God's judgement j on covetousness, IS Al A H impiety, and injustice. it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? 5 And novv go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it (hall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it (hall be trodden down: 6 And I wjjll lay it waste: it (hall not be pruned, nor digged; but there (hall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgement, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry. 8 q[ Woe unto them that join house to hbuse, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst os the earth! 9 In mine earssaid the Lo R. D of hosts, Of a truth many houses (hall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. Io Yea. ten acres of vineyard (hall yield one bath, and the feed of an homer (hall yield an ephah, ii ^[ Woe unto them that rife up early in tlie morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them! ii And the harp, and the viol, the tablet, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lor D, neither consider the operation of his hands. , 13 ^7 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. 14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: 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 sliall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty (hall be humbled: isi But the Lord of hosts (hall be exalted in judgement, and God that is holy (hall be sanctified in righteousness. 17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones stiall strangers eat. i g Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were jvith a cart, rope: 19 That fay, Let him make speed, and Jiasten his work, that we may fee/f; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! 20 f Woe 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! z 1 Woe unto them that are wise i n their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! 22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: 23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! 24. Therefore as the-sire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, Jo their root (hall be as rottenness, and their blossom (hall go up at dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. 25 Therefore is the anger of the Lo R D kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: arid the hills did tremble, and their carcases inert torn in the midst of the streets, For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 26 fl 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 (hall come with speed swiftly: 27 None (hall be weary nor stumble among them; none (hall slumber nor sleep; neither (hall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their slioes be broken:, 28 Whose arrows are (harp, and all their bows bent, their horses" hoofs (hall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind: 29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they (hall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and (hall carry it away safe, and none (hall deliver it.' • 30 And in that day they (hall roar against them like the roaring of these*: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof. CHAP. VI. 1 Isaiah's vision. ' 9 The obstinacy of tht people unto their desolation. 13 A remnant shall be saved. IN the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. * Above it stood the seraphim;ach r one one had fix wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lo R D os hosts: the whole earth M full of hi* glory. 4. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with {moke. 5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lor D of hosts. 6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: 7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy fin purged. 8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, faying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us'. Then said I, Here am I; send me. . 1 ofl And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and fee ye indeed, but perceive not. 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they fee with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. u Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, ii And the Lo R D have removed men far away, and then be a great forsaking in tiie midst of the land. 13 f But yet in \tjhallbe a tenth, and it shall return, and (hall 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. C H A P. VII. 1 Ahaz is comforted by Isaiah. 14. Christ promised. 17 Ahaz1 s judgement is prophesied to come by Assyria. AND it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. 1 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ppliraim, And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the treei of the wood are moved with the wind. 3 Then laid the Lord unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jafhub thy Ion, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field j + And fay unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the ion of Remaliah. 5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son os Remaliah, have taken,evil counsel against thee, saying, 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 faith the Lord God, It mail not stand, neither shall it come to pass. 8 Tor the head of Syria :'j Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, thatit be not a people. 9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Reroaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye sliall not be established. 10 Moreover the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, saying, n Ask thee a sign of she Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or m the height above. 12 But Aha/, said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord. 13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house os David? Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also? 14 f Therefore the Lord himselsfhall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin sliall conceive, and bear a son, and mall call his name Immanuel. 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choole the good. 16 For before the child sliall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest sliall be forsaken of both her kings. 17 «J The Lord (hall bring upon thee and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria. 18 And it sliall come to pass in that day, that the Lor D sliall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. Israel and Ju.laft threatened. ISA 19 And they (hall come, and (hall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes. ao In the fame day shall the Lord (have with a rafor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it (hall also consume the beard. 11 And it (hall come to pass in that day, that a man (hall nourish a young cow, and two iheep; 11 And it (hall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they (hall give, that he (hall eat butter: for butter and honey (hall every one eat that is left in the land. Ij And it (hall come to pass in that day, that every place (hall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand (ilverlings, it (hall even befor briers and thorns. 14 ^Vith arrows and with bows (hall men come thither; because all the land (hall become briers and thorns. 15 And on all hills that (hall be digged with the mattock, there (hall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it (hall be for the sending forth os oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle. CHAP. VIII. 1 A prophecy again/I Syria, and Israel, 5 and Judah. 9 Cods judgements irresistible. 11 Comfort to them that fear God. 19 Great afflMons to idolaters. MOREOVER the Lord said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning .Maher-fhalal-haih-baz. z And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah. 3 And I went unto the prophetess; and (he conceived, and bare a son. Then said the Lor D to me, Call his name Mahcr-lhalal-halh-baz. 4-For before the child (hall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria (hall be taken away before the king of Assyria. 5 «J The Lord lpake also unto me again, saying, 6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Restin, and Remaliah's son; 7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bnngeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks; I 1 All God's judgements irresistible. 8 And he (hall pass through Judah; he (hall overflow and go over, he (hall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings (hal'. fill the breadth of thy land, _0 Iranian ucl. 9 % Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye (hall be broken in pieces; aud give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye (hall be broken in pieces; girdyourselves, and ye (hall be broken in pieces. 10 Take counsel together, and it (hall come to nought; speak the word, and it (hall not stand: for God it with us. 11 «J For the Lor D (pake thus to me with a Itrong hand, and instructed me that I mould not walk in the way of this people, saying, 11 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people (hall fay, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. 13 Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. 1+ And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the in. habitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many among them (hall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. 1$ 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 os Jacob, and I will look for him. 18 Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for (igns and for wonders in Israel from the Lor D of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. 19 »J And when they (hall fay unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: mould not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead > 10 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. 11 And they (hall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it (hall come to pass, that when they (hall be hungry, they (hall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward. 11 And they (hall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguilh j and. they shall be driven to darkness, CHAP. CHAP. IX. -lUTiatjcyJhalibe in the midst of afflictions bf tit birth and kingdom oj Christ. 8 JiLl^ements upon Israel for their pride, 13 hfpocrify, 18 and impenitcney. NEVERTHELESS the dimness/W/ not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebul un and the land of Naphtal i, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. 2 The people that walked in darkness lave seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light (hined. - Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. 4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his ihoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian. 5 For every batde of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this sliall be with burning and fuel of fire. 6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there /hallbe no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgement and with justice, from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lor D of. hosts will perform this. t ff The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hatli lighted upon Israel. 9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart, io The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. ii Therefore the Lord shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together; i» The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his Smd is stretched out still. ij^t For the people turneth not unto luni that smiteth them, neither do they fetk the Lord of hosts. 14 Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. 15 The ancient and honourable, he it the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. 16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. 17 Therefore the Lor D (hall have no joy in their youngmen, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows; for every one it an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speak et h folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 18 iT F°r wickedness burneth as the fire: itihalldevour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they (hall mount up lite the lifting up of smoke. 19 Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people (hall be as the fuel of the sire: no man stiall spare his brother. 20 And he mail snatch on the right hand and be hungry; and he (hall eat on the left hand, and they mail not be satisfied: they (hall eat every man the flesh of his own arm: ii Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. CHAP. X. 1 The woe of tyrants. 5 Assyria, the rod of hypocrites, for his pride /hall be broken, 10 A remnant of Israel/hall befa<ved. WO E unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grieyousness which they have prescribed; 1 To turn aside the needy from judgement, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! 3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which (hall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? 4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they sliall fall under the ilain. For all this his anger it not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 5^0 Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. 6 I will fend him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my Israel's deliverance. AJfrria a scourge sur Israel. ISAIAH my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 7 Howbeit he tueaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his fcwrt to destroy and cut off nations not a few. t For he faith, Are not my princes altogether kings? tf It not Calno a* Carchemisli? ii not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? 10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven Images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; it Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? ix Wherefore it shall come to pass, shot when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the ltout heart of the king of Assyria, and 'the glory of his high looks. 13 For he faith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I-am prudent: and I have removed thebounds of thepeople, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants likea valiant mans 14. And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth} and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. 15 Shall the ax boast itself against him that heweth therewith! or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that list it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself as if it were no wood. r6 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, fend among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a sire. 17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; 18 And (hall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a ftandardbearer fainteth. 19 And the rest of the trees of his sorest shall be few, that a child may write them. . io f And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the h wife of Jacob (hall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the Lo an, the Holy One of Israel in truth. 2i The remnant shall return, even the remnantof Jacob, unto the mighty God. 12 For though thy people Israel be as the send of the sea, jet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness. 23 For the Lord God of hosts (hall make a consumption, even determined in the midst of all the land. 14.Therefore thus faith the LordGoD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt. *5 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction. 26 And the Lo R t> of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; and as his rod inat upon the sea, so (hall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt, . 17 And it (hall come to pass m that day, that his burden (hall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. *8 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmam he hath laid up his carriages: 29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba: Ramah is afraid, Gibeah of Sa»l is fled. 30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of G alii in: cause it to be heard vjito Laifh, 0 poor Anathoth. 31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee. 32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day •- he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. 33 Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall lop the bough with terrors and the high ones of stature J&atfi* hewn aWn.andthe haughty shall behumbled. 34 And he (hall cut down the thickets of the forests with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one. C H/A P. XI. 1 The peaceable kingdom as the branch out of the root os Jesse. 10 The restoration is Israel, and vocation os the Gentiles. AND there shall come forth a re* out of the stem of Jesse, and » branch shall grow out of lus roots: |