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ISAIAH
25.2
- All the merry-hearted do sigh.
- 8The mirth of tabrets ceaseth,
- The noise of them that rejoice endeth,
- The joy of the harp ceaseth.
- 9They drink not wine with a song;
- Strong drink is bitter to them that drink it.
- 10Broken down is the city of wasteness;
- Every house is shut up, that none may come in.
- 11There is a crying in the streets amidst the wine;
- All joy is darkened,
- The mirth of the land is gone.
- 12In the city is left desolation,
- And the gate is smitten unto ruin.
- 13For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth, among the peoples,
- As at the beating of an olive-tree,
- As at the gleanings when the vintage is done.
- 14Those yonder lift up their voice, they sing for joy;
- For the majesty of the Lord they shout from the sea:
- 15'Therefore glorify ye the Lord in the regions of light,
- Even the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the isles of the sea.'
- 16From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs: 'Glory to the righteous.'
- But I say: I waste away, I waste away, woe is me!
- The treacherous deal treacherously;
- Yea, the treacherous deal very treacherously.
- 17Terror, and the pit, and the trap, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
- 18And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the terror shall fall into the pit;
- And he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the trap;
- For the windows on high are opened,
- And the foundations of the earth do shake;
- 19The earth is broken, broken down,
- The earth is crumbled in pieces,
- The earth trembleth and tottereth;
- 20The earth reeleth to and fro like a drunken man,
- And swayeth to and fro as a lodge;
- And the transgression thereof is heavy upon it,
- And it shall fall, and not rise again.
- 21And it shall come to pass in that day,
- That the Lord will punish the host of the high heaven on high,
- And the kings of the earth upon the earth.
- 22And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the dungeon,
- And shall be shut up in the prison,
- And after many days shall they be punished.
- 23Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed;
- For the Lord of hosts will reign in mount Zion,
- And in Jerusalem, and before His elders shall be Glory.
- 25O Lord, Thou art my God,
- I will exalt Thee, I will praise Thy name,
- For Thou hast done wonderful things;
- Even counsels of old, in faithfulness and truth.
- 2For Thou hast made of a city a heap,
- Of a fortified city a ruin;
- A castle of strangers to be no city,
- It shall never be built.
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