And a little child shall lead them.

7 And the heifer and the she-bear shall feed together; Together shall their young ones lie down ;

And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

8 And the suckling shall play upon the hole of the aspic;

And upon the den of the basilisk shall the newweaned child lay his hand.

9 They shall not hurt, nor destroy, in all my holy mountain;

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For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of

JEHOVAH,

As the waters that cover the depths of the sea.

And it shall come to pass in that day,

The root of Jesse, which standeth for an ensign to the peoples,

Unto him shall the nations repair,

And his resting place shall be glorious. 11 And it shall come to pass in that day,

JEHOVAH shall again the second time put forth his hand,

To recover the remnant of his people,

That remaineth, from Assyria, and from Egypt;
And from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam:
And from Shinear, and from Hamath, and from the

western regions.

12 And he shall lift up a signal to the nations;

And he shall gather the outcasts of Israel,
And the dispersed of Judah shall he collect,
From the four extremities of the earth.
13 And the jealousy of Ephraim shall cease;
And the enmity of Judaḥ shall be no more:
Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah;

And Judah shall not be at enmity with Ephraim. 14 But they shall invade the borders of the Philistines

westward :

Together shall they spoil the children of the east:

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On Edom and Moab they shall lay their hand;
And the sons of Ammon shall obey them.

15 And JEHOVAH shall smite with a drought the tongue of the Egyptian sea;

And he shall shake his hand over the river with his vehement wind;

And he shall strike it into seven streams,

And make them pass over it dry-shod.

16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people ;

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Which shall remain from Assyria :

As it was unto Israel,

In the day when he came up from the land of Egypt.

CHAP. XII.

AND in that day that thou shalt say:

I will give thanks unto thee, O JEHOVAH; for
though thou hast been
with me,

angry

Thine anger is turned away, and thou hast comforted

me.

Behold, God is my salvation;

I will trust, and will not be afraid :

For my strength, and my song, is JEHOVAH;
And he is become unto me salvation.

3 And when ye shall draw waters with joy from the 4 fountains of salvation; in that day ye shall say:

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Give ye thanks to JEHOVAH; call upon his name: Make known among the peoples his mighty deeds:

Record ye, how highly his name is exalted.

Sing ye JEHOVAH; for he hath wrought a stupendous work:

This is made manifest in all the earth.

Cry aloud, and shout for joy, O inhabitress of

Sion:

For great in the midst of thee is the Holy One of
Israel.

CHAP. XIII.

1 THE ORACLE CONCERNING BABYLON, WHICH

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WAS REVEALED TO ISAIAH, THE SON OF AMOTS.

UPON a lofty mountain erect the standard;
Exalt the voice; beckon with the hand;

That they may enter the gates of princes.

3 I have given a charge to mine enrolled warriors; I have even called my strong ones to execute my wrath ;

Those that exult in my greatness.

4 A sound of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people;

A sound of the tumult of kingdoms, of nations gathered together!

JEHOVAH, God of hosts, mustereth the host for the battle.

5. They come from a distant land, from the end of the

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heavens ;

JEHOVAH, and the instruments of his wrath, to destroy the whole land.

Howl ye,

for the day of JEHOVAH is at hand: As a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

7 Therefore shall all hands be slackened;

And every heart of mortal shall melt; and they shall

be terrified:

8 Torments and pangs shall seize them;

As a woman in travail, they shall be pained :

They shall look one upon another with astonishment;
Their countenances shall be like flames of fire.

9 Behold, the day of JEHOVAH cometh, inexorable; Even indignation, and burning wrath:

To make the land a desolation;

And her sinners he shall destroy from out of her. 10 Yea the stars of heaven, and the constellations

thereof,

Shall not send forth their light:

The sun is darkened at his going forth, And the moon shall not cause her light to shine. 11 And I will visit the world for its evil,

And the wicked for their iniquity:

And I will put an end to the arrogance of the proud;

And I will bring down the haughtiness of the terrible. 12 I will make a mortal more precious than fine gold; Yea a man, than the rich ore of Ophir.

13 Wherefore I will make the heavens tremble;
And the earth shall be shaken out of her place:
In the indignation of JEHOVAH God of hosts;
And in the day of his burning anger.

14 And the remnant shall be, as a roe chased;

And as sheep, when there is none to gather them to-
gether;

They shall look, every one towards his own people;
And they shall flee, every one to his land.

15 Every one, that is overtaken, shall be thrust through: And all that are collected in a body shall fall by the sword.

16 And their infants shall be dashed before their eyes; Their houses shall be plundered, and their wives ra

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vished.

Behold, I raise up against them the Medes;

Who shall hold silver of no account;

And as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

18 Their bows shall dash the young men ;

And on the fruit of the womb they shall have no mercy:

Their eye shall have no pity even on the children. 19 And Babylon shall become, she that was the beauty of kingdoms,

The glory of the pride of the Chaldeans,

As the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah by the hand of God.

20 It shall not be inhabited for ever;

Nor shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation:

Neither shall the Arabian pitch his tent there:

Neither shall the shepherds make their folds there. 21 But there shall the wild beasts of the deserts lodge; And howling monsters shall fill their houses:

And there shall the daughters of the ostrich dwell;
And there shall the satyrs hold their revels.

22 And wolves shall howl to one another in their palaces;

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And dragons in their voluptuous pavilions.

And her time is near to come;

And her days shall not be prolonged.

CHAP. XIV.

FOR JEHOVAH will have compassion on Jacob,
And will yet choose Israel.

And he shall give them rest upon their land;
And the stranger shall be joined unto them,
And shall cleave unto the house of Jacob.

2 And the nations shall take them, and bring them into their own place;

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And the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of JEHOVAH,

As servants and as handmaids:

And they shall take them captive, whose captives they were;

And they shall rule over their oppressors:

And it shall come to pass in that day, that JEHOVAH shall give thee rest from thine affliction, and from thy disquiet, and from the hard servitude 4 which was laid upon thee; and thou shalt pronounce this parable upon the king of Babylon; and shalt say:

How hath the oppressor ceased! the exactress of gold ceased!

5 JEHOVAH hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers.