Isaias

XXIV. 1 Behold, the Lord destroyeth the world, and will lay it desolate, and will uncover the face thereof, and scatter the inhabitants thereof.

2 And the people shall be as the priest, and the servant as the lord, and the maid as the lady; the buyer shall be as the seller, the lender as the borrower, and the debtor as he to whom he oweth.

3 The earth shall be utterly destroyed, and the earth shall be utterly spoiled; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken this. ’

4 The earth mourneth, and the world is destroyed; and the exalted ones of the earth do mourn.

5 And the earth transgresseth because of her inhabitants: be: cause they have overstepped (the) law, and changed the ordinances of the Lord, an everlasting covenant.

6 Therefore shall a curse devour the earth, because the inhabit- ants of it have sinned ; therefore shall they that dwell in the earth be poor, and few men shall be left.

7 The wine shall mourn, the vine shall mourn, all that are joyful in heart shall groan.

8 Ceased is the joy of tabrets, ceased is the arrogance and wealth of the wicked, ceased the voice of the harp.

9 They are ashamed, they drink not wine; the strong drink becometh bitter to them that drink.

10 Every city is made desolate; it shall shut up the house, that none come in.

11 Wail, for the wine, everywhere; ceased is all joy of the land,

12 And cities shall be left desolate, and houses left therein shall perish.

13 All this shall be in the land, in the midst of the nations; like as if one gleaneth an olive tree, so shall they glean them; and (as) if the vintage have ceased.

14 These shall cry aloud with their voice, but they that are left upon the earth, shall rejoice together with the glory of the Lord, the water of the sea shall be troubled

15 Therefore the glory of the Lord shall be in the isles of the sea, the name of the Lord shall be glorious.

16 O Lord God ’Israel, from the corners of the earth have we heard wonders, Hope (is) for the righteous. And they shall say, Woe to them that set at nought; as for. them that set at nought the law,

17 Fear, and a pit, and a snare, are upon you that dwell upon the earth.

18 And it shall be, he that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh out from the pit shall be caught by the snare; for windows are opened out of heaven, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken.

19 The earth shall be clean confounded, and the dearth shall be utterly helpless.

20 The earth tottereth and shall be shaken, like a but, like him that is drunken and reeling; and shall fall, and shall not be able to rise again, for her transgression is strong upon her.

21 And God shall bring his hand against the array of heaven, and against the kings of the earth.

22 And they shall gather them together, and shut them into a fastness, and into a prison ; after many generations shall there be a visitation of them.

23 And the brick shall decay, and the wall shall fall; for the Lord shall reign in Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before the elders ’ shall he be glorified

1 O Lord my God, I will glorify thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things, a counsel ancient and true. Amen, O Lord. ’

2 For thou hast laid cities in a dust heap, strong cities, that their foundations should fall; the city of the wicked shall not be built, for ever.

3 Therefore shall the people that is poor praise thee, and cities of men that suffer wrong shall bless thee.

4 For thou art become a helper to every humble city, and a shelter to them that despair, for want ; from evil men shalt thou rescue them—a shelter for the thirsty, and a breath of men suffer wrong [shall bless thee],

5 As men faint hearted, thirsting in Zion,—from wicked to whom thou gavest us over.

6 And the Lord of hosts shall do (it) for all the nations; upon this mountain shall they drink gladness, they shall drink wine

7 They shall anoint themselves with myrrh in this mountain. Give over all this to the nations; for this counsel is against all the nations.

8 Death was strong, and swallowed them up; and again God hath taken away every tear from every face; he hath taken away the shame of the people from all the earth, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken.

9 And they shall say in that day, Behold our God, in whom we ever hoped; and we were triumphant, and will rejoice in our salvation.

10 For God will give us rest upon this mountain, and the land of Moab shall be trodden down, like as they tread a threshing floor in wagons.

11 And he will let go his hands, like as he himself also humbled him to destroy him; and he shall humble his pride, whereto he laid his hands.

12 And the height of the refuge of thy wall shall be humble, and it shall come down, even unto the ground.

1 In that day shall they sing this song over the land of Judah ; saying, Behold, a strong city; and he shall set salvation for us for the wall and the outer, wall.

2 Open ye the gates, let a people enter which keepeth righteousness and keepeth truth,

3 Laying hold of and keeping peace. For in thee

4 They have hoped, for ever, O Lord, the great, the ever lasting God,

5. Who didst humble and bring down them that dwelt in high places; strong cities shalt thou throw down, and bring down to the ground,

6 And the feet of the gentle and humble shall tread upon them.

7 The way of the godly is become straight; and the way of the godly (is) prepared.

8 For the way of the Lord is judgment; we have hoped in thy name, and in the remembrance,

9 Which our soul longeth for. [A Song] Out of the night doth my spirit rise early toward thee, O God, because thy commandments are a light upon the earth. Learn righteousness, ye that dwell on the earth,

10 For ceased is the ungodly; he will not learn righteousness upon the. earth, he will not perform truth; let the wicked be removed, that he may not see the glory of the Lord.

11 Lord, thy arm is uplifted, and they knew it not; but when they learn it, they shall be ashamed; jealousy shall take hold of a people that is untaught, and now shall fire devour the enemies.

12 Lord, our God, grant peace to us, for all things dost thou give us.

13 Lord, our God, take us for thine own; O Lord, beside. thee we know none other, thy name do we name.

14 But the dead shall not see life, neither shall physicians raise them up; for this cause didst thou bring them in, and destroyedst them, and removedst all that was male among them.

15 Add unto them evils, O Lord, add evils to all the glorious ones of the earth.

16 Lord, in affliction I remembered thee, in slight affliction (was) thy correction upon us.

17 And as she who travaileth draweth near to bring forth, and crieth out in her travail, so were we before thy beloved.

18 For the fear of thee, O Lord, did we conceive, and travailed, and brought forth; we made a breath of thy salvation upon the earth, but they that dwell upon the earth shall fall.

19 For the dead shall arise, and they that are in the tombs shall be roused up, and they that are in the earth shall rejoice; for the dew that cometh from thee is healing to them, but the land of the ungodly shall fall.

20 Go, my people, enter into thy chambers, shut thy door, hide thyself ever so little a while, until the wrath of the Lord be passed by.

21 For behold, the Lord from his holy (place) bringeth his anger upon them that dwell upon-the earth; and the earth shall reveal her <blood>, and the earth shall not cover up the

XXVII. 1 In that day shall God bring his sword, the holy, and great, and strong, against the dragon, the serpent that fleeth, against the dragon, the crooked serpent, and shall slay the dragon.

2 In that day (shall there be) a fair vineyard; (there is) a desire to begin (a song) upon her.

3 I am a strong city, a city besieged; in vain shall I water it; for it shall be taken by night, but by day shall the wall fall.

4 There is none but she laid hold upon her; who shall set me to guard a reed in a field? because of this enemy's have I set her at nought. Therefore for this cause bath the Lord God done all things that he appointed. I am burnt up,

5 They that dwell in her shall cry: Let us make peace with him, let us make peace.

6 They that come, the children of Jacob shall bud, and Israel shall blossom, and the world shall be filled with the fruit.

7 Shall it be that, as he himself smote, he also shall be stricken; and as himself slew, so he shall be slain?

8 Fighting and reproaching, he shall send them forth: wast thou not he that devised, with thy harsh spirit, to slay them with a spirit of wrath?

9 Therefore shall the transgression of Jacob be taken away, and this is his blessing, when I have taken away his sin, when I have laid all the stones of the altars in fragments, as light dust; and their trees shall not remain, and their idols, destroyed as a forest (reaching) far.

10 The fold that is inhabited shall be left deserted, like an abandoned fold; and it shall be a feeding place for long time, and there shall they rest.

11 And after a time there shall not be in her any green thing, because of its drying up. Ye women that come from a spectacle, come hither; for it is not a people that hath understanding; therefore he that made them shall not pity, nor shall he that formed them have mercy.

12 And it shall be in that day, the Lord shall fence them in from the channel of the river unto Rhinocolura ; and ye, gather together one by one the children of Israel.

13 And it shall be in that day, they shall blow with the great trumpet, and they shall come, <that perished> in the land of the Assyrians. and they that perished in Egypt, and shall (come to) worship the Lord at the holy mountain in Jerusalem.

XXVIII. 1 Ah, for the crown of pride; (it is) the hirelings of Ephraim, the flower that falleth from the glory upon the crest of ’the fat mountain, they that are drunken without wine.

2 Behold, a mighty and a hard thing is the wrath of the Lord, like a hailstorm rushing dbwn without shelter, rushing down with force; like a great body of water sweeping a land, it shall cause rest to the land: with hands

3 And with feet shall the crown of pride be trampled down, the hirelings of Ephraim.

4 And the flower, that falleth from the hope of glory, shall be upon the top of the high mountain; like an early fruit of the fig, he that seeth it, before he take it into his hand, shall desire to swallow it up.

5 In that day shall the Lord of Hosts be the crown of hope that is woven of the glory for him that is left of my—

6 And they shall be left,—for a spirit of judgment, for and for might, forbidding to destroy.

7 For these are gone astray by reason of wine; they went astray because of the strong drink, priest and prophet left the way because of wine, they were disturbed from their revelling in strong drink, they went astray. This is a vision.

8 A curse shall devour this counsel; for this counsel is for greedicness´

9 To whom did we declare evils, and to whom did we declare a message? it is they who are weaned from milk, they who are withdrawn from the breast.

10 Expect thou affliction upon affliction, hope upon hope, yet a little, yet a little,

11 Because of contempt of the lips, through another tongue; for they shall speak, to this people,

12 Saying unto it, This (is) the rest for the hungry, and this (is) the datruction ; and they would not hear.

13 And the oracle of the Lord God shall be unto them affliction upon affliction, hope upon hope, yet a little, yet a little, that they may go, and fall backward; and they shall venture, and be destroyed, and be taken.

14 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, ye afflicted men, and rulers of this people, that is in Jerusalem.

15 Because ye say, We have made a covenant with hell, and agreements with death; if a rushing tempest pass by, it shall not come upon us ; we have set falsehood for our hope, and by falsehood will we be sheltered:

16 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will Set in the foundations of Zion a stone, very precious, chosen out, a chief corner stone, honourable ; in her foundations (I set it), and he who believeth thereon shall not be ashamed. ’

17 And I will set judgment for a hope, and my mercy shall be for balances; and ye who vainly trust in a lie—for the shall not pass you by,

18 Lest also it take away your covenant of death, and your hope regarding hell shall not abide: if a rushing tempest come upon you, ye shall be trodden down by it.

19 When it passeth by, it shall take hold upon you; very early shall it pass by by day, and by night it shall be an evil hope. Learn to hearken,

20 Being straitened; we cannot fight, and of ourselves we are weak, to be assembled together.

21 As (at) the mount of ungodly men shall he stand up, and it shall be, in the valley of Gibeon, with wrath shall he do his works, a work of bitterness; but his wrath shall deal strangely, and its bitterness shall be strange.

22 And ye, may ye not rejoice, and let not your bonds be strong; for I have heard from the Lord of Hosts of doings, fulfilled and cut short, which he will perform upon all the land.

23 Give ear, and hearken to my voice; attend, and hear my words. ’

24 Will the ploughman plough all the day P or will he prepare the sowing before he have tilled the land?

25 And, when he hath levelled the face of it, first he soweth small fennel and cummin, and again wheat, and barley, and spelt in thy borders.

26 And thou shalt be instructed by the judgment of thy God, and shalt rejoice.

27 For the fennel is not winnowedlwith harshness, nor will he drive a cart wheel round upon the cummin ; but the fennel is shaken with a rod, and the cummin

28 Shall be eaten with bread. For not for ever will I be angered with you, neither shall the voice of my bitterness trample you down.

29 And these wonders are come forth from the Lord of Hosts: take counsel, lift up a vain appeal.

XXIX. 1 Ah, city of Ariel, against which David made war; collect fruits year after year: for ye shall eat with Moab.

2 For I will afflict Ariel, and her strength and her wealth shall be mine.

3 And I will make a circle like David against thee, and will set up a palisade around thee, and will plant towers against thee,

4 And thy wOrds shall be brought low unto the earth, and thy words shall sink into the earth; and thy voice shall be as they that speak from the earth, and close to the ground shall thy voice be weak.

5 And like a dust cloud from a wheel shall the wealth of the ungodly be, and like chaff borne along; and it shall be like a moment, suddenly,

6 From the Lord of Hosts; for there shall be a viSitation with crying aloud and earthquake; and with a great voice, a rush- ing tempest and a flame of fire devouring.

7 And as he that dreameth a dream shall be the wealth of all the nations that did march against Israel, and all they that marched against Jerusalem, and all that were gathered together against her and afflicted her.

8 And they shall be like them that in sleep drink and eat, and when they arise, their dream is vain ; and like as he that is thirsty dreameth, as he that drinketh, and when he ariseth, he still thirsteth, and his soul hath hoped after an empty thing; so shall the wealth be of all the nations, as many as did march against Jerusalem, and against the mount Zion.

9 Faint ye, and fall away, and stagger drunkenly, not with strong drink, nor with wine.

10 For the Lord hath given you to drink with a spirit of slumber, and will close their eyes, and their ’ and their ’ eyes; they it is that see the hidden things.

11 And all these words shall be as the sayings of this book that is sealed, and if they give it to a man that knoweth letters, saying, Read these; then he shall say, I cannot read, for it is sealed.

12 And this book shall be given into the hands of a man such as knoweth not letters, and one shall say to him, Read this; and he shall say, I know not letters.

13 And the Lord said, This people draweth near me, with their lips they honour me, but their heart is far from me; but in vain do they worship me, teaching the commandments of men, and doctrines.

14 Therefore behold, I will proceed further to change this people; and I will change them, and will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the prudence of the prudent will I hide.

15 Ah, they that take counsel deeply, and not through the Lord; ah, they that take counsel in secret, and their works shall be in darkness, and they shall say, Who hath seen us? and who shall find us out, or what we do?

16 Shall ye not be reckoned as the ’s clay? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed (it), Thou didst not form ’ or the thing made to him that made it, Thou didst not make me with understanding?

17 Is it not yet a little while, and Lebanon shall be changed (to be) as mount Carmel, and mount Carmel shall be reckoned ’ for a forest?

18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of a book, and they that are in the darkness, and that are in the mist, the eyes of the blind shall see.

19 And the poor shall exult because of the Lord, and they that were despaired for among men shall be filled with joy.

20 The transgressor hath failed, and the overweening man is perished, and they that transgressed for evil doing are utterly destroyed,

21 And they that cause men to err in a word; and all them that convince in the gates shall they set as a stuniblingblock, and . they turned aside the just among the unjust.

22 Therefore thus saith the Lord upon the house of Jacob, which he separated from (among) Abraham, Jacob shall not now . be ashamed, nor Israel now change his face:

23 But when they see their children, my works, they shall sanctify my name because of me, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.

24 And, they that wander in spirit shall learn prudence, but they that murmur shall learn to hearken, and the stammering tongue shall learn to speak peace.

XXX. 1 Ah, rebel children, thus saith the Lord: ye took counsel, and not through me, and made agreements, not through my spirit, to add sins upon sins:

2 They that walk to go down into Egypt, but they asked not me; that they might be helped by Pharaoh, and sheltered by the Egyptians.

3 For Pharaoh shall be your shelter to your shame, and to · them that trust in Egypt a reproach.

4 For there are in Tanis Chieftains, evil messengers:

5 In vain shall they weary themselves with a people that shall not profit them, neither for help nor for profit, but for shame and reproach.

6 The vision of the fourfooted beasts that are in the wilderness. Amid the affliction and the straitening, a lion, and a lion's whelp: thence also serpents, and the offspring of flying serpents; men who brought their wealth upon asses and camels to a nation which shall not profit them [for help, but for shame and reproach].

7 The Egyptians will profit you in vain and emptily; declare to them, This your consolation is vain.

8 Now therefore sit and write this upon a tablet, and in a book, that these things shallbe for days of times and even for ever.

9 For it is a disobedient people, lying sons, who were not willing to hear the law of God,

10 They which say unto the prophets, Declare not unto us, and to them that see visions, Talk not unto.us...but talk to us and declare unto us another beguiling,

11 And turn us away from this way; take away from us this path, and take away from us the oracle of Israel.

12 Therefore thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, Because ye were disobedient to these words, and hoped in a lie, and because thou didst murmur, and trusted in this wor

13 Therefore this sin ’shall be to you like a suddenly falling wall of a city that hath been taken, whereof the ruin cometh suddenly.

14 And the ruin of it shall be as the breaking of an earthen vessel, a small piece of a jar, so that one cannot find among them a sherd wherein thou canst take up fire, or wherein thou canst <take away> canst a little water.

15 Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, When thou shalt turn and lament, then shalt thou be saved, and learn where thou wast (placed): when thou hadst thy trust in vanities, your strength became vain: and ye would not hear.

16, But ’. said, We will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and ye said, We will be mounted on swift (ones); therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

17 And a thousand shall flee because of the voice of one: and because of the voice of five shall many flee; until ye be left as a mast upon a mountain, and as (one) bearing a standard upon a hill.

18 And again will God wait, that he may pity you, and for this cause will he be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, because the Lord your God is a judge; and where will ye leave your glory? Blessed are all they that wait upon him.

19 For a holy people shall dwell in Zion; and Jerusalem wept sore, Have mercy on me: and he will have mercy on the voice of thy cry ; when he saw, he hearkened unto thee.

20 And the Lord shall give to you bread of affliction, and ’ ’ scant water; and no longer shall they that beguile thee draw near to thee; for thine eyes shall see them that beguile thee,

21 And thine ears shall hear the words of the beguilers behind thee; it is they who say, This is the way, let us walk in it, whether to the right hand or to the left.

22 And thou shalt remove the idols, overlaid with silver and with gold; thou shalt make them small, and shalt scatter them away as the water of her that sitteth apart, and as dung shalt thou remove them.

23 Then shall the rain be upon the seed of thy land, and the bread of the increase of thy land shall be plenteousness, and shall be fat; and thy cattle shall feed in that day in a rich place and a large.

24 Your bulls, and your oxen that plough the land, shall eat bran prepared for them winnowed with barley.

25 And there shall be, upon every high mountain, and upon every lofty hill, flowing water in that day, when many perish, and when towers fall.

26 And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, in the day when the Lord healeth the breaking of his ’peOple, and shall heal the pain of thy wound.

27 Behold, the name of the Lord cometh after long time, burning is his wrath; with glory is the oracle of his lips, his oracle is full of wrath, and the wrath of his anger shall devour like fire

28 And his breath, like water sweeping in a torrent-bed, shall come even to the neck, and shall be divided, to confuse nations, in vain error; and vain error shall pursue them, and shall lay hold on them, face to face.

29 Ought ye to rejoice continually, and to enter continually into my holy places as though feasting, and to. enter in as though in joy, with the pipe, into the house of the Lord, to the God of Israel?

30 And God shall make the glory of his voice heard, even to show the wrath of his arm with wrath and anger and devouring flame, he shall thunder violently (upon them), and like water and hail descending with violence.

31 For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrians be vanquished, with the wound wherewithsoever he smiteth them..

32 And it shall be unto him round about, whence was his hope of help, wherein he himself trusted; they, with tabrets and harp, shall turn and make war upon him.

33 For thou shalt not be deceived Before the days: was it also prepared for thee to reign? a deep trench, layers of wood, fire and much wood? the wrath of the Lord is as a trench burning with brimstone.

XXXI. 1 Ah, they that go down into Egypt for help; that trust in horses and in chariots, for they are many, and in horses, they are a great multitude; and trusted not in the Holy One of ’Israel, and sought not God.

2 And,. wise himself, he brought evils upon them; and his word shall not be set at nought; and he shall rise up against the houses of wicked men, and against their vain hope,

3 An Egyptian, a man, and not a god: the flesh of. horses, and ’ there is no help (in them); but the Lord shall set his hand against them, and they that (come to) help shall weary themselves, and all shall perish together.

4 For thus saith the Lord to me, Like as if the lion or the whelp crieth out over the prey, which he hath taken, and roareth over it until the mountains be filled with his voice; and they were vanquished, and cowered before the greatness of his wrath; so shall the Lord of Hosts come down to fight against the mount Zion, and against her mountains.

5 As birds flying, so will the Lord hold a shield to defend Jerusalem, and will deliver it, and preserve it, and will save it.

6 Turn you, ye that counsel the deep counsel, and the disobedient;

7 For in that day shall men disown the works of their hands, those of silver, and those of gold, which their hands have made.

8 And Asshur shall fall; not the sword of a man, nor the sword of mankind, shall him; and he shall flee, not from before a pursuer; but the young men shall be vaniluished.

9 For they shall be encompassed by a rock, as with a palisade, and shall be vanquished, and he that fleeth shall be taken. Thus saith the Lord, Happy is he who hath a seed in Zion, and kinsmen in Jerusalem.

XXXII. 1 For behold, a just king shall reign, and rulers shall rule with judgment.

2 And the man shall be, hiding these sayings, and he shall be hidden as from rushing water; and he shall appear in Zion as a rushing river, glorious in a thirsting land.

3 And no longer shall they put their trust in men, but they shall lend ’ears to hear.

4 And the heart of the weak ones shall attend to hear, and the ’mering tongues shall soon learn to speak peace.

5 And no longer shall they bid the fool to rule, and no longer shall thy servants say, Hold thy peace.

6 For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will imagine vain things, to fulfil transgressions, and to utter error against the Lord, to scatter hungry souls abroad, and to make empty the souls that thirst.

7 For the counsel of the wicked doth counsel transgressions, to destroy the humble with unjust words, and to scatter the reasonings of the humble in judgment.

8 But the godly counselled prudent things, and this counsel shall abide.

9 Ye wealthy women, stand up, and hear my voice; ye daughters in hope, hearken to my words.

10 For the days of a year call to remembrance in pain, with hope; the vintage is consumed, the sowing is ceased, and shall no longer come.

11 Be astonished, be grieved, ye confindent women; strip yourselves, ’bare, gird sackcloth upon your loins.

12 And smite yourselves upon the breasts, for a field of desire, and the fruit of the vine.

13 The land of my people, the thorn and grass shall come up, and joy shall be removed from every dwelling. A wealthy city,

14 Desolate houses: they shall abandon the wealthiof a city, and desirable houses; and the villages shall be caverns for ever, a joy of wild asses, feeding places of shepherds,

15 Until there come upon you a spirit from on high. And Carmel shall be. desolate, and Carmel shall be reckoned as a forest.

16 And judgment shall rest in the wilderness, and righteousness shall dwell in Carmel.

17 And the works of righteousness shall be peace, and right- eousness shall obtain rest, and they shall be confident ones for ever.

18 And his people-shall dwell in a city of peace, and shall dwell in confidence, and they shall rest amid wealth.

19 And the hail, if it descend, shall not come upon you. And they that dwell in the forests shall be confident, as they in the plain.

20 Blessed are they that sow upon every water, where ox and ass treadeth.

XXXIII. 1 Ah, for them that ill-treat you, but you none ill-treateth; and he that setteth at nought setteth not you at nought; they that set at nought shall be taken and shall be delivered up; and like a moth upon a garment, so shall they be i crushed.

2 O Lord, have mercy us, for in thee do we trust; the ’seed of the disobedient hath fallen into destruction, but our salvation is in a time of affliction.

3 Because of the voice of the fear of thee, peoples shrank away, from the fear of thee, and the nations were scattered.

4 But now shall your spoils, from small and great, be gathered together; like as if one gathereth locusts, so shall they make sport upon you. ’

5 Holy is God that dwelleth on high; Zion is filled with judg- ment, and with righteousness.

6 By a law shall they be delivered up; in treasures is your salvation; therein is wisdom and knowledge, and reverence towards the Lord; these are the treasures of righteousness.

7 Behold now, in your fear shall they be afraid; they whom ye feared shall be afraid because of you; for messengers shall be sent, claiming peace, weeping bitterly, entreating for peace.

8 For their paths shall be made desolate; for the fear of the nations is ceased, and their covenant with these is removed, and ’ye shall not reckon them as men.

9 The earth mourneth, Lebanon is ashamed, Sharon becometh marshes; Galilee shall be made manifest, and Carmel.

10 Now will I rise up, saith the Lord, now will I be glorified now will I be uplifted.

11 Now shall ye see, now shall ye be ashamed; vain shall be the strength of your spirit, fire shall devour you.

12 And the nations shall be burnt up, as a thorn cast upon a field and burnt up.

13 They that are from afar off shall hear what I have done; they that draw near shall learn my strength.

14 The transgressors in Zion have stood aloof: trembling shall take hold of the ungodly. Who shall declare unto you that a fire is burning? who shall declare unto you the place that is for ever?

15 One that walketh in righteousness, speaking in a straight way, hating transgression and wrong doing, and shaking off his hands from gifts; that maketh his ears dull, that he may not hear a judgment of blood; that closeth his eyes, that he may not see wrongdoing,

16 He shall dwell in a. lofty cavern of a strong rock; bread shall be given unto him, and his water (is) sure.

17 Ye shall see a king with glory, and your eyes shall behold a land from afar off.

18 Your soul shall meditate on the fear of the Lord; where are the scribes? where are the counsellors? where is he that counted them that were nourished up together,

19 A small and a great people? with whom they took not counsel, neither understood he their deep speech:

20 Behold Zion our city, our salvation; thine eyes shall see Jerusalem, it is a wealthy city, tents which shall not be shaken, ’ nor shall the stakes of the tent thereof be disturbed for ever, nor its cords broken:

21 For the name of the Lord is great. Ye shall have a place, rivers and canals, wide and spacious; thou shalt not go by this way, neither shall a ship go driving along.

22 For my God is great; he will not pass me by; the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our ruler, the Lord is our king; the Lord, he shall save us.

23 Thy cords are broken, for they were not strong; thy mast hath bent, it will not loosen the sails, it will not lift Up a signal, until it be given up for plunder; therefore shall many lame take plunder.

24 And the people that dwelleth among them shall not say, I am faint; for their sin is forgiven.

XXXIV. 1 Draw near, ye nations, and hearken, ye rulers; let the earth hear, and they that dwell therein, the world, and the people that is in it.

2 For the wrath, of the Lord is against all the nations, and anger against the muster of them; to destroy them, and to give them over to slaughter.

3 And their wounded shall be cast forth, and their dead, and their stink shall go up, and the mountains shall be wet with their blood.

4 And the heaven shall be rolled up like a book, and all the stars shall fall like leaves from a vine, and as leaves fall from a fig tree.

5 My sword is drunken in the heaven; behold, it shall descend upon Idumaea, and upon the people of perdition with judgment.

6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is enriched with fatness, and with the fat of goats and rams. For there is a sacrifice to the Lord in the land of Bozrah, and a great slaughter in Idumaea.

7 And the chief ones shall fall with them, and the rams and the bulls; and the earth shall be drunken with the blood, and shall be filled with the fat of them.

8 For it is the day of the judgment of the Lord, and the year of the recompense of the judgment of Zion.

9 And the torrents thereof shall be turned into pitch, and her land into brimstone; and her land shall be burning like pitch,

10 By night and day; and shall not be quenched for ever; and the smoke thereof shall ascend upward, it shall be desolated for generations.

11 And birds, and hedgehogs, and ibises, and ravens shall dwell therein; and there shall be cast over it the measuring line of desolation, ’satyrs shall dwell therein.

12 Her rulers shall not be; for her kings and her rulers and her great ones shall come to destruction.

13 And the thorn shall grow up upon her cities and upon her strongholds: and it shall be lurking places for owls and a court of ostriches.

14 And demons shall meet with satyrs, and shall call one to another; there shall satyrs rest, for they have found them a resting-place.

15 There doth the hedgehog nest, and the earth keepeth her young in safety; there do the hinds meet, and see one ’s faces:.

16 By number come they, and not one of them perisheth; none seeketh another; for the Lord hath commanded them, and his spirit hath brought them together.

17 And he himself shall cast lots for them, and his hand divideth (for them) to feed; inherit it for ever; forgenerations of. ’ generations shall they rest thereon.

XXXV. 1 Be thou glad, O thirsting desert; let the wilder- ness rejoice, and blossom as a lily;

2 And the desolate places of Jordan shall blossom and rejoice: and the glory of Lebanon is given unto it, and the honour of Carmel; and my people shall see the glory of the Lord, and the exaltation of God.

3 Be strong, ye slackened hands, and feeble knees:

4 Give comfort, ye faint hearted; be strong, fear not; behold, our God will give a recompense of judgment, yea, will give; he himself will come and save us.

5 Then shall the eyes of the blind men be Opened, and the ears of deaf men shall bear.

6 Then shall a lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of stammerers shall be clear, for there hath broken out water in the wilderness, and a torrent in a thirsting land.

7 And the waterless land shall become pools, and into the; thirsting land shall come a fount of water; there shall be joy of birds, beds of reed and pools.

8 A pure way shall be there, and it shall be called a holy way, and (no unclean person shall pass by there, neither shall an unclean way be there; but the dispersed shall walk upon it, and they shall not err.

9 And no lion shall be there, nor shall any of the evil beasts gloetrignthereon, nor be found there; but ransomed shall walk therein,

10 And (those) gathered together because of the Lord; they shall return, and come to Zion with joy, and everlasting joy upon their head; for on their head (shall be) praise and triumph, and joy shall take hold upon them; fled away is pain, and grief, and sighing.

XXXVI. 1 And it came to pass, in the fourteenth year of the reign of Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of the Assyrians came up against the cities of Judah, that were strong, and took them.

2 And the king of the Assyrians sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, to king Hezekiah, with a great power; and he stood in the watercourse of the upper pool, in the way of the fuller's field.

3 And Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, the steward, went out to him, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder.

4 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of the Assyrians: why trustest thou?

5 Cometh there battle array in counsel, or in words of the lips? and now in whom dost thou trust, that thou resistest me?

6 Behold, thy trust is on this staff of reed, that is broken, upon - Egypt: whosoever leaneth upon it, it will go into his hand; so is Pharaoh king of Egypt, and all they that trust in him.

7 But if ye say, We trust in the Lord our God:

8 Now join ye with my lord, the king of the Assyrians, and I will give you two thousand horses, if ye shall be able to furnish men (to ride) upon them.

9 How, pray, can ye turn back the face of one governor? they are slaves ’ trust in the Egyptians, for horse and for horseman.

10 And now, are we come up without the Lord against this land, to war against it?

11 And Eliakim said unto him, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Speak unto thy servants in the Syrian tongue, for we understand (it); and speak not to us in the Jewish tongue; and why speakest thou in the ears of the men that sit upon the wall?

12. And Rabshakeh said to them, Hath my lord sent me to your lord, or to you, to speak these words; is it not to the men that sit on the wall, that they may eat dung and drink (their own) water with you together?

13 And Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a great voice in the Jewish tongue, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of the Assyrians;

14 Thus saith the king: Let not Hezekiah deceive you with words, which shall not be able to deliver you.

15 And let not Hezekiah say to you, God will deliver us, and. this city shall not be given up into the hand of the king of the Assyrians.

16 Hearken not to Hezekiah. Thus saith the king of the Assyrians, If ye will be blessed, come out to me, and ye shall eat everyone of his vine and his figs, and drink the water of your cistern;

17 Until I come and take you to a land, as (is) your own land, a land of corn and wine, and loaves, and vineyards.

18 Let not Hezekiah deceive you, saying, Your God will deliver us. Have the gods of the nations delivered each one his own land out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians?

19 Where is the god of Hamath and Arpad? and where is the god of the city of Sepharvaim? were they able to deliver Samaria out of my hand?

20 Which of the gods of all these nations delivered his land out of my hand? that God shall deliver Jerusalem out of my hand;

21 And they were silent, and none answered him a word, because the king had commanded that none should answer.

22 And Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, the steward, went in, and Shebna the scribe of the power, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, unto Hezekiah, with their clothes rent, and reported unto him the words of Rabshakeh.