And I have plundered their hoarded treasures;

And I have brought down those, that were strongly seated.

14 And my hand hath found, as a nest, the riches of the

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peoples;

And as one gathereth eggs deserted,

So have I made a general gathering of the earth :

And there was no one that moved the wing;

That opened the beak, or that chirped.

Shall the axe boast itself against him, that heweth
therewith?

Shall the saw magnify itself against him, that moveth it?
As if the rod should wield him, that lifteth it;

As if the staff should lift up its master.

16 Wherefore JEHOVAH the Lord of Hosts shall send Upon his fat ones leanness ;

And under his glory shall he kindle

A burning as of a conflagration :

17 And the light of Israel shall become a fire,

And his Holy One a flame;

And he shall burn, and consume his thorn

And his brier in one day.

18 Even the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, From the soul even to the flesh, shall he consume;

And it shall be, as when one fleeth out of the fire.

19 And the remainder of the trees of his forest shall be a small number,

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So that a child may write them down.

And it shall come to pass in that day,
No more shall the remnant of Israel,
And the escaped of the house of Jacob,
Lean upon him that smote them;
But shall lean upon JEHOVAH,
The Holy One of Israel, in truth.

21 A remnant shall return, a remnant of Jacob,

Unto God the Mighty.

22 For though thy people, O Israel, shall be as the sand of

the sea,

A remnant of them only shall return.

The consummation decided, overfloweth with strict jus tice;

23 For a full and decisive decree

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Shall JEHOVAH the Lord of Hosts accomplish in the midst of the land.

Wherefore thus saith JEHOVAH the Lord of Hosts: Fear not, O my people, that dwellest in Sion, because of the Assyrian;

With his staff indeed shall he smite thee,

And his rod shall he lift up against thee, in the way of
Egypt.

25 But yet a very little time, and mine indignation shall

cease;

And mine anger in their destruction:

26 And JEHOVAH God of Hosts shall raise up against him a scourge,

Like the stroke upon Midian at the rock of Oreb, And like the rod which he lifted up over the sea; Yea he will lift it up, after the manner of Egypt. 27 And it shall come to pass in that day,

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His burden shall be removed from off thy shoulder,
And his yoke from off thy neck :

Yea the yoke shall perish from off your shoulders.

He is come to Aiath; he hath passed to Migron;
At Michmas he will deposit his baggage.

29 They have passed the strait; Geba is their lodging for the night:

Ramah is frightened; Gibeah of Saul fleeth.

30 Cry aloud with thy voice, O daughter of Gallim;

Hearken unto her, O Laish; answer her, O Anathoth. 31 Madmena is gone away; the inhabitants of Gebim flee amain.

32 Yet this day shall he abide in Nob:

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He shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Sion;

Against the hill of Jerusalem.

Behold JEHOVAH, the Lord of Hosts,

Shall lop the flourishing branch with a dreadful crash ;
And the high of stature shall be cut down,

And the lofty shall be brought low:

34 And he shall hew the thickets of the forest with iron, And Lebanon shall fall by a mighty hand.

CHAP. 1
XI.

BUT there shall spring forth a rod from the trunk of
Jesse ;

And a scion from his roots shall become fruitful:
2 And the spirit of JEHOVAH shall rest upon him;
The spirit of wisdom and understanding;

The spirit of counsel, and strength;

The spirit of the knowledge, and the fear of JEHOVAH. 3 And he shall be of quick discernment in the fear of JE

HOVAH:

So that not according to the sight of his eyes shall he judge;

Nor according to the hearing of his ears shall he reprove :

4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor,

And with equity shall he work conviction in the meek
of the earth.

And he shall smite the earth with the blast of his mouth,
And with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked

one.

5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins;
And faithfulness the cincture of his reins.

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Then shall the wolf take up his abode with the lamb; And the leopard shall lie down with the kid;

And the calf, and the young lion, and the fatling shall come together;

And a little child shall lead them.

7 And the heifer and the she-bear shall feed together;
Together shall their young ones lie down;

And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

8 And the suckling shall play upon the hole of the aspic; And upon the den of the basilisk shall the new-weaned child lay his hand.

9 They shall not hurt, nor destroy, in all my holy moun

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tain;

For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of JEHOVAH,
As the waters that cover the depths of the sea.

And it shall come to pass in that day,

The root of Jesse, which standeth for an ensign to the peoples,

Unto him shall the nations repair,

And his resting-place shall be glorious.

11 And it shall come to pass in that day,

JEHOVAH shall again the second time put forth his hand,
To recover the remnant of his people

That remaineth, from Assyria, and from Egypt;

And from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam ;

And from Shinear, and from Hamath, and from the

western regions.

12 And he shall lift up a signal to the nations;
And he shall gather the outcasts of Israel,
And the dispersed of Judah shall he collect,
From the four extremities of the earth.
13 And the jealousy of Ephraim shall cease;
And the emnity of Judah shall be no more:
Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah ;

And Judah shall not be at enmity with Ephraim.
14 But they shall invade the borders of the Philistines
westward;

Together shall they spoil the children of the east:

On Edom and Moab they shall lay their hand;
And the sons of Ammon shall obey them.

15 And JEHOVAH shall smite with a drought the tongue
of the Egyptian sea;

And he shall shake his hand over the river with his vehement wind;

And he shall strike it into seven streams,

And make them pass over it dry-shod.

16 And there shall be a high-way for the remnant of his people,

CHAP. 1
XII.

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Which shall remain from Assyria:

As it was unto Israel,

In the day when he came up from the land of Egypt.

AND in that day thou shalt say:

I will give thanks unto thee, O JEHOVAH; for though
thou hast been angry with me,

Thine anger is turned away, and thou hast comforted me.
Behold, God is my salvation;

I will trust, and will not be afraid :

For my strength, and my song, is JEHOVAH;

And he is become unto me salvation.

3 And when ye shall draw waters with joy from the foun

4 tains of salvation; in that day ye shall say:

Give ye thanks to JEHOVAH; call upon his name;

Make known among the peoples his mighty deeds:
Record ye, how highly his name is exalted.

5 Sing ye JEHOVAH; for he hath wrought a stupendous
work:

This is made manifest in all the earth.

6 Cry aloud, and shout for joy, O inhabitress of Sion;
For great in the midst of thee is the Holy One of Israel.

CHAP. 1
XIII.

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THE ORACLE CONCERNING BABYLON, WHICH WAS REVEALED TO ISAIAH, THE SON OF AMOTS.

UPON a lofty mountain erect the standard;
Exalt the voice; beckon with the hand;
That they may enter the gates of princes.

3 I have given a charge to mine enrolled warriors;

I have even called my strong ones to execute my wrath ;
Those that exult in my greatness.

4 A sound of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great
people;

A sound of the tumult of kingdoms, of nations gathered together!

JEHOVAH, God of Hosts, mustereth the host for the battle.

5 They come from a distant land, from the ends of the heavens ;

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JEHOVAH, and the instruments of his wrath, to destroy the whole land.

Howl ye, for the day of JEHOVAH is at hand;

As a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

7 Therefore shall all hands be slackened;

And every heart of mortal shall melt; and they shall be terrified:

8 Torments and pangs shall seize them;

As a woman in travail, they shall be pained:

They shall look one upon another with astonishment;
Their countenances shall be like flames of fire.

9 Behold, the day of JEHOVAH cometh inexorable;
Even indignation, and burning wrath:

To make the land a desolation;

And her sinners he shall destroy from out of her.