10 Yea the stars of heaven, and the constellations thereof,

Shall not send forth their light;

The sun is darkened at his going forth,

And the moon shall not cause her light to shine. 11 And I will visit the world for its evil,

And the wicked for their iniquity:

And I will put an end to the arrogance of the proud;
And I will bring down the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a mortal more precious than fine gold;
Yea a man, than the rich ore of Ophir.

13 Wherefore I will make the heavens tremble;
And the earth shall be shaken out of her place:
In the indignation of JEHOVAH God of Hosts;
And in the day of his burning anger.

14 And the remnant shall be, as a roe chased;

And as sheep, when there is none to gather them to-
gether:

They shall look, every one towards his own people;
And they shall flee every one to his own land.

15 Every one, that is overtaken, shall be thrust through; And all that are collected in a body shall fall by the sword.

16 And their infants shall be dashed before their eyes: Their houses shall be plundered, and their wives ravished. Behold I raise up against them the Medes;

17

Who shall hold silver of no account;

And as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

18 Their bows shall dash the young men;

And on the fruit of the womb they shall have no mercy:
Their eye shall have no pity even on the children.

19 And Babylon shall become, she that was the beauty of kingdoms,

The glory of the pride of the Chaldeans,

As the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah by the hand

of God.

20 It shall not be inhabited for ever;

Nor shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation; Neither shall the Arabian pitch his tent there; Neither shall the shepherds make their folds there. 21 But there shall the wild beasts of the deserts lodge; And howling monsters shall fill their houses: And there shall the daughters of the ostrich dwell; And there shall the satyrs hold their revels;

22 And wolves shall howl to one another in their palaces; And dragons in their voluptuous pavilions.

CHAP. 1
XIV.

And her time is near to come;

And her days shall not be prolonged.

FOR JEHOVAH will have compassion on Jacob,
And will yet choose Israel.

And he shall give them rest upon their own land:
And the stranger shall be joined unto them,

And shall cleave unto the house of Jacob.

2 And the nations shall take them, and bring them into their own place;

3

And the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of JEHOVAH,

As servants, and as handmaids:

And they shall take them captive, whose captives they

were;

And they shall rule over their oppressors.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that JEHOVAH shall give thee rest from thine affliction, and from thy disquiet, and from the hard servitude which was laid 4 upon thee; and thou shalt pronounce this parable upon the king of Babylon; and shalt say;

How hath the oppressor ceased! the exactress of gold ceased!

5 JEHOVAH hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre

of the rulers.

6 He that smote the peoples in wrath, with a stroke unremitted;

He that ruled the nations in anger is persecuted, and none hindereth.

7 The whole earth is at rest, is quiet; they burst forth into a joyful shout;

8 Even the fir-trees rejoice over thee, the cedars of Li

9

banus :

Since thou art fallen, no feller hath come up against us. Hades from beneath is moved because of thee, to meet thee at thy coming:

He rouseth for thee the mighty dead, all the great chiefs of the earth;

He maketh to rise up from their thrones, all the kings of the nations.

10 All of them shall accost thee, and shall say unto thee: Art thou, even thou too, become weak as we? art thou made like unto us?

11 Is then thy pride brought down to the grave; the sound of thy sprightly instruments?

12

Is the vermin become thy couch, and the earth-worm thy covering?

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!

Art cut down to the earth, thou that didst subdue the nations!

13 Yet thou didst say in thy heart: I will ascend the hea

vens;

Above the stars of God I will exalt my throne;

And I will sit upon the mount of the divine presence, on the sides of the north:

14 I will ascend above the highths of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.

15 But thou shalt be brought down to the grave, to the sides of the pit.

16

Those that see thee shall look attentively at thee; they shall well consider thee:

Is this the man that made the earth to tremble; that shook the kingdoms?

17 That made the world like a desert; that destroyed the cities?

That never dismissed his captives to their own home? 18 All the kings of the nations, all of them,

Lie down in glory, each in his own sepulchre :

19 But thou art cast out of the grave, as the tree abominated;

Clothed with the slain, with the pierced by the sword, With them that go down to the stones of the pit; as a trodden carcass.

20 Thou shalt not be joined unto them in burial;

21

Because thou hast destroyed thy country, thou hast slain thy people;

The seed of evil doers shall never be renowned.

Prepare ye slaughter for his children, for the iniquity of their fathers;

Lest they rise, and possess the earth; and fill the face of the world with cities.

22 For I will arise against them, saith JEHOVAH God of Hosts:

And I will cut off from Babylon the name,

nant;

and the rem

And the son, and the son's son, saith JEHOVAH.

23 And I will make it an inheritance for the porcupine, and pools of water;

24

And I will plunge it in the miry gulph of destruction, saith JEHOVAH God of Hosts.

JEHOVAH God of Hosts hath sworn, saying:

Surely as I have devised, so shall it be;

And as I have purposed, that thing shall stand:

25 To crush the Assyrian in my land, and to trample him on my mountains.

26

Then shall his yoke depart from off them;

And his burden shall be removed from off their shoulder. This is the decree, which is determined on the whole earth;

And this the hand, which is stretched out over all the nations;

27 For JEHOVAH God of Hosts hath decreed; and who shall disannul it;

And it is his hand that is stretched out; and who shall turn it back?

28

IN THE YEAR IN WHICH AHAZ THE KING DIED, THIS ORACLE WAS DELIVERED.

29

REJOICE not, O Philistia, with one consent,
Because the rod, that smote thee, is broken:

For from the root of the serpent shall come forth a
basilisk;

And his fruit shall be a flying fiery serpent.

30 For the poor shall feed on my choice first-fruits;
And the needy shall lie down in security:
But he will kill thy root with drought;

31

And thy remnant he will slay.

Howl, O gate! cry out, O city!

O Philistia, thou art altogether sunk in consternation!
For from the north cometh a smoke;

And there shall not be a straggler among his levies.

32 And what answer shall be given to the ambassadors of
the nations?

That JEHOVAH hath laid the foundation of Sion;
And the poor of his people shall take refuge in her.

CHAP. 1
XV.

THE ORACLE CONCERNING MOAB.

BECAUSE in the night Ar is destroyed, Moab is undone!

Because in the night Kir is destroyed, Moab is undone! 2 He goeth up to Beth-Dibon, to the high places to weep: Over Nebo, and over Medeba, shall Moab howl:

On every head there is baldness; every beard is shorn.
3 In her streets they gird themselves with sackcloth:
On her house-tops, and to her open places,
Every one howleth, descendeth with weeping.

4 And Heshbon and Elealeh cry out aloud;
Unto Jahats is their voice heard:

Yea the very loins of Moab cry out;
Her life is grievous unto her.

5 The heart of Moab crieth within her;

To Tsoar [she crieth out] like the lowing of a young heifer :

Yea the ascent of Luhith with weeping shall they ascend; Yea in the way of Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction.

6 For the waters of Nimrim shall become desolate;

For the pasture is withered, the tender plant faileth, the green herb is no more.

7 Wherefore the riches, which they have gained, shall perish;

And what they have deposited, to the valley of willows shall be carried away.

8 For the cry encompasseth the border of Moab:

To Eglaim reacheth her moan; and to Beer-Elim her howling.

9 Yea the waters of Dimon are full of blood:

Yet will I bring more evils upon Dimon;

Upon the escaped of Moab and Ariel, and the remnant of Admah.

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