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1 The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

2 Hear, heavens, and listen, earth,

for Yahweh has spoken:

“I have raised and brought up sons,

but they, they have rebelled against me.

3 An ox knows its owner

and a donkey, the manger of its master;

Israel does not know,

my people do not understand.”

4 Woe! A sinning nation,

a people heavy of iniquity,

seed of evildoers,

sons acting corruptly!

They have forsaken Yahweh,

they have despised the Holy One of Israel,

they have turned away backward.

5 On what will you still be struck?

Will you continue rebellion?

The whole head is for sickness,

and the whole heart is faint.

6 From the sole of the foot and up to the head,

there is no soundness in it.

Wound and bruise and raw sore,

they have not been pressed out,

and they have not been bound up,

and they have not been softened with oil.

7 Your land is a desolation,

your cities have been burned with fire.

Your ground, strangers are devouring it before you,

indeed, it is a desolation like the overthrow of strangers.

8 And the daughter of Zion is left

like a booth in a vineyard,

like a hut in a cucumber field,

like a besieged city.

9 If Yahweh of Armies

had not left a remnant to us according to a few,

we would have been like Sodom,

we would have compared to Gomorrah.

10 Hear the word of Yahweh,

rulers of Sodom!

Listen to the instruction of our God,

people of Gomorrah!

11 “For what is the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”

says Yahweh.

“I have enough burnt offerings of rams

and fat of fatlings,

and in the blood of bulls and lambs and male goats

I do not delight.

12 When you come to appear before my face,

who has sought this from your hand,

trampling my courts?

13 Do not continue to bring an offering of worthlessness!

Incense, it is an abomination to me.

New moon and Sabbath, the calling of an assembly --

I am not able to endure wickedness and a solemn gathering.

14 Your new moons and your annual festivals,

my soul hates.

They have become a burden upon me;

I am wearied from bearing them.

15 And when you spread out your palms,

I hide my eyes from you.

Even when you multiply prayer,

I am not listening.

Your hands are full of blood.

16 Wash, cleanse,

remove the evil of your deeds

from before my eyes.

Cease doing evil.

17 Learn to do good,

seek justice,

gladden the oppressed,

judge for the orphan,

plead for the widow.”

18 “Come, now, and let us argue together,”

says Yahweh.

“Though your sins are like scarlet,

they will become white like snow.

Though they are red like crimson,

they will become like wool.

19 If you are willing and you listen,

you will eat the good of the land.

20 But if you refuse and you rebel,

you will be devoured by the sword,”

for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken.

21 How the attested city has become a prostitute!

It was full of justice;

righteousness lodged in it;

but now, murderers.

22 Your silver has become dross,

your wine, diluted with water.

23 Your princes are rebels

and companions of thieves;

each of him is loving a bribe

and pursuing rewards.

They do not judge the orphan,

and the case of the widow does not come to them.

24 Therefore—the declaration of the Lord,

Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel:

“Woe! I will be relieved of my adversaries,

and I will be avenged of my enemies.

25 And I will turn my hand against you,

and I will refine your dross as with lye,

and I will remove all of your tin.

26 And I will restore your judges as at the first,

and your counselors, as at the beginning.

After this, it will be called to you

‘City of Righteousness, Attested Settlement.’ ”

27 Zion will be redeemed with justice,

and its repenting ones, with righteousness.

28 But the destruction of transgressors and sinners will be together,

and the forsakers of Yahweh will end.

29 For they will have shame from the oaks that you desired,

and you will blush from the gardens that you chose.

30 For you will be like an oak, its leaf withering,

and like a garden that no water is to it.

31 And the strong will become tow,

and his work, a spark,

and the two of them will burn together,

and there will be none extinguishing.

2 The word that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

2 And it will be, in the end of days,

the mountain of the house of Yahweh will be established

at the head of the mountains,

and it will be lifted up above the hills,

and all of the nations will flow to it.

3 And many peoples will go and say,

“Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh,

to the house of the God of Jacob,

that he may teach us from his ways,

and let us walk in his paths.”

For instruction will go out from Zion,

and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.

4 And he will judge between nations,

and he will decide for many peoples.

And they will beat their swords into plowshares

and their spears into pruning hooks.

A nation will not lift up a sword against a nation,

and they will not learn war anymore.

5 House of Jacob, come,

and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.

6 Now you have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob,

because they are full from the east,

and they are soothsayers like the Philistines,

and they clap with the children of foreigners.

7 And his land is filled with silver and gold,

and there is no end to his treasures.

And his land is filled with horses,

and there is no end to his chariots.

8 And his land is filled with idols;

they bow down to the work of his hands,

to what his fingers have made.

9 And a human is humbled,

and a man becomes low,

but may you not lift them up.

10 Go into the rock

and hide in the ground

from the face of the terror of Yahweh

and from the splendor of his majesty!

11 The eyes of the loftiness of a human will become low,

and the haughtiness of men will bow down,

and Yahweh alone will be exalted

on that day.

12 For a day is to Yahweh of Armies

against all of the proud and the ones being high

and against all of the ones being lifted up

—and he will become low—

13 and against all of the cedars of Lebanon,

being high and being lifted up,

and against all of the oaks of Bashan,

14 and against all of the mountains being high,

and against all of the hills being lifted up,

15 and against every high tower,

and against every fortified wall,

16 and against all of the ships of Tarshish,

and against all of the boats of delight.

17 And the loftiness of a human will become humbled,

and the haughtiness of men will become low,

and Yahweh alone will be exalted

on that day.

18 And the idols will completely pass away.

19 And they will go into caves of the rocks

and into holes of the ground

from the face of the terror of Yahweh

and from the splendor of his majesty

when he arises to terrify the earth.

20 On that day a human will throw away

the idols of his silver and the idols of his gold,

which they made for him to worship,

to diggers of holes and to bats,

21 to come into crevices of rocks

and into clefts of crags,

from the face of the terror of Yahweh

and from the splendor of his majesty

when he arises to terrify the earth.

22 Cease for yourselves from a human,

who, breath is in his nose,

for at what is he esteemed?

3 For behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies,

is removing from Jerusalem and from Judah

supply and support,

all supply of bread

and all supply of water,

2 warrior and man of war,

judge and prophet

and diviner and elder,

3 commander of fifty and one lifted up of face

and counselor and wise of crafts

and the one instructed of enchantment.

4 And I will make youths their princes,

and children will rule over them.

5 And the people will be oppressed,

a man by a man and a man by his neighbor.

The youth will act insolently against the elderly,

and the despised against the honored.

6 For a man will seize his brother

in the house of his father,

“You have a cloak;

you shall be ruler over us,

and this ruin, under your hand.”

7 On that day he will lift up, saying,

“I will not be a healer,

for in my house there is no bread

and there is no cloak.

Do not make me a ruler of the people.”

8 For Jerusalem has stumbled

and Judah has fallen

because their tongue and their deeds are against Yahweh,

to defy the eyes of his glory.

9 The appearance of their faces witnesses against them,

and they declare their sin, like Sodom;

they do not hide it.

Woe to their soul,

for they have recompensed harm to themselves.

10 Tell the righteous that it will be well,

for they will eat the fruit of their deeds.

11 Woe to the wicked—it will be harm,

for the recompense of his hands will be done to him.

12 My people, its oppressors are a child,

and women rule over it.

My people, the ones guiding you are leading you astray,

and they confuse the way of your paths.

13 Yahweh has stationed himself to contend

and is standing to judge the peoples.

14 Yahweh will enter into judgment

with the elders of his people and its princes:

“And you, you have consumed the vineyard;

the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

15 What to you, you crush my people

and you grind the faces of the poor?”

—the declaration of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

16 And Yahweh said,

“Because the daughters of Zion are haughty,

and they walk, neck outstretched

and eyes winking,

they go walking and mincing,

and they tinkle with their feet,

17 so the Lord will make scabby the pate of the daughters of Zion,

and Yahweh will expose their forehead.”

18 On that day the Lord will remove the splendor of the anklets and the headbands and the crescents, 19 the pendants and the bracelets and the veils, 20 the headdresses and the ankle chains and the sashes and the boxes of perfume and the amulets, 21 the signet rings and the rings of the nose, 22 the festal robes and the capes and the cloaks and the purses, 23 and the mirrors and the linen garments and the turbans and the veils.

24 And it will be, instead of perfume, a stench will be,

and instead of a belt, a rope,

and instead of the craft [of] hairdo, baldness,

and instead of a robe, girding of sackcloth,

branding instead of beauty.

25 Your men will fall by the sword,

and your might, in battle.

26 And her gates will lament and mourn,

and she will be emptied; she will sit on the ground.

4 And seven women will seize one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and we will wear our own clothing; only let your name be called over us. Take away our reproach!”

2 In that day the branch of Yahweh will be for splendor and for glory, and the fruit of the land, for pride and for adornment for the escape of Israel. 3 And it will be, the one remained in Zion and the one left in Jerusalem, “Holy” will be said of him, everyone written for life in Jerusalem, 4 when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and has cleansed the blood of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning. 5 And Yahweh will create over all of the site of Mount Zion and over its assemblies a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a fire, a flame, by night, for over all of the glory will be a canopy. 6 And a booth will be for shade by day from the heat and for a refuge and for a shelter from the storm and from the rain.

5 Please let me sing for my beloved

a song of my beloved about his vineyard.

My beloved had a vineyard

on a hill of a son of richness.

2 And he dug it up, and he cleared it of stones,

and he planted it with a choice vine,

and he built a tower in the midst of it,

and he also hewed out a winepress in it.

And he waited for it to produce grapes,

but it produced wild grapes.

3 “And now, dweller of Jerusalem and man of Judah,

please judge between me and between my vineyard.

4 What more is there to do for my vineyard

that I have not done in it?

Why did I wait for it to produce grapes,

but it produced wild grapes?

5 And now, please let me make you know

what I am doing to my vineyard.

I will remove its hedge, and it will be for burning;

I will break down its wall, and it will be for trampling.

6 And I will make it a waste;

it will not be pruned and it will not be hoed,

and briar and thorn will come up.

And to the clouds, I will command

not to rain rain upon it.”

7 For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel,

and the man of Judah is the planting of his delight.

And he waited for justice, but behold, bloodshed;

for righteousness, but behold, a cry.

8 Woe to the ones joining house to house,

they make field approach to field

until cessation of place,

and you are made to dwell, you alone,

in the midst of the land.

9 In my ears, Yahweh of Armies,

“If many houses will not become a desolation,

great ones and good ones, without a dweller!

10 For ten of yokes of a vineyard will produce one bath,

and seed of a homer will produce an ephah.”

11 Woe to the ones rising early in the morning,

they pursue beer;

the ones lingering into the twilight,

wine inflames them.

12 And the harp and the lyre and the tambourine

and the flute and wine are at their feasts,

but they do not regard the work of Yahweh,

and they have not seen the deed of his hands.

13 Therefore, my people go into exile

from lack of knowledge,

and its glory is men of hunger,

and its multitude is dry of thirst.

14 Therefore, Sheol has enlarged its soul,

and it has opened its mouth without limit,

and its honor and its multitude will go down,

and its uproar and the one exulting in it.

15 And a human will be humbled, and a man will become low,

and the eyes of the haughty will become low.

16 But Yahweh of Armies will be exalted in justice,

and the holy God will be sanctified in righteousness.

17 And lambs will graze according to their manner,

and sojourners will eat in the desolations of fatlings.

18 Woe to the ones dragging iniquity with cords of falsehood

and sin as with the ropes of a cart,

19 the ones saying, “Let him hurry,

let him hasten his work that we may see,

and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel approach,

let it come, that we may know.”

20 Woe to the ones saying of evil, “Good,”

and of good, “Evil,”

the ones putting darkness for light

and light for darkness,

the ones putting bitter for sweet

and sweet for bitter.

21 Woe to the wise in their own eyes

and the ones having understanding before their own faces.

22 Woe to the champions at drinking wine

and the men of valor at mixing beer,

23 the ones declaring the wicked righteous on account of a bribe,

and they take the righteousness of the righteous ones away from him.

24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire devours stubble

and dry grass sinks down into a flame,

their root will be like rottenness,

and their blossom will go up like dust,

for they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies,

and they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

25 Therefore the nose of Yahweh burns against his people,

and he has stretched out his hand against it and struck it,

and the mountains have quaked,

and their corpse has become like refuse in the midst of the streets.

In all of this, his nose has not turned back,

and his hand is still stretched out.

26 And he will raise a banner for the nations from afar,

and he will whistle for him from the end of the earth,

and behold, hurriedly, swiftly,

one will come.

27 None is weary and none is stumbling among it;

he does not slumber and he does not sleep.

And the belt of his loins is not opened,

and the strap of his sandals is not broken,

28 who, his arrows are sharpened

and all of his bows have been trod.

The hooves of its horses are reckoned like flint

and its wheels, like a whirlwind.

29 A roaring is to it like a lioness;

and it roars like young lions.

And it growls, and it seizes the prey

and carries it away, and there is none delivering.

30 And it will growl over it on that day

like the growling of the sea.

And one looks at the land, and behold, darkness, trouble,

and the light becomes dark by its clouds.

6 In the year of the death of King Uzziah, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and his hems were filling the temple. 2 Seraphs were standing above him. Six wings, six wings were to one. With two, he covered his face, and with two, he covered his feet, and with two, he flew. 3 And this one called to that one and said,

“Holy, holy, holy is Yahweh of Armies.

The fullness of all of the earth is his glory.”

4 And the foundations of the thresholds shook from the voice of the one calling, and the house was filled with smoke.

5 And I said, “Woe to me, for I am destroyed! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I am dwelling in the midst of a people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies.” 6 And one of the seraphs flew to me, and in his hand was a hot coal he had taken with tongs from upon the altar. 7 And he made it touch on my mouth, and he said, “Behold, this has touched on your lips, and your iniquity has departed, and your sin has been covered.”

8 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” And I said, “Behold me, send me.”

9 And he said, “Go, and you shall say to this people,

‘Hearing, hear, but do not understand,

and seeing, see, but do not know.’

10 Make the heart of this people fat,

and make his ears heavy, and make his eyes shut,

lest he see with his eyes and hear with his ears

and his heart understand and he turn and one heal him.”

11 And I said, “Until when, Lord?”

And he said, “Until that if cities are desolate, without a dweller,

and houses without a man,

and the land is desolated, a wasteland,

12 and Yahweh has distanced the man,

and the deserted place has become great in the midst of the land.

13 If yet a tenth is in it, then it will return and be for burning, like a terebinth and like an oak, which, in felling, a stump is for them. The seed of holiness is its stump.”

7 And it happened in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, the king of Judah, Rezin, the king of Aram, went up with Pekah, the son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, to Jerusalem for battle against it, but he was not able to battle against it. 2 And it was declared to the house of David, saying, “Aram has settled upon Ephraim.” And his heart shook, and the heart of his people, like the shaking of the trees of the forest from the face of the wind.

3 And Yahweh said to Isaiah, “Go out, please, to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the road of the Field of the Washer. 4 And you shall say to him, ‘Guard yourself and be quiet. May you not fear and may your heart not soften from the two of these smoking stubs of firewood, by the burning of the nose of Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah. 5 Because Aram has plotted harm against you, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying, 6 “Let us go up against Judah, and let us make it dread, and let us break it open for ourselves, and let us make a king reign in the midst of it, the son of Tabeel,” 7 thus says the Lord Yahweh, “It will not stand, and it will not be. 8 For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin, and within 65 years, Ephraim will be shattered from being a people. 9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not believe, then you will not be established.” ’ ”

10 And Yahweh added to speak to Ahaz, saying, 11 “Ask a sign for yourself from Yahweh your God. Make deep to Sheol or make high to above.” 12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, and I will not test Yahweh.”

13 And he said, “Please hear, house of David. Is it little for you to make men weary, that you also make my God weary? 14 Therefore, the Lord himself will give a sign to you. Behold, the young woman has conceived and is bearing a son, and she will call his name Immanuel. 15 He will eat curds and honey to his knowing to refuse evil and to choose good. 16 For before the boy knows to reject evil and to choose good, the land will be forsaken that you are dreading from the faces of the two kings of it. 17 Yahweh will bring upon you and upon your people and upon the house of your father days that have not come since the day of the turning of Ephraim away from Judah—the king of Assyria.”

18 And it will happen in that day, Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19 And they will come, and they will settle down, all of them, in the valleys of desolation and in the clefts of the rocks and in all of the thornbushes and in all of the watering holes.

20 In that day the Lord will shave with a razor hired from beyond the River, with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet, and it will also take away the beard.

21 And it will happen in that day, a man will keep alive a calf of the herd and two of the flock. 22 And it will happen, from the abundance of making milk, he will eat curds, for every one left in the midst of the land will eat curds and honey.

23 And it will happen in that day, it will be, every place where a thousand vines at a thousand of silver were there, it will become briar and thorn. 24 One will come there with arrows and with a bow, for all of the land will become briar and thorn. 25 And all of the hills that were hoed with a hoe, you will not go there for fear of briar and thorn. And it will be for the sending out of the ox and for the trampling of the sheep.

8 And Yahweh said to me, “Take for yourself a great tablet and write on it with the stylus of a man, ‘For Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.’ ” 2 And I had faithful witnesses attest for me, Uriah the priest and Zechariah, the son of Jeberechiah. 3 And I drew near to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. And Yahweh said to me, “Call his name Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz, 4 for before the boy knows to call out ‘my father’ or ‘my mother,’ one will carry away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria to the face of the king of Assyria.”

5 And Yahweh added to speak to me again, saying, 6 “Because this people has rejected the waters of Shiloah, the ones going gently, and there is rejoicing with Rezin and the son of Remaliah, 7 so therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many—the king of Assyria and all of his glory. And it will go up over all of its channels and go over all of its banks, 8 and it will sweep into Judah. It will overflow and pass through until it reaches the neck. And the spreading out of its wings will be the fullness of the breadth of your land, Immanuel.”

9 Shout, peoples, and shatter!

And listen, all of the distant ones of the earth!

Gird yourselves and shatter!

Gird yourselves and shatter!

10 Consult counsel, but it will be thwarted;

speak speech, but it will not stand,

for God is with us.

11 For thus Yahweh said to me with strength of hand, and he instructed me against walking in the way of this people, saying,

12 “You shall not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy,

and you shall not fear its fear, and you shall not dread.

13 Yahweh of armies, him you shall sanctify,

and he shall be your fear, and he shall be your dread.

14 And he will be a sanctuary,

but a stone of tripping and a rock of stumbling to the two of the houses of Israel,

a trap and a snare to the dweller of Jerusalem. 15 And many will stumble over them and fall and be broken,

and they will be snared and captured.”

16 Bind up the testimony;

seal the instruction among my disciples.

17 And I will wait for Yahweh, the one hiding his face from the house of Jacob,

and I will hope in him.

18 Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given to me

are for signs and for wonders in Israel,

from Yahweh of hosts, the one dwelling on Mount Zion.

19 And when they say to you, “Seek to ritual pits and to familiar spirits, the ones chirping and muttering,” should not a people seek to its God? To the dead, on behalf of the living? 20 To the instruction and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is that there is no dawn for him. 21 And one will pass through it, distressed and hungry. And it will happen when he is hungry that he will become angry and curse his king and his God. And he will look upward, 22 and he will look at the earth, and behold, trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish, and into thick darkness he will be driven away.

9 But gloom will not be for her to whom distress was. As in the former time, he dishonored the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but later he will glorify the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

2 The people walking in darkness will see a great light.

The dwellers of a land of deep darkness, light will shine on them.

3 You will multiply the nation; you will increase joy for it.

They will rejoice to your face like the rejoicing at the harvest,

as they exult when they divide spoil.

4 For the yoke of his burden and the staff of his shoulder,

the rod of the one oppressing him,

you will shatter as in the day of Midian.

5 For every boot of one booting in commotion

and the garment rolled in blood

will be for burning, fuel of fire.

6 For a child has been born to us, a son has been given to us,

and the dominion will be on his shoulder.

And one will call his name Wonder of a Counselor,

Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.

7 Of the increase of the dominion and of peace there will be no end,

on the throne of David and over his kingdom,

to establish it and to sustain it

with justice and with righteousness,

from now and until forever.

The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will do this.

8 The Lord has sent a word against Jacob,

and it has fallen on Israel.

9 And the people know, all of it,

Ephraim and the dweller of Samaria.

In pride and in greatness of heart, saying,

10 “The bricks have fallen, but we will build with hewn stone.

Sycamores have been cut down, but we will change them into cedars.”

11 For Yahweh has raised up the adversaries of Rezin against him,

and he has spurred on his enemies,

12 Aram from the east and the Philistines from behind,

and they have devoured Israel with all of the mouth.

In all of this, his nose has not turned back,

and his hand is still stretched out.

13 And the people has not returned to the one striking it,

and they have not sought Yahweh of Armies.

14 So Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail,

palm branch and reed, in one day.

15 The elder and the lifted of face, he is the head,

and the prophet teaching falsehood, he is the tail.

16 For the guides of this people are misleading them,

and its guided ones are being swallowed up.

17 Therefore, the Lord does not rejoice over its young men,

and he does not pity its orphans and its widows,

for all of it is godless and doing evil,

and every mouth is speaking foolishness.

In all of this, his nose has not turned back,

and his hand is still stretched out.

18 For wickedness burns like fire;

it devours the briar and the thorn.

And it kindles in the thickets of the forest,

and they roll upward in a rising of smoke.

19 By the wrath of Yahweh of Armies, the land is scorched,

and the people are like fuel of fire.

A man does not have pity on his brother.

20 And he will cut off on the right, but he will be hungry,

and he will eat on the left, but they will not have enough.

A man will eat the flesh of his arm:

21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh;

together they will be against Judah.

In all of this, his nose has not turned back,

and his hand is still stretched out.

10 Woe to the ones decreeing decrees of iniquity

and the writers, they write oppression,

2 to turn aside the needy ones from judgment

and to rob the justice of the poor of my people,

so that widows become their spoil

and they may plunder orphans.

3 And what will you do on the day of visitation

and about the desolation coming from afar?

To whom will you flee for help,

and where will you leave your glory?

4 One will only bow down with the prisoner,

and they will fall among the slain.

In all of this, his nose has not turned back,

and his hand is still stretched out.

5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of my nose,

and the staff in their hand, it is my fury.

6 I have sent him against a godless nation,

and against the people of my wrath I have commanded him

to spoil spoil and to plunder plunder,

and to make him a trampling like the mud of the streets.

7 But he does not intend thus,

and his heart does not think thus,

for to destroy is in his heart,

and to cut off nations not a few.

8 For he says,

“Are not my commanders all kings?

9 Is not Calno like Carchemish?

Or is not Hamath like Arpad?

Or is not Samaria like Damascus?

10 As my hand has found kingdoms of the idol,

and their images were more than Jerusalem and than Samaria,

11 as I have done to Samaria and to its idols,

shall I not do thus to Jerusalem and to its idols?”

12 And it will happen, when the Lord has finished all of his work on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I will visit against the fruit of the greatness of heart of the king of Assyria and against the splendor of the height of his eyes.

13 For he has said,

“By the strength of my hand I have done it,

and by my wisdom, for I understand.

And I have removed the borders of peoples,

and I have plundered their treasures,

and like a mighty one, I have brought down the sitters.

14 And my hand has found, as in a nest,

the wealth of the peoples,

and as one gathers abandoned eggs,

I, I have gathered all of the earth,

and none was fluttering a wing

or opening a mouth or chirping.”

15 Does the axe exalt itself against the one hewing with it?

Or does the saw magnify itself against the one moving it?

As if a rod wielded its lifter!

As if a club lifted what is not wood!

16 Therefore, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send leanness among his fat ones,

and among his glory he will kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.

17 And the light of Israel will become a fire,

and his Holy One, a flame,

and it will burn and consume

his thorn and his briar in one day.

18 And the glory of his forest and his agricultural land,

from soul and unto flesh, he will consume,

and it will be like the melting of one wasting away.

19 And the remnant of the trees of his forest will be a number

that a child may write them.

20 And it will happen on that day, the remnant of Israel

and the escape of the house of Jacob

will not add again to support itself on the one striking it

but will support itself on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

21 A remnant will return, a remnant of Jacob,

to the Mighty God.

22 For though your people, Israel, is like the sand of the sea,

a remnant of it will return.

Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

23 For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is making an end,

even a decreed one, in the midst of all of the earth.

24 Therefore, thus says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies:

“May you not be afraid, my people dwelling in Zion, of Assyria.

He will strike you with the rod,

and he will lift his staff against you, in the way of Egypt.

25 For yet a little, a trifle,

and the fury will end,

and my nose will be to their destruction.”

26 Then Yahweh of Armies will awaken a whip against him,

like the striking of Midian at the rock of Oreb,

and his staff will be over the sea,

and he will lift it up in the way of Egypt.

27 And it will happen on that day,

his burden will turn away from upon your shoulder,

and his yoke, from upon your neck,

indeed, the yoke will be destroyed from the face of fatness.

28 He has come against Aiath;

he has passed through Migron;

at Michmash, he stores his equipment.

29 They have passed through the pass;

“Geba is a lodging for us.”

Ramah trembles;

Gibeah of Saul flees.

30 Cry out with your voice, daughter of Gallim!

Listen, Laishah!

Poor Anathoth!

31 Madmenah flees;

the dwellers of Gebim seek refuge.

32 Yet today he will stand at Nob.

He will shake his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion,

the hill of Jerusalem.

33 Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is lopping off the bough with terror,

and the ones being high of stature are being felled,

and the lofty will become low.

34 And he will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron,

and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.

11 And a shoot will come out from the stump of Jesse,

and a branch from his roots will bear fruit.

2 And the Spirit of Yahweh will rest on him,

the spirit of wisdom and understanding,

the spirit of counsel and might,

the spirit of knowledge and the fear of Yahweh.

3 And his breathing will be in the fear of Yahweh,

and he will not judge by the sight of his eyes,

and he will not decide by the hearing of his ears,

4 but he will judge the needy with righteousness,

and he will decide with uprightness for the poor of the earth.

And he will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,

and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

5 And righteousness will be the belt of his loins,

and faithfulness, the belt of his hips.

6 And the wolf will sojourn with the lamb,

and the leopard will lie down with the young goat,

and the calf and the young lion and the fatling, together,

and a little child will be leading them.

7 And the cow and the bear will graze together;

their young will lie down,

and the lion will eat straw like the ox.

8 And the nursing child will play over the hole of the adder,

and the weaned child will stretch out his hand over the den of the viper.

9 They will not cause harm and they will not destroy

on all of the mountain of my holiness,

for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh,

as the waters are covering the sea.

10 And it will happen in that day, the root of Jesse that is standing will be for a banner of the peoples. To him the nations will seek, and his resting place will be glory.

11 And it will happen in that day, the Lord will extend his hand a second time to get the remnant of his people who will 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 coastlands of the sea.

12 And he will raise a banner for the nations,

and he will gather the outcast ones of Israel,

and the scattered ones of Judah, he will assemble

from the four edges of the earth.

13 And the envy of Ephraim will turn aside,

and the hostile ones of Judah will be cut off.

Ephraim will not envy Judah,

and Judah will not be hostile to Ephraim.

14 And they will fly on the shoulder of the Philistines seaward;

together they will plunder the sons of the east.

Edom and Moab will be the sending forth of their hand,

and the sons of Ammon will be their listener.

15 And Yahweh will devote the tongue of the Sea of Egypt,

and he will wave his hand over the River

with the dryness of his wind,

and he will strike it into seven streams,

and he will make one walk in sandals.

16 And there will be a highway from Assyria

for the remnant of his people who will be left,

as there was for Israel

in the day of his coming up from the land of Egypt.

12 And you will say on that day,

“I thank you, Yahweh. Though you were angry with me,

your nose has turned back, and you have comforted me.

2 Behold, God is my salvation;

I will trust, and I will not dread,

for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song,

and he has become salvation to me.”

3 And with joy you will draw water

from the wells of salvation.

4 And you will say on that day,

“Give thanks to Yahweh, call on his name,

make his deeds known among the peoples;

make them remember that his name is exalted.

5 Make music to Yahweh,

for he has done majesty;

this is made known in all of the earth.

6 Cry aloud and shout joyfully, dweller of Zion,

for the Holy One of Israel is great in your midst.”

13 The burden of Babylon that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw:

2 Lift up a banner on a bared mountain;

raise a voice to them, wave a hand,

that they may enter the gates of the nobles.

3 I, I have commanded my consecrated ones;

I have also called my warriors for my nose,

the exultant ones of my majesty.

4 The sound of a multitude in the mountains,

like a numerous people!

The sound of an uproar of kingdoms,

nations being gathered!

Yahweh of Armies is mustering

an army of battle.

5 They are coming from a land of distance,

from the end of the heavens,

Yahweh and the weapons of his indignation,

to destroy all of the land.

6 Wail, for the day of Yahweh is near;

it will come like destruction from Shaddai.

7 Therefore all of the hands will drop,

and every heart of man will melt.

8 And they will be terrified;

pangs and agonies will seize them;

they will writhe like one birthing.

A man will marvel to his friend;

their faces will be faces of flames.

9 Behold, the day of Yahweh is coming,

cruel, with wrath and burning of nose,

to make the land a desolation,

and he will destroy its sinners from it.

10 For the stars of the heavens and their constellations

will not shine their light;

the sun will be dark at its coming out,

and the moon will not make its light shine.

11 “And I will visit upon the world its evil,

and upon the wicked, their iniquity.

And I will make the pride of the arrogant cease,

and I will bring low the pride of the mighty.

12 I will make a man rarer than fine gold,

and a human, than the pure gold of Ophir.

13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,

and the earth will shake from its place

at the wrath of Yahweh of Armies

and in the day of the burning of his nose.”

14 And it will be like a chased gazelle

or like a flock with no gatherer:

a man will turn to his people,

and a man will flee to his land.

15 Every one found will be stabbed,

and every one swept up will fall by the sword.

16 And their infants will be dashed to their eyes;

their houses will be plundered,

and their wives will be ravished.

17 “Behold me, awakening Media against them,

who do not regard silver,

and gold, they do not delight in it.

18 And bows will dash young men,

and they will not have compassion on the fruit of the womb;

their eye will not have pity on sons.”

19 And Babylon, the glory of the kingdoms,

the splendor of the pride of the Chaldeans,

will be like the destruction of God

of Sodom and Gomorrah.

20 It will not dwell, to eternity,

and one will not inhabit, to generation and generation.

And an Arab will not tent there,

and shepherds will not make lie down there.

21 But desert creatures will lie down there,

and owls will fill their houses,

and daughters of the ostrich will inhabit there,

and wild goats will dance there.

22 And hyenas will cry out in its fortresses,

and jackals, in palaces of luxury.

And its time is near to coming,

and its days will not be prolonged.

14 For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob,

and he will again choose Israel,

and he will settle them on their land.

And the sojourner will be joined to them,

and they will attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

2 And peoples will take them and bring them to their place,

and the house of Israel will possess them on the land of Yahweh

as male servants and as female servants.

And they will be captors of their captors,

and they will rule over their oppressors.

3 And it will happen in the day Yahweh gives rest to you from your pain and from your turmoil and from the hard service that was imposed on you, 4 that you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and you will say,

“How the oppressor has ceased!

The insolence has ceased!

5 Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked,

the scepter of rulers,

6 the one striking peoples in wrath,

a striking without turning aside,

the one ruling nations in nose,

a persecution without restraint.

7 All of the earth rests, it reposes;

they break forth into singing.

8 Even the cypresses exult over you,

the cedars of Lebanon:

‘Since you have lain down,

the cutter does not come up against us.’

9 Sheol from beneath trembles for you,

to meet your coming.

It awakens the Raphaites for you, all of the leaders of the earth.

It raises all of the kings of the nations from their thrones.

10 All of them will answer and say to you,

‘You also, you have been weakened like us;

you have been likened to us!’

11 Your pride has been brought down to Sheol,

the sound of your lyres.

The maggot is spread beneath you,

and the worm is your covering.

12 How you have fallen from the heavens,

morning star, son of the dawn!

You have been cut down to the ground,

the one subduing nations!

13 And you, you said in your heart,

‘I will ascend to the heavens;

I will raise my throne above the stars of God,

and I will sit on the mountain of assembly

in the recesses of the north.

14 I will ascend above the heights of the cloud;

I will make myself like the Most High.’

15 But you have been brought down to Sheol,

to the recesses of the Pit.

16 The ones seeing you will stare at you;

they will consider you:

‘Is this the man having trembled the earth,

having shaken kingdoms,

17 he who made the world like a wilderness

and tore down its cities,

who did not release his prisoners homeward?’

18 All of the kings of the nations, all of them,

lie down in glory, a man in his house.

19 But you, you have been cast from your grave

like an abhorred branch,

clothed with the slain, the pierced of the sword,

the ones going down to the stones of the pit,

like a trampled corpse.

20 You will not join with them in burial,

for you have destroyed your land,

you have killed your people.

The seed of evildoers

will not be named forever.

21 Prepare a slaughter for his sons

for the iniquity of their fathers,

lest they arise and possess the earth

and fill the face of the world with cities.”

22 “And I will arise against them”

—the declaration of Yahweh of Armies—

“and I will cut off from Babylon name and remnant and offspring and posterity”

—the declaration of Yahweh.

23 “And I will make it a possession of the bittern and pools of water,

and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction”

—the declaration of Yahweh of Armies.

24 Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying,

“If not, as I have intended, thus it shall be,

and as I have determined, it, it shall stand: 25 to break Assyria in my land, and I will trample him on my mountains.

And his yoke will turn aside from upon them,

and his burden will turn aside from upon their shoulder.”

26 This is the plan planned over all of the earth,

and this is the hand stretched out over all of the nations.

27 For Yahweh of Armies has determined, so who will thwart?

And his hand is stretched out, so who will turn it back?

28 In the year of the death of King Ahaz, this burden was:

29 May you not rejoice, Philistia, all of you,

that the rod of the one striking you is broken,

for from the root of the serpent, a viper will come out,

and its fruit will be a flying serpent.

30 And the firstborn of the poor will graze,

and the needy will lie down in safety.

But I will kill your root with famine,

and it will slay your remnant.

31 Wail, gate! Cry out, city!

Be dissolved, Philistia, all of you!

For from the north smoke is coming,

and none in his assembly is being separate.

32 And what will one answer

the messengers of a nation?

That Yahweh has founded Zion,

and the poor of his people will take refuge in it.

15 The burden of Moab.

For in the night of when it is devastated, Ar of Moab is destroyed.

For in the night of when it is devastated, Kir of Moab is destroyed.

2 One goes up to the house, and Dibon, to the high places to weep.

Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba.

Baldness is on all of its heads;

every beard is cut off.

3 In its streets they gird on sackcloth.

On its housetops and in its squares, all of it wails,

coming down with weeping.

4 And Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;

their voice is heard as far as Jahaz.

Therefore the armed of Moab shout;

his soul trembles within him.

5 My heart cries out for Moab,

its fugitives are to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah.

For the ascent of Luhith, one goes up by it with weeping;

for on the way of Horonaim they awaken an outcry of destruction.

6 For the waters of Nimrim are desolations,

for the grass withers, the vegetation ends,

there is no greenery.

7 Therefore, the abundance one has made and their store,

they carry them over the Wadi of the Willows.

8 For the outcry goes around the border of Moab;

its wailing is to Eglaim,

and its wailing, to Beer Elim.

9 For the waters of Dimon are full of blood,

but I will put additions on Dimon:

a lion for the escape of Moab

and for the remnant of the land.

16 Send a lamb to the ruler of the land,

from Sela through the wilderness

to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

2 And it will happen, like a wandering bird scattered from a nest,

thus the daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the Arnon.

3 “Bring counsel, do justice.

Make your shadow like night in the midst of noon.

Hide the outcast ones;

may you not reveal the wanderer.

4 Let the outcast ones of Moab sojourn among you.

Be a shelter for them

from the face of the destroyer.

For the oppressor will cease,

destruction will end,

the trampler will finish from the land.

5 And the throne will be established in covenant faithfulness,

and one will sit on it in truth in the tent of David,

judging and seeking justice and swift of righteousness.”

6 We have heard of the pride of Moab—very proud—

its arrogance and its pride and its wrath;

its boasts are not so.

7 Therefore Moab will wail for Moab;

all of it will wail.

For the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, you will moan;

they are surely stricken.

8 For the fields of Heshbon are enfeebled,

and the vine of Sibmah.

The lords of the nations

have stomped its choice vines.

They reached to Jazer,

they wandered into the wilderness;

its shoots spread out,

they passed on to the sea.

9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer

for the vine of Sibmah.

I will drench you with my tears,

Heshbon and Elealeh.

For over your summer fruit and over your harvest,

shouting has fallen.

10 And gladness is gathered, and rejoicing,

from the agricultural land.

And in the vineyards, it is not sung;

one does not shout joyfully.

In the presses, the treader does not tread wine.

“I have made shouting cease.”

11 Therefore my insides moan like a harp for Moab,

and my inward part, for Kir Heres.

12 And it will happen, when it is seen

that Moab is wearied on the high place,

that it will come to its sanctuary to pray,

but it will not be able.

13 This is the word that Yahweh spoke about Moab from then. 14 But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, “Within three years, like the years of a hired one, the glory of Moab will be despised, with all of the great multitude, and the remnant will be few, a trifle, not mighty.”

17 The burden of Damascus.

“Behold Damascus, being removed from being a city,

and it will be a heap of ruin.

2 The cities of Aroer will be abandoned;

they will be for flocks,

and they will lie down, and no one will make them tremble.

3 And fortification will be ceased from Ephraim,

and the kingdom from Damascus.

And the remnant of Aram,

they will be like the glory of the sons of Israel”

—the declaration of Yahweh of Armies.

4 “And it will happen in that day,

the glory of Jacob will become thin,

and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.

5 And it will be like a harvester gathering standing grain,

and his arm reaps heads of grain.

And it will be like the gleaning of heads of grain

in the Valley of the Raphaites.

6 And gleanings will be left in it,

like the shaking of an olive tree:

two, three berries on the head of the bough,

four, five on its branches bearing fruit”

—the declaration of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

7 In that day, a man will gaze at his Maker,

and his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.

8 And he will not gaze at altars,

the work of his hands.

And he will not look at what his fingers have made,

either Asherahs or sun images.

9 In that day, the cities of his strength will be

like the abandoned of the forest and the bough,

which they abandoned from the face of the sons of Israel,

and it will be a desolation.

10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation,

and you have not remembered the rock of your refuge.

Therefore, you will plant plantings of pleasantness,

and you will sow it, a foreign vine;

11 in the day of your planting, you may make it grow,

and in the morning, you may make your seed blossom,

but the harvest will be a heap in the day of being afflicted

and incurable pain.

12 Woe to the multitude of many peoples!

Like the raging of the seas, they rage.

And to the roar of peoples!

Like the roar of mighty waters, they roar.

13 The peoples roar like the roar of many waters,

but he will rebuke him, and he will flee far away,

and he will be pursued, like chaff of the mountains to the face of the wind,

and like tumbleweed to the face of a whirlwind.

14 At the time of evening, and behold, terror!

Before morning, he is not.

This is the portion of our plunderers

and the lot of our looters.

18 Woe to the land of whirring of wings,

which is along the rivers of Cush,

2 the one sending envoys by sea

and in vessels of papyrus on the face of the waters!

Go back, swift messengers, to a nation heightened and shaved,

to a people feared from it and beyond,

a nation of line, line and trampling,

whose land rivers divide.

3 All dwellers of the world and inhabitants of the earth,

when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, may you see,

and when a shofar is blown, may you hear.

4 For thus Yahweh said to me,

“Let me be quiet and let me watch in my dwelling,

like heat glowing because of light,

like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

5 For to the face of the harvest,

when the blossom is complete

and the grape is ripening in the flower,

then he will cut off the shoots with pruning hooks,

and the spreading branches, he will remove, he will cut off.

6 They will be left together for the bird of the mountains

and for the beast of the earth.

And the bird will summer on them,

and every beast of the earth will winter on them.

7 At that time, tribute will be brought to Yahweh of Armies

from a people heightened and smooth,

indeed, from a people feared from it and beyond,

a nation line, line and trampling,

whose land the rivers divide,

to the place of the name of Yahweh of Armies, Mount Zion.

19 The burden of Egypt:

Behold Yahweh, riding on a swift cloud

and coming to Egypt.

And the idols of Egypt will tremble from his face,

and the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst.

2 “And I will provoke Egypt against Egypt, and they will fight,

a man against his brother and a man against his neighbor,

city against city, kingdom against kingdom.

3 And the spirit of Egypt will be emptied out in its midst,

and I will swallow up its counsel.

And they will seek idols and sorcerers

and ritual pits and familiar spirits.

4 And I will deliver Egypt into the hand of a hard master,

and a fierce king will rule over them”

—the declaration of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

5 And the waters will be dried up from the sea,

and the river will become dry and dry up.

6 And the rivers will become foul;

the streams of Matsor will dwindle and become dry.

The reed and the rush will wither.

7 The plants along the Nile

at the mouth of the Nile

and every sown thing of the Nile

will dry up; it will be blown away, and it will not be.

8 And the fishermen will lament,

and all of the ones casting a hook into the Nile will mourn,

and the ones spreading a net

upon the face of the waters will be enfeebled.

9 And the workers of combed flax will have shame,

and the weavers of white cloth.

10 And its foundations will be crushed;

all of the workers for hire will be sad of soul.

11 Surely the princes of Zoan are foolish;

of the wisest of the counselors of Pharaoh,

the counsel has consumed itself.

How will you say to Pharaoh,

“I am a son of the wise,

a son of the kings of antiquity”?

12 Where, then, are your wise?

And let them declare to you, please,

and let them know what Yahweh of Armies

has determined against Egypt.

13 The princes of Zoan have made themselves foolish;

the princes of Noph have deceived themselves.

They have led Egypt astray,

the cornerstone of its tribes.

14 Yahweh has mixed in its midst

a spirit of confusion,

and they have led Egypt astray in all of its doing,

like the staggering of a drunkard in his vomit.

15 And there will be for Egypt no doing

that head or tail, palm branch or reed, may do.

16 In that day Egypt will be like women, and it will tremble and fear from the face of the waving of the hand of Yahweh of Armies that he is waving over it. 17 And the land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt. Everyone who makes it remember it, one will dread from the face of the determination of Yahweh of Armies that he is determining against it.

18 In that day, five cities in the land of Egypt will be speaking the language of Canaan and swearing to Yahweh of Armies. One will be called the City of Destruction.

19 In that day an altar to Yahweh will be in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to Yahweh, at its border. 20 And it will be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of Armies in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to Yahweh from the face of oppressors, then he will send to them a savior and one being great, and he will deliver them.

21 And Yahweh will be known to Egypt, and Egypt will know Yahweh in that day. And they will serve with sacrifice and offering, and they will vow a vow to Yahweh, and they will pay it. 22 And Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing, and they will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and he will heal them.

23 In that day a highway will be from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt and Egypt into Assyria, and Egypt will serve with Assyria.

24 In that day Israel will be a third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth 25 that Yahweh of Armies has blessed it, saying, “Blessed be my people Egypt and the work of my hands Assyria and my inheritance Israel.”

21 The burden of the wilderness of the sea:

Like whirlwinds in the Negev passing through,

it comes from the wilderness, from a terrifying land.

2 A harsh vision has been declared to me:

“The deceiver is deceiving,

and the destroyer is destroying.

Go up, Elam! Lay siege, Media!

I will make all of her groaning cease.”

3 Therefore, my loins are full of writhing;

pangs like the pangs of one birthing have seized me.

I am bent over from hearing;

I am dismayed from seeing.

4 My heart wanders;

horror terrifies me.

The twilight of my desire,

he has made trembling for me.

5 “Arrange the table, spread the carpet, eat, drink.”

“Arise, princes, anoint the shield!”

6 For thus the Lord said to me:

“Go, post a watchman.

What he sees, let him declare.

7 When he sees a chariot, a pair of horsemen,

a rider of a donkey, a rider of a camel,

then he shall attend attention, great attention.”

8 And he called out like a lion,

“Upon the watchtower, lord,

I, I am standing continually by day,

and at my guard post

I, I am stationed all of the night.

9 And behold, this is coming:

a chariot of a man, a pair of horsemen.”

And he answered and said,

“Babylon has fallen, has fallen!

And all of the images of its gods

one has shattered to the ground.”

10 My threshing and the son of my threshing floor,

what I have heard

from Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel,

I have declared to you.

11 The burden of Dumah:

One calling to me from Seir,

“Watchman, what of the night?

Watchman, what of the night?”

12 The watchman said,

“Morning comes, and also night.

If you would inquire, inquire;

return, come.”

13 The burden against Arabia:

In the thicket in Arabia you will lodge,

caravans of Dedanites.

14 To meet the thirsty one, bring water,

dwellers of the land of Tema.

With its bread, they met the fugitive.

15 For from the face of swords they have fled,

from the face of a drawn sword

and from the face of a tread bow

and from the face of the heaviness of war.

16 For thus the Lord has said to me: “Within a year like the years of a hired one, then all of the glory of Kedar will end. 17 And the remnant of the number of the archer, the warriors of the sons of Kedar, will become few, for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken.”

22 The burden of the Valley of Vision:

What to you, then,

that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops?

2 Full of noises,

the clamoring city, the exultant town!

Your slain are not the slain of the sword

and not ones having died in battle.

3 All of your leaders have fled together;

without a bow, they have been bound.

All of your found ones have been bound together;

they had fled far away.

4 Therefore I said, “Look away from me;

let me be bitter in weeping.

May you not try to comfort me

about the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

5 For it is a day of tumult and trampling and confusion

for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies,

in the Valley of Vision,

a breaking down of a wall

and an outcry to the mountain.

6 And Elam lifted up the quiver,

with chariots of men and horsemen,

and Kir uncovered the shield.

7 And it happened, the choicest of your valleys became full of chariotry,

and the horsemen, setting, set themselves at the gate.

8 And he removed the covering of Judah,

and you looked on that day

to the weaponry of the House of the Forest.

9 And you saw the breaches of the city of David, for they were many,

and you gathered the waters of the lower pool.

10 And you counted the houses of Jerusalem,

and you tore down houses to fortify the wall.

11 And you made a reservoir between the two walls

for the waters of the old pool.

But you did not look to its maker,

and you did not regard the one having formed it long ago.

12 And the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called on that day

for weeping and for mourning,

and for baldness and for girding of sackcloth,

13 but behold, joy and gladness,

slaughtering cattle and killing sheep,

eating flesh and drinking wine:

“Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

14 And it was revealed in my ears by Yahweh of Armies, “If this iniquity will be covered for you until you die!”—said the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

15 Thus says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies:

“Go, come to this steward,

to Shebna, who is over the house,

16 ‘What to you here, and who to you here,

that you have hewn a tomb for yourself here,

hewing one’s tomb on high,

carving a dwelling for oneself in the rock?

17 Behold Yahweh, hurling you with a hurling, man,

and wrapping, he will wrap you.

18 Winding, he will wind you,

a toss like a ball to a land broad of hands.

There you will die, and there, the chariots of your glory,

disgrace of the house of your lord!

19 And I will thrust you from your station,

and from your position one will tear you down.

20 And it will happen in that day

that I will call to my servant, to Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah.

21 And I will clothe him with your tunic,

and I will fasten him with your sash,

and I will give your dominion into his hand.

And he will be for a father to the dweller of Jerusalem

and to the house of Judah.

22 And I will put the key of the house of David on his shoulder,

and he will open and none will be shutting,

and he will shut and none will be opening.

23 And I will drive him like a peg into a place made firm,

and he will be a throne of glory to the house of his father.

24 And they will hang on him all of the glory of the house of his father,

the offspring and the descendants,

all of the vessels of the small,

from the vessels of the bowls and to all of the vessels of the jars.’ ”

25 “In that day”—the declaration of Yahweh of Armies—”the peg driven into a place made firm will depart, and it will be cut down and fall, and the burden that was on it will be cut off”—for Yahweh has spoken.

23 The burden of Tyre.

Wail, ships of Tarshish,

for it has been destroyed, from house, from entering.

From the land of the Kittim it was revealed to them.

2 Be silent, dwellers of the coastland;

the merchant of Sidon, crossing over the sea, filled you.

3 For the seed of Shihor was on many waters;

the harvest of the Nile was its revenue,

and it became a marketplace of the nations.

4 Have shame, Sidon, for the sea has spoken,

the stronghold of the sea, saying,

“I have not writhed and I have not birthed,

and I have not raised young men,

brought up virgins.”

5 When the report is to Egypt,

they will writhe at the report of Tyre.

6 Cross over toward Tarshish;

wail, dwellers of the coastland!

7 Is this the exultant one to you,

its origin from days of antiquity?

Its feet carried it far away to sojourn.

8 Who determined this against Tyre,

the one crowning,

whose merchants were princes,

whose traders were honored ones of the earth?

9 Yahweh of Armies determined it,

to profane the pride of all of the splendor,

to make light all of the honored ones of the earth.

10 Pass through your land like the Nile,

daughter of Tarshish;

there is no restraint anymore.

11 He stretched out his hand over the sea;

he made kingdoms tremble.

Yahweh commanded concerning the merchant

to destroy its strongholds.

12 And he said, “You will not add again to rejoice,

oppressed virgin of the daughter of Sidon.

Arise, cross over to the Kittim;

even there it will not be rest for you.”

13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans.

This people is not.

Assyria founded it for desert creatures.

They set up its towers;

they stripped its palaces;

one made it a ruin.

14 Wail, ships of Tarshish,

for your stronghold has been destroyed.

15 And it will happen on that day

that Tyre will be forgotten 70 years,

like the days of one king.

At the end of 70 years,

it will be for Tyre like the song of the prostitute:

16 “Take a harp, go around the city,

forgotten prostitute;

make well to play, multiply song,

that you may be remembered.”

17 And it will happen at the end of 70 years,

Yahweh will visit Tyre.

And she will return to her hire,

and she will whore with all of the kingdoms of the earth

on the face of the ground.

18 And her profit and her hire

will be holiness to Yahweh.

It will not be stored and it will not be hoarded,

for her profit will be for the ones dwelling

to the face of Yahweh,

to eat to satiety

and for fine clothing.

24 Behold Yahweh, emptying the earth and devastating it,

and he will twist its face

and scatter its dwellers.

2 And it will be,

like the people, like the priest;

like the male servant, like his master;

like the female servant, like her mistress;

like the buyer, like the seller;

like the lender, like the borrower;

like the creditor, like him who is carrying on himself.

3 Being emptied, the earth will be emptied,

and being plundered, it will be plundered,

for Yahweh has spoken this word.

4 The earth mourns; it withers.

The world is enfeebled; it withers.

They are enfeebled, the height of the people of the earth.

5 And the earth is polluted under its dwellers,

for they have transgressed laws,

they have changed the statute,

they have broken the covenant of eternity.

6 Therefore, a curse has devoured the earth,

and the dwellers in it are guilty.

Therefore, the dwellers of the earth burn up,

and a man of few is left.

7 The new wine mourns; the vine is enfeebled.

All of the glad of heart sigh.

8 The joy of tambourines has stopped;

the uproar of the exultant has ceased.

The joy of the harp has stopped.

9 They do not drink wine with song;

beer is bitter to its drinkers.

10 The city of emptiness is broken down;

every house is shut from entering.

11 An outcry in the streets about the wine!

All of the joy has become dark.

The gladness of the earth has departed.

12 Desolation is left in the city,

and the gate is beaten into a ruin.

13 For thus it will be in the midst of the earth,

in the middle of the peoples:

like the shaking of an olive tree,

like gleanings when the vintage has ended.

14 They, they will lift up their voice;

they will sing joyfully.

They will shout from the sea about the majesty of Yahweh.

15 Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east,

in the coastlands of the sea,

the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

16 From the edge of the earth we have heard songs,

“Splendor to the Righteous One!”

But I say, “Leanness to me! Leanness to me!

Woe to me!”

The ones acting treacherously have acted treacherously,

yes, the ones acting treacherously have acted treacherously with treachery.

17 Terror and pit and snare

are upon you, dweller of the earth!

18 And it will happen, the one fleeing from the sound of terror

will fall into a pit,

and the one coming up from the middle of a pit

will be caught in a snare.

For the windows from the height will be opened,

and the foundations of the earth will shake.

19 Shattering, the earth is shattered;

breaking, the earth is broken;

shaking, the earth is shaken.

20 Reeling, the earth reels like a drunkard,

and it sways like a hut.

And its transgression is heavy upon it,

and it will fall and not add to arise.

21 And it will happen in that day,

Yahweh will visit upon the army of the height in the height

and upon the kings of the ground on the ground.

22 And they will be gathered as a gathering,

a prisoner in a pit,

and they will be shut up in a prison.

And after an abundance of days they will be visited.

23 And the moon will have disgrace,

and the sun will have shame,

for Yahweh of Armies will reign

on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,

and glory will be before his elders.

25 Yahweh, you are my God.

I will exalt you, I will praise your name,

for you have done a wonder,

counsels from afar, faithfulness, trustworthiness.

2 For you have made a city a heap,

a fortified city a ruin,

a palace of foreigners not a city;

it will not be built forever.

3 Therefore a strong people will glorify you;

a city of terrible nations will fear you.

4 For you have been a fortress for the poor,

a fortress for the needy in distress to him,

a shelter from the storm, a shade from the heat,

for the breath of the terrible is like a storm against a wall,

5 like heat in a dry place.

You will subdue the uproar of foreigners

as heat by the shadow of a cloud.

He silences the song of the terrible.

6 And Yahweh of Armies will make on this mountain for all of the peoples

a feast of fat things, a feast of lees,

fat things marrowed, lees strained.

7 And he will swallow up on this mountain

the face of the covering covering over all of the peoples

and the weaving woven over all of the nations:

8 he will swallow up death forever,

and the Lord Yahweh will wipe away the tears

from upon all of the faces.

And he will remove the disgrace of his people

from upon all of the earth,

for Yahweh has spoken.

9 And one will say on that day,

“Behold, this is our God;

we waited for him,

and he saved us.

This is Yahweh;

we waited for him,

let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”

10 For the hand of Yahweh will rest on this mountain,

and Moab will be trampled in its place

as straw is trampled in a dunghill.

11 And he will spread out his hands in the midst of it

as a swimmer spreads to swim,

but he will bring low his pride

with the craftiness of his hands.

12 And the fortification of the height of your walls,

he will bring down, he will bring low,

he will make it touch the ground, to the dust.

26 On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:

“A city of strength is to us;

he has made salvation walls and a rampart.

2 Open the gates

and let the righteous nation enter,

the keeper of faithfulness.

3 The mind supported, you keep in peace, peace,

for it is entrusted in you.

4 Trust in Yahweh until forever,

for in Yah, Yahweh, is a rock of eternities.

5 For he brings down the dwellers of the height,

the exalted city.

He brings it low, he brings it low to the earth;

he makes it touch to the dust.

6 A foot tramples it,

the feet of the poor,

the steps of the needy.”

7 The path for the righteous is evenness;

Upright One, you level the course of the righteous.

8 Indeed, in the path of your judgments,

Yahweh, we await you.

The desire of the soul is

for your name and for your remembrance.

9 With my soul I desire you in the night;

indeed, my spirit within me seeks you early.

For when your judgments are on the earth,

the dwellers of the world learn righteousness.

10 If the wicked is favored, he does not learn righteousness.

In a land of uprightness, he acts unjustly,

and he does not see the majesty of Yahweh.

11 Yahweh, your hand is high; they do not perceive it.

Let them perceive and have shame at the zeal of the people;

indeed, the fire of your adversaries will consume them.

12 Yahweh, you will establish peace for us,

for you have also accomplished all of our works for us.

13 Yahweh our God, lords besides you have ruled us;

only by you do we make one remember your name.

14 Having died, they will not live;

Raphaites, they will not arise,

because you visited and destroyed them,

and you made all of the memory of them perish.

15 You have added to the nation, Yahweh,

you have added to the nation.

You are honored.

You have broadened all of the borders of the land.

16 Yahweh, in distress they visited you;

they poured out a prayer when your discipline was on them.

17 As a pregnant one who draws near to delivering writhes,

she cries out in her pangs,

thus we have been from your face, Yahweh.

18 We have been pregnant, we have writhed,

as if we had birthed wind.

We have not made salvation for the earth,

and dwellers of the world have not fallen.

19 Your ones having died will live; my corpses will arise.

Awake and sing joyfully, dwellers of the dust,

for your dew is a dew of lights,

and the earth will make the Raphaites fall.

20 Go, my people, enter into your rooms,

and close your doors behind you;

hide for a little moment

until the fury passes by.

21 For behold Yahweh, coming out from his place

to visit the iniquity of the dweller of the earth upon him,

and the earth will uncover its blood,

and it will no longer cover over its slain.

27 On that day Yahweh will visit

with his harsh and great and strong sword

upon Leviathan the fleeing serpent

and upon Leviathan the twisting serpent,

and he will kill the monster that is in the sea.

2 On that day,

“A vineyard of delight, sing about it!

3 I, Yahweh, am guarding it.

I water it to moments.

Lest one visit against it,

I guard it night and day.

4 Wrath is not to me.

Who will give me briar, thorn?

Let me march against it into battle;

let me burn it altogether.

5 Or let it take hold of my refuge;

let it make peace with me;

peace, let it make with me.”

6 In the coming days, Jacob will take root;

Israel will blossom and bud,

and they will fill the face of the world with produce.

7 Has he struck him according to the striking of the one striking him?

Or was he slain according to the slaying of his slain ones?

8 By measuring, by sending her away,

you contended with her.

He removed her with his harsh wind

on a day of east wind.

9 Therefore, by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered,

and this will be all of the fruit of the removing of his sin:

when he makes all of the stones of the altar

like crushed stones of chalk;

the Asherahs and sun images will not stand.

10 For the fortified city is alone,

a habitation sent away and abandoned like the wilderness.

There a calf grazes,

and there it lies down and consumes its branches.

11 When its boughs dry up, they will be broken.

Women will be coming, they will be kindling it.

For it is not a people of understanding.

Therefore its maker does not pity it,

and its fashioner does not favor it.

12 And it will happen in that day,

Yahweh will thresh from the flood of the River

to the stream of Egypt,

and you, you will be gathered to one, one,

sons of Israel.

13 And it will happen in that day,

it will be blown upon a great shofar,

and the perishing in the land of Assyria will come,

and the banished in the land of Egypt,

and they will bow down to Yahweh

on the mountain of holiness in Jerusalem.

28 Woe to the crown of the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim,

yes, to the fading flower, the splendor of its beauty,

which is on the head of a valley of fatnesses

to the ones overcome with wine!

2 Behold, one mighty and strong is to the Lord.

Like a storm of hail, a windstorm of destruction,

like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters,

he casts it down to the earth by his hand.

3 By feet they will be trampled,

the crown of the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim.

4 And the fading flower, the splendor of its beauty,

which is on the head of a valley of fatnesses,

will be like the firstfruit before summer:

When one seeing sees it,

while it is still in his palm, he swallows it.

5 In that day, Yahweh of Armies will become

a crown of splendor and a diadem of beauty

for the remnant of his people,

6 and a spirit of justice for the sitter in judgment,

and strength for the ones turning back the battle at the gate.

7 And these also stagger with wine,

and they reel with beer.

The priest and the prophet stagger with beer;

they are swallowed up with wine.

They reel with beer,

they stagger in vision,

they stumble in judgment.

8 For all tables are full of vomit,

filth, without a place.

9 “Whom will he teach knowledge,

and whom will he make understand the report?

The ones weaned from milk,

the ones withdrawn from the breasts?

10 For it is command by command, command by command,

line by line, line by line,

a little here, a little there.”

11 So with stammerings of lip and with another tongue

he will speak to this people,

12 he who said to them,

“This is rest; give rest to the weary,

and this is refreshing.”

But they were not willing to hear.

13 So the word of Yahweh will be to them

command by command, command by command,

line by line, line by line,

a little here, a little there,

so that they may go and stumble backward

and be broken and be ensnared and be captured.

14 Therefore, hear the word of Yahweh,

men of mockery,

rulers of this people

who are in Jerusalem.

15 For you say, “We have cut a covenant with death,

and we have made an agreement with Sheol.

The overflowing scourge, when it passes through,

it will not come to us.

For we have made lying our refuge,

and in falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”

16 Therefore, thus says the Lord Yahweh:

“Behold me, laying in Zion a stone, a stone of trial,

a precious cornerstone, a founded foundation.

The one trusting will not hurry.

17 And I will make justice the measuring line

and righteousness the plumb line.

But hail will sweep away the refuge of lying,

and waters will overflow the hiding place.

18 And your covenant with death will be covered over,

and your agreement with Sheol will not stand.

The overflowing scourge, when it passes through,

then you will be to it for trampling.

19 As often as it passes through, it will take you,

for by morning, by morning it will pass through,

by day and by night.

And it will be only terror

to understand the report.”

20 For the bed is too short to stretch oneself out,

and the blanket is narrow as to wrap oneself.

21 For Yahweh will arise as at Mount Perazim,

he will rage as in the Valley of Gibeon,

to work his work—strange is his work—

and to do his deed—foreign is his deed.

22 And now, may you not mock,

lest your bonds strengthen.

For destruction is decreed—

I have heard from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies—

over all of the earth.

23 Listen, and hear my voice;

attend, and hear my word.

24 Is a plowman plowing all of the day to sow?

Does he open and harrow his ground?

25 Or he does not level its face

and scatter black cumin and sprinkle cumin

and put wheat in a row and barley in an appointed place

and spelt at its border?

26 For his God instructs him in judgment;

he teaches him.

27 For black cumin is not threshed with a sledge,

nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin,

but black cumin is beaten with a stick,

and cumin, with a rod.

28 Bread grain is crushed,

but threshing, he does not thresh it forever.

And he drives the wheel of his cart over it,

but his horse does not crush it.

29 This also comes from Yahweh of Armies.

He makes counsel wonderful,

he makes wisdom great.

29 Woe, Ariel, Ariel,

the city of where David encamped!

Add year to year;

let the festivals come around.

2 But I will cause distress to Ariel,

and it will be mourning and lamentation,

and it will be to me like an altar hearth.

3 And I will encamp against you like a circle,

and I will besiege against you with a station,

and I will raise fortifications against you.

4 And you will become low;

you will speak from the ground,

and your speech will be low from the dust.

And your voice will be like a ritual pit from the earth,

and your speech will chirp from the dust.

5 But the multitude of your strangers will be like fine dust,

and the multitude of the terrible, like passing chaff.

And it will happen in an instant, suddenly.

6 From Yahweh of Armies it will be visited

with thunder and with earthquake and a great noise,

storm and tempest and the flame of a devouring fire.

7 And it will be like a dream, a vision of the night,

the multitude of all of the nations warring against Ariel

and all of the ones warring against it and its stronghold

and the ones causing distress to it.

8 And it will be like when the hungry dreams, and behold, he is eating,

but he awakens, and his soul is empty.

Or like when the thirsty dreams, and behold, he is drinking,

but he awakens, and behold, he is faint and his soul is longing.

Thus will be the multitude of all of the nations

warring against Mount Zion.

9 Make yourselves wait and have amazement;

blind yourselves and be blind!

They are drunk, but not with wine;

they stagger, but not with beer.

10 For Yahweh has poured out on you

a spirit of deep sleep,

and he has closed your eyes, the prophets,

and he has covered your heads, the seers.

11 And the vision of all has become to you like the words of a sealed scroll, which, they give it to one knowing writing, saying, “Read this, please,” and he says, “I am not able, for it is sealed.” 12 Or the scroll is given to one who does not know writing, saying, “Read this, please,” and he says, “I do not know writing.”

13 And the Lord said,

“Because this people approaches with its mouth

and they honor me with its lips,

but its heart is far from me

and their fearing of me

is a taught commandment of men,

14 therefore, behold me, adding to make wonderful with this people,

making wonderful and a wonder.

And the wisdom of its wise will perish,

and the understanding of its understanding ones will hide itself.”

15 Woe to the ones making deep

to hide counsel from Yahweh,

and it is in darkness, their deeds,

and they say, “Who sees us, and who knows us?”

16 Your overturning!

Or the potter should be regarded as the clay,

that the made should say of its Maker,

“He did not make me,”

or the form should say of its Former,

“He does not understand”?

17 Is it not yet a little, a trifle,

and Lebanon will turn into agricultural land,

and agricultural land will be regarded as a forest?

18 And on that day the deaf will hear

the words of a scroll,

and from gloom and from darkness

the eyes of the blind will see.

19 And the poor will add rejoicing in Yahweh,

and the needy of man will be glad

in the Holy One of Israel.

20 For the terrible will cease,

and the mocker will end,

and all of the watchers of iniquity will be cut off,

21 the ones making a man sinful with a word,

and they set a trap for the one reproving at the gate,

and they turn aside the righteous with emptiness.

22 Therefore, thus says Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, to the house of Jacob:

“Now let Jacob not have shame,

and now let not his face become pale.

23 For when he sees his children,

the work of my hands, in his midst,

they will sanctify my name,

and they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob,

and they will fear the God of Israel.

24 And the ones erring in spirit will know understanding,

and the ones grumbling will learn instruction.”

30 “Woe to the rebellious children”

—the declaration of Yahweh—

“making counsel, but not from me,

and pouring out a libation, but not by my Spirit,

so as to add sin upon sin.

2 The ones having gone to descend to Egypt

—but they did not ask my mouth—

to be strong in the stronghold of Pharaoh

and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt.

3 And the stronghold of Pharaoh will be to you for shame,

and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt, for humiliation.

4 Though his princes are in Zoan

and his messengers have reached Hanes,

5 everyone will have shame

because of a people who do not benefit them,

not for help and not for benefit,

but for shame and also for reproach.”

6 The burden of the beasts of the Negev.

Through a land of trouble and distress,

from them the lioness and the lion,

the viper and the flying serpent,

they carry their riches on the shoulder of donkeys

and their treasures, on the hump of camels

to a people who do not benefit them.

7 And Egypt, with emptiness and vanity they will help.

Therefore I have called this one,

“Rahab, they are stillness.”

8 Come now, write it on a tablet before them

and inscribe it on a scroll,

that it may be for a later day,

as a witness until forever.

9 For it is a people of rebellion,

false sons,

sons who are not willing to hear the law of Yahweh,

10 who say to the seers, “Do not see,”

and to the visionaries, “Do not envision truths for us.

Speak flatteries to us;

envision deceptions.

11 Turn aside from the way;

turn away from the path.

Make the Holy One of Israel cease from our faces.”

12 Therefore, thus says the Holy One of Israel:

“Because you reject this word

and you trust in oppression and crookedness

and you support yourselves on it,

13 therefore this iniquity will be to you

like a breach falling,

a bulge in a high wall,

whose breaking comes suddenly,

in an instant.

14 And he will break it like the breaking of a vessel of potters,

crushed, one does not spare.

And a shard will not be found among its fragments

to take fire from a hearth

or to scoop water from a cistern.”

15 For thus says the Lord, Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel:

“In returning and rest you will be saved;

in quietness and in trust will be your strength.

But you were not willing.

16 And you said, ‘No, for on horses we will flee’

—therefore you will flee—

and ‘on the swift we will ride’

—therefore your pursuers will be swift.

17 One thousand, from the face of the rebuke of one;

from the face of the rebuke of five, you will flee,

until that you are left like a flagpole on the head of a mountain

and like a banner on a hill.

18 And therefore Yahweh waits to favor you,

and therefore he arises to have compassion on you.

For Yahweh is a God of justice;

the happiness of all of the ones waiting for him!

19 For a people in Zion will dwell in Jerusalem. Weeping, you will not weep. Favoring, he will favor you at the sound of your crying out. When he hears it, he will answer you. 20 And the Lord may give to you bread of trouble and water of affliction, yet your teachers will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes will be seeing your teachers. 21 And your ears will hear a word from behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. 22 And you will defile the overlaying of the idols of your silver and the plating of the molded images of your gold. You will throw them away like a menstrual cloth. “Get out!” you will say to it.

23 And he will give rain for your seed with which you sow the ground, and bread of the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and fat. In that day, your livestock will graze in a broadened pasture. 24 And the oxen and the donkeys, the workers of the ground, will eat salty fodder that one is winnowing with a shovel and with a pitchfork. 25 And on every high mountain and on every uplifted hill will be streams, courses of waters, in the day of great slaughter, when towers fall. 26 And the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, like the light of seven days, in the day Yahweh binds up the breaking of his people and heals the wound of its striking.

27 Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from afar;

his nose is burning, and heavy is the smoke.

His lips are full of fury,

and his tongue is like a devouring fire.

28 And his breath is like an overflowing torrent;

it reaches to the neck,

to sift the nations in the sieve of destruction,

and a bridle leading astray

will be on the jaws of the peoples.

29 A song will be to you

as in the night of consecrating a feast,

and gladness of heart, as one walking with a flute

to come onto the mountain of Yahweh,

to the Rock of Israel.

30 And Yahweh will make the majesty of his voice heard,

and he will show the descent of his arm

in wrath of nose and flame of devouring fire,

a cloudburst and tempest and stones of hail.

31 For at the voice of Yahweh, Assyria will be dismayed;

he will strike them with a rod.

32 And every stroke of the appointed staff

that Yahweh lays on him

will be with tambourines and with harps,

and in battles of brandishing he will fight with them.

33 For Topheth has been arrayed from long ago;

indeed, it, it has been prepared for the king.

He has deepened, he has widened, its pile;

he makes fire and wood abundant.

The breath of Yahweh, like a torrent of brimstone,

will be kindling it.

31 Woe to the ones going down to Egypt for help!

They rely on horses and trust in chariots that are many

and in horsemen that are very numerous,

but they do not look to the Holy One of Israel

and they do not seek Yahweh.

2 Yet he too is wise, and he will bring harm,

and he has not turned his words aside.

And he will arise against the house of evildoers

and against the help of doers of iniquity.

3 For Egypt is man and not God,

and their horses are flesh and not spirit.

And Yahweh will stretch out his hand,

and the helper will stumble,

and the helped will fall,

and all of them will perish together.

4 For thus Yahweh said to me,

“As a lion growls,

or a young lion, over its prey,

when a fullness of shepherds is called out against it,

it is not frightened by their voice,

and it does not respond to their noise—

thus Yahweh of Armies will descend

to war on Mount Zion and on its hill.

5 Like birds flying,

thus Yahweh of Armies will cover over Jerusalem,

covering and delivering,

passing over and rescuing.”

6 Return to him from whom you have made rebellion deep, sons of Israel. 7 For in that day they will reject, a man, the idols of his silver and the idols of his gold, which your hands have made for yourselves as sin.

8 “And Assyria will fall by a sword not of man,

and a sword not of mankind will devour him.

And he will flee for himself from the face of the sword,

and his young men will be for forced labor.

9 And his rock will pass away from the terror,

and his princes will fear from the banner”

—the declaration of Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion

and a furnace is to him in Jerusalem.

32 Behold, a king will reign in righteousness,

and as for princes, they will rule in justice.

2 And a man will be like a hiding place from the wind

and a refuge from the storm,

like streams of water in the desert,

like the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

3 And the eyes of the ones seeing will not look away,

and the ears of the ones hearing will attend.

4 And the heart of the ones hastening themselves will understand knowledge,

and the tongue of the stuttering will hasten to speak clearly.

5 It will no longer be called to the fool, “noble,”

and it will not be said of the scoundrel, “honorable.”

6 For the fool speaks folly,

and his heart does iniquity,

to do godlessness

and to speak error against Yahweh,

to make the soul of the hungry empty,

and he makes the thirsty lack drink.

7 And the scoundrel, his instruments are evil.

He, he devises wicked plans

to ruin the poor with sayings of falsehood,

though the needy speaks justice.

8 But a noble devises noble things,

and on noble things he, he will stand.

9 Haughty women, arise,

hear my voice;

daughters being confident,

listen to my word.

10 Days upon a year,

ones being confident will tremble,

for the grape harvest will end,

the gathering will not come.

11 Shudder, haughty ones;

tremble, ones being confident;

strip and bare yourselves

and gird upon loins.

12 Be beating upon breasts

for the fields of delight,

for the vine bearing fruit.

13 Upon the ground of my people,

the thorn, the briar, will come up,

even in all of the houses of rejoicing,

the exultant city.

14 For the palace will be abandoned,

the multitude of the city will be forsaken;

the hill and the watchtower will become caves for a long time,

a delight of donkeys, a pasture of flocks,

15 until the Spirit is poured on us from the height,

and the wilderness becomes agricultural land

and agricultural land is regarded as a forest.

16 And justice will stay in the wilderness,

and righteousness will dwell in agricultural land.

17 And the work of righteousness will be peace,

and the service of righteousness, being quiet and confidence forever.

18 And my people will dwell in a habitation of peace

and in residences of security

and in quiet resting places.

19 And it will hail when the forest comes down,

and in lowness the city will become low.

20 The happiness of you sowers beside all waters,

senders of the foot of the ox and the donkey!

33 Woe, destroyer, and you have not been destroyed,

and betrayer, and they have not betrayed him!

When you finish destroying, you will be destroyed;

when you stop betraying, they will betray you.

2 Yahweh, favor us; we wait for you.

Be their arm in the mornings,

also our salvation in the time of trouble.

3 At the sound of a tumult, peoples flee;

at your exaltation, nations scatter.

4 And your spoil will be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar;

like the rushing of locusts, one is rushing upon it.

5 Yahweh is exalted, for he inhabits the height;

he fills Zion with justice and righteousness.

6 And he will be the stability of your times,

a wealth of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.

The fear of Yahweh, it is his treasure.

7 Behold, their warriors cry outside;

the messengers of peace weep bitterly.

8 The highways are deserted;

the traveler of the road has ceased.

He has broken a covenant;

he has despised cities;

he does not regard man.

9 The land mourns, it is enfeebled;

Lebanon displays disgrace, it withers;

Sharon has become like the Arabah,

and Bashan and Carmel are shaking off.

10 “Now I will arise,” says Yahweh.

“Now I will exalt myself;

now I will lift myself up.

11 You will conceive chaff, you will bear stubble;

your breath will be a fire, it will devour you.

12 And peoples will be burnings of lime;

thorns cut down, they will burn in fire.

13 Hear, the faraway, what I have done,

and know, the near, my might.”

14 Sinners in Zion fear;

trembling seizes the godless:

“Who among us can sojourn with a devouring fire?

Who among us can sojourn with burnings of eternity?”

15 The one walking in righteousnesses

and speaking uprightnesses,

the one despising the gain of oppressions,

the one shaking his palms from taking hold of a bribe,

the one stopping his ear from hearing of bloodshed,

and the one shutting his eyes from looking on evil,

16 he, he will stay on the heights;

strongholds of cliffs are his refuge.

His bread is given;

his waters are secured.

17 Your eyes will see the king in his beauty;

they will see a land of distances.

18 Your heart will meditate on terror:

“Where is the one counting? Where is the one weighing?

Where is the one counting towers?”

19 You will not see a people displaying arrogance,

a people too deep of lip to hear,

stammering of tongue, no understanding.

20 Gaze at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals.

Your eyes will see Jerusalem,

a secure habitation, a tent one will not take down,

one will not pull up its stakes forever,

and all of its cords will not be broken.

21 Instead, Yahweh, the Mighty One, will be with us there,

a place of rivers, streams, broad of hands.

A ship of oar will not go on it,

and no mighty vessel will pass over it.

22 For Yahweh is our judge;

Yahweh is our lawgiver;

Yahweh is our king.

He, he will save us.

23 Your ropes are loosened;

they do not hold the base of their mast;

they do not spread the sail.

Then booty of spoil in abundance is divided;

the lame plunder plunder.

24 And the inhabitant will not say, “I am sick”;

the people dwelling in it will be forgiven of iniquity.

34 Approach, nations, to hear,

and peoples, attend!

Let the earth and its fullness hear,

the world and all of its offspring.

2 For fury is to Yahweh against all of the nations,

and wrath, against all of their army.

He has devoted them;

he has given them over to slaughter.

3 And their slain will be thrown out,

and their stench will arise from their corpses,

and the mountains will be melted with their blood.

4 And all of the army of the heavens will be dissolved,

and the heavens will be rolled up like a scroll,

and all of their army will wither

as a leaf withers from a vine

and like the withering from a fig tree.

5 “For my sword has slaked in the heavens;

behold, it will descend upon Edom,

yes, on the people of my devoting to judgment.”

6 The sword of Yahweh is full of blood,

fattened from fat,

from the blood of lambs and goats,

from the fat of the kidneys of rams.

For a sacrifice is to Yahweh in Bozrah,

and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

7 And wild oxen will go down with them,

and young bulls, with the strong.

And their land will slake with blood,

and their dust will be fattened from fat.

8 For a day of vengeance is to Yahweh,

a year of retribution for the cause of Zion.

9 And its streams will be turned into pitch,

and its dust, into sulfur,

and its land will become burning pitch.

10 Night and day it will not extinguish;

its smoke will rise forever.

From generation to generation it will be desolate;

to perpetuity of perpetuities no one will be passing through it.

11 And the pelican and the desert owl will possess it,

and the screech owl and the raven will dwell in it.

And he will stretch over it

the measuring line of formlessness

and the stones of emptiness.

12 Its nobles—but there is not anything there they call a kingdom—

and all of its princes are nothing.

13 And thorns will come up in her palaces,

the nettle and the thornbush, in her fortifications,

and it will be a habitation of jackals,

a court for the daughters of the ostrich.

14 And desert creatures will meet hyenas,

and the wild goat will call to his companion.

Indeed, the night creature will settle there

and find for itself a resting place.

15 There the great owl will nest

and lay and hatch and brood in its shade.

Indeed, there hawks will be gathered,

each with its companion.

16 Seek from upon the scroll of Yahweh and read:

not one of these will be missing;

each, its companion, they will not lack,

for my mouth, it, it has commanded,

and his Spirit, he, he has gathered.

17 And he, he has cast the lot for them,

and his hand has divided for them by a measuring line.

They will possess it to eternity;

to generation and generation they will dwell in it.

35 The wilderness and the desert will rejoice,

and the Arabah will be glad and blossom like a crocus.

2 Blossoming, it will blossom,

and it will be glad, even with gladness and singing.

The glory of Lebanon will be given to it,

the splendor of Carmel and Sharon.

They, they will see the glory of Yahweh,

the splendor of our God.

3 Strengthen the weak hands,

and steady the tottering knees.

4 Say to the hastening of heart,

“Be strong, do not fear!

Behold, your God will come with vengeance,

with the recompense of God.

He, he will come, and he will save you.”

5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened,

and the ears of the deaf will be opened.

6 Then the lame will leap like a deer,

and the tongue of the mute will sing joyfully.

For waters will break out in the wilderness,

and streams, in the Arabah.

7 And the glaring land will become a pool,

and the thirsty place, springs of water.

In the habitation of jackals, its lair,

will be grass with the reed and the rush.

8 And a highway and a way will be there,

and one will call to it, “The Way of Holiness.”

The unclean will not travel it,

but it will be for them,

the walker of the way,

and fools will not wander it.

9 No lion will be there,

and the violent of the beasts will not go up on it;

it will not be found there.

But the redeemed will walk it,

10 and the ransomed of Yahweh will return

and come to Zion with singing,

and joy of eternity will be on their heads.

Gladness and joy will overtake them,

and sorrow and sighing will flee.

36 And in 14, the year to King Hezekiah, Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, came up against all of the fortified cities of Judah, and he captured them. 2 And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a heavy army. And he stood by the conduit of the Upper Pool on the highway of the Field of the Fuller. 3 And Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, went out to him. 4 And the Rabshakeh said to them, “Now say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, “What is this trust that you trust? 5 You speak only a word of lips, ‘Counsel and might for war.’ Now in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me? 6 Behold, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, in Egypt, on which a man leans and it goes into his palm and pierces it. Thus is Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to all of the ones trusting in him.” ’ 7 But if you say to me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God,’ is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘To the face of this altar you shall prostrate yourselves’? 8 ‘And now, wager, please, with my master, the king of Assyria. And I will give to you 2, 000 horses if you are able to put riders on them for yourself. 9 But how would you turn back the face of a captain of one of the least servants of my master? So you trust for yourself in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen.’ 10 ‘“And now, have I come up against this land to destroy it without Yahweh? Yahweh said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’ ” ’ ”

11 And Eliakim, with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we are understanding. But may you not speak in Judean to us in the ears of the people who are on the wall.” 12 But the Rabshakeh said, “Did my master send me to speak these words to your master and to you? Was it not to the men sitting on the wall, who will eat their dung and drink their urine with you?” 13 And the Rabshakeh stood, and he called out in a great voice in Judean and said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria. 14 Thus says the king, ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he is not able to deliver you. 15 And do not let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Delivering, Yahweh will deliver us. This city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” ’ 16 May you not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: ‘Make a blessing with me, and come out to me, and eat, a man of his vine and a man of his fig tree, and drink, a man from the waters of his well, 17 until I come and take you to a land like your land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, 18 lest Hezekiah mislead you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.” Did the gods of the nations deliver, a man, his land, from the hand of the king of Assyria? 19 Where were the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where were the gods of Sepharvaim? And indeed, did they deliver Samaria from my hand? 20 Who are they among all of the gods of these lands that have delivered their land from my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?’ ”

21 But they were silent and did not answer him a word, for it was a commandment of the king, saying, “You shall not answer him.” 22 Then Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, with Shebna the scribe and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah, torn of clothes. And they declared to him the words of the Rabshakeh.

37 And it happened when King Hezekiah heard, that he tore his clothes, and he covered himself with sackcloth, and he came into the house of Yahweh. 2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests, having covered themselves with sackcloth, to Isaiah, the son of Amoz, the prophet. 3 And they said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of trouble and chastisement and reproach, for sons have come to the birth canal, but there is no strength to give birth. 4 Perhaps Yahweh your God will have heard the words of the Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, sent to taunt the living God, and he will chastise the words that Yahweh your God has heard. And may you lift up a prayer on behalf of the remnant that is found.’ ” 5 And the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah, 6 and Isaiah said to them, “Thus you shall say to your master, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “May you not be afraid from the face of the words that you have heard, by which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. 7 Behold me, putting a spirit in him, and he will hear a report, and he will return to his land, and I will make him fall by the sword in his land.” ’ ” 8 And the Rabshakeh returned, and he found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish. 9 Then he heard concerning Tirhakah, the king of Cush, saying, “He has come out to fight with you.” And he heard, and he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 10 “Thus you shall say to Hezekiah, the king of Judah, saying, ‘Do not let your God, in whom you are trusting, deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” 11 Behold, you, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all of the lands by destroying them. So you, will you be delivered? 12 Did the gods of the nations that my fathers destroyed deliver them, Gozan or Haran or Rezeph or the sons of Eden who were in Tel Assar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad or the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, or Ivvah?’ ”

14 And Hezekiah took the writings from the hand of the messengers, and he read it. And he went up to the house of Yahweh, and Hezekiah spread it out to the face of Yahweh. 15 And Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying, 16 “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, sitter above the cherubim, you are he, God, you alone, over all of the kingdoms of the earth. You, you made the heavens and the earth. 17 Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and see. And hear all of the words of Sennacherib by which he has sent to taunt the living God. 18 Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all of the nations and their land. 19 And they have put their gods in the fire, for they are not gods, but rather the work of the hands of man, wood and stone, and they have destroyed them. 20 And now, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, so that all of the kingdoms of the earth will know that you are Yahweh, you alone.”

21 And Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have prayed to me about Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, 22 this is the word that Yahweh has spoken about him. The virgin, the daughter of Zion, despises you, she derides you. The daughter of Jerusalem shakes a head after you. 23 Whom have you mocked and taunted? And against whom have you raised a voice and lifted your eyes upward? Against the Holy One of Israel! 24 By the hand of your servants you mocked the Lord and said, “With the multitude of my chariotry, I, I went up to the height of the mountains, the recesses of Lebanon. And I cut down the heights of its cedars, the choicest of its cypress trees, that I might enter the lodging place of its end, the forest of its garden. 25 I, I dug, and I drank waters. And with the sole of my feet I will dry up all of the streams of Matsor.”

26 Have you not heard? From long ago, I did it; from days of antiquity, I formed it. Now I have brought it, that you should be for devastating fortified cities into ruined heaps. 27 And their dwellers are short of hand; they have dismay and have shame. They are vegetation of the field or green of herb; grass of roofs, blasting to the face of growing up. 28 But I know your dwelling and your going out and your coming in and your raging against me. 29 Because of your raging against me, and your arrogance has come up into my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your lips, and I will make you return on the way by which you came.’

30 And this will be the sign for you. This year, you will eat wild grain, and in the second year, its offspring. But in the third year, sow and harvest, and plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 31 And the remaining survival of the house of Judah will add a root downward, and it will make fruit upward. 32 For a remnant will come out from Jerusalem, and a survival, from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will do this. 33 Therefore, thus says Yahweh about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not come to this city, and he will not shoot an arrow there, and he will not come before it with a shield, and he will not pour out a mound against it. 34 He will return by the way on which he came, and he will not come to this city’—the declaration of Yahweh—35 ‘for I will cover over this city to save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.’ ”

36 And the angel of Yahweh went out and struck in the camp of Assyria, 185, 000. And they arose early in the morning and behold, all of them were dead corpses. 37 And he departed and went, and Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, returned and stayed in Nineveh. 38 And it happened, he was prostrating himself in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him with the sword, and they, they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.

38 In those days, Hezekiah was sick to dying. And Isaiah, the son of Amoz, the prophet, came to him and said to him, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Command regarding your house, for you are dying, and you will not live.’ ” 2 And Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and he prayed to Yahweh 3 and said, “Oh Yahweh, please remember that I have walked about to your face in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and I have done good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept a great weeping. 4 And the word of Yahweh was to Isaiah, saying, 5 “Go, and you shall say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your weeping. Behold me, one will add to your days 15 years. 6 And I will deliver you and this city from the palm of the king of Assyria. And I will cover over this city. 7 And this will be the sign for you from Yahweh that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken. 8 Behold me, making return the shadow on the stairs, which has gone down with the sun on the stairs of Ahaz, back ten steps.’ ” And the sun went back ten steps on the stairs on which it had gone down.

9 A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he was sick and lived from his sickness:

10 I, I said, “In the quiet of my days

I will go into the gates of Sheol;

I am visited for the remainder of my years.”

11 I said, “I will not see Yah,

Yah in the land of the living;

I will no longer regard man with the dwellers of the world.

12 My dwelling is removed and carried away from me

like the tent of a shepherd;

like a weaver, I have rolled up my life.

He is cutting me off from the loom;

from day to night, you are finishing me.

13 I lie down until the morning;

like a lion, thus he breaks all of my bones.

From day to night you are finishing me.

14 Like a swallow, a crane, thus I chirp;

I coo like a dove.

My eyes weaken to the height.

Lord, oppression is to me; give surety for me.

15 What shall I say?

For he has spoken to me, and he, he has done it.

I will walk slowly all of my years

because of the bitterness of my soul.

16 Lord, upon them they live,

and in everything in them is the life of my spirit.

For you have made me healthy,

and you have made me live.

17 Behold, for my welfare,

bitterness was bitter for me.

But you, you have held back my soul from the pit of nothingness,

for you have thrown all of my sins behind your back.

18 For not does Sheol thank you,

does death praise you;

the ones going down into the pit

do not watch for your faithfulness.

19 The living, the living! He, he thanks you,

like me today;

a father makes known to sons

about your faithfulness.

20 Yahweh is about to save me,

and we will play my stringed instruments

all of the days of our lives

in the house of Yahweh.”

21 Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a lump of figs and plaster it on the boil, and he will live.” 22 For Hezekiah had said, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of Yahweh?”

39 At that time, Merodach Baladan, the son of Baladan, the king of Babylon, sent writings and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard that he had been sick and had become strong. 2 And Hezekiah rejoiced upon them, and he showed them the house of his treasure, the silver and the gold and the spices and the fine oil and all of the house of his armor and all that was found in his treasuries. There was not a thing that Hezekiah did not show them in his house or in all of his realm. 3 And Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, “What did these men say, and from where did they come to you?” And Hezekiah said, “They came to me from a distant land, from Babylon.” 4 And he said, “What did they see in your house?” And Hezekiah said, “They saw everything that is in my house. There was not a thing in my treasuries that I did not show them.”

5 And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of Yahweh of Armies. 6 ‘Behold, days are coming when everything that is in your house and that your fathers have stored up to this day will be carried away to Babylon. A thing will not be left,’ says Yahweh. 7 ‘And they will take some of your sons who will come forth from you, whom you will beget, and they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’ ” 8 And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of Yahweh that you have spoken is good.” For he said, “For there will be peace and stability in my days.”

40 “Comfort, comfort my people,”

says your God.

2 “Speak to the heart of Jerusalem

and proclaim to her

that her service is full,

that her iniquity is pardoned,

that she has received from the hand of Yahweh

double for all her sins.”

3 A voice is calling out,

“Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness!

Straighten a highway for our God in the Arabah!

4 Let every valley be lifted up,

and let every mountain and hill become low.

And let the uneven become level ground,

and the ridges, a broad valley.

5 And the glory of Yahweh will be revealed,

and all flesh will see it together,”

for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken.

6 A voice says, “Call out.”

And I said, “What shall I call out?”

“All flesh is grass,

and all of its covenant faithfulness is like the flower of the field.

7 The grass dries up, the flower withers,

for the breath of Yahweh blows on it;

surely the people are grass.

8 The grass dries up, the flower withers,

but the word of our God will stand forever.”

9 Go up for yourself on a high mountain,

herald of Zion.

Raise your voice with might,

herald of Jerusalem.

Raise it, do not fear.

Say to the cities of Judah,

“Behold, your God!”

10 Behold, the Lord Yahweh comes with strength,

and his arm is ruling for him.

Behold, his reward is with him,

and his recompense is to his face.

11 He will tend his flock like a shepherd.

In his arm he will gather the lambs,

and he will carry themin his bosom;

he will lead the nursing ones.

12 Who has measured the waters in his palm

or measured the heavens with a span

or held the dust of the earth in a triple

or weighed the mountains in a scale

or the hills in a balance?

13 Who has measured the Spirit of Yahweh

or, as a man of his counsel, has advised him?

14 By whom was he counseled,

and who made him understand

and taught him in the path of justice

and taught him knowledge

and made him know the way of understanding?

15 Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,

and they are regarded like dust on the scales.

Behold, he lifts the coastlands like fine dust.

16 And Lebanon is not enough to burn,

and its beasts are not enough for a burnt offering.

17 All of the nations are like nought before him;

they are regarded by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

18 So to whom will you liken God,

and what likeness will you compare to him?

19 An idol? A craftsman casts it,

and a metalworker overlays it with gold,

and he is forging chains of silver.

20 The one impoverished in a contribution

chooses wood that will not rot.

He seeks for himself a skillful craftsman

to set up an idol that will not be moved.

21 Do you not know? Have you not heard?

Has it not been declared to you from the beginning?

Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

22 The one sitting above the circle of the earth,

and its dwellers are like grasshoppers,

the one stretching out the heavens like a curtain,

and he spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,

23 the one making princes into nothing;

he makes the judges of the earth like emptiness.

24 Indeed, they are not planted; indeed, they are not sown;

indeed, their stem has not rooted in the earth,

and also he blows on them and they dry up,

and a whirlwind carries them away like straw.

25 “So to whom will you liken me,

that I should be equal?” says the Holy One.

26 Lift up your eyes to the height and see!

Who created these?

The one bringing out their army by number;

he calls to all of them by name.

From greatness of might and strength of power,

a man is not missing.

27 Why do you say, Jacob,

and speak, Israel,

“My way is hidden from Yahweh,

and my justice passes over from my God”?

28 Do you not know? If you have not heard?

The God of eternity, Yahweh,

the Creator of the ends of the earth,

does not tire and does not become weary.

There is no searching of his understanding.

29 He gives strength to the tired,

and to the one without forces he increases might.

30 Even youths tire and become weary,

and young men, stumbling, they stumble.

31 But the ones waiting for Yahweh will renew their strength.

They will ascend on a wing like eagles.

They will run and not become weary.

They will walk and not tire.

41 “Be silent before me, coastlands,

and let the peoples renew their strength.

Let them approach, then let them speak;

let us draw near together for judgment.

2 Who has awakened righteousness from the rising of the sun,

calling it to his foot?

He gives nations to his face,

and he tramples kings.

He makes them like dust with his sword,

like driven straw with his bow.

3 He pursues them, he passes through in peace,

he does not enter a path with his feet.

4 Who has worked and done this,

summoning generations from the beginning?

I, Yahweh, with the first and with the lasts,

I am he.”

5 The coastlands have seen and are afraid;

the ends of the earth tremble;

they approach and come.

6 A man helps his neighbor,

and he says to his brother, “Be strong.”

7 And the craftsman strengthens the metalworker,

the one smoothing with a hammer, the one striking the anvil,

saying about the soldering, “It is good.”

And they strengthen it with nails, that it may not be moved.

8 “But you, Israel, my servant,

Jacob, whom I have chosen,

the seed of Abraham my friend,

9 whom I am seizing you from the ends of the earth,

and I have called you from its extremities

and said to you, ‘You are my servant,’

I have chosen you and not rejected you.

10 May you not fear, for I am with you.

May you not look around, for I am your God.

I will strengthen you, indeed, I will help you,

indeed, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

11 Behold, they will have shame and be humiliated,

all of the ones having been kindled against you.

They will be like nought, and they will perish,

the men of your contention.

12 You will seek them, but you will not find them,

the men of your quarrel.

They will be like nought and like nothing,

the men of your battle.

13 For I, Yahweh, am your God,

holding your right hand,

the one saying to you, ‘May you not fear;

I, I will help you.’

14 May you not fear, worm of Jacob,

men of Israel, I, I will help you”

—the declaration of Yahweh

and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

15 “Behold, I am making you into a sharp, new sledge,

a master of edges;

You will thresh the mountains and crush them,

and you will make the hills like chaff.

16 You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away,

and the whirlwind will scatter them.

But you, you will be glad in Yahweh,

you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.”

17 “The poor and needy are seeking water, but there is none.

Their tongue is parched from thirst.

I, Yahweh, I will answer them;

the God of Israel, I will not forsake them.

18 I will open streams on the bare heights,

and in the midst of the valleys, fountains.

I will make the wilderness into a pool of waters,

and the dry land, into springs of waters.

19 I will set in the wilderness the cedar,

the acacia, and the myrtle and the tree of oil.

I will put in the Arabah the cypress,

the plane, and the box tree together,

20 that they may see and know

and set to heart and consider together

that the hand of Yahweh has done this,

and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

21 “Bring near your case,” says Yahweh.

“Bring forth your arguments,” says the King of Jacob.

22 “Let them bring forth and declare to us what will happen.

The former, what are they? Let them declare,

and let us set to our heart, and let us know their end.

Or the coming ones, make us hear.

23 Declare the signs of the afterward,

and let us know that you are gods.

Indeed, do good or do evil,

and let us look around and let us see together.

24 Behold, you are less than nought,

and your work is less than nothing!

He who chooses you is an abomination.

25 I have awakened one from the north, and he comes.

From the rising of the sun, he calls upon my name,

and he will come upon rulers like mud

and as a potter treads clay.

26 Who has declared from the beginning, that we might know?

And from before, that we might say, ‘Right’?

Indeed, none is declaring. Indeed, none is making hear.

Indeed, none is hearing your words.

27 The first to Zion, ‘Behold, behold them!’

And I sent a herald to Jerusalem.

28 For I looked, but there was no man,

and from these, indeed, none was counseling.

And I asked them, but they did not return a word.

29 Behold, all of them are iniquity;

their deeds are nothing;

their images are wind and emptiness.

42 “Behold my servant, I uphold him;

my chosen one, my soul delights in him.

I have put my Spirit upon him;

he will bring forth justice to the nations.

2 He will not cry out, and he will not lift up his voice,

and he will not make his voice heard outside.

3 He will not break a crushed reed,

and he will not quench a dim wick.

He will bring forth justice in faithfulness.

4 He will not become dim, and one will not crush him,

until he sets justice on the earth,

and the coastlands will wait for his law.”

5 Thus says God, Yahweh,

the one having created the heavens and having stretched them out,

the one having beaten out the earth and its offspring,

the one giving breath to the people on it

and breath to the ones walking on it:

6 “I, Yahweh, I have called you in righteousness,

and I will hold your hand, and I will keep you,

and I will give you as a covenant of the people,

as a light of the nations,

7 to open blind eyes,

to bring forth the prisoner from the dungeon,

from the house of confinement, the dwellers of darkness.

8 I am Yahweh, that is my name,

and my glory I will not give to another,

or my praise to idols.

9 The former, behold, they have come,

and the new, I am declaring.

Before they sprout, I make you hear.”

10 Sing to Yahweh a new song,

his praise from the end of the earth;

the ones going down to the sea and its fullness,

the coastlands and their dwellers.

11 Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voices,

the villages Kedar inhabits.

Let the dwellers of Sela sing joyfully;

let them shout from the head of the mountains.

12 Let them give glory to Yahweh

and let them declare his praise in the coastlands.

13 Yahweh will go forth as a warrior;

as a man of battles he will awaken zeal.

He will shout, indeed, he will yell;

he will show himself mighty over his enemies.

14 “I have kept quiet from eternity;

I have been silent; I have restrained myself.

Like one birthing, I will cry out;

I will gasp and pant together.

15 I will desolate mountains and hills,

and I will dry up all of their vegetation,

and I will make rivers into coastlands,

and I will dry up the marshes.

16 And I will make the blind walk by a way they have not known;

on paths they have not known, I will make them tread.

I will make darkness into light to their faces,

and rough places into level ground.

I will do these things,

and I will not abandon them.

17 They will be turned back, they will have shame with shame,

the ones trusting in a carved idol,

the ones saying to a cast idol,

‘You are our gods.’

18 O deaf ones, hear,

and O blind ones, look, in order to see.

19 Who is blind except my servant,

or deaf like my messenger whom I send?

Who is blind like the covenanted one,

or blind like the servant of Yahweh?

20 You see many things, but you do not observe them;

he has opened the ears, but he does not hear.”

21 Yahweh delighted, for the sake of his righteousness,

that he should magnify the law and glorify it.

22 But it is a people plundered and looted,

all of them trapped in pits,

and in houses of confinement they are hidden.

They have become plunder, and none is delivering;

loot, and none is saying, “Give back!”

23 Who among you will listen to this,

will attend and hear for afterward?

24 Who gave Jacob to the looter

and Israel to the plunderers?

Was it not Yahweh, whom, we sinned against him,

and they were not willing to walk in his ways,

and they did not hear his law?

25 So he poured out on him the heat of his nose

and the strength of battle,

and it kindled him from around,

but he did not know it,

and it burned him up,

but he did not set to heart.

43 And now, thus says Yahweh,

your creator, Jacob, and your fashioner, Israel:

“May you not fear, for I redeem you;

I call you by your name, you are mine.

2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you,

and through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you.

When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned,

and the flame will not burn you up.

3 For I am Yahweh your God,

the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.

I give Egypt as your ransom,

Cush and Seba in place of you.

4 Because you are precious in my eyes,

you are honored, and I, I love you,

so I will give man in place of you

and peoples in place of your soul.

5 May you not fear, for I am with you;

from the rising of the sun I will bring your seed,

and from the setting I will gather you.

6 I will say to the north, ‘Give,’

and to the south, ‘May you not keep back.

Bring my sons from afar

and my daughters from the end of the earth,

7 all of the ones called by my name.

And for my glory I created him,

I formed him, indeed, I made him.’ ”

8 Bring forth a people blind, yet there are eyes,

and the deaf, yet ears are to them.

9 All of the nations are gathered together,

and the peoples are assembled.

Who among them declared this,

and they made us hear the former?

Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be righteous,

and let them hear, that they may say, “True.”

10 “You are my witnesses”—the declaration of Yahweh—

“and my servant whom I have chosen,

so that you may know and believe in me

and understand that I am he.

To my face, no god was formed,

and after me, none will be.

11 I, I am Yahweh,

and there is no savior except me.

12 I, I declared, and I saved, and I made you hear,

and there was no strange god among you.

And you are my witnesses”—the declaration of Yahweh—

“that I am God.

13 Even from the day, I am he,

and there is none delivering from my hand.

I act, and who turns it back?”

14 Thus says Yahweh,

your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:

“For your sake I will send to Babylon,

and I will bring all of them down as fugitives,

and the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.

15 I am Yahweh, your Holy One,

the Creator of Israel, your King.”

16 Thus says Yahweh,

the one having made a way in the sea

and a path in the mighty waters,

17 the one having brought out chariot and horse,

army and mighty one—

together they lay down, they did not arise;

they flickered out, they quenched like a wick—

18 “May you not remember the former things,

and may you not regard the ancient.

19 Behold me, doing the new.

Now it sprouts; do you not know it?

Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness,

rivers in the wasteland.

20 The beasts of the field will honor me,

the jackals and the daughters of the ostrich,

because I will give waters in the wilderness,

rivers in the wasteland,

for my people, my chosen, to drink.

21 I formed this people for myself;

they will recount my praise.

22 But you have not called on me, Jacob,

for you have become weary of me, Israel.

23 You have not brought the sheep of your burnt offerings to me,

and you have not honored me with your sacrifices.

I have not made you serve with a grain offering,

and I have not wearied you with frankincense.

24 You have not bought calamus for me with silver,

and you have not satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices.

But you have made me serve with your sins;

you have wearied me with your iniquities.

25 I, I am he, the one wiping away your transgressions for my own sake,

and I will not remember your sins.

26 Make me remember; let us be judged together.

You, recount, that you may be righteous.

27 Your first father sinned,

and your representatives transgressed against me.

28 So I profaned the princes of the sanctuary,

and I gave Jacob to devotion

and Israel to revilings.”

44 “And now, listen, Jacob my servant,

and Israel, whom I have chosen him.”

2 Thus says Yahweh,

your maker and your fashioner from the womb, he helps you:

“May you not fear, Jacob, my servant,

and Jeshurun, I have chosen him.

3 For I will pour water on the thirsty

and streams on the dry ground;

I will pour my Spirit on your seed

and my blessing on your offspring.

4 And they will sprout in between the grass,

like willows by courses of water.

5 This one will say, ‘I am to Yahweh,’

and this one will call himself by the name of Jacob,

and this one will write on his hand, ‘To Yahweh,’

and by the name of Israel he will surname himself.”

6 Thus says Yahweh,

the King of Israel and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies:

“I am the first, and I am the last;

and there is no God except me.

7 And who is like me? Let him call out,

and let him declare it and array it for me.

From my establishing a people of eternity,

and they will arrive, and what things will come,