12 And the lyre, and the harp, the tabor, and the pipe, And wine, are their entertainments:

But the work of JEHOVAH they regard not;

And the operation of his hands they do not perceive. 13 Therefore my people goeth into captivity for want of knowledge;

And their nobles have died with hunger;

And their plebeians are parched up with thirst. 14 Therefore Hades hath enlarged his appetite;

And hath stretched open his mouth without measure:
And down go her nobility, and her populace;

And her busy throng, and all that exult in her.

15 And the mean man shall be bowed down, and the great man shall be brought low;

And the eyes of the haughty shall be humbled:

16 And JEHOVAH God of Hosts shall be exalted in judgment;

And God the Holy One shall be sanctified by displaying his righteousness.

17 Then shall the sheep feed without restraint;

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And the kids shall depasture the desolate fields of the luxurious.

Wo unto them who draw out iniquity as a long cable; And sin, as the thick traces of a wain:

19 Who say, Let him make speed then, let him hasten His work, that we may see it;

And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel Draw near, and come to pass, that we may know it. 20 Wo unto them who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. 21 Wo unto them, who are wise in their own eyes, And prudent in their own conceit.

22 Wo unto them, who are powerful to drink wine; And men of might to mingle strong drink:

23 Who justify the guilty for reward,

And take away the righteousness of the righteous from him.

24 Therefore, as the tongue of fire licketh up the stubble, And as the flame dissolveth the chaff;

So shall their root become like touch wood,
And their blossom shall go up like the dust:

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Because they have despised the law of JEHOVAH God of
Hosts;

And scornfully rejected the word of the Holy One of
Israel.

Wherefore the anger of JEHOVAH is kindled against
his people;

And he hath stretched out his hand against them:

And he smote them; and the mountains trembled ;

And their carcasses became as the dung in the midst of the streets.

For all this his anger is not turned away;

But still is his hand stretched out.

26 And he will erect a standard for the nations afar off; And he will hist every one of them from the ends of the earth;

And behold, with speed swiftly shall they come.

27 None among them is faint, and none stumbleth ;
None shall slumber nor sleep:

Nor shall the girdle of their loins be loosed;

Nor shall the latchet of their shoes be unbound.

28 Whose arrows are sharpened;

And all their bows are bent:

The hoofs of their horses shall be counted as adamant;
And their wheels as a whirlwind.

29 Their growling is like the growling of the lioness;
Like the young lions shall they growl:

They shall roar, and shall seize the prey;

And they shall bear it away, and none shall rescue it. 30 In that day shall they roar against them, like the roaring of the sea;

And these shall look to the heaven upward, and down to the earth;

And lo! darkness, distress!

And the light is obscured by the gloomy vapour.

CHAP, 1 IN the year in which Uzziah the king died, I saw JEHOVAH sitting on a throne high and lofty; and the 2 train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood seraphim: each one of them had six wings: with two of them he covereth his face, with two of them he covereth 3 his feet, and two of them he useth in flying. And they cried alternately, and said:

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Holy, holy, holy, JEHOVAH God of Hosts!
The whole earth is filled with his glory.

4 And the pillars of the vestibule were shaken with the voice of their cry; and the temple was filled with smoke. 5 And I said, Alas for me! I am struck dumb: for I am a man of polluted lips; and in the midst of a people of polluted lips do I dwell; for mine eyes have seen the 6 King, JEHOVAH God of Hosts. And one of the seraphim came flying unto me; and in his hand was a burning coal, which he had taken with the tongs from off the 7 altar. And he touched my mouth, and said :

Lo! this hath touched thy lips:

Thine iniquity is removed, and thy sin is expiated. 8. And I heard the voice of JEHOVAH, saying: Whom shall I send; and who will go for us? And I said: Behold, 9 here am I ; send me. And he said :

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Go, and say thou to this people:

Hear ye indeed, but understand not;
See ye indeed, but perceive not:

Make gross the heart of this people;

Make their ears dull, and close up their eyes;
Lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears,
And understand with their hearts, and be converted;
and I should heal them.

11 And I said: How long, O JEHOVAH? And he said :—
Until cities be laid waste, so that there be no inhabi-

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And there be many a deserted woman in the midst of
the land.

And though there be a tenth part remaining in it,
Even this shall undergo repeated destruction;

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Yet, as the ilex, and the oak, though cut down, hath

its stock remaining,

A holy seed shall be the stock of the nation.

CHAP. 1 In the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah king of Judah, Retsin king of Syria, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up against Jerusalem, to besiege it; but they could not overcome

2 it. And when it was told to the house of David, that Syria was supported by Ephraim; the heart of the king, and the heart of his people, was moved; as the trees of the forest are moved before the wind.

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And JEHOVAH said to Isaiah: Go out now to meet Ahaz; thou and Shearjashub thy son; at the end of the aqueduct of the upper pool, at the cause way of the ful4 ler's field. And thou shalt say unto him :

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Take heed, and be still; fear not, neither let thy heart be faint,

Because of the two tails of these smoking firebrands;
For the fierce wrath of Retsin, and of the son of Re-
maliah :

Because Syria hath devised evil against thee;
Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, saying:
Let us go up against Judah, and harass it;

And let us rend off a part of it for ourselves;
And let us set a king to reign in the midst of it,
Even the son of Tabeal.

Thus saith the Lord JEHOVAH:

It shall not stand, neither shall it be;

Though the head of Syria be Damascus,
And the head of Damascus, Retsin :

Yet within threescore and five years

Ephraim shall be broken, that he be no more a people;

9 Though the head of Ephraim be Samaria, And the head of Samaria, Remaliah's son.

If ye believe not in me, ye shall not be established. 10 And JEHOVAH spake yet again to Ahaz, saying: Ask thee a sign from JEHOVAH thy God;

Go deep to the grave, or high to the heaven above. 12 And Ahaz said: I will not ask; neither will I tempt 13 JEHOVAH. And he said:

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Hear ye now, O house of David!

Is it a small thing for you to weary men,

That you should weary my God also?

Therefore JEHOVAH himself shall give you a sign:
Behold, the Virgin conceiveth, and beareth a son;
And she shall call his name Immanuel.

Butter and honey shall he eat,

When he shall know to refuse what is evil, and to choose what is good:

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To refuse the evil, and to choose the good;
The land shall become desolate,

By whose two kings thou art distressed.

But JEHOVAH shall bring upon thee,

And upon thy people, and upon thy father's house,
Days, such as have not come,

From the day that Ephraim departed from Judah.
And it shall come to pass in that day;

JEHOVAH shall hist the fly,

That is in the utmost part of the rivers of Egypt;
And the bee that is in the land of Assyria:

And they shall come, and they shall light all of them
On the desolate valleys, and on the craggy rocks,
And on the thickets, and on all the caverns.

In that day, JEHOVAH shall shave by the hired razor,
By the people beyond the river, by the king of
Assyria,

The head and the hair of the feet;

And even the beard itself shall be destroyed.

And it shall come to pass in that day,

That if a man shall feed a young cow, and two sheep; From the plenty of milk, which they shall produce, he shall eat butter:

Even butter and honey shall he eat,

Whosoever is left in the midst of the land.

And every vineyard, that hath a thousand vines,
Valued at a thousand pieces of silver,

Shall become in that day briers and thorns.

With arrows and with the bow shall they come thither;
For the whole land shall become briers and thorns.
And all the hills, which were dressed with the mattock,
Where the fear of briers and thorns never came,
Shall be for the range of the ox, and for the treading
of sheep.

AND JEHOVAH said unto me: Take unto thee a large mirror, and write on it with a workman's graving tool, 2 To hasten the spoil, to take quickly the prey. And I called unto me for a testimony faithful witnesses; Uriah the priest, and Zachariah the son of Jeberechiah.