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Isaiah 1:1-31
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. (KJV)
2
Isaiah 2:1-22
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? (KJV)
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Isaiah 3:1-26
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.
Stink
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. (KJV)
4
Isaiah 4:1-6
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 daytime from the heat, and
for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain. (KJV)
5
Isaiah 5:1-30
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. (KJV)
6
Isaiah 6:1-13
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. (KJV)
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Isaiah 7:1-25
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. (KJV)
8
Isaiah 8:1-22
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. (KJV)
9
Isaiah 9:1-21
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. (KJV)
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Isaiah 10:1-34
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 standardbearer
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. (KJV)
11
Isaiah 11:1-16
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. (KJV)
12
Isaiah 12:1-6
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. (KJV)
13
Isaiah 13:1-22
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 eye 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. (KJV)
14
Isaiah 14:1-32
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. (KJV)
15
Isaiah 15:1-9
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. (KJV)
16
Isaiah 16:1-14
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. (KJV)
17
Isaiah 17:1-14
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. (KJV)
18
Isaiah 18:1-7
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. (KJV)
19
Isaiah 19:1-25
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. (KJV)
20
Isaiah 20:1-6
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? (KJV)
21
Isaiah 21:1-17
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. (KJV)
22
Isaiah 22:1-25
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, a 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.
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