10:1Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to stink [and] ferment; [so] a little folly is weightier than wisdom [and] honour. 10:2The heart of a wise [man] is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left. 10:3Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his sense faileth [him], and he saith to every one [that] he is a fool. 10:4If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for quietness pacifieth great offences. 10:5There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as an error [that] proceedeth from the ruler: 10:6folly is set in great dignities, but the rich sit in a low place. 10:7I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. 10:8He that diggeth a pit falleth into it; and whoso breaketh down a hedge, a serpent biteth him. 10:9Whoso removeth stones is hurt therewith; he that cleaveth wood is endangered thereby. 10:10If the iron be blunt, and one do not whet the edge, then must he apply more strength; but wisdom is profitable to give success. 10:11If the serpent bite before enchantment, then the charmer hath no advantage. 10:12The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool swallow up himself. 10:13The beginning of the words of his mouth is folly; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness. 10:14And the fool multiplieth words: [yet] man knoweth not what shall be; and what shall be after him, who will tell him? 10:15The labour of fools wearieth them, because they know not how to go to the city. 10:16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning! 10:17Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is a son of nobles, and thy princes eat in [due] season, for strength, and not for drunkenness! 10:18By much sloth fulness the framework falleth in; and through idleness of the hands the house drippeth. 10:19A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh life merry; but money answereth everything. 10:20Curse not the king, no, not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for the bird of the air will carry the voice, and that which hath wings will tell the matter.
11:1Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days. 11:2Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. 11:3If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. 11:4He that observeth the wind will not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds will not reap. 11:5As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, how the bones [grow] in the womb of her that is with child, even so thou knowest not the work of God who maketh all. 11:6In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand; for thou knowest not which shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good. 11:7Now the light is sweet, and pleasant is it to the eyes to see the sun; 11:8but if a man live many years, [and] rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many: all that cometh is vanity. 11:9Rejoice, young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know that for all these [things] God will bring thee into judgment. 11:10Then remove discontent from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for childhood and youth are vanity.
12:1And remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, of which thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; 12:2before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, be darkened, and the clouds return after the rain; 12:3in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows are darkened, 12:4and the doors are shut toward the street; when the sound of the grinding is subdued, and they rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low; 12:5they are also afraid of what is high, and terrors are in the way, and the almond is despised, and the grasshopper is a burden, and the caper-berry is without effect; (for man goeth to his age-long home, and the mourners go about the streets;) 12:6before the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be shattered at the fountain, or the wheel be broken at the cistern; 12:7and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return unto God who gave it. 12:8Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher: all is vanity. 12:9And moreover, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; and he pondered, and sought out, [and] set in order many proverbs. 12:10The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words; and that which was written is upright, words of truth. 12:11The words of the wise are as goads, and the collections [of them] as nails fastened in: they are given from one shepherd. 12:12And besides, my son, be warned by them: of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh. 12:13Let us hear the end of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole of man. 12:14For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil.
Song of Solomon
1:1The song of songs, which is Solomon's. 1:2Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; For thy love is better than wine. 1:3Thine ointments savour sweetly; Thy name is an ointment poured forth: Therefore do the virgins love thee. 1:4Draw me, we will run after thee! The king hath brought me into his chambers We will be glad and rejoice in thee, We will remember thy love more than wine. They love thee uprightly. 1:5I am black, but comely, daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, As the curtains of Solomon. 1:6Look not upon me, because I am black; Because the sun hath looked upon me. My mother's children were angry with me: They made me keeper of the vineyards; Mine own vineyard have I not kept. 1:7Tell me, thou whom my soul loveth, Where thou feedest [thy flock], Where thou makest it to rest at noon; For why should I be as one veiled Beside the flocks of thy companions? 1:8If thou know not, thou fairest among women, Go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, And feed thy kids beside the shepherds' booths. 1:9I compare thee, my love, To a steed in Pharaoh's chariots. 1:10Thy cheeks are comely with bead-rows, Thy neck with ornamental chains. 1:11We will make thee bead-rows of gold With studs of silver. 1:12While the king is at his table, My spikenard sendeth forth its fragrance. 1:13A bundle of myrrh is my beloved unto me; He shall pass the night between my breasts. 1:14My beloved is unto me a cluster of henna-flowers In the vineyards of Engedi. 1:15Behold, thou art fair, my love; Behold, thou art fair: thine eyes are doves. 1:16Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant; Also our bed is green. 1:17The beams of our houses are cedars, Our rafters are cypresses.
2:1I am a narcissus of Sharon, A lily of the valleys. 2:2As the lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters. 2:3As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons: In his shadow have I rapture and sit down; And his fruit is sweet to my taste. 2:4He hath brought me to the house of wine, And his banner over me is love. 2:5Sustain ye me with raisin-cakes, Refresh me with apples; For I am sick of love. 2:6His left hand is under my head, And his right hand doth embrace me. 2:7I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the gazelles, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, till he please. 2:8The voice of my beloved! Behold, he cometh Leaping upon the mountains, Skipping upon the hills. 2:9My beloved is like a gazelle or a young hart. Behold, he standeth behind our wall, He looketh in through the windows, Glancing through the lattice. 2:10My beloved spake and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. 2:11For behold, the winter is past, The rain is over, it is gone: 2:12The flowers appear on the earth; The time of singing is come, And the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land; 2:13The fig-tree melloweth her winter figs, And the vines in bloom give forth [their] fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away! 2:14My dove, in the clefts of the rock, In the covert of the precipice, Let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; For sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely. 2:15Take us the foxes, The little foxes, that spoil the vineyards; For our vineyards are in bloom. 2:16My beloved is mine, and I am his; He feedeth [his flock] among the lilies, 2:17Until the day dawn, and the shadows flee away. Turn, my beloved: be thou like a gazelle or a young hart, Upon the mountains of Bether.
3:1On my bed, in the nights, I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 3:2I will rise now, and go about the city; In the streets and in the broadways Will I seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 3:3The watchmen that go about the city found me: Have ye seen him whom my soul loveth? 3:4Scarcely had I passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother's house, And into the chamber of her that conceived me. 3:5I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the gazelles, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, till he please. 3:6Who is this, [she] that cometh up from the wilderness Like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all powders of the merchant? 3:7Behold his couch, Solomon's own: Threescore mighty men are about it, Of the mighty of Israel. 3:8They all hold the sword, Experts in war; Each hath his sword upon his thigh Because of alarm in the nights. 3:9King Solomon made himself a palanquin Of the wood of Lebanon. 3:10Its pillars he made of silver, Its support of gold, Its seat of purple; The midst thereof was paved [with] love By the daughters of Jerusalem. 3:11Go forth, daughters of Zion, And behold king Solomon With the crown wherewith his mother crowned him In the day of his espousals, And in the day of the gladness of his heart.
4:1Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; Thine eyes are doves behind thy veil; Thy hair is as a flock of goats, On the slopes of mount Gilead. 4:2Thy teeth are like a flock of shorn sheep, Which go up from the washing; Which have all borne twins, And none is barren among them. 4:3Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, And thy speech is comely; As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples Behind thy veil. 4:4Thy neck is like the tower of David, Built for an armoury: A thousand bucklers hang thereon, All shields of mighty men. 4:5Thy two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, Which feed among the lilies. 4:6Until the day dawn, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, And to the hill of frankincense. 4:7Thou art all fair, my love; And there is no spot in thee. 4:8[Come] with me, from Lebanon, [my] spouse, With me from Lebanon, Come, look from the top of Amanah, From the top of Senir and Hermon, From the lions' dens, From the mountains of the leopards. 4:9Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, [my] spouse; Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck. 4:10How fair is thy love, my sister, [my] spouse! How much better is thy love than wine! And the fragrance of thine ointments than all spices! 4:11Thy lips, [my] spouse, drop [as] the honeycomb; Honey and milk are under thy tongue; And the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon. 4:12A garden enclosed is my sister, [my] spouse; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed. 4:13Thy shoots are a paradise of pomegranates, with precious fruits; Henna with spikenard plants; 4:14Spikenard and saffron; Calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; Myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: 4:15A fountain in the gardens, A well of living waters, Which stream from Lebanon. 4:16Awake, north wind, and come, [thou] south; Blow upon my garden, [that] the spices thereof may flow forth. Let my beloved come into his garden, And eat its precious fruits.
5:1I am come into my garden, my sister, [my] spouse; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, beloved ones! 5:2I slept, but my heart was awake. The voice of my beloved! he knocketh: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, mine undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night. 5:3I have put off my tunic, how should I put it on? I have washed my feet, how should I pollute them? 5:4My beloved put in his hand by the hole [of the door]; And my bowels yearned for him. 5:5I rose up to open to my beloved; And my hands dropped with myrrh, And my fingers with liquid myrrh, Upon the handles of the lock. 5:6I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself; he was gone: My soul went forth when he spoke. I sought him, but I found him not; I called him, but he gave me no answer. 5:7The watchmen that went about the city found me; They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. 5:8I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, What will ye tell him? That I am sick of love. 5:9What is thy beloved more than [another] beloved, Thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than [another] beloved, That thou dost so charge us? 5:10My beloved is white and ruddy, The chiefest among ten thousand. 5:11His head is [as] the finest gold; His locks are flowing, black as the raven; 5:12His eyes are like doves by the water-brooks, Washed with milk, fitly set; 5:13His cheeks are as a bed of spices, raised beds of sweet plants; His lips lilies, dropping liquid myrrh. 5:14His hands gold rings, set with the chrysolite; His belly is bright ivory, overlaid [with] sapphires; 5:15His legs, pillars of marble, set upon bases of fine gold: His bearing as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars; 5:16His mouth is most sweet: Yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, yea, this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
6:1Whither is thy beloved gone, Thou fairest among women? Whither is thy beloved turned aside? And we will seek him with thee. 6:2My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, To feed in the gardens and to gather lilies. 6:3I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: He feedeth [his flock] among the lilies. 6:4Thou art fair, my love, as Tirzah, Comely as Jerusalem, Terrible as troops with banners: 6:5Turn away thine eyes from me, For they overcome me. Thy hair is as a flock of goats On the slopes of Gilead. 6:6Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep Which go up from the washing; Which have all borne twins, And none is barren among them. 6:7As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples Behind thy veil. 6:8There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, And virgins without number: 6:9My dove, mine undefiled, is but one; She is the only one of her mother, She is the choice one of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and they called her blessed; The queens and the concubines, and they praised her. 6:10Who is she that looketh forth as the dawn, Fair as the moon, clear as the sun, Terrible as troops with banners? 6:11I went down into the garden of nuts, To see the verdure of the valley, To see whether the vine budded, Whether the pomegranates blossomed. 6:12Before I was aware, My soul set me upon the chariots of my willing people. 6:13Return, return, O Shulamite; Return, return, that we may look upon thee. What would ye look upon in the Shulamite? As it were the dance of two camps.
7:1How beautiful are thy footsteps in sandals, O prince's daughter! The roundings of thy thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of an artist. 7:2Thy navel is a round goblet, [which] wanteth not mixed wine; Thy belly a heap of wheat, set about with lilies; 7:3Thy two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle; 7:4Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; Thine eyes, [like] the pools in Heshbon, By the gate of Bath-rabbim; Thy nose like the tower of Lebanon, Which looketh toward Damascus; 7:5Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, And the locks of thy head like purple; The king is fettered by [thy] ringlets! 7:6How fair and how pleasant art thou, [my] love, in delights! 7:7This thy stature is like to a palm-tree, And thy breasts to grape clusters. 7:8I said, I will go up to the palm-tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof; And thy breasts shall indeed be like clusters of the vine, And the fragrance of thy nose like apples, 7:9And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine, That goeth down smoothly for my beloved, And stealeth over the lips of them that are asleep. 7:10I am my beloved's, And his desire is toward me. 7:11Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields; Let us lodge in the villages. 7:12We will go up early to the vineyards, We will see if the vine hath budded, [If] the blossom is opening, And the pomegranates are in bloom: There will I give thee my loves. 7:13The mandrakes yield fragrance; And at our gates are all choice fruits, new and old: I have laid them up for thee, my beloved.
8:1Oh that thou wert as my brother, That sucked the breasts of my mother! Should I find thee without, I would kiss thee; And they would not despise me. 8:2I would lead thee, bring thee into my mother's house; Thou wouldest instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate. 8:3His left hand would be under my head, And his right hand embrace me. 8:4I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, Why should ye stir up, why awake [my] love, till he please? 8:5Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved? I awoke thee under the apple-tree: There thy mother brought thee forth; There she brought thee forth [that] bore thee. 8:6Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol: The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, Flames of Jah. 8:7Many waters cannot quench love, Neither do the floods drown it: Even if a man gave all the substance of his house for love, It would utterly be contemned. 8:8We have a little sister, And she hath no breasts: What shall we do for our sister In the day when she shall be spoken for? 8:9If she be a wall, We will build upon her a turret of silver; And if she be a door, We will enclose her with boards of cedar. 8:10I am a wall, and my breasts like towers; Then was I in his eyes as one that findeth peace. 8:11Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon: He let out the vineyard unto keepers; Every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand silver-pieces. 8:12My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: The thousand [silver-pieces] be to thee, Solomon; And to the keepers of its fruit, two hundred. 8:13Thou that dwellest in the gardens, The companions hearken to thy voice: Let me hear [it]. 8:14Haste, my beloved, And be thou like a gazelle or a young hart Upon the mountains of spices.
Isaiah
1:1The vision of Isaiah the son of Amos, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 1:2Hear, [ye] heavens, and give ear, [thou] earth! for Jehovah hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children; and they have rebelled against me. 1:3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; Israel doth not know, my people hath no intelligence. 1:4Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that corrupt themselves! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have despised the Holy One of Israel; they are turned away backward. 1:5Why should ye be smitten any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 1:6From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in him; wounds, and weals, and open sores: they have not been dressed, nor bound up, nor mollified with oil. 1:7Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers eat it up in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. 1:8And the daughter of Zion is left, as a booth in a vineyard, as a night-lodge in a cucumber-garden, as a besieged city. 1:9Unless Jehovah of hosts had left us a very small residue, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah. 1:10Hear the word of Jehovah, rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, people of Gomorrah! 1:11To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith Jehovah. I am sated with burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and in the blood of bullocks, and of lambs, and of he-goats I take no pleasure. 1:12When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this from your hand to tread my courts? 1:13Bring no more vain oblations! Incense is an abomination unto me, new moon and sabbath, the calling of convocations wickedness and the solemn meeting I cannot bear. 1:14Your new moons and your set feasts my soul hateth: they are a burden to me; I am wearied of bearing [them]. 1:15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. 1:16Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil, 1:17learn to do well: seek judgment, gladden the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow. 1:18Come now, let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 1:19If ye be willing and hearken, ye shall eat the good of the land; 1:20but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken. 1:21How is the faithful city become a harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness used to lodge in it, but now murderers. 1:22Thy silver is become dross, thy wine is mixed with water: 1:23thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth presents, and hunteth after rewards; they judge not the fatherless, and the cause of the widow cometh not unto them. 1:24Therefore saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah! I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies. 1:25And I will turn my hand upon thee, and will thoroughly purge away thy dross, and take away all thine alloy; 1:26and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning. Afterwards thou shalt be called, Town of righteousness, Faithful city. 1:27Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and they that return of her with righteousness. 1:28But the ruin of the transgressors and of the sinners [shall be] together; and they that forsake Jehovah shall be consumed. 1:29For they shall be ashamed of the terebinths that ye have desired, and ye shall blush for the gardens that ye have chosen. 1:30For ye shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. 1:31And the strong shall be for tow, and his work a spark; and they shall both burn together, and there shall be none to quench [them].
2:1The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2:2And it shall come to pass in the end of days, [that] the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow unto it. 2:3And many peoples shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and Jehovah's word from Jerusalem. 2:4And he shall judge among the nations, and shall reprove many peoples; and they shall forge their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 2:5House of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of Jehovah. 2:6For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled [with what comes] from the east, and use auguries like the Philistines, and ally themselves with the children of foreigners. 2:7And their land is full of silver and gold, and there is no end of their treasures: their land also is full of horses, and there is no end of their chariots. 2:8And their land is full of idols; they bow themselves down to the work of their own hands, to that which their fingers have made. 2:9And the mean man shall be bowed down, and the great man shall be brought low: and do not thou forgive them! 2:10Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty. 2:11The lofty eyes of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day. 2:12For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon everything proud and lofty, and upon everything lifted up, and it shall be brought low; 2:13and upon all the cedars of Lebanon, high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan; 2:14and upon all the lofty mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up; 2:15and upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall; 2:16and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant works of art. 2:17And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day: 2:18and the idols shall utterly pass away. 2:19And they shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to terrify the earth. 2:20In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made [each] for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; 2:21to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the fissures of the cliffs, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to terrify the earth. 2:22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for what account is to be made of him?
3:1For behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, 3:2the mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, and the diviner and the elder, 3:3the captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the clever among artificers, and the one versed in enchantments. 3:4And I will appoint youths as their princes, and children shall rule over them. 3:5And the people shall be oppressed one by the other, and each by his neighbour; the child will be insolent against the elder, and the base against the honourable. 3:6When a man shall take hold of his brother, in his father's house, [and shall say:] Thou hast clothing; be our chief, and let this ruin be under thy hand; 3:7he will lift up [his hand] in that day, saying, I cannot be a healer, and in my house there is neither bread nor clothing; ye shall not make me a chief of the people. 3:8For Jerusalem stumbleth and Judah falleth, because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory. 3:9The look of their face doth witness against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom: they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have brought evil upon themselves. 3:10Say ye of the righteous that it shall be well [with him], for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 3:11Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill [with him], because the desert of his hands shall be rendered unto him. 3:12[As for] my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people! they that guide thee mislead [thee], and destroy the way of thy paths. 3:13Jehovah setteth himself to plead, and standeth to judge the peoples. 3:14Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their princes, [saying:] It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard: the spoil of the poor is in your houses. 3:15What mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the faces of the afflicted? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts. 3:16And Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-out neck and wanton eyes, and go along mincing, and making a tinkling with their feet; 3:17therefore the Lord will make bald the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts. 3:18In that day the Lord will take away the ornament of anklets, and the little suns and crescents, 3:19the pearl-drops, and the bracelets, and the veils, 3:20the head-dresses, and the stepping chains, and the girdles, and the scent-boxes, and the amulets; 3:21the finger-rings, and the nose-rings; 3:22the festival-robes, and the tunics, and the mantles, and the wallets; 3:23the mirrors, and the fine linen bodices, and the turbans, and the flowing veils. 3:24And it shall come to pass, instead of perfume there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe of display, a girding of sackcloth; brand instead of beauty. 3:25Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the fight; 3:26and her gates shall lament and mourn; and, stripped, she shall sit upon the ground.
4:1And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, Our own bread will we eat, and with our own garments will we be clothed; only let us be called by thy name; take away our reproach! 4:2In that day there shall be a sprout of Jehovah for beauty and glory, and the fruit of the earth for excellency and for ornament for those that are escaped of Israel. 4:3And it shall come to pass that he who remaineth in Zion, and he that is left in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem; 4:4when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have scoured out the blood of Jerusalem from its midst, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. 4:5And Jehovah will create over every dwelling-place of mount Zion, and over its convocations, a cloud by day and a smoke, and the brightness of a flame of fire by night: for over all the glory shall be a covering. 4:6And there shall be a tabernacle for shade by day from the heat, and for a shelter and for a covert from storm and from rain.
5:1I will sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard: My well-beloved had a vineyard upon a fruitful hill. 5:2And he dug it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine; and he built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes. 5:3And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard. 5:4What was there yet to do to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? 5:5And now, let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden under foot; 5:6and I will make it a waste it shall not be pruned nor cultivated, but there shall come up briars and thorns; and I will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 5:7For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah the plant of his delight: and he looked for justice, and behold, blood-shedding; for righteousness, and behold, a cry. 5:8Woe unto them that add house to house, that join field to field, until there is no more room, and that ye dwell yourselves alone in the midst of the land! 5:9In mine ears Jehovah of hosts [hath said], Many houses shall assuredly become a desolation, great and excellent ones, without inhabitant. 5:10Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah. 5:11Woe unto them that, rising early in the morning, run after strong drink; that linger till twilight, [till] wine inflameth them! 5:12And harp and lyre, tambour and flute, and wine are in their banquets; but they regard not the work of Jehovah, nor do they see the operation of his hands. 5:13Therefore my people are led away captive from lack of knowledge, and their nobility die of famine, and their multitude are parched with thirst. 5:14Therefore doth Sheol enlarge its desire, and open its mouth without measure; and her splendour shall descend [into it], and her multitude, and her tumult, and [all] that is joyful within her. 5:15And the mean man shall be bowed down, and the great man brought low, and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low; 5:16and Jehovah of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God hallowed in righteousness. 5:17And the lambs shall feed as on their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. 5:18Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as with cart-ropes! 5:19who say, Let him hasten, let him speed his work, that we may see [it]; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! 5:20Woe unto them who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 5:21Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and intelligent in their own esteem! 5:22Woe unto them that are mighty for drinking wine, and men valiant to mix strong drink; 5:23who justify the wicked for a bribe, and turn away the righteousness of the righteous from them! 5:24Therefore as a tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and dry grass sinketh down in the flame, their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; for they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. 5:25Therefore is the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he hath stretched out his hand against them and hath smitten them; and the mountains trembled, and their carcases are become as dung in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still. 5:26And he will lift up a banner to the nations afar off, and will hiss for one from the end of the earth; and behold, it will come rapidly [and] lightly. 5:27None among them is weary, none stumbleth; they slumber not, nor sleep; none hath the girdle of his loins loosed, nor the thong of his sandals broken; 5:28their arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses' hoofs are reckoned as the flint, and their wheels as a whirlwind. 5:29Their roaring is like a lioness, they roar as the young lions; yea, they growl, and snatch the prey, and carry it away safe, and there is none to deliver; 5:30and they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. And if one look upon the earth, behold darkness [and] distress, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
6:1In the year of the death of king Uzziah, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. 6:2Seraphim were standing above him: each had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he flew. 6:3And one called to the other and said, Holy, holy, holy is Jehovah of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory! 6:4And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. 6:5And I said, Woe unto me! for I am undone; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts. 6:6And one of the seraphim flew unto me, and he had in his hand a glowing coal, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar; 6:7and he made it touch my mouth, and said, Behold, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin expiated. 6:8And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? And I said, Here am I; send me. 6:9And he said, Go; and thou shalt say unto this people, Hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see and shall not perceive. 6:10Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and healed. 6:11And I said, Lord, how long? And he said, Until the cities be wasted, without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land become an utter desolation, 6:12and Jehovah have removed men far away, and the solitude be great in the midst of the land. 6:13But a tenth part shall still be therein, and it shall return and be eaten; as the terebinth and as the oak whose trunk [remaineth] after the felling: the holy seed shall be the trunk thereof.
7:1And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, [that] Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but they were not able to fight against it. 7:2And it was told the house of David saying, Syria is allied with Ephraim. Then his heart and the heart of his people shook, as the trees of the forest are shaken with the wind. 7:3And Jehovah said to Isaiah, Go out now to meet Ahaz, thou and thy son Shear-jashub, at the end of the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller's field; 7:4and thou shalt say unto him, Take heed and be quiet; fear not, and let not thy heart faint before these two ends of smoking firebrands, because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. 7:5Inasmuch as Syria hath taken evil counsel against thee, Ephraim [also] and the son of Remaliah, saying, 7:6Let us go up against Judah, and harass it, and make a breach therein for us, and set up a king therein the son of Tabeal; 7:7thus saith the Lord Jehovah: It shall not stand, nor come to pass; 7:8for the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years shall Ephraim be broken, so as to be no [more a] people; 7:9and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye believe not, surely ye shall not be established. 7:10And Jehovah spoke again to Ahaz, saying, 7:11Ask for thee a sign from Jehovah thy God; ask for it in the deep, or in the height above. 7:12And Ahaz said, I will not ask, and will not tempt Jehovah. 7:13And he said, Hear then, house of David: Is it a small matter for you to weary men, that ye weary also my God? 7:14Therefore will the Lord himself give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and shall bring forth a son, and call his name Immanuel. 7:15Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and to choose the good. 7:16For before the child knoweth to refuse the evil and to choose the good, the land whose two kings thou fearest shall be forsaken. 7:17Jehovah will bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days which have not come since the day when Ephraim turned away from Judah [even] the king of Assyria. 7:18And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will hiss for the fly which is at the extremity of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria; 7:19and they shall come and settle all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and on all thorn-bushes, and on all the pastures. 7:20In that day will the Lord, with a razor which is hired beyond the river, with the king of Assyria, shave the head and the hair of the feet, yea, the beard also will it take away. 7:21And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] a man shall nourish a young cow and two sheep, 7:22and it shall come to pass, from the abundance of milk they shall give, [that] he shall eat butter; for every one that remaineth in the midst of the land shall eat butter and honey. 7:23And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver pieces, shall become briars and thorns: 7:24with arrows and with the bow shall they come thither, for the whole land shall become briars and thorns. 7:25And all mountains that have been dug up with the hoe thither will they not come, from fear of briars and thorns; and they shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of small cattle.