CHAP. XXIV.

God's judgment for sin. 8Who hath taken this counsel against|lender, 80 with the borrower; as with Tyre, the crowning city, whose mer the taker of usury, so with the giver of chants are princes, whose traffickers usury to him. are the honourable of the earth ? 3 The land shall be utterly emptied, 9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath it, to stain the pride of all glory, and spoken this word.

to bring into contempt all the honour- 4 The earth mourneth and fadetb able of the earth. away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.

6 The earth also is defiled under the 11 He stretched out his hand over inhabitants thereof; because they have the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the transgressed the laws, changed the LORD hath given a commandment ordinance, broken the everlasting against the merchant-city, to destroy covenant

the strong holds thereof.

6 Therefore hath the curse devoured 12 And he said, Thou shalt no more the earth, and they that dwell therein rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, are desolate: therefore the inhabitants daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to of the earth are burned, and few men Chittim; there also shalt thou have left. no rest.

sigh.

8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endethi, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

7 The new wine mourneth, the vine 13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; languisheth, all the merry-hearted do 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. 9 They shall not drink wine with a 14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for eong; strong drink shall be bitter to your strength is laid waste.

them that drink it.

15 And it shall come to pass in that 10 The city of confusion is broken day, that Tyre shall be forgotten sev-down: every house is shut up, that enty years, according to the days of no man may come in.

one king: after the end of seventy 11 There is a crying for wine in the years shall Tyre sing as a harlot. streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

16 Take a barp, 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 carth.

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. CHAP. XXIV.

12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is emitten with destruction. 13 ↑ When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of au 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 Lond they shall cry aloud from the sea. 15 Wherefore glorify ve the Load in the fires, even the name of the Lond 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 lean

BEHOLD, the LORD maketh the nees, my leanness, wo unto me! the

earth empty, and maketh it waste, treacherous dealers have dealt treachand turneth it upside down, and scat-erously; yea, the treacherous dealers tereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. have dealt very treacherously.

earth.

2 And it shall be,as with the people, 17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, so with the priest; as with the servant, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, 90 with the seller; as with the

18. And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fea

God praised for

ISAJAH.

his juogments. shall fall into the pit: and he that, all people, and the vail that is spread cometh up out of the midst of the pit fover all nations.

shall be taken in the soare; for the 8 He will swallow up death in victowindows from on high are open, and ry; and the LORD God will wipe athe foundations of the earth do shake. way tears from off all faces; and the 19 The earth is utterly broken down, rebuke of his people shall be take a the earth is clean dissolved, the earth way from off all the earth: for the is moved exceedingly. LORD hath spoken it.

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

carth.

9 T And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we bave waited for him, and he will save us; this is the Lond; we have waited for bin, we will be glad and rejoice in his sak vation.

10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the Lond rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dung

22 And they shall be gathered to-hill. gether, as prisoners are gathered in 11 And he shall spread forth his hands The pit, and shall be shut up in the in the midst of them, as he that swin prison, and after many days shall they meth spreadeth forth his hands to De visited. swim and he shall bring down their 23 Then the moon shall be confound-pride together with the spoils of their ed, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

CHAP. XXV

bands.

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.

CHAP. XXVI.

TN that day shall this song he sung the land of Judah; We have a

LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; strong city: salvation will God appoint thy counsels of old are faithfulness for walls and bulwarks.

and truth.

2 Open ye the gates, that the right 2 For thou hast made of a city a heap:eous nation which keepeth the truth of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of may enter in. strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible natious 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 one shall be brought low.

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 LORDJEHOVAHis everlasting strength.

5 1 For he bringeth down them that dwell on bigh; the lofty city, be 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 Louv, have we waited for thee; the [desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

6 ¶ And in this mountain shall the LouD 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 his moun- 9 With my soul have 1 desired thee Lais. the face of the covering cast overlin the night; yea, with my spirit

God's care for

CHAP. XXVII.

his vineyard. CHAP. XXVII.

within me will I aeck thee early: for when thy judments are in the earth, TN that day the LORD, with his sore,

righteousness. punish leviathan the piercing serpent, 10 Let favour be showed to the wick-feven leviathan that crooked serpent; ed, yet will he not learn righteousness: and he shall slay the dragon that is in in the land of uprightness will he deal the sea. 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.

12T LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all Our works in us.

13 O Lond our God, other lords besides 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 meinory to perish.

2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.

3 1 the LORD do keep it; I will water [it every moment: lest any hurt it, L 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 blos som and buð, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

7 ¶ Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote bim? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?

15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: 8 In measure, when it shooteth fortk, thou art glorified: thou hadst re-thou wilt debate with it; he stayeth moved it far unto all the ends of the his rough wind in the day of the cast earth. wind. 16 LORD, in trouble have they visited 9 By this therefore shall the iniquity thee, they poured out a prayer when of Jacob be purged; and this is all the thy chastening was upon thêm. fruit to take away his sin; when he 17 Like as a woman with child, theat|maketh all the stones of the altar as draweth near the time of her delivery, chalk-stones that are beaten in sunder, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; the groves and images shall not stand so have we been in thy sight, O Load. up. 18 We have been with child, We 10 Yet the defenced city shall be des have been in pain, we have as it were olate, and the habitation forsaken, brought forth wind: we have not and left like a wilderness; there shall wrought any deliverance in the earth; the calf feed, and there shall he lie meither have the inhabitants of the down, and consume the branches world fallen. thereof.

19 Thy dead men shall live, together 11 When the boughs thereof are with my dead body shall they arise. withered, they shall be broken off: Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the women come, and set them on dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

201 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, uutil the indignation be overpast.

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 show them no favour.

127 And it shall come to pass it that day,that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the 21 For, behold,the LORD cometh out stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gath of his place to punish the inhabitants ered one by one, O ye children of Is of the earth for their iniquity: the rael. earth also shall disclose her blood, and 13 And it shall come to pass in that shall no more cover her lain. [day, that the great trumpet shall be

Christ promised.

blown, and they shall come which 13 But the word of the LORD was were ready to perish in the land of unto them, precept upon precept, pre Assyria, and the outcast in the land cept, upon precept; line upon line, of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD line upon line; here a little, and there in the holy mount at Jerusalem. a little; that they might go, and falı backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

CHAP. XXVIII.

O to crown of pride, to the

W to the roll Epprim, whose 11 Wherefore hear the word of the

glorious beauty is a fading flower, Lond, ye scornful men, that rule this which are on the head of the fat val-people which is in Jerusalem. Jeys of them that are overcome with wine!

15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with 2 Behold, the LORD hath a mighty hell are we at agreement; when the and strong one, which as a tempest of overflowing scourge shall passthrough, hail and a destroying storm, as a flood it shall not come unto us; for we have of mighty waters overflowing, shall made lies our refuge, and under falsecast down to the earth with the hand. hood have we hid ourselves. 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 then 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 posts 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 bim that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to thein that turn the battle to the gate.

16 T 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 7 T But they also have erred through it shall take you: for morning by wine, and through strong drink are morning shall it pass over, by day and out of the way; the priest and the by night: and it shall be a vexation prophet have erred through strong only to understand the report. drink, they are swallowed up of wine, 20 For the bed is shorter than that they are out of the way through strong a man can stretch himself on it: and drink; they err in vision, they stum- the covering narrower than that he ble in judgment. can wrap himself in it.

8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may 9 ¶ Whom shall he teach knowledge? do his work, his strange work; and and whom shall be make to understand bring to pass his act, his strange act. doctrine ? them that are weaned from 22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, the milk, and drawn from the breasts. 'lest your bands be made strong: for 10 For precept must be upon pre-¡I have heard from the Lord God of cept, precept upon precept: line upon bosts a consumption, even determined line, line upon line; here a little, and upon the whole earth.

there a little: 23T Give ye ear, and hear my voice; 11 For with stammering lips and an-hearken, and hear my speech. other tongue will he speak to this 24 Doth the plowman plow all day people. to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground ?

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.

25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, aud

CHAP. XXIX.

The hypocrisy of the Jews. cast in the principal wheat, and the] 9 ¶ Stay yourselves,and wonder; cry appointed barley, and the rye, in their ye out, and cry; they are drunken, place? but not with wine; they stagger, but

26 For his God doth instruct him to not with strong drink. discretion, and doth teach him. 10 For the Lond bath poured out up27 For the fitches are not threshed on you the spirit of deep sleep, and with a threshing instrument, neither hath closed your eyes: the prophets is a cart-wheel turned about upon the arid your rulers, the seers haib he cummin; but the fitches are beaten covered. 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. CHAP. XXIX.

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11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the word 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.

O to Ariel, to Ariel, the city 13 Wherefore the Lone said, Forwhere David dwelt add yeasmuch as this people draw near me year to year; let them kill sacrifices. with their mouth, and with their lips 2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there do bonour me, but have removed their shall be heaviness and sorrow and it heart far from me, and their fear toshall be unto me as Ariel. ward me is taught by the precept of men :

:

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.

14 Therefore, bebold, 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 Wo 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?

5 Moreover, the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and 16 Surely your turning of things the inultitude of the terrible ones upside down shall be esteemed as the shall be as chaff that passeth away; potter's clay for shall the work say yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly. of him that made it, He made me noứ? 6 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD or shall the thing framed say of him of hosts with thunder, and with earth-that framed it, He had no understandquake, and great noise, with storming? 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 muuition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night-vision.

8 It shall even be as when a hungry man dreameth,and,behold, be 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 bath appetite; so shall the multitude of all the nations be that 6ght against mount Zion.

17 T Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon sball 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 tbe 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 inen 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 lol: