Isaias

21 The (seal) rings, and nose-jewels,

22 The festal robes, and the mantles, and the shawls, and the satchels,

23 The glasses, and the linen shifts, and the turbans, and the scarfs.

24 And it shall be, instead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle a rope; and instead of curled hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; brandinginstead of beauty.

25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy might in the war.

26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be emptied; on the ground shall she sit.

IV. 1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel; only let thy name be called upon us; take away our reproach.

2 In that day. shall the sprout of the LORD be for ornament and for glory, and the fruit of the earth shall be for pride and for beauty to them that are escaped of Israel.

3 And it shall be, that he that is left in Zion, and remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, every one that is written down for living in Jerusalem.

4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged away the blood of Jerusalem from the midst of her by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

5 And the LORD will create upon every habitation of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud by day, and smoke, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for upon all the glory is a canopy,

6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day-time from the heat, and for a refuge and for a covert from storm and from rain.

V. I Let me, I pray, sing for my beloved a song of my loved one for his vineyard. My beloved bath a vineyard, on a hill-top, the son of oil;

2 And he digged it, and cleared it of stones, and planted it with the vine of Sorek, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a wine-fat therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild-grapes.

3 And now, ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and man of Judah, judge, I pray, betwixt me and my vineyard.

4 What is there yet to do to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild-grapes?

5 And now let me, I pray, tell you what I will do to my vineyard; Ι will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be consumed; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down;

6 And I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned, nor hoed; and there shall come up briers and thorns; and I will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

7 For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the man of Judah his pleasant plant 3 and he looked for judg- ment, and behold oppression; for righteousness, and behold a cry.

8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there is no room, and ye are made to dwell alone in the midst of the earth!