7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire;

Your land, before your eyes strangers devour it ;

And it is become desolate, as if destroyed by an inundation.

8 And the daughter of Sion is left, as a shed in a vineyard;

As a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a city taken by siege.

9 Had not JEHOVAH God of hosts left us a remnant, We had soon become as Sodom; we had been like unto Gomorrah.

10 Hear ye the word of JEHOVAH, O ye princes of Sodom!

Give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah?

11 What have I to do with the multitude of your sacrifices? saith JEHOVAH:

I am cloyed with the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts;

And in the blood of bullocks, and of lambs, and of goats, I have no delight.

12 When ye come to appear before me,

Who hath required this at your hands?

13 Tread my courts no more; bring no more a vain

oblation:

Incense! it is an abomination unto me.

The new moon, and the sabbath, and the assembly proclaimed,

I cannot endure; the fast and the day of restraint. 14 Your months, and your solemnities, my soul hateth: They are a burden upon me; I am weary of bearing them.

15 When ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you;

Even when ye multiply prayer, I will not hear;

For hands are

your

full of blood.

16 Wash ye, make ye clean; remove ye far away The evil of your doings from before mine eyes: 17 Cease to do evil; learn to do well;

18

Seek judgment; amend that which is corrupted;
Do justice to the fatherless; defend the cause of the
widow.

Come on now, and let us plead together, saith
JEHOVAH:

Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white

as snow;

Though they be red as crimson, they shall be like wool.

19 If ye shall be willing and obedient,

Ye shall feed on the good of the land; 20 But if ye refuse, and be rebellious,

21

Ye shall be food for the sword of the enemy:
For the mouth of JEHOVAH hath pronounced it.

How is the faithful city become a harlot!

She that was full of judgment, righteousness dwelled in her;

But now murderers!

22 Thy silver is become dross; thy wine is mixed with

water.

23 Thy princes are rebellious, associates of robbers;
Every one of them loveth a gift, and seeketh rewards:
To the fatherless they administer not justice;
And the cause of the widow cometh not before them.

24

Wherefore saith the Lord JEHOVAH God of hosts,
the Mighty One of Israel:

Aha! I will be eased of mine adversaries;
I will be avenged of mine enemies.

25 And I will bring again mine hand over thee:
And I will purge in the furnace thy dross;
And I will remove all thine alloy.

26 And I will restore thy judges, as at the first ; And thy counsellors, as at the beginning: And after this thy name shall be called,

The city of righteousness, the faithful metropolis. 27 Sion shall be redeemed in judgment,

And her captives in righteousness.

28 Dut destruction shall fall at once on the revolters and the sinners;

And they that forsake JEHOVAH shall be consumed. 29 For ye shall be ashamed of the ilexes, which ye have desired;

And ye shall blush for the gardens, which ye have

chosen :

30 When ye shall be as an ilex, whose leaves are blasted;

And as a garden, wherein is no water.

31 And the strong shall become tow, and his work a spark of fire;

And they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

CHAP. II.

THE WORD, WHICH WAS REVEALED TO ISAIAH, THE SON OF AMOTS, CONCERNING JUDAH AND JERUSALEM.

2

Ir shall come to pass in the latter days;

The mountain of the house of JEHOVAH shall be established on the top of the mountains ;

And it shall be exalted above the hills:

And all nations shall flow into it.

3 And many peoples shall go,

and shall say:

Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of JE

HOVAH;

To the house of the God of Jacob:
And he will teach us of his ways;
And he will walk in his paths:

For from Sion shall go forth the law; 4 And the word of JEHOVAH from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations;

And shall work conviction in many peoples:

And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares,
And their spears into 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 JEHOVAH!

6 Verily thou hast abandoned thy people, the house of Jacob :

Because they are filled with diviners from the east;
And with soothsayers like the Philistines;

And they multiply a spurious brood of strange
children.

7 And his land is filled with silver and gold;

And there is no end to his treasures:

And his land is filled with horses;

Neither is their any end to his chariots. 8 And his land is filled with idols;

He boweth himself down to the work of his hands;
To that which his fingers have made:

9 Therefore shall the mean man be bowed down, and the mighty men shall be humbled;

And thou wilt not forgive them.

10 Go into the rock, and hide thyself in the dust; From the fear of JEHOVAH, and from the glory of his majesty,

When he ariseth to strike the earth with terror.

11 The lofty eyes of men shall be humbled; The height of mortals shall bow down :

And JEHOVAH alone shall be exalted in that day. 12 For the day of JEHOVAH God of hosts is against every thing great and lofty;

And against every thing that is exalted; and it shall be humbled.

13 Even against all the cedars of Lebanon, the high

and the exalted;

And against all the oaks of Basan:

14 And against all the mountains, the high ones;
And against all the hills, the exalted ones;
15 And against every tower, high raised ;
And against every mound, strongly fortified.
16 And against all the ships of Tarshish;

And against every lovely work of art. 17 And the pride of man shall bow down;

And the height of mortals shall be humbled ; And JEHOVAH alone shall be exalted in that day: 18 And the idols shall totally disappear.

19 And they shall go into caverns of rocks, and into holes of the dust;

From the fear of JEHOVAH, and from the glory of his majesty,

When he ariseth to strike the earth with terror.

20 In that day shall a man cast away his idols of silver,

And his idols of gold, which they have made to worship:

To the moles, and to the bats:

21 To go into caves of the rocks, and into clefts of the craggy rocks:

22

From the fear of JEHOVAH, and from the glory of

his majesty,

When he ariseth to strike the earth with terror.

Trust ye no more in man, whose breath is in his nostrils;

For of what account is he to be made?

CHAP. III.

1 FOR behold the Lord JEHOVAH God of hosts Removeth from Jerusalem, and from Judah, Every stay and support;