18 In that day fhall five cities in the land of Egypt fpeak the language of Canaan, and fwear to the LORD of hosts: one fhall be called the city of deftruction. 19 In that day fhall there be an altar to LORD in the midft of the land of Egypt,& a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD. 20 And it fhall be for a fign, and for a witnels unto the LORD of holts in the land of Egypt: for they fhall cry unto the LORD, becaule of the oppreffors, and he 1hall fend them a faviour and a great one, and he shall deliver them. 21 And the LORD fhall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians fhall know the LORD, in that day, and fhall do facrifice and oblation, yea, they fhall yow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it. 22 And the LORD fhall fmite Egypt, he fhall fm.te and heal it, & they hall return, even to the LORD, & he fhall be intreated of them, and fhall heal them. 231 In that day fhall there be a high way out of Egypt to Affyria, & the Allyrian fhall come into Egypt, & the Egyptian into Affyria, and the Egyptians hall ferve with the Affyrians. 24 In that day fhall Ifrael be the third with Egypt, and with Affyria, even a bleffing in the midft of the land: 25 Whom the LORD of hotts thall blefs, faying, Bleffed be Egypt my people, and Affyria the work of my hands, and Ifrael mine inheritance. CHAP. XX. A type prefiguring the Jhameful captivity of Egypt and Ethiopia. and Ethiopia beliege, O Media: all the fighing thereof have 1 made to ceafe. 3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it, I was difmayed at the feeing of it. 4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted. me: the night of my pleafute hath he turned into fear unto me. 5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arife, ye princes, and anoint the fhield. 6 For thus hath the LORD faid unto me, Go, fet a watchman, let him declare what he feeth. 7 And he faw a chariot with a couple of horfemen, a chariot of affes, and a chariot of camels, and he hearkned diligently with much heed. 8 And he cried, A lion: my lord I ftand continually upon the watch-tower in day time, & I am fet in my ward whole nights. 9 And behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horfemen: and he anfwered and faid, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground. 10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts the God of Ifrael, have I declared unto you. 11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? 12 The watchman faid, The morning cometh and alfo the night: if ye will en quiz 13 upon Arabia. In the forrett in Arabia fhall ye lodge, Oye travelling companies of Dedanim. The burden upturn, come. In the yeary Tartan cage Al fin de (when Sargon the king of Affyria fent him) & fought against Afhdod, & took it: At the fame time fpake the LORD by Ifaiah the fon of Amoz, faying, Go, and loofe the fackeloth from off thy loins and put of thy thoe from thy foot: and he did fo, walking naked and bare-foot. 3 And the LORD faid, Like as my fervant Ifaiah hath walked naked & barefoot three years for a fign and wonder upon Egypt, and upon Ethiopia: 4 So fhall the king of Affyria lead away the Egyptians priforers, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and bare-foot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the fhame of Egypt. 5 And they shall be afraid and afhamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. 6 And the inhabitant of this ifle fhall fay in that day, Behold, fuch is our expectation whither we fice for help to be delivered from the king of Affyria: and how fhall we efcape? CAA P. XXI. As whirl-winds in the fouth pafs through; fo it cometh from the defart, from a terrible land. 2 A grievous vifion is declared unto me, $treacherous dealer dealeth treacherouily, and the Spoiler spoileth: go up, Oklam: 14 The inhabitants of the land of Temax brought water to him that was thirsty,they prevented with their bread him that fics. 15 For they fled from the fwords, from the drawn fword, and from the bent bow. and from the grievoufnefs of war. 16 For thus hath the LORD faid unto me, Within a year, according to the years ofan hireling, & all the glory of Kedar, iballfail. 17 at the refidue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar fhall be diminished: for the LORE God of Ifrael hath spaken it. CHA P. XXII. The invafion of Jewry by the Perfians. THE He burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the houfe tops? 2 Thou that art fullof firs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city, thy flain men are not flain with the fword, nor dead in battle. 3 All by rulers are fled together, they. are bound by the archers: all that are have fled from far. bound together, which 4 Therefore laid I, look away from me, I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me; becaufe of the fpoiling of the daughter of my people. For it is a day of trouble, and of tread Jewrys invafion. from the veffels of cups, even to all the veffels of flagons. Babylons fall. Ifaiah. ing down, & of perplexity by the LORD God of hofts in the valley of vifion, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains. 6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horfemens and Kir uncovered the fhield. 7 And it fhall come to pass that thy choiceft valleys fhall be full of chariots, and the horfemen fhall fet themselves in aray at the gate. 8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the torrelt. Ye have feen allo the breaches of city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together waters of the lower pool. to And ye have numbred the houfes of Jerufalem, and the hoafes have ye broken down to fortify the wall. FI Ye made alfo a ditch between the two walls, for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the makerthereof, either bad respect unto him that fafhiened it long ago. 12 And in that day did the LORD God of holts call to weeping and to mourning, and 30 baldnefs,and to girding with fackoloath: 13 And behold joy and gladness, flay ng xen, and killing fheep, eating fleth, and rinking wine; let us eat and drink, for to morrow we fhall die. 14. And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hofts, Sarely this iniquity all not be purged from you, till ye die, faith the LORD God of houts. 15 Thus faith the LORD God of holts, Go get thee unto this treaferer, even unto Shebna, which is over the houfe, and fay, 16 What halt then here? and whom haft thou here, that thou haft hewed thee uta fepulchre here, she that heweth himm st a fepulchre en high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock? 17 Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will Surely cover thes. 18 He will furely violently turn and tofs thee, like a ball into a large country: there halt thon die,and there the chariots of thy glory fball be the fhame of thy lords houfe, 19 And I will drive thee from thy ftation, from thy ftate fhall he pull thee down. 10 And it fhall come to pals in that day, that I will call my fervant Eliakim the fon of Hilkiah: 21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and itrengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand, and he thall be a father to the habitants of Jerufalem and to the house of Judah. 22 And the key of the houfe of David will I lay upon his fhoalder: fo he fhall open and none fhall fhut, and be fhall fhut and none fhall open. 23 And I will fallen him as a nail in a Sure place; and he fhall be for a glorious ebrone to his fathers houfe. 24 And they fhall hang upon him all the Glory of his fathers houfe, the off-pring and the ifine, all veffels of fmall quantity: 25 In that day, faith LORD of holts, fhail the nail that is taftned in the fure place, be removed, and be cut down and fall; and the burden that was upon it fhall be cut off for the LORD hath spoken it. CHAP. XXIII. The miferable overthrow of Tyre. ΤΗ He burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarfhith, for it is laid watte, fo that there is no houfe, no entring in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them. 2 Be ftill, ye inhabitants of the ifle, thou whom the merchants of zidon, that pass over the fea, have replenished,, 3 And by great waters the feed of Sihor, the harveft of the river is her revenue, and fhe is a mart of nations. 4. Be thou afhamed, Ozidon, for the fea hath fpoken, even the strength of the fea, faying, I travel not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins. 5 As at report concerning Egypt, fofhall they be forely pained at the report of Tyre. 6 Pafs ye over to Tarfhith, howl, ye inhabitants of the ifle. 7 Is this your joyous sity, whofe antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet hall carry her afar off to fojourn. 8 who hath taken this counsel againft Tyre the crowning city, whofe merchants are princes, whofe traffickers are the tonourable of the earth? 9 The LORD of hosts hath purpofed it, toftain pride of all glory, and to bring ifto contempt all the bonourable of the earth. to Pafs through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarthith: there is no more ftrength. He ftretched out his hand over the fea, he hook the kingdoms: the LORD bath gi ven a commandment againit merchantcity, to deftroy the strong holds thereof. 12 And he faid, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O then oppreffed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arite, pafs over to Chittim, there allo fhalt thou have no reft. 13 Behold, the land of the caldeans,this people was not till the Affyrian founded it for them y dwell in the wilderness: they fet up the towers thereof,, they railed up the palaces thereof, and he brought it to ruine. 14 Howl, ye thips of Tarihifh: for your ftrength is laid waste. 15 And it thall come to pals in y day, y Tyre fhall be forgotten feventy years, according to days of one king: after end of feventy years fhallTyre fing as anharict. 16 Take an harp, go about the city,thou harlot that haft been forgotten,makefweet melody, fing many fongs, that thou mayeft be remembred. 17 And it fhall come to palsafter end of feventy years, that § LORD will visit Tyre, & the fhall turn to her hire, & fhallcommit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. 18 And her merchandife, & her hire fhall be holiness to the LORD, it shall not be Cbrifts kingdom. Chap. treafured nor laid up, for her merchandise fhall be for them ydwell before the LORD, to eat fufficiently, and for durable clothing. CHAP. XXIV. I Gods judgments on the land. 13 A remnant fball praise him. Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it walte, and turneth it upfide down, and fcattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. And it fhall be, as with the people, fo with the prieft; as with the fervant, fo with his mafter; as with the maid, fo with her mittrels; as with the buyer, fo with the feller; as with the lender, fo with the borrower, as with the taker of ufury, fo with the giver of ufury to him: 3 The land fhall be utterly emptied, and utterly (poiled; for the LORD hath fpoken this word. xxiv, xxv. Tare overthrown. 19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean diffolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. 20 The earth firall reel to and fro like a drunkard, & fhallbe removedlike a cottage, & the tranfgreffion thereof thall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall and not rise again, 21 And it fhall come to pafs in that day, that the LORD fhall punish the holt of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. 22 And they fhall be gathered together as prifoners are gathered in the pit, and thall be fhut up in the prifon, and af er many days fhall they be vifited. 23 Then the moon fhall be confounded and the fun afhamed, when the LORD of hofts, fhall reign in mount Zion and in Jerufalem, & before his ancients gloriously. CHA P. XXV. 4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, 1 The propbet praisethGod for bis judgments, the world languisheth and fadeth away,the 6 for bis faving benefits. haughty people of the earth do lanzuilh.thes, I will praife thy Name: for thou LORD, thou art iny God, I will exalt 5 The earth alfo is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have tranfgreffed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore hath the curfe devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are defolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.. 7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry hearted do figh. 8 The mirth of tabrets ceafeth, the noife of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. They thall not drink wine with a feng ftrong drink thall be bitter to them that drink it. 10 The city of confufion is broken down, every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 1 There is a crying for wine in the ftreets, all joy is dark ned, the mirth of the land is gone.. 12 In the city is left defolation, and the gate is fmitten with dettruct on 13When thus it fhall be in the midft of the land among the people:tbere ballbe as the thaking of an olive-tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done. 14 They hall lift up their voice. they fhall fing for the majelly of theLORD,they fhall cry aloud from the fea. 15 Wherefore, glorify ye the LORD in. the fires, evin the name of the LORD God of Ifrael in the ifies of the fea. 169From the uttermoft part of the earth havewe heard fongs,evenglory to the righ teous but I faid, My leannefs, my leanDefs, wo unto me: the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously,yea,the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously, 17 Fear, and the pit, and the fnare are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. haft done wonderful things; thy countels of old are faithfulness and truth, For thou hait made of a city an heap, of a defenced city a ruin a palace of itrangers, to be no city, it that never be built. 3 Therefore hall the ftrong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations fhall fear thee. 4 For thou haft been a frength to the poor, a ftrength to the needy in his d.ftrefs, a refuge from the ftorm, a fhadow from the heat,when the blaft of the terrible ches is as a form against the wal'. 5. Thou shalt bring down the noife of ftrangers, as y heat in a dry place: eun the heat with the fhadow ofa cloud, the branch of the terrible ones fhall be brought low. 5¶ And in this mountain fhall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things; a fealt of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. 7 And he will deftroy in this mountain, face of the coveting caft over all people, and the vail that is fpread over all nations. 8 He will fwallow up death in victory, and the LORD God will wipe away tears from off all faces, and the rebuke of his people fhall he take away from off all the earth, for the LORD hath spoken it, 99 And it fhall be faid in that day, Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him, and he will fave us; this is the LORD, we have waited for him, we will be glad, and rejoice in his falvation.. 10 For in this mountain fhall the hand of the LORD reft, and Moab fhall be troden down under him, even as ftraw is troden down for the dunghil IT And he fhall fpread forth his hands 1 in the midst of them, as he that fwimmeth fpreadeth forth bis bands to fwim and he fhall bring down their pride together with the fpoils of their hands. 18 And it fhall come to pals,that be who Heeth from the noife of the fear, fhall fall into the pit; and he cometh up out ofthe miditof the pit,fhall be taken in thefnare:: 12 And the fortrefs of the high fort of for the windows from on high are open, thy walls fhall he bring down, lay low, and and the foundations of the earth do fhake. bring to the ground, even to the duft. CHAP bulwarks. 2Open ye the gates, that righteousnation which keepeth the truthmay enter in. 3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, bofe mind is ftayed on thee: becaule he trutteth in thee. 4Truft yein theLORD forever; for in the LORDJEHOVAH is everlasting (trength. 5. For he bringeth down them that dwell on high, the lofty city he layeth it low, he layeth it low even to the ground, he bring eth it even to the dult. 6 The foot fhall tread it down, even the feet ofthe poor,and the steps of the needy. 7 The way of the juft is uprightness: thou molt upright,doeft weigh path of juft. 8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; thedefire of our foal is to thy Name, and to the remembrance of thee. 9 With my foul have I'defired thee in the night, yea with my fpirit within me will licek thee early; for when thy judg. ments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. 10 Let favour be fhewed to the wicked yet will he not learn righteoufnefs, in the land of uprightnefs will he deal unjustly and will not behold the majetty of the LORD. LORD,when thy hand is lifted up, they will not fee;but they hall fee and be afhamed for their envy at the people, yea, the fire of thine enemies fhall devour them. 12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us; forthou also haft wrought all our works in us. 13OLOR Dour God,otberlords befidesthee have had dominion over,as ; but bythee only will we make mentich of thy Name. 14fbey are dead, they fhall not live; they are deceafed they fhall not rife; therefore haft thou vifited and deftroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. 15 Thou halt increased the nation, O LORD, thou haft increated the nation, thou art glorified; thou hait removed it far unto all the ends of the earth. 16 LORD, in trouble have they vifited thee, they poured cut a prayer when thy chattning was upon them. 17 Like as a woman with child that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and cryeth out in her panes, fo have we been in thy fight, O LORD, 18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind, we have not wrought any de liverance in the earth, neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. 9 Thy dead men thall live, together with my dead body fhall they arife: awake and fing ye that dwell in duft, for thy and benefits. 20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and fhut thy doors about thee: hide thy felf as it were for a little moment,until the indignation be overpaft. 21 For behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth fortheir iniquity: the earth alfo fhall difclofe her blood, and thall no more cover her flain. CHAP. XXVII. The care of god over bus vineyard. 7 His chaftifements differ from judgments. TN that day the LORD with his fore and great and strong word shall punish Leviathan the piercing ferpent, even Leviathan that crooked ferpent, and he shall flay the dragon that is in the fea. 2 In that day, fing ye unto her, A vine yard of red wine.. 3 I the LORD do keep it, I will water it every moment; left any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. 4 Fury is not in me who would fet the briers and thorns againit me in battle? I would go through them, I would-burn them together. 5 Or let him take hold of my ftrength, that he may make peace with me, and he fhall make peace with me. 6 He shall caufe them that come of Jacob to take root: Ifrael fhall bioffom and bud: and fill the face of the world with fruit. 70Hath he imitten him,as he fmotethose that fmote him? or is he flain according to the laughter ofthem that are Aain by him? 8 In measure when it fhooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it, he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the eaft-wind. 9 By this therefore fhall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the fruit to take away his fin: when he maketh all the tones of the altar as chalk-ftones that are beaten in funder, the groves and images fhall not ftand up. 10 Yet the defenced city fball be defolate, and the habitation forfaken, and left like a wilderness: the e ihallthe calf feed, and there fhall he lie down, and confume the branches thereof. 11 When boughs thereof are withered, they fhall be broken off: the womencome fet them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore hey made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will inew them no favour. 12. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD fhall beat off from the chanel of the river unto the ftream of Egypt, and ye fhall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Ifrael. 13 And it fhall come to pafs in that day, that the great trumpet fhall be blown, and they fhall come which were ready to perish in the land of Affyria, and the out cafts in the land of Egypt,and fhall worthip the LORD in the toly mount at Jerufalem. CHAP. XXVIII. 1 Epbraim threatned. 16 Chrift promised. 18 Their fecurity fball be tried. shall caft out the deaders, and the earth Wards of Ephraim, whole glorious beauty Chrift promised. Chap. xxix, beauty is a fading flower, whichare on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine. 2 Behold, the LORD hath a mighty and ftrong one, wbicb as a tempeft of hail and a destroying itorm, as a food of mighty waters overflowing, fhall caft down to the earth with the hand. 3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim thall be troden under feet. 4 And the glorious beauty which is on the head of the fat valley, fhall be a fading flower, and as the hafty fruit before the fummer: which when he that looketh upon it, feeth it, while it is yet in his band he eateth it up. 5 In that day fhall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty unto the refidue of his people: 6 And for a fpirit of judgment to him that fitteth in judgment, and for itrength to them that turn the battle to the gate. 7 But they alfo have erred through wine, and through ftrong drink are out of the way the priest and the prophet have erred through ftrong drink, they are fwallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through ftrong drink, they err in vifion, they ftumble in judgment. 8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthinefs fo that there is no place clean. 911 Whom fhall he teach knowledge? and whom fhall he make to understand doctrine? them that art weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breafts. The Jews bypocrific. 19. From the time that it goeth forth, it fhall take you for morning by morn ing fhall it pafs over, by day and by night, and it fhall be a vexation, only to underftand the report. 20 For the bed is fhorter, than that a man can ttretch himself on it, and the covering narrower, thaný he can wrap himself in it. 21 For the LORD thall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his ftrange work, and bring to pafa his act, his ftrange act. 22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, left your bands be made ttrong: for I have heard from LORD God of hofts aconfumption, even determined uponthewholecarth. 23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice, hearken and hear my fpeech. 24 Doth the plow-men plow all day to fow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? 10For precept must be upon precept,precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, and there a little. 11 For with ftammering lips and another tongue will be fpeak to this people. 12 To whom he said, This is relt bere with ye may caufe weary to relt, andthis is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. 1 13 But the word of the LORD was unto them, precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line,line upon line, here a little and there a litt le; they might go& fallbackward&be broken&fnared,&taken. 14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye icornful men that rule this people which is in Jerufalem. 15 Because ye have faid, we have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when § overflowing scourge thali pafs through, it shall not come nato us for we have made lies our refuge, and under falihood have wehid our felves. 16 Therefore thus faith the LORD GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation, a ftone,a tried ftone, a precious corper ftone, a fure foundation: he that believeth, fhall not make hafte. 17 Judgment alfo will I lay to the line, and righteoufnefs to the plummet, and the bail thall fweep away refuge of lies, and the waters thall overflow the hiding place. 18 And your covenant with death fhall be difanulled, and you agreement with hell fhall not itand; wuen the overflowing fcourge fhall pass through, then ys fhall be troden down by it, 25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not caft abroad the fitches, and fcatter the cummin, and caft in the principal wheat, and the appointed barley, and the rie in their place? 26 For his God doth inftruct him to dif cretion, and doth teach him. a 27 For the fitches are not threshed with threshing-inArument, neither is a cartwheel turned about upon the cummin: but the fitches are beaten out with a faff, and the cummin with a rod. 28 Bread-sora is bruifed, because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruifeic with his horfemen. 29 This alto cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counfel, and excellent in working. CHA P. XXIX. gods judgment on Jerusalem. fenfelelness. Their David dwelt: add ye year to year: Oto Ariel, to Ariel the city, where let them kill facrifices. 2 Yet I will diftrefs Ariel, and there thall be heavinefs and forrow: and it fhall be unto me as Ariel. 3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will layfiege against thee with a mount, and Iwill raile forts againit thee. 4 And thou shalt be brought down, and fhalt fpeak out of the ground, and thy fpeech ihall be low out of the duft, andthy voice fhall be as of one that hath a familiar fpirit, out of the ground, and thy fpeech fhall whifper out of the duft. 5 Moreover, multitude of thy ftrangers fhall be like small duft, and multitude of the terrible ones fball be as chaff paffeth away, yea,itfball be at an inftant fu denly, 6 Thou halt be vifited of the LORD of helts with thunder, and with earth-quake and great Doife, with storm and tempelt and the flame of devouring fire. 7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight againft her, and her munition, & diftrels her, fhall be as a dream of a night vifion It |