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ISAIAH
CHAPTER
1
1
The Uision of Isaiah the sonne of Amoz, which hee sawe concerning Iudah and
Ierusalem, in the dayes of Uzziah, Iotham, Ahaz, & Hezekiah kings of Iudah.
2 Heare, O heauens, and giue eare, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken; I haue
nourished and brought vp children, and they haue rebelled against me.
3 The oxe knoweth his owner, and the asse his masters cribbe: but Israel doeth
not know, my people doeth not consider.
4 Ah sinnefull nation, a people laden with iniquitie, a seede of euill doers,
children that are corrupters: they haue forsaken the Lord, they haue prouoked
the Holy one of Israel vnto anger, they are gone away backward.
5 Why should yee be stricken any more? yee will reuolt more and more: the whole
head is sicke, and the whole heart faint.
6 From the sole of the foote, euen vnto the head, there is no soundnesse in it;
but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they haue not beene closed,
neither bound vp, neither mollified with oyntment.
7 Your countrey is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your land,
strangers deuoure it in your presence, and it is desolate as ouerthrowen by
strangers.
8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a
garden of cucumbers, as a besieged citie.
9 Except the Lord of hostes had left vnto vs a very small remnant, we should
haue beene as Sodom, and we should haue bene like vnto Gomorrah.
10 Heare the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, giue eare vnto the Law of our
God, yee people of Gomorrah.
11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices vnto me, sayth the Lord?
I am full of the burnt offerings of rammes, and the fat of fedde beasts, and I
delight not in the blood of bullockes, or of lambes, or of hee goates.
12 When ye come to appeare before mee, who hath required this at your hand, to
tread my courts?
13 Bring no more vaine oblations, incense is an abomination vnto me: the new
Moones, and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies I cannot away with; it is
iniquitie, euen the solemne meeting.
14 Your new Moones, and your appointed Feasts my soule hateth: they are a
trouble vnto me, I am weary to beare them.
15 And when ye spread foorth your handes, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea,
when yee make many prayers I will not heare: your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash yee, make you cleane, put away the euill of your doings from before mine
eyes, cease to doe euill,
17 Learne to doe well, seeke iudgement, relieue the oppressed, iudge the
fatherlesse, plead for the widow.
18 Come now and let vs reason together, saith the Lord: though your sinnes be as
scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimsin, they
shall be as wooll.
19 If yee be willing and obedient, yee shall eate the good of the land.
20 But if yee refuse and rebell, yee shalbe deuoured with the sword: for the
mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
21 Howe is the faithfull citie become an harlot? it was full of iudgement,
righteousnesse lodged in it; but now murtherers.
22 Thy siluer is become drosse, thy wine mixt with water.
23 Thy princes are rebellious and companions of theeues: euery one loueth gifts,
and followeth after rewards: they iudge not the fatherlesse, neither doth the
cause of the widowe come vnto them.
24 Therefore, saith the Lord, the Lord of hostes, the mighty one of Israel; Ah,
I will ease me of mine aduersaries, and auenge me of mine enemies.
25 And I will turne my hand vpon thee, and purely purge away thy drosse, and
take away all thy tinne.
26 And I will restore thy iudges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at the
beginning: afterward thou shalt be called the citie of righteousnesse, the
faithfull citie.
27 Zion shall be redeemed with iudgement, and her conuerts with righteousnesse.
28 And the destruction of the transgressours and of the sinners shall be
together: and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
29 For they shall be ashamed of the okes which yee haue desired, and yee shalbe
confounded for the gardens that yee haue chosen.
30 For yee shall be as an oke whose leafe fadeth, and as a garden that hath no
water.
31 And the strong shall be as towe, and the maker of it as a sparke, and they
shall both burne together, and none shall quench them.
CHAPTER
2
1 The word that Isaiah, the sonne of Amoz, sawe concerning Iudah and Ierusalem.
2 And it shall come to passe in the last dayes, that the mountaine of the Lords
house shall be established in the top of the mountaines, and shall be exalted
aboue the hilles; and all nations shall flow vnto it.
3 And many people shall goe & say; Come yee and let vs go vp to the
mountaine of the Lord, to the house of the God of Iacob, and he will teach vs of
his wayes, and we will walke in his pathes: for out of Zion shall goe forth the
lawe, and the word of the Lord from Ierusalem.
4 And hee shall iudge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they
shall beate their swords into plow-shares, and their speares into pruning hookes:
nation shall not lift vp sword against nation, neither shall they learne warre
any more.
5 O house of Iacob, come yee, and let vs walke in the light of the Lord.
6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Iacob; because they be
replenished from the East, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they
please themselues in the children of strangers.
7 Their land also is full of siluer and gold, neither is there any end of their
treasures: their land is also full of horses; neither is there any end of their
charets.
8 Their land also is full of idoles: they worship the worke of their owne hands,
that which their owne fingers haue made.
9 And the meane man boweth downe, and the great man humbleth himselfe; therefore
forgiue them not.
10 Enter into the rocke, and hide thee in the dust, for feare of the Lord, and
for the glory of his Maiestie.
11 The loftie lookes of man shalbe humbled, and the hautines of men shalbe bowed
downe: and the Lord alone shalbe exalted in that day.
12 For the day of the Lord of hostes shall bee vpon euery one that is proud and
loftie, and vpon euery one that is lifted vp, and he shalbe brought low;
13 And vpon all the Cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted vp; and vpon all
the okes of Bashan,
14 And vpon all the high mountaines, and vpon all the hilles that are lifted vp,
15 And vpon euery high tower, and vpon euery fenced wall,
16 And vpon all the ships of Tarshish, and vpon all pleasant pictures.
17 And the loftinesse of man shall be bowed downe, and the hautinesse of men
shalbe made low: and the Lord alone shalbe exalted in that day.
18 And the idoles hee shall vtterly abolish.
19 And they shall goe into the holes of the rocks, and into the caues of the
earth for feare of the Lord, and for the glory of his Maiestie; when hee ariseth
to shake terribly the earth.
20 In that day a man shall cast his idoles of siluer, and his idoles of golde
which they made each one for himselfe to worship, to the moules and to the
battes:
21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rockes,
for feare of the Lord, and for the glorie of his Maiestie; when hee ariseth to
shake terribly the earth.
22 Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrels: for wherein is hee to be
accounted of?
CHAPTER
3
1 For behold, the Lord, the Lord of hostes doeth take away from Ierusalem, and
from Iudah, the stay and the staffe, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay
of water,
2 The mighty man, and the man of warre; the Iudge and the Prophet, and the
prudent, and the ancient,
3 The captaine of fiftie, and the honourable man, and the counseller, and the
cunning artificer, and the eloquent oratour.
4 And I will giue children to bee their Princes, and babes shall rule ouer them.
5 And the people shall be oppressed, euery one by another, and euery one by his
neighbour: the childe shall behaue himselfe proudly against the ancient, and the
base against the honourable.
6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying,
Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruine bee vnder thy hand:
7 In that day shall he sweare, saying, I will not be an healer: for in my house
is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
8 For Ierusalem is ruined, & Iudah is fallen: because their tongue and their
doings are against the Lord, to prouoke the eyes of his glorie.
9 The shew of their countenance doeth witnesse against them, and they declare
their sinne as Sodom, they hide it not: woe vnto their soule, for they haue
rewarded euill vnto themselues.
10 Say yee to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eate
the fruit of their doings.
11 Woe vnto the wicked, it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his handes
shalbe giuen him.
12 As for my people, children are their oppressours, and women rule ouer them: O
my people, they which lead thee, cause thee to erre, and destroy the way of thy
paths.
13 The Lord standeth vp to plead, and standeth to iudge the people.
14 The Lord will enter into iudgement with the ancients of his people, and the
Princes thereof: for ye haue eaten vp the Uineyard; the spoile of the poore is
in your houses.
15 What meane yee that yee beat my people to pieces, and grinde the faces of the
poore, saith the Lord God of hosts?
16 Moreouer the Lord saith; Because the daughters of Zion are hautie, and walke
with stretched forth necks, and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they goe,
and making a tinkeling with their feet:
17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crowne of the head of the
daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discouer their secret parts.
18 In that day the Lord will take away the brauery of their tinckling ornaments
about their feete, and their caules, and their round tyres like the Moone.
19 The chaines, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legges, and the headbands, and the
tablets, and the earerings,
21 The rings, and nose-iewels,
22 The changeable sutes of apparell, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the
crisping pinnes,
23 The glasses, and the fine linnen, and the hoods, and the vailes.
24 And it shall come to passe, that in steade of sweete smell, there shall bee
stinke; and in stead of a girdle, a rent; and in stead of well set haire,
baldnesse; and in stead of a stomacher, a girding of sackecloth; and burning, in
stead of beautie.
25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mightie in the warre.
26 And her gates shall lament and mourne; and she being desolate, shall sit vpon
the ground.
CHAPTER
4
1 And in that day seuen women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eate
our owne bread, & weare our owne apparell: onely let vs be called by thy
name, to take away our reproch.
2 In that day shall the Branch of the Lord be beautifull and glorious, and the
fruit of the earth shalbe excellent and comely for them that are escaped of
Israel.
3 And it shall come to passe, that hee that is left in Zion, and hee that
remaineth in Ierusalem, shall be called Holy, euen euery one that is written
among the liuing in Ierusalem,
4 When the Lord shall haue washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and
shall haue purged the blood of Ierusalem from the middest thereof, by the spirit
of iudgement, and by the spirit of burning.
5 And the Lord will create vpon euery dwelling place of mount Zion, and vpon her
assemblies a cloude, and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by
night; for vpon all the glory shall be a defence.
6 And there shalbe a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and
for a place of refuge, and for a couert from storme and from raine.
CHAPTER
5
1 Now will I sing to my welbeloued, a song of my beloued touching his vineyard:
my wellbeloued hath a vineyard in a very fruitfull hill.
2 And hee fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with
the choicest vine, and built a towre in the middest of it, and also made a
winepresse therein: and he looked that it should bring foorth grapes, and it
brought foorth wilde grapes.
3 And now, O inhabitants of Ierusalem, and men of Iudah, Iudge, I pray you,
betwixt me and my Uineyard.
4 What could haue beene done more to my Uineyard, that I haue not done in it?
Wherefore when I looked that it should bring foorth grapes, brought it foorth
wilde grapes?
5 And now goe to; I will tell you what I will doe to my Uineyard, I will take
away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten vp; and breake downe the wall
thereof, and it shall be troden downe.
6 And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned, nor digged, but there shall
come vp briars and thornes: I will also command the cloudes, that they raine no
raine vpon it.
7 For the Uineyard of the Lord of hostes is the house of Israel, and the men of
Iudah his pleasant plant: and he looked for iudgement, but beholde oppression;
for righteousnesse, but behold a crie.
8 Woe vnto them that ioyne house to house, that lay field to field, till there
be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth.
9 In mine eares said the Lord of hostes, Of a trueth many houses shall be
desolate, euen great and faire without inhabitant.
10 Yea ten acres of vineyard shall yeeld one Bath, and the seed of an Homer
shall yeeld an Ephah.
11 Woe vnto them that rise vp earely in the morning, that they may follow strong
drink, that continue vntill night, till wine enflame them.
12 And the harpe and the viole, the tabret and pipe, and wine are in their
feasts: but they regard not the worke of the Lord, neither consider the
operation of his hands.
13 Therefore my people are gone into captiuitie, because they haue no knowledge:
and their honourable men are famished, aud their multitude dried vp with thirst.
14 Therefore hell hath enlarged her selfe, and opened her mouth without measure:
and their glory, and their multitude, and their pompe, and hee that reioyceth,
shall descend into it.
15 And the meane man shall bee brought downe, and the mightie man shall be
humbled, and the eyes of the loftie shall be humbled.
16 But the Lord of hosts shalbe exalted in iudgement, and God that is holy,
shall bee sanctified in righteousnesse.
17 Then shall the lambes feed after their maner, and the waste places of the fat
ones shall strangers eate.
18 Woe vnto them that draw iniquitie with cords of vanitie, and sinne, as it
were with a cart rope:
19 That say, Let him make speede, and hasten his worke, that we may see it: and
let the counsell of the holy one of Israel draw nigh and come, that wee may know
it.
20 Woe vnto them that call euill good, and good euill, that put darkenes for
light, and light for darkenesse, that put bitter for sweete, and sweete for
bitter.
21 Woe vnto them that are wise in their owne eyes, and prudent in their owne
sight.
22 Woe vnto them that are mightie to drinke wine, and men of strength to mingle
strong drinke.
23 Which iustifie the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousnes of the
righteous from him.
24 Therfore as the fire deuoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the
chaffe, so their root shall be rottennes, and their blossome shall goe vp as
dust: because they haue cast away the Lawe of the Lord of hosts, and despised
the worde of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath
stretched foorth his hande against them, and hath smitten them: and the hilles
did tremble, and their carkeises were torne in the midst of the streets: for all
this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
26 And he will lift vp an ensigne to the nations from farre, and wil hisse vnto
them from the end of the earth: and behold, they shall come with speed swiftly.
27 None shalbe weary, nor stumble amongst them: none shall slumber nor sleepe,
neither shall the girdle of their loynes be loosed, nor the latchet of their
shooes be broken.
28 Whose arrowes are sharpe, and all their bowes bent, their horses hoofs shall
bee counted like flint, and their wheeles like a whirlewind.
29 Their roaring shalbe like a lyon, they shall roare like yong lions: yea they
shal roare and lay hold of the pray, and shall carie it away safe, and none
shall deliuer it.
30 And in that day they shall roare against them, like the roaring of the sea:
and if one looke vnto the land, behold darkenesse and sorrow, and the light is
darkened in the heauens therof.
CHAPTER
6
1 In the yeere that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting vpon a throne,
high and lifted vp, and his traine filled the Temple.
2 Aboue it stood the Seraphims: each one had sixe wings, with twaine he couered
his face, and with twaine hee couered his feete, and with twaine hee did flie.
3 And one cryed vnto another, and sayd; Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hostes,
the whole earth is full of his glory.
4 And the posts of the doore moued at the voyce of him that cryed, and the house
was filled with smoke.
5 Then sayd I; woe is me; for I am vndone, because I am a man of vncleane lippes,
and I dwell in the midst of a people of vncleane lippes: for mine eyes haue
seene the king, the Lord of hostes.
6 Then flew one of the Seraphims vnto mee, hauing a liue-cole in his hand, which
hee had taken with the tongs from off the altar.
7 And he laide it vpon my mouth, and sayd, Loe, this hath touched thy lippes,
and thine iniquitie is taken away, and thy sinne purged.
8 Also I heard the voyce of the Lord, saying; Whom shall I send, and who will
goe for vs? Then I saide; Heere am I, send me.
9 And he sayd, Goe and tell this people; Heare yee indeede, but vnderstand not:
and see yee indeed, but perceiue not.
10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their eares heauy, and shut their
eyes: lest they see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and vnderstand
with their heart, and conuert and be healed.
11 Then sayd I; Lord, how long? And hee answered, Untill the cities be wasted
without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be vtterly
desolate,
12 And the Lord haue remoued men farre away, and there be a great forsaking in
the midst of the land.
13 But yet in it shalbe a tenth, and it shall returne, and shall be eaten: as a
Teyle tree, and as an Oke whose substance is in them, when they cast their
leaues: so the holy seede shall be the substance thereof.
CHAPTER
7
1 And it came to passe in the dayes of Ahaz the sonne of Iotham, the sonne of
Uzziah king of Iudah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah, the sonne of
Remaliah king of Israel, went vp towards Ierusalem to warre against it, but
could not preuaile against it.
2 And it was told the house of Dauid, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim:
and his heart was moued, and the heart of his people as the trees of the wood
are mooued with the wind.
3 Then sayd the Lord vnto Isaiah; Goe forth now to meete Ahaz, thou, &
Shear-iashub thy sonne, at the end of the conduit of the vpper poole in the high
way of the fullers field.
4 And say vnto him; Take heede and be quiet: feare not, neither be faint hearted
for the two tailes of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin
with Syria, and of the sonne of Remaliah.
5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the sonne of Remaliah haue taken euill counsell
against thee, saying;
6 Let vs goe vp against Iudah and vexe it, and let vs make a breach therein for
vs, and set a king in the midst of it, euen the sonne of Tabeal.
7 Thus saith the Lord God; It shall not stand, neither shall it come to passe.
8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin, and
within threescore and fiue yeeres shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a
people.
9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliahs sonne:
if yee will not beleeue, surely yee shall not be established.
10 Moreouer the Lord spake againe vnto Ahaz, saying;
11 Aske thee a signe of the Lord thy God; aske it either in the depth, or in the
height aboue.
12 But Ahaz sayd, I will not aske, neither will I tempt the Lord.
13 And he sayd; Heare yee now, O house of Dauid; Is it a small thing for you to
wearie men, but will yee wearie my God also?
14 Therefore the Lord himselfe shal giue you a signe: Behold, a Uirgine shall
conceiue and beare a Sonne, and shall call his name Immanuel.
15 Butter and hony shall he eat, that hee may know to refuse the euill, and
choose the good.
16 For before the childe shall know to refuse the euill and choose the good; the
land that thou abhorrest, shalbe forsaken of both her kings.
17 The Lord shall bring vpon thee and vpon thy people, and vpon thy fathers
house, dayes that haue not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Iudah;
euen the King of Assyria.
18 And it shall come to passe in that day, that the Lord shall hisse for the
flie, that is in the vttermost part of the riuers of Egypt, and for the Bee that
is in the land of Assyria.
19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and
in the holes of the rockes, and vpon all thornes, and vpon all bushes.
20 In the same day shall the Lord shaue with a rasor that is hired, namely by
them beyond the riuer, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the haire of the
feet: and it shal also consume the beard.
21 And it shall come to passe in that day, that a man shal nourish a yong cow
and two sheepe.
22 And it shall come to passe, for the abundance of milke that they shall giue,
he shal eate butter: for butter and hony shall euery one eate, that is left in
the land.
23 And it shall come to passe in that day, that euery place shalbe, where there
were a thousand Uines at a thousand siluerlings, it shall euen be for briers and
thornes.
24 With arrowes and with bowes shall men come thither; because all the land
shall become briars and thornes.
25 And on all hilles that shalbe digged with the mattocke, there shall not come
thither the feare of briars and thornes: but it shall bee for the sending foorth
of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattell.
CHAPTER
8
1 Moreouer the Lord said vnto mee, Take thee a great roule, and write in it with
a mans penne, concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
2 And I tooke vnto mee faithfull witnesses to record, Uriah the Priest, and
Zechariah the sonne of Ieberechiah.
3 And I went vnto the Prophetesse, and shee conceiued and bare a sonne, then
said the Lord to mee, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
4 For before the childe shall haue knowledge to cry, My father and my mother,
the riches of Damascus, and the spoile of Samaria shalbe taken away before the
king of Assyria.
5 The Lord spake also vnto me againe, saying,
6 For so much as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that goe softly, and
reioyce in Rezin, and Remaliahs sonne:
7 Now therefore behold, the Lord bringeth vp vpon them the waters of the riuer
strong and many, euen the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come
vp ouer all his channels, and goe ouer all his bankes.
8 And hee shall passe through Iudah, he shall ouerflow and goe ouer, he shall
reach euen to the necke; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the
breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
9 Associate your selues, O ye people, and yee shalbe broken in pieces; and giue
eare all ye of farre countreys: gird your selues, and ye shalbe broken in
pieces; gird your selues, and ye shalbe broken in pieces.
10 Take counsell together, and it shall come to nought: speake the word, and it
shall not stand; for God is with vs.
11 For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I
should not walke in the way of this people, saying,
12 Say ye not, A confederacie to all them, to whom this people shall say, A
confederacie; neither feare yee their feare, nor be afraid.
13 Sanctifie the Lord of hostes himselfe, and let him bee your feare, and let
him be your dread.
14 And he shalbe for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rocke
of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a ginne, and for a snare to the
inhabitants of Ierusalem.
15 And many among them shall stumble and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and
be taken.
16 Binde vp the Testimonie, seale the Law among my disciples.
17 And I wil wait vpon the Lord that hideth his face from the house of Iacob,
and I will looke for him.
18 Behold, I, and the children whom the Lord hath giuen me, are for signes, and
for wonders in Israel: from the Lord of hostes, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say vnto you; Seeke vnto them that haue familiar spirits,
and vnto wizards that peepe and that mutter: should not a people seeke vnto
their God? for the liuing, to the dead?
20 To the Law and to the Testimonie: if they speake not according to this word,
it is because there is no light in them.
21 And they shall passe through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come
to passe, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselues, and curse
their King, and their God, and looke vpward.
22 And they shall looke vnto the earth: and behold trouble and darkenesse,
dimnesse of anguish; and they shall be driuen to darkenesse.
CHAPTER
9
1 Neuerthelesse the dimnesse shall not be such as was in her vexation; when at
the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali,
and afterward did more grieuously afflict her by the way of the Sea, beyond
Iordan in Galile of the nations.
2 The people that walked in darknesse, haue seene a great light: they that dwel
in the land of the shadow of death, vpon them hath the light shined.
3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the ioy: they ioy before
thee, according to the ioy in haruest, and as men reioyce when they diuide the
spoile.
4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staffe of his shoulder,
the rod of his oppressour, as in the day of Midian.
5 For euery battell of the warriour is with confused noise, and garments rolled
in blood; but this shall be with burning and fewell of fire.
6 For vnto vs a child is borne, vnto vs a Sonne is giuen, and the gouernment
shalbe vpon his shoulder: and his name shalbe called, Wonderfull, Counseller,
The mightie God, The euerlasting Father, The Prince of peace.
7 Of the increase of his gouernment and peace there shall be no end, vpon the
throne of Dauid & vpon his kingdome, to order it, and to stablish it with
iudgement and with iustice, from henceforth euen for euer: the zeale of the Lord
of hostes will performe this.
8 The Lord sent a word into Iacob, and it hath lighted vpon Israel.
9 And all the people shal know, euen Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that
say in the pride and stoutnesse of heart;
10 The brickes are fallen downe, but we will build with hewen stones: the
Sycomores are cut downe, but we will change them into Cedars.
11 Therefore the Lord shall set vp the aduersaries of Rezin against him, and
ioyne his enemies together.
12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behinde, and they shall deuoure
Israel with open mouth: for all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand
is stretched out still.
13 For the people turneth not vnto him that smiteth them, neither doe they seeke
the Lord of hostes.
14 Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and taile, branch and rush
in one day.
15 The ancient and honourable, hee is the head: and the prophet that teacheth
lies, he is the taile.
16 For the leaders of this people cause them to erre, and they that are ledde of
them, are destroyed.
17 Therfore the Lord shall haue no ioy in their yong men, neither shall haue
mercy on their fatherlesse & widowes: for euery one is an hypocrite, and an
euil doer, and euery mouth speaketh folly: for all this his anger is not turned
away, but his hand is stretched out still.
18 For wickednes burneth as the fire: it shall deuoure the briers and thornes,
and shall kindle in the thickets of the forrest, and they shall mount vp like
the lifting vp of smoke.
19 Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people
shall be as the fuell of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry, and he shall eate on
the left hand, and they shall not bee satisfied: they shall eate euery man the
flesh of his owne arme.
21 Manasseh, Ephraim: and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shalbe against
Iudah: for all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out
still.
CHAPTER
10
1 Woe vnto them that decree vnrighteous decrees, and that write grieuousnesse
which they haue prescribed:
2 To turne aside the needy from iudgement, and to take away the right from the
poore of my people, that widdowes may be their pray, and that they may robbe the
fatherles.
3 And what wil ye doe in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which
shall come from farre? To whom wil ye flee for helpe? And where will yee leaue
your glory?
4 Without mee they shall bowe downe vnder the prisoners, and they shall fall
vnder the slaine: for all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is
stretched out still.
5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staffe in their hand is mine
indignation.
6 I will send him against an hypocriticall nation, and against the people of my
wrath will I giue him a charge to take the spoile, and to take the praye, and to
tread them downe like the mire of the streets.
7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart thinke so, but it is in his
heart to destroy, and cut off nations not a few.
8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
9 Is not Calno, as Carchemish? Is not Hamath, as Arpad? Is not Samaria, as
Damascus?
10 As my hand hath found the kingdomes of the idoles, and whose grauen images
did excell them of Ierusalem and of Samaria:
11 Shall I not, as I haue done vnto Samaria and her idoles, so doe to Ierusalem
and her idoles?
12 Wherefore it shall come to passe, that when the Lord hath performed his whole
worke vpon mount Zion, and on Ierusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout
heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high lookes.
13 For hee saith, By the strength of my hand I haue done it, and by my wisedome,
for I am prudent: and I haue remooued the bounds of the people, and haue robbed
their treasures, and I haue put downe the inhabitants like a valiant man.
14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one
gathereth egges that are left, haue I gathered all the earth, and there was none
that moued the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
15 Shall the axe boast it selfe against him that heweth therewith? Or shal the
sawe magnifie it selfe against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake
it selfe against them that lift it vp, or as if the staffe should lift vp it
selfe, as if it were no wood.
16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones
leannesse, and vnder his glory hee shall kindle a burning, like the burning of a
fire.
17 And the light of Israel shall bee for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame:
and it shall burne and deuoure his thornes and his briers in one day:
18 And shall consume the glory of his forrest, and of his fruitfull field both
soule and body: and they shall bee as when a standerd bearer fainteth.
19 And the rest of the trees of his forrest shall be few, that a child may write
them.
20 And it shal come to passe in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such
as are escaped of the house of Iacob, shall no more againe stay vpon him that
smote them: but shall stay vpon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel in trueth.
21 The remnant shall returne, euen the remnant of Iacob, vnto the mightie God.
22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them
shall returne: the consumption decreed shall ouerflow with righteousnesse.
23 For the Lord God of hostes shall make a consumption, euen determined in the
middest of all the land.
24 Therfore thus saith the Lord God of hostes, O my people that dwellest in
Zion, be not afraide of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall
lift vp his staffe against thee, after the maner of Egypt.
25 For yet a very litle while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger
in their destruction.
26 And the Lord of hostes shall stirre vp a scourge for him, according to the
slaughter of Midian at the rocke Oreb: and as his rod was vpon the Sea, so shall
he lift it vp after the manner of Egypt.
27 And it shall come to passe in that day, that his burden shalbe taken away
from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy necke, and the yoke shalbe
destroyed because of the anointing.
28 He is come to Aiath, hee is passed to Migron: at Michmash he hath laid vp his
cariages.
29 They are gone ouer the passage: they haue taken vp their lodging at Geba,
Ramah is afraid, Gebeah of Saul is fled.
30 Lift vp thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to bee heard vnto Laish, O
poore Anathoth.
31 Madmenah is remooued, the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselues to flee.
32 As yet shall hee remaine at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the
mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Ierusalem.
33 Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hostes shall lop the bough with terrour: and
the high ones of stature shal be hewen downe, and the haughtie shalbe humbled.
34 And he shall cut downe the thickets of the forrests with yron, and Lebanon
shall fall by a mightie one.
CHAPTER
11
1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stemme of Iesse, and a branch shal
grow out of his rootes.
2 And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest vpon him, the spirit of wisedome and
vnderstanding, the spirit of counsell and might, the spirit of knowledge, and of
the feare of the Lord:
3 And shal make him of quicke vnderstanding in the feare of the Lord, and he
shall not iudge after the sight of his eyes, neither reproue after the hearing
of his eares.
4 But with righteousnesse shall he iudge the poore, and reprooue with equitie,
for the meeke of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rodde of his
mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
5 And righteousnesse shalbe the girdle of his loines, and faithfulnesse the
girdle of his reines.
6 The wolfe also shall dwell with the lambe, and the leopard shall lie downe
with the kid: and the calfe and the yong lion, and the fatling together, and a
litle child shall lead them.
7 And the cow and the beare shall feed, their yong ones shall lie downe
together: and the lyon shall eate straw like the oxe.
8 And the sucking childe shall play on the hole of the aspe, and the weaned
childe shall put his hand on the cockatrice denne.
9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountaine: for the earth shall
bee full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters couer the sea.
10 And in that day there shall bee a roote of Iesse, which shall stand for an
ensigne of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seeke, and his rest shall bee
glorious.
11 And it shall come to passe in that day, that the Lord shall set his hande
againe the second time, to recouer the remnant of his people which shalbe left,
from Assyria, and from Egypt, & from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam,
and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the ylands of the Sea.
12 And he shall set vp an ensigne for the nations, and shall assemble the
outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Iudah, from the foure
corners of the earth.
13 The enuie also of Ephraim shal depart, and the aduersaries of Iudah shalbe
cut off: Ephraim shall not enuie Iudah, and Iudah shall not vexe Ephraim.
14 But they shall fly vpon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the West,
they shall spoile them of the East together: they shall lay their hand vpon Edom
and Moab, and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
15 And the Lord shall vtterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea, and with
his mighty wind shall hee shake his hand ouer the riuer, and shall smite it in
the seuen streames, and make men goe ouer dry-shod.
16 And there shalbe an high way for the remnant of his people, which shalbe left
from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that hee came vp out of the
land of Egypt.
CHAPTER
12
1 And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast
angrie with mee, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
2 Behold, God is my saluation: I will trust, and not be afraid; for the Lord
IEHOVAH is my strength and my song, he also is become my saluation.
3 Therefore with ioy shall yee draw water out of the wels of saluation.
4 And in that day shall yee say; Praise the Lord, call vpon his name, declare
his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.
5 Sing vnto the Lord; for hee hath done excellent things: this is knowen in all
the earth.
6 Cry out and shout thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the holy one of Israel
in the midst of thee.
CHAPTER
13
1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the sonne of Amoz did see.
2 Lift yee vp a banner vpon the high mountaine, exalt the voice vnto them, shake
the hand, that they may goe into the gates of the nobles.
3 I haue commanded my sanctified ones: I haue also called my mightie ones for
mine anger, euen them that reioyce in my highnesse.
4 The noise of a multitude in the mountaines, like as of a great people: a
tumultuous noise of the kingdomes of nations gathered together: the Lord of
hostes mustereth the hoste of the battell.
5 They come from a farre countrey from the end of heauen, euen the Lord and the
weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
6 Howle yee; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction
from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands bee faint, and euery mans heart shall melt.
8 And they shalbe afraid: pangs and sorrowes shall take hold of them, they
shalbe in paine as a woman that trauelleth: they shalbe amazed one at another,
their faces shalbe as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the Lord commeth, cruell both with wrath and fierce anger,
to lay the land desolate; and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the starres of heauen, and the constellations thereof shall not giue
their light: the sunne shalbe darkened in his going forth, and the moone shall
not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their euill, and the wicked for their
iniquitie; and I will cause the arrogancie of the proud to cease, and will lay
low the hautinesse of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more pretious then fine gold; euen a man then the golden
wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heauens, and the earth shall remoue out of her
place in the wrath of the Lord of hostes, and in the day of his fierce anger.
14 And it shalbe as the chased Roe, and as a sheepe that no man taketh vp: they
shall euery man turne to his owne people, and flee euery one into his owne land.
15 Euery one that is found shall be thrust through: and euery one that is ioyned
vnto them, shall fall by the sword.
16 Their children also shalbe dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses
shalbe spoiled, & their wiues rauished.
17 Beholde, I will stirre vp the Medes against them, which shall not regard
siluer, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
18 Their bowes also shall dash the yong men to pieces, and they shall haue no
pitie on the fruit of the wombe; their eye shall not spare children.
19 And Babylon the glory of kingdomes, the beautie of the Chaldees excellencie,
shall be as when God ouerthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 It shall neuer be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to
generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there, neither shal the
shepheards make their fold there.
21 But wilde beastes of the desert shall lye there, and their houses shalbe full
of dolefull creatures, and owles shall dwell there, and Satyres shall daunce
there.
22 And the wilde beastes of the Ilands shal cry in their desolate houses, and
dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is neere to come, and her dayes
shall not be prolonged.
CHAPTER
14
1 For the Lord wil haue mercie on Iacob, and wil yet choose Israel, and set them
in their owne land: and the strangers shalbe ioyned with them, and they shal
cleaue to the house of Iacob.
2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house
of Israel shall possesse them in the land of the Lord, for seruants and
handmaides: and they shall take them captiues, whose captiues they were, and
they shall rule ouer their oppressours.
3 And it shall come to passe in the day that the Lord shal giue thee rest from
thy sorrow, and from thy feare, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made
to serue,
4 That thou shalt take vp this prouerbe against the king of Babylon, and say;
How hath the oppressour ceased? the golden citie ceased?
5 The Lord hath broken the staffe of the wicked, and the scepter of the rulers.
6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continuall stroke; hee that ruled the
nations in anger, is persecuted and none hindereth.
7 The whole earth is at rest and is quiet: they breake foorth into singing.
8 Yea the firre trees reioyce at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since
thou art layd downe, no feller is come vp against vs.
9 Hell from beneath is mooued for thee to meet thee at thy comming: it stirreth
vp the dead for thee, euen all the chiefe ones of the earth; it hath raised vp
from their thrones, all the kings of the nations.
10 All they shall speake and say vnto thee; Art thou also become weake as we?
art thou become like vnto vs?
11 Thy pompe is brought downe to the graue, and the noyse of thy violes: the
worme is spread vnder thee, and the wormes couer thee.
12 How art thou fallen from heauen, O Lucifer, sonne of the morning? how art
thou cut downe to the ground, which didst weaken the nations?
13 For thou hast said in thine heart; I wil ascend into heauen, I wil exalt my
throne aboue the starres of God: I wil sit also vpon the mount of the
congregation, in the sides of the North.
14 I wil ascend aboue the heights of the cloudes, I wil bee like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought downe to hel, to the sides of the pit.
16 They that see thee shal narrowly looke vpon thee, and consider thee, saying;
Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdomes?
17 That made the world as a wildernesse, and destroyed the cities thereof that
opened not the house of his prisoners?
18 All the kings of the nations, euen all of them lie in glory, euery one in his
owne house.
19 But thou art cast out of thy graue, like an abominable branch: and as the
raiment of those that are slaine, thrust through with a sword, that goe downe to
the stones of the pit, as a carkeis troden vnder feete.
20 Thou shalt not be ioyned with them in buriall, because thou hast destroyed
thy land, and slaine thy people: the seede of euill doers shall neuer be
renowmed.
21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquitie of their fathers, that
they doe not rise nor possesse the land, nor fill the face of the world with
cities.
22 For I will rise vp against them, sayth the Lord of hostes, and cut off from
Babylon the name, and remnant, and sonne and nephew, sayth the Lord.
23 I will also make it a possession for the Bitterne, and pooles of water: and I
will sweepe it with the besome of destruction, sayth the Lord of hostes.
24 The Lord of hostes hath sworne, saying; Surely as I haue thought, so shall it
come to passe; and as I haue purposed, so shall it stand:
25 That I will breake the Assyrian in my land, and vpon my mountaines tread him
vnder foote: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart
from off their shoulders.
26 This is the purpose, that is purposed vpon the whole earth: and this is the
hand that is stretched out vpon all the nations.
27 For the Lord of hostes hath purposed, and who shall disanull it? and his hand
is stretched out, and who shall turne it backe?
28 In the yeere that king Ahaz died, was this burden.
29 Reioyce not thou whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is
broken: for out of the serpents roote shall come foorth a cockatrice, and his
fruite shall be a fierie flying serpent.
30 And the first borne of the poore shall feed, and the needy shall lie downe in
safetie: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
31 Howle, O gate, crie, O citie, thou whole Palestina art dissolued, for there
shal come from the North a smoke, and none shall bee alone in his appointed
times.
32 What shall one then answere the messengers of the nation? that the Lord hath
founded Zion, and the poore of his people shall trust in it.
CHAPTER
15
1 The burden of Moab: because in the night Ar of Moab is laide waste and brought
to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laide waste, and brought to
silence:
2 Hee is gone vp to Baijth, and to Dibon, the high places, to weepe: Moab shall
howle ouer Nebo, and ouer Medeba, on all their heads shalbe baldnesse, and euery
beard cut off.
3 In their streetes they shall girde themselues with sackecloth: on the toppes
of their houses, and in their streetes euery one shall howle, weeping
abundantly.
4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shalbe heard euen vnto Iahaz:
therefore the armed souldiers of Moab shall crie out, his life shall be grieuous
vnto him.
5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitiues shall flee vnto Zoar, an heifer
of three yeeres olde: for by the mounting vp of Luhith with weeping shall they
goe it vp: for in the way of Horonaim, they shall raise vp a crie of
destruction.
6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the
grasse faileth, there is no greene thing.
7 Therefore the abundance they haue gotten, and that which they haue laide vp,
shall they cary away to the brooke of the willowes.
8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab: the howling thereof vnto
Eglaim, and the howling thereof vnto Beer-Elim.
9 For the waters of Dimon shalbe full of blood: for I will bring more vpon Dimon,
lyons vpon him that escapeth of Moab, and vpon the remnant of the land.
CHAPTER
16
1 Send ye the lambe to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wildernesse, vnto
the mount of the daughter of Zion.
2 For it shalbe that as a wandering bird cast out of the nest: so the daughters
of Moab shalbe at the fordes of Arnon.
3 Take counsell, execute Iudgement, make thy shadow as the night in the middest
of the nooneday, hide the outcastes, bewray not him that wandereth.
4 Let mine outcasts dwel with thee, Moab, be thou a couert to them from the face
of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the
oppressours are consumed out of the land.
5 And in mercy shall the throne be established, and hee shal sit vpon it in
trueth, in the tabernacle of Dauid, iudging and seeking iudgement, and hasting
righteousnesse.
6 We haue heard of the pride of Moab (hee is very proud) euen of his hautines,
and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.
7 Therefore shall Moab howle for Moab, euery one shal howle: for the foundations
of Kir-hareseth shall yee mourne, surely they are stricken.
8 For the fieldes of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah, the lords of the
heathen haue broken downe the principall plants thereof, they are come euen vnto
Iazer, they wandred through the wildernesse, her branches are stretched out,
they are gone ouer the sea.
9 Therefore I wil bewaile with the weeping of Iazer, the Uine of Sibmah I wil
water thee with my teares, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy
Summer fruits, and for thy haruest, is fallen.
10 And gladnesse is taken away, and ioy out of the plentifull field, and in the
Uineyards there shalbe no singing, neither shal there be shouting: the treaders
shall tread out no wine in their presses; I haue made their vintage shouting to
cease.
11 Wherefore my bowels shal sound like an harpe for Moab, and mine inward parts
for Kir-haresh.
12 And it shal come to passe, when it is seene that Moab is weary on the high
place, that hee shall come to his Sanctuary to pray: but hee shall not preuaile.
13 This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.
14 But now the Lord hath spoken, saying, Within three yeeres, as the yeeres of
an hireling, and the glory of Moab shalbe contemned, with all that great
multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.
CHAPTER
17
1 The burden of Damascus: Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a citie, and
it shalbe a ruinous heape.
2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall bee for flockes, which shall lye
downe, and none shall make them afraid.
3 The fortresse also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdome from Damascus,
and the remnant of Syria: they shall bee as the glorie of the children of
Israel, saith the Lord of hostes.
4 And in that day it shall come to passe, that the glory of Iacob shall bee made
thinne, and the fatnesse of his flesh shall waxe leane.
5 And it shall be as when the haruest-man gathereth the corne, and reapeth the
eares with his arme; and it shalbe as he that gathereth eares in the valley of
Rephaim.
6 (Yet gleaning-grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an Oliue tree, two
or three berries in the toppe of the vppermost bough: foure or fiue in the
out-most fruitfull branches thereof, saith the Lord God of Israel.
7 At that day shall a man looke to his Maker, and his eyes shall haue respect to
the Holy one of Israel.
8 And hee shall not looke to the altars, the worke of his handes, neither shall
respect that which his fingers haue made, either the groues or the images.)
9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an vppermost
branch, which they left, because of the children of Israel: and there shalbe
desolation.
10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy saluation, and hast not beene
mindfull of the rocke of thy strength: therefore shalt thou plant pleasant
plants, and shalt set it with strange slips.
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou
make thy seede to flourish: but the haruest shall be a heape in the day of
griefe, and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise, like the noise of
the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing, like the rushing
of mighty waters.
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke
them, and they shall flee farre off, and shalbe chased as the chaffe of the
mountaines before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlewind.
14 And behold at euening tide trouble, and before the morning he is not: this is
the portion of them that spoile vs, and the lot of them that robbe vs.
CHAPTER
18
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the riuers of Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadours by the sea, euen in vessels of bulrushes vpon the
waters, saying; Goe yee swift messengers to a nation scattered and peeled, to a
people terrible from their beginning hitherto, a nation meted out and troden
downe; whose land the riuers haue spoiled.
3 All yee inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see yee, when hee
lifteth vp an ensigne on the mountaines; and when he bloweth a trumpet, heare
yee.
4 For so the Lord sayd vnto me: I will take my rest, and I will consider in my
dwelling place like a cleare heate vpon herbes, and like a cloud of dew in the
heate of haruest.
5 For afore the haruest when the bud is perfect, and the sowre grape is ripening
in the flowre; hee shall both cut off the sprigges with pruning hookes, and take
away and cut downe the branches.
6 They shalbe left together vnto the foules of the mountaines, and to the beasts
of the earth: and the foules shall summer vpon them, and all the beastes of the
earth shall winter vpon them.
7 In that time shall the present be brought vnto the Lord of hostes, of a people
scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto;
a nation meted out and troden vnder foote, whose land the riuers haue spoiled,
to the place of the name of the Lord of hostes, the mount Zion.
CHAPTER
19
1 The burden of Egypt: Behold, the Lord rideth vpon a swift cloude, and shall
come into Egypt, and the idoles of Egypt shalbe moued at his presence, and the
heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight euery
one against his brother, and euery one against his neighbour; citie against
citie, and kingdome against kingdome.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall faile in the midst thereof, and I will destroy
the counsell thereof: and they shall seeke to the idoles, and to the charmers,
and to them that haue familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
4 And the Egyptians will I giue ouer into the hand of a cruell Lord; and a
fierce king shall rule ouer them, saith the Lorde, the Lord of hostes.
5 And the waters shall faile from the sea, and the riuer shalbe wasted, and
dried vp.
6 And they shall turne the riuers farre away, and the brookes of defence shall
be emptied and dried vp: the reeds and flagges shall wither.
7 The paper reeds by the brookes, by the mouth of the brookes, and euery thing
sowen by the brooks shal wither, be driuen away, and be no more.
8 The fishers also shall mourne, and all they that cast angle into the brookes
shall lament, and they that spread nets vpon the waters shall languish.
9 Moreouer they that worke in fine flaxe, and they that weaue net-works shall be
confounded.
10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluces and
ponds for fish.
11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fooles, the counsell of the wise counsellers
of Pharaoh is become brutish: How say ye vnto Pharaoh, I am the sonne of the
wise, the sonne of ancient kings?
12 Where are they? Where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let
them know, what the Lord of hosts hath purposed vpon Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan are become fooles, the princes of Noph are deceiued, they
haue also seduced Egypt, euen they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
14 The Lord hath mingled a peruerse spirit in the midst thereof: and they haue
caused Egypt to erre in euery worke thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his
vomit.
15 Neither shall there be any worke for Egypt, which the head or taile, branch
or rush may doe.
16 In that day shall Egypt bee like vnto women: and it shall be afraid and feare,
because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he shaketh ouer
it.
17 And the land of Iudah shall bee a terrour vnto Egypt, euery one that maketh
mention thereof, shal be afraid in himselfe, because of the counsell of the Lord
of hosts, which he hath determined against it.
18 In that day shall fiue cities in the land of Egypt speake the language of
Canaan, and sweare to the Lord of hostes: one shalbe called the citie of
destruction.
19 In that day shall there be an Altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of
Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.
20 And it shall be for a signe, and for a witnesse vnto the Lord of hosts in the
land of Egypt: for they shall crie vnto the Lord, because of the oppressours,
and he shal send them a Sauiour and a great One, and he shall deliuer them.
21 And the Lord shalbe knowen to Egypt, and the Egyptians shal know the Lord in
that day, and shal do sacrifice and oblation, yea they shall vow a vowe vnto the
Lord, and performe it.
22 And the Lord shall smite Egypt, he shall smite and heale it, and they shall
returne euen to the Lord, and he shalbe intreated of them, and shall heale them.
23 In that day shall there be a hie way out of Egypt to Assyria, and the
Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians
shall serue with the Assyrians.
24 In that day shall Israel bee the third with Egypt, and with Assyria, euen a
blessing in the midst of the land:
25 Whom the Lord of hosts shal blesse, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and
Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
CHAPTER
20
1 In the yeere that Tartan came vnto Ashdod (when Sargon the king of Assyria
sent him) and fought against Ashdod and tooke it:
2 At the same time spake the Lord by Isaiah the sonne of Amoz, saying, Go and
loose the sackcloth from off thy loynes, and put off thy shooe from thy foot:
and he did so, walking naked and bare foot.
3 And the Lord said, Like as my seruant Isaiah hath walked naked and bare foote
three yeeres for a signe and wonder vpon Egypt and vpon Ethiopia:
4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the
Ethiopians captiues, yong and old, naked and bare foote, euen with their
buttocks vncouered, to the shame of Egypt.
5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of
Egypt their glory.
6 And the inhabitant of this yle shall say in that day; Behold, such is our
expectation whither we flee for helpe to be deliuered from the king of Assyria:
and how shall we escape?
CHAPTER
21
1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlewinds in the South passe
thorough; so it commeth from the desert, from a terrible land.
2 A grieuous vision is declared vnto me; The treacherous dealer dealeth
treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth: Goe, vp O Elam: besiege, O Media: all
the sighing thereof haue I made to cease.
3 Therefore are my loynes filled with paine, pangs haue taken hold vpon me, as
the pangs of a woman that trauelleth: I was bowed downe at the hearing of it, I
was dismayed at the seeing of it.
4 My heart panted, fearefulnesse affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he
turned into feare vnto me.
5 Prepare the table, watch in the watch-tower, eate, drinke: arise yee princes,
and anoint the shield.
6 For thus hath the Lord sayd vnto me; Goe, set a watchman, let him declare what
he seeth.
7 And he saw a charet with a couple of horsemen, a charet of asses, and a charet
of camels; and hee hearkened diligently with much heede.
8 And he cryed; A lyon: my Lord, I stand continually vpon the watch-tower in the
day time, and I am set in my ward whole nights.
9 And behold, heere commeth a charet of men with a couple of horsemen: and he
answered and sayd; Babylon is fallen, is fallen, and all the grauen images of
her Gods he hath broken vnto the ground.
10 O my threshing and the corne of my floore: that which I haue heard of the
Lord of hostes the God of Israel, haue I declared vnto you.
11 The burden of Dumah. Hee calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the
night? Watchman, what of the night?
12 The watchman sayd; The morning commeth, and also the night: if yee will
enquire, enquire yee: returne, come.
13 The burden vpon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall yee lodge, O yee
trauelling companies of Dedanim.
14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty,
they preuented with their bread him that fled.
15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawen sword, and from the bent bow,
and from the grieuousnesse of warre.
16 For thus hath the Lord sayd vnto me: Within a yeere, according to the yeeres
of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall faile.
17 And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of
Kedar shalbe diminished: for the Lord God of Israel hath spoken it.
CHAPTER
22
1 The burden of the valley of vision. What ayleth thee now, that thou art wholly
gone vp to the house toppes?
2 Thou that art full of stirres, a tumultuous citie, a ioyous citie: thy slaine
men are not slaine with the sword, nor dead in battell.
3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are
found in thee are bound together, which haue fled from farre.
4 Therefore sayd I; Looke away from me, I will weepe bitterly, labour not to
comfort me; because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading downe, and of perplexitie by the
Lord God of hostes in the valley of vision, breaking downe the walles, and of
crying to the mountaines.
6 And Elam bare the quiuer with charets of men and horsemen, and Kir vncouered
the shield.
7 And it shall come to passe that thy choicest valleys shall be full of charets,
and the horsemen shall set themselues in aray at the gate.
8 And he discouered the couering of Iudah, and thou diddest looke in that day to
the armour of the house of the forrest.
9 Ye haue seene also the breaches of the citie of Dauid, that they are many: and
ye gathered together the waters of the lower poole.
10 And ye haue numbred the houses of Ierusalem, and the houses haue yee broken
downe to fortifie the wall.
11 Ye made also a ditch betweene the two walles, for the water of the olde poole:
but ye haue not looked vnto the maker thereof, neither had respect vnto him that
fashioned it long agoe.
12 And in that day did the Lord God of hostes call to weeping and to mourning,
and to baldnesse, and to girding with sackecloth.
13 And behold ioy and gladnesse, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh,
and drinking wine; let vs eate and drinke, for to morrow we shall die.
14 And it was reuealed in mine eares by the Lord of hostes; surely this
iniquitie shall not be purged from you, till yee die, sayth the Lord God of
hostes.
15 Thus sayth the Lord God of hostes, Goe, get thee vnto this treasurer, euen
vnto Shebna, which is ouer the house, and say;
16 What hast thou here? And whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a
sepulchre here, as hee that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graueth
an habitation for himselfe in a rocke?
17 Behold; the Lord will cary thee away with a mightie captiuitie, and will
surely couer thee.
18 He will surely violently turne and tosse thee, like a ball into a large
countrey: there shalt thou die, and there the charets of thy glory shall be the
shame of thy Lords house.
19 And I will driue thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee
downe.
20 And it shall come to passe in that day, that I will call my seruant Eliakim
the sonne of Hilkiah:
21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and
I wil commit thy gouernment into his hand, and he shalbe a father to the
inhabitants of Ierusalem, and to the house of Iudah.
22 And the key of the house of Dauid will I lay vpon his shoulder: so he shall
open and none shall shut, and he shall shut and none shall open.
23 And I will fasten him as a naile in asure place, and he shalbe for a glorious
throne to his fathers house.
24 And they shall hang vpon him all the glory of his fathers house, the
offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantitie: from the vessels of
cups, euen to all the vessels of flagons.
25 In that day, sayth the Lord of hostes, shall the naile that is fastened in
the sure place, be remooued, and be cut downe and fall: and the burden that was
vpon it shall bee cut off: for the Lord hath spoken it.
CHAPTER
23
1 The burden of Tyre. Howle yee ships of Tarshish, for it is laide waste, so
that there is no house, no entring in: from the land of Chittim it is reuealed
to them.
2 Be still, yee inhabitants of the yle, thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that
passe ouer the sea, haue replenished.
3 And by great waters the seede of Sihor, the haruest of the riuer is her
reuenew, and she is a mart of nations.
4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon; for the sea hath spoken, euen the strength of the
sea, saying; I trauell not, nor bring foorth children, neither doe I nourish vp
yong men, nor bring vp virgines.
5 As at the report concerning Egypt, so shal they be sorely pained at the report
of Tyre.
6 Passe ye ouer to Tarshish, howle ye inhabitants of the yle.
7 Is this your ioyous citie, whose antiquitie is of ancient dayes? her owne
feete shall cary her afarre off to soiourne.
8 Who hath taken this counsell against Tyre the crowning citie, whose merchants
are princes, whose traffiquers are the honourable of the earth?
9 The Lord of hostes hath purposed it, to staine the pride of all glory, and to
bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
10 Passe through thy land as a riuer O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more
strength.
11 He stretched out his hand ouer the sea, hee shooke the kingdomes: the Lord
hath giuen a commandement against the merchant citie, to destroy the strong
holdes thereof.
12 And he said, Thou shalt no more reioice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of
Zidon: arise, passe ouer to Chittim, there also shalt thou haue no rest.
13 Behold, the land of the Caldeans, this people was not till the Assyrian
founded it for them that dwel in the wildernesse: they set vp the towers
thereof, they raised vp the palaces thereof, and he brought it to ruine.
14 Howle ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
15 And it shall come to passe in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seuentie
yeeres according to the dayes of one king: after the end of seuentie yeeres
shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
16 Take an harpe, goe about the city thou harlot, that hast beene forgotten,
make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembred.
17 And it shall come to passe after the ende of seuentie yeeres, that the Lord
will visite Tyre, and shee shall turne to her hire, and shall commit fornication
with all the kingdomes of the world vpon the face of the earth.
18 And her merchandize and her hire shall be holinesse to the Lord: it shall not
be treasured nor laid vp: for her merchandize shalbe for them that dwell before
the Lord, to eate sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
CHAPTER
24
1 Behold, the Lord maketh the earth emptie, and maketh it waste, and turneth it
vpside downe, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
2 And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest, as with the seruant,
so with his master, as with the maid, so with her mistresse, as with the buyer,
so with the seller, as with the lender, so with the borower, as with the taker
of vsurie, so with the giuer of vsurie to him.
3 The land shall be vtterly emptied, and vtterly spoiled: for the Lord hath
spoken this word.
4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the
haughtie people of the earth doe languish.
5 The earth also is defiled vnder the inhabitants thereof: because they haue
transgressed the lawes, changed the ordinance, broken the euerlasting couenant.
6 Therefore hath the curse deuoured the earth, and they that dwell therin are
desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merrie hearted doe sigh.
8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that reioyce, endeth, the ioy
of the harpe ceaseth.
9 They shall not drinke wine with a song, strong drinke shall bee bitter to them
that drinke it.
10 The city of confusion is broken downe: euery house is shut vp, that no man
may come in.
11 There is a crying for wine in the streets, all ioy is darkened, the mirth of
the land is gone.
12 In the citie is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
13 When thus it shalbe in the midst of the land among the people: there shall be
as the shaking of an oliue tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is
done.
14 They shal lift vp their voice, they shal sing, for the maiesty of the Lord,
they shall crie aloud from the sea.
15 Wherefore, glorifie ye the Lord in the fires, euen the Name of the Lord God
of Israel in the yles of the Sea.
16 From the vttermost part of the earth haue we heard songs, euen glory to the
righteous: but I said, My leannesse, my leannesse, woe vnto me: the treacherous
dealers haue dealt treacherously, yea the treacherous dealers haue dealt very
treacherously.
17 Feare, and the pit, & the snare are vpon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to passe, that he who fleeth from the noise of the feare,
shall fall into the pit; and he that commeth vp out of the midst of the pit,
shalbe taken in the snare: for the windowes from on high are open, and the
foundations of the earth doe shake.
19 The earth is vtterly broken downe, the earth is cleane dissolued, the earth
is moued exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reele to and fro, like a drunkard, and shall be remooued like
a cottage, and the transgression thereof shall be heauie vpon it, and it shall
fall, and not rise againe.
21 And it shall come to passe in that day, that the Lord shall punish the hoste
of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth vpon the earth.
22 And they shalbe gathered together as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and
shall be shut vp in the prison, and after many dayes shall they bee visited.
23 Then the Moone shall be confounded, and the Sunne ashamed, when the Lord of
hosts shall reigne in mount Zion and in Ierusalem, and before his ancients
gloriously.
CHAPTER
25
1 O Lord, thou art my God, I will exalt thee, I will praise thy Name; for thou
hast done wonderfull things; thy counsels of old are faithfulnesse and trueth.
2 For thou hast made of a citie, an heape; of a defenced city, a ruine: a palace
of strangers, to be no citie, it shall neuer be built.
3 Therefore shall the strong people glorifie thee, the city of the terrible
nations shall feare thee.
4 For thou hast bene a strength to the poore, a strength to the needy in his
distresse, a refuge from the storme, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of
the terrible ones is as a storme against the wall.
5 Thou shalt bring downe the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place;
euen the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shalbe
brought low.
6 And in this mountaine shall the Lord of hostes make vnto all people a feast of
fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines
on the lees well refined.
7 And he wil destroy in this mountaine the face of the couering cast ouer all
people, and the vaile that is spread ouer all nations.
8 He will swallow vp death in victorie, and the Lord God wil wipe away teares
from off al faces, and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all
the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.
9 And it shalbe said in that day, Loe, this is our God, we haue waited for him,
and he will saue vs: this is the Lord, we haue waited for him, we wil be glad,
and reioyce in his saluation.
10 For in this mountaine shall the hand of the Lord rest, and Moab shalbe troden
downe vnder him, euen as straw is troden downe for the dounghill.
11 And hee shall spread foorth his hands in the midst of them, as hee that
swimmeth spreadeth foorth his hands to swimme: and hee shall bring downe their
pride together with the spoiles of their hands.
12 And the fortresse of the high fort of thy walles shall hee bring downe, lay
low, and bring to the ground, euen to the dust.
CHAPTER
26
1 In that day shall this song bee sung in the land of Iudah; Wee haue a strong
citie, saluation will God appoint for walles and bulwarkes.
2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the trueth may
enter in.
3 Thou wilt keepe him in perfect peace, whose minde is stayed on thee; because
he trusteth in thee.
4 Trust ye in the Lord for euer: for in the Lord Iehouah is euerlasting
strength.
5 For hee bringeth downe them that dwell on high, the loftie citie he layeth it
low; he layeth it low, euen to the ground, he bringeth it euen to the dust.
6 The foote shall treade it downe, euen the feete of the poore, and the steps of
the needie.
7 The way of the iust is vprightnesse: thou most vpright, doest weigh the path
of the iust.
8 Yea in the way of thy Iudgements, O Lord, haue we waited for thee; the desire
of our soule is to thy Name, and to the remembrance of thee.
9 With my soule haue I desired thee in the night, yea with my spirit within me
will I seeke thee early: for when thy iudgements are in the earth, the
inhabitants of the world will learne righteousnesse.
10 Let fauour be shewed to the wicked, yet will hee not learne righteousnesse:
in the land of vprightnesse will he deale vniustly, and will not behold the
maiestie of the Lord.
11 Lord, when thy hand is lifted vp, they will not see: but they shall see, and
be ashamed for their enuie at the people, yea the fire of thine enemies shall
deuoure them.
12 Lord, thou wilt ordaine peace for vs: for thou also hast wrought all our
workes in vs.
13 O Lord our God, other lordes besides thee haue had dominion ouer vs: but by
thee only will we make mention of thy Name.
14 They are dead, they shall not liue; they are deceased, they shall not rise:
therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to
perish.
15 Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation, thou
art glorified; thou hadst remooued it farre vnto all the ends of the earth.
16 Lord, in trouble haue they visited thee: they powred out a prayer when thy
chastening was vpon them.
17 Like as a woman with childe that draweth neere the time of her deliuerie, is
in paine and cryeth out in her pangs; so haue wee beene in thy sight, O Lord.
18 Wee haue beene with childe, wee haue beene in paine, we haue as it were
brought foorth winde, wee haue not wrought any deliuerance in the earth, neither
haue the inhabitants of the world fallen.
19 Thy dead men shall liue, together with my dead body shall they arise: awake
and sing yee that dwell in dust: for thy dewe is as the dewe of herbes, and the
earth shall cast out the dead.
20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doores about
thee; hide thy selfe as it were for a little moment, vntill the indignation be
ouerpast.
21 For behold, the Lord commeth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of
the earth for their iniquitie: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and
shall no more couer her slaine.
CHAPTER
27
1 In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sworde shall punish
Leuiathan the piercing serpent, euen Leuiathan that crooked serpent, and hee
shall slay the dragon that is in the Sea.
2 In that day, sing yee vnto her; A vineyard of red wine.
3 I the Lord doe keepe it; I will water it euery moment: lest any hurt it, I
will keepe it night and day.
4 Furie is not in mee: who would set the briars and thornes against me in
battell? I would goe through them, I would burne them together.
5 Or let him take holde of my strength, that he may make peace with me, and he
shall make peace with me.
6 Hee shall cause them that come of Iacob to take roote: Israel shall blossome
and budde, and fill the face of the world with fruite.
7 Hath hee smitten him, as hee smote those that smote him? or is hee slaine
according to the slaughter of them that are slaine by him?
8 In measure when it shooteth foorth, thou wilt debate with it: hee stayeth his
rough winde in the day of the East winde.
9 By this therefore shall the iniquitie of Iacob be purged, and this is all the
fruit, to take away his sinne: when he maketh all the stones of the Altar as
chalke stones, that are beaten in sunder, the groues and images shall not stand
vp.
10 Yet the defenced citie shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and
left like a wildernesse: there shall the calfe feede, and there shall he lie
downe, and consume the branches thereof.
11 When the boughes thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women
come and set them on fire: for it is a people of no vnderstanding: therefore hee
that made them will not haue mercie on them, and hee that formed them, will
shewe them no fauour.
12 And it shall come to passe in that day, that the Lord shall beate off from
the chanell of the riuer vnto the streame of Egypt, and ye shall bee gathered
one by one, O ye children of Israel.
13 And it shall come to passe in that day, that the great trumpet shall bee
blowen, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria,
and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy
mount at Ierusalem.
CHAPTER
28
1 Woe to the crowne of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty
is a fading flowre, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are
ouercome with wine.
2 Behold, the Lord hath a mightie and strong one, which as a tempest of haile
and a destroying storme, as a flood of mightie waters ouerflowing, shall cast
downe to the earth with the hand.
3 The crowne of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim shall be troden vnder feete.
4 And the glorious beautie which is on the head of the fat valley, shall bee a
fading flowre, and as the hastie fruite before the summer: which when he that
looketh vpon it, seeth it, while it is yet in his hand, he eateth it vp.
5 In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crowne of glory, and for a
diademe of beautie vnto the residue of his people:
6 And for a spirit of iudgement to him that sitteth in iudgement, and for
strength to them that turne the battell to the gate.
7 But they also haue erred through wine, and through strong drinke are out of
the way: the priest and the prophet haue erred through strong drinke, they are
swallowed vp of wine: they are out of the way through strong drinke, they erre
in vision, they stumble in iudgement.
8 For all tables are full of vomite and filthinesse, so that there is no place
cleane.
9 Whome shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to vnderstand doctrine?
them that are weaned from the milke, and drawen from the breasts.
10 For precept must be vpon precept, precept vpon precept, line vpon line, line
vpon line, here a litle, and there a litle.
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speake to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherwith ye may cause the weary to rest,
and this is the refreshing, yet they would not heare.
13 But the word of the Lord was vnto them, precept vpon precept, precept vpon
precept, line vpon line, line vpon line, here a litle and there a litle: that
they might goe and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14 Wherefore heare the worde of the Lord, yee scornefull men, that rule this
people which is in Ierusalem.
15 Because ye haue said, Wee haue made a couenant with death, and with hell are
we at agreement, when the ouerflowing scourge shall passe thorow, it shall not
come vnto vs: for wee haue made lies our refuge, and vnder falsehood haue we hid
our selues:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Beholde, I lay in Zion for a foundation, a
stone, a tryed stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: hee that
beleeueth, shall not make haste.
17 Iudgement also will I lay to the line, and righteousnesse to the plummet: and
the haile shall sweepe away the refuge of lyes, and the waters shall ouerflow
the hiding place.
18 And your couenant with death shalbe disanulled, and your agreement with hell
shall not stand; when the ouerflowing scourge shall passe thorough, then yee
shalbe troden downe by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth, it shall take you: for morning by morning
shall it passe ouer, by day and by night, and it shalbe a vexation, onely to
vnderstand the report.
20 For the bed is shorter, then that a man can stretch himselfe on it: and the
couering narrower, then that he can wrap himselfe in it.
21 For the Lord shall rise vp as in mount Perazim, he shalbe wroth as in the
valley of Gibeon, that he may doe his worke, his strange worke; and bring to
passe his act, his strange act.
22 Now therefore be yee not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I haue
heard from the Lord God of hostes a consumption euen determined vpon the whole
earth.
23 Giue yee eare, and heare my voyce, hearken and heare my speach.
24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and breake the clods of
his ground?
25 When hee hath made plaine the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the
fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principall wheate, and the
appointed barly and the rye in their place?
26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a
cart wheele turned about vpon the cummin: but the fitches are beaten out with a
staffe, and the cummin with a rodde.
28 Bread corne is bruised; because he will not euer be threshing it, nor breake
it with the wheele of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
29 This also commeth forth from the Lord of hostes, which is wonderfull in
counsell, and excellent in working.
CHAPTER
29
1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel the citie where Dauid dwelt: adde yee yeere to yeere;
let them kill sacrifices.
2 Yet I will distresse Ariel, and there shalbe heauinesse and sorrow; and it
shall be vnto mee as Ariel.
3 And I will campe against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee
with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
4 And thou shalt bee brought downe, and shalt speake out of the ground, and thy
speach shall be low out of the dust, and thy voyce shalbe as of one that hath a
familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speach shall whisper out of the
dust.
5 Moreouer the multitude of thy strangers shalbe like small dust, and the
multitude of the terrible ones shalbe as chaffe, that passeth away; yea it
shalbe at an instant suddenly.
6 Thou shalt bee visited of the Lord of hostes with thunder, and with
earthquake, and great noise, with storme and tempest, and the flame of deuouring
fire.
7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, euen all that
fight against her and her munition, and that distresse her, shalbe as a dreame
of a night vision.
8 It shall euen be as when a hungry man dreameth, and behold he eateth; but he
awaketh, and his soule is emptie: or as when a thirstie man dreameth, and behold
he drinketh; but hee awaketh, and behold he is faint, and his soule hath
appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations bee, that fight against
mount Zion.
9 Stay your selues and wonder, cry yee out, and cry: they are drunken, but not
with wine, they stagger, but not with strong drinke.
10 For the Lord hath powred out vpon you the spirit of deepe sleepe, and hath
closed your eyes: the Prophets and your rulers, the Seers hath hee couered.
11 And the vsion of all is become vnto you, as the wordes of a booke that is
sealed, which men deliuer to one that is learned, saying, Reade this, I pray
thee: and hee saith, I cannot, for it is sealed.
12 And the booke is deliuered to him that is not learned, saying, Reade this, I
pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw neere mee with their
mouth, and with their lips doe honour me, but haue remoued their heart farre
from me, and their feare towards mee is taught by the precept of men:
14 Therefore behold, I will proceed to do a marueilous worke amongst this
people, euen a marueilous worke and a wonder: for the wisedome of their wise men
shall perish, and the vnderstanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
15 Woe vnto them that seeke deepe to hide their counsell from the Lord, and
their workes are in the darke, and they say, Who seeth vs? and who knoweth vs?
16 Surely your turning of things vpside downe shall be esteemed as the potters
clay: for shall the worke say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the
thing framed, say of him that framed it, He had no vnderstanding?
17 Is it not yet a very litle while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful
field, and the fruitfull field shall be esteemed as a forrest?
18 And in that day shall the deafe heare the words of the booke, and the eyes of
the blind shall see out of obscuritie, and out of darkenesse.
19 The meeke also shall increase their ioy in the Lord, and the poore among men
shall reioice in the holy One of Israel.
20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and
all that watch for iniquitie are cut off:
21 That make a man an offendour for a word, and lay a snare for him that
reproueth in the gate, and turne aside the iust for a thing of nought.
22 Therefore thus saith the Lord who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of
Iacob: Iacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now waxe pale.
23 But when hee seeth his children the worke of mine hands in the midst of him,
they shall sanctifie my Name, and sanctifie the Holy One of Iacob, and shall
feare the God of Israel.
24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to vnderstanding, and they that
murmured, shall learne doctrine.
CHAPTER
30
1 Woe to the rebellious children, sayth the Lord, that take counsell, but not of
mee; and that couer with a couering, but not of my Spirit, that they may adde
sinne to sinne:
2 That walke to goe downe into Egypt, (and haue not asked at my mouth) to
strengthen themselues in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of
Egypt.
3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the
shadow of Egypt, your confusion.
4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an helpe
nor profite, but a shame and also a reproch.
6 The burden of the beastes of the South: into the lande of trouble and anguish,
from whence come the yong and old lyon, the viper, and fierie flying serpent,
they will carie their riches vpon the shoulders of yong asses, and their
treasures vpon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profite them.
7 For the Egyptians shall helpe in vaine, and to no purpose: Therefore haue I
cried concerning this: Their strength is to sit still.
8 Now goe, write it before them in a table, and note it in a booke, that it may
bee for the time to come for euer and euer:
9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not heare
the Law of the Lord:
10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophecie not vnto vs
right things: speake vnto vs smooth things, prophecie deceits.
11 Get ye out of the way: turne aside out of the path: cause the Holy one of
Israel to cease from before vs.
12 Wherefore, thus saith the Holy one of Israel: Because ye despise this word,
and trust in oppression and peruersnesse, and stay thereon:
13 Therefore this iniquitie shalbe to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling
out in a high wall, whose breaking commeth suddenly at an instant.
14 And he shall breake it as the breaking of the potters vessell, that is broken
in pieces, he shall not spare; so that there shall not be found in the bursting
of it, a sheard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withall out of
the pit.
15 For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy one of Israel, In returning and rest
shall ye be saued, in quietnesse and in confidence shalbe your strength, and ye
would not:
16 But ye said; No, for we will flee vpon horses; therefore shall ye flee. And
we will ride vpon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you, be swift.
17 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one: at the rebuke of fiue, shall ye
flee, till ye be left as a beacon vpon the top of a mountaine, and as an ensigne
on a hill.
18 And therefore wil the Lord wait that he may be gracious vnto you, and
therefore wil he be exalted that he may haue mercy vpon you: for the Lord is a
God of Iudgment. Blessed are all they that wait for him.
19 For the people shall dwel in Zion at Ierusalem: thou shalt weepe no more: hee
will be very gracious vnto thee, at the voice of thy cry; when he shall heare
it, he will answere thee.
20 And though the Lord giue you the bread of aduersitie, and the water of
affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be remooued into a corner any more: but
thine eyes shall see thy teachers.
21 And thine eares shall heare a word behinde thee, saying; This is the way,
walke ye in it, when ye turne to the right hand, and when ye turne to the left.
22 Ye shall defile also the couering of thy grauen images of siluer, and the
ornament of thy moulten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a
menstruous cloth, thou shalt say vnto it; Get thee hence.
23 Then shall he giue the raine of thy seed that thou shalt sow the ground
withall; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shalbe fat and
plenteous: in that day shall thy cattell feed in large pastures.
24 The oxen likewise and the yong asses that eare the ground, shall eate cleane
prouender which hath bene winnowed with the shouell and with the fanne.
25 And there shall be vpon euery high mountaine, and vpon euery high hill,
riuers and streames of waters, in the day of the great slaughter when the towers
fall.
26 Moreouer the light of the Moone shalbe as the light of the Sunne, and the
light of the Sunne shall be seuenfold, as the light of seuen dayes, in the day
that the Lord bindeth vp the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of
their wound.
27 Beholde, the Name of the Lord commeth from farre, burning with his anger, and
the burden thereof is heauy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as
a deuouring fire.
28 And his breath as an ouerflowing streame, shall reach to the midst of the
necke, to sift the nations with the sieue of vanitie: and there shalbe a bridle
in the iawes of the people causing them to erre.
29 Yee shall haue a song as in the night, when a holy solemnitie is kept, and
gladnesse of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountaine of
the Lord, to the mighty one of Israel.
30 And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the
lighting downe of his arme, with the indignation of his anger, and with the
flame of a deuouring fire, with scattering and tempest and hailestones.
31 For through the voyce of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten downe, which
smote with a rod.
32 And in euery place where the grounded staffe shall passe, which the Lord
shall lay vpon him, it shall be with tabrets and harpes: and in battels of
shaking will he fight with it.
33 For Tophet is ordained of olde; yea, for the king it is prepared, he hath
made it deepe and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood, the breath of
the Lord, like a streame of brimstone, doeth kindle it.
CHAPTER
31
1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for helpe, and stay on horses, and trust in
charets, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong:
but they looke not vnto the Holy one of Israel, neither seeke the Lord.
2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring euill, and wil not call backe his words:
but will arise against the house of the euill doers, and against the helpe of
them that worke iniquitie.
3 Now the Egyptians are men and not God, and their horses flesh and not spirit:
when the Lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and
hee that is holpen shall fall downe, and they all shall faile together.
4 For thus hath the Lord spoken vnto me; Like as the lyon and the yong lyon
roaring on his pray, when a multitude of shepheards is called foorth against
him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himselfe for the noyse of
them: so shall the Lord of hostes come downe to fight for mount Zion, and for
the hill thereof.
5 As birds flying, so wil the Lord of hostes defend Ierusalem, defending also
hee will deliuer it, and passing ouer, he will preserue it.
6 Turne yee vnto him from whom the children of Israel haue deeply reuolted.
7 For in that day euery man shall cast away his idoles of siluer, and his idoles
of gold, which your owne hands haue made vnto you for a sinne.
8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mightie man; and the
sword, not of a meane man, shal deuoure him: but hee shall flee from the sword,
and his young men shall be discomfited.
9 And hee shall passe ouer to his strong holde for feare, and his princes shall
be afraid of the ensigne, sayth the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his fornace
in Ierusalem.
CHAPTER
32
1 Behold, a King shal reigne in righteousnes, and princes shal rule in iudgement.
2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the winde, and a couert from the
tempest: as riuers of water in a drie place, as the shadow of a great rocke in a
wearie land.
3 And the eyes of them that see, shall not be dimme; and the eares of them that
heare, shall hearken.
4 The heart also of the rash shall vnderstand knowledge, and the tongue of the
stammerers shall bee readie to speake plainely.
5 The vile person shall be no more called liberall, nor the churle sayd to be
bountifull.
6 For the vile person wil speake villenie, and his heart will worke iniquitie,
to practise hypocrisie, and to vtter errour against the Lord, to make emptie the
soule of the hungry, and hee will cause the drinke of the thirstie to faile.
7 The instruments also of the churle are euill: he deuiseth wicked deuices, to
destroy the poore with lying wordes, euen when the needie speaketh right.
8 But the liberall deuiseth liberall things, and by liberall things shall hee
stand.
9 Rise vp ye women that are at ease: heare my voice, ye carelesse daughters,
giue eare vnto my speech.
10 Many dayes and yeeres shall ye be troubled, yee carelesse women: for the
vintage shall faile, the gathering shall not come.
11 Tremble yee women that are at ease: be troubled, ye carelesse ones, strip ye
and make ye bare, and gird sackecloth vpon your loynes.
12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fieldes, for the fruitfull
vine.
13 Upon the land of my people shall come vp thornes, and briars, yea vpon all
the houses of ioy in the ioyous citie.
14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken, the multitude of the citie shall be
left, the forts and towres shall be for dennes for euer, a ioy of wild asses, a
pasture of flockes;
15 Untill the spirit be powred vpon vs from on high, and the wildernesse be a
fruitfull field, and the fruitfull field be counted for a forrest.
16 Then iudgement shall dwell in the wildernesse, and righteousnesse remaine in
the fruitfull field.
17 And the worke of righteousnesse shalbe peace, and the effect of
righteousnesse, quietnesse and assurance for euer.
18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings,
and in quiet resting places:
19 When it shall haile, comming downe on the forrest; and the citie shall be low
in a low place.
20 Blessed are yee that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feete
of the oxe and the asse.
CHAPTER
33
1 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest
treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee: when thou shalt cease
to spoile, thou shalt bee spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deale
treacherously, they shall deale treacherously with thee.
2 O Lord, be gratious vnto vs, we haue waited for thee: be thou their arme euery
morning, our saluation also in the time of trouble.
3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled: at the lifting vp of thy selfe the
nations were scattered.
4 And your spoile shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as
the running to and fro of Locusts shall he runne vpon them.
5 The Lord is exalted: for hee dwelleth on high, he hath filled Zion with
iudgement and righteousnesse.
6 And wisedome and knowledge shall be the stabilitie of thy times, and strength
of saluation: the feare of the Lord is his treasure.
7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadours of peace shall
weepe bitterly.
8 The high wayes lye waste; the way faring man ceaseth: he hath broken the
couenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
9 The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewen downe: Sharon
is like a wildernes, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
10 Now will I rise, saith the Lord: now will I be exalted, now will I lift vp my
selfe.
11 Yee shall conceiue chaffe, yee shall bring forth stubble: your breath as fire
shall deuoure you.
12 And the people shalbe as the burnings of lyme: as thornes cut vp shall they
be burnt in the fire.
13 Heare yee that are farre off, what I haue done; and yee that are neere,
acknowledge my might.
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid, fearefulnesse hath surprised the hypocrites:
who among vs shall dwell with the deuouring fire? who amongst vs shall dwell
with euerlasting burnings?
15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh vprightly, hee that despiseth the
gaine of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that
stoppeth his eares from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing
euill:
16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shalbe the munitions of rocks,
bread shalbe giuen him, his waters shall be sure.
17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that
is very farre off.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terrour; Where is the scribe? where is the
receiuer? where is he that counted the towres?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech then thou
canst perceiue; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not vnderstand.
20 Looke vpon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Ierusalem
a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken downe, not one of the
stakes thereof shall euer be remoued, neither shall any of the coardes thereof
be broken.
21 But there the glorious Lord will be vnto vs a place of broad riuers and
streames; wherein shall goe no galley with oares, neither shall gallant ship
passe thereby.
22 For the Lord is our Iudge, the Lord is our Lawgiuer, the Lord is our King, he
wil saue vs.
23 Thy tacklings are loosed: they could not well strengthen their mast, they
could not spread the saile: then is the praye of a great spoile diuided, the
lame take the praye.
24 And the inhabitant shall not say; I am sicke: the people that dwel therein
shalbe forgiuen their iniquitie.
CHAPTER
34
1 Come neere ye nations to heare, and hearken ye people: let the earth heare,
and all that is therein, the world, and all things that come forth of it.
2 For the indignation of the Lord is vpon all nations, and his furie vpon all
their armies: hee hath vtterly destroyed them, he hath deliuered them to the
slaughter.
3 Their slaine also shalbe cast out, and their stinke shall come vp out of their
carkeises, and the mountaines shalbe melted with their blood.
4 And all the hoste of heauen shalbe dissolued, and the heauens shalbe rouled
together as a scrole: and all their hoste shall fall downe as the leafe falleth
off from the Uine, and as a falling figge from the figge tree.
5 For my sword shall bee bathed in heauen: beholde, it shall come downe vpon
Idumea, and vpon the people of my curse to iudgement.
6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatnesse, and
with the blood of lambes and goates, with the fat of the kidneys of rammes: for
the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
7 And the Unicornes shall come downe with them, and the bullockes with the
bulles, and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with
fatnesse.
8 For it is the day of the Lords vengeance, and the yeere of recompences for the
controuersie of Zion.
9 And the streames thereof shalbe turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into
brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
10 It shal not be quenched night nor day, the smoke thereof shall goe vp for
euer: from generation to generation it shall lye waste, none shal passe through
it for euer and euer.
11 The cormorant and the bitterne shall possesse it, the owle also and the rauen
shall dwell in it, and he shall stretch out vpon it the line of confusion, and
the stones of emptinesse.
12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdome, but none shall bee there,
and all her Princes shall bee nothing.
13 And thornes shall come vp in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the
fortresses thereof: and it shalbe an habitation of dragons, and a court for
owles.
14 The wilde beasts of the desert shall also meete with the wilde beasts of the
Iland and the satyre shall cry to his felow, the shrichowle also shall rest
there, & finde for her selfe a place of rest.
15 There shall the great owle make her nest, and lay and hatch, and gather vnder
her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, euery one with her mate.
16 Seeke ye out of the booke of the Lord, and reade: no one of these shall faile,
none shall want her mate: for my mouth, it hath commaunded, and his spirit, it
hath gathered them.
17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath diuided it vnto them by
line: they shall possesse it for euer, from generation to generation shall they
dwell therein.
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35
1 The wildernesse and the solitarie place shall be glad for them: and the desert
shall reioyce and blossome as the rose.
2 It shall blossome abundantly, and reioyce euen with ioy and singing: the glory
of Lebanon shal be giuen vnto it, the excellencie of Carmel and Sharon: they
shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellencie of our God.
3 Strengthen yee the weake hands, and confirme the feeble knees.
4 Say to them that are of a fearefull heart; Be strong, feare not: behold, your
God will come with vengeance, euen God with a recompence, he will come and saue
you.
5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the eares of the deafe shalbe
vnstopped.
6 Then shall the lame man leape as an Hart, and the tongue of the dumbe sing:
for in the wildernesse shall waters breake out, and streames in the desert.
7 And the parched ground shall become a poole, and the thirstie land springs of
water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shalbe grasse with reeds
and rushes.
8 And an high way shalbe there, and away, and it shall be called the way of
holinesse, the vncleane shall not passe ouer it, but it shall be for those: the
wayfaringmen, though fooles, shall not erre therein.
9 No lyon shalbe there; nor any rauenous beast shall goe vp thereon, it shall
not be found there: but the redeemed shall walke there.
10 And the ransomed of the Lord shall returne and come to Zion with songs, and
euerlasting ioy vpon their heads: they shall obtaine ioy and gladnesse, and
sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
CHAPTER
36
1 Nowe it came to passe in the fourteenth yeere of king Hezekiah, that
Sennacherib king of Assyria came vp against all the defenced cities of Iudah,
and tooke them.
2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh, from Lachish to Ierusalem, vnto king
Hezekiah, with a great armie: and he stood by the conduit of the vpper poole in
the high way of the fullers field.
3 Then came forth vnto him Eliakim Hilkiahs sonne, which was ouer the house, and
Shebna the scribe, and Ioah Asaphs sonne the Recorder.
4 And Rabshakeh sayd vnto them; Say yee now to Hezekiah; Thus saith the great
king, the king of Assyria; What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
5 I say, (sayest thou) (but they are but vaine words) I haue counsell and
strength for warre: Now on whom doest thou trust, that thou rebellest against
me?
6 Loe, thou trustest in the staffe of this broken reede, on Egypt; whereon if a
man leane, it will goe into his hand and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt
to all that trust in him.
7 But if thou say to me; We trust in the Lord our God: Is it not he, whose high
places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and sayd to Iudah and to
Ierusalem; Yee shall worship before this altar?
8 Now therefore giue pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and
I will giue thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders
vpon them.
9 How then wilt thou turne away the face of one captaine of the least of my
masters seruants: and put thy trust on Egypt for charets and for horsemen?
10 And am I now come vp without the Lord against this land to destroy it? the
Lord sayd vnto me; Goe vp against this land and destroy it.
11 Then sayd Eliakim and Shebna & Ioah vnto Rabshakeh; Speake, I pray thee,
vnto thy seruants in the Syrian language; for we vnderstand it: and speake not
to vs in the Iewes language, in the eares of the people that are on the wall.
12 But Rabshakeh sayd; Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee, to
speake these words? Hath he not sent me to the men that sit vpon the wall, that
they may eate their owne dongue, and drinke their owne pisse with you?
13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cryed with a loud voice in the Iewes language, and
sayd; Heare ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
14 Thus saith the king; Let not Hezekiah deceiue you, for he shall not be able
to deliuer you.
15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying; The Lord will surely
deliuer vs: this citie shall not be deliuered into the hand of the King of
Assyria.
16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus sayth the King of Assyria, Make an
agreement with mee by a present, and come out to mee: and eate yee euery one of
his vine, and euery one of his figgetree, and drinke yee euery one the waters of
his owne cisterne:
17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your owne land, a land of corne
and wine, a land of bread and vineyards:
18 Beware lest Hezekiah perswade you, saying; The Lord will deliuer vs. Hath any
of the gods of the nations deliuered his land out of the hand of the king of
Assyria?
19 Where are the gods of Hamath, and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharuaim?
and haue they deliuered Samaria out of my hand?
20 Who are they amongst all the gods of these landes, that haue deliuered their
land out of my hand, that the Lord should deliuer Ierusalem out of my hand?
21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the Kings
commandement was, saying; Answere him not.
22 Then came Eliakim the sonne of Hilkiah, that was ouer the houshold, and
Shebna the Scribe, and Ioah the sonne of Asaph the Recorder, to Hezekiah with
their clothes rent, and tolde him the wordes of Rabshakeh.
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1 And it came to passe when King Hezekiah heard it, that hee rent his clothes,
and couered himselfe with sackecloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
2 And hee sent Eliakim, who was ouer the houshold, and Shebna the Scribe, and
the Elders of the Priestes couered with sackecloth, vnto Isaiah the Prophet the
sonne of Amoz.
3 And they sayd vnto him; Thus sayth Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and
of rebuke, and of blasphemie: for the children are come to the birth, and there
is not strength to bring foorth.
4 It may be the Lord thy God will heare the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of
Assyria his master hath sent to reproch the liuing God, and will reprooue the
words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift vp thy prayer for the
remnant that is left.
5 So the seruants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 And Isaiah sayd vnto them; Thus shall yee say vnto your master, Thus sayth the
Lord, Be not afraid of the wordes that thou hast heard, wherewith the seruants
of the king of Assyria haue blasphemed me.
7 Behold, I will send a blast vpon him, and hee shall heare a rumour, and
returne to his owne land, and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his owne
land.
8 So Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah:
for hee had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Hee is come foorth to
make warre with thee: and when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah,
saying;
10 Thus shall ye speake to Hezekiah King of Iudah, saying, Let not thy God in
whom thou trustest deceiue thee, saying, Ierusalem shall not bee giuen into the
hand of the king of Assyria.
11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria haue done to all lands by
destroying them vtterly, and shalt thou be deliuered?
12 Haue the gods of the nations deliuered them which my fathers haue destroyed,
as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the
citie of Sepharuaim, Hena and Iuah?
14 And Hezekiah receiued the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read
it, and Hezekiah went vp vnto the house of the Lord, and spread it before the
Lord.
15 And Hezekiah prayed vnto the Lord, saying,
16 O Lord of hostes, God of Israel, that dwellest betweene the Cherubims, thou
art the God, euen thou alone, of all the kingdomes of the earth, thou hast made
heauen and earth.
17 Encline thine eare, O Lord, and heare, Open thine eyes, O Lord, and see, and
heare all the wordes of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproch the liuing God.
18 Of a trueth, Lord, the kings of Assyria haue laid waste all the nations and
their countreys,
19 And haue cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work
of mens hands, wood and stone: therfore they haue destroyed them.
20 Now therefore, O Lord our God, saue vs from his hand, that all the kingdomes
of the earth may knowe, that thou art the Lord, euen thou onely.
21 Then Isaiah the sonne of Amoz sent vnto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord
God of Israel, thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:
22 This is the worde which the Lord hath spoken concerning him: The virgin, the
daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorne, the daughter of
Ierusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
23 Whom hast thou reproched and blasphemed? and against whome hast thou exalted
thy voice, and lifted vp thine eyes on high? euen against the Holy One of
Israel.
24 By thy seruants hast thou reproched the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude
of my charets am I come vp to the height of the mountaines, to the sides of
Lebanon, and I wil cut downe the tall cedars thereof, and the choise firre trees
thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forrest of his
Carmel.
25 I haue digged and drunke water, and with the sole of my feete haue I dried vp
all the riuers of the besieged places.
26 Hast thou not heard long agoe, how I haue done it, and of ancient times, that
I haue formed it? now haue I brought it to passe, that thou shouldest be to lay
waste defenced cities into ruinous heapes.
27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and
confounded: they were as the grasse of the field, and as the greene herbe, as
the grasse on the house tops, and as corne blasted before it be growen vp.
28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy comming in, and thy rage
against me.
29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult is come vp into mine eares:
therefore will I put my hooke in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will
turne thee backe by the way by which thou camest.
30 And this shall be a signe vnto thee, Ye shall eate this yeere such as groweth
of it felfe: and the second yeere that which springeth of the same: and in the
third yeere sow ye and reape, and plant vineyards, and eate the fruit thereof.
31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Iudah, shal againe take roote
downeward, and beare fruite vpward.
32 For out of Ierusalem shall goe forth a remnant, and they that escape out of
mount Zion: the zeale of the Lord of hostes shall doe this.
33 Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not
come into this citie, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields,
nor cast a banke against it.
34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he returne, and shall not come
into this citie, saith the Lord.
35 For I will defend this citie to saue it, for mine owne sake, and for my
seruant Dauids sake.
36 Then the Angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the campe of the
Assyrians a hundred and fourescore and fiue thousand: and when they arose earely
in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went, and returned, and dwelt at
Nineueh.
38 And it came to passe as hee was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god,
that Adramelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword, and they escaped
into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his sonne reigned in his stead.
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1 In those daies was Hezekiah sicke vnto death: and Isaiah the Prophet the sonne
of Amoz came vnto him, and said vnto him; Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house
in order: for thou shalt die, and not liue.
2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed vnto the Lord,
3 And said, Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I haue walked before thee
in trueth, and with a perfect heart, and haue done that which is good in thy
sight: and Hezekiah wept sore.
4 Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying,
5 Goe and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of Dauid thy father; I
haue heard thy prayer, I haue seene thy teares: behold, I will adde vnto thy
dayes fifteene yeeres.
6 And I will deliuer thee and this citie, out of the hand of the king of
Assyria: and I will defend this citie.
7 And this shall be a signe vnto thee from the Lord, that the Lord will doe this
thing that he hath spoken.
8 Behold, I will bring againe the shadow of the degrees which is gone downe in
the Sunne-diall of Ahaz ten degrees backward: so the Sunne returned ten degrees,
by which degrees it was gone downe.
9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Iudah, when he had bene sicke, and was
recouered of his sicknesse:
10 I saide in the cutting off of my dayes; I shall goe to the gates of the graue:
I am depriued of the residue of my yeeres.
11 I said, I shal not see the Lord, euen the Lord in the land of the liuing: I
shal behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
12 Mine age is departed, and is remoued from me as a shepheards tent: I haue cut
off like a weauer my life: he will cut mee off with pining sicknesse: from day
euen to night wilt thou make an end of me.
13 I reckoned till morning, that as a Lyon so will hee breake all my bones: from
day euen to night wilt thou make an end of me.
14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter; I did mourne as a doue: mine
eyes faile with looking vpward: O Lord, I am oppressed, vndertake for me.
15 What shall I say? hee hath both spoken vnto mee, and himselfe hath done it: I
shall goe softly, all my yeeres in the bitternesse of my soule.
16 O Lord, by these things men liue: and in all these things is the life of my
spirit, so wilt thou recouer me, and make me to liue.
17 Behold, for peace I had great bitternesse, but thou hast in loue to my soule
deliuered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sinnes
behinde thy backe.
18 For the graue cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: they that goe
downe into the pit cannot hope for thy trueth.
19 The liuing, the liuing, hee shall praise thee, as I doe this day: the father
to the children shall make knowen thy trueth.
20 The Lord was ready to saue me: therefore we will sing my songs to the
stringed instruments, all the dayes of our life, in the house of the Lord.
21 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lumpe of figges, and lay it for a
plaister vpon the boile, and he shall recouer.
22 Hezekiah also had said, what is the signe, that I shall goe vp to the house
of the Lord ?
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1 At that time Merodach Baladan the sonne of Baladan king of Babylon, sent
letters and a present to Hezekiah: for hee had heard that he had bene sicke, and
was recouered.
2 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious
things, the siluer, and the golde, and the spices, and the precious oyntment,
and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there
was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them
not.
3 Then came Isaiah the Prophet vnto King Hezekiah, and sayde vnto him, What sayd
these men? and from whence came they vnto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come
from a farre countrey vnto me, euen from Babylon.
4 Then said hee, What haue they seene in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All
that is in mine house haue they seene: there is nothing among my treasures, that
I haue not shewed them.
5 Then sayde Isaiah to Hezekiah, Heare the word of the Lord of hostes.
6 Behold, the dayes come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy
fathers haue laide vp in store, vntill this day, shalbe caried to Babylon:
nothing shalbe left, saith the Lord.
7 And of thy sonnes that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall
they take away; and they shall bee Eunuches in the palace of the king of
Babylon.
8 Then sayde Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast
spoken: hee sayd moreouer, For there shalbe peace and trueth in my dayes.
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1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, sayth your God.
2 Speake ye comfortably to Ierusalem, and cry vnto her, that her warrefare is
accomplished, that her iniquitie is pardoned: for shee hath receiued of the
Lords hand double for all her sinnes.
3 The voyce of him that cryeth in the wildernesse, Prepare yee the way of the
Lord, make straight in the desert a high way for our God.
4 Euery valley shalbe exalted, and euery mountaine and hill shalbe made low: and
the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plaine.
5 And the glory of the Lord shall be reuealed, and all flesh shall see it
together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
6 The voyce sayd; Cry. And hee sayd; What shall I cry? All flesh is grasse, and
all the goodlinesse thereof is as the flowre of the field.
7 The grasse withereth, the flowre fadeth; because the spirit of the Lord
bloweth vpon it: surely the people is grasse.
8 The grasse withereth, the flowre fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand
for euer.
9 O Zion, that bringest good tydings, get thee vp into the high mountaine: O
Ierusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift vp thy voyce with strength, lift it
vp, be not afraid: say vnto the cities of Iudah; Behold your God.
10 Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arme shall rule for
him: behold, his reward is with him, and his worke before him.
11 He shall feede his flocke like a shepheard: he shall gather the lambes with
his arme; and carie them in his bosome, and shall gently lead those that are
with yoong.
12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand? and meted out heauen
with the spanne, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and
weighed the mountaines in scales, and the hilles in a balance?
13 Who hath directed the spirit of the Lord, or, being his counseller, hath
taught him?
14 With whom tooke he counsell, and who instructed him, and taught him in the
path of iudgement? and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of
vnderstanding?
15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small
dust of the balance: behold, hee taketh vp the yles as a very litle thing.
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burne, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for
a burnt offring.
17 All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him lesse then
nothing, and vanitie.
18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likenesse will ye compare vnto him?
19 The workeman melteth a grauen image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it ouer with
golde, and casteth siluer chaines.
20 He that is so impouerished that he hath no oblation, chooseth a tree that
will not rot; he seeketh vnto him a cunning workeman, to prepare a grauen image
that shall not be mooued.
21 Haue yee not knowen? haue yee not heard? hath it not beene tolde you from the
beginning? haue yee not vnderstood from the foundations of the earth?
22 It is he that sitteth vpon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants
thereof are as grashoppers; that stretcheth out the heauens as a curtaine, and
spreadeth them out as a tent to dwel in:
23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; hee maketh the Iudges of the earth as
vanitie.
24 Yea they shal not be planted, yea they shall not be sowen, yea their stocke
shall not take roote in the earth: and he shall also blow vpon them, & they
shall wither, and the whirlewinde shall take them away as stubble.
25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shal I be equall, saith the Holy One?
26 Lift vp your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that
bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names, by the
greatnesse of his might, for that hee is strong in power, not one faileth.
27 Why sayest thou, O Iacob, and speakest O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord,
and my iudgement is passed ouer from my God?
28 Hast thou not knowen? hast thou not heard, that the euerlasting God, the
Lord, the Creatour of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is wearie?
there is no searching of his vnderstanding.
29 He giueth power to the faint, and to them that haue no might, he increaseth
strength.
30 Euen the youths shall faint, and be weary, and the yong men shall vtterly
fall.
31 But they that waite vpon the Lord, shall renew their strength: they shall
mount vp with wings as Eagles, they shal runne and not be weary, and they shall
walke, and not faint.
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1 Keepe silence before me, O ylands, and let the people renew their strength:
let them come neere, then let them speake: let vs come neere together to
iudgement.
2 Who raised vp the righteous man from the East, called him to his foote, gaue
the nations before him, and made him rule ouer kings? Hee gaue them as the dust
to his sword, and as driuen stuble to his bow.
3 He pursued them, and passed safely; euen by the way, that hee had not gone
with his feete.
4 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I
the Lord the first, and with the last, I am he.
5 The yles saw it and feared, the ends of the earth were afraid, drew neere, and
came.
6 They helped euery one his neighbour, and euery one sayd to his brother, Be of
good courage.
7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the
hammer him that smote the anuill, saying; It is ready for the sodering: and he
fastened it with nayles that it should not be moued.
8 But thou Israel, art my seruant, Iacob whom I haue chosen, the seede of
Abraham my friend.
9 Thou whom I haue taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the
chiefe men thereof, and sayd vnto thee; Thou art my seruant, I haue chosen thee,
and not cast thee away.
10 Feare thou not, for I am with thee: be not dismaied, for I am thy God: I will
strengthen thee, yea I will helpe thee, yea I will vphold thee with the right
hand of my righteousnesse.
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee, shalbe ashamed and
confounded: they shall be as nothing, and they that striue with thee, shall
perish.
12 Thou shalt seeke them, and shalt not find them, euen them that contended with
thee: they that warre against thee shalbe as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
13 For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying vnto thee, Feare not,
I will helpe thee.
14 Feare not, thou worme Iacob, and ye men of Israel: I will helpe thee, saith
the Lord, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharpe threshing instrument hauing teeth: thou
shalt thresh the mountaines, and beate them small, and shalt make the hilles as
chaffe.
16 Thou shalt fanne them, and the winde shall carie them away, and the
whirlewinde shall scatter them: and thou shalt reioyce in the Lord, and shalt
glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17 When the poore and needie seeke water and there is none, and their tongue
faileth for thirst, I the Lord will heare them, I the God of Israel will not
forsake them.
18 I will open riuers in hie places, and fountaines in the midst of the valleys:
I will make the wildernesse a poole of water, and the dry land springs of water.
19 I will plant in the wildernes the Cedar, the Shittah tree, and the Myrtle,
and the Oyle tree: I will set in the desert the Firre tree, and the Pine and the
Boxe tree together:
20 That they may see, and knowe, and consider, and vnderstand together, that the
hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
21 Produce your cause, saith the Lord, bring foorth your strong reasons, saith
the King of Iacob.
22 Let them bring them foorth, and shew vs what shall happen: let them shew the
former things what they bee, that we may consider them, and know the latter end
of them, or declare vs things for to come.
23 Shewe the things that are to come hereafter, that wee may knowe that ye are
gods: yea doe good or doe euill, that we may be dismayed, and behold it
together.
24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your worke of nought: an abomination is he
that chooseth you.
25 I haue raised vp one from the North, and he shall come: from the rising of
the Sunne shall he call vpon my name, and he shall come vpon princes as vpon
morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
26 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and before time, that
we may say, He is righteous? yea there is none that sheweth, yea there is none
that declareth, yea there is none that heareth your words.
27 The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them, and I will giue to
Ierusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
28 For I behelde, and there was no man, euen amongst them, and there was no
counseller, that when I asked of them, could answere a word.
29 Behold, they are all vanitie, their works are nothing: their moulten images
are winde and confusion.
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1 Behold my seruant whome I vphold, mine elect in whom my soule delighteth: I
haue put my Spirit vpon him, he shall bring forth iudgement to the Gentiles.
2 Hee shall not crie, nor lift vp, nor cause his voyce to bee heard in the
streete.
3 A bruised reed shall he not breake, and the smoking flaxe shall hee not
quench: he shall bring forth iudgment vnto trueth.
4 He shall not faile nor be discouraged, till he haue set iudgement in the
earth: and the yles shall waite for his lawe.
5 Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heauens, and stretched them out,
he that spread foorth the earth and that which commeth out of it, he that giueth
breath vnto the people vpon it, and spirit to them that walke therein:
6 I the Lord haue called thee in righteousnes, and wil hold thine hand, and will
keepe thee, and giue thee for a couenant of the people, for a light of the
Gentiles:
7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them
that sit in darkenesse out of the prison house.
8 I am the Lord; that is my name, and my glory will I not giue to another,
neither my praise to grauen images.
9 Behold, the former things are come to passe, and new things doe I declare:
before they spring forth I tell you of them.
10 Sing vnto the Lord a newe song, and his praise from the end of the earth: yee
that goe downe to the sea, and all that is therein; the yles, and the
inhabitants thereof.
11 Let the wildernes and the cities thereof lift vp their voyce, the villages
that Kedar doeth inhabite: let the inhabitants of the rocke sing, let them
shoute from the top of the mountaines.
12 Let them giue glory vnto the Lord, and declare his praise in the Ilands.
13 The Lord shall goe foorth as a mighty man, he shall stirre vp iealousie like
a man of warre: he shall cry, yea roare; hee shall preuaile against his enemies.
14 I haue long time holden my peace, I haue bene still and refrained my selfe:
now wil I cry like a trauailing woman, I will destroy and deuoure at once.
15 I will make waste mountaines and hilles, and dry vp all their herbes, and I
will make the riuers Ilands, and I will dry vp the pooles.
16 And I will bring the blinde by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in
pathes that they haue not knowen: I wil make darkenesse light before them, and
crooked things straight. These things will I doe vnto them, and not forsake
them.
17 They shall be turned backe, they shalbe greatly ashamed, that trust in grauen
images, that say to the moulten images; Ye are our gods.
18 Heare ye deafe, and looke ye blinde that ye may see.
19 Who is blinde, but my seruant? or deafe, as my messenger that I sent? who is
blinde as he that is perfit, and blinde as the Lords seruant?
20 Seeing many things, but thou obseruest not: opening the eares, but he heareth
not.
21 The Lord is well pleased for his righteousnes sake, he will magnifie the Law,
and make it honourable.
22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled, they are all of them snared in
holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a praye, & none
deliuereth; for a spoile, and none saith, Restore.
23 Who among you will giue eare to this? who will hearken, and heare for the
time to come?
24 Who gaue Iacob for a spoile, and Israel to the robbers? Did not the Lord, hee,
against whom wee haue sinned? For they would not walke in his wayes, neither
were they obedient vnto his Law.
25 Therefore he hath powred vpon him the furie of his anger, and the strength of
battell: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet hee knew not; and it
burned him, yet hee layed it not to heart.
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1 But now thus sayeth the Lord that created thee, O Iacob, and hee that formed
thee, O Israel; Feare not: for I haue redeemed thee, I haue called thee by thy
name, thou art mine.
2 When thou passest through the waters, I wil be with thee; and through the
riuers, they shal not ouerflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou
shalt not be burnt; neither shall the flame kindle vpon thee.
3 For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy one of Israel, thy Sauiour: I gaue Egypt
for thy ransome, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
4 Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast bene honourable, and I haue
loued thee: therefore will I giue men for thee, and people for thy life.
5 Feare not, for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the East, and gather
thee from the West.
6 I wil say to the North, Giue vp; and to the South, Keepe not backe: bring my
sonnes from farre, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
7 Euen euery one that is called by my Name: for I haue created him for my glory,
I haue formed him, yea I haue made him.
8 Bring foorth the blinde people, that haue eyes; and the deafe that haue eares.
9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who
among them can declare this, and shew vs former things? Let them bring foorth
their witnesses, that they may be iustified: or let them heare, and say, It is
trueth.
10 Yee are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my seruant whom I haue chosen: that
ye may know and beleeue me, and vnderstand that I am he: before me there was no
God formed, neither shall there be after me.
11 I, euen I am the Lord, and beside me there is no Sauiour.
12 I haue declared, and haue saued, and I haue shewed, when there was no strange
God among you: therefore yee are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God.
13 Yea before the day was, I am hee; and there is none that can deliuer out of
my hand: I will worke, and who shall let it?
14 Thus sayth the Lord your Redeemer, the Holy one of Israel; For your sake I
haue sent to Babylon, and haue brought downe all their nobles, and the Caldeans,
whose crie is in the shippes.
15 I am the Lord, your Holy one, the Creatour of Israel, your King.
16 Thus sayth the Lord, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mightie
waters:
17 Which bringeth foorth the charet and horse, the armie and the power: they
shall lie downe together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are
quenched as towe.
18 Remember yee not the former things, neither consider the things of olde.
19 Behold, I will doe a new thing: now it shall spring foorth, shall yee not
know it? I will euen make a way in the wildernesse, and riuers in the desert.
20 The beast of the field shall honor mee, the dragons and the owles, because I
giue waters in the wildernesse, and riuers in the desert, to giue drinke to my
people, my chosen.
21 This people haue I formed for my selfe, they shall shewe foorth my praise.
22 But thou hast not called vpon me, O Iacob, but thou hast beene wearie of me,
O Israel.
23 Thou hast not brought mee the small cattell of thy burnt offrings, neither
hast thou honoured mee with thy sacrifices. I haue not caused thee to serue with
an offring, nor wearied thee with incense.
24 Thou hast bought mee no sweete cane with money, neither hast thou filled mee
with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made mee to serue with thy sins,
thou hast wearied mee with thine iniquities.
25 I, euen I am hee that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine owne sake, and
will not remember thy sinnes.
26 Put mee in remembrance: let vs plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest
bee iustified.
27 Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers haue transgressed against mee.
28 Therefore I haue profaned the princes of the Sanctuarie, and haue giuen Iacob
to the curse, and Israel to reproches.
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1 Yet now heare, O Iacob my seruant, and Israel whom I haue chosen.
2 Thus sayeth the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the wombe, which wil
helpe thee: Feare not, O Iacob, my seruant, and thou Iesurun, whom I haue
chosen.
3 For I will powre water vpon him that is thirstie, and floods vpon the dry
ground: I will powre my spirit vpon thy seede, and my blessing vpon thine
offspring:
4 And they shall spring vp as among the grasse, as willowes by the water
courses.
5 One shall say, I am the Lords: and another shall call himselfe by the name of
Iacob: and another shall subscribe with his hand vnto the Lord, and surname
himselfe by the name of Israel.
6 Thus saith the Lord the king of Israel and his redeemer the Lord of hostes, I
am the first, and I am the last, and besides me there is no God.
7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me,
since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are comming, and shall
come? let them shew vnto them.
8 Feare yee not, neither be afraid: haue not I told thee from that time, and
haue declared it? yee are euen my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? yea
there is no God, I know not any.
9 They that make a grauen image are all of them vanitie, and their delectable
things shall not profit, and they are their owne witnesses, they see not, nor
know; that they may be ashamed.
10 Who hath formed a God, or moulten a grauen image that is profitable for
nothing?
11 Behold, all his fellowes shall be ashamed: and the workemen, they are of men:
let them all be gathered together, let them stand vp; yet they shal feare, and
they shalbe ashamed together.
12 The smith with the tonges both worketh in the coales, and fashioneth it with
hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his armes: yea he is hungrie, and
his strength faileth; hee drinketh no water, and is faint.
13 The carpenter stretcheth out his rule: he maketh it out with the line: he
fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compasse, and maketh it
after the figure of a man, according to the beautie of a man; that it may
remaine in the house.
14 He heweth him downe cedars, and taketh the Cypresse and the Oke, which he
strengthneth for himselfe among the trees of the forrest: he planteth an Ashe,
and the raine doth nourish it.
15 Then shall it bee for a man to burne: for hee will take thereof and warme
himselfe; yea he kindleth it and baketh bread; yea he maketh a God, and
worshippeth it: he maketh it a grauen image, and falleth downe thereto.
16 He burneth part thereof in the fire: with part thereof he eateth flesh: he
rosteth rost, and is satisfied: yea hee warmeth himselfe, and saith; Aha, I am
warme, I haue seene the fire.
17 And the residue thereof he maketh a God, euen his grauen image: hee falleth
downe vnto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth vnto it, and saith; deliuer me,
for thou art my God.
18 They haue not knowen, nor vnderstood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they
cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot vnderstand.
19 And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor
vnderstanding to say; I haue burnt part of it in the fire, yea also I haue baked
bread vpon the coales thereof: I haue rosted flesh and eaten it; and shall I
make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall downe to the stocke of a
tree?
20 He feedeth of ashes: a deceiued heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot
deliuer his soule, nor say; Is there not a lie in my right hand?
21 Remember these (O Iacob and Israel) for thou art my seruant: I haue formed
thee: thou art my seruant, O Israel; thou shalt not be forgotten of me.
22 I haue blotted out, as a thicke cloude, thy transgressions, and as a a cloud,
thy sinnes: returne vnto me, for I haue redeemed thee.
23 Sing, O yee heauens; for the Lord hath done it: shout yee lower parts of the
earth: breake forth into singing yee mountaines, O forrest and euery tree
therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Iacob, and glorified himselfe in Israel.
24 Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the wombe; I
am the Lord that maketh all things, that stretcheth forth the heauens alone,
that spreadeth abroad the earth by my selfe:
25 That frustrateth the tokens of the lyers, and maketh diuiners mad, that
turneth wisemen backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish:
26 That confirmeth the word of his seruant, and performeth the counsell of his
messengers, that saith to Ierusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities
of Iudah, Yee shall be built, and I will raise vp the decayed places thereof.
27 That saith to the deepe; Be dry, and I will drie vp thy riuers.
28 That saith of Cyrus, Hee is my shepheard, and shall performe all my pleasure,
euen saying to Ierusalem, Thou shalt be built, and to the Temple, Thy foundation
shalbe laid.
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1 Thus saith the Lord to his Anointed, to Cyrus whose right hande I haue holden,
to subdue nations before him: and I will loose the loines of kings to open
before him the two leaued gates, and the gates shall not be shut.
2 I will goe before thee, and make the crooked places straight, I wil break in
pieces the gates of brasse, and cut in sunder the barres of yron.
3 And I will giue thee the treasures of darkenesse, & hidden riches of
secret places, that thou mayest know, that I the Lord which call thee by thy
name, am the God of Israel.
4 For Iacob my seruants sake, and Israel mine elect, I haue euen called thee by
thy name: I haue surnamed thee, though thou hast not knowen me.
5 I am the Lord, and there is none els, there is no God besides me: I girded
thee, though thou hast not knowen me:
6 That they may knowe from the rising of the Sun, and from the West, that there
is none besides me, I am the Lord, and there is none else.
7 I forme the light, and create darkenesse: I make peace, and create euill: I
the Lord do all these things.
8 Drop downe, ye heauens, from aboue, and let the skies powre downe
righteousnesse: let the earth open, and let them bring forth saluation, and let
righteousnesse spring vp together: I the Lord haue created it.
9 Woe vnto him that striueth with his maker: Let the potsheard striue with the
potsheards of the earth: shal the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What
makest thou? or thy worke, he hath no hands?
10 Woe vnto him that saith vnto his father, What begettest thou? or to the
woman, What hast thou brought forth?
11 Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his maker, Aske me of things
to come concerning my sonnes, and concerning the worke of my hands command ye
me.
12 I haue made the earth, and created man vpon it: I, euen my handes haue
stretched out the heauens, and all their hoste haue I commanded.
13 I haue raised him vp in righteousnesse, and I will direct all his wayes: he
shall build my citie, and hee shall let goe my captiues, not for price nor
reward, saith the Lord of hosts.
14 Thus saith the Lord, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia, and of
the Sabeans, men of stature shall come ouer vnto thee, and they shall be thine,
they shall come after thee, in chaines they shall come ouer: and they shal fall
downe vnto thee, they shal make supplication vnto thee, saying, Surely God is in
thee, and there is none else, there is no god.
15 Uerely thou art a God that hidest thy selfe, O God of Israel the Sauiour.
16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded all of them: they shall goe to
confusion together that are makers of idoles.
17 But Israel shall bee saued in the Lord with an euerlasting saluation: ye
shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
18 For thus saith the Lord that created the heauens, God himselfe that formed
the earth and made it, hee hath established it, he created it not in vaine, he
formed it to be inhabited, I am the Lord, and there is none else.
19 I haue not spoken in secret, in a darke place of the earth: I said not vnto
the seed of Iacob, Seeke ye mee in vaine: I the Lord speake righteousnesse, I
declare things that are right.
20 Assemble your selues and come: draw neere together ye that are escaped of the
nations: they haue no knowledge that set vp the wood of their grauen image, and
pray vnto a god that cannot saue.
21 Tell ye and bring them neere, yea let them take counsell together, who hath
declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? Haue not I the
Lord ? and there is no God else beside me, a iust God and a Sauiour, there is
none beside me.
22 Looke vnto mee, and be ye saued all the endes of the earth: for I am God, and
there is none else.
23 I haue sworne by my selfe: the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousnes,
and shall not returne, that vnto me euery knee shall bowe, euery tongue shall
sweare.
24 Surely, shall one say, In the Lord haue I righteousnesse and strength: euen
to him shall men come, and all that are incensed against him, shalbe ashamed.
25 In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be iustified, and shall glory.
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1 Bel boweth downe, Nebo stoupeth, their idoles were vpon the beasts, and vpon
the cattell: your carriages were heauie loaden, they are a burden to the wearie
beast.
2 They stoupe, they bow downe together, they could not deliuer the burden, but
themselues are gone into captiuitie.
3 Hearken vnto me, O house of Iacob, and al the remnant of the house of Israel,
which are borne by me, from the belly, which are caried from the wombe.
4 And euen to your old age I am he, and euen to hoare haires will I cary you: I
haue made, and I will beare, euen I wil cary and wil deliuer you.
5 To whom wil ye liken me, and make me equall, and compare me, that we may be
like?
6 They lauish gold out of the bagge, and weigh siluer in the balance, and hire a
goldsmith, and hee maketh it a god: they fall downe, yea they worship.
7 They beare him vpon the shoulder, they cary him and set him in his place, and
hee standeth; from his place shall he not remooue: yea one shall cry vnto him,
yet can he not answere, nor saue him out of his trouble.
8 Remember this, and shew your selues men: bring it againe to minde, O ye
transgressours.
9 Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is none else, I am
God, and there is none like me,
10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that
are not yet done, saying, My counsell shall stand, and I wil doe all my
pleasure:
11 Calling a rauenous bird from the East, the man that executeth my counsell
from a farre countrey; yea I haue spoken it, I will also bring it to passe, I
haue purposed it, I will also doe it.
12 Hearken vnto me, ye stout hearted, that are farre from righteousnesse.
13 I bring neere my righteousnesse: it shall not bee farre off, and my saluation
shall not tarie; and I wil place saluation in Zion for Israel my glorie.
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1 Come downe and sit in the dust: O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the
ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Caldeans: for thou shalt no more
be called tender and delicate.
2 Take the milstones and grinde meale, vncouer thy lockes: make bare the legge:
vncouer the thigh, passe ouer the riuers.
3 Thy nakednes shalbe vncouered, yea thy shame shalbe seene: I will take
vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.
4 As for our redeemer, the Lord of hostes is his Name, the Holy one of Israel.
5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darknes, O daughter of the Caldeans: for
thou shalt no more be called the Ladie of kingdomes.
6 I was wroth with my people: I haue polluted mine inheritance, and giuen them
into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; vpon the ancient hast thou very
heauily layed the yoke.
7 And thou saydst, I shall bee a Ladie for euer: so that thou didst not lay
these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the later end of it.
8 Therefore heare now this, thou that art giuen to pleasures, that dwellest
carelesly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else besides mee, I shall
not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the losse of children.
9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day; the losse of
children, and widowhood; they shall come vpon thee in their perfection, for the
multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine inchantments.
10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickednesse: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy
wisedome and thy knowledge, it hath peruerted thee, and thou hast said in thine
heart, I am, and none else besides me.
11 Therefore shall euill come vpon thee, thou shalt not know from whence it
riseth: and mischiefe shall fall vpon thee, thou shalt not be able to put it
off: and desolation shall come vpon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
12 Stand now with thine inchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries,
wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to
profite, if so be thou mayest preuaile.
13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the astrologers,
the starre-gazers, the monethly prognosticators stand vp, and saue thee from
these things that shall come vpon thee.
14 Behold, they shall be as stubble: the fire shall burne them, they shall not
deliuer themselues from the power of the flame: there shall not bee a coale to
warme at, nor fire to sit before it.
15 Thus shal they be vnto thee with whom thou hast laboured, euen thy merchants
from thy youth, they shall wander euery one to his quarter: none shall saue
thee.
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1 Heare yee this, O house of Iacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and
are come foorth out of the waters of Iudah; which sweare by the Name of the
Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in trueth nor in
righteousnes.
2 For they call themselues of the holy city, and stay themselues vpon the God of
Israel, the Lord of hostes is his Name.
3 I haue declared the former things from the beginning: and they went foorth out
of my mouth, and I shewed them, I did them suddenly, and they came to passe.
4 Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy necke is an yron sinew, and
thy brow brasse:
5 I haue euen from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to passe I
shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idole hath done them, and my
grauen image, and my molten image hath commanded them.
6 Thou hast heard, see all this, and will not yee declare it? I haue shewed thee
new things from this time, euen hidden things, and thou didst not know them.
7 They are created now, and not from the beginning, euen before the day when
thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
8 Yea thou heardest not, yea thou knewest not, yea from that time that thine
eare was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deale very treacherously, and
wast called a transgressour from the wombe.
9 For my names sake will I deferre mine anger, and for my praise will I refraine
for thee, that I cut thee not off.
10 Behold, I haue refined thee, but not with siluer; I haue chosen thee in the
fornace of affliction.
11 For mine owne sake, euen for mine owne sake will I doe it; for how should my
Name bee polluted? And I will not giue my glory vnto another.
12 Hearken vnto me, O Iacob, and Israel my called; I am hee, I am the first, I
also am the last.
13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath
spanned the heauens: when I call vnto them, they stand vp together.
14 All yee assemble your selues and heare: which among them hath declared these
things? The Lord hath loued him: hee will doe his pleasure on Babylon, and his
arme shall be on the Caldeans.
15 I, euen I haue spoken, yea I haue called him: I haue brought him, and he
shall make his way prosperous.
16 Come ye neere vnto me; heare ye this; I haue not spoken in secret from the
beginning; from the time that it was, there am I; and now the Lord God and his
Spirit hath sent me.
17 Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, the holy one of Israel; I am the Lord thy
God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou
shouldest goe.
18 O that thou haddest hearkened to my commandements! Then had thy peace beene
as a riuer, and thy righteousnesse as the waues of the sea.
19 Thy seede also had beene as the sand, and the ofspring of thy bowels like the
grauell thereof: his name should not haue beene cut off, nor destroyed from
before me.
20 Goe yee forth of Babylon: flee yee from the Caldeans, with a voyce of
singing, declare yee, tell this, vtter it euen to the end of the earth: say yee;
The Lord hath redeemed his seruant Iacob.
21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts; he caused the
waters to flow out of the rocke for them: he claue the rocke also, and the
waters gushed out.
22 There is no peace, saith the Lord, vnto the wicked.
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1 Listen, O yles, vnto me, and hearken yee people from farre. The Lord hath
called mee from the wombe, from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of
my name.
2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharpe sword, in the shadow of his hand hath
he hid me, and made mee a polished shaft; in his quiuer hath hee hid me,
3 And sayd vnto me; Thou art my seruant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
4 Then I said; I haue laboured in vaine, I haue spent my strength for nought,
and in vaine, yet surely my iudgement is with the Lord, and my worke with my
God.
5 And now, saith the Lord that formed me from the wombe to be his seruant, to
bring Iacob againe to him; Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be
glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall bee my strength.
6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my seruant to raise vp
the tribes of Iacob, and to restore the preserued of Israel: I will also giue
thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my saluation, vnto the end
of the earth.
7 Thus saith the Lord the redeemer of Israel, and his holy one, to him whom man
dispiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a seruant of rulers; Kings shall
see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the Lord, that is
faithfull, and the holy one of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
8 Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time haue I heard thee, and in a day of
saluation haue I helped thee: and I will preserue thee, and giue thee for a
couenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherite the
desolate heritages:
9 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Goe forth; to them that are in
darkenesse, Shewe your selues: they shall feede in the wayes, and their pastures
shalbe in all high places.
10 They shall not hunger nor thirst, neither shall the heate nor sunne smite
them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, euen by the springs of
water shall he guide them.
11 And I will make all my mountaines a way, and my high wayes shall be exalted.
12 Behold, these shall come from far: and loe, these from the North and from the
West, and these from the land of Sinim.
13 Sing, O heauen, and be ioyfull, O earth, and breake forth into singing, O
mountaines: for God hath comforted his people, and will haue mercy vpon his
afflicted.
14 But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not haue compassion on
the sonne of her wombe? yea they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
16 Behold, I haue grauen thee vpon the palmes of my hands: thy walles are
continually before mee.
17 Thy children shal make haste, thy destroyers, and they that made thee waste,
shall goe forth of thee.
18 Lift vp thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselues
together and come to thee: as I liue, saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe
thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee as a bride doeth.
19 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction shall
euen now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed
thee vp, shall bee farre away.
20 The children which thou shalt haue, after thou hast lost the other, shall say
againe in thine eares, The place is too straight for me: giue place to mee that
I may dwell.
21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I haue
lost my children and am desolate, a captiue and remouing to and fro? and who
hath brought vp these? Beholde, I was left alone, these where had they beene?
22 Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift vp mine hand to the Gentiles,
and set vp my standerd to the people: and they shall bring thy sonnes in their
armes: and thy daughters shal be caried vpon their shoulders.
23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queenes thy nursing
mothers: they shall bow downe to thee with their face toward the earth, and
licke vp the dust of thy feete, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: for they
shall not be ashamed that waite for me.
24 Shall the pray be taken from the mightie, or the lawfull captiue deliuered?
25 But thus saith the Lord, Euen the captiues of the mightie shall be taken
away, and the pray of the terrible shall be deliuered: for I will contend with
him that contendeth with thee, and I will saue thy children.
26 And I will feede them that oppresse thee, with their owne flesh, and they
shall be drunken with their owne blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall
know that I the Lord am thy Sauiour and thy Redeemer, the mightie One of Iacob.
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1 Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mothers diuorcement, whom I
haue put away? or which of my creditours is it to whom I haue sold you? Behold,
for your iniquities haue you solde your selues, and for your transgressions is
your mother put away.
2 Wherefore when I came was there no man? when I called, was there none to
answere? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeeme? or haue I no power
to deliuer? Beholde, at my rebuke I drie vp the sea: I make the riuers a
wildernes: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
3 I clothe the heauens with blackenesse, and I make sackcloth their couering.
4 The Lord God hath giuen me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how
to speake a worde in season to him that is wearie: hee wakeneth morning by
morning, hee wakeneth mine eare to heare as the learned.
5 The Lord God hath opened mine eare, and I was not rebellious, neither turned
away backe.
6 I gaue my backe to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the
haire: I hidde not my face from shame and spitting.
7 For the Lord God will helpe me, therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore
haue I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not bee ashamed.
8 He is neere that iustifieth me, who will contend with me? let vs stand
together: who is mine aduersarie? let him come neere to me.
9 Behold, the Lord God wil helpe me, who is he that shall condemne mee? Loe,
they all shall waxe olde as a garment: the moth shall eate them vp.
10 Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voyce of his seruant,
that walketh in darkenesse and hath no light? let him trust in the Name of the
Lord, and stay vpon his God.
11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compasse your selues about with
sparks: walke in the light of your fire, and in the sparkes that ye haue
kindled. This shall ye haue of mine hand, yee shall lie downe in sorrow.
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1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousnesse, ye that seeke the Lord:
looke vnto the rocke whence yee are hewen, and to the hole of the pitte whence
ye are digged.
2 Looke vnto Abraham your father, and vnto Sarah that bare you: for I called him
alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
3 For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he wil comfort all her waste places, and he
wil make her wildernes like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord:
ioy and gladnesse shalbe found therein, thankesgiuing, and the voice of melody.
4 Hearken vnto me, my people, and giue eare vnto me, O my nation: for a Law
shall proceed from mee, and I will make my iudgement to rest for a light of the
people.
5 My righteousnes is neere: my saluation is gone foorth, and mine armes shall
iudge the people: the Iles shall wait vpon me, and on mine arme shall they
trust.
6 Lift vp your eyes to the heauens, and looke vpon the earth beneath: for the
heauens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall waxe old like a
garment, and they that dwel therein shall die in like maner: but my saluation
shal be for euer, and my righteousnes shall not be abolished.
7 Hearken vnto me ye that know righteousnesse, the people in whose heart is my
Law: Feare ye not the reproch of men, neither be yee afraid of their reuilings.
8 For the moth shall eate them vp like a garment, and the worme shal eate them
like wooll: but my righteousnes shalbe for euer; and my saluation from
generation to generation.
9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arme of the Lord, awake as in the ancient
dayes, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and
wounded the dragon?
10 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deepe, that
hath made the depthes of the sea a way for the ransomed to passe ouer?
11 Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall returne, and come with singing vnto
Zion, and euerlasting ioy shalbe vpon their head: they shall obtaine gladnesse
and ioy, and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
12 I, euen I am hee that comforteth you, who art thou that thou shouldest be
afraid of a man that shall die, and of the sonne of man which shall bee made as
grasse?
13 And forgettest the Lord thy maker that hath stretched foorth the heauens, and
layed the foundations of the earth? and hast feared continually euery day,
because of the furie of the oppressour, as if hee were ready to destroy? and
where is the furie of the oppressour?
14 The captiue exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that hee should not
die in the pit, nor that his bread should faile.
15 But I am the Lord thy God, that diuided the sea, whose waues roared: the Lord
of hosts is his Name.
16 And I haue put my wordes in thy mouth, and haue couered thee in the shadow of
mine hand, that I may plant the heauens, and lay the foundations of the earth,
and say vnto Zion, Thou art my people.
17 Awake, awake, stand vp, O Ierusalem, which hast drunke at the hand of the
Lord the cup of his furie; thou hast drunken the dregges of the cup of
trembling, and wrung them out.
18 There is none to guide her among all the sonnes whom shee hath brought foorth:
neither is there any that taketh her by the hand, of all the sonnes that she
hath brought vp.
19 These two things are come vnto thee; who shall be sorie for thee? desolation
and destruction, and the famine and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
20 Thy sonnes haue fainted, they lie at the head of all the streetes as a wilde
bull in a net; they are full of the furie of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.
21 Therefore heare now this thou afflicted and drunken, but not with wine.
22 Thus saith thy Lord, the Lord and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his
people, Behold, I haue taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, euen the
dregges of the cup of my furie: thou shalt no more drinke it againe.
23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee: which haue said to
thy soule, Bow downe that wee may goe ouer: and thou hast laide thy body as the
ground, and as the streete to them that went ouer.
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1 Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion, put on thy beautifull garments, O
Ierusalem the holy citie: for hencefoorth there shall no more come into thee the
vncircumcised, and the vncleane.
2 Shake thy selfe from the dust: arise, and sit downe, O Ierusalem: loose thy
selfe from the bandes of thy necke, O captiue daughter of Zion.
3 For thus sayth the Lord, Yee haue solde your selues for nought: and ye shall
be redeemed without money.
4 For thus saith the Lord God, My people went downe aforetime into Egypt to
soiourne there, and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
5 Now therefore, what haue I here, sayth the Lord, that my people is taken away
for nought? they that rule ouer them, make them to howle, sayth the Lord, and my
Name continually euery day is blasphemed.
6 Therefore my people shall know my Name: therefore they shall know in that day,
that I am he that doth speake. Behold, it is I.
7 How beautifull vpon the mountaines are the feete of him that bringeth good
tidings, that publisheth peace, that bringeth good tidings of good, that
publisheth saluation, that sayth vnto Zion, Thy God reigneth?
8 Thy watchmen shall lift vp the voice, with the voice together shall they sing:
for they shall see eye to eye when the Lord shall bring againe Zion.
9 Breake foorth into ioy, sing together, yee waste places of Ierusalem: for the
Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Ierusalem.
10 The Lord hath made bare his holy arme in the eyes of all the nations, and all
the endes of the earth shall see the saluation of our God.
11 Depart ye, depart ye, goe ye out from thence, touch no vncleane thing; goe ye
out of the middest of her; be yee cleane, that beare the vessels of the Lord.
12 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor goe by flight: for the Lord will goe
before you: and the God of Israel will be your rereward.
13 Behold, my seruant shal deale prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled,
and be very high.
14 As many were astonied at thee (his visage was so marred more then any man,
and his forme more then the sonnes of men:)
15 So shall hee sprinckle many nations, the kings shall shut their mouthes at
him: for that which had not beene told them, shall they see, and that which they
had not heard, shall they consider.
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1 Who hath beleeued our report? and to whom is the arme of the Lord reuealed?
2 For he shall grow vp before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a drie
ground: hee hath no forme nor comelinesse: and when wee shall see him, there is
no beautie that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and reiected of men, a man ofsorrows, and acquainted with
griefe: and we hid as it were our faces from him; hee was despised, and wee
esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefes, and caried our sorrowes: yet we did esteeme
him striken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace was vpon him, and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheepe haue gone astray: we haue turned euery one to his owne way,
and the Lord hath layd on him the iniquitie of vs all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is
brought as a lambe to the slaughter, and as a sheepe before her shearers is
dumme, so he openeth not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison, and from iudgement: and who shall declare his
generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the liuing, for the
transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his graue with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, because
he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him, he hath put him to griefe: when thou
shalt make his soule an offring for sinne, he shall see his seede, hee shall
prolong his daies, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the trauell of his soule, and shalbe satisfied: by his
knowledge shall my righteous seruant iustifie many: for hee shall beare their
iniquities.
12 Therefore will I diuide him a portion with the great, and he shall diuide the
spoile with the strong: because hee hath powred out his soule vnto death: and he
was numbred with the transgressours, and he bare the sinne of many, and made
intercession for the transgressours.
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54
1 Sing O barren thou that didst not beare; breake forth into singing, and crie
aloud thou that didst not trauell with child: for more are the children of the
desolate then the children of the maried wife, saith the Lord.
2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtaines of
thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.
3 For thou shalt breake forth on the right hand, and on the left; and thy seed
shall inherite the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
4 Feare not: for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded, for thou
shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and
shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
5 For thy maker is thine husband, (the Lord of hostes is his name;) and thy
redeemer the holy one of Israel, the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
6 For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken, and grieued in spirit, and
a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
7 For a small moment haue I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather
thee.
8 In a litle wrath I hid my face from thee, for a moment; but with euerlasting
kindnesse will I haue mercie on thee, saith the Lord thy redeemer.
9 For this is as the waters of Noah vnto me: for as I haue sworne that the
waters of Noah should no more goe ouer the earth; so haue I sworne that I would
not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
10 For the mountaines shall depart, and the hilles be remoued, but my kindnesse
shall not depart from thee, neither shall the couenant of my peace be remoued,
saith the Lord, that hath mercie on thee.
11 Oh thou afflicted, tossed with tempest and not comforted, behold, I will lay
thy stones with faire colours, and lay thy foundations with Saphires.
12 And I will make thy windowes of Agates, and thy gates of Carbuncles, and all
thy borders of pleasant stones.
13 And all thy children shalbe taught of the Lord, and great shalbe the peace of
thy children.
14 In righteousnesse shalt thou be established: thou shalt be farre from
oppression, for thou shalt not feare; & from terrour, for it shall not come
neere thee.
15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoeuer shal
gather together against thee, shall fall for thy sake.
16 Behold, I haue created the smith that bloweth the coales in the fire, and
that bringeth foorth an instrument for his worke, and I haue created the waster
to destroy.
17 No weapon that is formed against thee, shall prosper, and euery tongue that
shall rise against thee in iudgement, thou shalt condemne. This is the heritage
of the seruants of the Lord, and their righteousnesse is of me, saith the Lord.
CHAPTER
55
1 Ho, euery one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no
money: come ye, buy and eate, yea come, buy wine and milke without money, and
without price.
2 Wherefore doe yee spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for
that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently vnto me, and eate ye that which is
good, and let your soule delight it selfe in fatnesse.
3 Incline your eare, and come vnto me: heare, and your soule shall liue, and I
will make an euerlasting couenant with you, euen the sure mercies of Dauid.
4 Behold, I haue giuen him for a witnesse to the people, a leader and commander
to the people.
5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew
not thee, shall runne vnto thee, because of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy
One of Israel, for he hath glorified thee.
6 Seeke ye the Lord, while he may be found, call ye vpon him while he is neere.
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, & the vnrighteous man his thoughts: and
let him returne vnto the Lord, and he will haue mercie vpon him, and to our God,
for hee will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your wayes my wayes, saith
the Lord.
9 For as the heauens are higher then the earth, so are my wayes higher then your
wayes, and my thoughts then your thouhts.
10 For as the raine commeth down, and the snow from heauen, and returneth not
thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring foorth and bud, that it may
giue seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
11 So shall my word bee that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not returne
vnto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper
in the thing whereto I sent it.
12 For ye shall goe out with ioy, and bee led foorth with peace: the mountaines
and the hilles shall breake forth before you into singing, and al the trees of
the field shall clap their hands.
13 In stead of the thorne shall come vp the Firre tree, and in stead of the
brier shall come vp the Myrtle tree, and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for
an euerlasting signe that shall not bee cut off.
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56
1 Thus saith the Lord, Keepe yee iudgement, and doe iustice: for my saluation is
neere to come, and my righteousnesse to bee reuealed.
2 Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the sonne of man that layeth holde on
it: that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing
any euill.
3 Neither let the sonne of the stranger, that hath ioyned himselfe to the Lord,
speake, saying, The Lord hath vtterly separated mee from his people: neither let
the Eunuch say, Behold, I am a drie tree.
4 For thus saith the Lord vnto the Eunuches that keep my Sabbaths, and choose
the things that please mee, and take hold of my couenant:
5 Euen vnto them will I giue in mine house, and within my walles, a place and a
name better then of sonnes and of daughters: I wil giue them an euerlasting
name, that shal not be cut off.
6 Also the sonnes of the stranger that ioyne themselues to the Lord, to serue
him, and to loue the Name of the Lord, to be his seruants, euery one that
keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my Couenant:
7 Euen them will I bring to my holy mountaine, and make them ioyfull in my house
of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted vpon
mine Altar: for mine house shalbe called an house of prayer for all people.
8 The Lord God which gathereth the outcasts of Israel, saith, Yet will I gather
others to him, besides those that are gathered vnto him.
9 All ye beasts of the field, come to deuoure, yea all ye beasts in the forest.
10 His watchmen are blinde: they are all ignorant, they are all dumbe dogs, they
cannot barke; sleeping, lying downe, louing to slumber.
11 Yea they are greedy dogges which can neuer haue ynough, and they are
shepheards that cannot vnderstand: they all looke to their owne way, euery one
for his gaine, from his quarter.
12 Come ye, say they, I wil fetch wine, and we will fill our selues with strong
drinke, and to morrow shal be as this day, and much more abundant.
CHAPTER
57
1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and mercifull men are
taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from the euill to
come.
2 Hee shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in
his vprightnesse.
3 But draw neere hither, yee sonnes of the sorceresse, the seed of the
adulterer, and the whore.
4 Against whom doe ye sport your selues? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and
draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seede of falsehood?
5 Inflaming your selues with idoles vnder euery greene tree, slaying the
children in the valleys vnder the cliftes of the rockes?
6 Among the smooth stones of the streame is thy portion; they, they are thy lot:
euen to them hast thou powred a drinke offering, thou hast offered a meate
offering. Should I receiue comfort in these?
7 Upon a loftie and high mountaine hast thou set thy bed: euen thither wentest
thou vp to offer sacrifice.
8 Behinde the doores also and the posts hast thou set vp thy remembrance: for
thou hast discouered thy selfe to an other then mee, and art gone vp: thou hast
enlarged thy bed, and made a couenant with them: thou louedst their bed where
thou sawest it.
9 And thou wentest to the king with oyntment, and didst increase thy perfumes,
and didst send thy messengers farre off, and didst debase thy selfe euen vnto
hell.
10 Thou art wearied in the greatnesse of thy way; yet saydst thou not, There is
no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieued.
11 And of whom hast thou bene afraid or feared, that thou hast lyed, and hast
not remembred me, nor layed it to thy heart? haue not I held my peace euen of
old, and thou fearest me not?
12 I will declare thy righteousnes; and thy workes, for they shall not profit
thee.
13 When thou criest, let thy companies deliuer thee: but the winde shall cary
them all away; Uanitie shall take them: but hee that putteth his trust in me,
shall possesse the land, and shall inherit my holy mountaine.
14 And shall say, Cast yee vp, cast yee vp; prepare the way, take vp the
stumbling blocke out of the way of my people.
15 For thus saith the High and loftie One that inhabiteth eternitie, whose Name
is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place: with him also that is of a contrite
and humble spirit, to reuiue the spirit of the humble, and to reuiue the heart
of the contrite ones.
16 For I will not contend for euer, neither will I be alwayes wroth: for the
spirit should faile before me, and the soules which I haue made.
17 For the iniquitie of his couetousnesse was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me,
and was wroth, and hee went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
18 I haue seene his wayes, and will heale him: I will leade him also, and
restore comforts vnto him, and to his mourners.
19 I create the fruite of the lippes; peace, peace to him that is farre off, and
to him that is neere, sayth the Lord, and I will heale him.
20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters
cast vp myre and dirt.
21 There is no peace, sayth my God, to the wicked.
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1 Crie aloude, spare not, lift vp thy voice like a trumpet, and shewe my people
their transgression, & the house of Iacob their sins.
2 Yet they seeke mee daily, and delight to know my wayes, as a nation that did
righteousnesse, and forsooke not the ordinance of their God: they aske of me the
ordinances of iustice: they take delight in approching to God.
3 Wherefore haue wee fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore haue wee
afflicted our soule, & thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your
fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
4 Behold, yee fast for strife and debate; and to smite with the fist of
wickednesse, yee shall not fast as yee doe this day, to make your voice to be
heard on high.
5 Is it such a fast that I haue chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soule? Is
it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackecloth and ashes vnder
him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord ?
6 Is not this the fast that I haue chosen? to loose the bandes of wickednesse,
to vndoe the heauie burdens, and to let the oppressed goe free, and that ye
breake euery yoke?
7 Is it not, to deale thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poore
that are cast out, to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou couer him,
and that thou hide not thy selfe from thine owne flesh?
8 Then shall thy light breake foorth as the morning, and thine health shall
spring foorth speedily: and thy righteousnesse shall goe before thee, the glory
of the Lord shall be thy rereward.
9 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answere; thou shalt cry, and he shal
say, Here I am: if thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting
forth of the finger, and speaking vanitie:
10 And if thou draw out thy soule to the hungry, and satisfie the afflicted
soule: then shall thy light rise in obscuritie, and thy darkenesse be as the
noone day.
11 And the Lord shal guide thee continually, and satisfie thy soule in drought,
and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a
spring of water, whose waters faile not.
12 And they that shall be of thee, shall builde the olde waste places: thou
shalt raise vp the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called,
the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in.
13 If thou turne away thy foote from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my
Holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable, and
shalt honour him, not doing thine owne wayes, nor finding thine owne pleasure,
nor speaking thine owne wordes:
14 Then shalt thou delight thy selfe in the Lord, and I will cause thee to ride
vpon the high places of the earth, and feede thee with the heritage of Iacob thy
father; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
CHAPTER
59
1 Beholde, the Lords hand is not shortened, that it cannot saue: neither his
eare heauie, that it cannot heare.
2 But your iniquities haue separated betweene you and your God, and your sinnes
haue hid his face from you, that he will not heare.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquitie, your
lippes haue spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered peruersnesse.
4 None calleth for iustice, nor any pleadeth for trueth: they trust in vanity
and speake lies; they conceiue mischiefe, and bring forth iniquitie.
5 They hatch cockatrice egges, and weaue the spiders web: he that eateth of
their egges dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
6 Their webbes shall not become garments, neither shall they couer themselues
with their workes: their workes are workes of iniquitie, and the act of violence
is in their hands.
7 Their feete runne to euill, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their
thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, wasting & destruction are in their paths.
8 The way of peace they know not, and there is no iudgement in their goings:
they haue made them crooked pathes; whosoeuer goeth therein, shall not know
peace.
9 Therefore is iudgement farre from vs, neither doth iustice ouertake vs: we
waite for light, but behold obscuritie, for brightnesse, but we walke in
darknesse.
10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eies: we
stumble at noone day as in the night, we are in desolate places as dead men.
11 We roare all like beares, and mourne sore like doues: we looke for iudgement,
but there is none; for saluation, but it is farre off from vs.
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sinnes testifie
against vs: for our transgressions are with vs, and as for our iniquities, we
know them:
13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God,
speaking oppression and reuolt, conceiuing and vttering from the heart words of
falshood.
14 And iudgement is turned away backward, and iustice standeth a farre off: for
truth is fallen in the streete, and equitie cannot enter.
15 Yea truth faileth, and he that departeth from euill maketh himselfe a pray:
and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him, that there was no iudgement.
16 And hee saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no
intercessour. Therefore his arme brought saluation vnto him, and his
righteousnesse, it sustained him.
17 For he put on righteousnesse as a brestplate, and an helmet of saluation vpon
his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad
with zeale as a cloake.
18 According to their deedes accordingly he will repay, furie to his aduersaries,
recompence to his enemies, to the ylands he will repay recompence.
19 So shall they feare the name of the Lord from the West, and his glory from
the rising of the sunne: when the enemie shall come in like a flood, the spirit
of the Lord shall lift vp a standard against him.
20 And the redeemer shall come to Zion, and vnto them that turne from
transgression in Iacob, saith the Lord.
21 As for me, this is my couenant with them, saith the Lord; My spirit that is
vpon thee, and my words which I haue put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of
thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of the seede, nor out of the mouth of thy seedes
seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth, and for euer.
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1 Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen vpon
thee.
2 For behold, the darknesse shall couer the earth, and grosse darknesse the
people: but the Lord shall arise vpon thee, and his glory shall be seene vpon
thee.
3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightnesse of thy
rising.
4 Lift vp thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselues together,
they come to thee: thy sonnes shall come from farre, and thy daughters shalbe
nourced at thy side.
5 Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall feare and be
inlarged, because the abundance of the Sea shalbe conuerted vnto thee, the
forces of the Gentiles shall come vnto thee.
6 The multitude of camels shall couer thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah:
all they from Sheba shall come: they shal bring gold and incense, and they shall
shew forth the praises of the Lord.
7 All the flockes of Kedar shall be gathered together vnto thee, the rams of
Nebaioth shall minister vnto thee: they shall come vp with acceptance on mine
altar, and I wil glorifie the house of my glory.
8 Who are these that flie as a cloude, and as the doues to their windowes?
9 Surely the yles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring
thy sonnes from farre, their siluer and their gold with them, vnto the Name of
the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
10 And the sonnes of strangers shall build vp thy walles, and their kings shal
minister vnto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my fauour haue I had
mercie on thee.
11 Therefore thy gates shal be open continually, they shall not bee shut day nor
night, that men may bring vnto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their
kings may be brought.
12 For the nation and kingdome that will not serue thee, shall perish, yea those
nations shall be vtterly wasted.
13 The glory of Lebanon shal come vnto thee, the Firre tree, the Pine tree, and
the Boxe together, to beautifie the place of my Sanctuarie, and I will make the
place of my feete glorious.
14 The sonnes also of them that afflicted thee, shall come bending vnto thee:
and all they that despised thee shal bow themselues downe at the soles of thy
feet, and they shall call thee the citie of the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One
of Israel.
15 Whereas thou hast bene forsaken and hated, so that no man went thorow thee, I
will make thee an eternall excellencie, a ioy of many generations.
16 Thou shalt also sucke the milke of the Gentiles, and shalt sucke the brest of
kings, and thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy Sauiour and thy Redeemer, the
mightie One of Iacob.
17 For brasse I will bring gold, and for yron I will bring siluer, and for wood
brasse, and for stones yron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine
exactours righteousnesse.
18 Uiolence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within
thy borders, but thou shalt call thy walles saluation, and thy gates praise.
19 The Sunne shall be no more thy light by day, neither for brightnesse shall
the moone giue light vnto thee: but the Lord shall be vnto thee an euerlasting
light, & thy God thy glory.
20 Thy Sunne shall no more goe downe, neither shall thy moone withdraw it selfe:
for the Lord shall bee thine euerlasting light, and the dayes of thy mourning
shall be ended.
21 Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shal inherit the land for euer,
the branch of my planting, the worke of my hands, that I may be glorified.
22 A litle one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the
Lord will hasten it in his time.
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1 The Spirit of the Lord God is vpon me, because the Lord hath anointed me, to
preach good tidings vnto the meeke, hee hath sent me to binde vp the broken
hearted, to proclaime libertie to the captiues, and the opening of the prison to
them that are bound:
2 To proclaime the acceptable yere of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our
God, to comfort all that mourne:
3 To appoint vnto them that mourne in Zion, to giue vnto them beautie for ashes,
the oyle of ioy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heauinesse,
that they might be called trees of righteousnesse, the planting of the Lord,
that he might be glorified.
4 And they shall build the olde wastes, they shall raise vp the former
desolations, and they shall repaire the waste cities, the desolations of many
generations.
5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flockes, and the sonnes of the alient
shalbe your plowmen, and your Uine-dressers.
6 But ye shalbe named the Priests of the Lord: men shall call you the ministers
of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall
you boast your selues.
7 For your shame you shall haue double; and for confusion they shall reioyce in
their portion: therefore in their land they shal possesse the double:
euerlasting ioy shalbe vnto them.
8 For I the Lord loue Iudgement, I hate robbery for burnt offering, and I will
direct their worke in trueth, and I will make an euerlasting Couenant with them.
9 And their seed shalbe knowen among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the
people: All that see them, shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which
the Lord hath blessed.
10 I will greatly reioyce in the Lord, my soule shalbe ioyfull in my God: for he
hath clothed me with the garments of saluation, he hath couered me with the robe
of righteousnes, as a bridegrome decketh himselfe with ornaments, and as a bride
adorneth herselfe with her iewels.
11 For as the earth bringeth foorth her bud, and as the garden causeth the
things that are sowen in it, to spring foorth: so the Lord God will cause
righteousnes and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
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1 For Zions sake, wil I not hold my peace, and for Ierusalems sake I will not
rest, vntill the righteousnesse thereof goe forth as brightnesse, and the
saluation thereof as a lampe that burneth;
2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousnes, and all Kings thy glory: and thou
shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.
3 Thou shalt also be a crowne of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royall
diademe in the hand of thy God.
4 Thou shalt no more bee termed, Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be
termed, Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land, Beulah: for
the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shalbe maried.
5 For as a yong man marrieth a virgine, so shall thy sonnes marry thee: and as
the bridegrome reioyceth ouer the bride, so shall thy God reioyce ouer thee.
6 I haue set watchmen vpon thy walles, O Ierusalem, which shall neuer hold their
peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keepe not silence:
7 And giue him no rest till he establish, and till hee make Ierusalem a praise
in the earth.
8 The Lord hath sworne by his Right hand, and by the arme of his strength,
Surely, I will no more giue thy corne to be meat for thine enemies, and the
sonnes of the stranger shall not drinke thy wine, for the which thou hast
laboured:
9 But they that haue gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord, and they
that haue brought it together, shal drinke it in the Courts of my Holinesse.
10 Goe through, goe through the gates: prepare you the way of the people: cast
vp, cast vp the high way, gather out the stones, lift vp a standard for the
people.
11 Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed vnto the end of the world, say ye to the
daughter of Zion, Behold, thy saluation commeth; behold, his reward is with him,
and his worke before him.
12 And they shall call them, The holy people: the redeemed of the Lord: and thou
shalt be called, Sought out, a citie not forsaken.
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1 Who is this that commeth from Edom, with died garments from Bozrah? this that
is glorious in his apparel, trauelling in the greatnesse of his strength? I that
speake in righteousnesse, mightie to saue.
2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparell, and thy garments like him that
treadeth in the winefat?
3 I haue troden the winepresse alone, and of the people there was none with me:
for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my furie, and their
blood shall be sprinkled vpon my garments, and I will staine all my raiment.
4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the yeere of my redeemed is
come.
5 And I looked, and there was none to helpe; and I wondered that there was none
to vphold: therefore mine owne arme brought saluation vnto me, and my furie, it
vpheld me.
6 And I will tread downe the people in mine anger, & make them drunke in my
furie, and I will bring downe their strength to the earth.
7 I will mention the louing kindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord,
according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on vs; and the great goodnes
towards the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them, according to his
mercies, and according to the multitude of his louing kindnesses.
8 For hee said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so hee
was their sauiour.
9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the Angel of his presence saued
them: in his loue and in his pitie hee redeemed them, and he bare them, and
caried them all the dayes of olde.
10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy spirit: therefore hee was turned to be
their enemie, and he fought against them.
11 Then he remembred the dayes of old, Moses and his people, saying; Where is
hee that brought them vp out of the Sea, with the shepheard of his flocke? where
is hee that put his holy Spirit within him?
12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arme, diuiding the
water before them, to make himselfe an euerlasting name?
13 That led them through the deepe as an horse in the wildernesse, that they
should not stumble?
14 As a beast goeth downe into the valley, the Spirit of the Lord caused him to
rest: so diddest thou leade thy people, to make thy selfe a glorious Name.
15 Looke downe from heauen, and behold from the habitation of thy holinesse, and
of thy glory: where is thy zeale and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels,
and of thy mercies towards me? are they restrained?
16 Doubtlesse thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of vs, and Israel
acknowledge vs not: thou, O Lord art our Father, our Redeemer, thy Name is from
euerlasting.
17 O Lord, why hast thou made vs to erre from thy wayes? and hardened our heart
from thy feare? Returne for thy seruants sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
18 The people of thy holinesse haue possessed it but a little while: our
aduersaries haue troden downe thy Sanctuarie.
19 Wee are thine, thou neuer barest rule ouer them, they were not called by thy
Name.
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1 Oh that thou wouldest rent the heauens, that thou wouldest come down, that the
mountaines might flowe downe at thy presence,
2 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boyle: to
make thy Name knowen to thine aduersaries, that the nations may tremble at thy
presence.
3 When thou diddest terrible things which wee looked not for, thou camest downe,
the mountaines flowed downe at thy presence.
4 For since the beginning of the world men haue not heard, nor perceiued by the
eare, neither hath the eye seene, O God, besides thee, what hee hath prepared
for him that waiteth for him.
5 Thou meetest him that reioyceth, and worketh righteousnesse, those that
remember thee in thy wayes: behold, thou art wroth, for we haue sinned: in those
is continuance, and we shall be saued.
6 But we are al as an vncleane thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy
ragges, and we all doe fade as a leafe, and our iniquities like the wind haue
taken vs away.
7 And there is none that calleth vpon thy name, that stirreth vp himselfe to
take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from vs, and hast consumed vs
because of our iniquities.
8 But now, O Lord, thou art our father: we are the clay, and thou our potter,
and we all are the worke of thine hand.
9 Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquitie for euer: behold,
see we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
10 Thy holy cities are a wildernesse, Zion is a wildernesse, Ierusalem a
desolation.
11 Our holy and our beautifull house, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt
vp with fire, and all our pleasant things are layed waste:
12 Wilt thou refraine thy selfe for these things, O Lord? wilt thou hold thy
peace, and afflict vs very sore?
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1 I am sought of them that asked not for me: I am found of them that sought me
not: I said, Behold me, behold me, vnto a nation that was not called by my name.
2 I haue spread out my hands all the day vnto a rebellious people, which walketh
in a way that was not good, after their owne thoughts:
3 A people that prouoketh mee to anger continually to my face, that sacrificeth
in gardens, and burneth incense vpon altars of bricke:
4 Which remaine among the graues, and lodge in the monuments, which eate swines
flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels:
5 Which say; Stand by thy selfe, come not neere to me; for I am holier then
thou: these are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keepe silence, but will recompence,
euen recompence into their bosome,
7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, (saith the Lord)
which haue burnt incense vpon the mountaines, & blasphemed mee vpon the hils:
therfore will I measure their former worke into their bosome.
8 Thus saith the Lord, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith,
Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it: so wil I doe for my seruants sakes,
that I may not destroy them all.
9 And I will bring forth a seede out of Iacob, and out of Iudah an inheritour of
my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my seruants shall dwell
there.
10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flockes, and the valley of Achor a place for
the herds to lie downe in, for my people that haue sought me.
11 But yee are they that for sake the Lord, that forget my holy mountaine, that
prepare a table for that troope, and that furnish the drinke offring vnto that
number.
12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and yee shall all bow downe to the
slaughter: because when I called, yee did not answere; when I spake, yee did not
heare, but did euill before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted
not:
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, my seruants shall eate, but ye
shall be hungry: behold, my seruants shall drinke, but yee shall be thirstie:
behold, my seruants shall reioyce, but yee shall be ashamed.
14 Behold, my seruants shall sing for ioy of heart, but yee shall cry for sorrow
of heart, and shall howle for vexation of spirit.
15 And yee shall leaue your name for a curse vnto my chosen: for the Lord God
shall slay thee, and call his seruants by another name:
16 That he who blesseth himselfe in the earth, shall blesse himselfe in the God
of trueth; and he that sweareth in the earth, shall sweare by the God of trueth;
because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine
eyes.
17 For behold, I create new heauens, and a new earth: & the former shal not
be remembred, nor come into mind.
18 But bee you glad and reioyce for euer in that which I create: for beholde, I
create Ierusalem a reioycing, and her people a ioy.
19 And I wil reioyce in Ierusalem, and ioy in my people, and the voice of
weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
20 There shalbe no more thence an infant of dayes, nor an olde man, that hath
not filled his dayes: for the childe shall die an hundreth yeeres olde: but the
sinner being an hundreth yeres old, shalbe accursed.
21 And they shall builde houses, and inhabite them, and they shall plant
vineyards, and eate the fruit of them.
22 They shal not build, and another inhabit: they shall not plant, and another
eat: for as the daies of a tree, are the dayes of my people, and mine elect shal
long enioy the worke of their hands.
23 They shall not labour in vaine, nor bring forth for trouble: for they are the
seede of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.
24 And it shal come to passe, that before they call, I will answere, &
whiles they are yet speaking, I will heare.
25 The wolfe and the lambe shall feede together, and the lyon shall eate straw
like the bullocke: and dust shalbe the serpents meat. They shall not hurt nor
destroy in all my holy mountaine, sayth the Lord.
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1 Thus sayth the Lord, The heauen is my throne, and the earth is my footestoole:
where is the house that yee builde vnto mee? and where is the place of my rest?
2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things haue beene,
saith the Lord: but to this man wil I looke, euen to him that is poore and of a
contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
3 He that killeth an oxe is as if he slue a man: he that sacrificeth a lambe, as
if he cut off a dogs necke: he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered
swines blood: he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idole: yea, they haue
chosen their owne wayes, and their soule delighteth in their abominations.
4 I also will chuse their delusions, and will bring their feares vpon them;
because when I called, none did answere, when I spake they did not heare: but
they did euill before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
5 Heare the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word: Your brethren that
hated you, that cast you out for my Names sake, sayd, Let the Lord be glorified:
but he shal appeare to your ioy, and they shalbe ashamed.
6 A voice of noyse from the city, a voice from the Temple, a voice of the Lord,
that rendreth recompense to his enemies.
7 Before she trauailed, she brought foorth: before her paine came, shee was
deliuered of a man childe.
8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seene such things? shall the earth be
made to bring forth in one day, or shall a nation be borne at once? for as soone
as Zion traueiled, shee brought foorth her children.
9 Shall I bring to the birth, & not cause to bring forth, saith the Lord ?
shall I cause to bring foorth, and shut the wombe, sayth thy God?
10 Reioyce ye with Ierusalem, and be glad with her, all yee that loue her:
reioyce for ioy with her, all yee that mourne for her:
11 That ye may sucke and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations: that
ye may milke out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
12 For thus sayth the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a riuer, and
the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing streame: then shall ye sucke, ye shalbe
borne vpon her sides, and be dandled vpon her knees.
13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so wil I comfort you: and ye shall be
comforted in Ierusalem.
14 And when yee see this, your heart shall reioyce, and your bones shall
flourish like an herbe: and the hand of the Lord shall be knowen towards his
seruants, and his indignation towards his enemies.
15 For behold, the Lord wil come with fire, and with his charets like a
whirlewinde, to render his anger with furie, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword, will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the
slaine of the Lord shalbe many.
17 They that sanctifie themselues, and purifie themselues in the gardens,
behinde one tree in the midst, eating swines flesh, and the abomination, and the
mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come that I will gather
all nations and tongues, and they shall come and see my glorie.
19 And I will set a signe among them, and I will send those that escape of them
vnto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal and
Iauan, to the Iles afarre off, that haue not heard my fame, neither haue seene
my glory, and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
20 And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering vnto the Lord, out of
all nations, vpon horses and in charets, and in litters, and vpon mules, and
vpon swift beasts to my holie mountaine Ierusalem, saith the Lord; as the
children of Israel bring an offering in a cleane vessell, into the house of the
Lord.
21 And I will also take of them for Priestes and for Leuites, saith the Lord.
22 For as the new heauens, and the new earth which I wil make, shall remaine
before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remaine.
23 And it shall come to passe, that from one new Moone to an other, and from one
Sabbath to an other, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
24 And they shall goe foorth, and looke vpon the carkeises of the men that haue
transgressed against me: for their worme shall not die, neither shall their fire
be quenched, and they shall be an abhorring vnto all flesh.
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