famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. [1]
14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be abased:
16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness. [2]
17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
18 Woe to them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it : and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it !
20 Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! [3]
21 Woe to them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! [4]
22 Woe to them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink:
23 Who justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. [5]
25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills trembled, and their dead bodies were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. [6]
26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from afar, and will hiss to them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it .
30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one looketh to the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in its heavens. [7] [8]
CHAP. 6.
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. [9]
2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
3 And one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. [10] [11]
4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. [12]
5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. [13]
6 Then one of the seraphims flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: [14]
7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thy iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. [15]
8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. [16]
9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. [17]
10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and be healed.
11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities shall be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, [18]
12 And the LORD shall have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance of it. [19] [20]
CHAP. 7.
And 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, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest are moved with the wind. [21]
3 Then said the LORD to Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field; [22] [23]
4 And say to him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. [24]
5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
6 Let us go up against Judah, and trouble it, and let us conquer it for ourselves and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal: [25]
7 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. [26]
9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established. [27]
10 Moreover the LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying, [28]
11 Ask thee a sign from the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. [29]
12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, the virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. [30]
15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken by both her kings.
17 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the clefts of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes. [31]
20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day,
- ↑ honourable...: Heb. glory are men of famine
- ↑ God...: or, the holy God: Heb. the God the holy
- ↑ call...: Heb. say concerning evil, It is good, etc
- ↑ in their own sight: Heb. before their face
- ↑ fire: Heb. tongue of fire
- ↑ torn: or, as dung
- ↑ sorrow: or, distress
- ↑ and the light...: or, when it is light, it shall be dark in the destructions thereof
- ↑ his...: or, the skirts thereof
- ↑ one...: Heb. this cried to this
- ↑ the whole...: Heb. his glory is the fulness of the whole earth
- ↑ door: Heb. thresholds
- ↑ undone: Heb. cut off
- ↑ having...: Heb. and in his hand a live coal
- ↑ laid...: Heb. caused it to touch
- ↑ Here...: Heb. behold me
- ↑ indeed, but understand: or, without ceasing, etc: Heb. in hearing, etc
- ↑ utterly...: Heb. desolate with desolation
- ↑ and it...: or, when it is returned, and hath been broused
- ↑ substance: or, stock, or, stem
- ↑ is confederate...: Heb. resteth on
- ↑ Shearjashub: that is, The remnant shall return
- ↑ highway: or, causeway
- ↑ neither...: Heb. let not thy heart be tender
- ↑ vex: or, waken
- ↑ that...: Heb. from a people
- ↑ If...: or, Do ye not believe? it is because ye are not stable
- ↑ Moreover...: Heb. And the LORD added to speak
- ↑ ask it...: or, make thy petition deep
- ↑ shall call: or, thou, O virgin, shalt call
- ↑ bushes: or, commendable trees
