1 THE ^avision of ^bIsaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning ^cJudah and Jerusalem in the days of ^dUzziah , ^eJotham , ^fAhaz , and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
 2 ^aHear , O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have ^brebelled against me.
 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s ^acrib : but Israel doth not ^bknow , my people doth not consider.
 4 Ah ^asinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, ^bchildren that are ^ccorrupters : they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto ^danger , they are gone away backward.
 5 ¶ Why should ye be ^astricken any more? ye will ^brevolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart ^cfaint .
 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 ^aclosed , neither bound up, neither ^bmollified with ointment.
 7 Your ^acountry is ^bdesolate , your cities are burned with fire: your land, ^cstrangers 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 ^avineyard , as ^ba lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
 9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small ^aremnant , we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
 10 ¶ Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of ^aSodom ; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your ^asacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I ^bdelight 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 ^avain ^boblations ; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and ^csabbaths , the calling of ^dassemblies , I cannot ^eaway with; it is ^finiquity , even the ^gsolemn meeting.
 14 Your new ^amoons and your appointed ^bfeasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am ^cweary to bear them.
 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many ^aprayers , I will not hear: your hands are full of ^bblood .
 16 ¶ ^aWash you, make you ^bclean ; put away the ^cevil of your doings from before mine eyes; ^dcease to do evil;
 17 ^aLearn to do ^bwell ; seek ^cjudgment , ^drelieve the oppressed, ^ejudge the fatherless, plead for the ^fwidow .
 18 Come now, and let us ^areason together, saith the LORD: though your ^bsins be as scarlet, they shall be as ^cwhite as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
 19 If ye be ^awilling and ^bobedient , ye shall eat the ^cgood of the land:
 20 But if ye refuse and ^arebel , ye shall be ^bdevoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
 21 ¶ How is the faithful city become an ^aharlot ! it was full of ^bjudgment ; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
 22 Thy silver is become ^adross , thy wine mixed with water:
 23 Thy ^aprinces are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth ^bgifts , and followeth after rewards: they ^cjudge 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 ^aadversaries , and avenge me of mine enemies:
 25 ¶ And I will ^aturn my hand upon thee, and purely ^bpurge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
 26 And I will ^arestore thy judges as at the first, and thy ^bcounsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The ^ccity of righteousness, the faithful city.
 27 ^aZion shall be redeemed with ^bjudgment , and her ^cconverts 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 ^aoaks 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 ^aas tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both ^bburn together, and none shall quench them.

 1 THE word that ^aIsaiah the son of Amoz ^bsaw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
 2 And it shall come to pass in the ^alast days, that the ^bmountain of the LORD’s ^chouse shall be ^destablished in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all ^enations shall flow unto it.
 3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us ^ago up to the ^bmountain of the LORD, to the ^chouse of the God of Jacob; and he will ^dteach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of ^eZion shall go forth the ^flaw , and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
 4 And he shall ^ajudge 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 ^bwar any more.
 5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us ^awalk in the ^blight of the LORD.
 6 ¶ Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they ^abe replenished from the east, and are ^bsoothsayers like the Philistines, and they ^cplease 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 ^aidols ; they ^bworship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
 9 And the ^amean man ^bboweth 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 ^aexalted in that ^bday .
 12 For the ^aday of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is ^bproud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought ^clow :
 13 And upon all the ^acedars 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 ^aships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
 17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the ^ahaughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
 18 And the ^aidols he shall utterly abolish.
 19 And they shall go into the ^aholes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for ^bfear 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 ^acast 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 ^aman , whose breath is in his nostrils: for ^bwherein is he to be accounted of?

 1 ^aFOR , behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from ^bJerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of ^cbread , 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 ^aancient ,
 3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and ^athe cunning artificer, and the ^beloquent orator.
 4 And I will give ^achildren 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 ^aancient , 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 ^aruin be under thy hand:
 7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be ^aan healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
 8 For ^aJerusalem is ruined, and Judah is ^bfallen : 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 ^asin as ^bSodom , they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
 10 Say ye to the ^arighteous , that it shall be well with him: for they shall ^beat the fruit of their doings.
 11 Woe unto the ^awicked ! it shall be ill with him: for ^bthe reward of his hands shall be given him.
 12 ¶ As for my people, children are their oppressors, and ^awomen rule over them. O my people, they which ^blead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
 13 The LORD standeth up to ^aplead , and standeth to judge the people.
 14 The LORD will enter into ^ajudgment with the ^bancients of his people, and the ^cprinces thereof: for ye have ^deaten up the vineyard; the ^espoil of the ^fpoor is in your houses.
 15 What mean ye that ye ^abeat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
 16 ¶ Moreover the LORD saith, Because the ^adaughters of Zion are ^bhaughty , and ^cwalk with stretched forth necks and ^dwanton eyes, walking and ^emincing 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 ^adiscover their secret parts.
 18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their ^acauls , and their ^bround tires like the moon,
 19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the ^amufflers ,
 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 ^achangeable suits of ^bapparel , and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
 23 The ^aglasses , 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 ^aa rent; and instead of well set hair ^bbaldness ; and instead of ^ca stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and ^dburning instead of ^ebeauty .
 25 Thy ^amen shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
 26 And her ^agates shall ^blament and ^cmourn ; and she being ^ddesolate shall sit upon the ^eground .

 1 AND in that day ^aseven women shall take hold of one ^bman , saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy ^cname , to take away our ^dreproach .
 2 In that day shall the ^abranch of the LORD be ^bbeautiful and glorious, and the ^cfruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are ^descaped of Israel.
 3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is ^aleft in ^bZion , and he that remaineth in ^cJerusalem , shall be called holy, even every one that is ^dwritten among the living in Jerusalem:
 4 ^aWhen the Lord shall have ^bwashed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have ^cpurged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of ^dburning .
 5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount ^aZion , and upon her assemblies, a ^bcloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming ^cfire 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 ^arefuge , and for a covert from storm and from rain.

 1 ^aNow will I sing ^bto my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his ^cvineyard . My wellbeloved hath a vineyard ^din 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 ^awild grapes?
 5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my ^avineyard : I will ^btake away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the ^cwall 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 ^avineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for ^bjudgment , but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold ^ca cry.
 8 ¶ Woe unto them that ^ajoin ^bhouse to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may ^cbe 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 ^abath , 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 ^awine inflame them!
 12 And the harp, and the ^aviol , the ^btabret , and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they ^cregard not the ^dwork of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
 13 ¶ Therefore my people are gone into ^acaptivity , because they have no ^bknowledge : 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 ^apomp , 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 ^alofty shall be humbled:
 16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in ^ajudgment , and God that is ^bholy 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 ^adraw iniquity with cords of ^bvanity , and sin ^cas it were with a cart rope:
 19 That say, Let him make ^aspeed , and ^bhasten his work, that we may ^csee it: and let the counsel of the ^dHoly One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
 20 ¶ Woe unto them that call ^aevil ^bgood , and good evil; that put ^cdarkness for ^dlight , and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
 21 Woe unto them that are ^awise in their own ^beyes , and ^cprudent in their own sight!
 22 Woe unto them that are mighty to ^adrink ^bwine , and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
 23 Which ^ajustify the ^bwicked for reward, and ^ctake away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
 24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the ^astubble , and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their ^broot 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 ^aanger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath ^bstretched 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 ^aensign to the nations from far, and will ^bhiss unto them from the ^cend of the earth: and, behold, they shall ^dcome 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 ^alions : yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the ^bprey , 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 ^alight is ^bdarkened in the heavens thereof.

 1 ^aIN the year that king Uzziah died I ^bsaw also the ^cLord sitting upon a ^dthrone , high and lifted up, and ^ehis train filled the temple.
 2 Above it stood the ^aseraphims : 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 ^aLORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his ^bglory .
 4 And the ^aposts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with ^bsmoke .
 5 ¶ Then said I, Woe is me! for I am ^aundone ; because I am a man of ^bunclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have ^cseen the ^dKing , the LORD of hosts.
 6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live ^acoal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
 7 And he laid it upon my ^amouth , and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is ^btaken away, and thy sin purged.
 8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I ^asend , and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; ^bsend me.
 9 ¶ And he said, Go, and tell this people, ^aHear ye indeed, but ^bunderstand not; and see ye indeed, but ^cperceive not.
 10 Make the ^aheart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and ^bshut 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, ^ahow 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 ^a 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 ^bsubstance thereof.

 1 ^aAND it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that ^bRezin the ^cking of Syria, and ^dPekah 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 ^aEphraim . 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 ^aShear -jashub thy son, at the end of the ^bconduit of the upper pool ^cin the highway of the fuller’s field;
 4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted ^afor 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 ^amake 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 ^aDamascus , and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall ^bEphraim 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 ^abelieve , surely ye shall ^bnot 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 ^atempt 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 ^asign ; ^bBehold , a ^cvirgin shall conceive, and bear a ^dson , and shall call his name ^eImmanuel .
 15 ^aButter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
 16 For ^abefore the child shall know to refuse the ^bevil , and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
 17 ¶ The LORD shall ^abring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that ^bEphraim departed from ^cJudah ; even the king of Assyria.
 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall ^ahiss ^bfor 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 ^ashave 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 ^anourish 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 ^abutter 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 ^asilverlings , 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 ^adigged 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 ^blesser cattle.

 1 MOREOVER the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great ^aroll , and ^bwrite in it with ^ca man’s pen concerning ^eMaher-shalal-hash-baz .
 2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
 3 And I went unto ^athe prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name ^bMaher -shalal-hash-baz.
 4 For ^abefore the child shall ^bhave knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of ^cSamaria shall be ^dtaken away before the king of Assyria.
 5 ¶ The LORD spake also unto me again, saying,
 6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of ^aShiloah that go softly, and rejoice in ^bRezin and Remaliah’s son;
 7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon ^athem the ^bwaters of the river, strong and many, even the king of ^cAssyria , and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
 8 And he shall ^apass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the ^bneck ; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O ^cImmanuel .
 9 ¶ ^aAssociate 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 ^acounsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for ^bGod is with us.
 11 ¶ For the LORD spake thus to me ^awith a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
 12 Say ye not, A ^aconfederacy , 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 ^afear , and let him be your dread.
 14 And he shall be for a ^asanctuary ; but for a ^bstone of ^cstumbling and for a ^drock of ^eoffence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a ^fsnare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
 15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
 16 ^aBind up the testimony, ^bseal the ^claw among my disciples.
 17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that ^ahideth his ^bface 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 ^asigns 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 ^afamiliar spirits, and unto ^bwizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? ^cfor the living to the dead?
 20 To the ^alaw and to the testimony: if ^bthey speak not according to this word, it is because there is no ^clight in them.
 21 And ^athey 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 ^bcurse their king and their God, and look upward.
 22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and ^adarkness , ^bdimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

 1 ^aNEVERTHELESS the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, ^bwhen at the first he lightly afflicted the land of ^cZebulun 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 ^adarkness have seen a great ^blight : they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
 3 Thou hast ^amultiplied the ^bnation , ^c and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men ^drejoice when they divide the spoil.
 4 For thou hast broken the ^ayoke of his ^bburden , and the staff of his shoulder, the ^crod of his oppressor, as ^din the day of ^eMidian .
 5 ^aFor every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with ^bburning and fuel of fire.
 6 For unto us a ^achild is ^bborn , unto us a ^cson is given: and the ^dgovernment shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, ^eCounsellor , The ^fmighty ^gGod , The ^heverlasting Father, The Prince of ⁱPeace .
 7 Of the increase of his ^agovernment and peace there shall be no ^bend , upon the throne of ^cDavid , and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with ^djustice from henceforth even for ever. The ^ezeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
 8 ¶ The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon ^aIsrael .
 9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the ^apride 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 ^aRezin against him, and join his enemies together;
 12 The Syrians ^abefore , and the Philistines ^bbehind ; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his ^canger is not turned away, but his ^dhand is ^estretched out still.
 13 ¶ For the people ^aturneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they ^bseek the LORD of hosts.
 14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
 15 The ^aancient and honourable, he is the head; and the ^bprophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
 16 For the ^aleaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are ^bdestroyed .
 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 ^ahypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth ^bspeaketh 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 ^athorns , and shall kindle in the ^bthickets 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 ^aspare his ^bbrother .
 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 ^aeat every man the ^bflesh 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.

 1 ^aWOE unto them that decree ^bunrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
 2 To turn aside the needy from ^ajudgment , and to take away the right from the ^bpoor 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 ^avisitation , 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 ^aAssyrian , the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
 6 I will send him against an ^ahypocritical 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 ^adoth 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 ^apunish ^bthe fruit of the stout heart of the king of ^cAssyria , and the glory of his high looks.
 13 For he saith, By the ^astrength 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 ^aShall the axe ^bboast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that ^cshaketh 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 ^afat ones leanness; and under ^bhis 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 ^athorns and his briers in one day;
 18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both ^asoul 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 ^athat day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are ^bescaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again ^cstay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
 21 The ^aremnant shall ^breturn , even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
 22 For though thy people Israel be as the ^asand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall ^breturn : the ^cconsumption ^ddecreed shall ^eoverflow with righteousness.
 23 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall ^amake 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 ^asmite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of ^bEgypt .
 25 For yet a very little ^awhile , and the ^bindignation 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 ^aMidian at the rock of ^bOreb : and as his ^crod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of ^dEgypt .
 27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his ^aburden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the ^byoke shall be destroyed because of the ^canointing .
 28 ^aHe 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 ^aterror : and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the ^bhaughty shall be humbled.
 34 And he shall cut down the ^athickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall ^bby a mighty one.

 1 ^aAND there shall come forth a ^brod out of the ^cstem of ^dJesse , and a ^eBranch shall grow out of his roots:
 2 And the ^aspirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of ^bwisdom and ^cunderstanding , the spirit of ^dcounsel 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 ^ajudge ^bafter the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
 4 But with righteousness shall ^ahe ^bjudge the poor, and ^creprove with equity for the ^dmeek of the earth: and he shall ^esmite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the ^fbreath of his lips shall he ^gslay the wicked.
 5 And righteousness shall be the ^agirdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his ^breins .
 6 The ^awolf 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 ^athe asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the ^bcockatrice ’ den.
 9 They shall not ^ahurt nor ^bdestroy in all my holy ^cmountain : for the ^dearth shall be full of the ^eknowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
 10 ¶ And in ^athat day there shall be a ^broot of Jesse, which shall stand for an ^censign of the people; ^dto it shall the ^eGentiles seek: and his ^frest shall be glorious.
 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the ^asecond time to ^brecover the ^cremnant 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 ^dislands of the sea.
 12 And he shall set up an ^aensign 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 ^aenvy ^bJudah , and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
 14 But they shall ^afly upon the ^bshoulders of the Philistines toward the west; ^cthey 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 ^adestroy the tongue of the ^bEgyptian 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 ^aan ^bhighway 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.

 1 ^aAND ^bin that day thou shalt say, O LORD, ^cI 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 ^aJEHOVAH is my ^bstrength and my song; he also is become my ^csalvation .
 3 Therefore with ^ajoy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
 4 And in that day shall ye say, ^aPraise the LORD, ^bcall upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.
 5 ^aSing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.
 6 Cry out and shout, thou ^ainhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the ^bmidst of thee.

 1 ^aTHE ^bburden of ^cBabylon , which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
 2 Lift ye up a ^abanner upon the high ^bmountain , ^cexalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
 3 I have commanded my ^asanctified ones, I have also called my ^bmighty 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 ^akingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the ^bbattle .
 5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to ^adestroy the whole land.
 6 ¶ ^aHowl ye; for the ^bday 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 ^amelt :
 8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in ^apain as a woman that ^btravaileth : 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 ^adestroy 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 ^adarkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
 11 And I will ^apunish the ^bworld 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 ^chaughtiness of the ^dterrible .
 12 I will make a man more ^aprecious than fine gold; even a man than the ^bgolden wedge of Ophir.
 13 Therefore I will ^ashake the heavens, and the ^bearth shall ^cremove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce ^danger .
 14 And it shall be as the ^achased roe, and as a sheep that ^bno man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own ^cpeople , and flee every one into his own ^dland .
 15 Every one that is found shall be ^athrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
 16 Their ^achildren also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their ^bhouses shall be ^cspoiled , and their wives ravished.
 17 Behold, I will stir up the ^aMedes 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 ^aBabylon , the glory of kingdoms, the ^bbeauty of the ^cChaldees ’ excellency, shall be as when God ^doverthrew ^eSodom and Gomorrah.
 20 It shall never be ^ainhabited , 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 ^awild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and ^bsatyrs shall dance there.
 22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate ^ahouses , and ^bdragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

 1 ^aFOR the LORD will have ^bmercy on Jacob, and will yet ^cchoose Israel, and set them in their own ^dland : and the ^estrangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
 2 And the ^apeople shall take them, and ^bbring 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 ^ccaptives , whose captives they were; and they shall ^drule 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 ^aproverb against the king of ^bBabylon , and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the ^cgolden city ceased!
 5 The LORD hath broken the ^astaff of the ^bwicked , and the sceptre of the rulers.
 6 He who smote the people in wrath with ^aa continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
 7 The whole earth is at ^arest , and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
 8 Yea, the ^afir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art ^blaid down, ^cno feller is come up against us.
 9 ^aHell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the ^bdead 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 ^athe grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
 12 How art thou ^afallen from ^bheaven , O ^cLucifer , son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the ^dnations !
 13 For thou hast said in thine ^aheart , ^bI will ascend into heaven, I will ^cexalt my ^dthrone above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the ^enorth :
 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the ^amost High.
 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to ^ahell , to the sides of the pit.
 16 They that see ^athee shall ^bnarrowly 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 ^aglory , every one in ^bhis own house.
 19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like ^aan abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to ^bthe stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
 20 Thou shalt not be ^ajoined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the ^bseed of ^cevildoers shall never be renowned.
 21 Prepare slaughter for his ^achildren 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 ^acut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.
 23 I will also make it a possession for the ^abittern , and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the ^bbesom 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 ^aAssyrian in my land, and upon ^bmy mountains tread him under foot: then shall his ^cyoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
 26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole ^aearth : and this is the hand that is stretched out upon ^ball the nations.
 27 For the LORD of hosts hath ^apurposed , and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
 28 In the ^ayear that king ^bAhaz died was this ^cburden .
 29 ¶ Rejoice not thou, whole ^aPalestina , 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 ^aHowl , O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole ^bPalestina , 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 ^anation ? That the LORD hath founded ^bZion , and the ^cpoor of his people shall ^dtrust in it.

 1 THE ^aburden of ^bMoab . Because in the night ^cAr of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of ^dMoab 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 ^abaldness , and every beard ^bcut 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 ^acry , 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 ^aheart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an ^bheifer of three years old: for by ^cthe mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of ^dHoronaim 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 ^abrook 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 ^aBeer -elim.
 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.

 1 SEND ye the lamb to the ^aruler 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 ^aArnon .
 3 ^aTake counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
 4 ^aLet mine ^boutcasts 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 ^amercy shall the ^bthrone be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and ^chasting ^drighteousness .
 6 ¶ ^aWe have heard of the ^bpride 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 ^ahowl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of ^bKir -hareseth 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 ^aJazer , 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 ^agladness 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 ^abowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh.
 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 ^apray ; but he shall not prevail.
 13 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning ^aMoab 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.

 1 THE ^aburden of ^bDamascus . 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 ^aEphraim , 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 ^agleaning 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 ^aMaker , and his eyes shall have ^brespect 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 ^agroves , 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 ^athou hast ^bforgotten the God of thy ^csalvation , and hast not been mindful of the ^drock of thy strength, therefore ^eshalt 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 ^athe 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 ^arolling thing before the whirlwind.
 14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that ^aspoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

 1 ^aWOE to the land shadowing with wings, which is ^bbeyond the rivers of ^cEthiopia :
 2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of ^abulrushes 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 ^bspoiled !
 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ^aensign 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 ^abeasts 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 ^ascattered 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 ^bmount Zion.

 1 THE ^aburden of ^bEgypt . Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift ^ccloud , and shall come into Egypt: and the ^didols 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 ^athem that have ^bfamiliar spirits, and to the wizards.
 4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of ^aa ^bcruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
 5 And the waters shall ^afail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and ^bdried 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 ^aangle 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 ^anetworks , shall be confounded.
 10 And ^athey shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
 11 ¶ Surely the princes of ^aZoan 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 ^aNoph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the ^bstay of the tribes thereof.
 14 The LORD hath mingled a ^aperverse 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 ^athe head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
 16 In that day shall ^aEgypt 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 ^aJudah 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 ^adestruction .
 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 ^aEgypt , and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a ^bvow unto the LORD, and perform it.
 22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall ^areturn even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
 23 ¶ In that day shall there be a ^ahighway 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 ^athe third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a ^bblessing 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 ^aIsrael mine ^binheritance .

 1 IN the ^ayear that ^bTartan 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 ^anaked and barefoot.
 3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a ^asign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
 4 So shall the ^aking of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the ^bEthiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
 5 And ^athey 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?

 1 THE ^aburden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in ^bthe south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
 2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the ^atreacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O ^bElam : 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 ^adismayed 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 ^adeclare 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, ^aBabylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
 10 ^aO 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 ^aburden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of ^bSeir , Watchman, ^cwhat of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
 12 The watchman said, ^aThe morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
 13 ¶ The ^aburden 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 ^aKedar 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.

 1 THE ^aburden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
 2 Thou that art full of ^astirs , 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 ^aweep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
 5 For it is a day of ^atrouble , 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 ^adiscovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the ^bhouse of the forest.
 9 Ye have seen also the ^abreaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower ^bpool .
 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 ^aditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the ^bmaker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
 12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts ^acall to ^bweeping , and to mourning, and to ^cbaldness , and to girding with sackcloth:
 13 And behold ^ajoy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us ^beat and drink; for ^cto 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 ^aShebna , 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 ^acountry : 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 ^acall my servant ^bEliakim the son of Hilkiah:
 21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy ^agovernment into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
 22 And the ^akey 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 ^anail 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.

 1 THE ^aburden of ^bTyre . Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of ^cChittim it is revealed to them.
 2 Be ^astill , ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
 3 And by great waters the ^aseed of ^bSihor , the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
 4 Be thou ashamed, O ^aZidon : for the sea hath spoken, even the ^bstrength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.
 5 ^aAs at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
 6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
 7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
 8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are ^aprinces , whose ^btraffickers are the ^chonourable of the earth?
 9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
 10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.
 11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment ^aagainst the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.
 12 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.
 13 Behold the land of the ^aChaldeans ; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
 14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
 15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
 16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
 17 ¶ And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall ^aturn to her hire, and shall commit ^bfornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
 18 And her ^amerchandise and her ^bhire shall be ^choliness 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.

 1 BEHOLD, the LORD maketh the ^aearth ^bempty , and maketh it waste, and ^cturneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the ^abuyer , so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with ^bthe taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
 3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
 4 The earth ^amourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, ^bthe haughty people of the earth do languish.
 5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have ^atransgressed the laws, ^bchanged the ^cordinance , ^dbroken the ^eeverlasting ^fcovenant .
 6 Therefore hath the ^acurse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the ^binhabitants of the earth are ^cburned , and ^dfew men left.
 7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
 8 The mirth of ^atabrets ^bceaseth , the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong ^adrink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
 10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
 11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all ^ajoy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
 12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
 13 ¶ When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the ^apeople , there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
 14 ^aThey shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
 15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the ^afires , even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
 16 ¶ From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, ^aMy leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, ^bthe treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
 17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
 18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
 19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is ^amoved exceedingly.
 20 The ^aearth 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 ^aday , that the LORD shall ^bpunish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
 22 And they shall be gathered together, as ^aprisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the ^bprison , and after many days shall they be ^cvisited .
 23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ^aashamed , when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount ^bZion , and in Jerusalem, and before ^chis ancients gloriously.

 1 O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
 2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
 3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
 4 For thou hast been a strength to the ^apoor , a strength to the needy in his ^bdistress , a ^crefuge 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 ^abranch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
 6 ¶ And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all ^apeople a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
 7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the ^avail that is spread over all nations.
 8 He will swallow up ^adeath in ^bvictory ; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the ^crebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
 9 ¶ And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our ^aGod ; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have ^bwaited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his ^csalvation .
 10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
 11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
 12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the ^adust .

 1 IN that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for ^awalls and bulwarks.
 2 Open ye the ^agates , that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
 3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect ^apeace , whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
 4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD ^aJEHOVAH is ^beverlasting ^cstrength :
 5 ¶ For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
 6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
 7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most ^aupright , dost weigh the path of the just.
 8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we ^awaited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
 9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I ^aseek thee ^bearly : for when thy ^cjudgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
 10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
 11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but ^athey shall see, and be ^bashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
 12 ¶ LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our ^aworks in us.
 13 O LORD our God, other ^alords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
 14 ^a They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
 15 Thou hast ^aincreased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst ^bremoved it far unto all the ends of the earth.
 16 LORD, in ^atrouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy ^bchastening was upon them.
 17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
 18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world ^afallen .
 19 Thy dead men shall ^alive , together with ^bmy dead body shall they ^carise . Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
 20 ¶ Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, ^auntil the indignation be overpast.
 21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her ^ablood , and shall no more cover her slain.

 1 IN that day the LORD with his ^asore and great and strong ^bsword shall punish ^cleviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked ^dserpent ; and he shall slay the ^edragon that is in the sea.
 2 In that day ^asing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
 3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
 4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
 5 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.
 6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: ^aIsrael shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with ^bfruit .
 7 ¶ Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
 8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
 9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be ^apurged ; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and ^bimages shall not stand up.
 10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
 11 When the ^aboughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no ^bunderstanding : therefore he that ^cmade them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
 12 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall ^abeat off ^bfrom the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be ^cgathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the ^agreat trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the ^bholy mount at Jerusalem.

 1 WOE to the crown of pride, to the ^adrunkards of ^bEphraim , whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of ^cthe fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
 2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a ^atempest of hail and a destroying ^bstorm , as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
 3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
 4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the ^ahasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
 5 ¶ In ^athat day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of ^bglory , and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
 6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
 7 ¶ But ^athey also have ^berred through ^cwine , and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the ^dprophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
 8 For all tables are full of vomit and ^afilthiness , so that there is no place clean.
 9 Whom shall he teach ^aknowledge ? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are ^bweaned from the ^cmilk , and drawn from the breasts.
 10 For precept must be upon precept, ^aprecept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
 11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
 12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
 13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, ^aprecept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and ^bfall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
 14 ¶ Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
 15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing ^ascourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our ^brefuge , and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
 16 ¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a ^afoundation a ^bstone , a tried stone, a precious ^ccorner 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 ^ayour covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
 19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
 20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
 21 For the LORD shall rise up as in ^amount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of ^bGibeon , that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his ^cstrange act.
 22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a ^aconsumption , even determined upon the whole earth.
 23 ¶ Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
 24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
 25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
 26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
 27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
 28 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
 29 This also ^acometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

 1 ^aWOE to ^bAriel , to Ariel, the city ^c where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
 2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and ^asorrow : and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
 3 And I will ^acamp 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 ^adust , and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ^bground , and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
 5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
 6 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring ^afire .
 7 ¶ And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
 8 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that ^afight against mount ^bZion .
 9 ¶ Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are ^adrunken , but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
 10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep ^asleep , and hath closed your ^beyes : the ^cprophets and your rulers, the ^dseers hath he ^ecovered .
 11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a ^abook that is ^bsealed , 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 ^ahim that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
 13 ¶ Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people ^adraw near me with their ^bmouth , and with their lips do ^chonour me, but have ^dremoved their ^eheart far from me, and their ^ffear toward me is taught by the ^gprecept of men:
 14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a ^amarvellous ^bwork among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the ^cwisdom of their wise men shall ^dperish , and the ^eunderstanding of their ^fprudent men shall be hid.
 15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their ^acounsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who ^bseeth us? and who knoweth us?
 16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the ^awork say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
 17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
 18 ¶ And in that ^aday shall the deaf hear the words of the ^bbook , and the ^ceyes of the blind shall see out of ^dobscurity , and out of darkness.
 19 The meek also shall increase their ^ajoy in the LORD, and the ^bpoor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
 20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that ^awatch for iniquity are ^bcut off:
 21 That make a man an ^aoffender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in ^bthe gate, and ^cturn aside the just for a thing of nought.
 22 Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the ^ahouse of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
 23 But when he seeth his children, the ^awork of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall ^bfear the ^cGod of Israel.
 24 They also that ^aerred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall ^blearn doctrine.

 1 WOE to the ^arebellious children, saith the LORD, that take ^bcounsel , but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
 2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of ^aPharaoh , and to trust ^bin the shadow of ^cEgypt !
 3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
 4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
 5 They ^awere all ^bashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
 6 The ^aburden of the beasts of the ^bsouth : into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
 7 For the ^aEgyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
 8 ¶ Now go, ^awrite it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
 9 That ^athis is a ^brebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
 10 Which say to the ^aseers , See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us ^bsmooth things, prophesy ^cdeceits :
 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
 12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
 13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
 14 And he shall break it as the ^abreaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
 15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in ^aquietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
 16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon ^ahorses ; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
 17 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ^aensign on an hill.
 18 ¶ And therefore will the LORD ^await , that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of ^bjudgment : blessed are all they that ^cwait for him.
 19 For the people shall dwell in ^aZion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
 20 And though the Lord give you the bread of ^aadversity , and the water of affliction, yet shall not ^bthy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy ^cteachers :
 21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, ^awalk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
 22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
 23 Then shall he give the rain ^aof thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
 24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ^aear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
 25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the ^aday of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
 26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the ^astroke of their wound.
 27 ¶ Behold, the ^aname of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his ^banger , and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
 28 And his ^abreath , as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the ^bneck , to sift the nations with the sieve of ^cvanity : and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
 29 ^aYe shall have a song, as in the night when ^ba holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the ^cmountain of the LORD, to the ^dmighty One of Israel.
 30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and ^atempest , and hailstones.
 31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the ^aAssyrian be beaten down, which ^bsmote with a rod.
 32 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and ^ain battles of shaking will he fight ^bwith it.
 33 For ^aTophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

 1 WOE to them that go down to Egypt for ^ahelp ; and ^bstay on ^chorses , and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
 2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring ^aevil , and will not ^bcall back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not ^aGod ; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is ^bholpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
 4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the ^alion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to ^bfight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
 5 As birds ^aflying , so will the LORD of hosts ^bdefend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.
 6 ¶ Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
 7 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
 8 ¶ Then shall the ^aAssyrian fall with the ^bsword , not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
 9 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ^aensign , saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

 1 BEHOLD, a ^aking shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in ^bjudgment .
 2 And ^aa man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
 3 And the ^aeyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
 4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
 5 The vile person shall be no more called ^aliberal , nor the ^bchurl said to be ^cbountiful .
 6 For the vile person will speak ^avillany , and his heart will work iniquity, to practise ^bhypocrisy , and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
 7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with ^alying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
 8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
 9 ¶ Rise up, ye ^awomen that are at ease; hear my voice, ye ^bcareless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
 10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall ^afail , the gathering shall not come.
 11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird ^a sackcloth upon your loins.
 12 They shall ^alament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
 14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city ^ashall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
 15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a ^afruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
 16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
 17 And the work of righteousness shall be ^apeace ; and the effect of righteousness quietness and ^bassurance for ever.
 18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
 19 When it shall ^ahail , coming down on the forest; and the ^bcity shall be low in a low place.
 20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.

 1 WOE to thee that ^aspoilest , and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest ^btreacherously , and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
 2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have ^awaited for thee: be thou their ^barm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
 3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
 4 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
 5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
 6 And wisdom and ^aknowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his ^btreasure .
 7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
 8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath ^abroken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
 9 The earth ^amourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness: and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
 10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
 11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
 12 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
 13 ¶ Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might.
 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with ^aeverlasting ^bburnings ?
 15 He that ^awalketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth ^bthe gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of ^cbribes , that stoppeth his ears from hearing of ^dblood , and shutteth his eyes ^efrom seeing evil;
 16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
 17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his ^abeauty : they shall behold the land that is very far off.
 18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the ^ascribe ? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
 19 Thou shalt not see ^aa fierce people, a people of a deeper ^bspeech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
 20 Look upon ^aZion , the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the ^bstakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
 21 But there the glorious LORD will be ^aunto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
 22 For the LORD is our ^ajudge , the LORD is our ^blawgiver , the LORD is our king; he will save us.
 23 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
 24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.

 1 COME near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
 2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
 3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their ^astink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
 4 And all the host of heaven shall be ^adissolved , and the heavens shall be rolled together as a ^bscroll : and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as ^ca falling fig from the fig tree.
 5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon ^aIdumea , and upon the people of my ^bcurse , to judgment.
 6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a ^asacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
 7 And the ^aunicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
 8 For it is the day of the LORD’s ^avengeance , and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
 9 And the streams ^athereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
 10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
 11 ¶ But the ^acormorant and the ^bbittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the ^cstones of emptiness.
 12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
 13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be ^aan habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
 14 The ^awild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
 15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
 16 ¶ Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath ^acommanded , and his spirit it hath gathered them.
 17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.

 1 THE wilderness and the ^asolitary place shall be ^bglad for ^cthem ; and the ^ddesert shall rejoice, and ^eblossom as the rose.
 2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of ^aLebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the ^bglory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
 3 ¶ Strengthen ye the ^aweak hands, and confirm the ^bfeeble knees.
 4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with ^avengeance , even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
 5 Then the ^aeyes of the ^bblind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
 6 Then shall the lame man leap as an ^ahart , and the tongue of the dumb ^bsing : for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
 7 And the ^aparched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the ^bhabitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
 8 And an ^ahighway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of ^bholiness ; the ^cunclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
 9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the ^aredeemed shall walk there:
 10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall ^areturn , and come to ^bZion with ^csongs and everlasting ^djoy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and ^esorrow and sighing shall flee away.

 1 NOW it came to pass in the ^afourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of ^bAssyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
 2 And the king of Assyria sent ^aRabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field.
 3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah’s son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph’s son, the recorder.
 4 ¶ And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
 5 I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
 6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken ^areed , on ^bEgypt ; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
 7 But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose ^ahigh places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
 8 Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
 9 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
 10 And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
 11 ¶ Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the ^aSyrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
 12 ¶ But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
 13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
 14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.
 15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
 16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
 17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
 18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered ^aSamaria out of my hand?
 20 Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
 21 But they ^aheld their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
 22 ¶ Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

 1 AND it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
 2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
 3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of ^atrouble , and of rebuke, and of ^bblasphemy : for the children are come to ^cthe birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
 4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
 5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
 6 ¶ And ^aIsaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
 7 Behold, I will ^asend a blast upon him, and he shall hear a ^brumour , and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
 8 ¶ So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
 9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
 10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
 11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?
 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
 14 ¶ And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
 15 And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying,
 16 O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the ^acherubims , thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.
 17 Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to ^areproach the living God.
 18 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their ^acountries ,
 19 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no ^agods , but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
 20 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.
 21 ¶ Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:
 22 This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; ^aThe virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
 23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
 24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall ^acedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.
 25 I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
 26 Hast thou not heard long ago, how ^aI have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
 27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
 28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
 29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
 30 And this shall be a sign unto ^athee , Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
 31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
 32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a ^aremnant , and they that escape out of mount Zion: the ^bzeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
 33 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a ^abank against it.
 34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
 35 For I will ^adefend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
 36 Then the ^aangel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the ^bAssyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when ^cthey arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
 37 ¶ So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
 38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.