rael's refloration. Chap. XV. Their triumph over Babylon. 559 ftrangers fhall be joined with them, and like an abominable branch, and as the they fhall cleave to the house of Jacob. raiment of thofe that are flain, thrust through with a fword, that go down to the ftones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet. 2 And the people fhall take them, and bring them to their place: and the houfe of Ifrael hall poffefs them in the land of the LORD for fervants and handmaids : and they fhall take them captives whofe captives they were; and they fhall rule over their oppreffors. 3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD hall give thee reft from thy forrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou waft made to ferve, 4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and fay, How hath the oppreflor ceafed the golden city ceased! 5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the fceptre of the rulers. 6 He who fmote the people in wrath with a continual ftroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is perfecuted, and none hindereth. 7 The whole earth is at reft, and is quiet; they break forth into finging. 8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon. Jaying. Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us. 9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it ftirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath railed up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. 10 All they hall speak and fay unto thee, Art thou alfo become weak as we ? Art thou become like unto us? 11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noife of thy viols the worm is fpread under thee, and the worms cover thee. 12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, fon of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didft weaken the nations! 20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou haft deftroyed thy land, and flain thy people: the feed of evil doers fhall never be renowned. 21 Prepare flaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rife, nor poffefs the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. 22 For I will rife up against them, faith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and fon, and nephew, faith the LORD. 23 I will alfo make it a poffeffion for the bittern, and pools of water and I will fweep it with the befom of deftruction, faith the LORD of hofts. 24 The LORD of hosts hath fworn, faying, Surely as I have thought, fo fhall it come to pafs; and as I have purposed, fo fhall it ftand: 25 That I will break the Affyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then fhall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden defart from off their shoulders. 26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is ftretched out upon all the nations. 27 For the LORD of hofts hath purpofed, and, Who fhall difannul it? And his hand is ftretched out, and, Who shall turn it back ? 28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden. 29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that fmote thee is broken for out of the ferpent's root fhall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit bali be a fiery flying ferpent. 30 And the firftborn of the poor fhall feed, and the needy fhall lie down in 13 For thou haft faid in thine heart, Ifafety and I will kill thy root with famwill afcend into heaven, I will exalt my ine, and he shall flay thy remnant. throne above the ftars of God: I will tit alfo upon the mount of the congregation, in the fides of the north: 14 I will afcend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Moff High. 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the fides of the pit. 16 They that fee thee thall narrowly look upon thee and confider thee, faying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; 17 That made the world as a wildernefs, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the houfe of his prifoners? 18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. 19 But thou art caft out of thy grave 3 X 81 Howl. O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Paleftina, art diffolved: for there fall come from the north a fmoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times. 32 What fhall one then anfwer the meffengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people fhall truft in it. CHAP. XV. The lamentable flate of Moab. THE burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to filence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid walte, and brought to filence; 2 He is gone up to Bajith,and to Dibon the high places, to weep: Moab fhall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all 334 Moab threatened. ISAIAH. Syria and Damafcus threatened. all their heads fall be baldness, and ev-heathen have broken down the principal ery beard cut off. plants thereof, they are come even unto 3 In their streets they fhall gird them- Jazer, they wandered through the wilfelves with fackeloth on the tops of dernefs; her branches are stretched out, their houses, and in their streets, every they are gone over the fea. one fhall howl, weeping abundantly. 9 Therefore I will bewail with the 4 And Hefhbon fhall cry, and Elealeh; weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah : their voice fhall be heard even unto I will water thee with my tears, O HefhJahaz therefore the armed foldiers of bon, and Elealeh: for the fhouting for Moab hall cry out; his life fhall be thy fummer fruits and for thy harveftis grievous unto him. fallen. 5 My heart hall cry out for Moab; 10 And gladnefs is taken away, and his fugitives ball flee unto Zoar, an heif-joy out of the plentiful field; and in the er of three years old: for by the mount-vineyards there fhall be no finging, neiing up of Luhith with weeping thall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they hall raife up a cry of deftruction. 6 For the waters of Nimrim fhall be defolate for the hay is withered away, the grafs faileth, there is no green thing. 7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, hall they carry away to the brook of the willows. & For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerclim. ther fhall there be fhouting: the treaders hall tread out no wine in their preffes: I have made their vintage shouting to cease. 11 Wherefore my bowels fhall found like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharem. 12 And it shall come to pafs, when it is feen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he fhall come to his fanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail. is This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab fince that time. 14 But now the LORD hath spoken, faying, Within three years, as the years of 9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full an hireling, and the glory of Moab fhall of blood: For I will bring more upon Di-be contemned, with all that great multimon, lions upon him that efcapeth of Mo-tude; and the remnant shall be very small ab, and upon the remnant of the land. and feeble. CHAP. XVI. 1 Moab is exhorted to yield obedience to Chrift's kingdom, 6 and threatened for pride. SEND ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. 2 For it fhall be, that, as a wandering bird caft out of the neft, fo the daughters of Moab fhall be at the fords of Arnon. 3 Take counfel, execute judgment; make thy fhadow as the night in the midft of the noonday: hide the outcafts; bewray not him that wandereth. CHAP. XVII. Syria and Ifrael threatened. 6 A remnant fball forfake idolatry. 9 The ref fall be plagued for their impiety. THE burden of Damafcus. Behold, Damafcus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. The cities of Aroer åre forfaken: they fhall be for flocks, which hall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. 8 The fortrefs alfo fhall ceafe from Ephraim,and the kingdom from Damafcus, and the remnant of Syria: they hail be as the glory of the children of Ifrael, faith the LORD of hofs. 4 Let mine outcafts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from 4 And in that day it shall come to pafs the face of the fpoiler: for the extor-bar the glory of Jacob fhall be made thin, tioner is at an end, the fpoiler ceafeth, the and the fatnefs of his flefh fhall wax lean. oppreffors are confumed out of the land. 5 And it shall be as when the harveft man gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of And in mercy fhall the throne be eftablished; and he shall fit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging and feeking judgment, and hafting Rephaim. righteoufnefs. 6 Yet gleaning grapes fhall be left in 6We have heard of the pride of Mo-it, as the thaking of an olive tree, two er ab; be is very proud: everof his haugh-three berries in the top of the uppermoft tinefs, and his pride, and his wrath: but bough, four or five in the outmoft fruitful his lies ball not be fo. branches thereof, faith the LORD God of 7 Therefore fhall Moab howl for Mo-Irael. ab, every one fhall howl; for the foundations of Kirharefeth mall ye mourn; furely they are ftricken. 8 For the fields of Hehbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the 7 At that day fhall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes fhall have refpect to the Holy One of Ifrael. 8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands,neither shall respect that The Ethiopians to be deftroyed. Chap. xviii. xix. The confufion of Egypt. 355 that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images. 9 In that day fhall his ftrong cities be as a forfaken bough,and an uppermoft branch, which they left becaufe of the children of Ifrael: and there shall be defolation. 10 Because thou haft forgotten the God of thy falvation, and haft not been mind-1 ful of the rock of thy strength, therefore fhalt thou plant pleafant plants, and shalt fet it with ftrange flips: 11 In the day halt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning fhall thou make thy feed to flourish but the harvest ball be a heap in the day of grief and of defperate forrow. brought unto the LORD of hofts of a people fcattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whofe land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hofts, the mount Zion. CHAP. XIX. The confufion of Egypt. 11 The foolishnefs of her princes. 18 The calling of Egypt to the church. 23 The covenant of Egypt, Affyria, and Ifrael. THE burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD¦rideth upon a iwift cloud, and thall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt fhall be moved at his prefence, and the heart of Egypt fall melt in the 12 Woe to the multitude of many peo-midst of it. ple, which make a noife like the noife of 2 And I will fet the Egyptians against the feas; and to the ruthing of nations, the Egyptians: and they thall fight every that make a rushing like the rufhing of mighty waters! is The nations fhall rush like the ruthing of many waters: but God fhall rebuke them, and they fhall flee far off, and fhall be chafed as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. 14. And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that fpoil us, and the lot of them that rob us. CHAP. XVIII. 1 God in care of his people will deftroy the Ethiopians. 7 An access ball grow thereby unto the church. one against his brother, and every one againft his neighbour city again city, and kingdom againft kingdom. 3 And the fpirit of Egypt hall fail in the midft thereof; and I will deftroy the coun fel thereof: and they shall feek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar fpirits, and to the wizards. 4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king fhall rule over them, faith the LORD, the LORD of hosts. 5 And the waters fhall fail from the fea, and the river thall be wafted and dried up. 6 And they hall turn the rivers far aWOE to the land thadowing with way; and the brooks of defence fhall be wings, which is beyond the rivers of E-emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags thiopia: thall wither. 2 That fendeth ambaffadors by the sea, even in veffels of bulrushes upon the waters, faying, Go, ye fwift meflengers, to a nation fcattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whofe land the rivers have spoiled! 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, fee ye, when he lifteth up an enfign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet,hear ye 4 For fo the LORD faid unto me, I will take my rett, and I will confider 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 four grape is ripening in the flower, he hall both cut off the fprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches. 6 They fhall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beafts of the earth and the fowls fhall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth all winter upon them. 7 In that time thall the prefent be 7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing lown by the brooks, hall wither, be driven away, and be no more. 8 The fishers alfo fhall mourn, and all they that caft angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that fpread nets upon the waters fhall languish. 9 Moreover, they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, fhall be confounded. 10 And they fhall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make fluices and ponds for fish. 11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counfel of the wife counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: How fay ye unto Pharaoh, I am the fon of the wife, the fon of ancient kings? 12 Where are they? Where are thy wife men? And let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hofts hath purpofed upon Egypt. 13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived: they have alfo feduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. 556 Calling of Egypt to the church. ISAIAH. The fall of Babylon. 14 The LORD hath mingled a perverfe foot three years, for a fign and wonder fpirit in the midft thereof: and they have upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; caufed Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man ftaggereth in his vomit. 15 Neither fhall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or ruth, may do. : 4 So thall the king of Affyria lead away the Egyptians prifoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncov ered, to the shame of Egypt. 5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. 16 In that day fhall Egypt be like unto women and it thall be afraid and fear because of the thaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he thaketh over it. 6 And the inhabitant of this ifle fhall 17 And the land of Judah fhall be a fay in that day, Behold, fuch is our exterror unto Egypt, every one that mak-pectation, whither we flee for help to be eth mention thereof thall be afraid in delivered from the king of Affyria: and, himself, because of the counfel of the How shall we efcape ? LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it. 18 In that day fhall five cities in the Jand of Egypt fpeak the language of Canaan, and fwear to the LORD of hosts : one fhall be called, The city of deftruction. 19 In that day fhall 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 fign and for a witnefs unto the LORD of hofts in the land of Egypt for they hall cry unto the LORD because of the oppreffors, and he hall fend them a faviour, and a great one, and he fhall deliver them. 21 And the LORD fhall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians fhall know the LORD in that day, and fhall do facrifice and oblation; yea, they fhall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it. 22 And the LORD hall mite Egypt: The thall fmite and heal it; and they thall return even to the LORD, and he thall be entreated of them, and fhall heal them. 23 ¶ In that day thall there be a highway out of Egypt to Affyria, and the Affyrian fhall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Affyria, and the Egyptians fhail ferve with the Affyrians. 24 In that day fhall Ifrael be the third with Egypt and with Affyria, even a bleffing in the midft of the land: 25 Whom the LORD of hosts thall blefs, faying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Affyria the work of my hands, and Ifrael mine inheritance. СНАР. XX. A type prefiguring the shameful captivity of Egypt and Ethiopia. IN the year that Tartan came unto Afhdod (when Sargon the king of Af CHAP. XXI. 1 The fall of Babylen. 11 Edom fcorning the prophet, is moved to repentance. 15 The fet time of Arabia's calamity. THE burden of the defert of the fea. As whirlwinds in the fouth pafs through; o it comth from the defert, from a ter rible land. 2 A grievousvilion is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacher oufly, and the fpoiler fpoileth. Go up, Q Elam: befiege, O Media; all the fighing therecf have I made to ceafe. S 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 difmayed at the feeing of it. 4 My heart panted, fearfulness af frighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arife, ye princes, and anoint the shield. 6 For thus hath the LORD faid unto [me, Go, fet a watchman, let him declarè what he feeth. 7 And he faw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of alles, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed: 8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I ftand continually upon the watchtower in the day time, and I am fet in my ward whole nights: 9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horfemen. And he anfwered and faid, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground. 10 O my threshing, and the corn of fyria fent him) and fought against Ah-my floor: that which I have heard of the dod, and took it ; LORD of hofts, the God of Ifrael, have l declared unto you. 2 At the fame time fpake the LORD by Ifaiah the fon of Amoz, faying, Go aud loofe the fackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy fhoe from thy foot. And he did fo, walking naked and barefoot. 11 ¶ The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, What of the night? Watchman, What of the night? 12 The watchman faid, The morning 3 And the LORD faid, Like as my fer. cometh, and alfo the night: if ye wil vant Ifaiah hath walked naked and bare-inquire, inquire ye: return, come The invafion of Jewry. Chap. xxii. xxiii. Eliakim's bonour forefbewn. 557 13 The burden upon Arabia. In the fing, and to baldness, and to girding with foreft in Arabia thall ye lodge, O ye trav-fackcloth: elling companies of Dedanim. 13 And behold joy and gladness, flay14 The inhabitants of the land of Te-ing cxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, ma brought water to him that was thirsty, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; they prevented with their bread him for tomorrow we shall die. that fled. 15 For they filed from the fwords, from the drawn fword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievoufnefs of war. 14 And it v as revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity fhall not be purged from you till ye die, faith the Lord GoD of holls. 16 For thus hath the LORD faid unto 15 Thus fuch the Lord GOD of hosts, me, Within a year, according to the years Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even of an hireling, and all the glory of Ke-unto Shebna, which is over the house, dar fhall fail: and fay, 17 And the refidue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, fhall be diminished for the LORD God of Ifrael hath spoken it, CHAP. XXII. 1 The invasion of Jewry by the Perfians. 8 Their buman wisdom reproved. THE burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the houfetops? 2 Thou art full of ftirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy flain men are not flain with the fword, 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. 16 What haft thou here? and, Whom halt thou here, that thou haft hewed thee out a fepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a fepulchre 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 furely cover thee. 18 He will furely violently turn and tofs thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory all be the fhaine of thy lord's houfe. 19 And I will drive thee from thy ftation, and from thy ftate fhall he pull thee down. 20 And it fhall come to país in that day, that I will call my fervant Eliakim the fon of Hilkiah; 4 Therefore faid I, Look away from me: I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, becaufe of the spoiling of 21 And I will clothe him with thy the daughter of my people. robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand and he fhall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerufalem, and to the boufe of Judah. 5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of erplexity by the LORD God of bolts in the valley of vifion, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains. 6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horlemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. 7 And it shall come to pafs, that thy choiceft valleys thall be full of chariots, and the horsemen fhall let themselves in array at the gate. 8 And he difcovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the houfe of the foreft. 9 Ye have feen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool. 10 And ye have numbered the houfes of Jerufalem, and the houfes have ye broker down to fortify the wali. 11 Ye made alfo a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had refpect unto him that fashioned it long ago. 12 And in that day did the LORD God of hofts call to weeping, and to mouin 22 And the key of the houfe of David will I lay upon his fhoulder; fo he thall open, and none shall shut; and he fhall fhut, and none fhail open. 23 And I will farten him as a nail in a fure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house. 24 And they fhall hang upon him all、 the glory of his father's houfe, the offfpring and the issue, all veffels of finall quantity, from the veffels of cups, even to all the veffels of flagons. 25 In that day, faith the LORD of hofts, fhall the nail that is faftened in the fure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it fhall be cut off: for the LORD hath fpoken it. CHAP. XXIII. |