 1 The care of God over his vineyard. 7 His chastisements differ from judgments. 12 The church of Jews and Gentiles.

1   In that day the Lord with his keen and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the ^note piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.

2   In that day sing ye to her, A vineyard of red wine.

3   I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

4   Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would ^note go through them, I would burn them together.

5   Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me, and he shall make peace with me.

6   He shall cause them that descend from Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

7   ¶2; Hath he smitten him, ^note as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?

8   In measure, ^note when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: ^note he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

9   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 chalk-stones that are beaten asunder, the groves and ^note images shall not stand up.

10   Yet the fortified 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 its branches.

11   When its boughs 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 show them no favor.

12   ¶2; And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall ^note gather from the channel of the river to the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

13   And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord on the holy mount at Jerusalem. CHAP. XXVIII. 1 The prophet threateneth Ephraim for their pride and drunkenness. 5 The residue shall be advanced in the kingdom of Christ. 7 He rebuketh their error, 9 their untowardness to learn, 14 and their security. 16 Christ the sure foundation is promised. 18 Their security shall be tried. 23 They are incited to the consideration of God's discreet providence.

1   Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower; who are on the head of the rich valleys of them that are ^note overcome with wine!

2   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.

3   The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden ^note under feet.

4   And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the early fruit before the summer; which, when he that looketh upon it, seeth while it is yet in his hand he ^note eateth it up.

5   ¶2; In that day will the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, to the residue of his people,

6   And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

7   ¶2; 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 overwhelmed with wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

8   For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

9   ¶2; Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand ^note doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

10   For precept ^note must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

11   For with ^{note note} stammering lips and another tongue ^note will he speak to this people.

12   To whom he said, This is the rest with which ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

13   But the word of the Lord was to 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.

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14   ¶2; Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

15   Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with ^note hell are we in agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not reach us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

16   ¶2; Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation ^note a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not ^note make haste.

17   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.

18   ¶2; And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with ^note hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be ^note trodden down by it.

19   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 ^note to understand the report.

20   For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

21   For the Lord will rise as on mount ^note Perazim, he will be wroth as in the valley of ^note Gibeon, that he may do his work, his ^note strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

22   Now therefore be ye not-mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.

23   ¶2; Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

24   Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

25   When he hath made even the face of it, doth he not cast abroad the vetches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in ^note the principal wheat, and the appointed barley, and the ^note rye in their ^note place?

26    ^noteFor his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

27   For the vetches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the vetches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

28   Bread-corn is bruised; because he will not always be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.

29   This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in operation. CHAP. XXIX. 1 God's heavy judgment upon Jerusalem. 7 The insatiableness of her enemies. 9 The senselessness, 13 and deep hypocrisy of the Jews. 18 A promise of sanctification to the godly.

1   Woe ^note to Ariel, to Ariel, ^note the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them ^note kill sacrifices.

2   Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow; and it shall be to me as Ariel.

3   And I will encamp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.

4   And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall ^note whisper out of the dust.

5   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: yes, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

6   Thou shalt be visited by the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

7   ¶2; 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.

8   It shall even 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.

9   ¶2; Stay yourselves, and wonder; ^note cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

10   For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your ^note rulers, the seers hath he covered.

11   And the vision of all is become to you as the words of a ^note 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:

12   And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

13   ¶2; Wherefore the Lord said, ^note Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear towards me is taught by the precept of men:

14   Therefore behold, ^note I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even an astonishing work and a wonder: ^note for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

15   Woe to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

16   Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's

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17   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?

18   ¶2; And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

19   The meek also ^note shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

20   For the terrible one is brought to naught, and the scoffer is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:

21   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 naught.

22   Therefore thus saith the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now become pale.

23   But when he seeth his children, the work of my 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.

24   They also that erred in spirit ^note shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine. CHAP. XXX. 1 The prophet threateneth the people for their confidence in Egypt, 8 and contempt of God's word. 18 God's mercies towards his church. 27 God's wrath, and the people's joy in the destruction of Assyria.

1   Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not from me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

2   That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shade of Egypt!

3   Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shade of Egypt your confusion.

4   For his princes were at Zoan, and his embassadors came to Hanes.

5   They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

6   The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and the old lion, the viper and 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.

7   For the Egyptian shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried ^note concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

8   ¶2; Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for ^note the time to come for ever and ever:

9   That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord:

10   Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

11   Withdraw from the way, turn aside from the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

12   Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in ^note oppression and perverseness, and lean upon it:

13   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.

14   And he shall break it as the breaking of ^note the potter's vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a piece to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the pit.

15   For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

16   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.

17   One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as ^note a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill.

18   ¶2; And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious to you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: ^note blessed are all they that wait for him.

19   For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious to thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.

20   And though the Lord shall give you the bread of adversity, and the water of ^note affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thy eyes shall see thy teachers:

21   And thy 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.

22   Ye shall defile also the covering of ^note thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt ^note cast them away as a polluted cloth; thou shalt say to it, Be gone from me.

23   Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, with which thou shalt sow the ground; 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.

24   The oxen likewise and the young

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25   And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every ^note high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

26   Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

27   ¶2; Behold, the name of the Lord cometh from far, burning with his anger, ^note and the burden of it is ^note heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

28   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.

29   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 upon the mountain of the Lord, to the ^note mighty One of Israel.

30   And the Lord shall cause ^note his glorious voice to be heard, and shall show 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.

31   For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down, who smote with a rod.

32   And ^note in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the Lord shall ^note lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight ^note with it.

33   For Tophet is ordained ^note of old; yes, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile of it is fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it. CHAP. XXXI. 1 The prophet showeth the folly of trusting to Egypt, and forsaking God: 6 He exhorteth to conversion: 8 He showeth the fall of Assyria.

1   Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and rely on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not to the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord!

2   Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not ^note call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

3   Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the Lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is helped shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.

4   For thus hath the Lord spoken to me, 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 ^note noise of them: so will the Lord of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.

5   As birds ^note flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.

6   ¶2; Turn ye to him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

7   For in that day every man shall ^note cast away his idols of silver, and ^note his idols of gold, which your own hands have made to you for a sin.

8   ¶2; 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 ^note from the sword, and his young men shall be ^{note note} discomfited.

9   And ^note he shall pass over to ^note 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. CHAP. XXXII. 1 The blessings of Christ's kingdom. 9 Desolation is foreshown. 15 Restoration is promised to succeed.

1   Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.

2   And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a ^note great rock in a weary land.

3   And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.

4   The heart also of the ^note rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak ^note plainly.

5   The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.

6   For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice 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.

7   The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to detroy the poor with lying words, even ^note when the needy speaketh right.

8   But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he ^note stand.

9   ¶2; Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear to my speech.

10    ^noteMany days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage

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11   Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip ye, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.

12   They shall lament for the breasts, for ^note the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

13   Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; ^note also, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

14   Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the ^note forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

15   Until the spirit shall be poured upon us from on high, and ^note the wilderness shall be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be counted for a forest.

16   Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

17   And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance for ever.

18   And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting-places;

19   When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; ^note and the city shall be low in a low place.

20   Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass. CHAP. XXXIII. 1 God's judgments against the enemies of the church. 13 The privileges of the godly.

1   Woe to thee that layest waste, and thou wast not laid waste; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to lay waste, thou shalt be wasted; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.

2   O Lord, be gracious to us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

3   At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.

4   And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.

5   The Lord is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.

6   And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of ^note salvation: the fear of the Lord is his treasure.

7   Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ^note embassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.

8   The highways lie waste, the way-faring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.

9   The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and ^note hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.

10   Now will I rise, saith the Lord; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.

11   Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

12   And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

13   ¶2; Ye that are far off, hear what I have done; and ye that are near, acknowledge my might.

14   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?

15   He that ^note walketh ^note righteously, and speaketh ^note uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of ^note oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of ^note blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

16   He shall dwell on ^note high: his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.

17   Thy eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold ^note the land that is very far off.

18   Thy heart shall meditate terror. ^note Where is the scribe? where is the ^note receiver? where is he that counted the towers?

19   Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a ^note stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

20   Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thy eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of its stakes shall ever be removed, neither shall any of its cords be broken.

21   But there the glorious Lord will be to us a place ^note of broad rivers and streams; in which shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass through it.

22   ¶2; For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our ^note lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.

23    ^noteThy 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.

24   And the inhabitants shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity. CHAP. XXXIV. 1 The judgments by which God avengeth his church. 11 The desolation of her enemies. 16 The certainty of the prophecy.

1   Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and ^note all that is in it; the world, and all things that spring from it.

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2   For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.

3   Their slain also shall be cast out, and their ill smell shall come up from their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

4   And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be ^note rolled together as a scroll: and all their hosts shall fall down, as the leaf falleth from the vine, and as a ^note falling fig from the fig-tree.

5   For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

6   The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

7   And the ^note unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be drenched with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

8   For it is the day of the Lord's ^note vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.

9   And its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch.

10   It shall not be quenched night nor day; ^note the smoke of it shall ascend for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

11   ¶2; ^note But the ^note cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

12   They shall call her nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.

13   And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in her fortresses, and it shall be a habitation of dragons, and a court for ^{note note} owls.

14    ^noteThe wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with ^note the wild beasts of the isle, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the ^note screech-owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.

15   There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vulturs also be gathered, every one with her mate.

16   ¶2; Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

17   And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it to them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein. CHAP. XXXV. 1 The joyful flourishing of Christ's kingdom. 3 The weak are encouraged by the virtues and privileges of the gospel.

1   The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.

2   It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice, even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellence of our God.

3   ¶2; ^note Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

4   Say to them that are of a ^note fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you.

5   Then the ^note eyes of the blind shall be opened, and ^note the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

6   Then shall the ^note lame man leap as a hart, and the ^note tongue of the dumb shall sing: for in the wilderness shall ^note waters break out, and streams in the desert.

7   And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be ^note grass with reeds and rushes.

8   And a highway shall be there, and a way, and and it shall be called, The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; ^note but it shall be for those: the way-faring men, though fools, shall not err therein.

9   No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:

10   And the ^note ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. CHAP. XXXVI. 1 Sennacherib invadeth Judah. 4 Rabshakeh sent by Sennacherib, by blasphemous persuasions soliciteth the people to revolt: 22 His words are told to Hezekiah.

1   Now ^note it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.

2   And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem against king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.

3   Then came forth to him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, who was over the house, and Shebna the ^note scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.

4   ¶2; And Rabshakeh said to them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this in which thou trustest?

5   I say, sayest thou (but they are but

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6   Lo, thou trustest in the ^note staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; on which if a man lean, it will enter his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.

7   But if thou shalt say to me, We trust in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?

8   Now therefore give ^note pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou canst on thy part set riders upon them.

9   How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

10   And am I now come up without the Lord against this land to destroy it? the Lord said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

11   Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah to Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the ^note Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jew's language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

12   ¶2; But Rabshakeh 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, that they may devour their vilest excretions with you?

13   Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jew's language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.

14   Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he will not be able to deliver you.

15   Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, the Lord will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

16   Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, ^{note note} Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;

17   Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

18   Beware lest Hezekiah persuade 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?

19   Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

20   Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

21   But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

22   ¶2; Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh. CHAP. XXXVII. 1 Hezekiah mourning, sendeth to Isaiah to pray for them. 6 Isaiah comforteth them. 8 Sennacherib going to encounter Tirhakah, sendeth a blasphemous letter to Hezekiah. 14 Hezekiah's prayer. 21 Isaiah's prophecy of the pride and destruction of Sennacherib, and the good of Zion. 36 An angel slayeth the Assyrians, 37 Sennacherib is slain at Nineveh by his own sons.

1   And ^note it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.

2   And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

3   And they said to him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of ^note blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

4   It may be the Lord thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is ^note left.

5   So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

6   ¶2; And Isaiah said to them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

7   Behold, I will ^note send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumor, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

8   ¶2; So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.

9   And he heard it said concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

10   Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thus trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

11   Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?

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12   Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?

13   Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?

14   ¶2; And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.

15   And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord, saying,

16   O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubim, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.

17   Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear; open thy eyes, O Lord, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to reproach the living God.

18   Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the ^note nations, and their countries,

19   And have ^note cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

20   Now therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord, even thou only.

21   ¶2; Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:

22   This is the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and derided thee; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

23   Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed; and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted thy eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

24    ^noteBy thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots have I come up to the hight of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down ^note its tall cedars, and its choice fir-trees: and I will enter into the hight of its border, and ^note the forest of its Carmel.

25   I have digged, and drank water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the ^note besieged places.

26    ^noteHast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldst be to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

27   Therefore their inhabitants were ^note of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house-tops, and as corn blasted before it is grown up.

28   But I know thy ^note abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

29   Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

30   And this shall be a sign to thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

31   And ^note the remnant that hath escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:

32   For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and ^note they that escape from mount Zion: the ^note zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

33   Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a mound against it.

34   By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord.

35   For I will ^note defend this city, to save it for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

36   Then the ^note angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

37   ¶2; So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

38   And it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of ^note Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead. CHAP. XXXVIII. 1 Hezekiah having received a message of death, by prayer hath his life lengthened. 8 The sun goeth ten degrees backward for a sign of that promise. 9 His song of thanksgiving.

1   In ^note those days was Hezekiah sick with a mortal disease. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus saith the Lord, ^note Set thy house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.

2   Then Hezekiah turned his face towards the wall, and prayed to the Lord,

3   And said, Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept ^note bitterly.

4   ¶2; Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying,

5   Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith

Before CHRIST, 712. the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add to thy days fifteen years.

6   And I will deliver thee and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.

7   And this shall be a sign to thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he hath spoken;

8   Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which hath gone down on the ^note sun-dial of Ahaz ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it had gone down.

9   ¶2; The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and had recovered from his sickness:

10   I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

11   I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

12   My age hath departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off ^note with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

13   I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

14   Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered: I mourned as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; ^note undertake for me.

15   What shall I say? he hath both spoken to me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

16   O Lord, by these ^note things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.

17   Behold, ^note for peace I had great bitterness: but ^note thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

18   For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

19   The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

20   The Lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.

21   For Isaiah had said. Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he will recover.

22   Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord? CHAP. XXXIX. 1 Merodach-baladan sending to visit Hezekiah because of the wonder, hath notice of his treasures. 3 Isaiah informed of this, foretelleth the Babylonian captivity.

1   At ^note that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and had recovered.

2   And Hezekiah was glad of them, and showed them the house of his ^note precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his ^{note note} armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah did not show them.

3   ¶2; Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What said these men? and from whence came they to thee? and Hezekiah said, They have come to me from a far country, even from Babylon.

4   Then said he, What have they seen in thy house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them.

5   Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord of hosts:

6   Behold, the days come, that all that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.

7   And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

8   Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days. CHAP. XL. 1 The promulgation of the gospel. 3 The preaching of John Baptist. 9 The preaching of the apostles. 12 The prophet by the omnipotence of God, 18 and his incomparableness, 26 comforteth the people.

1   Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

2   Speak ye ^note comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry to her, that her ^note warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received from the Lord's hand double for all sins.

3   ¶2; ^note The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

4   Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made ^note straight, and the rough places ^note plain.

5   And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh together shall see it: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

6   The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? ^noteAll flesh is grass, and all its goodliness is as the flower of the field:

7   The grass withereth, the flower fadeth:

Before CHRIST, 712. because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

8   The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the ^note word of our God shall shall stand forever.

9   ¶2; ^note O Zion, that bringest good tidings, go up upon the high mountain: ^note O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say to the cities of Judah, Behold your God!

10   Behold, the Lord God will come ^note with strong hand, and his arm will rule for him: behold, ^note his reward is with him, and ^note his work before him.

11   He will ^note feed his flock like a shepherd: he will gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and will gently lead those ^note that are with young.

12   ¶2; Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and measured heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in ^note a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

13    ^noteWho hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being ^note his counselor hath taught him?

14   With whom took he counsel, and who ^note instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of ^note understanding?

15   Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

16   And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts of it sufficient for a burnt-offering.

17   All nations before him are as ^note nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

18   ¶2; To whom then will ye ^note liken God? or what likeness will ye compare to him?

19   The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.

20   He that ^note is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh for himself a skillful workman to prepare graven image that shall not be moved.

21   Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

22    ^noteIt is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are as grasshoppers; that ^note stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

23   That bringeth the ^note princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

24   Yes, they shall not be planted; yes, they shall not be sown: yes, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwhind shall take them away as stubble.

25   To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equaled? saith the Holy One.

26   Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names, by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.

27   Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over by my God?

28   ¶2; Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? ^note there is no searching of his understanding.

29   He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

30   Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

31   But they that wait upon the Lord shall ^note renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint. CHAP. XLI. 1 God expostulateth with his people about his mercies to the church, 10 about his promises, 21 and about the vanity of idols.

1   Keep silence before me, O isles; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.

2   Who raised up ^note the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.

3   He pursued them, and passed ^note safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.

4   Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, the ^note first, and with the last; I am he.

5   The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.

6   They helped every one his neighbor; and every one said to his brother, ^note Be of good courage.

7   So the carpenter encouraged the ^note goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer ^note him that smote the anvil, saying, ^note It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.

8   But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have ^note chosen, the seed of Abraham my ^note friend.

9   Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said to thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.

10   ¶2; Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy

Before CHRIST, 712. God: I will strengthen thee; yes, I will help thee; yes, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

11   Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ^note ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and ^note they that contend with thee shall perish.

12   Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even ^note them that contended with thee: ^note they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of naught.

13   For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying to thee, Fear not; I will help thee.

14   Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye ^note men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

15   Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having ^note teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

16   Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.

17   When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

18   I will open ^note rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the ^note wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

19   I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the ^note shittah-tree, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the desert the fir-tree, the pine, and the box-tree together:

20   That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.

21    ^noteProduce your cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

22   Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen: let them show the former things, what they are that we may ^note consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare to us things to come.

23   Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.

24   Behold, ye are ^note of nothing, and your work ^note of naught: an abomination is he that chooseth you.

25   I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay.

26   Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and before time, that we may say, He is righteous? verily, there is none that showeth, verily, there is none that declareth, verily, there is none that heareth your words.

27   The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.

28   For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counselor, that, when I asked of them, could ^note answer a word.

29   Behold, they are all vanity, their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion. CHAP. XLII. 1 The office of Christ graced with meekness and constancy: 5 God's promise to him. 10 An exhortation to praise God for his gospel: 17 He reproveth the people of incredulity.

1   Behold ^note my servant, whom I uphold; my elect, in whom my soul ^note delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

2   He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.

3   A bruised reed shall he not break, and the ^note smoking flax shall he not ^note quench: he shall bring forth judgment to truth.

4   He shall not fail nor be ^note discouraged, till he hath set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.

5   ¶2; Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and expanded them; he that spread forth the earth, and that which it produceth; he that giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein.

6   I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thy hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for ^note a light of the Gentiles;

7   To open the blind eyes, to ^note bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in ^note darkness out of the prison-house.

8   I am the Lord: that is my name: and my ^note glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

9   Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.

10   Sing to the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and ^note all that is in it; the isles, and their inhabitants.

11   Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

12   Let them give glory to the Lord, and declare his praise in the isles.

13   The Lord will go forth as a mighty man, he will stir up jealousy like a man of war: he will cry, yes, roar; he will ^note prevail against his enemies.

14   I have long time held my peace; I have been still, and restrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and ^note devour at once.

15   I will make waste mountains and

Before CHRIST, 712. hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers to be islands, and I will dry up the pools.

16   And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things ^note straight. These things will I do for them, and not forsake them.

17   ¶2; They shall be ^note turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

18   Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.

19   Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord's servant?

20   Seeing many things, ^note but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.

21   The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make ^note it honorable.

22   But this is a people robbed and pillaged; ^note they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses; they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for ^note a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

23   Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken, and hear ^note for the time to come?

24   Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient to his law.

25   Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire around, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart. CHAP. XLIII. 1 The Lord comforteth the church with his promises: 8 He appealeth to the people for witness of his omnipotence; 14 He fortelleth to them the destruction of Babylon, 18 and his wonderful deliverance of his people: 22 He reproveth the people as inexcusable.

1   But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.

2   When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

3   For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Savior: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Cush and Seba for thee.

4   Since thou hast been precious in my sight, thou hast been honorable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy ^note life.

5    ^noteFear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;

6   I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;

7   Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; verily, I have made him.

8   ¶2; Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.

9   Let all the nations be collected, and and let the people be assembled: ^note who among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.

10   Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: ^note before me there was ^note no god formed, neither shall there be after me.

11   I, even I, ^note am the Lord; and besides me there is no savior.

12   I have declared, and have saved, and I have shown, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God.

13   Yes, before the day was, I am be; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall ^{note note} hinder it?

14   ¶2; Thus saith the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their ^note nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose ^note cry is in the ships.

15   I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.

16   Thus saith the Lord, who ^note maketh a way in the sea, and a ^note path in the mighty waters;

17   Who bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.

18   ¶2; Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.

19   Behold, I will do a ^note new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

20   The beast of the field shall honor me, the dragons and the ^{note note} owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

21    ^noteThis people have I formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise.

22   ¶2; But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.

23   Thou hast not brought me the ^note small cattle of thy burnt-offerings; neither hast thou honored me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.

24   Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou ^note filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast ^note made me to serve with thy

Before CHRIST, 712. sins, thou hast wearied me with thy iniquities.

25   I, even I, am he that ^note blotteth out thy transgressions for my own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

26   Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

27   Thy first father hath sinned, and thy ^note teachers have transgressed against me.

28   Therefore I have profaned the ^note princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches. CHAP. XLIV. 1 God comforteth the church with his promises. 7 The vanity of idols, 9 and folly of idol-makers. 21 He exhorteth to praise God for his redemption and omnipotence.

1   Yet now hear, ^note O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:

2   Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, who will help thee: Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.

3   For I will ^note pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thy offspring:

4   And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water-courses.

5   One shall say, I am the Lord's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand to the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel.

6   Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; ^note I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

7   And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them show to them.

8   Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? verily ^note there is no ^note God; I know not any.

9   ¶2; They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their ^note delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; ^note they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

10   Who hath formed a god, or cast a graven image that is profitable for nothing?

11   Behold, all his fellows shall be ^note ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be assembled, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.

12    ^noteThe smith ^note with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yes, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.

13   The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

14   He heweth down cedars for himself, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he ^note strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.

15   Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take of it, and warm himself; indeed he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yes, he maketh a god, and worshipeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down to it.

16   He burneth part of it in the fire; with part of it he eateth flesh; he roasteth meat, and is satisfied: yes, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:

17   And the residue of it he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down to it, and worshipeth it, and prayeth to it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.

18   They have not known nor understood: for he hath ^note shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

19   And none ^note considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; I have also baked bread upon its coals; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? shall I fall down to ^note the stock of a tree?

20   He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

21   ¶2; Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten by me.

22   I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and as a cloud, thy sins: return to me; for I have redeemed thee.

23   Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.

24   Thus saith the Lord thy Redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself:

25   That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;

26   That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities

Before CHRIST, 712. of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up her ^note decayed places:

27   That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:

28   That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and he shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, ^note Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid. CHAP. XLV. 1 God calleth Cyrus for his church's sake. 5 By his omnipotence he challengeth obedience: 20 He convinceth the idols of vanity, by his saving power.

1   Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I ^note have held to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two-leaved gates, and the gates shall not be shut;

2   I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut asunder the bars of iron:

3   And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, who call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.

4   For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me:

5   ¶2; I ^note am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God besides me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

6   That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.

7   I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

8   Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it.

9   Woe to him that contendeth with his Maker! Let the potsherd contend with the potsherds of the earth. ^noteShall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

10   Woe to him that saith to his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?

11   Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.

12   I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

13   I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will ^note direct all his ways: he shall ^note build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the Lord of hosts.

14   Thus saith the Lord, The labor of Egypt, and merchandise of Cush and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down to thee, they shall make supplication to thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.

15   Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Savior.

16   They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are ^note makers of idols.

17   But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

18   For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else.

19   I have not spoken in ^note secret, in a dark place of the earth: I have not said to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

20   ¶2; Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that have escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray to a god that cannot save.

21   Tell ye, and bring them near; yes, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the Lord? and there is no God else besides me; a just God and a Savior; there is none besides me.

22   Look to me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.

23   I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That to me every ^note knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

24    ^noteSurely, shall one say, in the Lord have I ^note righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.

25   In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory. CHAP. XLVI. 1 The idols of Babylon could not save themselves. 3 God saveth his people to the end. 5 Idols are not comparable to God for power, 12 or present salvation.

1   Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your ^note loads were heavy; they were a burden to the weary beast.

2   They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but ^note themselves have gone into captivity.

3   ¶2; Hearken to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the birth, which are carried from the womb:

4   And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoary hairs will I carry you:

Before CHRIST, 712. I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

5   ¶2; ^note To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

6   They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yes, they worship.

7   They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yes, one shall cry to him, yet he cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

8   Remember this, and show yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.

9   Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,

10   Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, ^note My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

11   Calling a ravenous bird from the east, ^note the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yes, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also perform it.

12   ¶2; Hearken to me, ye stout-hearted, that are far from righteousness:

13   I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not delay: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory. CHAP. XLVII. 1 God's judgments upon Babylon and Chaldea, 6 for their unmercifulness, 7 pride, 10 and overboldness, 11 shall be irresistible.

1   Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

2   Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

3   Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.

4   As for our Redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.

5   Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

6   ¶2; I was wroth with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and given them into thy hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

7   ¶2; And thou saidst, I shall be ^note a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.

8   Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thy heart, I am, and none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

9   But these two ^note things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection, for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thy enchantments.

10   ¶2; For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath ^note perverted thee; and thou hast said in thy heart, I am, and none else besides me.

11   Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know ^note from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to ^note put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

12   Stand now with thy enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, in which thou hast labored from thy youth; if thou shalt be able to profit, if thou mayest prevail.

13   Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the ^note astrologers, the star-gazers, ^note the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.

14   Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver ^note themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.

15   Thus shall they be to thee with whom thou hast labored, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee. CHAP. XLVIII. 1 God to convince the people of their foreknown obstinacy, revealeth his prophecies: 9 He saveth them for his own sake: 12 He exhorteth them to obedience, because of his power and providence: 16 He lamenteth their backwardness.

1   Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.

2   For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The Lord of hosts is his name.

3   I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth from my mouth, and I showed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.

4   Because I knew that thou art ^note obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

5   I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I showed it thee: lest thou shouldst say, My idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

6   Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have showed ye new19Q0010 things from this time, even hidden

Before CHRIST, 712. things, and thou didst not know them.

7   They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardst them not; lest thou shouldst say, Behold, I knew them.

8   Yes, thou heardst not; yes, thou knewest not; yes, from that time that thy ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldst deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

9   ¶2; For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.

10   Behold, I have refined thee, but not ^note with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

11   For my own sake, even for my own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be profaned? and ^note I will not give my glory to another.

12   ¶2; Hearken to me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the ^note first, I also am the last.

13   My hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and ^note my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.

14   All ye, assemble yourselves and hear; who among them hath declared these things? The Lord hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

15   I, even I, have spoken, yes, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

16   ¶2; Come ye near to me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me.

17   Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God, who teacheth thee to profit, who leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldst go.

18   O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

19   Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like its gravel; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

20   ¶2; Go ye forth from Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The Lord hath ^note redeemed his servant Jacob.

21   And they thirsted not, when he led them through the deserts: he ^note caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he cleaved the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

22    ^noteThere is no peace, saith the Lord, to the wicked. CHAP. XLIX. 1 Christ being sent to the Jews, complaineth of them: 5 He is sent to the Gentiles with gracious promises. 13 God's love is perpetual to his church. 18 The ample restoration of the church. 24 The powerful deliverance out of captivity.

1   Listen to me, O Isles; and hearken, ye people, from far; The Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.

2   And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shade of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;

3   And said to me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.

4   Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for naught, and in vain; yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and ^note my work with my God.

5   ¶2; And now, saith the Lord that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, ^note Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.

6   And he said, ^note It is a light thing that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the ^note preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a ^note light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation to the end of the earth.

7   Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, ^note to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.

8   Thus saith the Lord, ^note In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to ^note establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages:

9   That thou mayest say ^note to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

10   They shall not ^note hunger nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

11   And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.

12   Behold, these shall come from far: and lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.

13   ¶2; Sing, O heavens, and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.

14   But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.

15   Can a woman forget her sucking child, ^note that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget thee.

16   Behold, I have graven thee upon

Before CHRIST, 712. the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.

17   Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste, shall go forth from thee.

18   ¶2; ^note Lift up thy eyes around, and behold: all these assemble themselves, and come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.

19   For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

20   The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thy ears, The place is too narrow for me: give place to me that I may dwell.

21   Then shalt thou say in thy heart, Who hath begotten these for me, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where have they been?

22   Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their ^note arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

23   And kings shall be thy ^note nursing fathers, and their ^note queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow to thee with their face towards the earth, and ^note lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

24   Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or ^note the lawful captive delivered?

25   But thus saith the Lord, Even the ^note captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

26   And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own ^note blood, as with ^note sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Savior and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. CHAP. L. 1 Christ showeth that the dereliction of the Jews is not to be imputed to him, by his ability to save, 5 by his obedience in that work, 7 and by his confidence in that assistance. 10 An exhortation to trust in God, and not in ourselves.

1   Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

2   Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? ^noteIs my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I ^note dry up the sea, I make the ^note rivers a wilderness: their fish becometh putrid, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

3   I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

4   The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is ^note weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth my ear to hear as the learned.

5   ¶2; The Lord God opened my ear, and I was not ^note rebellious, neither turned away back.

6    ^noteI gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

7   ¶2; For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

8    ^noteHe is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together; who is ^note my adversary? let him come near to me.

9   Behold the Lord God will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.

10   ¶2; Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and rely upon his God.

11   Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that encompass yourselves with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. ^noteThis shall ye have of my hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow. CHAP. LI. 1 An exhortation after the pattern of Abraham, to trust in Christ, 3 by reason of his comforting promises, 4 of his righteous salvation, 7 and man's mortality. 9 Christ by his sanctified arm defendeth his from the fear of man: 17 He bewaileth the afflictions of Jerusalem, 21 and promiseth deliverance.

1   Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look to the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.

2   Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah that bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

3   For the Lord will comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

4   ¶2; Hearken to me, my people; and give ear to me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.

5   My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall

Before CHRIST, 712. judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on my arm shall they trust.

6   Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for ^note the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall become old like a garment, and its inhabitants shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

7   ¶2; Hearken to me, ye that know righteousness, the people ^note in whose heart is my law; ^note fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

8   For the moth shall eat them like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.

9   ¶2; Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not that which hath cut Rahab, and wounded the ^note dragon?

10   Art thou not that which hath ^note dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

11   Therefore ^note the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

12   I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid ^note of a man that shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made ^note as grass;

13   And forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he ^note were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

14   The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

15   But I am the Lord thy God, that ^note divided the sea, whose waves roared: The Lord of hosts is his name.

16   And I have put my words ^note in thy mouth, and have covered thee in the shade of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, Thou art my people.

17   ¶2; ^note Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drank at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury; thou hast drank the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

18   There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.

19    ^noteThese two things ^note have come to thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and ^note destruction, and famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

20   Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.

21   ¶2; Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

22   Thus saith thy Lord Jehovah, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, ^note Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

23   But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; who have said to thy soul, Prostrate thyself, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over. CHAP. LII. 1 Christ persuadeth the church to believe his free redemption, 7 to receive the ministers of it, 9 to joy in its power, 11 and to free themselves from bondage. 13 Christ's kingdom shall be exalted.

1   Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

2   Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

3   For thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold yourselves for naught; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

4   For thus saith the Lord God, My people went down formerly into ^note Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.