A remnant shall praise God. CHAP. XXIV, XXV, XXVI. His benefits and salvation. 16 Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, and it shall fall, and not rise again. sing many songs, that thou mayest be remem- 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones bered. 17 And it shall come to pass after the end of that are on high, and the kings of the earth upseventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, on the earth. and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit 22 And they shall be gathered together, as prifornication with all the kingdoms of the world soners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut upon the face of the earth. up in the prison, and after many days shall they 18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be be visited. holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing. CHAP. XXIV. God's judgments on the land. 23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and The prophet praiseth God. BEHOLD, the LORD maketh theeth it upside 1 will praise thy name; for thou hast done it waste, and down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with 2 For thou hast made of a city a heap; of a the priest; as with the servant, so with his mas-defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be ter; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as no city; it shall never be built. with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the 3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. 4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a 3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled for the LORD hath spoken this word. 4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. 5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with 5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the territhereof; because they have transgressed the ble ones shall be brought low. laws, changed the ordinance, broken the ever- 6 1 And in this mountain shall the LORD of lasting covenant. hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, 6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, a feast of wines on the lees; of fat things full and they that dwell therein are desolate: there- of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. fore the inhabitants of the carth are burned, and 7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face few men left. of the covering cast over all people, and the vail 7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languish-that is spread over all nations. eth, all the merry-hearted do sigh. 8 He will swallow up death in victory; and 8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them the Lord Goɔ will wipe away tears from off all that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. spoken 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 joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. 12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. 13 1 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive-tree, and as the gleaninggrapes when the vintage is done. 14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sca. 15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, 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. 9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. 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 walis shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust. CHAP. XXVI. fut I said, My leanness, my leanness, wo unto IN that day shall this song be sung in the land inc! the treacherous dealers have dealt treache- of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation rously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. very treacherously. 2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation 17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon which keepeth the truth may enter in. thee, O inhabitant of the earth. 3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose 18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; thee. and he that cometh up out of the midst of the 4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength: from on high are open, and the foundations of 5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on the earth do shake. high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth 19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. to the dust. 29 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunk- 6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of ard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the poor, and the steps of the needy. 383 God's favour to his people. ISAIAH. The church of Jews and Gentiles 7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou, debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the most upright, dost weigh the path of the just. day of the east wind. 8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, 9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the 9 With my soul have I desired thee in the altar as chalk-stones that are beaten in sunder, night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek the groves and images shall not stand up. thee early for when thy judgments 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. 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 boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understand11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they willing: therefore he that made them will not have not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for mercy on them, and he that formed them will their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine shew them no favour. enemies shall devour theni. 12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us. 13 O LORD our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us; but by thee only will we make mention of thy name. 14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. 15 Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation; thou art glori fied: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth. 16 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out a prayer when thy chastening 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. 12 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel. 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great 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 holy mount at Jerusalem. CHAP. XXVIII. Ephraim is threatened. of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a 70 to the crown of pride, to the drunkards fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! 2 Behold, the LORD hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand. 3The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet: 4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up. 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 fallen. 19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew 5 1 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, 20 1 Come, my people, enter thou into thy unto the residue of his people, chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide 6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitthyself as it were for a little moment, until the teth in judgment, and for strength to then that indignation be overpast. turn the battle to the gate. 21 For behold, the LORD cometh out of place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain CHAP. XXVII. God's care over his vineyard. his 7 But they also have erred through wine, N that day the LORD with his sore and great I and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. 9 1 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn 2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of from the breasts. red wine. 10 For precept must be upon precept, precept 31 the LORD do keep it; I will water it every upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; 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 ine. 6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. 71 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 là measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt 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, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. 14 1 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 Christ the sure foundation promised. CHAP. XXIX, XXX. Sanctification promised to the godly covenant with death, and with hell are we at and her munition, and that distress her, shall be agreement, when the overflowing scourge shall as a dream of a night-vision. pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we 8 Itshall even be as when a hungry man dreamhave made lies our refuge, and under falsehood eth, and behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and have we hid ourselves: his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man 16 ¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord Gop, Be-dreameth, and behold, he drinketh; but he hold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a awaketh, and behold, he is faint, and his soul tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foun-hath appetite: so shail the multitude of all the dation: he that believeth_shall not make haste. nations be, that fight against mount Zion. 17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and 9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters they stagger, but not with strong drink. shall overflow the hiding-place. 10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the 18 And your covenant with death shall be spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall covered. pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. 11 And the vision of all is become unto you as 19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall the words of a book that is sealed, which men take you for morning by morning shall it pass deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vex-I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is ation only to understand the report. sealed: 20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can 12 And the book is delivered to him that is not stretch himself on it: and the covering nar-learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he rower than that he can wrap himself in it. saith, I am not learned. 21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Pe- 13 Wherefore the LORD said, Forasmuch as razim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gi-this people draw near me with their mouth, and beon, that he may do his work, his strange work; with their lips do honour me, but have removed and bring to pass his act, his strange act. their heart far from me, and their fear toward 22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your me is taught by the precept of nien: bands be made strong: for I have heard from 14 Therefore behold, I will proceed to do a the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even de-marvellous work among this people, even a martermined upon the whole earth. 23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. ? vellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. 24 Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow 15 Wo unto them that seek deep to hide their doth he open and break the clods of his ground? counsel from the LORD, and their works are in 25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter knoweth us? the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat, 16 Surely your turning of things upside down and the appointed barley, and the rye in their shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall place? the work say of him that made it, He made me 26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, not? or shall the thing framed say of him that and doth teach him. framed it, He had no understanding? 27 For the fitches are not threshed with a thresh- 17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebaing instrument, neither is a cart-wheel turned non shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beat- fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest? en out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. 18 ¶ And in that day shall the deaf hear the 28 Bread-corn is bruised; because he will not words of the book, and the eyes of the blind ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen. 19 The meek also shall increase their joy in 29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excel-in the Holy One of Israel. lent in working. W CHAP. XXIX. God's judgment on Jerusalem. 70 to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices. 2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel. 3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee. 20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and 21 That make a man an offender for a word, 23 But when he seeth his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanc4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt tify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Ja speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be cob, and shall fear the God of Israel. low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of 24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, understanding, and they that murmured shall and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust. learn doctrine. 5 Moreover, the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the ter CHAP. XXX. God threateneth Israel. 70 to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, rible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: W that take counsel, but not of me; and that yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly. 6 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts cover with a covering, but not of my Spirit, that with thunder, and with earthquake, and great they may add sin to sin: noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of 2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have devouring fire. not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves 71 And the multitude of all the nations that in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the fight against Ariel. even all that fight against her shadow of Egypt! 17 R 385 God's mercies to his church ISAIAH. His wrath in the destruction of Assyria 3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be 24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that your shame, and the trust in the shadow of ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which Egypt your confusion. hath been winnowed with the shovel and with 4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambas- the fan. sadors came to Hanes. 5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be a help nor profit, but a shaine, and also a reproach. 25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. 6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into 26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the land of trouble and anguish, from whence the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. upon the bunches of camels, to a people that 27 ¶ Behold, the name of the LORD cometh shall not profit them. from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire: 28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing 7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still. 8 Now go, write 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 this is a rebellious people, lying children, them to err. children that will not hear the law of the LORD: 29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a 10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: mountain of the LORD,to the Mighty One of Israel. 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of 30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down from before us. of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, 12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with Because ye despise this word, and trust in op- scattering, and tempest, and hail-stones. pression and pei verseness, and stay thereon: 31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the 13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod. breach ready to fali, swelling out in a high wall, 32 And in every place where the grounded staff whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, 14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in bat potter's vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall tles of shaking will he fight with it. not spare: so that there shall not be found in the 33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and or to take water withal out of the pit. large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; 15 For thus saith the Lord Gop, the Holy One the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimof Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be stone, doth kindle it. saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength and ye would not. 16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; 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 ensign on a hill. CHAP. XXXI. The folly of trusting in Egypt. to them that go down to Egypt for help: and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD! 2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against 18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that the help of them that work iniquity. he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the you: for the LORD is a God of judginent: bless- LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that ed are all they that wait for him. helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall 19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jeru-down, and they all shall fail together. salem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very 4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when as the lion and the young lion roaring on his he shall hear it, he will answer thee. prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called 20 And though the Lord give you the bread of forth against him, he will not be afraid of their adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: not thy teachers be removed into a corner any so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof. 21 And thine cars shall hear a word behind 5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts dethee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, fend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye it; and passing over he will preserve it. turn to the left. 22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy inolten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. 6 Turn ye uuto 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. 81 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, 23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and from the sword, and his young men shall be displenteous in that day shall thy cattle feed in comfited. large pastures. 9 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for Desolation is foreshewn. CHAP. XXXII, XXXIII, XXXIV. The privileges of the godly. fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his righteousness. furnace in Jerusalem. CHAP. XXXII. BEHOLD, a King shall reign in lighteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. 2 And a man shall be as a 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 eyes 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 liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful. 6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure. 7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without! the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly. 8 The highways lie waste, the way-faring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man. 9 The earth mourneth 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. 6 For the vile person will speak villany, and 12 And the people shall be as the burnings of his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypo-lime; as thorns cut up shall they be burned in crisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to the fire. 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 lying 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 women that are at ease; hear niy voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech 10 Many days and years shal! ye be troubled, ye careless women; for the vintage shall fail, 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 sackcloth upon your loins. 12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. 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 dweil with everlasting burnings? 15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppres sions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from 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 beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off. 18 Thy heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers ? 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up 19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of of deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a joy in the joyous city: staniniering tongue, that thou canst not understand. 14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall 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 fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest. 20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet labitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. 16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, 21 But there the glorious LORD will be unto us and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein 17 And the work of righteousness shall be shall go no ga'ley with oars, neither shall gallant peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness ship pass thereby. and assurance 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 hail, coming down on the forest; and the city 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. CHAP. XXXIII. Judgments on Zion's enemies. 70 to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not 22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, 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: spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and CE near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, they dealt not treacherously with thee! when Wye people: let the earth hear, and all that is thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; therein; the world, and all things that come and when thou shalt make an end to deal treache-forth of it. rously, they shall deal treacherously with thee. 2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all 20 LORD, be gracious unto us; we have wait-nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he ed for thee: be thou their arm every morning, hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered our salvation also in the time of trouble. them to the slaughter. 3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at 3 Their s.ain also shall be cast out, and their the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered. stink shall come up out of their carcasses, and 4 And your spoil shall be gathered like the ga-the mountains shall be melted with their blood. thering of the caterpillar: as tite running to and 4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, fro of locusts shall he run upon them. and the heavens shall be rolled together as a 5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as tue |