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Isaiah
| Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, and rely
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 Jehovah! |
| Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will
not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the
evil-doers, and against the help of them that work iniquity. |
| Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their
horses flesh, and not spirit: and when Jehovah shall stretch out his
hand, both he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall
fall, and they all shall be consumed together. |
| For thus saith Jehovah unto me, As the lion and the
young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds be called
forth against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase
himself for the noise of them: so will Jehovah of hosts come down to
fight upon mount Zion, and upon the hill thereof. |
| As birds hovering, so will Jehovah of hosts protect
Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver [it], he will pass over and
preserve [it]. |
| Turn ye unto him from whom ye have deeply revolted,
O children of Israel. |
| For in that day they shall cast away every man his
idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made
unto you for a sin. |
| And the Assyrian shall fall by the sword, not of
man; and the sword, not of men, shall devour him; and he shall flee from
the sword, and his young men shall become subject to taskwork. |
| And his rock shall pass away by reason of terror,
and his princes shall be dismayed at the ensign, saith Jehovah, whose
fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem. |
| Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and
princes shall rule in justice. |
| And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind,
and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as
the shade of a great rock in a weary land. |
| And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and
the ears of them that hear shall hearken. |
| And the heart of the rash shall understand
knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak
plainly. |
| The fool shall be no more called noble, nor the
churl said to be bountiful. |
| For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will
work iniquity, to practise profaneness, and to utter error against
Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of
the thirsty to fail. |
| And the instruments of the churl are evil: he
deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when
the needy speaketh right. |
| But the noble deviseth noble things; and in noble
things shall he continue. |
| Rise up, ye women that are at ease, [and] hear my
voice; ye careless daughters, give ear unto my speech. |
| For days beyond a year shall ye be troubled, ye
careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering shall not
come. |
| Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye
careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird [sackcloth] upon
your loins. |
| They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant
fields, for the fruitful vine. |
| Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and
briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city. |
| For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city
shall be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens for
ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; |
| until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and
the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be
esteemed as a forest. |
| Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness; and
righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field. |
| And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and
the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence for ever. |
| And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation,
and in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places. |
| But it shall hail in the downfall of the forest; and
the city shall be utterly laid low. |
| Blessed are yet that sow beside all waters, that
send forth the feet of the ox and the ass. |
| Woe to thee that destroyest, and thou wast not
destroyed; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously
with thee! When thou hast ceased to destroy, thou shalt be destroyed;
and when thou hast made an end of dealing treacherously, they shall deal
treacherously with thee. |
| O Jehovah, be gracious unto us; we have waited for
thee: be thou our arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of
trouble. |
| At the noise of the tumult the peoples are fled; at
the lifting up of thyself the nations are scattered. |
| And your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar
gathereth: as locusts leap shall men leap upon it. |
| Jehovah is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath
filled Zion with justice and righteousness. |
| And there shall be stability in thy times, abundance
of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of Jehovah is thy
treasure. |
| Behold, their valiant ones cry without; the
ambassadors of peace weep bitterly. |
| The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth:
[the enemy] hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he
regardeth not man. |
| The land mourneth and languisheth; Lebanon is
confounded and withereth away; Sharon is like a desert; and Bashan and
Carmel shake off [their leaves]. |
| Now will I arise, saith Jehovah; now will I lift up
myself; now will I be exalted. |
| Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth
stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you. |
| And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime, as
thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire. |
| Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye
that are near, acknowledge my might. |
| The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling hath
seized the godless ones: Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire?
who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings? |
| He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly;
he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from
taking a bribe, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and
shutteth his eyes from looking upon evil: |
| He shall dwell on high; his place of defence shall
be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given [him]; his waters
shall be sure. |
| Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they
shall behold a land that reacheth afar. |
| Thy heart shall muse on the terror: Where is he that
counted, where is he that weighed [the tribute]? where is he that
counted the towers? |
| Thou shalt not see the fierce people, a people of a
deep speech that thou canst not comprehend, of a strange tongue that
thou canst not understand. |
| Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine
eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not be
removed, the stakes whereof shall never be plucked up, neither shall any
of the cords thereof be broken. |
| But there Jehovah will be with us in majesty, a
place of broad rivers and streams, wherein shall go no galley with oars,
neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. |
| For Jehovah is our judge, Jehovah is our lawgiver,
Jehovah is our king; he will save us. |
| Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not strengthen
the foot of their mast, they could not spread the sail: then was the
prey of a great spoil divided; the lame took the prey. |
| And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the
people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity. |
| Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye
peoples: let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; the world, and all
things that come forth from it. |
| For Jehovah hath indignation against all the
nations, and wrath against all their host: he hath utterly destroyed
them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. |
| Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench
of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains shall be melted
with their blood. |
| And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and
the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host
shall fade away, as the leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as a fading
[leaf] from the fig-tree. |
| For my sword hath drunk its fill in heaven: behold,
it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to
judgment. |
| The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is
made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat
of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a
great slaughter in the land of Edom. |
| And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the
bullocks with the bulls: and their land shall be drunken with blood, and
their dust made fat with fatness. |
| For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of
recompense for the cause of Zion. |
| And the streams of [Edom] shall be turned into
pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall
become burning pitch. |
| 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. |
| But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it;
and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over
it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness. |
| They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom,
but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing. |
| And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and
thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of
jackals, a court for ostriches. |
| And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with
the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yea, the
night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest. |
| There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay,
and hatch, and gather under her shade; yea, there shall the kites be
gathered, every one with her mate. |
| Seek ye out of the book of Jehovah, and read: no one
of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it
hath commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered them. |
| 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. |
| The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; and
the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. |
| 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 Jehovah,
the excellency of our God. |
| Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble
knees. |
| Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong,
fear not: behold, your God will come [with] vengeance, [with] the
recompense of God; he will come and save you. |
| Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the
ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. |
| Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the
tongue of the dumb shall sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break
out, and streams in the desert. |
| And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the
thirsty ground springs of water: in the habitation of jackals, where
they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. |
| And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it
shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it;
but is shall be for [the redeemed]: the wayfaring men, yea fools, shall
not err [therein]. |
| No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast
go up thereon; they shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall
walk [there]: |
| and the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come
with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads:
they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee
away. |
| Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king
Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the
fortified cities of Judah, and took them. |
| 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. |
| Then came forth unto him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,
who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of
Asaph, the recorder. |
| 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? |
| I say, [thy] counsel and strength for the war are
but vain words: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled
against me? |
| Behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised
reed, even upon 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 on him. |
| But if thou say unto me, We trust in Jehovah our
God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath
taken away, and hath said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship
before this altar? |
| Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges 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. |
| How then canst 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? |
| And am I now come up without Jehovah against this
land to destroy it? Jehovah said unto me, Go up against this land, and
destroy it. |
| 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. |
| 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, to eat their own dung, and to drink
their own water with you? |
| 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. |
| Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you;
for he will not be able to deliver you: |
| neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Jehovah,
saying, Jehovah will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given
into the hand of the king of Assyria. |
| Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of
Assyria, Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and eat ye every
one of his vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one
the waters of his own cistern; |
| until I come and take you away to a land like your
own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. |
| Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Jehovah
will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land
out of the hand of the king of Assyria? |
| Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? where are
the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? |
| Who are they among all the gods of these countries,
that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Jehovah should
deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? |
| But they held their peace, and answered him not a
word; for the king`s commandment was, saying, Answer him not. |
| 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. |
| 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 Jehovah. |
| 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. |
| And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This
day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the
children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring
forth. |
| It may be Jehovah thy God will hear the words of
Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to defy the
living God, and will rebuke the words which Jehovah thy God hath heard:
wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left. |
| So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. |
| And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your
master, Thus saith Jehovah, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast
heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. |
| Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall
hear tidings, and shall return unto his own land; and I will cause him
to fall by the sword in his own land. |
| So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria
warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from
Lachish. |
| And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of
Ethiopia, He is come out to fight against thee. And when he heard it, he
sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, |
| 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. |
| Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria
have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be
delivered? |
| Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which
my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the
children of Eden that were in Telassar? |
| Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad,
and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? |
| And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of
the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up unto the house of
Jehovah, and spread it before Jehovah. |
| And Hezekiah prayed unto Jehovah, saying, |
| O Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, that sittest
[above] the cherubim, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the
kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth. |
| Incline thine ear, O Jehovah, and hear; open thine
eyes, O Jehovah, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who
hath sent to defy the living God. |
| Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid
waste all the countries, and their land, |
| 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. |
| Now therefore, O Jehovah our God, save us from his
hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art Jehovah,
even thou only. |
| Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah,
saying, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed
to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, |
| this is the word which Jehovah hath spoken
concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion hath despised thee and
laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at
thee. |
| Whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? and against
whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high?
[even] against the Holy One of Israel. |
| By thy servants hast thou defied the Lord, and hast
said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of
the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down
the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir-trees thereof; and I will
enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field; |
| I have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of
my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt. |
| Hast thou not heard how I have done it long ago, and
formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it
should be thine to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. |
| 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 a field [of
grain] before it is grown up. |
| But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and
thy coming in, and thy raging against me. |
| Because of thy raging against me, and because thine
arrogancy 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. |
| And this shall be the sign unto thee: ye shall eat
this year that which groweth of itself, and in 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. |
| And the remnant that is escaped of the house of
Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. |
| For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and
out of mount Zion they that shall escape. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts
will perform this. |
| Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the king of
Assyria, He shall not come unto this city, nor shoot an arrow there,
neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against
it. |
| By the way that he came, by the same shall he
return, and he shall not come unto this city, saith Jehovah. |
| For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own
sake, and for my servant David`s sake. |
| And the angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in
the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand; and
when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. |
| So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went
and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. |
| 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 Ararat. And
Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead. |
| In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And
Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus
saith Jehovah, Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live. |
| Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and
prayed unto Jehovah, |
| and said, Remember now, O Jehovah, 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. |
| Then came the word of Jehovah to Isaiah, saying, |
| Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, 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. |
| And I will deliver thee and this city out of the
hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city. |
| And this shall be the sign unto thee from Jehovah,
that Jehovah will do this thing that he hath spoken: |
| behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which
is gone down on the dial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten
steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the dial whereon it was gone
down. |
| The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had
been sick, and was recovered of his sickness. |
| I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into
the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years. |
| I said, I shall not see Jehovah, [even] Jehovah in
the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants
of the world. |
| My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me
as a shepherd`s tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will
cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end
of me. |
| I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he
breaketh all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of
me. |
| Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I did
moan as a dove; mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O Lord, I am
oppressed, be thou my surety. |
| What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and
himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the
bitterness of my soul. |
| O Lord, by these things men live; And wholly therein
is the life of my spirit: Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to
live. |
| Behold, [it was] for [my] peace [that] 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. |
| For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate
thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. |
| The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I
do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth. |
| Jehovah is [ready] to save me: Therefore we will
sing my songs with stringed instruments All the days of our life in the
house of Jehovah. |
| Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs,
and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover. |
| Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I
shall go up to the house of Jehovah? |
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