Isaiah 1
1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and
Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 2
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have
nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. 3 The ox
knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my
people doth not consider. 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a
seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD,
they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away
backward. 5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more:
the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 6 From the sole of the foot
even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and
putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified
with ointment. 7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire:
your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as
overthrown by strangers. 8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a
vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. 9 Except the
LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as
Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. 10 Hear the word of the LORD,
ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. 11
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I
am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight
not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When ye come to
appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13
Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons
and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity,
even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul
hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. 15 And when ye
spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many
prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. 16 Wash you, make you
clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless,
plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD:
though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be
red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye
shall eat the good of the land: 20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be
devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. 21 How is the
faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in
it; but now murderers. 22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth
gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth
the cause of the widow come unto them. 24 Therefore saith the LORD, the LORD of
hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and
avenge me of mine enemies: 25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely
purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: 26 And I will restore thy
judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou
shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city. 27 Zion shall be
redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. 28 And the
destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they
that forsake the LORD shall be consumed. 29 For they shall be ashamed of the
oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye
have chosen. 30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden
that hath no water. 31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a
spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
Isaiah 2
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 And
it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house
shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the
hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 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; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for
out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they
shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks:
nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any
more. 5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD. 6
Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be
replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they
please themselves in the children of strangers. 7 Their land also is full of
silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also
full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots: 8 Their land also is
full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own
fingers have made: 9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth
himself: therefore forgive them not. 10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in
the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. 11 The lofty
looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down,
and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. 12 For the day of the LORD of
hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that
is lifted up; and he shall be brought low: 13 And upon all the cedars of
Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, 14 And
upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, 15 And
upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall, 16 And upon all the ships of
Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures. 17 And the loftiness of man shall be
bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone
shall be exalted in that day. 18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish. 19 And
they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for
fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake
terribly the earth. 20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his
idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and
to the bats; 21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the
ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he
ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in
his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?
Isaiah 3
1 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and
from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay
of water. 2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and
the prudent, and the ancient, 3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man,
and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. 4 And I
will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. 5 And
the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his
neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the
base against the honourable. 6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the
house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this
ruin be under thy hand: 7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an
healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of
the people. 8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue
and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory. 9 The
shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin
as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil
unto themselves. 10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for
they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be
ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him. 12 As for my
people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people,
they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. 13 The
LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people. 14 The LORD will
enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof:
for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses. 15
What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor?
saith the Lord GOD of hosts. 16 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters
of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes,
walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: 17
Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters
of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts. 18 In that day the Lord
will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and
their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, 19 The chains, and the
bracelets, and the mufflers, 20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and
the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, 21 The rings, and nose jewels,
22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the
crisping pins, 23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink;
and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and
instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty. 25
Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. 26 And her gates
shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
Isaiah 4
1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat
our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to
take away our reproach. 2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful
and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them
that are escaped of Israel. 3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in
Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one
that is written among the living in Jerusalem: 4 When the Lord shall have washed
away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of
Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of
burning. 5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and
upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire
by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence. 6 And there shall be a
tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of
refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
Isaiah 5
1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard.
My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: 2 And he fenced it, and
gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and
built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he
looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. 3
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you,
betwixt me and my vineyard. 4 What could have been done more to my vineyard,
that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth
grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? 5 And now go to; I will tell you what I
will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be
eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: 6 And I
will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up
briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon
it. 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men
of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression;
for righteousness, but behold a cry. 8 Woe unto them that join house to house,
that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone
in the midst of the earth! 9 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth
many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. 10 Yea,
ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield
an ephah. 11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may
follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them! 12 And
the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but
they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his
hands. 13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no
knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up
with thirst. 14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth
without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he
that rejoiceth, shall descend into it. 15 And the mean man shall be brought
down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be
humbled: 16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is
holy shall be sanctified in righteousness. 17 Then shall the lambs feed after
their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. 18 Woe
unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a
cart rope: 19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see
it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we
may know it! 20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put
darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet
for bitter! 21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in
their own sight! 22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of
strength to mingle strong drink: 23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and
take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! 24 Therefore as the fire
devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be
as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast
away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of
Israel. 25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he
hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills
did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all
this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 26 And
he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from
the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly: 27 None
shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither
shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be
broken: 28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs
shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind: 29 Their roaring
shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar,
and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver
it. 30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea:
and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is
darkened in the heavens thereof.
Isaiah 6
1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne,
high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. 2 Above it stood the
seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with
twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 3 And one cried unto
another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is
full of his glory. 4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that
cried, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am
undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people
of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. 6 Then
flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had
taken with the tongs from off the altar: 7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and
said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy
sin purged. 8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and
who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. 9 And he said, Go, and tell
this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive
not. 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut
their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and
understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. 11 Then said I, Lord,
how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and
the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, 12 And the LORD have
removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a
teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their
leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Isaiah 7
1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah,
king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king
of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail
against it. 2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate
with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees
of the wood are moved with the wind. 3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth
now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of
the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field; 4 And say unto him, Take
heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these
smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of
Remaliah. 5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil
counsel against thee, saying, 6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let
us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son
of Tabeal: 7 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come
to pass. 8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin;
and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a
people. 9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is
Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established. 10
Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying, 11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD
thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. 12 But Ahaz said, I
will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD. 13 And he said, Hear ye now, O
house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my
God also? 14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin
shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 15 Butter and
honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. 16
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the
land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings. 17 The LORD shall
bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that
have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of
Assyria. 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for
the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee
that is in the land of Assyria. 19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of
them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all
thorns, and upon all bushes. 20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a
razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria,
the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard. 21 And
it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two
sheep; 22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall
give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left
in the land. 23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall
be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even
be for briers and thorns. 24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither;
because all the land shall become briers and thorns. 25 And on all hills that
shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of
briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the
treading of lesser cattle.
Isaiah 8
1 Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a
man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz. 2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses
to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah. 3 And I went
unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to
me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz. 4 For before the child shall have
knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil
of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria. 5 The LORD spake also
unto me again, saying, 6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah
that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son; 7 Now therefore,
behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many,
even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his
channels, and go over all his banks: 8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall
overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of
his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel. 9 Associate
yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye
of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird
yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. 10 Take counsel together, and it
shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with
us. 11 For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that
I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, 12 Say ye not, A
confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither
fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. 13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and
let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. 14 And he shall be for a
sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the
houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15
And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and
be taken. 16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. 17 And I
will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I
will look for him. 18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are
for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in
mount Zion. 19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have
familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a
people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? 20 To the law and to the
testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no
light in them. 21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and
it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret
themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward. 22 And they
shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish;
and they shall be driven to darkness.
Isaiah 9
1 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the
first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and
afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan,
in Galilee of the nations. 2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a
great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath
the light shined. 3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy:
they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when
they divide the spoil. 4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the
staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian. 5 For
every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in
blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire. 6 For unto us a child is
born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and
his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting
Father, The Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there
shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it,
and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for
ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this. 8 The Lord sent a word
into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. 9 And all the people shall know,
even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness
of heart, 10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the
sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. 11 Therefore the
LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies
together; 12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall
devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but
his hand is stretched out still. 13 For the people turneth not unto him that
smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts. 14 Therefore the LORD will
cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. 15 The ancient
and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the
tail. 16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led
of them are destroyed. 17 Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young
men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is
an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his
anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 18 For wickedness
burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in
the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of
smoke. 19 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the
people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother. 20 And
he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left
hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his
own arm: 21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be
against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is
stretched out still.
Isaiah 10
1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness
which they have prescribed; 2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take
away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and
that they may rob the fatherless! 3 And what will ye do in the day of
visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye
flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? 4 Without me they shall bow
down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his
anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 5 O Assyrian, the
rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. 6 I will
send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will
I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them
down like the mire of the streets. 7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his
heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings? 9 Is not Calno as
Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? 10 As my hand
hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of
Jerusalem and of Samaria; 11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her
idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass,
that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on
Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria,
and the glory of his high looks. 13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I
have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds
of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the
inhabitants like a valiant man: 14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches
of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the
earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the
saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake
itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself,
as if it were no wood. 16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send
among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like
the burning of a fire. 17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his
Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in
one day; 18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful
field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.
19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write
them. 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and
such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him
that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. 22
For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them
shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness. 23 For
the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of
all the land. 24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that
dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod,
and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt. 25 For yet
a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their
destruction. 26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according
to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea,
so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt. 27 And it shall come to pass
in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his
yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the
anointing. 28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath
laid up his carriages: 29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up
their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled. 30 Lift up thy
voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee. 32
As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the
mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. 33 Behold, the Lord, the
LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature
shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled. 34 And he shall cut down
the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
Isaiah 11
1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall
grow out of his roots: 2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the
spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit
of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; 3 And shall make him of quick
understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of
his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: 4 But with
righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek 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. 5 And righteousness shall be the
girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. 6 The wolf also
shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the
calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead
them. 7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down
together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 And the sucking child
shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on
the cockatrice' den. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain:
for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover
the sea. 10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand
for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall
be glorious. 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set
his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall
be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from
Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. 12 And
he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of
Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the
earth. 13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah
shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west;
they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom
and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them. 15 And the LORD shall
utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall
he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and
make men go over dryshod. 16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of
his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the
day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
Isaiah 12
1 And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast
angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. 2 Behold,
God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my
strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. 3 Therefore with joy shall
ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. 4 And in that day shall ye say,
Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make
mention that his name is exalted. 5 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done
excellent things: this is known in all the earth. 6 Cry out and shout, thou
inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
Isaiah 13
1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see. 2 Lift ye up a
banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that
they may go into the gates of the nobles. 3 I have commanded my sanctified ones,
I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my
highness. 4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great
people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the
LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle. 5 They come from a far country,
from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to
destroy the whole land. 6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall
come as a destruction from the Almighty. 7 Therefore shall all hands be faint,
and every man's heart shall melt: 8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows
shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they
shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. 9 Behold, the
day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land
desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 10 For the stars
of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun
shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to
shine. 11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their
iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low
the haughtiness of the terrible. 12 I will make a man more precious than fine
gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. 13 Therefore I will shake the
heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD
of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. 14 And it shall be as the chased
roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own
people, and flee every one into his own land. 15 Every one that is found shall
be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the
sword. 16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their
houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. 17 Behold, I will stir up the
Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall
not delight in it. 18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and
they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare
children. 19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees'
excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 20 It shall never
be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation:
neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make
their fold there. 21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their
houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and
satyrs shall dance there. 22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in
their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is
near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
Isaiah 14
1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set
them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they
shall cleave to the house of Jacob. 2 And the people shall take them, and bring
them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of
the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose
captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. 3 And it shall
come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and
from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, 4 That
thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath
the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! 5 The LORD hath broken the staff
of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. 6 He who smote the people in wrath
with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and
none hindereth. 7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth
into singing. 8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon,
saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us. 9 Hell from
beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead
for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their
thrones all the kings of the nations. 10 All they shall speak and say unto thee,
Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us? 11 Thy pomp is
brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under
thee, and the worms cover thee. 12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,
son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the
nations! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will
exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the
congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of
the clouds; I will be like the most High. 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to
hell, to the sides of the pit. 16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon
thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble,
that did shake kingdoms; 17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed
the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? 18 All the kings
of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. 19
But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment
of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones
of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. 20 Thou shalt not be joined with
them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the
seed of evildoers shall never be renowned. 21 Prepare slaughter for his children
for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land,
nor fill the face of the world with cities. 22 For I will rise up against them,
saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and
son, and nephew, saith the LORD. 23 I will also make it a possession for the
bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction,
saith the LORD of hosts. 24 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I
have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it
stand: 25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread
him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart
from off their shoulders. 26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole
earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. 27 For
the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is
stretched out, and who shall turn it back? 28 In the year that king Ahaz died
was this burden. 29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him
that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a
cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. 30 And the firstborn
of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill
thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant. 31 Howl, O gate; cry, O
city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north
a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times. 32 What shall one then
answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the
poor of his people shall trust in it.
Isaiah 15
1 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought
to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to
silence; 2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab
shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and
every beard cut off. 3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with
sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall
howl, weeping abundantly. 4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice
shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry
out; his life shall be grievous unto him. 5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his
fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the
mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of
Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction. 6 For the waters of Nimrim
shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no
green thing. 7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they
have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows. 8 For the cry
is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and
the howling thereof unto Beerelim. 9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of
blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab,
and upon the remnant of the land.
Isaiah 16
1 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto
the mount of the daughter of Zion. 2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird
cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon. 3
Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the
noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. 4 Let mine outcasts
dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler:
for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are
consumed out of the land. 5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he
shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking
judgment, and hasting righteousness. 6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is
very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies
shall not be so. 7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for
the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken. 8 For
the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen
have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer,
they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are
gone over the sea. 9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine
of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the
shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen. 10 And gladness is
taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall
be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no
wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease. 11 Wherefore
my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.
12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high
place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail. 13
This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time. 14
But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an
hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great
multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.
Isaiah 17
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and
it shall be a ruinous heap. 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be
for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. 3 The
fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the
remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith
the LORD of hosts. 4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of
Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. 5 And it
shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with
his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim. 6
Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or
three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost
fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel. 7 At that day shall a
man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of
Israel. 8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither
shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the
images. 9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an
uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there
shall be desolation. 10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation,
and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou
plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips: 11 In the day shalt
thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to
flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate
sorrow. 12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the
noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the
rushing of mighty waters! 13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many
waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be
chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing
before the whirlwind. 14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the
morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of
them that rob us.
Isaiah 18
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the
waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a
people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden
down, whose land the rivers have spoiled! 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and
dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains;
and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. 4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will
take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon
herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. 5 For afore the harvest,
when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall
both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the
branches. 6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to
the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the
beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. 7 In that time shall the present be
brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a
people terrible from their beginning hitherto; 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.
Isaiah 19
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall
come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the
heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. 2 And I will set the Egyptians
against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and
every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy
the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and
to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. 4 And the Egyptians will
I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over
them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts. 5 And the waters shall fail from the
sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. 6 And they shall turn the
rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the
reeds and flags shall wither. 7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of
the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away,
and be no more. 8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle
into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall
languish. 9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks,
shall be confounded. 10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all
that make sluices and ponds for fish. 11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools,
the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye
unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? 12 Where are
they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what
the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. 13 The princes of Zoan are become
fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they
that are the stay of the tribes thereof. 14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse
spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work
thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit. 15 Neither shall there be any
work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do. 16 In that day
shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the
shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it. 17 And the
land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention
thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts,
which he hath determined against it. 18 In that day shall five cities in the
land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one
shall be called, The city of destruction. 19 In that day shall there be an altar
to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border
thereof to the LORD. 20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the
LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of
the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall
deliver them. 21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall
know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall
vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it. 22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he
shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be
intreated of them, and shall heal them. 23 In that day shall there be a highway
out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the
Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. 24 In
that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing
in the midst of the land: 25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed
be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine
inheritance.
Isaiah 20
1 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria
sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it; 2 At the same time spake the
LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy
loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and
barefoot. 3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and
barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; 4 So
shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians
captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered,
to the shame of Egypt. 5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their
expectation, and of Egypt their glory. 6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall
say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be
delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?
Isaiah 21
1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through;
so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. 2 A grievous vision is
declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler
spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made
to cease. 3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon
me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of
it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it. 4 My heart panted, fearfulness
affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. 5
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and
anoint the shield. 6 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman,
let him declare what he seeth. 7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen,
a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with
much heed: 8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the
watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights: 9 And, behold,
here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and
said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he
hath broken unto the ground. 10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that
which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto
you. 11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the
night? Watchman, what of the night? 12 The watchman said, The morning cometh,
and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come. 13 The burden
upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies
of Dedanim. 14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was
thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled. 15 For they fled from
the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the
grievousness of war. 16 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Within a year,
according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail: 17
And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of
Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.
Isaiah 22
1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly
gone up to the housetops? 2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city,
joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. 3
All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are
found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far. 4 Therefore said I,
Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of
the spoiling of the daughter of my people. 5 For it is a day of trouble, and of
treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of
vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains. 6 And Elam bare
the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. 7
And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots,
and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate. 8 And he discovered
the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the
house of the forest. 9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that
they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool. 10 And ye
have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to
fortify the wall. 11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of
the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect
unto him that fashioned it long ago. 12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of
hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with
sackcloth: 13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep,
eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall
die. 14 And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this
iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
15 Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto
Shebna, which is over the house, and say, 16 What hast thou here? and whom hast
thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him
out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?
17 Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will
surely cover thee. 18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball
into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory
shall be the shame of thy lord's house. 19 And I will drive thee from thy
station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down. 20 And it shall come to
pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: 21 And
I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will
commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. 22 And the key of the house of David
will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he
shall shut, and none shall open. 23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure
place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house. 24 And they
shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the
issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the
vessels of flagons. 25 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that
is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the
burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
Isaiah 23
1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that
there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to
them. 2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon,
that pass over the sea, have replenished. 3 And by great waters the seed of
Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations. 4
Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea,
saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young
men, nor bring up virgins. 5 As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be
sorely pained at the report of Tyre. 6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye
inhabitants of the isle. 7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of
ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. 8 Who hath taken
this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose
traffickers are the honourable of the earth? 9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed
it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the
honourable of the earth. 10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of
Tarshish: there is no more strength. 11 He stretched out his hand over the sea,
he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant
city, to destroy the strong holds thereof. 12 And he said, Thou shalt no more
rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim;
there also shalt thou have no rest. 13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this
people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the
wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof;
and he brought it to ruin. 14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is
laid waste. 15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be
forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of
seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot. 16 Take an harp, go about the city,
thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that
thou mayest be remembered. 17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy
years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall
commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the
earth. 18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it
shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that
dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
Isaiah 24
1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it
upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. 2 And it shall be,
as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master;
as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller;
as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with
the giver of usury to him. 3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly
spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word. 4 The earth mourneth and fadeth
away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do
languish. 5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because
they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting
covenant. 6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell
therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few
men left. 7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do
sigh. 8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the
joy of the harp ceaseth. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink
shall be bitter to them that drink it. 10 The city of confusion is broken down:
every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 11 There is a crying for wine
in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. 12 In the
city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. 13 When thus
it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the
shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD,
they shall cry aloud from the sea. 15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the
fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea. 16 From
the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the
righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous
dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very
treacherously. 17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant
of the earth. 18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of
the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the
pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the
foundations of the earth do shake. 19 The earth is utterly broken down, the
earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. 20 The earth shall
reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the
transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise
again. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the
host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the
earth. 22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the
pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be
visited. 23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the
LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his
ancients gloriously.
Isaiah 25
1 O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou
hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. 2
For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of
strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. 3 Therefore shall the strong
people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. 4 For
thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress,
a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible
ones is as a storm against the wall. 5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of
strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud:
the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. 6 And in this mountain
shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people 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. 7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast
over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations. 8 He will swallow
up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces;
and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the
LORD hath spoken it. 9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we
have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for
him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. 10 For in this mountain shall
the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as
straw is trodden down for the dunghill. 11 And he shall spread forth his hands
in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and
he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands. 12 And
the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and
bring to the ground, even to the dust.
Isaiah 26
1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong
city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. 2 Open ye the gates,
that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. 3 Thou wilt keep
him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting
strength: 5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he
layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the
dust. 6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps
of the needy. 7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost
weigh the path of the just. 8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we
waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance
of thee. 9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit
within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the
inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. 10 Let favour be shewed to
the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will
he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD. 11 LORD, when thy
hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for
their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them. 12
LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in
us. 13 O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by
thee only will we make mention of thy name. 14 They are dead, they shall not
live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and
destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. 15 Thou hast increased the
nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst
removed it far unto all the ends of the earth. 16 LORD, in trouble have they
visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. 17
Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in
pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD. 18 We
have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth
wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the
inhabitants of the world fallen. 19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my
dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew
is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. 20 Come, my
people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide
thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. 21
For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the
earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no
more cover her slain.
Isaiah 27
1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish
leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he
shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. 2 In that day sing ye unto her, A
vineyard of red wine. 3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment:
lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. 4 Fury is not in me: who would
set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would
burn them together. 5 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make
peace with me; and he shall make peace with me. 6 He shall cause them that come
of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the
world with fruit. 7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is
he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him? 8 In measure,
when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in
the day of the east wind. 9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be
purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the
stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and
images shall not stand up. 10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the
habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and
there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. 11 When the boughs
thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on
fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will
not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour. 12 And
it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel
of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye
children of Israel. 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great
trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the
land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the
LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
Isaiah 28
1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty
is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are
overcome with wine! 2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a
tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing,
shall cast down to the earth with the hand. 3 The crown of pride, the drunkards
of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet: 4 And the glorious beauty, which is on
the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit
before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in
his hand he eateth it up. 5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown
of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people, 6 And for
a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them
that turn the battle to the gate. 7 But they also have erred through wine, and
through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred
through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way
through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. 8 For all
tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. 9 Whom
shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them
that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. 10 For precept must
be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a
little, and there a little: 11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will
he speak to this people. 12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may
cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. 13
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon
precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that
they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. 14
Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people
which is in Jerusalem. 15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with
death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall
pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and
under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD,
Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner
stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. 17 Judgment
also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail
shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding
place. 18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement
with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then
ye shall be trodden down by it. 19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall
take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it
shall be a vexation only to understand the report. 20 For the bed is shorter
than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that
he can wrap himself in it. 21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he
shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange
work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act. 22 Now therefore be ye not
mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of
hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth. 23 Give ye ear, and
hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. 24 Doth the plowman plow all day to
sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? 25 When he hath made plain
the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin,
and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their
place? 26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. 27
For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart
wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff,
and the cummin with a rod. 28 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be
threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his
horsemen. 29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful
in counsel, and excellent in working.
Isaiah 29
1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let
them kill sacrifices. 2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness
and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel. 3 And I will camp against thee
round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise
forts against thee. 4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the
ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as
of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall
whisper out of the dust. 5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like
small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that
passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly. 6 Thou shalt be visited
of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with
storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire. 7 And the multitude of all
the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her
munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision. 8 It
shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he
awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold,
he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath
appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount
Zion. 9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but
not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For the LORD hath
poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the
prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. 11 And the vision of all is
become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one
that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it
is sealed: 12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read
this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned. 13 Wherefore the Lord said,
Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do
honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is
taught by the precept of men: 14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a
marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the
wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent
men shall be hid. 15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the
LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who
knoweth us? 16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as
the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not?
or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding? 17
Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful
field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest? 18 And in that day
shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see
out of obscurity, and out of darkness. 19 The meek also shall increase their joy
in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. 20
For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all
that watch for iniquity are cut off: 21 That make a man an offender for a word,
and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for
a thing of nought. 22 Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham,
concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his
face now wax pale. 23 But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in
the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of
Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel. 24 They also that erred in spirit shall
come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
Isaiah 30
1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of
me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin
to sin: 2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to
strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of
Egypt! 3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in
the shadow of Egypt your confusion. 4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his
ambassadors came to Hanes. 5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not
profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach. 6 The
burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from
whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they
will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures
upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them. 7 For the
Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried
concerning this, Their strength is to sit still. 8 Now go, write it before them
in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever
and ever: 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will
not hear the law of the LORD: 10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the
prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things,
prophesy deceits: 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause
the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. 12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy
One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and
perverseness, and stay thereon: 13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a
breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh
suddenly at an instant. 14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters'
vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be
found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take
water withal out of the pit. 15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of
Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence
shall be your strength: and ye would not. 16 But ye said, No; for we will flee
upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift;
therefore shall they that pursue you be swift. 17 One thousand shall flee at the
rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon
upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill. 18 And therefore will
the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be
exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment:
blessed are all they that wait for him. 19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at
Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the
voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. 20 And though the
Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not
thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy
teachers: 21 And thine ears shall hear a 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. 22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and
the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a
menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. 23 Then shall he give
the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the
increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy
cattle feed in large pastures. 24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear
the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel
and with the fan. 25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every
high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when
the towers fall. 26 Moreover 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 seven days, in
the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the
stroke of their wound. 27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning
with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of
indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire: 28 And his breath, as an
overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations
with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people,
causing them to err. 29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy
solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come
into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel. 30 And the LORD
shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of
his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring
fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones. 31 For through the voice of
the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod. 32 And in
every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon
him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight
with it. 33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he
hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath
of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Isaiah 31
1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in
chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong;
but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD! 2 Yet he
also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will
arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work
iniquity. 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and
not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall
fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together. 4
For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion
roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him,
he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them:
so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill
thereof. 5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;
defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it. 6 Turn
ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted. 7 For in that
day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which
your own hands have made unto you for a sin. 8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with
the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour
him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited. 9
And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be
afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in
Jerusalem.
Isaiah 32
1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in
judgment. 2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert
from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great
rock in a weary land. 3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the
ears of them that hear shall hearken. 4 The heart also of the rash shall
understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak
plainly. 5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said
to be bountiful. 6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will
work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to
make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to
fail. 7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices
to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. 8 But
the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand. 9
Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give
ear unto my speech. 10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless
women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. 11 Tremble, ye
women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you
bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins. 12 They shall lament for the teats,
for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. 13 Upon the land of my people
shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous
city: 14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall
be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a
pasture of flocks; 15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the
wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the
fruitful field. 17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect
of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. 18 And my people shall dwell
in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a
low place. 20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither
the feet of the ox and the ass.
Isaiah 33
1 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest
treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease
to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal
treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee. 2 O LORD, be gracious
unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation
also in the time of trouble. 3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at
the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered. 4 And your spoil shall be
gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of
locusts shall he run upon them. 5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high:
he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness. 6 And wisdom and knowledge
shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the
LORD is his treasure. 7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the
ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly. 8 The highways lie waste, the
wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities,
he regardeth no man. 9 The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed
and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off
their fruits. 10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now
will I lift up myself. 11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble:
your breath, as fire, shall devour you. 12 And the people shall be as the
burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire. 13 Hear, ye
that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might.
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites.
Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with
everlasting burnings? 15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he
that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of
bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from
seeing evil; 16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the
munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure. 17 Thine
eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very
far off. 18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the
receiver? where is he that counted the towers? 19 Thou shalt not see a fierce
people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering
tongue, that thou canst not understand. 20 Look upon Zion, the city of our
solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle
that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be
removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. 21 But there the
glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall
go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. 22 For the LORD
is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
23 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they
could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame
take the prey. 24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that
dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
Isaiah 34
1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear,
and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. 2 For
the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their
armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their
carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. 4 And all the host
of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a
scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the
vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree. 5 For my sword shall be bathed in
heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse,
to judgment. 6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with
fatness, and 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 Idumea. 7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with
the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat
with fatness. 8 For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of
recompences for the controversy of Zion. 9 And the streams thereof shall be
turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof
shall become burning pitch. 10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke
thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste;
none shall pass through it for ever and ever. 11 But the cormorant and the
bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he
shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. 12
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and
all her princes shall be nothing. 13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces,
nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of
dragons, and a court for owls. 14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet
with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the
screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. 15
There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under
her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail,
none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath
gathered them. 17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided
it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to
generation shall they dwell therein.
Isaiah 35
1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert
shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. 2 It shall blossom abundantly, and
rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it,
the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and
the excellency of our God. 3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the
feeble knees. 4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not:
behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will
come and save you. 5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of
the deaf shall be unstopped. 6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the
tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and
streams in the desert. 7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the
thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay,
shall be grass with reeds and rushes. 8 And an highway shall be there, and a
way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over
it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err
therein. 9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon,
it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there: 10 And the
ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting
joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing
shall flee away.
Isaiah 36
1 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib
king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king
Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the
highway of the fuller's field. 3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's
son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the
recorder. 4 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the
great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
5 I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength
for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? 6 Lo, thou
trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it
will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that
trust in him. 7 But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not
he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to
Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar? 8 Now therefore give
pledges, I pray thee, to 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. 9 How then
wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's
servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? 10 And am I
now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto
me, Go up against this land, and destroy it. 11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and
Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian
language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in
the ears of the people that are on the wall. 12 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my
master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent
me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and
drink their own piss with you? 13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud
voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the
king of Assyria. 14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he
shall not be able to deliver you. 15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the
LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered
into the hand of the king of Assyria. 16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith
the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, 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 own cistern; 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.
18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, the LORD will deliver us. Hath any
of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of
Assyria? 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of
Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? 20 Who are they
among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my
hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? 21 But they held
their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was,
saying, Answer him not. 22 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over
the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder,
to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
Isaiah 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. 2 And
he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the
elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of
Amoz. 3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of
trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the
birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. 4 It may be the LORD thy God
will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent
to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God
hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left. 5 So the
servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus
shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words
that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have
blasphemed me. 7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a
rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in
his own land. 8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring
against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. 9 And he
heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war
with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 10 Thus
shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou
trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of
the king of Assyria. 11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have
done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered? 12
Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as
Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city
of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? 14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand
of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD,
and spread it before the LORD. 15 And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying, 16
O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art
the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made
heaven and earth. 17 Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O
LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to
reproach the living God. 18 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid
waste all the nations, and their countries, 19 And have cast their gods into the
fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone:
therefore they have destroyed them. 20 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us
from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the
LORD, even thou only. 21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying,
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against
Sennacherib king of Assyria: 22 This is the word which the LORD hath spoken
concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and
laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted
thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of
Israel. 24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the
multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the
sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice
fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the
forest of his Carmel. 25 I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my
feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places. 26 Hast thou not
heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it?
now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced
cities into ruinous heaps. 27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power,
they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as
the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be
grown up. 28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy
rage against me. 29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into
mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips,
and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest. 30 And this shall be
a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the
second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and
reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof. 31 And the remnant that is
escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit
upward: 32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape
out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this. 33 Therefore
thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this
city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank
against it. 34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall
not come into this city, saith the LORD. 35 For I will defend this city to save
it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake. 36 Then the angel of the
LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore
and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were
all dead corpses. 37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and
returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. 38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in
the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him
with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his
son reigned in his stead.
Isaiah 38
1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of
Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in
order: for thou shalt die, and not live. 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward
the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, 3 And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech
thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have
done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. 4 Then came the
word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying, 5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the
LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy
tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years. 6 And I will deliver thee
and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this
city. 7 And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do
this thing that he hath spoken; 8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the
degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So
the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. 9 The writing
of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his
sickness: 10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of
the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. 11 I said, I shall not see
the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more
with the inhabitants of the world. 12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from
me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me
off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. 13
I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from
day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. 14 Like a crane or a swallow, so
did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O
LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. 15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken
unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the
bitterness of my soul. 16 O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these
things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul
delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind
thy back. 18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee:
they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. 19 The living, the
living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall
make known thy truth. 20 The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing
my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of
the LORD. 21 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a
plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover. 22 Hezekiah also had said, What is
the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?
Isaiah 39
1 At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent
letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and
was recovered. 2 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his
precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious
ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his
treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that
Hezekiah shewed them not. 3 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and
said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And
Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon. 4
Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All
that is in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I
have not shewed them. 5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD
of hosts: 6 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that
which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to
Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD. 7 And of thy sons that shall
issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be
eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. 8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah,
Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there
shall be peace and truth in my days.
Isaiah 40
1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. 2 Speak ye comfortably to
Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity
is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins. 3
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD,
make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be
exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be
made straight, and the rough places plain: 5 And the glory of the LORD shall be
revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath
spoken it. 6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is
grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: 7 The grass
withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it:
surely the people is grass. 8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the
word of our God shall stand for ever. 9 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get
thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up
thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of
Judah, Behold your God! 10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and
his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before
him. 11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with
his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with
young. 12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out
heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and
weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? 13 Who hath
directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him? 14
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of
judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small
dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. 16
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a
burnt offering. 17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted
to him less than nothing, and vanity. 18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what
likeness will ye compare unto him? 19 The workman melteth a graven image, and
the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. 20 He that
is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot;
he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not
be moved. 21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you
from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof
are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth
them out as a tent to dwell in: 23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he
maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. 24 Yea, they shall not be planted;
yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth:
and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall
take them away as stubble. 25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be
equal? saith the Holy One. 26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath
created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them
all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not
one faileth. 27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid
from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God? 28 Hast thou not
known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of
the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of
his understanding. 29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no
might he increaseth strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and
the young men shall utterly fall: 31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall
renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run,
and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Isaiah 41
1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength:
let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
2 Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave
the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust
to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow. 3 He pursued them, and passed
safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet. 4 Who hath wrought
and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first,
and with the last; I am he. 5 The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the
earth were afraid, drew near, and came. 6 They helped every one his neighbour;
and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage. 7 So the carpenter
encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote
the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails,
that it should not be moved. 8 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I
have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend. 9 Thou whom I have taken from the
ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto
thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. 10 Fear
thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will
strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right
hand of my righteousness. 11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee
shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive
with thee shall perish. 12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even
them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing,
and as a thing of nought. 13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand,
saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. 14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and
ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy
One of Israel. 15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument
having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt
make the hills as chaff. 16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them
away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD,
and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. 17 When the poor and needy seek
water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will
hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. 18 I will open rivers in
high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the
wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. 19 I will plant
in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree;
I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the
hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it. 21
Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the
King of Jacob. 22 Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let
them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know
the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. 23 Shew the things
that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or
do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together. 24 Behold, ye are of
nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you. 25 I
have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun
shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and
as the potter treadeth clay. 26 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we
may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none
that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth
your words. 27 The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give
to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings. 28 For I beheld, and there was no
man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them,
could answer a word. 29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing:
their molten images are wind and confusion.
Isaiah 42