Isaiah

^1:1The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

 ^1:2Hear, heavens,
      And listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken:

 I have nourished and brought up children,
      And they have rebelled against me.

 ^1:3The ox knows his owner,
      And the donkey his master's crib;
      But Israel doesn't know,
      My people don't consider.

 ^1:4Ah sinful nation,
      A people laden with iniquity,
      A seed of evil-doers,
      Children who deal corruptly!

 They have forsaken Yahweh.
      They have despised the Holy One of Israel.
      They are estranged and backward.

 ^1:5Why should you be beaten more,
      That you revolt more and more?

 The whole head is sick,
      And the whole heart faint.

 ^1:6From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it:
      Wounds, welts, and open sores.
      They haven't been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.

 ^1:7Your country is desolate.
      Your cities are burned with fire.
      Strangers devour your land in your presence,
      And it is desolate,
      As overthrown by strangers.

 ^1:8The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard,
      Like a hut in a field of melons,
      Like a besieged city.

 ^1:9Unless Yahweh of hosts had left to us a very small remnant,
      We would have been as Sodom;
      We would have been like Gomorrah.

 ^1:10Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom!
      Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

 ^1:11"What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says Yahweh.
      "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams,
      And the fat of fed animals.
      I don't delight in the blood of bulls,
      Or of lambs,
      Or of male goats.

 ^1:12When you come to appear before me,
      Who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

 ^1:13Bring no more vain offerings.
      Incense is an abomination to me;
      New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations:
      I can't bear with evil assemblies.

 ^1:14My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts;
      They are a burden to me.
      I am weary of bearing them.

 ^1:15When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you;
      Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear.
      Your hands are full of blood.

 ^1:16Wash yourselves, make yourself clean.
      Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes;
      Cease to do evil.

 ^1:17Learn to do well.
      Seek justice,
      Relieve the oppressed,
      Judge the fatherless,
      Plead for the widow."

 ^1:18"Come now, and let us reason together," says Yahweh:
      "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.
      Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

 ^1:19If you are willing and obedient,
      You shall eat the good of the land;
      ^1:20But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword;
      For the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it."

 ^1:21How the faithful city has become a prostitute!
      She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her,
      But now murderers.

 ^1:22Your silver has become dross,
      Your wine mixed with water.

 ^1:23Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves.
      Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards.
      They don't judge the fatherless,
      Neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

 ^1:24Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts,
      The Mighty One of Israel, says:

 "Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries,
      And avenge myself of my enemies;

 ^1:25And I will turn my hand on you,
      Thoroughly purge away your dross,
      And will take away all your tin.

 ^1:26I will restore your judges as at the first,
      And your counselors as at the beginning.

 Afterward you shall be called 'The city of righteousness,
      A faithful town.'

 ^1:27Zion shall be redeemed with justice,
      And her converts with righteousness.

 ^1:28But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together,
      And those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.

 ^1:29For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired,
      And you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.

 ^1:30For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades,
      And as a garden that has no water.

 ^1:31The strong will be like tinder,
      And his work like a spark.

 They will both burn together,
      And no one will quench them."

^2:1This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

 ^2:2It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh's house shall be established on the top of the mountains,
      And shall be raised above the hills;
      And all nations shall flow to it.

 ^2:3Many peoples shall go and say,
      "Come, let's go up to the mountain of Yahweh,
      To the house of the God of Jacob;
      And he will teach us of his ways,
      And we will walk in his paths.

 For out of Zion the law shall go forth,
      And the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.

 ^2:4He will judge between the nations,
      And will decide concerning many peoples;
      And they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
      And their spears into pruning-hooks.

 Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
      Neither shall they learn war any more.

 ^2:5House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.

 ^2:6For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob,
      Because they are filled from the east,
      With those who practice divination like the Philistines,
      And they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.

 ^2:7Their land is full of silver and gold,
      Neither is there any end of their treasures.

 Their land also is full of horses,
      Neither is there any end of their chariots.

 ^2:8Their land also is full of idols.
      They worship the work of their own hands,
      That which their own fingers have made.

 ^2:9Man is brought low,
      And mankind is humbled;
      Therefore don't forgive them.

 ^2:10Enter into the rock,
      And hide in the dust,

 From before the terror of Yahweh,
      And from the glory of his majesty.

 ^2:11The lofty looks of man will be brought low,
      The haughtiness of men will be bowed down,
      And Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

 ^2:12For there will be a day of Yahweh of Hosts for all that is proud and haughty,
      And for all that is lifted up;
      And it shall be brought low:
      ^2:13For all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up,
      For all the oaks of Bashan,
      ^2:14For all the high mountains,
      For all the hills that are lifted up,
      ^2:15For every lofty tower,
      For every fortified wall,
      ^2:16For all the ships of Tarshish,
      And for all pleasant imagery.

 ^2:17The loftiness of man shall be bowed down,
      And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low;
      And Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.

 ^2:18The idols shall utterly pass away.

 ^2:19Men shall go into the caves of the rocks,
      And into the holes of the earth,
      From before the terror of Yahweh,
      And from the glory of his majesty,
      When he arises to shake the earth mightily.

 ^2:20In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver,
      And their idols of gold,
      Which have been made for themselves to worship,
      To the moles and to the bats;
      ^2:21To go into the caverns of the rocks,
      And into the clefts of the ragged rocks,
      From before the terror of Yahweh,
      And from the glory of his majesty,
      When he arises to shake the earth mightily.

 ^2:22Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils;
      For of what account is he?

 ^3:1For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support,
      The whole supply of bread,
      And the whole supply of water;
      ^3:2The mighty man,
      The man of war,
      The judge,
      The prophet,
      The diviner,
      The elder,
      ^3:3The captain of fifty,
      The honorable man,
      The counselor,
      The skilled craftsman,
      And the clever enchanter.

 ^3:4I will give boys to be their princes,
      And children shall rule over them.

 ^3:5The people will be oppressed,
      Everyone by another,
      And everyone by his neighbor.

 The child will behave himself proudly against the old man,
      And the base against the honorable.

 ^3:6Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying,
      "You have clothing, you be our ruler,
      And let this ruin be under your hand."

 ^3:7In that day he will cry out, saying, I will not be a healer;
      For in my house is neither bread nor clothing.
      You shall not make me ruler of the people.

 ^3:8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen;
      Because their tongue and their doings are against Yahweh,

 To provoke the eyes of his glory.

 ^3:9The look of their faces testify against them.
      They parade their sin like Sodom.
      They don't hide it.
      Woe to their soul!
      For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

 ^3:10Tell the righteous "Good!"
      For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

 ^3:11Woe to the wicked!
      Disaster is upon them;
      For the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

 ^3:12As for my people, children are their oppressors,
      And women rule over them.
      My people, those who lead you cause you to err,
      And destroy the way of your paths.

 ^3:13Yahweh stands up to contend,
      And stands to judge the peoples.

 ^3:14Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people,
      And their leaders:
      "It is you who have eaten up the vineyard.
      The spoil of the poor is in your houses.
      ^3:15What do you mean that you crush my people,
      And grind the face of the poor?" says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.

 ^3:16Moreover Yahweh said, "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty,
      And walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes,
      Walking to trip as they go,
      Jingling ornaments on their feet;

 ^3:17Therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion,
      And Yahweh will make their scalps bald."

^3:18In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces, ^3:19the earrings, the bracelets, the veils, ^3:20the headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume bottles, the charms, ^3:21the signet rings, the nose rings, ^3:22the fine robes, the capes, the cloaks, the purses, ^3:23the hand-mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras, and the shawls.

 ^3:24It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness;
      Instead of a belt, a rope;
      Instead of well set hair, baldness;
      Instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth;
      And branding instead of beauty.

 ^3:25Your men shall fall by the sword,
      And your mighty in the war.

 ^3:26Her gates shall lament and mourn;
      And she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

^4:1Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: only let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach."

^4:2In that day, Yahweh's branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel. ^4:3It will happen, that he who is left in Zion, and he who remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem; ^4:4when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from its midst, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning. ^4:5Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy. ^4:6There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.

^5:1Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard.
      My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

 ^5:2He dug it up,
      Gathered out its stones,
      Planted it with the choicest vine,
      Built a tower in its midst,
      And also cut out a winepress therein.

 He looked for it to yield grapes,
      But it yielded wild grapes.

 ^5:3"Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,
      Please judge between me and my vineyard.

 ^5:4What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?
      Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

 ^5:5Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard.
      I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up.
      I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.

 ^5:6I will lay it a wasteland.
      It won't be pruned nor hoed,
      But it will grow briers and thorns.
      I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."

 ^5:7For the vineyard of Yahweh of Hosts is the house of Israel,
      And the men of Judah his pleasant plant:
      And he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression;
      For righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

 ^5:8Woe to those who join house to house,
      Who lay field to field, until there is no room,
      And you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

 ^5:9In my ears, Yahweh of Hosts says: "Surely many houses will be desolate,
      Even great and beautiful, unoccupied.

 ^5:10For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,
      And a homer of seed shall yield an ephah."

 ^5:11Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink;
      Who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

 ^5:12The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts;
      But they don't regard the work of Yahweh,
      Neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

 ^5:13Therefore my people have go into captivity for lack of knowledge;
      Their honorable men are famished,
      And their multitudes are parched with thirst.

 ^5:14Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire,
      And opened its mouth without measure;
      And their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

 ^5:15So man is brought low,
      Mankind is humbled,
      And the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;

 ^5:16But Yahweh of Hosts is exalted in justice,
      And God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

 ^5:17Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture,
      And strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.

 ^5:18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood,
      And wickedness as with cart rope;

 ^5:19Who say, "Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it;
      And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come,
      That we may know it!"

 ^5:20Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
      Who put darkness for light,
      And light for darkness;

 Who put bitter for sweet,
      And sweet for bitter!

 ^5:21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
      And prudent in their own sight!

 ^5:22Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine,
      And champions at mixing strong drink;

 ^5:23Who acquit the guilty for a bribe,
      But deny justice for the innocent!

 ^5:24Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
      And as the dry grass sinks down in the flame,
      So their root shall be as rottenness,
      And their blossom shall go up as dust;

 Because they have rejected Yaweh's law of Hosts,
      And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

 ^5:25Therefore Yahweh's anger burns against his people,
      And he has stretched out his hand against them, and has struck them.

 The mountains tremble,
      And their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets.

 For all this, his anger is not turned away,
      But his hand is still stretched out.

 ^5:26He will lift up a banner to the nations from far,
      And he will whistle for them from the end of the earth.
      Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.

 ^5:27None shall be weary nor stumble among them;
      None shall slumber nor sleep;
      Neither shall the belt of their loins be loosed,
      Nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

 ^5:28Whose arrows are sharp,
      And all their bows bent.

 Their horses' hoofs will be like flint,
      And their wheels like a whirlwind.

 ^5:29Their roaring will be like a lioness.
      They will roar like young lions.

 Yes, they shall roar,
      And seize their prey and carry it off,
      And there will be no one to deliver.

 ^5:30They will roar against thsem in that day like the roaring of the sea.
      If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress.
      The light is darkened in its clouds.

^6:1In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. ^6:2Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew. ^6:3One called to another, and said,

 "Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Hosts!
      The whole earth is full of his glory!"

^6:4The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. ^6:5Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Hosts!"

^6:6Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. ^6:7He touched my mouth with it, and said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven."

^6:8I heard the Lord's voice, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?"

Then I said, "Here I am. Send me!"

^6:9He said, "Go, and tell this people,

 'You hear indeed,
      But don't understand;

 And you see indeed,
      But don't perceive.'

 ^6:10Make the heart of this people fat;
      Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes;

 Lest they see with their eyes,
      And hear with their ears,
      And understand with their heart,
      And turn again, and be healed."

^6:11Then I said, "Lord, how long?"

He answered,

 "Until cities are waste without inhabitant,
      And houses without man,
      And the land becomes utterly waste,
      ^6:12And Yahweh has removed men far away,
      And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

 ^6:13If there are yet a tenth in it,
      It also shall in turn be eaten up:

 As a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains, when they are felled;
      So the holy seed is its stock."

^7:1It happened in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. ^7:2It was told the house of David, saying, "Syria is allied with Ephraim." His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind. ^7:3Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, "Go forth now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fuller's field; ^7:4and say to him, 'Take heed, and be quiet; don't be afraid, neither let your heart be faint, because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. ^7:5Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have purposed evil against you, saying, ^7:6"Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeel;" ^7:7thus says the Lord Yahweh, "It shall not stand, neither shall it happen." ^7:8For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years shall Ephraim be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people: ^7:9and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.'"

^7:10Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying, ^7:11Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. ^7:12But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt Yahweh. ^7:13He said, "Listen now, house of David: Is it a small thing for you to weary men, that you will weary my God also? ^7:14Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. ^7:15Butter and honey shall he eat, when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good. ^7:16For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken. ^7:17Yahweh will bring on you, and on your people, and on your father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah even the king of Assyria. ^7:18It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh will hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. ^7:19They shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the clefts of the rocks, and on all thorn-hedges, and on all pastures. ^7:20In that day will the Lord shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard. ^7:21It shall happen in that day, that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep; ^7:22and it shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall everyone eat that is left in the midst of the land. ^7:23It shall happen in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns. ^7:24With arrows and with bow shall one come there, because all the land shall be briers and thorns. ^7:25All the hills that were dug with the mattock, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep."

^8:1Yahweh said to me, Take a great tablet, and write on it with the pen of a man, For Maher Shalal Hash Baz; ^8:2and I will take to me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah. ^8:3I went to the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said Yahweh to me, Call his name Maher Shalal Hash Baz. ^8:4For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria. ^8:5Yahweh spoke to me yet again, saying, ^8:6Because this people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son; ^8:7now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up on them the waters of the River, strong and many, even the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks; ^8:8and it shall sweep onward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel. ^8:9Make an uproar, O you peoples, and be broken in pieces! And give ear, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces! Gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces! ^8:10Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us. ^8:11For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying, ^8:12Don't you say, "A conspiracy!" concerning all whereof this people shall say, "A conspiracy!" neither fear their fear, nor be in dread of it. ^8:13Yahweh of hosts, him shall you sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. ^8:14He shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ^8:15Many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. ^8:16Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. ^8:17I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. ^8:18Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Hosts, who dwells in Mount Zion. ^8:19When they shall tell you, "Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:" shouldn't a people consult with their God? on behalf of the living should they consult with the dead? ^8:20To the law and to the testimony! if they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them. ^8:21They shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall happen that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward: ^8:22and they shall look to the earth, and see, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness they shall be driven away.

^9:1But there shall be no gloom to her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time has he made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. ^9:2The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light: those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them has the light shined. ^9:3You have multiplied the nation, you have increased their joy: they joy before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. ^9:4For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian. ^9:5For all the armor of the armed man in the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall be for burning, for fuel of fire. ^9:6For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be on his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. ^9:7Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Hosts will perform this. ^9:8The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it has lighted on Israel. ^9:9All the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart, ^9:10The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycamores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place. ^9:11Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies, ^9:12the Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. ^9:13Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Hosts. ^9:14Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day. ^9:15The elder and the honorable man, he is the head; and the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail. ^9:16For those who lead this people cause them to err; and those who are led of them are destroyed. ^9:17Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. ^9:18For wickedness burns as the fire; it devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke. ^9:19Through the wrath of Yahweh of hosts is the land burnt up; and the people are as the fuel of fire: no man spares his brother. ^9:20One shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm: ^9:21Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

^10:1Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write perverseness; ^10:2to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey! ^10:3What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your glory? ^10:4They shall only bow down under the prisoners, and shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. ^10:5Ho Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation! ^10:6I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. ^10:7However he doesn't mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations. ^10:8For he says, Aren't my princes all of them kings? ^10:9Isn't Calno as Carchemish? Isn't Hamath as Arpad? Isn't Samaria as Damascus? ^10:10As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; ^10:11shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? ^10:12Therefore it shall happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. ^10:13For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and like a valiant man I have brought down those who sit on thrones: ^10:14and my hand has found as a nest the riches of the peoples; and as one gathers eggs that are forsaken, have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing, or that opened the mouth, or chirped. ^10:15Shall the axe boast itself against him who hews therewith? Shall the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? as if a rod should wield those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up him who is not wood. ^10:16Therefore will the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall be kindled a burning like the burning of fire. ^10:17The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day. ^10:18He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and it shall be as when a standard-bearer faints. ^10:19The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may write them. ^10:20It shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and those who are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. ^10:21A remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God. ^10:22For though your people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them shall return: a destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness. ^10:23For a full end, and that determined, will the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, make in the midst of all the earth. ^10:24Therefore thus says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, my people who dwell in Zion, don't be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt. ^10:25For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you shall be accomplished, and my anger shall be directed to his destruction. ^10:26Yahweh of Hosts will stir up against him a scourge, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up after the manner of Egypt. ^10:27It shall happen in that day, that his burden shall depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed by reason of fatness. ^10:28He is come to Aiath, he is passed through Migron; at Michmash he lays up his baggage; ^10:29they are gone over the pass; they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul is fled. ^10:30Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth! ^10:31Madmenah is a fugitive; the inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety. ^10:32This very day shall he halt at Nob: he shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. ^10:33Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, will lop the boughs with terror: and the high of stature shall be hewn down, and the lofty shall be brought low. ^10:34He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

^11:1There shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit. ^11:2The Spirit of Yahweh shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh. ^11:3His delight shall be in the fear of Yahweh; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears; ^11:4but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he kill the wicked. ^11:5Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins. ^11:6The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them. ^11:7The cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. ^11:8The sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den. ^11:9They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea. ^11:10It shall happen in that day, that the root of Jesse, who stands for an ensign of the peoples, to him shall the nations seek; and his resting-place shall be glorious. ^11:11It shall happen in that day, that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, who shall remain, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. ^11:12He will set up an ensign for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. ^11:13The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and those who vex Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. ^11:14They shall fly down on the shoulder of the Philistines on the west; together shall they despoil the children of the east: they shall put forth their hand on Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them. ^11:15Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind will he wave his hand over the River, and will strike it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals. ^11:16There shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, who shall remain, from Assyria; like as there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

^12:1In that day you will say, "I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me. ^12:2Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation." ^12:3Therefore with joy you shall draw water out of the wells of salvation. ^12:4In that day you will say, "Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted! ^12:5Sing to Yahweh, for he has done excellent things! Let this be known in all the earth! ^12:6Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for great in the midst of you is the Holy One of Israel!"

^13:1The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see. ^13:2Set up an ensign on the bare mountain, lift up the voice to them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. ^13:3I have commanded my consecrated ones, yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones. ^13:4The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people! the noise of a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Hosts is mustering the host for the battle. ^13:5They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. ^13:6Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come. ^13:7Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt: ^13:8and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces shall be faces of flame. ^13:9Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners of it out of it. ^13:10For the stars of the sky and the constellations of it shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine. ^13:11I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity: and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. ^13:12I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir. ^13:13Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, in the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. ^13:14It shall happen, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathers, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land. ^13:15Everyone who is found shall be thrust through; and everyone who is taken shall fall by the sword. ^13:16Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished. ^13:17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. ^13:18Their bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children. ^13:19Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. ^13:20It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be lived in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall shepherds make their flocks to lie down there. ^13:21But wild animals of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there. ^13:22Wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

^14:1For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the sojourner shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. ^14:2The peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of Yahweh for servants and for handmaids: and they shall take them captive whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. ^14:3It shall happen in the day that Yahweh shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve, ^14:4that you shall take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! ^14:5Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers; ^14:6who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained. ^14:7The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. ^14:8Yes, the fir trees rejoice at you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since you are laid low, no lumberjack is come up against us. ^14:9Sheol from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming; it stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. ^14:10All they shall answer and tell you, Are you also become weak as we? are you become like us? ^14:11Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and worms cover you. ^14:12How you are fallen from heaven, day-star, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low! ^14:13You said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit on the mountain of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north; ^14:14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High. ^14:15Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit. ^14:16Those who see you shall gaze at you, they shall consider you, saying, "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms; ^14:17who made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities of it; who didn't let loose his prisoners to their home?"

^14:18All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house. ^14:19But you are cast forth away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot. ^14:20You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, you have killed your people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named forever. ^14:21Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up, and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities. ^14:22I will rise up against them, says Yahweh of Hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son, says Yahweh. ^14:23I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says Yahweh of Hosts. ^14:24Yahweh of Hosts has sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: ^14:25that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and on my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulder. ^14:26This is the purpose that is purposed on the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out on all the nations. ^14:27For Yahweh of Hosts has purposed, and who shall annul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? ^14:28In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden. ^14:29Don't rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent's root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. ^14:30The firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant shall be killed. ^14:31Howl, gate; cry, city; you are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for there comes a smoke out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks. ^14:32What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his people take refuge.

^15:1The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing. ^15:2They are gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab wails over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off. ^15:3In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad places, everyone wails, weeping abundantly. ^15:4Heshbon cries out, and Elealeh; their voice is heard even to Jahaz: therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul trembles within him. ^15:5My heart cries out for Moab; her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction. ^15:6For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing. ^15:7Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away over the brook of the willows. ^15:8For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the wailing of it to Eglaim, and the wailing of it to Beer-elim. ^15:9For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more on Dimon, a lion on them of Moab that escape, and on the remnant of the land.

^16:1Send you the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion. ^16:2For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon. ^16:3Give counsel, execute justice; make your shade as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; don't betray the fugitive. ^16:4Let my outcasts dwell with you; as for Moab, be a covert to him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nothing, destruction ceases, the oppressors are consumed out of the land. ^16:5A throne shall be established in lovingkindness; and one shall sit thereon in truth, in the tent of David, judging, and seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness. ^16:6We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, and his pride, and his wrath; his boastings are nothing. ^16:7Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, everyone shall wail: for the raisin-cakes of Kir Hareseth shall you mourn, utterly stricken. ^16:8For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down the choice branches of it, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea. ^16:9Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout is fallen. ^16:10Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither joyful noise: nobody shall tread out wine in the presses; I have made the vintage shout to cease. ^16:11Why my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres. ^16:12It shall happen, when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and shall come to his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail. ^16:13This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time past. ^16:14But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and of no account.

^17:1The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. ^17:2The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. ^17:3The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria; they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, says Yahweh of Hosts. ^17:4It shall happen in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. ^17:5It shall be as when the harvester gathers the standing grain, and his arm reaps the ears; yes, it shall be as when one gleans ears in the valley of Rephaim. ^17:6Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost branches of a fruitful tree, says Yahweh, the God of Israel. ^17:7In that day shall men look to their Maker, and their eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. ^17:8They shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they have respect to that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images. ^17:9In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it shall be a desolation. ^17:10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength; therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set it with strange slips. ^17:11In the day of your planting you hedge it in, and in the morning you make your seed to blossom; but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. ^17:12Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters! ^17:13The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm. ^17:14At evening, behold, terror; and before the morning they are no more. This is the portion of those who despoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.

^18:1Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; ^18:2that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide! ^18:3All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, look; and when the trumpet is blown, listen. ^18:4For thus has Yahweh said to me, I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. ^18:5For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away and cut down. ^18:6They shall be left together to the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the animals of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer on them, and all the animals of the earth shall winter on them. ^18:7In that time shall a present be brought to Yahweh of Hosts from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of Hosts, Mount Zion.

^19:1The burden of Egypt. Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. ^19:2I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. ^19:3The spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel of it: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to those who have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. ^19:4I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts. ^19:5The waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry. ^19:6The rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away. ^19:7The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, shall become dry, be driven away, and be no more. ^19:8The fishermen shall lament, and all those who cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters shall languish. ^19:9Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, shall be confounded. ^19:10The pillars of Egypt shall be broken in pieces; all those who work for hire shall be grieved in soul. ^19:11The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? ^19:12Where then are your wise men? and let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Hosts has purposed concerning Egypt. ^19:13The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Memphis are deceived; they have caused Egypt to go astray, who are the corner-stone of her tribes. ^19:14Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work of it, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit. ^19:15Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do. ^19:16In that day shall the Egyptians be like women; and they shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Yahweh of Hosts, which he shakes over them. ^19:17The land of Judah shall become a terror to Egypt; everyone to whom mention is made of it shall be afraid, because of the purpose of Yahweh of Hosts, which he purposes against it. ^19:18In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of hosts; one shall be called The city of destruction. ^19:19In that day shall there be an altar to Yahweh in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border of it to Yahweh. ^19:20It shall be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of Hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry to Yahweh because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior, and a defender, and he will deliver them. ^19:21Yahweh shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know Yahweh in that day; yes, they shall worship with sacrifice and offering, and shall vow a vow to Yahweh, and shall perform it. ^19:22Yahweh will strike Egypt, smiting and healing; and they shall return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated of them, and will heal them. ^19:23In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians shall worship with the Assyrians. ^19:24In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth; ^19:25because Yahweh of Hosts has blessed them, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.

^20:1In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it; ^20:2at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off your loins, and put your shoe from off your foot. He did so, walking naked and barefoot. ^20:3Yahweh said, Like as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia; ^20:4so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. ^20:5They shall be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. ^20:6The inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and we, how shall we escape?

^21:1The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land. ^21:2A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; besiege, Media; all the sighing of it have I made to cease. ^21:3Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold on me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I can't hear; I am dismayed so that I can't see. ^21:4My heart flutters, horror has frightened me; the twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me. ^21:5They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, you princes, anoint the shield. ^21:6For thus has the Lord said to me, Go, set a watchman: let him declare what he sees: ^21:7and when he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with much heed. ^21:8He cried as a lion: Lord, I stand continually on the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole nights; ^21:9and, behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. He answered, Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground. ^21:10You my threshing, and the grain of my floor! that which I have heard from Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared to you. ^21:11The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? ^21:12The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again."

^21:13The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall you lodge, you caravans of Dedanites. ^21:14To him who was thirsty they brought water; the inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitives with their bread. ^21:15For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle. ^21:16For thus has the Lord said to me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail; ^21:17and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it.

^22:1The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops? ^22:2You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle. ^22:3All your rulers fled away together, they were bound by the archers; all who were found of you were bound together; they fled afar off. ^22:4Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; don't labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people. ^22:5For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains. ^22:6Elam bore the quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield. ^22:7It happened that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate. ^22:8He took away the covering of Judah; and you did look in that day to the armor in the house of the forest. ^22:9You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool; ^22:10and you numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall; ^22:11you made also a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn't look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who purposed it long ago. ^22:12In that day did the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: ^22:13and behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die. ^22:14Yahweh of Hosts revealed himself in my ears, Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you until you die, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts. ^22:15Thus says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say, ^22:16"What are you doing here? and who has you here, that you have hewed out a tomb here? Cutting him out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!" ^22:17Behold, Yahweh, like a strong man, will hurl you away violently; yes, he will wrap you up closely. ^22:18He will surely wind you round and round, and toss you like a ball into a large country; there shall you die, and there shall be the chariots of your glory, you shame of your lord's house. ^22:19I will thrust you from your office; and from your station shall you be pulled down. ^22:20It shall happen in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: ^22:21and I will cloth him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt, and I will commit your government into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. ^22:22The key of the house of David will I lay on his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. ^22:23I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a throne of glory to his father's house. ^22:24They shall hang on him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers. ^22:25In that day, says Yahweh of hosts, shall the nail that was fastened in a sure place give way; and it shall be hewn down, and fall; and the burden that was on it shall be cut off; for Yahweh has spoken it.

^23:1The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Kittim it is revealed to them. ^23:2Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. ^23:3On great waters the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the market of nations. ^23:4Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins. ^23:5When the report comes to Egypt, they shall be sorely pained at the report of Tyre. ^23:6Pass over to Tarshish; wail, you inhabitants of the coast. ^23:7Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her afar off to sojourn? ^23:8Who has purposed this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth? ^23:9Yahweh of hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth. ^23:10Pass through your land as the Nile, daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint any more. ^23:11He has stretched out his hand over the sea, he has shaken the kingdoms: Yahweh has given commandment concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds of it. ^23:12He said, You shall no more rejoice, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon: arise, pass over to Kittim; even there shall you have no rest. ^23:13Behold, the land of the Chaldeans: this people was not; the Assyrian founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness; they set up their towers; they overthrew the palaces of it; they made it a ruin. ^23:14Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for your stronghold is laid waste. ^23:15It 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 it shall be to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute. ^23:16Take a harp, go about the city, you prostitute that has been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that you may be remembered. ^23:17It shall happen after the end of seventy years, that Yahweh will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth. ^23:18Her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to Yahweh: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

^24:1Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants of it. ^24:2It shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him. ^24:3The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word. ^24:4The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the lofty people of the earth do languish. ^24:5The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants of it; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant. ^24:6Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. ^24:7The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh. ^24:8The mirth of tambourines ceases, the noise of those who rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases. ^24:9They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it. ^24:10The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in. ^24:11There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. ^24:12In the city is left desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction. ^24:13For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done. ^24:14These shall lift up their voice, they shall shout; for the majesty of Yahweh they cry aloud from the sea. ^24:15Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the isles of the sea! ^24:16From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs: Glory to the righteous. But I said, I pine away, I pine away, woe is me! the treacherous have dealt treacherously; yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously. ^24:17Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are on you, O inhabitant of the earth. ^24:18It shall happen, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble. ^24:19The earth is utterly broken, the earth is torn apart, the earth is shaken violently. ^24:20The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway back and forth like a hammock; and the disobedience of it shall be heavy on it, and it shall fall, and not rise again. ^24:21It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth. ^24:22They shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited. ^24:23Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders shall be glory.

^25:1Yahweh, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things, even counsels of old, in faithfulness and truth. ^25:2For you have made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. ^25:3Therefore shall a strong people glorify you; a city of awesome nations shall fear you. ^25:4For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the awesome ones is as a storm against the wall. ^25:5As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the awesome ones shall be brought low. ^25:6In this mountain will Yahweh of Hosts make to all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. ^25:7He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations. ^25:8He has swallowed up death forever; and the Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Yahweh has spoken it. ^25:9It shall be said in that day, Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is Yahweh; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. ^25:10For in this mountain will the hand of Yahweh rest; and Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in the water of the dung-hill. ^25:11He shall spread forth his hands in the midst of it, as he who swims spreads forth his hands to swim; but Yahweh will lay low his pride together with the craft of his hands. ^25:12The high fortress of your walls has he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

^26:1In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: we have a strong city; salvation will he appoint for walls and bulwarks. ^26:2Open you the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith may enter in. ^26:3You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you; because he trusts in you. ^26:4Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock. ^26:5For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city: he lays it low, he lays it low even to the ground; he brings it even to the dust. ^26:6The foot shall tread it down; even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy. ^26:7The way of the just is uprightness: you that are upright do direct the path of the just. ^26:8Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you; to your name, even to your memorial name, is the desire of our soul. ^26:9With my soul have I desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. ^26:10Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal wrongfully, and will not see the majesty of Yahweh. ^26:11Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see: but they shall see your zeal for the people, and be put to shame; yes, fire shall devour your adversaries. ^26:12Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us; for you have also worked all our works for us. ^26:13Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us; but by you only will we make mention of your name. ^26:14They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and made all memory of them to perish. ^26:15You have increased the nation, O Yahweh, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land. ^26:16Yahweh, in trouble have they visited you; they poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them. ^26:17Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so we have been before you, Yahweh. ^26:18We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. ^26:19Your dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead. ^26:20Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation be past. ^26:21For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

^27:1In that day Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will kill the monster that is in the sea. ^27:2In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing you to it. ^27:3I Yahweh am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. ^27:4Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march on them, I would burn them together. ^27:5Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; yes, let him make peace with me. ^27:6In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the surface of the world with fruit. ^27:7Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by them? ^27:8In measure, when you send them away, you do contend with them; he has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind. ^27:9Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in sunder, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more. ^27:10For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches of it. ^27:11When the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor. ^27:12It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh will beat off his fruit from the flood of the River to the brook of Egypt; and you shall be gathered one by one, you children of Israel. ^27:13It shall happen in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

^28:1Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of those who are overcome with wine! ^28:2Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one; as a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, will he cast down to the earth with the hand. ^28:3The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot: ^28:4and the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the first-ripe fig before the summer; which when he who looks on it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up. ^28:5In that day will Yahweh of Hosts become a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the residue of his people; ^28:6and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate. ^28:7Even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. ^28:8For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. ^28:9Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? ^28:10For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little. ^28:11No, but by men of strange lips and with another language will he speak to this people;