A promise of deliverance from Assyria. ISAIAH. God mustereth the armies of his wrath tion shall cease, and mine anger in their de- and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: ruction. Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall

26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge not vex Ephraim.

for him according to the slaughter of Midian at 14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt. them of the east together: they shall lay their 27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children bis burden shall be taken away from off thy of Ammon shall obey them.

shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and 15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue the yoke shall be destroyed because of the of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind anointing. shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dry-shod.

28 lle is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages: 29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.

16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he 30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: came up out of the land of Egypt. cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth. 31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.

32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

CHAP. XII.

A thanksgiving of the faithful. AND in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.

33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts shall 2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty strength and my song; he also is become my salshall be humbled. vation.

34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forests with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

CHAP. XI.

Christ's peaceable kingdom.

AND there shall come forth shall grow out

of his roots:

3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.

this la noivo nehath done excel

stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out lent things: this is known in all the earth. 6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion; 2 And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the of thee. 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:

CHAP. XIII.
Babylon is threatened.

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 4 But with righteousness shall he judge the they may go into the gates of the nobles. poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of 3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips them that rejoice in my highness. 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's den.

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 1 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 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain mountain: for the earth shall be full of the know- as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed ledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. one at another; their faces shall be as flames. 10 And in that day there shall be a root of 9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners rest shall be glorious. thereof out of it.

11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that 10 For the stars of heaven and the constellathe LORD shall set his hand again the second tions thereof shall not give their light: the sun time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be darkened in his going forth, and the shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and moon shall not cause her light to shine. from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, 11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will the islands of the sea. cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and 12 And he shall set up an ensign for the na-will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. tions, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, 12 I will make a man more precious than fine and gather together the dispersed of Judah from gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. the four corners of the earth. 13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the

13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath

The desolation of Babylon.

CHAP. XIV, XV. God's purpose against Assyria.

of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce of the congregation, in the sides of the north: anger. 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; will be like the Most High.

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.

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15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon 15 Every one that is found shall be thrust thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man through; and every one that is joined unto them that made the earth to tremble, that did shake shall fall by the sword. kingdoms:

16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces 17 That made the world as a wilderness, and before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not and their wives ravished. the house of his prisoners?

17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against 18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, them, which shall not regard silver; and as for lie in glory, every one in his own house. gold, they shall not delight in it. 19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an

18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to abominable branch, and as the raiment of those pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that the womb; their eye shall not spare children. go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass 19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the trodden under feet. beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain 20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it thy people: the seed of evil-doers shall never be be dwelt in from generation to generation: nei-renowned.

ther shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither 21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the shall the shepherds make their fold there: iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, 21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the and their houses shall be full of doleful crea-world with cities.

tures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs 22 For I will rise up against them, saith the shall dance there. LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the 22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith in their desolate houses, and dragons in their the LORD. pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

CHAP. XIV.

God's restoration of Israel.
MOR the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and

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 1 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to

as so shall

own land: and the strangers shall be joined with 25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. and upon my mountains tread him under foot: 2 And the people shall take them, and bring then shall his yoke depart from off them, and them to their place: and the house of Israel shall his burden depart from off their shoulders. possess them in the land of the LORD for ser- 26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon vants and handmaids: and they shall take them the whole earth: and this is the hand that is captives, whose captives they were; and they stretched out upon all the nations. 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,

27 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disaunul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.

4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against 29 1 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the op- the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for pressor ceased, the golden city ceased! out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cock5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wick-atrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. ed, 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.

30 And the first-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety and 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 9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet of the nation? That the LORD hath founded thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it. thee, even all the chief ones of the earth: it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

CHAP. XV.
The lamentable state of Moab.

20 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art THE burden of Moab. Because in the night

Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to thou also become weak as we? Art thou become silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid like unto us? waste, and brought to silence;

11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and 2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread un-high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over der thee, and the worms cover thee. Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall 12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Luci-be baldness, and every beard cut off. fer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down 3 In their streets they shall gird themselves to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and 13 For thou hast said in thy heart, I will as-in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping cend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above abundantly.

the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount 4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh; dicir

voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto

fly heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives

The woe of Israel's enemies CHAP. XVII.

Syria and Israel threatened.

burden of Damascus. Damas

cus is taken away from being a city, and

shall Lee unto Zoar, a heifer of three years old: it shall be a ruinous heap.

for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none they shall raise up a cry of destruction. shall make them afraid.

6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: 3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remthere is no green thing. nant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the 7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts. 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 Beer-elim.

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 sha!l wax lean.

5 And it shall be as when the harvest-man gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his 9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.

CHAP. XVI.

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,

Moab exhorted to obedience.
END ye the lamb to the ruler of the land saith the LORD God of Israel.

wilderness, unto the a man look to his Maker,

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.

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 3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy fingers have made, either the groves, or the shadow as the night in the midst of the noon-images.

day; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that 9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a wandereth. forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which 4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be they left because of the children of Israel: and thou a covert to them from the face of the spoil-there shall be desolation.

er: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler 10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the salvation, and hast not been mindful of the Rock land. of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleas

5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: ant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the taberna- 11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, cle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to and hasting righteousness. flourish but the harvest shall be a heap in the

6 ¶ We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is day of grief and of desperate sorrow. very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his 12 Wo to the multitude of many people, which pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so. make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to 7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like one shall howl: for the foundations of Kir-ha- the rushing of mighty waters!

reseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken. 13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of 8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the broken down the principal plants thereof, they chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through a rolling thing before the whirlwind. the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, 14 And behold at evening-tide trouble; and bethey are gone over the sea. fore the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us. CHAP. XVIII. Ethiopia is threatened.

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 har-Wo to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:

vest is fallen.

10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of 2That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, shall be no singing, neither shall there be shout-ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and ing: the treaders shall tread out no wine in peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning their presses; I have made their vintage-shout- hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, ing to cease. whose land the rivers have spoiled!

11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh.

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.

12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he 4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall rest, and I will consider in my dwelling-place not prevail. like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of 13 This is the word that the LORD hath spo- dew in the heat of harvest. ken concerning Moab since that time.

5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is per14 But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, fect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flowWithin three years, as the years of a hireling, er, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruningand the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with hooks, and take away and cut down the branches. all that great multitude; and the remnant shall 6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of be very small and feeble. the mountains, and to the beasts of the carth: and

Foolishness of Egypt's princes. CHAP. XIX, XX, XXI. Covenant of Egypt, Assyria, &e the fowls shall suminer upon them, and all the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. and a great one, and he shall deliver them. 7 In that time shall the present be brought 21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and the Egyptians shall know the LOPD in that day, peeled, and from a people terrible from their be- and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they ginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trod-shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it. den under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.

CHAP. XIX.

The confusion of Egypt.

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 entreated of them, and shall heal thein.

23 In that day shall there be a highway out of cloud, shall come into in Egypt, the Egyptian

HE burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD ri Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come

upon a Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt 24 In that day shall Israel be the third with in the midst of it. Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the

2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyp-midst of the land: tians: and they shall fight every one against his 25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, brother, and every one against his neighbour; Blessed he Egypt my people, and Assyria the city against city, and kingdom against kiugdom. work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance. 3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst CHAP. XX. thereof: and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charm ers, 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 detence shall be emptied and dried up. the reeds and flags shall wither.

Captivity of Egypt and Ethiopia.

when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) N the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod,

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 sack-
cloth 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;

7 The paper-reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, 4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the shall wither, be driven away, and be no more. Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, 8 The fishes also shall mourn, and all they that young and old, naked and barefoot, even with cast angle into the brooks shail lament, and they their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. 5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethi9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they opia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. that weave net-works, shall be confounded. 6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say, in 10 And they shall be broken in the purposes that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whithereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish. ther we flee for help to be delivered from the J11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape? counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is CHAP. XXI. become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am

The fall of Babylon foreshewn, the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings THE burden of the desert of the sea. As whirl12 Where are they? where are thy wise men? winds in the south pass through; so it comand let them tell thee now, and let them know eth from the desert, from a terrible land. what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. 2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; The 13 The princes of Zoan are become foois, the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Meseduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of dia; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. the tribes thereof. 3Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs 14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a wothe midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt man that travaileth; I was bowed down at the to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it. staggereth in his vomit. 4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

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.

5 Prepare the table, watch in the watch-tower, 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 ae seeth. 17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto 7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horseEgypt, every one that maketh mention thereof men, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel and he hearkened diligently with much heed: of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined 8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand conagainst it. tinually upon the watch-tower in the day time, and I am set in my ward whole nights.

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.

9 And behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemien. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the gra19 In that day shall there be an altar to the ven images of her gods he hath broken unto the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a ground. 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

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 te

The set time of Arabia's calamity.

ISAIAH

Prophecy concerning Eliakim

out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night ? 18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee Watchman, what of the night?

like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be inquire the shame of thy lord's house.

12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, ye: return, come.

19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and 13 1 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest from thy state shall he pull thee down. In Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling com- 20 T And it shall come to pass in that day, panies of Dedanim. that I will call my servant Eliakim, the son of 14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought Hilkiah: water to him that was thirsty, they prevented 21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and with their bread him that fled. strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will com15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn mit thy government into his hand: and he shall sword, and from the bent bow, and from the be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and grievousness of war. to the house of Judah.

16 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:

17 And the residue of the number of archers, the nighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.

CHAP. XXII.

Invasion of Jewry lamented.

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

E burden of the valley of vision. What cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.

now,

up to the house-tops?

wholly

2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.

that day,

shatt

the nail that is fastened in the sure place be re-
moved, and be cut down, and fall; and the
burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the
LORD hath spoken it.

CHAP. XXIII.
Miserable overthrow of Tyre.

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 THE burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because is no house, no entering in: from the land of of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. Chittim it is revealed to them.

5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading 2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the have replenished. walls, and of crying to the mountains.

3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the 6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the a mart of nations. shield.

4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath 7 And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horse- travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do men shall set themselves in array at the gate. I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins. 81 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.

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

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 Jeru-afar off to sojourn. salem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.

8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, 11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth? for the water of the old pool; but ye have not 9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain looked unto the maker thereof, neither had re-the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt spect 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:

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 13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking commandment against the merchant-city, to dewine: let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we stroy the strong holds thereof. shall die.

12 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O 14 And it was revealed in mine ears by the thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GoD no rest. of hosts. 13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this peo15 Thus saith the Lord GoD of hosts, Go, get ple was not, till the Assyrian founded it for thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up is over the house, and say, the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces 16 What hast thou here, and whom hast thou thereof, and he brought it to ruin. here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth a habitation for himself in a lock?

17 Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee

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 a harlot.