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God's judgment on covetousness.

CHAP. VI. God's judgment on injustice.

vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vine-led in judgment, and God that is holy shall yard in a very fruitful hill: be sanctified in righteousness.

2 And he fenced it, and gathered out 17 Then shall the lambs feed after the stones thereof, and planted it with the their manner, and the waste places of the choicest vine, and built a tower in the fat ones shall strangers eat.

I midst of it, and also made a wine-press 18 Wo unto them that draw iniquity therein and he looked that it should bring with cords of vanity, and sin as it were forth grapes, and it brought forth wild with a cart-rope:

grapes. 19 That say, Let him make speed, and 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusa- hasten his work, that we may see it and lem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel you, betwixt me and my vineyard. draw nigh and come, that we may know it! 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!"

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?

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

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 drink wine, and men of strength to mingle eaten up; and break down the wall there-strong drink: of, and it shall be trodden down:

23 Which justify the wicked for reward,

6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not and take away the righteousness of the be pruned, nor digged; but there shall righteous from him!

come up briers and thorns: I will also 24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the command the clouds that they rain no rain stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and upon it.

7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts their blossom shall go up as dust: because is the house of Israel, and the men of Ju- they have cast away the law of the LORD dah his pleasant plant: and he looked for of hosts, and despised the word of the judgment, but behold oppression; for Holy One of Israel. 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 T 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 operation of his hands.

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 T 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 among them; none shall slumbernor 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

13 T Therefore my people are gone into whirlwind. captivity, because they have no knowledge: 29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, and their honourable men are famished, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they and their multitude dried up with thirst. shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and 14 Therefore hell hath enlarged her- shall carry it away safe, and none shall self, and opened her mouth without mea- deliver it. sure 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 bumbled:

16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalt

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.

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the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne,

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The vision of Isaiah.

ISAIAH. Ahaz comforted-Christ promised.

high and lifted up, and his train filled the
temple.
4 And say unto him, Take heed, and
2 Above it stood the seraphims: each ed for the two tails of these smoking fire-
be quiet; fear not, neither be faint-heart-
one had six wings; with twain be cover- brands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with
ed his face, and with twain he covered his Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
feet, and with twain he did fly.
of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel
5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son
against thee, saying,

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.

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

stand, neither shall it come to pass.
7 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not

5 ¶ Then said I, Wo is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean Jips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen and the head of Damascus is Rezin: and 8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, the King, the LORD of hosts. 6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. within threescore and five years shall me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. 9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, 7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and be established. thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. 10 T Moreover, the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,

& Also I heard the voice of the LORD, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. 9 T And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

ask it either in the depth, or in the height
11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God;
above.

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

of David; Is it a small thing for you to
13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house
weary men, but will ye weary my God
also?

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. give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall 14 Therefore the LORD himself shall 11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And conceive, and bear a son, and shall call he answered, Until the cities be wasted his name Immanuel. 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.

13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil-tree, and as an oak whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof. CHAP. VII.

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

16 For before the child shall know to land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken refuse the evil, and choose the good, the of both her kings.

and upon thy people, and upon thy father's 17 T The LORD shall bring upon thee, house, days that have not come, from the ND it came to pass in the days of even the king of Assyria. day that Ephraim departed from Judah;

AAhaz the son of Jotham, the son of

prevail against it.

Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Re in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, maliah, king of Israel, went up toward and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. Jerusalem to war against it, but could not 19 And they shall come, and shall rest 2 And it was told the house of David, the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, all of them in the desolate valleys, and in saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. and upon all bushes. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are with a razor that is hired, namely, by them 20 In the same day shall the LORD shave moved with the wind. 3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go the head, and the hair of the feet: and it beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-shall also consume the beard. jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit 21 And it shall come to pass in that day,

of the upper pool in the highway of the that a man shall nourish a young cow, and fuller's field;

two sheep;

Syria, Israel, &c. threatened. CHAP. VIII, IX. Christ's birth and kingdom.

22 And it shall come to pass, for the 13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself, abundance of milk that they shall give that and let him be your fear, and let him be he shall cat butter: for butter and honey your dread.

shall every one eat that is left in the land. 14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but 23 And it shall come to pass in that day, for a stone of stumbling and or a rock of that every place shall be, where there were offence to both the houses of Israel, for a a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of it shall even be for briers and thorns. Jerusalem.

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.

15 And many among them shall stumble, 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.

CHAP. VIII. 18 Behold, I and the children whom OREOVER, the LORD said unto me, the LORD hath given me are for signs and

19 T And when they shall say unto you,

in it with a man's pen concerning Maher- hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. shalal-hash-baz. 2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechari- and unto wizards that peep, and that ah the son of Jeberechiah. mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?

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.

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

4 For before the child shall have know- 21 And they shall pass through t, hardledge to cry. My father, and my mother, ly bestead and hungry: and it shall come the riches of Damascus and the spoil of to pass, that when they shall be hungry, Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

5 T The LORD spake also unto me

again, saying,

they shall fret themselves, and cuise their king and their God, and look upward.

22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness 6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth of anguish; and they shall be driven to the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and re- darkness. joice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;

CHAP. IX.

EVERTHELESS the dimness shall

Now therefore, behold, the LORD NEVER such as was in her vexation,

bringeth up upon them the waters of the

river, strong and many, even the king of when at the first he lightly afflicted the land Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali, and come up over all his channels, and go over afterward did more grievously afflict her all his banks: by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

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

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, 3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give not increased the joy: they joy before thee ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, according to the joy in harvest, and as and ye shall be broken in pieces; girdyour-men rejoice when they divide the spoil. selves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. 4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his 10 Take counsel together, and it shall burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the come to nought; speak the word, and it rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Mishall not stand: for God is with us.

dian.

11 T For the LORD spake thus to me 5 For every battle of the warrior is with with a strong hand, and instructed me confused noise, and garments rolled in that I should not walk in the way of this blood; but this shall be with burning and people, saying, fuel of fire.

12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all 6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a them to whom this people shall say, A con- son is given: and the government shall be federacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor upon his shoulder: and his name shall be afraid. called Wonderful, Counsellor, The!

The vision of Isaiah.

ISALAH. Ahaz comforted-Christ promised.

high and lifted up, and his train filled the 4 And say unto him, Take heed, and temple.

2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain be covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

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 3 And one cried unto another, and said, of Remaliab, have taken evil counsel Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: against thee, saying, 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 Then said I, Wo is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean Jips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

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 6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. me, having a live coal in his hand, which he 9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, had taken with the tongs from off the altar: and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. 7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and be established. 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 said I, Here am I; 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 T 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.

also?

13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house 10 Make the heart of this people fat, of David; Is it a small thing for you to and make their ears heavy, and shut their weary men, but will ye weary my God eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with 14 Therefore the LORD himself shall their heart, and convert, and be healed. give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall 11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And conceive, and bear a son, and shall call he answered, Until the cities be wasted his name Immanuel. 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 16 For before the child shall know to the midst of the land. refuse the evil, and choose the good, the 13 ¶ But yet in it shall be a tenth, and land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a of both her kings.

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

teil-tree, and as an oak whose substance 17 The LORD shall bring upon thee, is in them, when they cast their leaves: so and upon thy people, and upon thy father's the holy seed shall be the substance thereof. house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah;

CHAP. VII.

AND it came to pass in the days of even the king of Assyria.

Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Res in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, maliah, king of Israel, went up toward and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. Jerusalem to war against it, but could not 19 And they shall come, and shall rest prevail against it. all of them in the desolate valleys, and in

2 And it was told the house of David, the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. and upon all bushes.

And his heart was moved, and the heart of 20 In the same day shall the LORD shave his people, as the trees of the wood are with a razor that is hired, namely, by them moved with the wind. beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, 3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go the head, and the hair of the feet; and it forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-shall also consume the beard. jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, of the upper pool in the highway of the that a man shall nourish a young cow, and fuller's field;

two sheep;

Syria, Israel, &c. threatened. CHAP. VIII, IX. Christ's birth and kingdom.

22 And it shall come to pass, for the 13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself, abundance of milk that they shall give that and let him be your fear, and let him be he shall eat butter: for butter and honey your dread.

shall every one eat that is left in the land. 14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but 23 And it shall come to pass in that day, for a stone of stumbling and or a rock of that every place shall be, where there were offence to both the houses of Israel, for a a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of it shall even be for briers and thorns. Jerusalem.

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.

15 And many among them shall stumble, 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.

CHAP. VIII. 18 Behold, I and the children whom [OREOVER, the LORD said unto me, the LORD hath given me are for signs and

in it with a man's pen concerning Maher-hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. shalal-hash-baz. 19 T And when they shall say unto you, 2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechari- and unto wizards that peep, and that ah the son of Jeberechiah. mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?

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.

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

:

4 For before the child shall have know- 21 And they shall pass through it, hardledge to cry, My father, and my mother, ly bestead and hungry and it shall come the riches of Damascus and the spoil of to pass, that when they shall be hungry, Samaria shall be taken away before the they shall fret themselves, and cuise their king of Assyria. king and their God, and look upward.

5 T The LORD spake also unto me

again, saying,

22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness 6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth of anguish; and they shall be driven to the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and re- darkness. joice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;

7 Now therefore, behold, the LORD

CHAP. IX.

bringeth up upon them the waters of the NEVERTHELESS the dimness shall

not be such as was in her vexation, river, strong and many, even the king of when at the first he lightly afflicted the land Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali, and come up over all his channels, and go over afterward did more grievously afflict her all his banks: by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach 2 The people that walked in darkness even to the neck; and the stretching out have seen a great light: they that dwell of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy in the land of the shadow of death, upon land, O Immanuel. them hath the light shined. 9T Associate yourselves, O ye people, 3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give not increased the joy: they joy before thee ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, according to the joy in harvest, and as and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird your-men rejoice when they divide the spoil. selves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. 4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his 10 Take counsel together, and it shall burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the come to nought; speak the word, and it rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Mishall not stand: for God is with us. dian.

11 For the LORD spake thus to me 5 For every battle of the warrior is with with a strong hand, and instructed me confused noise, and garments rolled in that I should not walk in the way of this blood; but this shall be with burning and people, saying, fuel of fire.

12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all 6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a them to whom this people shall say, A con- son is given: and the government shall be federacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor upon his shoulder: and his name shall be be afraid. called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty

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