tween the two walls for the water of the old pool but ye looked not unto him that had maker thereof done this, neither had ye respect unto him that 1 Or, the fashioned it long ago. And in that day did the 12 Lord, the LORD of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: and behold, joy and gladness, slaying 13 oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die. And the LORD of hosts revealed 14 himself in mine ears, Surely this iniquity shall 2 Or, expiated not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts. by • Or, O thou strong man hold on thee • Or, wind thee round and round Thus saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, Go, 15 'Or, steward get thee unto this 'treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say, What doest 16 thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out here a sepulchre? hewing him out a sepulchre on high, graving an habitation for himself in the rock! Behold, the LORD 17 will hurl thee away violently as a strong man ; Or, lay fast yea, he will 'wrap thee up closely. He will 18 surely turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country; there shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory, thou shame of thy like a ball and lord's house. And I will thrust thee from thine 19 office, and from thy station shall he pull thee down. And it shall come to pass in that day, 20 that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah and I will clothe him with thy robe, 21 and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. And the key of the 22 house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. And I will 23 fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he toss thee shall be for a throne of glory to his father's 24 house. And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the vessels 25 of cups even to all the vessels of flagons. In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that was fastened in a sure place give way; and it shall be hewn down, and fall, and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off; for the LORD hath spoken it. Be 1 Or, oracle concerning 2 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from 2 the land of Kittim it is revealed to them. still, ye inhabitants of the 'isle; thou whom the Or, coastland merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have 3 replenished. And on great waters the seed of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; 4 and she was the mart of nations. Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, the strong hold of the sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins. 3 ing Egypt, 4 Or, of ancient days? her own feet shall carry &c. Or, that giveth crowns 5 'When the report cometh to Egypt, they shall 3 Or, As at the 6 be sorely pained at the report of Tyre. Pass Pass report concernye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the so d 7 'isle. Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is 'of ancient days, whose feet carried her afar 8 off to sojourn? Who hath purposed this against Tyre, 'the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of 9 the earth? The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into Heb. 10 contempt all the honourable of the earth. Pass profane. through thy land as the Nile, O daughter of Overflow Tarshish; there is no girdle about thee any II more. He hath stretched out his hand over the sea, he hath shaken the kingdoms: the 5 7 Or, 1 Or, the mer chant people 2 Or, was not Or, founded dwell in the Or, the LORD hath given commandment concerning 1Canaan, to destroy the strong holds thereof. And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O 12 thou oppressed virgin daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Kittim; even there shalt thou have no rest. Behold, the land of the Chal- 13 deans; this people 'is no more; the Assyrian hath appointed it for 'the beasts of the wilderness: they set up 'their towers, they 'overthrew the palaces thereof; he made it a ruin. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strong 14 towers thereof hold is laid waste. And it shall come to 15 • Or, raised up pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years 'it shall be unto Tyre as in the song of the harlot. Take 16 an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. And 17 it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. And her merchandise and her 18 hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for 'durable clothing. 7 Or, shall Tyre sing as an harlot 8 Or, stately 9 Or, land 2 Behold, the LORD maketh the 'earth empty, 1 24 and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. The earth shall be utterly emptied, 3 4 1 and utterly spoiled; for the LORD hath spoken this word. The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, 'the lofty people of the earth do languish. Or, the high 5 The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants ones of the people thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the ever6 lasting covenant. Therefore hath the curse 2 Or, See Gen. i. 2. wasteness devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of 7 the earth are burned, and few men left. The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all 8 the merryhearted do sigh. The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, 9 the joy of the harp ceaseth. They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be 10 bitter to them that drink it. The city of 'confusion is broken down : every house is shut up, II that no man may come in. There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is 12 darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. In Heb. gone the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten into captivity. 13 with destruction. For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the 'shaking of an olive tree, as the grape gleanings Heb. beating. 14 when the vintage is done. These shall lift their voice, they shall shout; for the majesty of 15 the LORD they cry aloud from the sea. Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the 'east, even the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, in the "isles of the sea. 16 up From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, glory to the righteous. But I said, 'I pine away, I pine away, woe is me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very 17 treacherously. Fear, and the pit, and the snare, 18 are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. And 3 5 Or, lights Or, fires 8 Or, coastlands Heb. Lean ness to me. 1 Heb. visit upon. 2 Heb. height. › Or, dungeon it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from And it shall come to pass in that day, that 21 the LORD shall 'punish the host of the 'high ones on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. And they shall be gathered together, 22 as prisoners are gathered in the 'pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be 'visited. Then the moon shall be 23 confounded, and the sun ashamed; for the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in JeruOr, before his salem, and "before his 'ancients gloriously. *Or, punished ancients shall be glory • Or, elders O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt i 25 thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things, even counsels of old, in faithfulness and truth. For thou hast made of a 2 city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. Therefore shall the strong people 3 glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. For thou hast been a strong hold to 4 the poor, a strong hold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. As the heat in a 5 dry place shalt thou bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shadow of a cloud, the song of the terrible ones shall be brought |