two sheep;

God's judgments irrefiftible.

2 And it was told the houfe of David, faying, 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 faid the LORD unto Ifaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jahub thy fon, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;

4 And fay unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be tainthearted for the two tails of thefe fmoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the fon of Remaliah.

5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the fon of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, faying,

6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and fet a king in the midft of it, even the fon of Tabeal:

7 Thus faith the Lord GOD, It shall not fand, neither fhall it come to pafs.

8 For the head of Syria is Damafcus, and the head of Damafcus is Rezin; and within threefcore and five years thall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.

9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's fon. If ye will not believe, furely ye shall not be established.

10 Moreover the LORD fpake again unto Ahaz, faying,

11 Aik thee a fign of the LORD thy God, afk it either in the depth, or in the height above.

12 But Ahaz faid, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.

13 And he faid, Hear ye now, O houfe of David? Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God alfo?

14 Therefore the LORD himfelt thall give you a fign, Behold a virgin fhall conceive and bear a fon, and fhall call his name IMMANUEL.

15 Butter and honey fhall he eat, that he may know to retufe the evil and choose the good.

16 For before the child fhall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorreft fhall be forfaken of both her kings.

17 The LORD fhall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's houfe, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Affyria.

18 And it thall come to pafs in that day, that the LORD thall hifs for the fly that is in the uttermoft part of the rivers of Fgypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Affyria. 19 And they fhall come, and fhall reft all of them in the defolate vallies, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

20 In the fame day fhall the LORD fhave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Affyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also confine the beard.

22 And it fhall come to pafs, for the abun dance of milk that they fhall give he fhall eat buiter: for butter and honey fhall every one eat that is left in the land.

23 And it fhall come to pafs in that day, that every place fhall be, where there were a thousand-vines at a thousand ûlverlings, it fhall even be for briers and thorns.

24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land thall ecome briers and thorns.

25 And on all hills that fhall be igged with the mattock, there shall not come thi ther the tear of briers and thorns: but it thall be for the fending forth of oxen, and for the treading of leffer cattle.

CHAP. VIII.

14 prophecy against Syria and Irael, 5 and Judah. God'sjudgments irrefiftible. 11 Com fort to them that fear God. 19 Great affictions to idolaters.

Oreover the LORD faid unto me, Take

a man's pen, concerning Maher-fhalal-hashbaz.

2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the fon of Jeberechiah

3 And I went unto the prophetefs; and the conceived and bare a for. Then faid the LORD to me, Call his name Maher. thalal-hash-baz.

4 For before the child fhall have know. ledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damafcus and the fpoil of Samaria fhall be taken away before the king of Affyria.

5¶ The LORD fpake also unto me again, faying,

6 Forafmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go fottly, and re. joice in Rezin and Remaliah's fon;

7 Now therefore, behold, the LORD bring eth up upon them the waters of the river, ftrong and many, even the king of Affyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all bis channels, and go over all his banks:

8 And he shall pass through Judah; he fall overflow and go over, he thall reach even to the neck; and the ftretching out of his wings thall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

9 Affociate yourselves. O ye people, and ye thall be broken in pieces; and give ear all ye or far countries: gird yourfelves, and ye thall be broken in pieces; gird yourfelves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.

10 Take counfel together, and it shall come to nought; fpeak the word, and it inall not ftand: for God is with us.

11 For the LORD fpake thus to me with a ftrong hand, and inftructed me that I fhould not walk in the way of this people, faying,

12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people fhall tay, A confederacy; neither tear ye their fear, nor be afraid.

13 Sanctity the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

14 And he fhall be for a fanctuary; but for a tone of ftumbling and for a rock of offence

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to both the houfes of Ifrael, fora gin and for a fnare to the inhabitants of Jerufalem.

15 And many among them thall ftumble, and tall, and be broken, and be fnared, and be taken.

16 Bind up the teftimony, feal the law among my difciples.

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 tor figns and for wonders in Ifrael from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

19 And when they fhall fay unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar fpirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mut ter: thould not a people feek unto their God for the living to the dead.

20 To the law and to the teftimony: if they fpeak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

21 And they shall pafs through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it fhall come to pafs, that when they shall be hungry, they hali fret themfelves, and curfe their king and their Go!, and look upward.

22 And they fhall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimnels of anguith; and they shall be driven to darkness. CHA P. IX. 1 What joy all be in the midst of afittions by the birth and kingdom of Chrift. 8 The judgments upon Urael for their pride, 13 for their hypocrify, 18 and for their impenitency. Evertheless, the dimness ball not be fuch as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievoudly amict her by the way of the fea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee

of the nations.

a The people that walked in darkness have feen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the fhadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

3 Thou haft multiplied the nation, and not increafed the joy they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

4 For thou haft broken the yoke of his

burden, and the ftaff of his fhoulder, the rod of his oppreffor, as in the day of Milian.

For every battle of the warrior is with confufed noife, and garments rolled in blood; but this thall be with burning and fuel of fire. 6 Fot unto us a child is born, unto us a fon is given and the government shall be upon his houlder: and his name fhall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, the Prince of peace.

7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with juftice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

8 The LORD fent a word into Jacob, and It hach lighted upon Ifrael.

9 And all the people fhail know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that lay in the prize and stoutnefs of heart,

To The bricks are fallen down, but we

The woe of tyrants.

will build with hewn ftones: the fycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

11 Therefore the LORD fhall fet up the adverfaries of Rezin against him, and join his ea mies together;

12 The Syrians be ore, and the Philistines behind; and they thall devour Ifrael with open mouth. For all this his anger is 10t turned away, but his hand is ftretched out ftill.

13 For the people turneth not unto him that miten them, neither do they feck the LORD of hosts.

14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Ifrael head and tail, branch. and ruth, in one day.

15 The ancient and honourable, he is the heat; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

16 For the leaders of this people caufe them to err; and they that are led of them are deftroved.

17 Therefore the LORD fhall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evil doer, and every mouth fpeaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is ftretched out ftill.

18 For wickedness burneth as the fire; it fhall devour the briers and thorns, and thall kindle in the thickets of the forett, and they thall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

19 Through the wrath of the LORD of hotts is the land darkened, and the people thall be as the fuel of the fire: no man fhall fpare his brother.

20 And he shall fnatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall cat on the left hand, and they shall not be fatished: they fhall eat every man the fleth of his own arm:

21 Manalich, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manaffch; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is ftretched out ftill. CHAP. X.

1 The woe of tyrants. 5 Affyria, the rod of hypocrites, for his pride fall he broken. 20 A remnant of Ifrael fall be faved.

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7OE unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have preferibed;

2 To turn afide the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that windows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

3 And what will ye do in the day of vifi. tation, and in the defolation which thail come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

4 Without me they shall bow down under the prifoners, and they shall fall under the flain. For all chis his anger is not turned away, but his hand is ftretched out ftill.

SO Affyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the ftat in their hand is mine indignation.

6 I will fead him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the fpoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

7 Howbeit, he meaneth not fo, neither doth his heart think fo; but it is in his heart to deftroy and cut oft nations not a few.

8 For he faith, Are not my princes altogether kings!

9 is not Calno as Carchemith is not Hamath as Arpad is not Samaria as Damafcus? 10 As my hand hath round the kingdoms of the idois, and whofe graven images did excel them of Jerufalem art of Samaria,

11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, fo do to Jerufalem and her idols?

12 Wherefore it fhall come to pass, that when the LORD hath periormed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerufalem, I will punish the fruit of the ftoul heart vi the king of Affyria, and the glory of his high looks.

13 For he faith, By the firength of my hand I have done it, and by my wifdom; tor I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man.

14 And my hand hath found as a neft the riches of the people and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none hat moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.

15 Shall the axe boat icfelt against him that heweth therewith? or fhall the faw magnity icfelt against him that thake.h it? as if the rod thould thake itself against them that lift it up, or as in the ftarf fhould lift up itfelf, as if it were no wood.

16 Therefore shall the Lord, the LORD of hofts, fend among his fat ones leannefs; and under his glory he fhall kindle a burning like the burning of a tre.

17 And the light of Ifrael thall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it fhall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

18 And fhall confume the glory of his forest and of his ruitful field, both foul and body and they shall be as when a fandardbearer fainteth.

19 And the reft of the trees of his toreft hall be rew, that a child may write them.

20 And it shall come to pafs in that day, that the remnant of Ifrael, and fuch as are efcaped of the houfe of Jacob, fhall no more again day upon him that fmote them, but thall ftay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Ifrael, in truth.

21 The remnant fhall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.

22 For though thy people Ifrael be as the fand of the fea, yet a remnan, of them thall return the confumption decreed thall overflow with righteousness.

23 For the Lord God of hofts shall make a confumption, even determined, in the midt of all the land.

24 Therefore thus faith the Lord God of hotts, O my people that dwelleft in Zion, be not afraid of the Affyrian: he thall fmite thee with a rod, and thail lift up his ftari against thee, after the manner of gypt.

25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation thall ceafe, and mine anger in their deftruction.

26 And the LORD of hosts fhall ftir up a fcourge for him according to the flaughter of Midian at the rock or Creb: and as his rod was upon the fea, fo fhall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.

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Chriff's peaceable kingdom. 27 And it shall come to pafs in that day, that his burden fhall be taken away from off thy thoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke thall be deftroyed because of the anointing.

28 He is come to Aiath, he is paled to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid ap his carriages:

29 They are gone over the paffage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ra. mah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fed.

30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: caufe it to be heard unto Laith, O poor

Anathoth.

31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themfelves to flee.

32 As yet thall be remain at Nob that day: he shall thake his hand againfi the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill or Jerufalem.

33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, fhall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of tacure ball he hewn down, and the haughty thall be humbled.

34 And he thall cut down the thickets of the forefts with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

CHAP. XI.

1 The peaceable kingdom of the branch out of the root of Fejle. 10 The refloration of Ifrael, and vocation of the Gentiles.

the item of effe, and a branch thall

ND there fhall come forth a rod out of

grow out of his roots:

2 And the spirit of the LORD thall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the fpiri: or counfel and might, the spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of the LORD;

3 And thall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the fight of his eyes, neither re. prove after the hearing of his ears:

4 But with righteoufnefs thall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he thall fmice the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips fhall he lay the wicked.

5 And righteoufnefs thall be the girdle of his loins, and iaithiulnefs the girdle of his reins. 6 The wolf also thall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard fhall lie down with the kid and the cal and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shail lead them.

7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones fhall lie down together: and the lion fhall eat straw like the ox."

8 And the fucking child fhall play on the hole of the afp, and the weaned child fhall put his hand on the cockatrice den.

9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain for the earth thall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the fca.

10 And in that day there fhall be a root of Jeffe, which shall ftand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles feck : and his rent thall be glorious.

11 And it thall come to pafs in that day, that the LORD fhall fet his hand again the fecond time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be leit, from Allyria, and irom Egypt, and trom Pathros, and from Cuth, and trom Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the fea.

13 And he shall fet up an enlign for the

nations,

ceased!

5 The LORD hath broken the ftaff of the wicked, and the fceptre of the rulers.

6 He who fmote the people in wrath with a conunual ftroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is perfecuted, and none hindereth. 7 The whole earth is at reft, and is quiet: they break torth into finging.

8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, faying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us. 9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chier ones of the earth; it hath raised up tron, their thrones all the kings of the nations.

to All they thall speak, and fay unto thee, Art thou alfo become weak as we! art thou become like unto us?

11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noife of thy viols: the worm is fpread under thee, and the worms cover chee.

12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, fon of the morning! bow art thou

The lamentable fate of Moab. upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is ttretched out upon all the nations.

27 For the LORD of hots hath purpofed, and who thall difannul it and his hand is Atretched out, and who shall turn it back?

28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.

29 Rejoice not thou, whole Paleftina, because the rod of him that fmote thee is broken: or out of the ferpent's root thall conie forth a cockatrice, and his fruit fail be a fiery flying ferpent.

30 And the art bora of the poor shall feed, and the needy fhail the down in fatety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he thali flay thy remnant.

31 Howl, O ga.e; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art diffolved: for there thai come from the north a fmoke, and none fall be alone in his appointed times.

32 What hall one then anfwer the mef. fengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people

fhall cruft in it.

CHAP. XV.

The lamentable flate of Mocb.

the nations!

13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will afcend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will fit alfo upon the mount of the congregation, in the fides of the north:

14 I will afcend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Moft High.

15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the fides of the pit.

16 They that fee thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, faying, is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did thake kingdoms?

17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereot; that opened not the house of his prifoners?

18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own houfe. 19 But thou art caft out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are lain, thruft through with a fword, that go down to the tones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under teer.

20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, becaufe thou haft destroyed thy land, and flain thy people: the feed of evil doers

thail never be renowned.

21 Prepare laughter for his children for the iniquity of their athers; that they do aot rife, nor poffefs the land, nor till the face of the world with cities. 22 For I will rife up again them, faith the LORD of hofts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and fon, and nephew, faith the LORD.

23 I will also make it a poffeffion for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will fweep it with the befom of destruction,

faith the LORD of hofts.

24 The LORD at hotts hach fworn, faying, Surely as i have thought, fo thall it come to pafs; and as I have purpofed, thall it ftand: 25 That I will break the Affyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under toot: then thall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their thoulders.

26 This is the purpose that is purpofed

Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to filence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waite, and brought to filence:

2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab thall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads fall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

3 In their streets they shall gird themfelves with fackcloth on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one thall howl, weeping abundantly.

4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Flealeh: their voice thall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed foldiers of Moab thall cry out; his lite shall be grievous unto him.

5 My heart thall cry out for Moab; his fugitives ball fee unto Zoar, an heiter of three years old: tor by the mounting up of Lubith with weeping hall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall saife up a cry of destruction.

For the waters of Nimrim fhall be defolate for the hay is withered away, the grafs taileth, there is no green thing.

7 There are the abundance they have got. ten, and that which they have laid up, fhait they carry away to the brook of the willows.

8 For the cry is gone round about the bor ders of Moab, the howling thereor unto Eglaim, and the howling thereor unto Beer-elim. 9 For the wa.ers of Dimon fhall be tull of blood: tor I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that elcapetn of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.

CHAP. XVI.

1 Moah is exhorted to yield obedience unto Chriji's kingdom, 6 and threatened for prise.

Strom sela to the wilderness, unto the END ye the lamb to the ruler of the land mount of the daughter of Zion.

2 For it shall be, that as a wandering bird caft out or the nett, jo the daughters of Moab fhall be at the tords of Arnon.

3 Take couniel, execute judgment; make thy fhadow as the night in the midst of the noon day; hide the outcasts, bewray not him that wandereth.