The Leeser Bible
1853 by Isaac Leeser
Isa 1:1 ¶ The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of ‘Uzziyahu, Jotham, Achaz, and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah.
Isa 1:2 ¶ Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord hath spoken: Children have I nourished and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.
Isa 1:3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Isa 1:4 Woe! sinful nation, people laden with iniquity, seed of evil–doers, children that are corrupt: they have forsaken the Lord, they have incensed the Holy One of Israel, they are departed backward.
Isa 1:5 Why will ye be stricken yet more? [that] ye increase the revolt? every head is sick, and every heart is faint.
Isa 1:6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor mollified with oil.
Isa 1:7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire; your soil––in your presence, strangers devour it, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Isa 1:8 And left is the daughter of Zion as a hut in a vineyard, as a lodge in a cucumber field, as a besieged city.
Isa 1:9 Unless the Lord of hosts had left unto us a remnant ever so small, like Sodom should we have been, unto Gomorrah should we have been compared.
Isa 1:10 ¶ Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom: give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Isa 1:11 For what serveth me the multitude of your sacrifices? saith the Lord: I am sated with the burnt–offerings of rams, and the fat of fatted beasts; and the blood of bullocks, and of sheep, and of he–goats, I do not desire.
Isa 1:12 When ye come to appear in my presence––who hath required this at your hand, to tread down my courts?
Isa 1:13 Continue no more to bring an oblation of deceit; incense of abomination is it unto me: new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies––I cannot bear misdeed with festive gathering.
Isa 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are become a burden unto me; I am weary to bear them,
Isa 1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will withdraw my eyes from you; yea, when ye make ever so many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Isa 1:16 ¶ Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil;
Isa 1:17 Learn to do well; seek for justice, relieve the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Isa 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins should be as scarlet, they shall become white as the snow; though they should be red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
Isa 1:19 If ye be willing and obey, the best of the land shall ye eat;
Isa 1:20 But if ye refuse and rebel, by the sword shall ye be devoured; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Isa 1:21 ¶ How is she become a harlot, the faithful town! she, that was full of justice; righteousness lodged therein; but now murderers.
Isa 1:22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine is drugged with water;
Isa 1:23 Thy princes are rebels, and companions of thieves; every one loveth brides, and runneth after rewards; to the fatherless they will not do justice, and the cause of the widow doth not come unto them.
Isa 1:24 Therefore saith the Lord, the Eternal of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will take satisfaction on my adversaries, and be avenged on my enemies.
Isa 1:25 And I will turn my hand against thee, and purge away as with lye thy dross, and remove all thy tin:
Isa 1:26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning; after that shalt thou be called, The city of righteousness, the town that is faithful.
Isa 1:27 Zion shall be redeemed through justice, and her converts through righteousness.
Isa 1:28 But destruction shall come over transgressors and sinners together, and those that forsake the Lord shall perish.
Isa 1:29 For people shall be ashamed because of the terebinths which ye had desired, and ye shall be put to the blush because of the gardens that ye had chosen.
Isa 1:30 For ye shall be as a terebinth the leaves of which wither, and as a garden that hath no water.
Isa 1:31 And the mighty oppressor shall become as tow, and his workman as a spark; and they shall both burn together, with none to quench.
Isa 2:1 ¶ The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz foresaw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
Isa 2:2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be firmly established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and unto it shall flow all the nations.
Isa 2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us of his ways, and we may walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem.
Isa 2:4 And he will judge among the nations, and decide for many people; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning–knives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, and they shall not learn any more war.
Isa 2:5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.
Isa 2:6 ¶ For thou hast abandoned thy people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of [witchcraft] more than the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and with the children of strangers they unite themselves.
Isa 2:7 And full became their land of silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; and full became their land of horses, and there is no end to their chariots;
Isa 2:8 And full became their land of idols; to the work of their own hands they bow themselves, to what their own fingers have made.
Isa 2:9 And so is bent down the son of earth, and humbled the man; and thou wilt not forgive them.
Isa 2:10 ¶ Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, because of the dread of the Lord, and because of the glory of his majesty.
Isa 2:11 The looks of human pride shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bent down: and exalted shall be the Lord alone on that day.
Isa 2:12 For there is a day [of judgment] unto the Lord of hosts over every proud and lofty one; and over every exalted one, that he be brought low;
Isa 2:13 And over all the cedars of the Lebanon, the high and exalted, and over all the oaks of Bashan;
Isa 2:14 And over all the high mountains, and over all the exalted hills;
Isa 2:15 And over every high tower, and over every fortified wall;
Isa 2:16 And over all the ships of Tharshish; and over all desirable palaces.
Isa 2:17 And the pride of man shall be bent down, and the haughtiness of men shall be humbled: and exalted shall be the Lord alone on that day.
Isa 2:18 And the idols will he utterly abolish.
Isa 2:19 And men shall enter into the caverns of rocks, and into the rifts of the earth, because of the dread of the Lord, and because of the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to terrify the earth.
Isa 2:20 On that day shall a man cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which have been made for him to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Isa 2:21 To enter into the clefts of the rocks, and into the hollows of the cliffs, because of the dread of the Lord, and because of the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to terrify the earth.
Isa 2:22 Withdraw yourselves [then] from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; because, for what is he to be esteemed?
Isa 3:1 ¶ For, behold, the Lord, the Eternal of hosts, doth remove from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, every stay of bread, and every stay of water.
Isa 3:2 The hero, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
Isa 3:3 The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counsellor, and the skilful artificer, and the eloquent orator.
Isa 3:4 And I will set up boys as their princes, and children shall rule over them.
Isa 3:5 And so shall the people press man against man, and one against the other: the boy shall demean himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honorable.
Isa 3:6 When a man will seize hold on his brother in the house of his father, [saying,] Thou hast a garment, thou shalt be our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:
Isa 3:7 He will swear on that day, saying, I will not be a chief; and in my house is neither bread nor clothing; you shall not appoint me a ruler of the people.
Isa 3:8 For Jerusalem is sunk to decay, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to incense the eyes of his glory.
Isa 3:9 ¶ The boldness of their face testifieth against them; and like Sodom they tell openly their sin, they conceal it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have prepared evil unto themselves.
Isa 3:10 Say ye to the righteous, that he hath done well; for the fruit of their doings shall they eat.
Isa 3:11 Woe unto the wicked who doeth evil; for the recompense of his hands shall be bestowed on him.
Isa 3:12 My people! their oppressors are children, and women rule over them. O my people! thy leaders cause thee to err, and the direction of thy paths they corrupt.
Isa 3:13 The Lord is stepped forth to plead, and standeth up to judge the people.
Isa 3:14 The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and their princes; but ye––ye have eaten up the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
Isa 3:15 What mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind down the faces of the poor? saith the Lord the Eternal of hosts.
Isa 3:16 ¶ And the Lord said, Forasmuch as the daughters of Zion are proud, and walk with stretched forth necks and casting about their eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
Isa 3:17 Therefore will the Lord smite with leprosy the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will lay open their nakedness.
Isa 3:18 On that day will the Lord take away the beauty of their tinkling shoe–buckles, and the hair–nets, and the crescent–shaped ornaments,
Isa 3:19 The drops, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
Isa 3:20 The bonnets, and the foot–chains, and the head–bands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
Isa 3:21 The finger–rings, and nose–jewels,
Isa 3:22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the shawls, and the pockets.
Isa 3:23 The mirrors, and the chemisettes, and the turbans, and the long vails.
Isa 3:24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be corruption; and instead of a girdle a rope; and instead of curled hair baldness; and instead of a wide garment a girding of sackcloth, a mark of burning instead of beauty.
Isa 3:25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty ones in the war.
Isa 3:26 And then shall her gates lament and mourn; and stript of all shall she sit upon the ground.
Isa 4:1 ¶ And seven women shall take hold of one man on that day, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, take but away our reproach.
Isa 4:2 ¶ On that day shall the sprout of the Lord be for ornament and for honor, and the fruit of the land for excellence and for glory for the escaped of Israel.
Isa 4:3 And it shall come to pass, that whoever is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, every one that is written down unto life in Jerusalem:
Isa 4:4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have scoured away the blood–guiltiness of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of destruction.
Isa 4:5 And then will the Lord create upon every dwelling of mount Zion, and upon her places of assembly, a cloud and smoke by day, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory shall be a covering.
Isa 4:6 And a tabernacle shall it be for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge, and for a covert from tempest and from rain.
Isa 5:1 ¶ I will sing now for my beloved, the song of my dear one touching his vineyard. A vineyard had my beloved on a rich hill–top;
Isa 5:2 And he fenced it in, and cleared it of stones, and planted it with the choicest vines, and built a tower in its midst, and also a winepress he hewed out therein: and he hoped that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth worthless fruit.
Isa 5:3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.
Isa 5:4 What more was to be done to my vineyard, that I had not done in it? Why then did I hope that it should bring forth grapes, while it brought forth worthless fruit?
Isa 5:5 And now I will let you know also what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten off; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden down;
Isa 5:6 And I will lay it quite waste; it shall not be pruned, nor hoed around; and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns; and the clouds will I command that they send down no rain upon it.
Isa 5:7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he hoped for justice, but behold injustice; for equity, but behold iniquity.
Isa 5:8 ¶ Woe unto those that cause house to join on house, bring field near to field, till there is no more room, so that ye may be left alone as the inhabitants in the midst of the land!
Isa 5:9 In my ears [spoke] the Lord of hosts, Truly many houses shall become desolate, yea, great and beautiful ones without an inhabitant.
Isa 5:10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield [but] one bath, and a chomer–seed shall yield [but] an ephah.
Isa 5:11 Woe unto those that rise up early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink; that continue until late in the twilight, till wine inflame them!
Isa 5:12 And there are harp and psaltery, tambourine and flute, and wine at their drinking–feasts; but the deeds of the Lord they regard not, and the works of his hands they behold not.
Isa 5:13 Therefore are my people led into exile, for want of knowledge: and their honorable men suffer of famine, and their multitude are panting with thirst.
Isa 5:14 Therefore hath the deep enlarged her desire, and opened her mouth without measure: and there descend [Jerusalem’s] glory, and her multitude, and her noise, and whoever rejoiced therein.
Isa 5:15 And bent down shall be the son of earth, and humbled shall be the man, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled;
Isa 5:16 And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be sanctified by [displaying his] righteousness.
Isa 5:17 Then shall the sheep feed according to their wont, and the ruins of the fat ones shall sojourners eat.
Isa 5:18 ¶ Woe unto those that draw iniquity with the cords of falsehood, and as with a wagon–rope, sinfulness;
Isa 5:19 That say, Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it: and let draw nigh and come the counsel of the Holy One of Israel, that we may know it!
Isa 5:20 Woe unto those that say of the evil it is good, and of the good it is evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Isa 5:21 Woe unto those that are wise in their own eyes, and intelligent in their own esteem!
Isa 5:22 Woe unto those that are heroes to drink wine, and men of might to mingle strong drink;
Isa 5:23 Who justify the wicked in lieu of a bribe, and who deprive the righteous of their right!
Isa 5:24 Therefore as the tongue of the fire devoureth the stubble, and dry hay sinketh before the flame: so shall their root be as rotten things, and their blossom shall fly up as the dust; because they have despised the law of the Lord of hosts, and the word of the Holy One of Israel they have rejected.
Isa 5:25 For this cause is kindled the anger of the Lord against his people, and he stretcheth forth his hand against them, and he smiteth them; and the mountains tremble, and their carcasses lie like sweepings in the midst of the streets: with all this his anger is not turned away, but still is his hand stretched out.
Isa 5:26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from afar, and will call for one of them from the end of the earth; and, behold, with speed, swiftly, it cometh;
Isa 5:27 There is none weary, nor stumbling among its men; it slumbereth not, it sleepeth not; not loosened is the girdle of its loins, not broken is the latchet of its shoes;
Isa 5:28 Whose arrows are sharpened, and all whose bows are bent; its horses hoofs are hard like the flint, and its wheels like the whirlwind;
Isa 5:29 It hath a roar like the lioness, it roareth like the young lions: yea, it growleth, and layeth hold of the prey, and carrieth it safely off, with none to deliver.
Isa 5:30 And it will rage against them on that day like with the raging of the sea: and if one look unto the earth, behold, there is darkness, oppression, and the light is darkened through the darkness of its clouds.
Isa 6:1 ¶ In the year of king ‘Uzziyahu’s death I saw the Lord sitting upon a high and exalted throne, and his train filled the temple.
Isa 6:2 Seraphim were standing around him, each one had six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two did he fly.
Isa 6:3 And one called unto the other, and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.
Isa 6:4 And the posts of the threshold shook at the voice of those that called aloud, and the house was filled with smoke.
Isa 6:5 ¶ And I said, Woe is me! for I am lost; because a man of unclean lips am I, and in the midst of a people of unclean lips do I dwell; for the King, the Lord of hosts have my eyes seen.
Isa 6:6 Then flew unto me one of the seraphim, and in his hand was a live coal, with the tongs had he taken it from off the altar:
Isa 6:7 And he touched therewith upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thy iniquity is departed, and thy sin is forgiven.
Isa 6:8 And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? And I said, Here am I: send me.
Isa 6:9 ¶ And he said, Go, and say unto this people, Hear indeed, but understand not; and see indeed, but know not.
Isa 6:10 Obdurate will remain the heart of this people, and their ears will be heavy, and their eyes will be shut: so that they will not see with their eyes, nor hear with their ears, nor their hearts be understanding, so that they be converted, and healing be granted them.
Isa 6:11 And I said, How long, O Lord? And he said, Until that cities be left waste without an inhabitant, and houses without man, and the soil be made desolate as a wilderness,
Isa 6:12 And the Lord will have removed far away the men, and the depopulation be great in the midst of the land.
Isa 6:13 And should a tenth part thereof yet remain, it will again be swept away: [yet] like the terebinth and the oak, which, when they cast their leaves, retain their stems, so remaineth the holy seed, its stem.
Isa 7:1 ¶ And it came to pass in the days of Achaz the son of Jotham, the son of ‘Uzziyahu, the king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekach the son of Remalyahu, the king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it; but were not able to make an attack upon it.
Isa 7:2 And it was told unto the house of David, saying, Syria is encamped with Ephraim; and his heart trembled, with the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest are shaken before the wind.
Isa 7:3 And the Lord said unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Achaz, thou with Shear–yashub thy son, to the end of the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the highway of the washer’s field;
Isa 7:4 And thou shalt say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, and let thy heart not become faint because of these two stumps of smoking firebrands, before the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remalyahu.
Isa 7:5 Forasmuch as Syria, [with] Ephraim and the son of Remalyahu, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
Isa 7:6 Let us go up against Judah, and besiege it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set up as king in the midst of it the son of Tabeal:
Isa 7:7 Thus hath said the Lord Eternal, It shall not succeed, and it shall not come to pass.
Isa 7:8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin: and within sixty and five years shall Ephraim be broken, to be no more a people.
Isa 7:9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remalyahu’s son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not have permanence.
Isa 7:10 ¶ And the Lord continued to speak unto Achaz, saying,
Isa 7:11 Ask thee a sign from the Lord thy God; ask it in the depth, or high up above.
Isa 7:12 But Achaz said, I will not ask, and I will not tempt the Lord.
Isa 7:13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that ye will weary also my God?
Isa 7:14 Therefore will the Lord himself give you a sign: behold, this young woman shall conceive, and bear a son, and she shall call his name ‘Immanu–el, [God with us].
Isa 7:15 Cream and honey shall he eat, so soon as he knoweth to refuse the evil, and to choose the good.
Isa 7:16 For before yet the child shall know to refuse the evil, and to choose the good, shall be forsaken the land, of the kings of which thou feelest dread.
Isa 7:17 ¶ The Lord will bring over thee, and over thy people, and over thy father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim withdrew from Judah,––the king of Assyria.
Isa 7:18 And it shall come to pass on that day, that the Lord will call for the fly that is in the uttermost end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
Isa 7:19 And they shall come, and shall encamp, all of them, in the desolate valleys, and in the clefts of the rocks, and upon all thorn–hedges, and upon all bushes.
Isa 7:20 On the same day will the Lord shave with the razor that is hired, from among those on the other side of the river, with the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and also the beard shall it entirely remove.
Isa 7:21 And it shall come to pass on that day, that a man shall nourish [but] one young cow, and two sheep;
Isa 7:22 And it shall happen, that for the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat cream; for cream and honey shall eat every one that is left in the midst of the land.
Isa 7:23 And it shall come to pass on that day, that every place, where there are [now] a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, shall be,––yea, this shall be [given up] to briers and thorns.
Isa 7:24 With arrows and with bows shall men enter thither; because all the land shall become [covered with] briers and thorns.
Isa 7:25 And all mountains that are worked with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: and they shall serve for the pasture of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.
Isa 8:1 ¶ And the Lord said unto me, Take thyself a large table, and write on it with distinct letters, Lemaher–shalal–chash–bas.
Isa 8:2 And I was to summon for myself trustworthy witnesses, Uriyah the priest, and Zecharyahu the son of Yeberechyahu.
Isa 8:3 And I came near unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said the Lord to me, Call his name Maher–shalal–chash–bas.
Isa 8:4 For before yet the boy shall know to call, My father, and my mother, the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria.
Isa 8:5 And the Lord continued to speak unto me again, saying,
Isa 8:6 Forasmuch as this people despiseth the waters of Shiloach that flow softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remalyahu’s son:
Isa 8:7 Yea therefore behold, the Lord bringeth up over them the strong and many waters of the river,––the king of Assyria, and all his glory; and he shall come up over all his channels, and step over all his banks;
Isa 8:8 And he shall penetrate into Judah, overflow and flood over, even to the neck shall he reach; and his outstretched wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O ‘Immanu–el.
Isa 8:9 ¶ Associate yourselves, O ye people, yet shall ye be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of the far portions of the earth: gird yourselves, yet shall ye be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, yet shall ye be broken in pieces.
Isa 8:10 Take counsel together, yet shall it come to naught; speak the word, and it shall not stand firm; for with us is God.
Isa 8:11 For thus said the Lord to me with the strength of prophecy, and warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
Isa 8:12 Call ye not a conspiracy all that this people may call a conspiracy, and what it feareth shall ye not fear, and be not terrified [thereat].
Isa 8:13 The Lord of hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your terror.
Isa 8:14 And he will be for a sanctuary; but also for a stone of stumbling and for a rock to fall over unto both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Isa 8:15 And many shall stumble over them, and fall, and be broken, and snared, and be caught.
Isa 8:16 ¶ Bind up the testimony, seal up the law among my disciples.
Isa 8:17 And I will wait for the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope for him.
Isa 8:18 Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for tokens in Israel, from the Lord of hosts who dwelleth on mount Zion.
Isa 8:19 And when they shall say unto you, "Inquire of those that have familiar spirits, and of the wizards, that whisper, and that mutter:" should not a people inquire of their God? [should we then] in behalf of the living [inquire] of the dead?
Isa 8:20 [Hold] to the law and to the testimony: if they are not to speak according to this word, in which there is no light.
Isa 8:21 And the [people] shall pass through [the land], hard oppressed and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they will become enraged, and curse their king and their god, and turn toward on high [for aid].
Isa 8:22 And they will look unto the earth; and behold there are trouble and darkness, dimness of oppression, and they shall be scattered into obscurity.
Isa 9:1 (8:23) ¶ For no fatigue [befalleth] him that oppresseth it; in the first time he made light of the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali, and at the last he will deal hard, with the way by the sea, on the other side of the Jordan, [up to] the Galilee of the nations.
Isa 9:2 (9:1) The people that walk in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death––a light shineth brightly over them.
Isa 9:3 (9:2) Thou hast multiplied the nation, made great their joy: they rejoice before thee as with the joy in harvest, as men are glad when they divide the spoil.
Isa 9:4 (9:3) For the yoke of their burden, and the staff on their shoulder, the rod of their oppressor, hast thou broken, as on the day of Midian.
Isa 9:5 (9:4) For all the weapons of the fighter in the battle’s tumult, and the garment rolled in blood, shall be burnt, become food for fire.
Isa 9:6 (9:5) For a child is born unto us, a son hath been given unto us, and the government is placed on his shoulders; and his name is called, Wonderful, counsellor of the mighty God, of the everlasting Father, the prince of peace,
Isa 9:7 (9:6) For [promoting] the increase of the government, and for peace without end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to establish it and to support it through justice and righteousness, from henceforth and unto eternity: the zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
Isa 9:8 (9:7) ¶ A word hath the Lord sent against Jacob, and it hath alighted upon Israel.
Isa 9:9 (9:8) And experience it shall all the people together, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria; because they say, in the pride and haughtiness of heart,
Isa 9:10 (9:9) "The bricks are fallen down, but with hewn stones will we re–build: the sycamores are cut down, but with cedars will we replace them."
Isa 9:11 (9:10) Therefore will the Lord strengthen the adversaries of Rezin above him, and will stir up his enemies;
Isa 9:12 (9:11) The Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with a full mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand still remaineth stretched out.
Isa 9:13 (9:12) And the people return not unto him that smiteth them, and the Lord of hosts do they not seek.
Isa 9:14 (9:13) And the Lord cutteth off from Israel head and tail, palm–branch and rush, on one day.
Isa 9:15 (9:14) The ancient and honorable is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies is the tail.
Isa 9:16 (9:15) And the guides of this people are those that guide to error; and those that are led of them are misled.
Isa 9:17 (9:16) Therefore will the Lord have no joy in their young men, and on their fatherless and widows will he have no mercy; for every one is a hypocrite and an evil–doer, and every mouth speaketh scandalous words. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand still remaineth stretched out.
Isa 9:18 (9:17) For wickedness burneth like the fire; it shall devour the briers and thorns: and it shall kindle [a flame] in the thickets of the forest, and they shall be shrouded by the wreaths of smoke.
Isa 9:19 (9:18) Through the fury of the Lord of hosts is the land scorched, and the people have become as food for the fire; no man will spare his brother.
Isa 9:20 (9:19) And he snatcheth on the right hand, and is [yet] hungry; and he eateth on the left hand, and are not [yet] satisfied; they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
Isa 9:21 (9:20) Menasseh [against] Ephraim: and Ephraim [against] Menasseh; and they together against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand still remaineth stretched out.
Isa 10:1 ¶ Woe unto those that decree decrees of unrighteousness, and the writers who write down wrongful things;
Isa 10:2 To turn aside from judgment the needy, and to rob the just due of the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and [that] they may plunder the fatherless!
Isa 10:3 And what will ye do on the day of the visitation, and at the desolation which will come from afar? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
Isa 10:4 Without me they shall kneel down under the prisoners, and under the slain shall they fall. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand still remaineth stretched out.
Isa 10:5 ¶ Woe over Asshur, the rod of my anger; and a staff is in their hand my indignation.
Isa 10:6 Against a hypocritical nation will I send him, and against the people of my fury will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to carry off the prey, and to render them trodden down like the mire of the streets.
Isa 10:7 But he deemeth it not so, and his heart doth not think so; but to destroy is in his heart, and to cut off nations not a few.
Isa 10:8 For he saith, "Are not my princes altogether kings?
Isa 10:9 Is not Calno like Karkemish? is not Chamath like Arpad? is not Samaria like Damascus?
Isa 10:10 As my hand hath reached the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images exceeded in number those of Jerusalem and of Samaria:
Isa 10:11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, do so unto Jerusalem and unto her idols?"
Isa 10:12 Wherefore shall it come to pass, that when the Lord hath completed all his work on mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the haughtiness of the king of Asshur, and the vain–glory of his proud looks.
Isa 10:13 For he hath said, "By the strength of my hand have I done it, and by my wisdom, for I have intelligence; and I have removed the boundaries of nations, and their laid–up treasures have I plundered, and brought down low those that were powerfully seated.
Isa 10:14 And my hand hath reached, as a bird’s nest, the wealth of the people: and as one gathereth up eggs that are forsaken, have I myself gathered up all the earth: and there was not one that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or chirped."
Isa 10:15 Shall the axe boast itself over him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that swingeth it? as if the rod should swing about those that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up him who is no wood.
Isa 10:16 Therefore will the Lord, the Eternal of hosts, send forth among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory shall be kindled a burning like the burning of a fire.
Isa 10:17 And the light of Israel shall become a fire, and his Holy One a flame; and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers on one day.
Isa 10:18 And the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body, will he destroy: and he shall be as [a tree] eaten to powder by the worms.
Isa 10:19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few in number, so that a boy may write them down.
Isa 10:20 ¶ And it shall come to pass on that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall not farther lean for support upon him that smiteth them; but they shall lean upon the Lord, the Holy one of Israel, in truth.
Isa 10:21 The remnant shall return, the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
Isa 10:22 For though thy people Israel should be as the sand of the sea, [yet] a remnant [only] of them shall return: destruction is decreed, it overfloweth with righteousness.
Isa 10:23 For it is completed and decreed: the Lord, the Eternal of hosts will do it in the midst of all the land.
Isa 10:24 ¶ Therefore thus hath said the Lord the Eternal of hosts, Be not afraid, O my people that dwellest in Zion, of Asshur, who will smite thee with the rod, and lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
Isa 10:25 For yet but a very little while more, and the indignation shall cease, and my anger shall be for their destruction.
Isa 10:26 And the Lord shall lift up a scourge over him like [at] the smiting of Midian at the rock of ‘Oreb: and as his staff was lifted over the sea, so will he carry him off after the manner of Egypt.
Isa 10:27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be removed from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be broken because of the fatness.
Isa 10:28 He cometh to ‘Ayath, he passeth on to Migron; at Michmash he layeth up his baggage;
Isa 10:29 They go through the pass; they take up their lodging at Geba’; Ramah trembleth; Gib’ah of Saul fleeth.
Isa 10:30 Let thy voice resound, O daughter of Gallim; listen Layshah; O poor ‘Anathoth!
Isa 10:31 Madmenah is in motion; the inhabitants of Gebim are assembled to flee.
Isa 10:32 As yet today will he remain at Nob: then will he swing his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
Isa 10:33 Behold, the Lord, the Eternal of hosts, will lop off the fruitful bough with terrific might: and those of towering growth shall be hewn down, and the high shall be laid low.
Isa 10:34 And he will cut down the thickets of the forests with iron, and the Lebanon shall fall by [means of] a mighty one.
Isa 11:1 ¶ And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stem of Jesse, and a sprout shall spring out of his roots.
Isa 11:2 And there shall rest upon him the spirit of the Lord, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;
Isa 11:3 And he shall be animated by the fear of the Lord; and not after the sight of his eyes shall he judge, and not after the hearing of his ears shall he decide;
Isa 11:4 But he shall judge with righteousness the poor, and decide with equity for the suffering ones of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
Isa 11:5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his hips.
Isa 11:6 And the wolf shall dwell with the sheep, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling [shall be] together, and a little boy shall lead them.
Isa 11:7 And the cow and the she–bear shall feed, together shall their young ones lie down: and the lion shall like the ox eat straw.
Isa 11:8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and on the basilisk’s den shall the weaned child stretch out his hand.
Isa 11:9 They shall not do hurt nor destroy on all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
Isa 11:10 ¶ And it shall happen on that day, that [he of] the root of Jesse, who shall stand as an ensign of the people, to him shall nations [come to] inquire: and his resting–place shall be glorious.
Isa 11:11 And it shall happen on that day, that the Lord will put forth his hand again the second time to acquire the remnant of his people, which shall remain, from Asshur and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from ‘Elam, and from Shin’ar, and from Chamath, and from the islands of the sea.
Isa 11:12 And he will lift up an ensign unto the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel; and the dispersed of Judah will he collect together from the four corners of the earth.
Isa 11:13 And then shall depart the envy of Ephraim, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not assail Ephraim.
Isa 11:14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; together shall they spoil the children of the east: upon Edom and Moab shall they lay their hands; and the children of ‘Ammon shall obey them.
Isa 11:15 And the Lord will destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and swing his hand over the river with his mighty wind, and will smite it into seven streams, and render it passable with shoes.
Isa 11:16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, which shall remain from Asshur, like as it was to Israel on the day that they came up out of the land of Egypt.
Isa 12:1 ¶ And thou shalt say on that day, "I will thank thee, O Lord, that thou wast angry with me: thy anger [now] is turned away, and thou comfortest me.
Isa 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust him; for my strength and song is Yah the Eternal: and he is become my salvation."
Isa 12:3 And ye shall draw water with gladness out of the springs of salvation.
Isa 12:4 ¶ And ye shall say on that day, "Give thanks unto the Lord, call on his name, make known his deeds among the people, keep it in remembrance that exalted is his name.
Isa 12:5 Sing unto the Lord; for he hath wrought a stupendous thing: known is this on all the earth."
Isa 12:6 Call aloud and shout, inhabitress of Zion; for great is in the midst of thee the Holy One of Israel.
Isa 13:1 ¶ The doom of Babylon, which Isaiah Amoz’ son foresaw.
Isa 13:2 Upon a high mountain lift ye up a banner, raise high your voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may enter into the gates of the princes.
Isa 13:3 I have charged my prepared ones, I have also called my heroes for my anger, those that rejoice in my highness.
Isa 13:4 There is a noise of tumult on the mountains, like that of a numerous people; a noise of shouting of kingdoms of nations assembled; the Lord of hosts mustereth a host of battle.
Isa 13:5 They are coming from a far–off country, from the end of the heavens, [here is] the Lord, with the weapons of his indignation, to destroy all the land.
Isa 13:6 ¶ Wail ye; for nigh is the day of the Lord; like wasting from the Almighty shall it come.
Isa 13:7 Therefore all hands shall become weak, and every mortal’s heart shall melt;
Isa 13:8 And they shall be affrighted, pangs and pains shall seize on them; they shall have throes as a woman that travaileth; one at the other shall they look amazed; red like flames shall their faces glow.
Isa 13:9 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, direful, [laden] with wrath and the fierceness of anger, to render the earth desolate: and its sinners will he destroy out of it.
Isa 13:10 For the stars of the heavens and their constellations shall not give forth their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not shed abroad her light.
Isa 13:11 And I will visit on the world its evil, and on the wicked their iniquity; and I will stop the arrogance of the presumptuous, and the haughtiness of the tyrants will I humble.
Isa 13:12 I will make the mortal more precious than fine gold; and man, more than the valued metal of Ophir.
Isa 13:13 Therefore will I shake the heavens, and the earth shall start quaking out of her place, at the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and on the day of his fierce anger.
Isa 13:14 And the people shall be as the chased roe, and as flocks which no one gathereth up; every man to his own people shall they turn, and every man into his own land shall they flee.
Isa 13:15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
Isa 13:16 And their babes shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes: spoiled shall be their houses, and their wives ravished.
Isa 13:17 Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes; who will not regard silver, and who will not delight in gold.
Isa 13:18 And their bows will dash young men to pieces; and on the fruit of the womb will they have no mercy; on children their eye will not look with pity.
Isa 13:19 ¶ And [thus] shall Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the proud ornament of the Chaldeans, become like the overthrow through God of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isa 13:20 It shall not be inhabited for ever, and it shall not be dwelt in from generation to generation; nor shall the Arabian pitch there his tent; and shepherds shall not let their flocks rest there.
Isa 13:21 But there shall rest the wild beasts of the desert; and their houses shall be full of owls; and ostriches shall dwell there, and evil spirits shall dance there.
Isa 13:22 And jackals shall howl in her palaces, and monsters in the temples of pleasure; and near to come is her time, and her days shall not be extended.
Isa 14:1 ¶ For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make choice of Israel, and replace them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined unto them, and they shall attach themselves to the house of Jacob.
Isa 14:2 And nations shall take them, and bring them to their own place; but the house of Israel shall obtain possession of them in the land of the Lord for men–servants and for maid–servants; and they shall take captive their captors, and they shall rule over their oppressors.
Isa 14:3 And it shall come to pass on the day when the Lord will give thee rest from thy trouble, and from thy vexation, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
Isa 14:4 ¶ That thou wilt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath ceased the oppressor! ceased the exactress of gold!
Isa 14:5 Broken hath the Lord the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of rulers;
Isa 14:6 He who smote people in wrath, blows without intermission, he that ruled in anger nations, persecuting without restraint.
Isa 14:7 At rest, quiet is all the earth; men break forth into loud song.
Isa 14:8 Also, the fir–trees rejoice at thee, the cedars of Lebanon, "Since thou wast laid low, no feller is come up against us."
Isa 14:9 The nether world from below is in motion concerning thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the departed for thee, all the chief ones of the earth; it hath caused to rise up from their thrones all the kings of nations.
Isa 14:10 They all will commence and say unto thee, "Thou––thou also art become weak like us; similar unto us art thou become!"
Isa 14:11 Into the nether world is brought down thy pride, the clatter of thy psalteries: beneath thee is spread the worm, and thy cover is the moth.
Isa 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O morning–star, son of the dawn! how art thou hewn down to the ground, crusher of nations!
Isa 14:13 And thou––thou hadst said in thy heart, "Into heaven will I ascend, above the stars of God will I exalt my throne; and I will sit also upon the mount of the assembly, in the farthest end of the north;
Isa 14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be equal to the Most High."
Isa 14:15 But into the nether world shalt thou be brought down, into the lowest depth.
Isa 14:16 They that see thee will gaze at thee, will regard thee well, [saying,] "Is this the man that caused the earth to tremble, that made kingdoms quake?
Isa 14:17 That rendered the world as a wilderness, and pulled down its cities: never opened the prison–house of his prisoners?"
Isa 14:18 All the kings of nations, all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own [eternal] house.
Isa 14:19 But thou––thou art cast out of thy grave like a discarded offshoot, as a garment of those that are slain, pierced by the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit, as a carcass trodden under foot.
Isa 14:20 Thou shalt not be united with them in burial; because thy land hast thou destroyed, thy people hast thou slain: to eternity shall not be called the seed of evil–doers.
Isa 14:21 Prepare for his children the slaughter, for the iniquity of their fathers: that they may not rise, and possess the land, and fill the face of the world with enemies [of mankind].
Isa 14:22 And I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts; and I will cut off from Babylon name, and remnant, and son, and grandson, saith the Lord.
Isa 14:23 I will also make it a possession for the hedgehog, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
Isa 14:24 ¶ Sworn hath the Lord of hosts, saying, Surely as I have purposed, so doth it come to pass; and as I have resolved, so shall it occur:
Isa 14:25 To break Asshur in my own land, and upon my mountains will I tread him under foot; then shall his yoke be removed from off them, and his burden from off their shoulders.
Isa 14:26 This is the resolve that is resolved over all the earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
Isa 14:27 For the Lord of hosts hath resolved, and who shall frustrate it? and it is his hand which is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
Isa 14:28 In the year king Achaz died was this prophecy [given].
Isa 14:29 Rejoice not, thou entire Palestine, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken; for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth an adder, and its fruit shall be a flying dragon.
Isa 14:30 And the first–born of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall rest in safety: and I will kill with famine thy root, and men shall slay thy remnant.
Isa 14:31 Wail, O gate; cry out, O city; thou art dissolved, O thou entire Palestine; for from the north a smoke is coming, and there is no one solitary among those that are bidden to come.
Isa 14:32 And what will each one of the messengers of the nation answer? That the Lord hath founded Zion; and that therein shall find protection the poor of his people.
Isa 15:1 ¶ The doom of Moab. Truly in a night is ‘Ar of Moab plundered, it is laid waste; truly in a night is Kir of Moab plundered, it is laid waste.
Isa 15:2 It goeth up to the [idol–]house, and Dibon [goeth] up to the high–places to weep, on Nebo and on Medeba shall Moab wail: on all its heads there is baldness, and every beard is hewn off.
Isa 15:3 In its streets they are girded with sack–cloth, on its roofs, and in its public places every one shall wail, groan with weeping.
Isa 15:4 And loud crieth Cheshbon with El’aleh; as far as Yahaz is heard their voice: therefore the armed men of Moab shall howl; its soul is grieved for itself.
Isa 15:5 My heart will cry for Moab, whose fugitives are as far as Zo’ar, [and] the third ‘Eglarth; for the ascent of Luchith––with weeping is it ascended; for on the way to Choronayim they let resound the cry of defeat [in battle].
Isa 15:6 ¶ For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for dry is the grass, gone are the herbs, and green things are no more.
Isa 15:7 Therefore the rest of their acquisitions and what they possess shall they carry away over the brook of the willows.
Isa 15:8 For the cry hath encompassed the boundary of Moab; up to Eglayim [is heard] its wail, and at Beer–elim [is heard] its wail.
Isa 15:9 For the waters of Dimon are filled with blood; for I will bring over Dimon armed bands; over the escaped of Moab [cometh] a lion, and over the remnant of the land.
Isa 16:1 ¶ Send ye the lambs of the ruler of the land from Sela’, through the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
Isa 16:2 For it shall be, that, as a fugitive bird, as a chased nest, so shall be the daughters of Moab at the fords of Arnon.
Isa 16:3 Bring counsel, execute justice; render like the night thy shadow in the midst of the noonday; conceal the outcasts; betray not the fugitive.
Isa 16:4 Let my outcasts sojourn with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the waster: till ceaseth the extortion, past be the wasting, and vanished be the oppressor out of the land.
Isa 16:5 And there shall be founded through kindness a throne; and there shall sit upon it in truthfulness in the tent of David a judge who seeketh justice, and is quick in righteousness.
Isa 16:6 ¶ We have heard of the pride of Moab; [that] he is very proud: of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath, his groundless lies.
Isa 16:7 Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail; for the strong walls of Kir–charesseth shall ye lament, deeply stricken.
Isa 16:8 For the fields of Cheshbon are withered, the vine of Sibmah ––the lords of nations have beaten down its branches, they did reach as far as Ya’zer, into the wilderness did they wander; its tendrils were stretched forth, they passed over the sea.
Isa 16:9 Therefore will I weep, when weeping for Ya’zer, for the vine of Sibmah: I will moisten thee richly with my tears, O Cheshbon, and El’aleh; for over [the gathering of] thy summer fruits and over thy harvest the battle–cry is fallen.
Isa 16:10 And [thus] are taken away joy and gladness out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards shall be no singing, shall be no joyful shout: in the presses shall the treader not tread out wine; I have stopped the harvest–call.
Isa 16:11 Therefore my bowels shall groan for Moab like a harp, and my inward parts for Kir–charess.
Isa 16:12 And it shall come to pass, that it shall be seen that Moab is weary on the high–places; and he will come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not accomplish [aught].
Isa 16:13 This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning Moab in former times.
Isa 16:14 But now hath the Lord spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hired laborer, shall the glory of Moab be rendered mean with all this [his] great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and inconsiderable.
Isa 17:1 ¶ The doom of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is deprived of being a city, and it shall become decaying ruins.
Isa 17:2 Forsaken are the cities of ‘Aro’er: they shall be [given up] to flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
Isa 17:3 And there shall cease the fortress from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: like the glory of the children of Israel shall they be, saith the Lord of hosts.
Isa 17:4 And it shall come to pass on that day, that the glory of Jacob shall vanish, and the fatness of his flesh shall become lean.
Isa 17:5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the standing–corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as when one gleaneth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
Isa 17:6 ¶ And there shall be left on it gleaning–fruit, as one shaketh an olive–tree, two or three berries on the top of the uppermost bough, four or five on the outmost branches of a fruitful tree, saith the Lord the God of Israel.
Isa 17:7 On that day shall a man turn his regard up to his Maker, and his eyes shall look toward the Holy One of Israel.
Isa 17:8 And he shall not turn his regard to the altars, the work of his hands; and he shall not look at what his fingers have made, both the groves and the sun–images.
Isa 17:9 ¶ On that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken ruin in a forest, and on a mountain–peak, which they left because of the children of Israel: and the land shall be desolate.
Isa 17:10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and the rock of thy strength thou hast not remembered; therefore wouldst thou plant luxuriant plantings, and wouldst set out the shoots of the stranger therein.
Isa 17:11 [Already] on the day that thou plantedst thou causedst to grow, and in the morning thou madest thy seed to blossom; but now fleeth the harvest on the day of disease and of incurable pain.
Isa 17:12 ¶ Woe to the raging of many people, who rage like the raging of the seas; and to the noise of nations, that make a noise like the roar of mighty waters!
Isa 17:13 The nations will make a noise like the roaring of many waters; but He will rebuke it, and it shall flee afar off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and as thistle–down before the tempest.
Isa 17:14 At eveningtide, behold, there is trouble; before yet it is morning it is no more. This is the portion of our spoilers, and the lot of those that plunder us.
Isa 18:1 ¶ Woe to the land with spreading wings, which is beyond the rivers of Cush,
Isa 18:2 That sendeth on the sea ambassadors, and in vessels of bulrushes messengers over the face of the waters. Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation pulled and torn, to a people terrible from their beginning and onward; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
Isa 18:3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, when the ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye; and when the cornet is blown, hear ye.
Isa 18:4 For so hath said the Lord unto me, I will take my rest, and I will look down on my dwelling–place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
Isa 18:5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is past, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, will he both cut off the tendrils with pruning–knives, and the sprigs will he remove and cut down.
Isa 18:6 They shall be left together unto the birds of prey of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the birds of prey shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
Isa 18:7 At that time shall be brought as a present unto the Lord of hosts a people pulled and torn, and a people terrible from their beginning and onward; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Zion.
Isa 19:1 ¶ The doom of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and is coming to Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved because of his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in its inward parts.
Isa 19:2 And I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his fellow; city against city, kingdom against kingdom.
Isa 19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall be emptied out in its inward parts, and its counsel will I frustrate; and they will inquire of the idols, and of the charmers, and of those that have familiar spirits, and of the wizards.
Isa 19:4 And I will surrender the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord; and a rigorous king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Eternal of hosts.
Isa 19:5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
Isa 19:6 And the rivers shall become foul; and shallow and dried up shall become the deep streams: reeds and flags shall wither.
Isa 19:7 The well–rooted plants by the stream, by the mouth of the stream, and every thing sown by the stream, shall dry up, be scattered [by the wind,] and be no more.
Isa 19:8 The fishermen also shall lament, and all they that cast an angle into the stream shall mourn; and they that spread nets upon the face of the waters shall languish.
Isa 19:9 And ashamed shall be they that work in fine flax, and they that weave white cloth.
Isa 19:10 And its foundations shall be beaten down, all that build sluices shall be grieved in soul.
Isa 19:11 Surely fools are the princes of Zo’an, the wise of the counsellors of Pharaoh [impart] silly counsel: how can ye say unto Pharaoh, I am a son of the wise, a son of the ancient kings?
Isa 19:12 Where are they, these, thy wise men? that they may tell thee now, that they know what the Lord of hosts hath resolved on over Egypt.
Isa 19:13 The princes of Zo’an are become fools, deceived are the princes of Noph; and Egypt is led astray by the chiefs of its tribes.
Isa 19:14 The Lord hath poured out in the midst thereof a spirit of perverseness: and they have led Egypt astray in all its work, as a drunkard reeleth astray in his vomit.
Isa 19:15 And there shall not be for Egypt [successful] work, which the head or tail, palm–branch or rush, may do.
Isa 19:16 On that day shall Egypt be like the women: and it shall tremble and be in dread because of the waving of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he waveth over it.
Isa 19:17 And the land of Judah shall become unto Egypt a terror, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be in dread, because of the counsel of the Lord of hosts, which he hath resolved against it.
Isa 19:18 ¶ On that day shall be five cities in the land of Egypt speaking the language of Canaan, and swearing by the Lord of hosts; "The city of destruction" shall one be called.
Isa 19:19 On that day shall there be all altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at its border to the Lord.
Isa 19:20 And it shall be for a sign and for a testimony unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry unto the Lord because of the oppressors, and he will send them a helper, and a chief, and he shall deliver them.
Isa 19:21 And the Lord will be made known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord on that day, and will do service [with] sacrifice and oblation; yea, they will make vows unto the Lord and perform [them].
Isa 19:22 And the Lord will thus strike Egypt, striking and healing it: and they will return unto the Lord, and he will be entreated of them, and heal them.
Isa 19:23 On that day there shall be a highway out of Egypt to Asshur, and Asshur shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptians into Asshur, and the Egyptians shall serve with Asshur [the Lord].
Isa 19:24 On that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Asshur, a blessing in the midst of the earth.
Isa 19:25 Whom the Lord of hosts will have blessed, saying, Blessed be my people Egypt, and Asshur the work of my hands, and my heritage Israel.
Isa 20:1 ¶ In the year that Tharthan came unto Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and fought against Ashdod, and captured it;
Isa 20:2 At the same time spoke the Lord by means of Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loosen the sackcloth from off thy loins, and thy shoe shalt thou pull off from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
Isa 20:3 And the Lord said, Just as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years as a sign and token for Egypt and for Cush:
Isa 20:4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the prisoners of Egypt, and the exiles of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with uncovered buttocks, to the disgrace of Egypt.
Isa 20:5 And they shall be terrified, and ashamed of Cush their trust, and of Egypt their vaunt.
Isa 20:6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say on that day, Behold, such is our trust, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we then escape?
Isa 21:1 ¶ The doom of the desert by the sea. As tempests in the south blow with fury; so doth it come from the desert, from a terrible land.
Isa 21:2 A hard vision hath been told unto me; the traitor dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. "Go up, O ‘Elam; besiege, O Media;" all sighing have I caused to cease.
Isa 21:3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I am too much cramped to hear; I am too much dismayed to see.
Isa 21:4 My heart wandereth astray, dread affrighteth me: the evening of my pleasure hath he turned unto me into terror.
Isa 21:5 Prepare the table, put on the candlesticks, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
Isa 21:6 For thus hath said unto me the Lord, Go, set the watchman, what he seeth let him tell.
Isa 21:7 And he will see chariots, horsemen in couples, riders on asses, riders on camels; and he shall listen diligently with much heed:
Isa 21:8 And he calleth [like] a lion, Upon the watchtower, O Lord, do I stand continually in the daytime, and on my ward am I set all the nights.
Isa 21:9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot with men, horsemen in couples, and he commenceth and saith, Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the graven images of her gods hath he shivered unto the ground.
Isa 21:10 O my down–trodden [people,] and the son of my threshingfloor: that which I have heard from the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have I told unto you.
Isa 21:11 ¶ The doom of Dumah. Unto me one calleth out of Se’ir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
Isa 21:12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will desire, desire ye; return, come again.
Isa 21:13 ¶ The doom upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanim.
Isa 21:14 Toward him that is thirsty they bring water; the inhabitants of the land of Thema meet with suitable bread the fugitive.
Isa 21:15 Because from the swords are they fled, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the pressure of war.
Isa 21:16 For thus hath said the Lord unto me, Within yet one year, like the years of a hired laborer, shall all the glory of Kedar be at an end:
Isa 21:17 And the residue of the number of bows of the mighty men of the children of Kedar shall be small; for the Lord the God of Israel hath spoken it.
Isa 22:1 ¶ The doom of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the roofs?
Isa 22:2 O noiseful, tumultuous city, joyous town? thy slain ones are not slain with the sword, and not those that die in battle.
Isa 22:3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are made prisoners by the bowmen: all that are found in thee are made prisoners together, who have run away from afar.
Isa 22:4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly; be not urgent to comfort me, because of the wasting of the daughter of my people.
Isa 22:5 For a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity hath the Lord Eternal of hosts in the valley of vision; walls are broken, and crying is heard against the mountain.
Isa 22:6 And ‘Elam beareth the quiver, [cometh] with men in chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovereth the shield.
Isa 22:7 And it is so, that thy choicest valleys are full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array against the gate.
Isa 22:8 ¶ And he laid open the covering of Judah; and thou didst look on that day toward the armor of the house of the forest.
Isa 22:9 And the breaches of the city of David have ye seen, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
Isa 22:10 And the houses of Jerusalem have ye numbered, and ye have pulled down the houses to fortify the wall.
Isa 22:11 And a tank have ye made between the two walls for the water of the old pool; but ye have not looked at the Maker thereof, him that fashioned it in distant times have ye not regarded.
Isa 22:12 And the Lord Eternal of hosts called on that day for weeping, and for mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth.
Isa 22:13 And behold [there are] gladness and joy, slaying of oxen, and killing of sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: "Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we must die."
Isa 22:14 And it was revealed in my ears by the Lord of hosts: Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven unto you until ye die, said the Lord the Eternal of hosts.
Isa 22:15 ¶ Thus hath said the Lord, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, who is [superintendent] over the house;
Isa 22:16 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewn out for thyself here a sepulchre, [the man] that hath hewn out on high his sepulchre, that holloweth out in the rock a habitation for himself?
Isa 22:17 Behold, the Lord will thrust thee about with a mighty throw, O man! and will lay fast hold of thee;
Isa 22:18 He will roll thee up as a bundle, and [toss thee] like a ball into a country of ample space: there shalt thou die, and there shall [remain] the chariots of thy glory, thou disgrace of the house of thy lord.
Isa 22:19 And I will cast thee out from thy station, and from thy post shall he pull thee down.
Isa 22:20 And it shall come to pass on that day, that I will call my servant, for Elyakim the son of Chilkiyahu.
Isa 22:21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and thy girdle will I fasten around him, and thy government will I place into his hand: and he shall be as a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
Isa 22:22 And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder; so that he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
Isa 22:23 And I will fasten him as a tent–nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a chair of honor to his father’s house.
Isa 22:24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the shoots and offshoots, all the small vessels, from the vessels of basins, even to all the vessels of flagons.
Isa 22:25 On that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall be removed the nail that is fastened in the sure place, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that is upon it shall be cut off; for the Lord hath spoken it.
Isa 23:1 ¶ The doom of Tyre. Wail, ye ships of Tharshish; for it is laid waste, without house, without entrance: from the land of Kittim hath it been revealed to them.
Isa 23:2 Be silent, ye inhabitants of the coast–land: the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea [formerly] filled thee.
Isa 23:3 And on mighty waters [came] the seed of Shichor, the harvest of the stream, as her revenue; and she became the mart of nations.
Isa 23:4 Be ashamed, O Zion; for spoken hath the sea, the stronghold of the sea, saying, I travailed not, nor brought forth children, neither did I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.
Isa 23:5 As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they tremble at the report of Tyre.
Isa 23:6 Pass ye over to Tharshish; wail, ye inhabitants of the coast–land.
Isa 23:7 Is this your fate, ye of the joyous [city]? she whose antiquity is of ancient days––her own feet shall carry her, afar off to sojourn.
Isa 23:8 Who hath resolved this against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?
Isa 23:9 The Lord hath resolved it, to dishonor the pride of all ornament, to make of light esteem all the honorable of the earth.
Isa 23:10 Pass through thy land as a stream, O daughter of Tharshish: there is no more strength.
Isa 23:11 He hath stretched out his hand over the sea, he hath shaken kingdoms; the Lord hath given a command against Canaan, to subvert its strongholds.
Isa 23:12 And he said, Thou shalt no longer rejoice any more, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to the Kittim; also there shalt thou have no rest.
Isa 23:13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans––this people which was not, Asshur founded it for the dwellers in the wilderness––they have set up their watchtowers, have overthrown its palaces, have rendered it a heap of ruins.
Isa 23:14 Wail, ye ships of Tharshish; your stronghold is laid waste.
Isa 23:15 ¶ And it shall come to pass on that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, like the days of one king: at the end of seventy years shall it happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot.
Isa 23:16 "Take the harp, go round about the city, thou forgotten harlot; make sweet music, sing many songs, in order that thou mayest be remembered."
Isa 23:17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall have commerce with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
Isa 23:18 And her gain and her hire shall be holy to the Lord: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; but for those that dwell before the Lord shall her gain be, to eat to fulness, and for magnificent clothing.
Isa 24:1 ¶ Behold, the Lord maketh empty the land, and layeth it waste, marreth its surface, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.
Isa 24:2 And it shall be with the people as with the priest; with the servant as with his master; with the bondwoman as with her mistress; with the buyer as with the seller; with the lender as with the borrower; with the debtor as with his creditor.
Isa 24:3 Empty, emptied out shall be the land, and spoiled, utterly spoiled; for the Lord hath spoken this word.
Isa 24:4 The land mourneth, withereth away, the world languishes, withereth away, the high ones of the people of the land do languish.
Isa 24:5 For the land was defiled under its inhabitants; because they had transgressed the laws, neglected the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
Isa 24:6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the land, and they that dwell therein suffer for their guilt; therefore are the inhabitants of the land dried up, and but few men are left.
Isa 24:7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry–hearted sigh.
Isa 24:8 At rest is the mirth of the tambourines; ceased hath the tumult of the joyful; at rest is the mirth of the harp.
Isa 24:9 Amidst singing shall they no [more] drink wine; bitter shall be the strong drink to those that drink it.
Isa 24:10 Broken down is the city of desolation; shut up is every house that none can enter.
Isa 24:11 A [painful] cry for wine is in the streets; darkened is all joy; banished is the mirth of the land.
Isa 24:12 Destruction is left in the city, in ruins is beaten the gate.
Isa 24:13 ¶ For thus shall it be in the midst of the land among the nations, as [at] the shaking of an olive–tree, as [at] the gleaning of grains when the vintage is done.
Isa 24:14 These shall lift up their voice, they shall sing; because of the majesty of the Lord, they shout aloud from the sea.
Isa 24:15 Therefore in the valleys honor ye the Lord; in the isles of the sea, the name of the Lord the God of Israel.
Isa 24:16 ¶ From the edge of the earth have we heard songs, "Glory to the righteous." But I said, "Evil is mine, evil is mine, woe is me! the treacherous have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously."
Isa 24:17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee, O inhabitant of the land.
Isa 24:18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the call of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be caught in the snare; for the windows from on high are opened, and there quaked the foundations of the earth.
Isa 24:19 Crushed entirely is the earth, split in pieces is the earth, shaken to its centre is the earth.
Isa 24:20 The earth reeleth to and fro like a drunkard, and vibrateth like a watch–hut; and heavily lieth upon it its transgression; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
Isa 24:21 And it shall come to pass on that day, that the Lord will visit punishment on the host of heaven in heaven, and on the kings of the earth upon the earth.
Isa 24:22 And they shall be gathered in heaps, as prisoners, in the prison, and shall be shut up in the dungeon, and thus after many days shall they be punished.
Isa 24:23 And the moon shall be put to the blush, and the sun be made ashamed; for the Lord of hosts will reign on mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients in glory.
Isa 25:1 ¶ O Lord, my God art thou; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things, resolves of distant times [are become] faithful confirmation.
Isa 25:2 For thou hast made of a city a stone–heap; of a fortified town a falling ruin; the palace of barbarians ceaseth out of the city, to eternity shall it not be rebuilt.
Isa 25:3 Therefore shall a strong people honor thee; the town of the tyrannical nations shall fear thee.
Isa 25:4 For thou hast become a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy when he is distressed; a protection from the tempest, a shadow from the heat; for the [wrathful] breath of the tyrants is like the tempest against a wall.
Isa 25:5 Like heat in a dry land, wilt thou subdue the tumult of the barbarians; as the heat [is lessened] by the shadow of the cloud, so will he subdue the song of the tyrants.
Isa 25:6 ¶ And the Lord of hosts will make unto all the nations on this mountain 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.
Isa 25:7 And he will destroy on this mountain the face of the covering which covereth all the people, and the vail that is spread over all the nations.
Isa 25:8 He will destroy death to eternity: and the Lord Eternal will wipe away the tear from off all faces; and the shame of his people will he remove from off all the earth; for the Lord hath spoken it.
Isa 25:9 ¶ And men will say on that day, Lo, this is our God, for whom we have waited that he would help us; this is the Lord for whom we have waited, we will be glad and we will rejoice in his salvation.
Isa 25:10 For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain, and Moab shall be trodden down on his own place, even as straw is trodden down upon the dunghill.
Isa 25:11 And he will spread forth his hands in the midst thereof, as the swimmer spreadeth them forth to swim: and he will bring down his pride together with the joints of his hands.
Isa 25:12 And the fortress of the stronghold of thy walls he bringeth down, layeth low, casteth it to the ground, even to the dust.
Isa 26:1 ¶ On that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: A strong city have we; his aid will he grant [us] as walls and defence.
Isa 26:2 Open ye the gates, that there may enter in the righteous nation which guardeth the truth.
Isa 26:3 The confiding mind wilt thou keep in perfect peace; because he trusteth in thee.
Isa 26:4 Trust ye in the Lord unto eternity; for in Yah the Lord is everlasting protection.
Isa 26:5 ¶ For he bendeth down the dwellers of the height; the lofty fortress––he layeth it low; he layeth it low, along the ground; he casteth it down to the dust.
Isa 26:6 The foot shall tread it down, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.
Isa 26:7 The path of the just is straight: thou, most upright, dost ever level the road of the just.
Isa 26:8 Yea, on the path of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; for thy name, and for the remembrance of thee, was the longing of our soul.
Isa 26:9 In my soul have I longed for thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek for thee; for when thy judgments are [sent] on the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isa 26:10 If favor be shown to the wicked, he will not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not regard the majesty of the Lord.
Isa 26:11 Lord, thy hand was raised high, but they would not see: oh that they might see, and be ashamed, [thy] zeal for the people; yea, the fire which shall devour them––thy enemies.
Isa 26:12 ¶ Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us; for also all our works hast thou accomplished for us.
Isa 26:13 O Lord our God, lords have had dominion over us beside thee; [but] of thee only would we make mention,––of thy name.
Isa 26:14 [They are] dead, they will not live [again]; [they are] departed, they will not rise [again]; therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made to perish every memorial of them.
Isa 26:15 Thou hast done more for the nation, O Lord, thou hast done more for the nation; thou hast glorified thyself: thou hast enlarged all the ends of the earth.
Isa 26:16 Lord, in trouble have they sought thee, they poured out earnest prayers when thy chastening was upon them.
Isa 26:17 Like as a pregnant woman, that is near giving birth, is in pain, [and] crieth out in her pangs: so have we been in thy presence, O Lord.
Isa 26:18 We have been pregnant and in pain, [but it was] as though we brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the land; and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.
Isa 26:19 Thy dead shall live, my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing ye, that dwell in the dust; for a dew on herbs is thy dew, and the earth shall cast out the departed.
Isa 26:20 ¶ Go, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy door behind thee: hide thyself but for a little moment, until the indignation be passed away.
Isa 26:21 For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth on them: and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more be a cover over her slain.
Isa 27:1 ¶ On that day will the Lord punish with his heavy and great and strong sword leviathan the flying serpent, and leviathan the crooked servant; and he will slay the crocodile that is in the sea.
Isa 27:2 On that day sing ye a song of the vineyard of excellent wine.
Isa 27:3 "I the Lord do keep it; every moment will I water it: that no one shall hurt it, night and day will I keep it.
Isa 27:4 Wrath have I not: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would pass through them, and I would burn them altogether.
Isa 27:5 If he but take hold of my strength, make peace with me; make peace with me."
Isa 27:6 In the future shall Jacob yet take root; Israel shall bud and blossom, and shall fill the face of the world with fruit.
Isa 27:7 ¶ Hath he smitten him, as he smote the one that smote him? or was he slain with the same slaughter as those of him that were slain?
Isa 27:8 In measure, by driving him forth, thou strivest with him: he removed him with his violent storm on the day of the east wind.
Isa 27:9 Therefore by this [only] shall the iniquity of Jacob be atoned; and this shall be all the fruit of the taking away of his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as limestones that are beaten in pieces, when there shall not arise again any groves and sun–images.
Isa 27:10 For [by this] the fortified city shall be desolate, the habitation be forsaken, and left like a wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall it lie down, and consume its branches.
Isa 27:11 When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off; women will come and set them on fire; for it is not a people of understanding; therefore he that made it will not have mercy on it, and he that formed it will show it no favor.
Isa 27:12 And it shall come to pass on that day, that the Lord will beat off [the fruit] from the channel of the River up to the brook of Egypt; but ye shall be gathered up one by one, ye children of Israel.
Isa 27:13 And it shall come to pass on that day, that the great cornet shall be blown, and then shall come those who are lost in the land of Asshur, and those who are outcasts in the land of Egypt, and they shall prostrate themselves before the Lord on the holy mount at Jerusalem.
Isa 28:1 ¶ Woe to the crown of pride, of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious ornament, which is on the eminence of the fat valley of those who are struck down by wine!
Isa 28:2 Behold, [it cometh] mighty and strong from the Lord, as a tempest of hail, a storm of destruction; as a tempest of mighty overflowing waters, will he cast it down to the earth with force.
Isa 28:3 Under feet shall be trodden the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim:
Isa 28:4 And the fading flower of his glorious ornament, which is on the eminence of the fat valley, shall be as its early ripe fruit before the summer; which one, when he just seeth it, while it is scarcely in his hand, hastily devoureth.
Isa 28:5 On that day will the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
Isa 28:6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to those that drive back the battle to the gate [of the enemy].
Isa 28:7 But these also are now stumbling through wine, and reeling through strong drink: priest and prophet are stumbling through strong drink, they are overpowered with wine, they reel through strong drink; they stumble in [divine] vision, they are unsteady in giving judgment.
Isa 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit of filthiness, there is no place [clean].
Isa 28:9 ¶ Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he give to understand doctrine? those that are weaned from the milk, those that are taken from the breasts.
Isa 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.
Isa 28:11 For [as] with stammering lips and a foreign tongue will he speak to this people;
Isa 28:12 When he said unto them, This is the rest, cause ye the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing; but they would not hear.
Isa 28:13 Therefore shall be unto them the word of the Lord, precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; in order that they may go, and stumble backward, and be broken, and snared, and caught.
Isa 28:14 ¶ Therefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, who rule this people that is in Jerusalem.
Isa 28:15 Because ye have said, "We have entered into a covenant with death, and with the nether world have we made an agreement; the overflowing scourge, when it passeth by, shall not come at us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we sought a hiding–place."
Isa 28:16 Therefore thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Behold, I have laid in Zion as a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a costly corner–stone, well founded: he that believeth will not make haste.
Isa 28:17 And I will make of justice a measuring line, and of righteousness a plummet: and the hail shall sweep off the refuge of lies, and the hiding–place against the waters shall these flood away.
Isa 28:18 And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with the nether world shall not have permanence; the overflowing scourge, when it passeth by––then shall ye be trodden down by it.
Isa 28:19 As often as it passeth by shall it take you; for morning by morning shall it pass by, by day and by night; and the mere understanding of the report shall cause terror.
Isa 28:20 For the bed shall be too short for [a man] to stretch himself out [on it]: and the covering too narrow to wrap himself in.
Isa 28:21 For as on mount Perazim will the Lord rise up, as in the valley of Gib’on will he be wroth, that he may do his work, his singular work; and to accomplish his labor, his strange labor.
Isa 28:22 And now be ye no longer scornful, lest your bonds be made strong; for as completed and fully decreed have I heard it from the Lord Eternal of hosts over all the earth.
Isa 28:23 ¶ Give ye ear, and hear my voice; listen, and hear my speech.
Isa 28:24 Doth the ploughman plough all the time to sow? doth he open and harrow his ground [continually]?
Isa 28:25 Is it not so? that, when he hath made level its surface he scattereth fennel, and streweth about cumin, and planteth the wheat in rows, and barley on its assigned [place], and millet on its proper spot?
Isa 28:26 For his God instructed him rightly, taught him [so to do].
Isa 28:27 Truly not with a threshing instrument is fennel threshed, and a wagon–wheel is not turned about upon cumin; but fennel is beaten out with a staff, and cumin with a stick.
Isa 28:28 Bread–corn is crushed; but not for ever doth [man] keep threshing it; and though he drive over it the wheel of his wagon and his horses, he will not [thereby] crush it.
Isa 28:29 This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts; wonderful is he in counsel, and excellent in [his] wise deeds.
Isa 29:1 ¶ Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the town where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let the festivals come round in order;
Isa 29:2 Yet will I distress Ariel, and there shall be groaning and wailing: and it shall be unto me like Ariel.
Isa 29:3 And I will encamp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with hostile posts, and I will raise up entrenchments against thee.
Isa 29:4 And brought down low, shalt thou speak [as though] out of the earth, and out of the dust shall come forth thy speech; and like one of a familiar spirit out of the earth shall be thy voice, and out of the dust shalt thou whisper forth thy speech.
Isa 29:5 And like the small dust shall be the multitude of thy barbarian enemies, and like the passing chaff the multitude of tyrants; and [this] shall be at unawares, suddenly.
Isa 29:6 From the Lord of hosts shall the visitation come with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the devouring flame of fire.
Isa 29:7 And as a dream of a night–vision shall be the multitude of all the nations that go to war against Ariel, even all that fight against her and raise towers against her, and that distress her.
Isa 29:8 And it shall even be as when a hungry man dreameth, that, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty; or as when a thirsty man dreameth, that, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul yet longeth: so shall it be with the multitude of all the nations, that go to war against mount Zion.
Isa 29:9 ¶ Stay but still and wonder; turn your eyes away, and be blinded; they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
Isa 29:10 For the Lord hath poured out over you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: [over] the prophets, and your chiefs, the seers, hath he cast a vail.
Isa 29:11 And the vision of every thing is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that can read, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
Isa 29:12 And the book is then delivered to one that cannot read, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot read.
Isa 29:13 And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is but the acquired precept of men;
Isa 29:14 Therefore, behold, I will do yet farther a marvelous work with this people, doing wonder on wonder; so that the wisdom of their wise men shall be lost, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.
Isa 29:15 Woe unto those that seek to hide deeply their counsel from the Lord, so that their works may be in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
Isa 29:16 Oh your perverseness! shall the potter be esteemed as the clay? that the work shall say of its maker, He hath not made me? or shall the thing framed say of its framer, He had no understanding?
Isa 29:17 ¶ Lo! but yet a very little while more, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest!
Isa 29:18 And on that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and out of obscurity, and out of darkness, shall the eyes of the blind see.
Isa 29:19 And the sufferers shall have abundant joy in the Lord, and the needy among men shall be glad in the Holy One of Israel.
Isa 29:20 For the tyrant is no more, and consumed is the scorner, and cut off are all that watch for injustice;
Isa 29:21 That cause mankind to sin by [their] word; and lay a snare for him that reproveth [them] in the gate; and pervert through fraud the cause of the just.
Isa 29:22 Therefore thus hath said the Lord unto the house of Jacob, he who hath redeemed Abraham, Not now shall Jacob be ashamed, and not now shall his face be made pale.
Isa 29:23 For when he seeth his children, the work of my hands in the midst of him, how they sanctify my name: then will they sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and the God of Israel will they reverence.
Isa 29:24 They also that were erring in spirit shall acquire understanding, and they that murmured shall obtain instruction.
Isa 30:1 ¶ Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not from me; and that set themselves a ruler, but not by my spirit, in order that they may add sin to sin:
Isa 30:2 That travel to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my will; to strengthen themselves through the strength of Pharaoh, and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!
Isa 30:3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh become your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt your disgrace.
Isa 30:4 For his princes were at Zo’an, and his ambassadors had reached Chanes.
Isa 30:5 They all are ashamed because of a people that cannot profit them, neither be a help nor give profit; but [bringeth] shame, and also a reproach.
Isa 30:6 The doom of the beasts of the south: Through the land of trouble and anguish, whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and flying dragons, they will carry upon the shoulders of young asses their riches, and upon the humps of camels their treasures, to a people that cannot profit.
Isa 30:7 And the Egyptians will help in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called this, Boasters they are in sitting still.
Isa 30:8 ¶ Now go, write it before them on a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the latest time to come, for ever, and to eternity:
Isa 30:9 For this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord:
Isa 30:10 Who have said to the seers, Ye shall not see; and to the prophets, Reveal not unto us true things, speak unto us smooth things, reveal deceits;
Isa 30:11 Depart you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, remove from before us the Holy One of Israel.
Isa 30:12 Therefore thus hath said the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and lean thereon for aid:
Isa 30:13 Therefore shall this iniquity be to you as a threatening breach, swelling out in a high–towering wall, the fall of which will come unawares, suddenly.
Isa 30:14 And he will break it, as one breaketh a potter’s vessel, dashing it in pieces without sparing it; so that there cannot be found among its fragments a sherd to rake fire from a hearth and to draw water from a pit.
Isa 30:15 For thus hath said the Lord Eternal, the Holy One of Israel, In repose and rest shall ye be helped; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength; and ye would not.
Isa 30:16 And ye said, "No; for upon horses will we flee;" therefore shall ye flee: and, "Upon swift beasts will we ride;" therefore shall your pursuers be swift.
Isa 30:17 One thousand [shall flee] at the threatening of one; at the threatening of five shall ye [all] flee: till ye be left as a pole upon a mountain–top, and as an ensign on a hill.
Isa 30:18 ¶ And therefore will the Lord wait, to be gracious unto you, and therefore will he exalt himself, to have mercy upon you; for a God of justice is the Lord: happy are all those that wait for him.
Isa 30:19 For O people of Zion that shall dwell at Jerusalem! thou shalt indeed not weep: he will be surely gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; so soon as he heareth it, he answereth thee.
Isa 30:20 And the Lord will give you bread [in] adversity, and water [in] oppression; and thy teachers shall not have to hide themselves in a corner any more, but thy eyes shall see thy teachers:
Isa 30:21 And thy ears shall hear the word behind thee, saying, "This is the way, walk ye in it," when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
Isa 30:22 And ye will regard as unclean the covering of thy graven idols of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou wilt cast them away as a filthy thing; "Get thee hence," wilt thou say unto them.
Isa 30:23 Then will he give the rain for thy seed, that thou mayest sow in the ground; and bread––the produce of the ground––this shall be fat and nutritious: thy cattle shall feed on that day in extensive pastures.
Isa 30:24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat salted provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
Isa 30:25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every prominent hill, rivulets, streams of waters on the day of the great slaughter, when towers fall.
Isa 30:26 And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of the seven days, on the day that the Lord bindeth up the broken [limbs] of his people, and healeth the bruise of their wound.
Isa 30:27 ¶ Behold, the name of the Lord cometh from afar, burning is his anger, and heavy the smoke; his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is like a devouring fire;
Isa 30:28 And his breath, like an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to toss the nations with the van of falsehood: and [to place] a deceiving bridle on the jaws of the people.
Isa 30:29 [Then] shall ye have a song, as in the night when a festival is ushered in, and joy of heart, as when one goeth with the flute to come unto the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.
Isa 30:30 And the Lord will cause his majestic voice to be heard, and will show the stretching down of his arm, in the indignation of [his] anger, and in the flame of a devouring fire, in flood, and tempest, and stones of hail.
Isa 30:31 For because of the voice of the Lord shall be terrified Asshur, that smote [you] with the rod.
Isa 30:32 And at every passage of the appointed staff which the Lord will let fall on him, there shall be [music] on tambourine and harp; and in the tumult of battles will he fight with them.
Isa 30:33 For already of old is Topheth made ready; also this is prepared for the king––deep and wide; its pile hath fire and wood in plenty, the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, will kindle it into a flame.
Isa 31:1 ¶ Woe to those that go down to Egypt for help; and depend for support on horses, and trust on chariots, because they are many; and on horsemen, because they are very strong; but who turn not unto the Holy One of Israel, and seek not the Lord!
Isa 31:2 Yet he also is wise, and bringeth evil, and taketh not back his words; and riseth up against the house of evil–doers, and against the help of those that work injustice.
Isa 31:3 But the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit; and the Lord will stretch out his hand, and there shall stumble the helper, and he that is helped shall fall down, and they all shall perish together.
Isa 31:4 For thus hath said the Lord unto me, Just as the lion or the young lion growleth over his prey, against whom is called forth the company of shepherds, of whose voice he is not afraid, and is not depressed because of their multitude: thus will the Lord come down, to fight on mount Zion and on its hill.
Isa 31:5 As fluttering birds, so will the Lord of hosts shield Jerusalem; shielding and delivering; sparing and preserving.
Isa 31:6 ¶ Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
Isa 31:7 For on that day shall every man despise his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
Isa 31:8 Then shall Asshur fall by the sword of one who is not a man; and the sword of one who is not a son of earth shall devour him; and he shall flee him from the sword, and his young men shall become tributary.
Isa 31:9 And his stronghold shall pass away for fear, and his princes shall be terrified because of the ensign, saith the Lord, who hath a fire in Zion, and a furnace in Jerusalem.
Isa 32:1 ¶ Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.
Isa 32:2 And every one shall be as a hiding–place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivulets of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a large rock in a languishing land.
Isa 32:3 And the eyes of those that see shall not be blinded again, and the ears of those that hear shall hearken.
Isa 32:4 The heart also of the rash shall be attentive in order to know, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
Isa 32:5 The worthless person shall be no more called liberal, and the avaricious man shall not be said to be bountiful.
Isa 32:6 For the worthless person ever speaketh villany, and his heart will work injustice, to practise hypocrisy, and to speak error against the Lord, to leave empty the soul of the hungry, and the drink of the thirsty will he take away.
Isa 32:7 The instruments also of the avaricious man are evil: he deviseth wicked resolves to destroy the poor with words of falsehood, even when the needy speaketh what is right.
Isa 32:8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and he ever persisteth by liberal things.
Isa 32:9 ¶ Ye careless women rise up, hear my voice; ye daughters that are secure, give ear unto my speech.
Isa 32:10 After days and years shall ye shudder, ye women that are secure; for ended is the vintage, the fruit gathering shall nowise come.
Isa 32:11 Tremble, ye careless women; shudder, ye that are secure, strip off your garments and make yourselves bare, and gird [sackcloth] upon the loins.
Isa 32:12 [They shall strike] on the breast, lamenting, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
Isa 32:13 Upon the soil of my people thorns and briers shall come up; yea, upon all the houses of joy of the gladsome town.
Isa 32:14 Because the palace is abandoned, the tumult of the city is forsaken; the hill and watch–tower are become dens for a long time, a joyous haunt for wild asses, a pasture for flocks.
Isa 32:15 Until a spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be changed into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be accounted as a forest.
Isa 32:16 Then shall justice dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.
Isa 32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and security for ever.
Isa 32:18 And then shall my people abide in peaceful dwellings, and secure abodes, and in undisturbed resting–places.
Isa 32:19 And it shall spread itself out in the declivity of the forest; and far down in the lowlands shall the city descend.
Isa 32:20 Happy are ye that sow beside all waters, freely sending forth the feet of the ox and the ass.
Isa 33:1 ¶ Woe to thee that wastest, while thou wast not wasted; and traitor, while men dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt have made an end of wasting, thou shalt be wasted, and when thou shalt have finished to deal treacherously, men shall deal treacherously with thee.
Isa 33:2 O Lord, be gracious; we have waited for thee: be thou their support every morning, also our salvation in the time of trouble.
Isa 33:3 At the noise of [thy] thunder people fled; when thou liftedst thyself up nations were scattered.
Isa 33:4 And your spoil shall be gathered as the cricket gathereth: as locusts run about, so shall people hasten after it.
Isa 33:5 The Lord is exalted; for he dwelleth on high; he hath filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
Isa 33:6 And the stability of thy times and the strength of thy happiness shall be wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the Lord is his treasure.
Isa 33:7 Behold, their valiant ones cry without: the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
Isa 33:8 The highways lie waste, ceased hath the wayfaring traveler: he hath broken the covenant, he despiseth cities, he regardeth not man.
Isa 33:9 It mourneth, it languisheth––the land: Lebanon is ashamed, it is withered away; Sharon is become like a wilderness; and bereft of their fruits are Bashan and Carmel.
Isa 33:10 Now will I arise, saith the Lord; now will I raise myself; now will I lift myself up.
Isa 33:11 Ye shall be pregnant with hay, [and] ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire, which shall devour you.
Isa 33:12 And the people shall be burnt as lime: as cut–off thorns shall they blaze up in fire.
Isa 33:13 ¶ Hear, ye distant ones, what I have done; and acknowledge ye that are near my might.
Isa 33:14 In Zion sinners are in dread; trembling hath seized on hypocrites. "Who among us shall abide with the devouring fire? who among us shall abide with everlasting burnings?"
Isa 33:15 He that walketh in righteousness, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands against taking hold of bribes, that stoppeth his ears against hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes against looking on evil;
Isa 33:16 He shall dwell on high; rocky strongholds shall be his refuge: his bread shall be given him; his water shall be sure.
Isa 33:17 The king in his beauty shall thy eyes behold: they shall see a far–off land.
Isa 33:18 Thy heart shall meditate [on past] terror. "Where is who wrote down? where is he that weighed? where is he that counted the towers?"
Isa 33:19 The barbarous people shalt thou not see any more, the people of a speech too obscure to be understood, of a stammering tongue, without meaning.
Isa 33:20 Look on Zion, the town of our solemn assemblies; thy eyes shall see Jerusalem as an undisturbed residence, a tent that shall not be struck for removal; not one of the stakes of which shall ever be moved, and all the cords of which shall never be torn loose.
Isa 33:21 But there will the Lord [show himself] mighty unto us, [in] a place of rivers and streams of ample breadth; wherein no oared galley shall go, and a gallant ship shall not pass thereby.
Isa 33:22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.
Isa 33:23 Loose hang thy tacklings; they cannot well uphold strongly their mast, they cannot spread the sail. Then are divided booty and spoil in abundance, [even] the lame take the booty.
Isa 33:24 And no inhabitant shall say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be one whose iniquity is forgiven.
Isa 34:1 ¶ Come near, ye nations, to hear; and ye people, hearken: let the earth hear, and all that filleth it; the world, and all things that spring forth of it.
Isa 34:2 For the indignation of the Lord is [enkindled] over all the nations, and his fury over all their army: he hath devoted them, he hath given them up to the slaughter:
Isa 34:3 And their slain also shall be cast out, and as regardeth their carcasses their stench shall ascend upward, and the mountains shall be melted through their blood.
Isa 34:4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together like a book: and all their host shall wither, as the leaf withereth from the vine, and as withering fruit from the fig–tree.
Isa 34:5 For my sword is sated in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people I have devoted to punishment.
Isa 34:6 The sword of the Lord is full of blood, it is enriched with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
Isa 34:7 And wild oxen shall sink down with them, and steers with bullocks; and their land shall be sated with blood, and their dust enriched with fat.
Isa 34:8 For it is the day of vengeance unto the Lord, and the year of recompense for the controversy of Zion.
Isa 34:9 ¶ And its brooks shall be changed into pitch, and its dust into sulfur, and its land shall become burning pitch.
Isa 34:10 Night and day shall it not be quenched; for ever shall ascend the smoke thereof: from generation to generation shall it lie waste; no one shall for ever and ever pass through it.
Isa 34:11 But pelican and hedgehog shall take possession of it; night–owl also and raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out over it the line of destruction, and the weights of desolation.
Isa 34:12 Their nobles––no one is there they could call [to] the kingdom, and all its princes shall be no more.
Isa 34:13 And thorns shall spring up in its palaces, nettles and brambles in its fortresses: and it shall be a habitation of monsters, and a court for ostriches.
Isa 34:14 And the martens shall meet with the jackals, and one goat shall call to his fellow; only the screech–owl shall rest there, and find for herself a place of repose.
Isa 34:15 There shall nestle the arrow–snake, and lay eggs, and hatch, and gather its young under its shadow: only vultures shall assemble there, every one with her mate.
Isa 34:16 Inquire out of the book of the Lord, and read: not one of these shall be absent, not one shall miss her mate; for my mouth it is that hath ordained it, and its breath it is that hath gathered them.
Isa 34:17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it out unto them by the measuring line: for ever shall they possess it, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
Isa 35:1 ¶ The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad thereat; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the lily.
Isa 35:2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice, yea, with joy and singing; the glory of the Lebanon shall be given unto it, the elegance of Carmel and Sharon; they indeed shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God.
Isa 35:3 Strengthen ye weak hands, and stumbling knees make ye firm.
Isa 35:4 Say to the timid of heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God, [with] vengeance will he come, with God’s recompense; it is he who will come and save you.
Isa 35:5 ¶ Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
Isa 35:6 Then shall the lame leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and brooks in the desert.
Isa 35:7 And the sandy waste shall be changed into a pool, and the thirsty land into springs of water: in the habitation of monsters, where each one used to lie, shall be a court for reeds and rushes.
Isa 35:8 And there shall be a highway and a way, and The holy way, shall it be called; no unclean one shall pass over it; but it shall be [only] theirs; the wayfaring man, and those unacquainted [therewith], shall not go astray.
Isa 35:9 No lion shall be there, and no ravenous beast shall go up thereon, shall not be found there; but there shall walk the redeemed:
Isa 35:10 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with song, with everlasting joy upon their head; gladness and joy shall they obtain, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Isa 36:1 ¶ And it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib the king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and seized on them.
Isa 36:2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a strong army. And he halted by the aqueduct of the upper pool on the highway of the washer’s field.
Isa 36:3 Then came forth unto him Elyakim, the son of Chilkiyahu, who was superintendent over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Yoach the son of Assaph, the recorder.
Isa 36:4 And Rabshakeh said unto them,––Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus hath said the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherewith thou hast trusted?
Isa 36:5 I have said, but it was only a word uttered with the lips, [I have] counsel and strength for the war. Now, on whom didst thou trust, that thou rebelledst against me?
Isa 36:6 Behold, thou trustedst on yon cracked reed–staff, on Egypt; which, if a man lean on it, will enter into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh the king of Egypt to all that trust on him.
Isa 36:7 But if thou shouldst say to me, In the Lord our God have we trusted: is he not the one whose high–places and whose altars Hezekiah hath removed, when he said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Before this altar shall ye prostrate yourselves?
Isa 36:8 And now I pray thee, enter into a contest with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
Isa 36:9 How then wilt thou turn back the face of a single chieftain of the least of my masters’ servants, while thou hast put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
Isa 36:10 And now am I come up without the Lord[’s will] against this land to destroy it? The Lord hath said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
Isa 36:11 ¶ Then said Elyakim and Shebna and Yoach unto Rabshakeh, Speak, we pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jewish language, before the ears of the people that are on the wall.
Isa 36:12 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master then sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? is it not rather to the men who sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own excrements, and drink their own urine with you?
Isa 36:13 Then stood Rabshakeh up, and called out in a loud voice in the Jewish language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
Isa 36:14 Thus hath said the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you;
Isa 36:15 Neither let Hezekiah induce you to trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given up into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Isa 36:16 Hearken not to Hezekiah; for thus hath said the king of Assyria, Make a treaty of peace with me, and come out to me; and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig–tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern;
Isa 36:17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
Isa 36:18 So that Hezekiah may not mislead you, saying, The Lord will deliver us. Have the gods of the nations delivered each his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
Isa 36:19 Where are the gods of Chamath and Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvayim? and have they then delivered Samaria out of my hand?
Isa 36:20 Who are they among all the gods of these countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
Isa 36:21 But they remained silent, and answered him not a word; for it was the king’s command, saying, Ye shall not answer him.
Isa 36:22 Then came Elyakim the son of Chilkiyahu, that was superintendent over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Yoach the son of Assaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent; and they told him the words of Rabshakeh.
Isa 37:1 ¶ And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
Isa 37:2 And he sent Elyakim, who was superintendent over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the son of Amoz, the prophet.
Isa 37:3 And they said unto him, Thus hath said Hezekiah, A day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of derision is this day; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
Isa 37:4 Perhaps the Lord thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to blaspheme the living God, and who hath reproached with the words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that is still found here.
Isa 37:5 And the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
Isa 37:6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus hath said the Lord, Be not afraid because of the words which thou hast heard, with which the boys of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
Isa 37:7 Behold, I will put an [other] spirit in him, and when he will hear a rumor, he shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
Isa 37:8 ¶ And Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
Isa 37:9 And he heard it said of Thirhakah the king of Ethiopia, He is come out to fight with thee. And when he had heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
Isa 37:10 Thus shall ye say to Hezekiah the king of Judah, as followeth, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given up into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Isa 37:11 Behold, thou thyself hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands by destroying them utterly: and thou alone shouldst be delivered?
Isa 37:12 Have the gods of the nations which my fathers destroyed delivered them, as Gozan, and Charan, and Rezeph, and the children of ‘Eden, who were in Thelassar?
Isa 37:13 Where is t
