that he may have mercy upon you for the Lord is a God of judgment; bleffed are all they that wait for him. 19 For the people fhall dwell in Zion at Jerufalem : thou fhalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee, at the voice of thy cry; when he fhall hear it, he will answer thee. 20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adverfity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes fhall fee thy teachers: 21 And thine ears fhall hear a word behind thee, faying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. 22 Ye fhall defile alfo the covering of thy graven images of filver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt caft them away as a menftruous cloth; thou shalt fay unto it, Get thee hence. 23 Then fhall he give the rain of thy feed that thou fhalt fow the ground withal, and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day fhall thy cattle feed in large paf tures. 24 The oxen likewife and the young affes that ear the ground, fhall eat clean provender which hath been winnowed with the fhovel and with the fan. 25 And there fhall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and ftreams of waters, in the day of the great flaughter, when the towers fall. 26 Morcover, the light of the moon fhall be as the light of the fun, and the light of the fun fhall be fevenfold, 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 ftream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to fift the nations with the fieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, caufing them to err. 29 Ye fhall have a fong as in the night, when a holy folemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the the Mighty One of Ifrael. of a great rock in a weary land. 3 And the eyes of them that fee, fhall not be dim; and the ears of them that hear, fhall hearken. 30 And the Lord fhall caufe his glorious voice to be heard, and fhall flew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with fcattering, and tempeft, and hail-ledge, and the tongue of the ftones. ftammerers fhall be ready to speak plainly. 31 For through the voice of the Lord fhall the Aflyrian be beaten down, which fmote with a rod. 4. The heart also of the rafh fhall understand know 5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl faid to be bountiful. 32 And in every place 6 For the vile person will where the grounded staff shall speak villainy, and his heart pafs, which the Lord fhall lay will work iniquity, to pracupon him, it fhall be with tife hypocrify, and to utter tabrets and harps: and in bat-error against the Lord, to tles of fhaking will he fight make empty the foul of the with it. hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirty to 33 For Tophet is ordained of old: yea, for the king it is prepared, he hath made it fail. 7 The inftruments alfo of deep and large: the pile the churl are evil: he devifthereof is fire and much eth wicked devices to dewood: the breath of the Lord, like a ftream of brimftone, doth kindle it. CHAP. XXXII. EHOLD, a king fhall reign in righteousness, and princes fhall rule in judgment. 2 And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempeft: as rivers of water in a dry place, as the fhadow ftroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy fpeaketh right. 8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things, and by liberal things fhall he stand. 9¶ Rife up, ye women that are at eafe, hear my voice, ye careless daughters, give ear unto my speech. to Many days and years fhall ye be troubled, ye carelefs women: for the vintage fhall fail, the gathering fhall not not come. II Tremble ye women that are at ease: be troubled ye careless ones: ftrip ye and make ye bare, and gird fack- | cloth upon your loins. 12 They fhall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. and the city fhall be low in a low place. 20 Blessed are ye that fow befide all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the afs. CHAP. XXXVII. 13 Upon the land of my A when King Hezekiah people fhall come up thorns and briers, yea, upon all the houfes of joy in the joyous city: heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with fackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord. 2 And he fent Eliakim, who was over the houfhold, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with fackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of 14 Because the palaces fhall be forfaken, the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers fhall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild affes, a pasture of flocks: 15 Until the spirit be pour-Amoz. ed upon us from on high, 3 And they said unto him, and the wilderness be a fruit-Thus faith Hezekiah, This ful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest. 16 Then judgment fhall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. 17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteoufnefs, quietnefs and afsurance for ever. 18 And my people fhall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in fure dwellings, and in quiet refting-places: 19 When it fhall hail, coming down on the foreft; day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blafphemy: 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 Rabfhakeh, whom the king of Affyria his master hath fent 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 left. 5 So the fervants of king Hezekiah came to Ifaiah. Ff 6 And 6 And Ifaiah faid unto | nations delivered them which them, Thus fhall ye fay unto your mafter, Thus faith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the fervants of the king of Affyria have blafphemed me. 7 Behold, I will fend a blast upon him, and he fhall hear a rumour, and return to his own land, and I will caufe him to fall by the fword in his own land. 8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Affyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from La chish. 9 And he heard fay concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee: and when he heard it, he fent meffengers to Hezekiah, faying, 10 Thus fhall ye fpeak to Hezekiah king of Judah, faying, Let not thy God in whom thou trufteft deceive thee, faying, Jerufalem fhall not be given into the hand of the king of Affyria. 11 Behold, thou haft heard what the kings of Affyria have done to all lands by deftroying them utterly, and fhalt thou be delivered? 12 Have the gods of the my fathers have deftroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden, which were in Telaffar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Henah and Ivah? 14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the meffengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the Lord, and fpread it before the Lord. 15 And Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord, faying, 16 O Lord of hofts, God of Ifrael, that dwelleft between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth, thou haft made heaven and earth. 17 Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear; open thine eyes, O Lord, and fee: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath fent to reproach the living God. 18 Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Affyria have laid wafte all the nations, and their countries, 19 And have caft their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of mens mens hands, wood and stone: | of: and I will enter into the therefore they have deftroyed height of his border, and the them. O 20 Now therefore, Lord our God, fave us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord, even thou only. 21 ¶ Then Ifaiah the fon of Amoz fent unto Hezekiah, faying, Thus faith the Lord God of Ifrael, Whereas thou haft prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Affyria: 22 This is the word which the Lord hath fpoken concerning him, The virgin the daughter of Zion hath defpifed thee, and laughed thee to fcorn, the daughter of Jerufalem hath fhaken her head at thee. 23 Whom haft thou reproached and blafphemed? and against whom haft thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the holy One of Ifrael. foreft of his Carmel. 25 I have digged and drunk water, and with the fole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the befieged places. 26 Haft 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 fhouldst be to lay wafte defenced cities into ruinous heaps. 27 Therefore their inhabitants were of fmall power, they were difmayed and confounded: they were as the grafs of the field, and as the green herb, as the grafs on the house-tops, and as corn blafted before it be grown up. 28 But I know thy 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 mine ears: 24 By thy fervants haft therefore will I put my hook thou reproached the Lord, in thy nose, and my bridle in and haft faid, By the multi-thy lips, and I will turn thee tude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the fides of Lebanon, and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir-trees there back by the way by which thou cameft. 30 And this fhall be a fign unto thee, Ye fhall eat this year fuch as groweth of itfelf: and the fecond year that Ff2 which |