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 grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer
dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O
Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to
cease. |
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 |
My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my
pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. |
5 |
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise,
ye princes, and anoint the shield. |
6 |
For thus hath the LORD said unto 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 he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the
watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole
nights: |
9 |
And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of
horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is
fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken
unto the ground. |
10 |
O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have
heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared
unto you. |
11 |
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 enquire, enquire ye: return, come. |
13 |
The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye
lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim. |
14 |
The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that
was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled. |
15 |
For they fled 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 unto me, Within a year, according
to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall
fail: |
17 |
And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of
the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God
of Israel hath spoken it. |
|
1 |
The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that
thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? |
2 |
Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city:
thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in
battle. |
3 |
All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the
archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which
have fled from far. |
4 |
Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly,
labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling 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 bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen,
and Kir uncovered the shield. |
7 |
And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be
full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in
array at the gate. |
8 |
And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look
in that day to the armour of the house of the forest. |
9 |
Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they
are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower
pool. |
10 |
And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses
have ye broken down to fortify the wall. |
11 |
Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of
the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof,
neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago. |
12 |
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and
to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: |
13 |
And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep,
eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to
morrow we shall die. |
14 |
And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely
this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith
the Lord GOD of hosts. |
15 |
Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this
treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say, |
16 |
What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast
hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a
sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself
in a rock? |
17 |
Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity,
and will surely cover thee. |
18 |
He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a
large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of
thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house. |
19 |
And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state
shall he pull thee down. |
20 |
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 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 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. |
|
1 |
The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid
waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the
land of Chittim it is revealed to them. |
2 |
Be 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 up 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 afar off to sojourn. |
8 |
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city,
whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the
honourable of the earth? |
9 |
The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all
glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the
earth. |
10 |
Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish:
there is no more strength. |
11 |
He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms:
the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city,
to destroy the strong holds thereof. |
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 the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces
thereof; 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 shall Tyre sing as an harlot. |
16 |
Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been
forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou
mayest be remembered. |
17 |
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, to
eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing. |
|
1 |
Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste,
and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the
inhabitants thereof. |
2 |
And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as
with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so
with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as
with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of
usury, so with the giver of usury to him. |
3 |
The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for
the LORD hath spoken this word. |
4 |
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and
fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. |
5 |
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof;
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 therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the
earth are burned, and few men left. |
7 |
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the
merryhearted do sigh. |
8 |
The mirth 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 come in. |
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 |
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 fires, even the name of
the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea. |
16 |
From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even
glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness,
woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously;
yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. |
17 |
Fear, 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. |
19 |
The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean
dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. |
20 |
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be
removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be
heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. |
21 |
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall
punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the
kings of the earth upon the earth. |
22 |
And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered
in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many
days shall they be visited. |
23 |
Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when
the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem,
and before his ancients gloriously. |
|
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 an heap; of a defenced 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 strength to the poor, a strength to the
needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from
the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm
against the wall. |
5 |
Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a
dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the
branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. |
6 |
And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all
people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of
fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. |
7 |
And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering
cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all
nations. |
8 |
He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will
wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his
people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD
hath spoken it. |
9 |
And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have
waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have
waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. |
10 |
For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab
shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down
for the dunghill. |
11 |
And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as
he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he
shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their
hands. |
12 |
And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring
down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust. |
|
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
truth may enter in. |
3 |
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on
thee: because he trusteth in thee. |
4 |
Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is
everlasting strength: |
5 |
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 |
Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for
thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the
remembrance of thee. |
9 |
With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my
spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy
judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will
learn righteousness. |
10 |
Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn
righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal
unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD. |
11 |
LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they
shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea,
the fire of thine enemies shall devour them. |
12 |
LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast
wrought all our works 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 unto
all the ends of the earth. |
16 |
LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a
prayer when thy chastening was upon them. |
17 |
Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her
delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we
been in thy sight, O LORD. |
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
in 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 |
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy
doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment,
until the indignation be overpast. |
21 |
For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the
inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also
shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. |
|
1 |
In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword
shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan
that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in
the sea. |
2 |
In that day sing ye unto 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 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 come of Jacob to take root: Israel
shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with
fruit. |
7 |
Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is
he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by
him? |
8 |
In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it:
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 chalkstones that are beaten in
sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. |
10 |
Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation
forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf
feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches
thereof. |
11 |
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken
off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people
of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have
mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no
favour. |
12 |
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall
beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of
Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of
Israel. |
13 |
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet
shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish
in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt,
and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem. |
|
1 |
Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose
glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of
the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! |
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
under feet: |
4 |
And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat
valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit
before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth,
while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up. |
5 |
In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory,
and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people, |
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 |
But they also have erred through wine, and through strong
drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have
erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine,
they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in
vision, they stumble in judgment. |
8 |
For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there
is no place clean. |
9 |
Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to
understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and
drawn from the breasts. |
10 |
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line
upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: |
11 |
For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to
this people. |
12 |
To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the
weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not
hear. |
13 |
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept,
precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a
little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall
backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. |
14 |
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 hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge
shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have
made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid
ourselves: |
16 |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a
foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a
sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. |
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 |
And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your
agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing
scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by
it. |
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 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 shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be
wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his
strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act. |
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 |
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 plain the face thereof, doth he not cast
abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the
principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their
place? |
26 |
For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach
him. |
27 |
For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument,
neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the
fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a
rod. |
28 |
Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing
it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it
with his horsemen. |
29 |
This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is
wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working. |
|
1 |
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye
year to year; let them kill sacrifices. |
2 |
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and
sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel. |
3 |
And I will camp 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 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: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly. |
6 |
Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and
with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and
the flame of devouring fire. |
7 |
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 an hungry man dreameth, and, behold,
he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a
thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he
awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite:
so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight
against mount Zion. |
9 |
Stay yourselves, and wonder; 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
rulers, the seers hath he covered. |
11 |
And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a
book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned,
saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it
is sealed: |
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 |
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me
with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have
removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is
taught by the precept of men: |
14 |
Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work
among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for
the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the
understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. |
15 |
Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the
LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth
us? and who knoweth us? |
16 |
Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as
the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it,
He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that
framed it, He had no understanding? |
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 |
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 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 nought, and the scorner 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 nought. |
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 wax pale. |
23 |
But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the
midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the
Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel. |
24 |
They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding,
and they that murmured shall learn doctrine. |
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1 |
Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take
counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but
not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin: |
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 shadow of Egypt! |
3 |
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the
trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. |
4 |
For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to
Hanes. |
5 |
They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them,
nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach. |
6 |
The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of
trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion,
the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their
riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures
upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit
them. |
7 |
For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose:
therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to
sit still. |
8 |
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a
book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: |
9 |
That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children
that will not hear the law of the LORD: |
10 |
Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy
not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things,
prophesy deceits: |
11 |
Get you out of the way, turn aside out of 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 oppression and perverseness,
and stay thereon: |
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 the potters' vessel
that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there
shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire
from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit. |
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 a beacon upon the top
of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill. |
18 |
And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto
you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy
upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all
they that wait for him. |
19 |
For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt
weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice
of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. |
20 |
And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the
water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed
into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: |
21 |
And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is
the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and
when ye turn to the left. |
22 |
Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of
silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou
shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say
unto it, Get thee hence. |
23 |
Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow
the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and
it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle
feed in large pastures. |
24 |
The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground
shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the
shovel and with the fan. |
25 |
And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every
high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the
great slaughter, when the towers fall. |
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 |
Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his
anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of
indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire: |
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 into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of
Israel. |
30 |
And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and
shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation
of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with
scattering, and tempest, and hailstones. |
31 |
For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten
down, which smote with a rod. |
32 |
And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which
the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and
harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it. |
33 |
For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is
prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is
fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of
brimstone, doth kindle it. |
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