^5:1Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill: ^5:2And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes. ^5:3And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden. ^5:4Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes? ^5:5And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it; ^5:6And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it. ^5:7For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help. ^5:8Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land! ^5:9The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them. ^5:10For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain. ^5:11Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine! ^5:12And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing. ^5:13For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water. ^5:14For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it. ^5:15And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face, and the eyes of pride are put to shame: ^5:16But the Lord of armies is lifted up as judge, and the Holy God is seen to be holy in righteousness. ^5:17Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places. ^5:18Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin! ^5:19Who say, Let him do his work quickly, let him make it sudden, so that we may see it: let the design of the Holy One of Israel come near, so that it may be clear to us. ^5:20Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter! ^5:21Cursed are those who seem wise to themselves, and who take pride in their knowledge! ^5:22Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks! ^5:23Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him. ^5:24For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel. ^5:25For this reason the wrath of the Lord has been burning against his people, and his hand has been stretched out against them in punishment, and the hills were shaking, and their dead bodies were like waste in the open places of the town. ^5:26And he will let a flag be lifted up as a sign to a far-off nation, whistling to them from the ends of the earth: and they will come quickly and suddenly. ^5:27There is no weariness among them, and no man is feeble-footed: they come without resting or sleeping, and the cord of their shoes is not broken. ^5:28Their arrows are sharp, and every bow is bent: the feet of their horses are like rock, and their wheels are like a rushing storm. ^5:29The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands. ^5:30And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.

^6:1In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord seated in his place, high and lifted up, and the Temple was full of the wide skirts of his robe. ^6:2Over him were the winged ones: every one had six wings; two for covering his face, two for covering his feed, and two for flight. ^6:3And one said in a loud voice to another, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of armies: all the earth is full of his glory. ^6:4And the bases of the door-pillars were shaking at the sound of his cry, and the house was full of smoke. ^6:5Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies. ^6:6Then a winged one came to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from off the altar with the fire-spoon. ^6:7And after touching my mouth with it, he said, See, your lips have been touched with this; and your evil is taken away, and you are made clean from sin. ^6:8And the voice of the Lord came to my ears, saying, Whom am I to send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I, send me. ^6:9And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but without getting wiser. ^6:10Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well. ^6:11Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste, ^6:12And the Lord has taken men far away, and there are wide waste places in the land. ^6:13And even if there is still a tenth part in it, it will again be burned, like a tree of the woods whose broken end is still in the earth after the tree has been cut down (the holy seed is the broken end).

^7:1Now it came about in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin, the king of Aram, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but were not able to overcome it. ^7:2And word came to the family of David that Aram had put up its tents in Ephraim. And the king's heart, and the hearts of his people, were moved, like the trees of the wood shaking in the wind. ^7:3Then the Lord said to Isaiah, Go out now, you and Shear-jashub, your son, and you will come across Ahaz at the end of the stream flowing from the higher pool, in the highway of the washerman's field; ^7:4And say to him, Take care and be quiet; have no fear, and do not let your heart be feeble, because of these two ends of smoking fire-wood, because of the bitter wrath of Rezin and Aram, and of the son of Remaliah. ^7:5Because Aram has made evil designs against you, saying, ^7:6Let us go up against Judah, troubling her, and forcing our way into her, and let us put up a king in her, even the son of Tabeel: ^7:7This is the word of the Lord God: This design will not come about or be effected. ^7:8For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin (and in sixty-five years from now Ephraim will be broken, and will no longer be a people): ^7:9And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you will not have faith, your kingdom will be broken. ^7:10And Isaiah said again to Ahaz, ^7:11Make a request to the Lord your God for a sign, a sign in the deep places of the underworld, or in the high heavens. ^7:12But Ahaz said, I will not put the Lord to the test by making such a request. ^7:13And he said, Give ear now, O family of David: is it not enough that you are driving men to disgust? will you do the same to my God? ^7:14For this cause the Lord himself will give you a sign; a young woman is now with child, and she will give birth to a son, and she will give him the name Immanuel. ^7:15Butter and honey will be his food, when he is old enough to make a decision between evil and good. ^7:16For before the child is old enough to make a decision between evil and good, the land whose two kings you are now fearing will have become waste. ^7:17The Lord is about to send on you, and on your people, and on your father's house, such a time of trouble as there has not been from the days of the separating of Ephraim from Judah; even the coming of the king of Assyria. ^7:18And it will be in that day that the Lord will make a piping sound for the fly which is in the end of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria. ^7:19And they will come, covering all the waste valleys, and the holes of the rocks, and the thorns, and all the watering-places. ^7:20In that day will the Lord take away the hair of the head and of the feet, as well as the hair of the face, with a blade got for a price from the other side of the River; even with the king of Assyria. ^7:21And it will be in that day that a man will give food to a young cow and two sheep; ^7:22And they will give so much milk that he will be able to have butter for his food: for butter and honey will be the food of all who are still living in the land. ^7:23And it will be in that day that in every place where before there were a thousand vines valued at a thousand shekels of silver, there will be nothing but blackberries and thorns. ^7:24Men will come there with bows and arrows, because all the land will be full of blackberries and thorns. ^7:25And they will send out the oxen and the sheep on all the hills which before were worked with the spade, ... fear of blackberries and thorns.

^8:1And the Lord said to me, Take a great writing-board, and on it put down in common letters, Maher-shalal-hash-baz; ^8:2And take true witnesses to the writing, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah, the son of Jeberechiah. ^8:3And I went in to my wife, and she became with child, and gave birth to a son. Then the Lord said to me, Give him the name Maher-shalal-hash-baz, ^8:4For before the child is able to say, Father, or, Mother, the wealth of Damascus and the goods of Samaria will be taken away by the king of Assyria. ^8:5And the Lord said again to me, ^8:6Because this people will have nothing to do with the softly-flowing waters of Shiloah, and have fear of Rezin and Remaliah's son; ^8:7For this cause the Lord is sending on them the waters of the River, deep and strong, even the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it will come up through all its streams, overflowing all its edges: ^8:8And it will come on into Judah; rushing on and overflowing, till the waters are up to the neck; *** and his outstretched wings will be covering the land from side to side: for God is with us. ^8:9Have knowledge, O peoples, and be in fear; give ear, all you far-off parts of the earth: ^8:10Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing; give your orders, and they will not be effected: for God is with us. ^8:11For the Lord, controlling me with a strong hand, gave me orders not to go in the way of this people, saying, ^8:12Do not say, It is holy, about everything of which this people says, It is holy; and do not be in fear of what they go in fear of. ^8:13But let the Lord of armies be holy to you, and go in fear of him, giving honour to him. ^8:14And he will be for a holy place: but for a stone of falling and a rock of trouble to the two houses of Israel, and to the men of Jerusalem, for a net in which they may be taken. ^8:15And numbers of them, falling on the stone, will be broken, and will be taken in the net. ^8:16Let my teaching be kept secret: and my words be given to my disciples only. ^8:17And I will be waiting for the Lord, whose face is veiled from the house of Jacob, and I will be looking for him. ^8:18See, I and the children whom the Lord has given me, are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of armies, whose resting-place is in Mount Zion. ^8:19And when they say to you, Make request for us to those who have control of spirits, and to those wise in secret arts, who make hollow bird-like sounds; is it not right for a people to make request to their gods, to make request for the living to the dead? ^8:20Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness. ... If they do not say such things. ... For him there is no dawn. ... ^8:21And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high; ^8:22And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

^9:1In earlier times he made the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali of small value, but after that he gave it glory, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the nations. ^9:2The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining. ^9:3You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war. ^9:4For by your hand the yoke on his neck and the rod on his back, even the rod of his cruel master, have been broken, as in the day of Midian. ^9:5For every boot of the man of war with his sounding step, and the clothing rolled in blood, will be for burning, food for the fire. ^9:6For to us a child has come, to us a son is given; and the government has been placed in his hands; and he has been named Wise Guide, Strong God, Father for ever, Prince of Peace. ^9:7Of the increase of his rule and of peace there will be no end, on the seat of David, and in his kingdom; to make it strong, supporting it with wise decision and righteousness, now and for ever. By the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done. ^9:8The Lord has sent a word to Jacob, and it has come on Israel; ^9:9And all the people will have experience of it, even Ephraim and the men of Samaria, who say in the pride of their uplifted hearts, ^9:10The bricks have come down, but we will put up buildings of cut stone in their place: the sycamores are cut down, but they will be changed to cedars. ^9:11For this cause the Lord has made strong the haters of Israel, driving them on to make war against him; ^9:12Aram on the east, and the Philistines on the west, who have come against Israel with open mouths. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. ^9:13But the heart of the people was not turned to him who sent punishment on them, and they made no prayer to the Lord of armies. ^9:14For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, in one day. ^9:15The man who is honoured and responsible is the head, and the prophet who gives false teaching is the tail. ^9:16For the guides of this people are the cause of their wandering from the right way, and those who are guided by them come to destruction. ^9:17For this cause the Lord will have no pleasure in their young men, and no pity on their widows and the children without fathers: for they are all haters of God and evil-doers, and foolish words come from every mouth. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. ^9:18For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke. ^9:19The land was dark with the wrath of the Lord of armies: the people were like those who take men's flesh for food. ^9:20On the right a man was cutting off bits and was still in need; on the left a man took a meal but had not enough; no man had pity on his brother; every man was making a meal of the flesh of his neighbour. ^9:21Manasseh was making a meal of Ephraim, and Ephraim of Manasseh; and together they were attacking Judah. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

^10:1Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts: ^10:2Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father. ^10:3And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory? ^10:4... For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. ^10:5Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment! ^10:6I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets. ^10:7But this is not what is in his mind, and this is not his design; but his purpose is destruction, and the cutting off of more and more nations. ^10:8For he says, Are not all my captains kings? ^10:9Will not the fate of Calno be like that of Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? ^10:10As my hand has come on the kingdoms of the images, whose pictured images were more in number than those of Jerusalem and Samaria; ^10:11So, as I have done to Samaria and her images, I will do to Jerusalem and her images. ^10:12For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his uplifted eyes. ^10:13For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them; ^10:14And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound. ^10:15Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood. ^10:16For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be lighted like a burning flame. ^10:17And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: wasting and burning up his thorns in one day. ^10:18And he will put an end to the glory of his woods and of his planted fields, soul and body together; and it will be as when a man is wasted by disease. ^10:19And the rest of the trees of his wood will be small in number, so that a child may put them down in writing. ^10:20And it will be in that day that the rest of Israel, and those of Jacob who have come safely through these troubles, will no longer go for help to him whose rod was on their back, but their faith will be in the Lord, the Holy One of Israel. ^10:21The rest, even the rest of Jacob, will come back to the Strong God. ^10:22For though your people, O Israel, are as the sand of the sea, only a small number will come back: for the destruction is fixed, overflowing in righteousness. ^10:23For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to make destruction complete in all the land. ^10:24For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, says, O my people living in Zion, have no fear of the Assyrian, even if his rod comes on your back, and his stick is lifted up as in Egypt. ^10:25For in a very short time my passion will be over, and my wrath will be turned to their destruction. ^10:26And the Lord of armies will be shaking a whip against him, as when he overcame Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be lifted up against them as it was against the Egyptians. ^10:27And in that day the weight which he put on your back will be taken away, and his yoke broken from off your neck. ^10:28He has gone up from Pene-Rimmon, he has come to Aiath; he has gone past Migron, at Michmash he puts his forces in order. ^10:29They have gone across the mountain; Geba will be our resting-place tonight, they say: Ramah is shaking with fear; Gibeah of Saul has gone in flight. ^10:30Give a loud cry, daughter of Gallim; let Laishah give ear; let Anathoth give answer to her. ^10:31Madmenah has gone; the men of Gebim are putting their goods in a safe place. ^10:32This very day he is stopping at Nob; he is shaking his hand against the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. ^10:33See, the Lord, the Lord of armies, is cutting off his branches with a great noise, and his strong ones are falling and his high ones are coming down. ^10:34And he is cutting down the thick places of the wood with an axe, and Lebanon with its tall trees is coming down.

^11:1And there will come a rod out of the broken tree of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will give fruit. ^11:2And the spirit of the Lord will be resting on him, the spirit of wisdom and good sense, the spirit of wise guiding and strength, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; ^11:3And he will not be guided in his judging by what he sees, or give decisions by the hearing of his ears: ^11:4But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer. ^11:5And righteousness will be the cord of his robe, and good faith the band round his breast. ^11:6And the wolf will be living with the lamb, and the leopard will take his rest with the young goat; and the lion will take grass for food like the ox; and the young lion will go with the young ones of the herd; and a little child will be their guide. ^11:7And the cow and the bear will be friends while their young ones are sleeping together. ^11:8And the child at the breast will be playing by the hole of the snake, and the older child will put his hand on the bright eye of the poison-snake. ^11:9There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain: for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the sea is covered by the waters. ^11:10And in that day, the eyes of the nations will be turned to the root of Jesse which will be lifted up as the flag of the peoples; and his resting-place will be glory. ^11:11And in that day the hand of the Lord will be stretched out the second time to get back the rest of his people, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the sea-lands. ^11:12And he will put up a flag as a sign to the nations, and he will get together those of Israel who had been sent away, and the wandering ones of Judah, from the four ends of the earth. ^11:13And the envy of Ephraim will be gone, and those who make trouble for Judah will come to an end: Ephraim will have no more envy of Judah, and there will be an end of Judah's hate for Ephraim. ^11:14And they will be united in attacking the Philistines on the west, and together they will take the goods of the children of the east: their hand will be on Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon will be under their rule. ^11:15And the Lord will make the tongue of the Egyptian sea completely dry; and with his burning wind his hand will be stretched out over the River, and it will be parted into seven streams, so that men may go over it with dry feet. ^11:16And there will be a highway for the rest of his people from Assyria; as there was for Israel in the day when he came up out of the land of Egypt.

^12:1And in that day you will say I will give praise to you, O Lord; for though you were angry with me, your wrath is turned away, and I am comforted. ^12:2See, God is my salvation; I will have faith in the Lord, without fear: for the Lord Jah is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation. ^12:3So with joy will you get water out of the springs of salvation. ^12:4And in that day you will say, Give praise to the Lord, let his name be honoured, give word of his doings among the peoples, say that his name is lifted up. ^12:5Make a song to the Lord; for he has done noble things: give news of them through all the earth. ^12:6Let your voice be sounding in a cry of joy, O daughter of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.

^13:1The word of the Lord about Babylon which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw. ^13:2Put up a flag on a clear mountain-top, make a loud outcry to them, give directions with the hand, so that they may go into the doors of the great ones. ^13:3I have given orders to my holy ones, I have sent out my men of war, those of mine who take pride in their power, to give effect to my wrath. ^13:4The noise of great numbers in the mountains, like the noise of a strong people! The noise of the kingdoms of the nations meeting together! The Lord of armies is numbering his forces for war. ^13:5They come from a far country, from the farthest part of heaven, even the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, with destruction for all the land. ^13:6Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High. ^13:7For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water; ^13:8Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames. ^13:9See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and burning passion: to make the land a waste, driving the sinners in it to destruction. ^13:10For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light. ^13:11And I will send punishment on the world for its evil, and on the sinners for their wrongdoing; and I will put an end to all pride, and will make low the power of the cruel. ^13:12I will make men so small in number, that a man will be harder to get than gold, even the best gold of Ophir. ^13:13For this cause the heavens will be shaking, and the earth will be moved out of its place, in the wrath of the Lord of armies, and in the day of his burning passion. ^13:14And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land. ^13:15Everyone who is overtaken will have a spear put through him, and everyone who goes in flight will be put to the sword. ^13:16Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others. ^13:17See, I am driving the Medes against them, who put no value on silver and have no pleasure in gold. ^13:18In their hands are bows and spears; they are cruel, violently putting the young men to death, and crushing the young women; they have no pity for children, and no mercy for the fruit of the body. ^13:19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beautiful town which is the pride of the Chaldaeans, will be like God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. ^13:20People will never be living in it again, and it will have no more men from generation to generation: the Arab will not put up his tent there; and those who keep sheep will not make it a resting-place for their flocks. ^13:21But the beasts of the waste land will have their holes there; and the houses will be full of crying jackals, and ostriches will have their place there, and evil spirits will be dancing there. ^13:22And wolves will be answering one another in their towers, and jackals in their houses of pleasure: her time is near, and her days of power will quickly be ended.

^14:1For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make Israel his special people, and will put them in their land; and the man from a strange country will take his place among them and be joined to the family of Jacob. ^14:2And the people will take them with them to their place: and the children of Israel will give them a heritage in the Lord's land as men-servants and women-servants, making them prisoners whose prisoners they were; and they will be rulers over their masters. ^14:3And it will be, in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard yoke which they had put on you, ^14:4That you will take up this bitter song against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the cruel overseer come to an end! He who was lifted up in pride is cut off; ^14:5The stick of the evil-doers, the rod of the rulers, is broken by the Lord; ^14:6He whose rod was on the peoples with an unending wrath, ruling the nations in passion, with an uncontrolled rule. ^14:7All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song. ^14:8Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe. ^14:9The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats. ^14:10They all make answer and say to you, Have you become feeble like us? have you been made even as we are? ^14:11Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them. ^14:12How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies! ^14:13For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north. ^14:14I will go higher than the clouds; I will be like the Most High. ^14:15But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts. ^14:16Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms? ^14:17Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house. ^14:18All the kings of the earth are at rest in glory, every man in his house, ^14:19But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot. ^14:20As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man. ^14:21Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places. ^14:22For I will come up against them, says the Lord of armies, cutting off from Babylon name and offspring, son and son's son, says the Lord. ^14:23And I will make you a heritage for the hedgehog, and pools of water: and I will go through it with the brush of destruction, says the Lord of armies. ^14:24The Lord has taken an oath, saying, My design will certainly come about, and my purpose will be effected: ^14:25To let the Assyrian be broken in my land, and crushed under foot on my mountains: there will his yoke be taken away from them, and his rule over them come to an end. ^14:26This is the purpose for all the earth: and this is the hand stretched out over all nations. ^14:27For it is the purpose of the Lord of armies, and who will make it of no effect? when his hand is stretched out, by whom may it be turned back? ^14:28In the year of the death of King Ahaz this word came to the prophet: ^14:29Be not glad, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod which was on you is broken: for out of the snake's root will come a poison-snake, and its fruit will be a winged poison-snake. ^14:30And the poorest of the land will have food, and those in need will be given a safe resting-place: but your seed will come to an end for need of food, and the rest of you will be put to the sword. ^14:31Send out a cry, O door! Make sounds of sorrow, O town! All your land has come to nothing, O Philistia; for there comes a smoke out of the north, and everyone keeps his place in the line. ^14:32What answer, then, will my people give to the representatives of the nation? That the Lord is the builder of Zion, and she will be a safe place for the poor of his people.

^15:1The word about Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab has become waste, and is seen no longer; for in a night Kir of Moab has become waste, and is seen no longer. ^15:2The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places, weeping: Moab is sounding her cry of sorrow over Nebo, and over Medeba: everywhere the hair of the head and of the face is cut off. ^15:3In their streets they are covering themselves with haircloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their public places, there is crying and bitter weeping. ^15:4Heshbon is crying out, and Elealeh; their voice is sounding even to Jahaz: for this cause the heart of Moab is shaking; his soul is shaking with fear. ^15:5My heart is crying out for Moab; her people go in flight to Zoar, and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for they go up with weeping by the slope of Luhith; on the way to Horonaim they send up a cry of destruction. ^15:6The waters of Nimrim will become dry: for the grass is burned up, the young grass is coming to an end, every green thing is dead. ^15:7For this cause they will take away their wealth, and the stores they have got together, over the stream of the water-plants. ^15:8For the cry has gone round the limits of Moab; as far as to Eglaim and Beer-elim. ^15:9For the waters of Dimon are full of blood: and I'm sending even more on Moab, a lion on those of Moab who go in flight, and on the rest of the land.

^16:1And they will send ... to the mountain of the daughter of Zion. ^16:2For the daughters of Moab will be like wandering birds, like a place from which the young birds have gone in flight, at the ways across the Arnon. ^16:3Give wise directions, make a decision; let your shade be as night in full day: keep safe those who are in flight; do not give up the wandering ones. ^16:4Let those who have been forced out of Moab have a resting-place with you; be a cover to them from him who is making waste their land: till the cruel ones are cut off, and wasting has come to an end, and those who take pleasure in crushing the poor are gone from the land. ^16:5Then a king's seat will be based on mercy, and one will be seated on it in the tent of David for ever; judging uprightly, and quick to do righteousness. ^16:6We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride and passion: his high words about himself are false. ^16:7For this cause everyone in Moab will give cries of grief for Moab: crushed to the earth, they will be weeping for the men of Kir-hareseth. ^16:8For the fields of Heshbon are waste, the vine of Sibmah is dead; the lords of nations were overcome by the produce of her vines; her vine-plants went as far as Jazer, and came even to the waste land; her branches were stretched out to the sea. ^16:9For this cause my sorrow for the vine of Sibmah will be like the weeping for Jazer: my eyes are dropping water on you, O Heshbon and Elealeh! For they are sounding the war-cry over your summer fruits and the getting in of your grain; ^16:10And all joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field; and in the vine-gardens there are no songs or sounds of joy: the crushing of grapes has come to an end, and its glad cry has been stopped. ^16:11For this cause the cords of my heart are sounding for Moab, and I am full of sorrow for Kir-heres. ^16:12And when Moab goes up to the high place, and makes prayer in the house of his god, it will have no effect. ^16:13This is the word which the Lord said about Moab in the past. ^16:14But now the Lord has said, In three years, the years of a servant working for payment, the glory of Moab, all that great people, will be turned to shame, and the rest of Moab will be very small and without honour.

^17:1The word about Damascus. See, they have made Damascus a town no longer; it has become a waste place. ^17:2Her towns are unpeopled for ever; there the flocks take their rest in peace, without fear. ^17:3The strong tower has gone from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus: the rest of Aram will come to destruction, and be made like the glory of the children of Israel, says the Lord of armies. ^17:4And it will be in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made small, and the strength of his body will become feeble. ^17:5And it will be like a man cutting the growth of his grain, pulling together the heads of the grain with his arm; even as when they get in the grain in the valley of Rephaim. ^17:6But it will be like a man shaking an olive-tree, something will still be there, two or three berries on the top of the highest branch, four or five on the outside branches of a fertile tree, says the Lord, the God of Israel. ^17:7In that day a man's heart will be turned to his Maker, and his eyes to the Holy One of Israel. ^17:8He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made. ^17:9In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction. ^17:10For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god; ^17:11In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow. ^17:12Ah! the voice of peoples, like the loud sounding of the seas, and the thundering of great nations rushing on like the bursting out of waters! ^17:13But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm. ^17:14In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.

^18:1Ho! land of the sounding of wings, on the other side of the rivers of Ethiopia: ^18:2Which sends its representatives by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters. Go back quickly, O representatives, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers. ^18:3All you peoples of the world, and you who are living on the earth, when a flag is lifted up on the mountains, give attention; and when the horn is sounded, give ear. ^18:4For this is what the Lord has said to me: I will be quiet, watching from my place; like the clear heat when the sun is shining, like a mist of dew in the heat of summer. ^18:5For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches. ^18:6They will be for the birds of the mountains, and for the beasts of the earth: the birds will come down on them in the summer, and the beasts of the earth in the winter. ^18:7In that time an offering will be made to the Lord of armies from a people tall and smooth, causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers, an offering taken to the place of the name of the Lord of armies, even Mount Zion.

^19:1The word about Egypt. See, the Lord is seated on a quick-moving cloud, and is coming to Egypt: and the false gods of Egypt will be troubled at his coming, and the heart of Egypt will be turned to water. ^19:2And I will send the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they will be fighting every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; town against town, and kingdom against kingdom. ^19:3And the spirit of Egypt will be troubled in her, and I will make her decisions without effect: and they will be turning to the false gods, and to those who make hollow sounds, and to those who have control of spirits, and to those who are wise in secret arts. ^19:4And I will give the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord; and a hard king will be their ruler, says the Lord, the Lord of armies. ^19:5And the waters of the sea will be cut off, and the river will become dry and waste: ^19:6And the rivers will have an evil smell; the stream of Egypt will become small and dry: all the water-plants will come to nothing. ^19:7The grass-lands by the Nile, and everything planted by the Nile, will become dry, or taken away by the wind, and will come to an end. ^19:8The fishermen will be sad, and all those who put fishing-lines into the Nile will be full of grief, and those whose nets are stretched out on the waters will have sorrow in their hearts. ^19:9And all the workers in linen thread, and those who make cotton cloth, will be put to shame. ^19:10And the makers of twisted thread will be crushed, and those who ... will be sad in heart. ^19:11The chiefs of Zoan are completely foolish; the wisest guides of Pharaoh have become like beasts: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the offspring of early kings? ^19:12Where, then, are your wise men? let them make clear to you, let them give you knowledge of the purpose of the Lord of armies for Egypt. ^19:13The chiefs of Zoan have become foolish, the chiefs of Noph are tricked, the heads of her tribes are the cause of Egypt's wandering out of the way. ^19:14The Lord has sent among them a spirit of error: and by them Egypt is turned out of the right way in all her doings, as a man overcome by wine is uncertain in his steps. ^19:15And in Egypt there will be no work for any man, head or tail, high or low, to do. ^19:16In that day the Egyptians will be like women: and the land will be shaking with fear because of the waving of the Lord's hand stretched out over it. ^19:17And the land of Judah will become a cause of great fear to Egypt; whenever its name comes to mind, Egypt will be in fear before the Lord of armies because of his purpose against it. ^19:18In that day there will be five towns in the land of Egypt using the language of Canaan, and making oaths to the Lord of armies; and one of them will be named, The Town of the Sun. ^19:19In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord at the edge of the land. ^19:20And it will be a sign and a witness to the Lord of armies in the land of Egypt: when they are crying out to the Lord because of their cruel masters, then he will send them a saviour and a strong one to make them free. ^19:21And the Lord will give the knowledge of himself to Egypt, and the Egyptians will give honour to the Lord in that day; they will give him worship with offerings and meal offerings, and will take an oath to the Lord and give effect to it. ^19:22And the Lord will send punishment on Egypt, and will make them well again; and when they come back to the Lord he will give ear to their prayer and take away their disease. ^19:23In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt will come into Assyria; and the Egyptians will give worship to the Lord together with the Assyrians. ^19:24In that day Israel will be the third together with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the earth: ^19:25Because of the blessing of the Lord of armies which he has given them, saying, A blessing on Egypt my people, and on Assyria the work of my hands, and on Israel my heritage.

^20:1In the year when the Tartan came to Ashdod, sent by Sargon, king of Assyria, and made war against it and took it; ^20:2At that time the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and take off your robe, and your shoes from your feet; and he did so, walking unclothed and without shoes on his feet. ^20:3And the Lord said, As my servant Isaiah has gone unclothed and without shoes for three years as a sign and a wonder to Egypt and Ethiopia, ^20:4So will the king of Assyria take away the prisoners of Egypt and those forced out of Ethiopia, young and old, unclothed and without shoes, and with backs uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. ^20:5And they will be full of fear, and will no longer have faith in Ethiopia which was their hope, or in Egypt which was their glory. ^20:6And those living by the sea will say in that day, See the fate of our hope to whom we went for help and salvation from the king of Assyria: what hope have we then of salvation?

^21:1The word about the waste land. As storm-winds in the South go rushing through, it comes from the waste land, from the land greatly to be feared. ^21:2A vision of fear comes before my eyes; the worker of deceit goes on in his false way, and the waster goes on making waste. Up! Elam; to the attack! Media; I have put an end to her sorrow. ^21:3For this cause I am full of bitter grief; pains like the pains of a woman in childbirth have come on me: I am bent down with sorrow at what comes to my ears; I am shocked by what I see. ^21:4My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me. ^21:5They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your breastplates. ^21:6For so has the Lord said to me, Go, let a watchman be placed; let him give word of what he sees: ^21:7And when he sees war-carriages, horsemen by twos, war-carriages with asses, war-carriages with camels, let him give special attention. ^21:8And the watchman gave a loud cry, O my lord, I am on the watchtower all day, and am placed in my watch every night: ^21:9See, here come war-carriages with men, horsemen by twos: and in answer he said, Babylon is made low, is made low, and all her images are broken on the earth. ^21:10O my crushed ones, the grain of my floor! I have given you the word which came to me from the Lord of armies, the God of Israel. ^21:11The word about Edom. A voice comes to me from Seir, Watchman, how far gone is the night? how far gone is the night? ^21:12The watchman says, The morning has come, but night is still to come: if you have questions to put, put them, and come back again. ^21:13The word about Arabia. In the thick woods of Arabia will be your night's resting-place, O travelling bands of Dedanites! ^21:14Give water to him who is in need of water; give bread, O men of the land of Tema, to those in flight. ^21:15For they are in flight from the sharp sword, and the bent bow, and from the trouble of war. ^21:16For so has the Lord said to me, In a year, by the years of a servant working for payment, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end: ^21:17And the rest of the bowmen, the men of war of the children of Kedar, will be small in number: for the Lord, the God of Israel, has said it.

^22:1The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops? ^22:2You, who are full of loud voices, a town of outcries, given up to joy; your dead men have not been put to the sword, or come to their death in war. ^22:3All your rulers ... have gone in flight; all your strong ones have gone far away. ^22:4For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the wasting of the daughter of my people. ^22:5For it is a day of trouble and of crushing down and of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the valley of vision; ... ^22:6And Elam was armed with arrows, and Aram came on horseback; and the breastplate of Kir was uncovered. ^22:7And your most fertile valleys were full of war-carriages, and the horsemen took up their positions in front of the town. ^22:8He took away the cover of Judah; and in that day you were looking with care at the store of arms in the house of the woods. ^22:9And you saw all the broken places in the wall of the town of David: and you got together the waters of the lower pool. ^22:10And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger. ^22:11And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been purposed long before. ^22:12And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief: ^22:13But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes. ^22:14And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies. ^22:15The Lord, the Lord of armies, says, Go to this person in authority, this Shebna, who is over the house; who has made himself a resting-place on high, cutting out a place for himself in the rock, and say, ^22:16Who are you, and by what right have you made for yourself a resting-place here? ^22:17See, O strong man, the Lord will send you violently away, gripping you with force, ^22:18Twisting you round and round like a ball he will send you out into a wide country: there you will come to your end, and there will be the carriages of your pride, O shame of your lord's house! ^22:19And I will have you forced out of your place of authority, and pulled down from your position. ^22:20And in that day I will send for my servant, Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah: ^22:21And I will put your robe on him, and put your band about him, and I will give your authority into his hand: and he will be a father to the men of Jerusalem, and to the family of Judah. ^22:22And I will give the key of the family of David into his care; and what he keeps open will be shut by no one, and what he keeps shut no one will make open. ^22:23And I will put him like a nail in a safe place; and he will be for a seat of glory to his father's family. ^22:24And all the glory of his father's family will be hanging on him, all their offspring, every small vessel, even the cups and the basins. ^22:25In that day, says the Lord of armies, will the nail fixed in a safe place give way; and it will be cut down, and in its fall the weight hanging on it will be cut off, for the Lord has said it.

^23:1The word about Tyre. Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish, because your strong place is made waste; on the way back from the land of Kittim the news is given to them. ^23:2Send out a cry of grief, you men of the sea-land, traders of Zidon, who go over the sea, whose representatives are on great waters; ^23:3Who get in the seed of Shihor, whose wealth is the trade of the nations. ^23:4Be shamed, O Zidon: for the sea, the strong place of the sea has said, I have not been with child, or given birth; I have not taken care of young men, or kept watch over the growth of virgins. ^23:5When the news comes to Egypt they will be bitterly pained at the fate of Tyre. ^23:6Go over to Tarshish; give cries of sorrow, O men of the sea-land. ^23:7Is this the town which was full of joy, whose start goes back to times long past, whose wanderings took her into far-off countries? ^23:8By whom was this purposed against Tyre, the crowning town, whose traders are chiefs, whose business men are honoured in the land? ^23:9It was the purpose of the Lord of armies to put pride to shame, to make sport of the glory of those who are honoured in the earth. ^23:10Let your land be worked with the plough, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer any harbour. ^23:11His hand is stretched out over the sea, the kingdoms are shaking: the Lord has given orders about Canaan, to make waste its strong places. ^23:12And he said, There is no more joy for you, O crushed virgin daughter of Zidon: up! go over to Kittim; even there you will have no rest. ^23:13... ^23:14Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish: because your strong place is made waste. ^23:15And it will be in that day that Tyre will go out of mind for seventy years, that is, the days of one king: after the end of seventy years it will be for Tyre as in the song of the loose woman. ^23:16Take an instrument of music, go about the town, O loose woman who has gone out from the memory of man; make sweet melody with songs, so that you may come back to men's minds. ^23:17And it will be after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will have mercy on Tyre, and she will go back to her trade, acting as a loose woman with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. ^23:18And her goods and her trade will be holy to the Lord: they will not be kept back or stored up; for her produce will be for those living in the Lord's land, to give them food for their needs, and fair clothing.

^24:1See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions. ^24:2And it will be the same for the people as for the priest; for the servant as for his master; and for the woman-servant as for her owner; the same for the one offering goods for a price as for him who takes them; the same for him who gives money at interest and for him who takes it; the same for him who lets others have the use of his property as for those who make use of it. ^24:3The earth will be completely waste and without men; for this is the word of the Lord. ^24:4The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing. ^24:5The earth has been made unclean by those living in it; because the laws have not been kept by them, the orders have been changed, and the eternal agreement has been broken. ^24:6For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number. ^24:7The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief. ^24:8The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad. ^24:9There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it. ^24:10The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in. ^24:11There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone. ^24:12In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction. ^24:13For it will be in the heart of the earth among the peoples, like the shaking of an olive-tree, as the last of the grapes after the getting-in is done. ^24:14But those will be making sounds of joy; they will be crying loudly from the sea for the glory of the Lord. ^24:15Give praise to the Lord in the east, to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the sea-lands. ^24:16From the farthest part of the earth comes the sound of songs, glory to the upright. But I said, I am wasting away, wasting away, the curse is on me! The false ones go on in their false way, yes, they go on acting falsely. ^24:17Fear, and death, and the net, are come on you, O people of the earth. ^24:18And it will be that he who goes in flight from the sound of fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for the windows on high are open, and the bases of the earth are shaking. ^24:19The earth is completely broken, it is parted in two, it is violently moved. ^24:20The earth will be moving uncertainly, like a man overcome by drink; it will be shaking like a tent; and the weight of its sin will be on it, crushing it down so that it will not get up again. ^24:21And in that day the Lord will send punishment on the army of the high ones on high, and on the kings of the earth on the earth. ^24:22And they will be got together, like prisoners in the prison-house; and after a long time they will have their punishment. ^24:23Then the moon will be veiled, and the sun put to shame; for the Lord of armies will be ruling in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his judges he will let his glory be seen.