Isaias

8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?

9 Is not Calno as Carchemish, or Hamath as Arpad, or Samaria as Damascus?

10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the false— and their images were more than Jerusalem and— rr Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her false gods, so do to Jerusalem and her offences?

12 And it shall be, when the Lord hath finished his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will visit upon the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glorying of his loftiness of eyes.

13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I (can) discern: and I have removed the bounds of peoples, and robbed their treasures, and brought down, like a mighty one, them that ’enthroned:

14 And my hand hath reached, as a nest, the riches of the peoples; and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there. was none that fluttered a wing, or opened a mouth, or peeped.

15 Shall the axe glory against him that heweth therewith? Shall the saw magnify itself against him that plieth it? as if a rod should ply them that lift it up, as if a staff should lift up what is not wood.

16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall burn a burning like the burning of fire.

17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his garden-land, from soul and even to. flesh; and it shall be as when a sick ’man pinetb away.

19 And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, and a child may write them.

20 And it shall be in that day, the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean upon him that smote them; but shall lean upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

21 The remnant shall return, the remnant of Jacob, unto the Mighty God.