God's care over his vineyard. CHAP. XXVII. Ja destroying storm, as a flood of mighty IN N that day the LORD with his sore and waters overflowing, shall cast down to the great and strong sword shall punish le-earth with the hand. viathan the piercing serpent, even levia- 3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of than that crooked serpent; and he shall slay Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet: the dragon that is in the sea. 2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine. 3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. 4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it, seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up. 4 Fury is not in me: who would set the 5 ¶ In that day shall the LORD of hosts briers and thorns against me in battle? I be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem would go through them, I would burn them of beauty, unto the residue of his people, together. 6 And for a spirit of judgment to him 5 Or let him take hold of my strength, that sitteth in judgment, and for strength that he may make peace with me, and he to them that turn the battle to the gate. shall make peace with me. 7 But they also have erred through 6 He shall cause them that come of Ja-wine, and through strong drink are out of cob to take root: Israel shall blossom and the way; the priest and the prophet have bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. erred through strong drink, they are swal7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote lowed up of wine, they are out of the way those that smote him? or is he slain ac- through strong drink; they err in vision, cording to the slaughter of them that are they stumble in judgment. slain by him? 8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. 9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take his away sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. 10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. 8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. 9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. 10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little : 11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. 12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. 11 When the boughs thereof are wither- 13 But the word of the LORD was unto ed, they shall be broken off: the women them, precept upon precept, precept upon come and set them on fire: for it is a peo-precept; line upon line, line upon line; ple of no understanding: therefore he that here a little, and there a little; that they inade them will not have mercy on them, might go, and fall backward, and be and he that formed them will shew them broken, and snared, and taken. no favour. 14 Wherefore hear the word of the 12 T And it shall come to pass in that LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this peoday, that the LORD shall beat off from the ple which is in Jerusalem. channel of the river unto the stream of 15 Because ye have said, We have made Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by a covenant with death, and with hell are one, O ye children of Israel. we at agreement; when the overflowing 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, scourge shall pass through, it shall not come that the great trumpet shall be blown, and unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, they shall come which were ready to perish and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord the land of Egypt, and shall worship the GoD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundaLORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem. tion a stone, a tried stone, a precious corCHAP. XXVIII. ner stone, a sure foundation: he that be70 to the crown of pride, to the drunk-lieveth shall not make haste. ards of Ephraim, whose glorious 17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, beauty is a fading flower, which are on and righteousness to the plummet: and the the head of the fat valleys of them that are hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and overcome with wine! the waters shall overflow the hiding-place. 2 Behold, the LORD hath a mighty and 18 And your covenant with death strong one, which as a tempest of hail and shall be disannulled, and your agreement God's judgment upon Jerusalem. CHAP. XXIX. A promise of better times. with hell shall not stand; when the over- that passeth away: yea,it shall be at an flowing scourge shall pass through, then instant suddenly. ye shall be trodden down by it. 19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. 20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. 6 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire. 7 T And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a nightvision. 8 It shall even be as when a hungry 21 For the LORD shall rise up as in man dreameth, and behold, he eateth; but mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in he awaketh, and his soul is empty or as the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his when a thirsty man dreameth, and bework, his strange work; and bring to pass hold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and his act, his strange act. behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appe22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, tite: so shall the multitude of all the nalest your bands be made strong; for Itions be, that fight against mount Zion. have heard from the Lord GoD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth. 23 ¶ Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. 24 Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? 25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat, and the appointed barley, and the rye in their place? 26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. 27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cartwheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. 28 Bread-corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his borsemen. 9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. 11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: 12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned. 13 ¶ Wherefore the LORD said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: 14 Therefore behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, 29 This also cometh forth from the even a marvellous work and a wonder: LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in coun-for the wisdom of their wise men shall sel, and excellent in working. perish, and the understanding of their pruCHAP. XXIX. dent men shall be hid. W to Oto Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices. 2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel. 15 Wo unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? 16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's 3 And I will camp against thee round clay: for shall the work say of him that about, and will lay siege against thee with made it, He made me not? or shall the a mount, and I will raise forts against thee. thing framed say of him that framed it, 4 And thou shalt be brought down, and He had no understanding? shalt speak out of the ground, and thy 17 Is it not yet a very little while, and speech shall be low out of the dust, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemfamiliar spirit, out of the ground, and thy ed as a forest? speech shall whisper out of the dust. 18 And in that day shall the deaf hear 5 Moreover, the multitude of thy stran- the words of the book, and the eyes of gers shall be like small dust, and the mul- the blind shall see out of obscurity, and titude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff out of darkness. The people threatened for their ISAIAH. contempt of God's word. 19 The meek also shall increase their of Israel, Because ye despise this word, joy in the LORD, and the poor among men and trust in oppression and perverseness, shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. and stay thereon: 20 For the terrible one is brought to 13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you nought, and the scorner is consumed, and as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a all that watch for iniquity are cut off: high wall, whose breaking cometh sudden 21 That make a man an offender for a ly at an instant. word, and lay a snare for him that re- 14 And he shall break it as the breakproveth in the gate, and turn aside the ing of the potter's vessel that is broken in just for a thing of nought. pieces; he shall not spare: so that there 22 Therefore thus saith the LORD, who shall not be found in the bursting of it a redeemed Abraham, concerning the house sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, take water withal out of the pit. neither shall his face now wax pale. 23 But when he seeth his children, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest work of mine hands, in the midst of him, shall ye be saved; in quietness and in conthey shall sanctify my name, and sanctify fidence shall be your strength: and ye the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the would not. God of Israel. 24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine. CHAP. XXX. to the rebellious children, saith 15 For thus saith the Lord God, the 16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift. 17 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: as a W not of me; and that cover with a covering, a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill. but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin 18 And therefore will the LORD wait, to sin : 2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! 3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. 4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes. that he may be gracious unto yoù, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. 19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. 5 They were all ashamed of a people 20 And though the Lord give you the that could not profit them, nor be a help bread of adversity, and the water of afflic nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach. tion, yet shall not thy teachers be removed 6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall into the land of trouble and anguish, from see thy teachers: whence come the young and old lion, the 21 And thine ears shall hear a word beviper and fiery flying serpent, they will hind thee, saying, This is the way, walk carry their riches upon the shoulders of ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, young asses, and their treasures upon the and when ye turn to the left. bunches of camels, to a people that shall 22 Ye shall defile also the covering of not profit them. thy graven images of silver, and the orna7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, ment of thy molten images of gold: thou and to no purpose: therefore have I cried shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; concerning this, Their strength is to sit still. thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. 8¶ Now go, write it before them in a 23 Then shall he give the rain of thy table, and note it in a book, that it may be seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; for the time to come for ever and ever: and bread of the increase of the earth, and 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying it shall be fat and plenteous: in that daychildren, children that will not hear the shall thy cattle feed in large pastures. law of the LORD: 24 The oxen likewise and the young 10 Which say to the seers, See not; and asses that ear the ground shall eat clean to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right provender, which hath been winnowed things, speak unto us smooth things, pro- with the shovel and with the fan. 25 And there shall be upon every high 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside mountain, and upon every bigh hill, rivers out of the path, cause the Holy One of and streams of waters in the day of the Israel to cease from before us. great slaughter, when the towers fall. 26 Moreover the light of the moon shall phesy deceits: 12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One The evil of forsaking God. CHAP. XXXI, XXXII.Blessings of Christ's kingdom.. be as the light of the sun, and the light of 5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he seven days, in the day that the LORD bind-will deliver it; and passing over he will eth up the breach of his people, and heal-preserve it. eth the stroke of their wound. 6¶ Turn ye unto him from whom the 27 Behold, the name of the LORD children of Israel have deeply revolted. cometh from far, burning with his anger, 7 For in that day every man shall cast and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips away his idols of silver, and his idols of are full of indignation, and his tongue as gold, which your own hands have made a devouring fire: unto you for a sin. 28 And his breath, as an overflowing 8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with stream, shall reach to the midst of the the sword, not of a mighty man; and the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of sword, not of a mean man, shall devour vanity and there shall be a bridle in the him: but he shall flee from the sword, and jaws of the people, causing them to err. his young men shall be discomfited. 29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night 9 And he shall pass over to his strong when a holy solemnity is kept; and glad-hold for fear, and his princes shall be ness of heart, as when one goeth with a afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, pipe to come into the mountain of the whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in LORD, to the Mighty One of Israel. Jerusalem. 30 And the LORD shall cause his glori CHAP. XXXII. Bousness, and princes shall rule in ous voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and 2 And a man shall be as a hiding-place tempest, and hail-stones. from the wind, and a covert from the tem31 For through the voice of the LORD pest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which the shadow of a great rock in a weary smote with a rod. land. 32 And in every place where the 3 And the eyes of them that see shall grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets shall hearken. and harps and in battles of shaking will 4 The heart also of the rash shall unhe fight with it. 33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large; the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it. CHAP. XXXI. derstand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. 5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful. 6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against WO to them that go down to Egypt the LORD, to make empty the soul of the for help; and stay on horses, and hungry; and he will cause the drink of the trust in chariots, because they are many; thirsty to fail. and in horsemen, because they are very 7 The instruments also of the churl are strong; but they look not unto the Holy evil: he deviseth wicked devices to deOne of Israel, neither seek the LORD! stroy the poor with lying words, even 2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring when the needy speaketh right. evil, and will not call back his words: but 8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; will arise against the house of the evil- and by liberal things shall he stand. doers, and against the help of them that 9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; work iniquity. hear my voice, ye careless daughters; 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not give ear unto my speech. God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. 10 Many days and years shall ye be When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, troubled, ye careless women; for the vinboth he that helpeth shall fall, and he that tage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together. 11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, 4 For thus bath the LORD spoken unto and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon me, Like as the lion and the young lion your loins. roaring on his prey, when a multitude 12 They shall lament for the teats, for of shepherds is called forth against him, the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. he will not be afraid of their voice, nor 13 Upon the land of my people shall abase himself for the noise of them: so come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight the houses of joy in the joyous city: for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof. 14 Because the palaces shall be for Judgments in behalf of the church. ISAIAH. The privileges of the godly. saken; the multitude of the city shall be bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, left; the forts and towers shall be for dens shall devour you. for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of 12 And the people shall be as the burnflocks; ings of lime; as thorns cut up shall they 15 Until the Spirit be poured upon us be burned in the fire. from on high, and the wilderness be a 13 Hear, ye that are far off, what I fruitful field, and, the fruitful field be have done; and ye that are near, acknow. counted for a forest. ledge my might. 16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the de17 And the work of righteousness shall vouring fire? who among us shall dwell be peace; and the effect of righteousness, with everlasting burnings? quietness and assurance for ever. 15 He that walketh righteously, and 18 And my people shall dwell in a speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the peaceable habitation, and in sure dwell- gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands ings, and in quiet resting-places, from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; 19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in low place. a 20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass. W CHAP. XXXIII. 16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure. 17 Thine eyes shall see the King in his to thee that spoilest, and thou beauty: they shall behold the land that is wast not spoiled; and dealest very far off. treacherously, and they dealt not treache- 18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. rously with thee! when thou shalt cease Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when where is he that counted the towers? thou shalt make an end to deal treache- 19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a rously, they shall deal treacherously with people of deeper speech than thou canst thee. perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand. 2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. 3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered. 4 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them. : 5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness. treasure 20 Look upon Zion, the city of our so lemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. 21 But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. 22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King; he will save us. 6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be 23 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could the stability of thy times, and strength of not well strengthen their mast, they could salvation: the fear of the LORD is his not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey. 7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry 24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I without the ambassadors of peace shall am sick the people that dwell therein weep bitterly. shall be forgiven their iniquity. CHAP. XXXIV. NOME near, ye nations, to hear; and 8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the hearken, ye people: let the earth covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man. hear, and all that is therein; the world, 9 The earth mourneth and languisheth: and all things that come forth of it. Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: 2 For the indignation of the LORD is Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan upon all nations, and his fury upon all and Carmel shake off their fruits. their armies: he hath utterly destroyed 10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; them, he hath delivered them to the now will I be exalted; now will I lift up slaughter. myself. 3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and 11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall their stink shall come up out of their |