| 1 |
And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and
a Branch shall grow out of his roots: |
| 2 |
And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of
wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the
spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; |
| 3 |
And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the
LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes,
neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: |
| 4 |
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove
with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the
earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his
lips shall he slay the wicked. |
| 5 |
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and
faithfulness the girdle of his reins. |
| 6 |
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall
lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the
fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. |
| 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 sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and
the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. |
| 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 |
And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall
stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles
seek: and his rest shall be glorious. |
| 11 |
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set
his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his
people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and
from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar,
and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. |
| 12 |
And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall
assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the
dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. |
| 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 vex Ephraim. |
| 14 |
But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines
toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together:
they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children
of Ammon shall obey them. |
| 15 |
And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian
sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the
river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men
go over dryshod. |
| 16 |
And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people,
which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in
the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. |
|
| 1 |
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see. |
| 2 |
Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice
unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of
the nobles. |
| 3 |
I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my
mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my
highness. |
| 4 |
The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great
people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered
together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle. |
| 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 |
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 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 be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as
flames. |
| 9 |
Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and
fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy
the sinners thereof out of it. |
| 10 |
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall
not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going
forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. |
| 11 |
And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for
their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to
cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. |
| 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 into his own land. |
| 15 |
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one
that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword. |
| 16 |
Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their
eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. |
| 17 |
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which 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 eyes shall
not spare children. |
| 19 |
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the
Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew 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 wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their
houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall
dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. |
| 22 |
And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate
houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is
near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. |
|
| 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, 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 wherein thou wast made to serve, |
| 4 |
That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of
Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden
city ceased! |
| 5 |
The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre
of the rulers. |
| 6 |
He who smote the people in wrath with 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 |
Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon,
saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against
us. |
| 9 |
Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy
coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief
ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all
the kings of the nations. |
| 10 |
All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become
weak as we? art thou become like unto 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, 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 thine heart, I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also
upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: |
| 14 |
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like
the most High. |
| 15 |
Yet thou shalt be brought down to 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 did shake kingdoms; |
| 17 |
That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities
thereof; that 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
carcase trodden under feet. |
| 20 |
Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou
hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of
evildoers shall never be renowned. |
| 21 |
Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their
fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill
the face of the world with cities. |
| 22 |
For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and
cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and
nephew, saith the LORD. |
| 23 |
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 |
The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have
thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so
shall it stand: |
| 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 out upon all the nations. |
| 27 |
For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul
it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? |
| 28 |
In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden. |
| 29 |
Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that
smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come
forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying
serpent. |
| 30 |
And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall
lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and
he shall slay thy remnant. |
| 31 |
Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art
dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and
none shall be alone in his appointed times. |
| 32 |
What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That
the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall
trust in it. |
|
| 1 |
The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid
waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of
Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; |
| 2 |
He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to
weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their
heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off. |
| 3 |
In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on
the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one
shall howl, weeping abundantly. |
| 4 |
And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard
even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall
cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him. |
| 5 |
My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto
Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of
Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of
Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction. |
| 6 |
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is
withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing. |
| 7 |
Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they
have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the
willows. |
| 8 |
For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the
howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto
Beerelim. |
| 9 |
For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will
bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab,
and upon the remnant of the land. |
|
| 1 |
Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the
wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. |
| 2 |
For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the
nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon. |
| 3 |
Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night
in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him
that wandereth. |
| 4 |
Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to
them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at
an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out
of the land. |
| 5 |
And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit
upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and
seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness. |
| 6 |
We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of
his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies
shall not be so. |
| 7 |
Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for
the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye 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 the principal plants
thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through
the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone
over the sea. |
| 9 |
Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of
Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and
Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy
harvest is fallen. |
| 10 |
And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful
field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither
shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine
in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease. |
| 11 |
Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and
mine inward parts for Kirharesh. |
| 12 |
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 an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be
contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant
shall be very small and feeble. |
|
| 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 made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax
lean. |
| 5 |
And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and
reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that
gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim. |
| 6 |
Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an
olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost
bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof,
saith the LORD God of Israel. |
| 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 images. |
| 9 |
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 strange
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 heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. |
| 12 |
Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like
the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that
make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! |
| 13 |
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but
God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall
be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and
like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. |
| 14 |
And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he
is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot
of them that rob us. |
|
| 1 |
Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the
rivers of Ethiopia: |
| 2 |
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of
bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to
a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their
beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose
land the rivers have spoiled! |
| 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 unto me, I will take my rest, and I will
consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs,
and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. |
| 5 |
For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour
grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the
sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the
branches. |
| 6 |
They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains,
and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer
upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon
them. |
| 7 |
In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of
hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people
terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and
trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the
place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion. |
|
| 1 |
The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift
cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall
be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in
the midst of it. |
| 2 |
And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they
shall fight every one against his brother, and every one
against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against
kingdom. |
| 3 |
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I
will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the
idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar
spirits, and to the wizards. |
| 4 |
And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel
lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord,
the LORD of hosts. |
| 5 |
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be
wasted and dried up. |
| 6 |
And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of
defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags
shall wither. |
| 7 |
The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and
every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away,
and be no more. |
| 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
networks, shall be confounded. |
| 10 |
And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that
make sluices and ponds for fish. |
| 11 |
Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise
counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto
Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? |
| 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 they that are the
stay of the tribes thereof. |
| 14 |
The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof:
and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a
drunken man staggereth in his vomit. |
| 15 |
Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or
tail, branch or rush, may do. |
| 16 |
In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be
afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD
of hosts, which he shaketh over it. |
| 17 |
And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one
that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself,
because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath
determined against it. |
| 18 |
In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the
language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall
be called, The city of destruction. |
| 19 |
In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst
of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to
the LORD. |
| 20 |
And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of
hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD
because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour,
and a great one, and he shall deliver them. |
| 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; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform
it. |
| 22 |
And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it:
and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be
intreated of them, and shall heal them. |
| 23 |
In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria,
and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into
Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. |
| 24 |
In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with
Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: |
| 25 |
Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt
my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine
inheritance. |
|
| 1 |
In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the
king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took
it; |
| 2 |
At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah 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, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked
and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and
upon Ethiopia; |
| 4 |
So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians
prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked
and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame
of Egypt. |
| 5 |
And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their
expectation, and of Egypt their glory. |
| 6 |
And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold,
such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be |