3 And many people shall go and say; Come ye and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4 And he shall judge among the na tions, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD. 6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob; because they be replenished from the East, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and Pride threatened. 19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty; when he aris. eth to shake terribly the earth. 20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats: 21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty; when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 22 Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of? CHAP. III. The great confusion which cometh by they please themselves in the children FO of strangers. 7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures: their land is also full of horses; neither is there any end of their chariots. 8 Their land also is full of idols: they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made. 9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself; therefore forgive them not. 10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. 11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. 12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up, and he shall be brought low; 13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, 14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, 15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall, 16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures. 17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. 18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish. sin. OR behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusa. lem, and from Judah, the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, 2 The mighty man, and the man of war; the Judge and the Prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, 3 The captain of fifty, and the ho nourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. 4 And I will give children to be their Princes, and babes shall rule over them. 5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable. 6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand: 7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be a healer: for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people. 8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory. 9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them, and they de. clare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not: wo unto their soul, for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. 10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall Of oppression. CHAP. IV, V. be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. God's vineyard. CHAP. IV. 11 Wo unto the wicked, it shall be ill AND in that day seven women shall with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him. 12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them: O my people, they which lead thee, cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. 13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people. 14 The LORD will enter into judg ment with the ancients of his people, and the Princes thereof for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses. 15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor, saith the Lord GOD of hosts? 16 Moreover the LORD saith; Be. cause the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks, and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: 17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts. 18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling or naments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, 19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, 20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, 21 The rings, and nose-jewels, 22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, 23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails. 24 And shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell, there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle, a rent; and instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a stomacher, a girding of sackcloth; and burning, instead of beauty. 25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. 26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate, shall sit upon the ground. take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach. 2 In that day shall the Branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. 3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem, 4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. 5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies a cloud, and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for upon all the glory shall be a defence. 6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain. CHAP. V. Parable of a Vineyard. Nasong of my beloved touching his TOW will I sing to my well beloved, vineyard: my well beloved hath a vine. yard in a very fruitful hill. 2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a wine. press therein and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusa lem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. 4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? 5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard, I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down. Covetousness and ISAIAH. 6 And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned, nor digged, but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds, that they rain no rain upon it. 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold op. pression; for righteousness, but behold a cry. 8 Wo unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth. 9 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair without inhabitant. 10 Yea ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah. 11 Wo unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, that continue until night, till wine inflame them. 12 And the harp and the viol, the tabret and pipe, and wine are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the opera. tion of his hands. 13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. 14 Therefore hell hath enlarged her. self, and opened her mouth without measure and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it. 15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled. 16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy, shall be sanctified in righteousness. 17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. 18 Wo unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin, as were with a cart rope : 19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the holy one of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it. riot are threatened. 20 T Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil, that put darkness for light, and light for darkness, that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. 21 Wo unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight. 22 Wo unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink. 23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him. 24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the Law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. 25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcasses were torn in the midst of the streets: for all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth and behold, they shall come with speed swiftly. 27 None shall be weary, nor stumble amongst them: none shall slumber nor sleep, neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken. 28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind. 29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea they shall roar and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it. 30 And in that day they shall roar against them, like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof. CHAP. VI. Unclean lips. CHAP. VII. Christ promised one had six wings, with twain he cover. | wards Jerusalem to war against it, but ed his face, and with twain he covered could not prevail against it. his feet, and with twain he did fly. 3 And one cried unto another, and said; Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory. 4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 T Then said I; Wo is me; for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the king, the LORD of hosts. 6 Then flew one of the Seraphims unto me, having a live-coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. 7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips, and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. 8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying; Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said; Here am 1, send me. 9 And he said, Go and tell this people; Hear ye indeed, but understand not: and see ye indeed, but perceive not. 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert and be healed. 11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, 12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. 2 And it was told the house of Da. vid, saying; Syria is confederate with Ephraim: and his heart was moved, and the heart of his people as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind. 3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah; Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the high way of the fuller's field. 4 And say unto him; Take heed and be quiet: fear not, neither be faint hearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. 5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have taken evil counsel against thee, saying; 6 Let us go up against Judah and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal. 7 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass. 8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin, and within threescore and five years, shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. 9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remalia's son: if ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established. 10 Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying; 11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. 12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD. 13 And he said; Hear ye now, 0 house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also? 13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and 14 Therefore the Lord himself shall it shall return, and shall be eaten as a give you a sign: Behold, a Virgin shall teil tree, and as an oak whose sub-conceive and bear a Son, and shall call stance is in them, when they cast their his name Immanuel. leaves so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof. CHAP. VII. Ahaz is comforted by Isaigh. of Uzziah king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah king of Israel, went up to. 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. 16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good; forsaken of both her kings. 17 The LORD shall bring upon thee and upon thy people, and upon thy fa Judgment is prophesied. ISAIAH. ther's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the King of Assyria. 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly, that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes. 20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet and it shall also consume the beard. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow and two sheep. 22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give, he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat, that is left in the land. 23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thou. sand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns. 24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns. 25 And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle. CHAP. VIII. Syria and Israel shall be subdued. MOR OREOVER the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen, concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz. 2 And I took unto me faithful wit nesses to record, Uriah the Priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah. 3 And I went unto the Prophetess, and she conceived and bare a son, then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalal-hash-baz. 4 For before the child shall have know. ledge to cry, My father and my mother, the riches of Damascus, and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria. Against infidelity. 5 The LORD spake also unto me again, saying, 6 For so much as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin, and Remaliah's son : 7 Now therefore behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks. 8 And he shall pass through Judah, he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel. 9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. 10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought: speak the word, and it shall not stand; for God is with us. 11 For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, 12 Say ye not, A confederacy to all them, to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. 13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself, and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. 14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin, and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many among them shall stum. ble and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. 16 Bind up the Testimony, seal the Law among my disciples. 17 And I will wait upon the LORD that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. 18 Behold, I, and the children whom the LORD hath given me, are for signs, and for wonders in Israel: from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. 19 And when they shall say unto you; Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep and that mutter: should not a people seek |