Isaias

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.