1 Vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
2 Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; For the LORD says: I raised children and made them great, and they rebelled against me.
3 The ox knows his master, and the donkey knows his master’s manger; Israel does not understand, my people have no knowledge.
4 O sinful people, a people laden with evil, a generation of evildoers, depraved children! They forsook Jehovah, they provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they turned back.
5 Why do you still want to be punished? Will you still rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6 From the sole of the foot to the head there is nothing healthy in it, but wounds, swelling, and rotten sores; They are not cured, nor bandaged, nor softened with oil.
7 Your land is destroyed, your cities are set on fire, your land before you is devoured by foreigners, and is desolated as the desolation of strangers.
8 And the daughter of Zion remains like a bower in a vineyard, and like a hut in a melon garden, like a desolate city.
9 If the Lord of hosts had not left us a small remnant, we would have been like Sodom, and like Gomorrah.
10 Princes of Sodom, hear the word of the Lord; Listen to the law of our God, people of Gomorrah.
11 What good is the multitude of your sacrifices to me, says the Lord? I am fed up with burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fat animals; I do not want the blood of oxen, sheep, or goats.
12 Who requires this at your hands, when you come to stand before me to trample my courts?
13 Bring me no more vain offering; incense is an abomination to me; new moon and day of rest, calling assemblies, I cannot bear it; your solemn feasts are iniquity.
14 My soul hates your new moons and your solemn festivals; They are burdensome to me; I am tired of enduring them.
15 When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; Likewise when you multiply prayer, I will not hear; Your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash and cleanse yourselves; remove the iniquity of your works from before my eyes; stop doing evil;
17 learn to do good; seek judgment, restore the wronged, do justice to the orphan, protect the widow.
18 Come now, says the Lord, and let us reason together: though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; If they are red like crimson, they will become like white wool.
19 If you will and will hear, you will eat the good of the land;
20 If you do not want to and are rebellious, you will be consumed by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.
21 How have you become a harlot, O faithful city? It was full of justice, equity dwelt in it; but now, the murderers.
22 Your silver has become dross, your wine is mixed with water.
23 Your princes, transgressors and companions of thieves; everyone loves bribery, and goes after rewards; They do not do justice to the orphan, nor does the widow’s cause come to them.
24 Therefore says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Come, I will take satisfaction from my enemies, I will take vengeance on my adversaries;
25 And I will turn my hand against you, and I will purge your dross to the purest, and I will remove all your impurity.
26 I will restore your judges as at the beginning, and your counselors as they were before; then they will call you City of justice, Faithful City.
27 Zion will be rescued with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
28 But the rebels and sinners will together be broken, and those who forsake the Lord will be consumed.
29 Then the oaks that you loved will shame you, and the gardens that you chose will disgrace you.
30 For you will be like an oak whose leaves have fallen, and like a garden whose water fails.
31 And the strong man will be like tow, and what he made like lightning; and both will be kindled together, and there will be no one to quench.
1 What Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 It will come to pass in the latter days, that the mountain of the house of the Lord will be established as the top of the mountains, and will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will flock to it.
3 And many people will come and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall come the law, and out of Jerusalem the word of the Lord.
4 And he will judge between the nations, and will rebuke many peoples; and they will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into sickles; nation will not lift up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore
5 Come, O house of Jacob, and we will walk in the light of the Lord.
6 Surely you have left your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of customs brought from the east, and of soothsayers, like the Philistines; and they make agreements with children of foreigners.
7 Their land is full of silver and gold, their treasures have no end. His land is also full of horses, and his chariots are innumerable.
8 Furthermore, their land is full of idols, and they have bowed down to the work of their hands and to what their fingers have made.
9 And the man has bowed down, and the man has humbled himself; Therefore, he does not forgive them.
10 Get into the rock, hide yourself in the dust, from the fearsome presence of the Lord, and from the brightness of his majesty.
11 The haughty eyes of man will be brought low, and the pride of men will be humbled; and Jehovah alone will be exalted in that day.
12 For the day of the LORD of hosts will come upon every proud and proud man, upon every exalted one, and he will be brought low;
13 over all the tall and erect cedars of Lebanon, and over all the oaks of Bashan;
14 over all the high mountains, and over all the high hills;
15 over every high tower, and over every strong wall;
16 on all the ships of Tarshish, and on all the precious paintings.
17 The haughtiness of man will be brought low, and the pride of men will be humbled; and Jehovah alone will be exalted in that day.
18 And he will completely remove the idols.
19 And they will go into the caves of the rocks and into the holes of the earth, because of the fearful presence of the Lord, and because of the splendor of his majesty, when he arises to punish the earth.
20 On that day man will throw to the moles and bats his silver idols and his golden idols, which they made for him to worship,
21 and he will go into the crevices of the rocks and into the caverns of the rocks, because of the formidable presence of Jehovah, and by the splendor of his majesty, when he arises to punish the earth.
22 Leave the man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what is he esteemed?
1 For behold, the Lord Jehovah of hosts takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah the breadwinner and the strong, all sustenance of bread and all relief of water;
2 the mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the old man;
3 the captain of fifty and the man of respect, the counselor, the excellent craftsman and the skillful orator.
4 And I will make young men their princes, and boys will be their lords.
5 And the people will do violence to one another, each against his neighbor; The young man will rise against the old man, and the villain against the noble man.
6 When someone takes his brother by the hand, of his father’s family, and says to her, ‘You have clothing, you will be our prince,’ and take this ruin into your hands;
7 He will swear on that day, saying: I will not take that care; because in my house there is neither bread nor anything to wear; do not make me prince of the people.
8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; for their tongue and his works have been against the Lord to irritate the eyes of his majesty.
9 The appearance of his face testifies against them; because like Sodom they publish his sin, they do not conceal it. Poor souls of them! because they accumulated evil for themselves.
10 Tell the righteous man that it will be well with him, for he will eat the fruits of his hands.
11 Woe to the wicked! It will be bad for him, because according to the works of his hands he will be repaid.
12 The oppressors of my people are boys, and women have dominion over them. My people, those who guide you deceive you, and distort the course of your paths.
13 The Lord stands to litigate, and he stands to judge the people.
14 The Lord will come to judgment against the elders of his people and against his princes; for you have devoured the vineyard, and the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What do you think that you harass my people and insult the faces of the poor? says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
16 Likewise says the LORD: Because the daughters of Zion are arrogant, and walk with erect necks and shameless eyes; When they walk they dance, and do things with their feet;
17 Therefore the Lord will shave off the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will reveal their shame.
18 On that day the Lord will remove the clothing of the shoes, the hairnets, the glasses,
19 the necklaces, the earrings and the bracelets,
20 the caps, the clothing of the legs, the dividers of the hair, the scented buds and the earrings,
21 the rings, and the nose jewels,
22 the formal clothes, the shawls, the veils, the bags,
23 the mirrors, the fine linen, the gauze, and the headdresses.
24 And instead of sweet perfumes will come stench; and rope instead of a belt, and a shaved head instead of straight hair; instead of fine clothing, a girding of sackcloth, and burning instead of beauty.
25 Your men will fall by the sword, and your strength in war.
26 Her gates will mourn and mourn, and she will sit forsaken on the ground.
1 Seven women will lay hands on one man at that time, saying, We will eat our bread, and put on our clothes; Just allow us to bear your name, remove our disgrace.
2 At that time the branch of the Lord will be for beauty and glory, and the fruit of the land for greatness and honor, to the survivors of Israel.
3 And it shall come to pass, that he that remaineth in Zion, and he that is left in Jerusalem, shall be called holy; all who are registered in Jerusalem among the living,
4 when the Lord washes away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and cleanses the blood of Jerusalem from among her, with a spirit of judgment and with a spirit of devastation.
5 And the LORD will create over all the habitation of Mount Zion, and over the places of its convocation, cloud and darkness by day, and by night the brightness of fire casting out flames; for over all glory there will be a canopy,
6 and there will be a shelter for shade from the heat of the day, for refuge and hiding place from the storm and from the downpour.
1 Now I will sing for my beloved the song of my beloved to his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hillside.
2 He had fenced it and cleared it of stones and planted it with choice vines; He had built a tower in the middle of it, and also made a winepress in it; and he expected it to bear grapes, and it bore wild grapes.
3 Now therefore, neighbors of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge now between me and my vineyard.
4 What more could be done to my vineyard that I have not done in it? How, while I expected it to bear grapes, has it produced wild grapes?
5 Now I will show you what I will do to my vineyard: I will remove its fence, and it will be consumed; I will break down its fence, and it will be trampled under foot.
6 I will make it desert; It will not be pruned or dug, and thistles and thorns will grow; and I will even command the clouds not to pour rain on it.
7 Surely the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his delicious plant. I expected judgment, and here is vileness; justice, and here is a cry.
8 Woe to those who join house to house, and add field to field until they occupy it all! Would you live alone in the middle of the earth?
9 It has come to my ears from the Lord of hosts that the many houses will be laid waste, the great and beautiful ones without an inhabitant.
10 And ten hectares of vineyard will produce one bath, and one homer of seed will produce one ephah.
11 Woe to those who get up in the morning to pursue drunkenness; They stay until night, until the wine lights them up!
12 And at their banquets there are harps, vihuelas, drums, flutes and wine, and they do not look at the work of the Lord, nor consider the work of his hands.
13 Therefore my people were taken captive, because they had no knowledge; and his glory perished with famine, and his multitude withered with thirst.
14 Therefore Sheol enlarged its interior, and extended its mouth without measure; and there will descend their glory, and their multitude, and their glory, and he who rejoiced in him.
15 And man will be humbled, and man will be humbled, and the eyes of the haughty will be lowered.
16 But the Lord of hosts will be exalted in judgment, and the Holy God will be sanctified in righteousness.
17 And the lambs will be fed according to their custom; and strangers will devour the desolate fields of the rich.
18 Woe to those who bring iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as with cart-straps,
19 who say, Come now, let his work be hastened, and let us see; draw near, and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, so that we may know it!
20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who make darkness of light, and light of darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and to those who are prudent in their own eyes!
22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and strong men to mix drink;
23 those who justify the wicked by bribery, and deprive the righteous of his right!
24 Therefore, as the tongue of fire consumes the stubble, and the flame devours the chaff, so will its root be like rottenness, and its flower will fade away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and have abhorred the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 For this cause the anger of the LORD was kindled against his people, and he stretched out his hand against him and smote him; and the mountains shook, and his corpses were thrown into the middle of the streets. With all this his fury has not ceased, but his hand is still stretched out.
26 He will lift up an ensign to distant nations, and will hiss to him who is at the end of the earth; and behold, it will come quickly and quickly.
27 There will not be among them tired, nor anyone who stumbles; No one will fall asleep or become sleepy; No one’s belt will be loosed from his loins, nor will the strap of his sandals be torn.
28 His arrows will be sharp, and all his bows bent; The hooves of his horses will be like flint, and the wheels of his chariots will be like a whirlwind.
29 His roar will be like that of a lion; He will roar like a young lion, gnash his teeth, and snatch the prey; he will take it away safely, and no one will take it away from him.
30 And it will roar over him in that day like the roar of the sea; Then he will look toward the earth, and behold, darkness of tribulation, and the light will be darkened in his heaven.
1 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting on a throne high and lifted up, and his skirts filled the temple.
2 Above him were seraphim; each one had six wings; with two they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew.
3 And one cried to another, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Jehovah of hosts; The whole earth is full of his glory.
4 And the doorposts shook at the voice of him who cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
5 Then I said, “Woe is me! that I am dead; For being a man of unclean lips, and dwelling among a people that have unclean lips, my eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.
6 And one of the seraphim flew towards me, having in his hand a live coal, taken from the altar with tongs;
7 And touching it upon my mouth, he said, Behold, this has touched your lips, and your guilt is taken away, and your sin is purged.
8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I answered: Here am I, send me.
9 And he said, Go, and say unto this people, Hear well, and understand not; see indeed, but do not understand.
10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and blind their eyes, so that they may not see with their eyes, nor hear with their ears, nor their heart understand, nor convert, and there be healing for them.
11 And I said: How long, Lord? And he answered, Until the cities are desolate and without an inhabitant, and there is no man in the houses, and the land is made a desert;
12 until the Lord has driven men far away, and has multiplied the abandoned places in the midst of the earth.
13 And if a tenth part remains in it, it will be destroyed again; But like the oak and the holm oak, when the trunk is still left when cut, so will the trunk be, the holy seed.
1 It came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up against Jerusalem to fight against it; but they couldn’t take it.
2 And the news came to the house of David, saying, Syria has confederated with Ephraim. And her heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the mountain tremble because of the wind.
3 Then the LORD said to Isaiah, Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-jasub your son, at the end of the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the way to the fuller’s field,
4 and say to him, Watch, and rest; Do not be afraid, nor let your heart be troubled because of these two pieces of smoking brand, because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
5 The Syrian has agreed against you evil counsel, with Ephraim and with the son of Remaliah, saying:
6 Let us go against Judah and terrify it, and divide it among ourselves, and make the son of Tabeel king in the midst of it.
7 Therefore thus says the Lord God: It shall not stand, nor shall it be.
8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken until it ceases to be a people.
9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not believe, you will certainly not remain.
10 The LORD also spoke to Ahaz, saying:
11 Ask for a sign for yourself from the LORD your God, seeking it either from deep below or from above on high.
12 And Ahaz said, I will not ask, nor will I tempt the Lord.
13 Then Isaiah said, Hear now, house of David. Is it a small thing for you to be annoying to men, but that you are also annoying to my God?
14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will conceive, and she will give birth to a son, and she will call his name Immanuel.
15 He will eat butter and honey, until he knows how to reject the bad and choose the good.
16 Because before the child knows how to reject what is bad and choose what is good, the land of the two kings that you fear will be abandoned.
17 The Lord will bring upon you, upon your people, and upon your father’s house, days such as never came since the day that Ephraim separated from Judah, that is, to the king of Assyria.
18 And it will come to pass in that day that the Lord will whistle to the fly that is at the end of the rivers of Egypt, and to the bee that is in the land of Assyria;
1 The Lord said to me: Take a large tablet, and write on it in legible characters concerning Maher-salal-hasbaz.
2 And I gathered with me as faithful witnesses Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
3 And I came to the prophetess, and he conceived, and gave birth to a son. And the LORD said to me, Call him Maher-salal-hasbaz.
4 For before the child knows how to say: My Father and my Mother, the wealth of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria will be taken away from the king of Assyria.
5 Again the Lord spoke to me, saying:
6 Because this people rejected the gently flowing waters of Siloam, and rejoiced with Rezin and with the son of Remaliah;
7 Behold, therefore, the Lord causes the waters of rivers to rise upon them, mighty and many, that is, to the king of Assyria with all his power; which will go up over all its rivers, and will pass over all its banks;
8 and passing over to Judah, he will flood and pass over, and will come to the throat; and spreading his wings, he will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.
9 Gather together, people, and you will be broken; Listen, all you who are from distant lands; gird yourselves, and you will be broken; dispose yourself, and you will be broken.
10 Take counsel, and it will be made void; Speak a word, and it will not be firm, for God is with us.
11 For the Lord spoke to me thus with a strong hand, and taught me not to walk in the way of this people, saying:
12 Do not call all the things that this people call conspiracy a conspiracy; neither fear what they fear, nor be afraid.
13 Sanctify the Lord of hosts; Let him be your fear, and let him be your fear.
14 Then he will be a sanctuary; but to both houses of Israel, a stone to stumble, and a stumbling block to fall, and a snare and a net to the inhabitant of Jerusalem.
15 And many will stumble among them, and fall, and be broken; and they will be entangled and captured.
16 Bind the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
17 Therefore I will wait for the LORD, who hid his face from the house of Jacob, and I will trust in him.
18 Behold, I and the children that the Lord gave me are signs and omens in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
19 And if they say to you, Ask the enchanters and the soothsayers, who whisper and speak, answer, Will not the people consult their God? Will he consult the dead for the living?
20 To the law and the testimony! If they do not say according to this, it is because it has not dawned for them.
21 And they will pass through the land weary and hungry, and it will come to pass that, being hungry, they will be angry and will curse their king and their God, lifting their faces on high.
22 And they will look at the earth, and behold tribulation and darkness, darkness and distress; and they will be plunged into darkness.
1 But there will not always be darkness for her who is now in distress, such as the affliction that came to her at the time when they first lightly touched the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; for at last he will fill the road to the sea with glory, on that side of the Jordan, in Galilee of the Gentiles.
2 The people who walked in darkness saw great light; those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, light shone upon them.
3 You multiplied the people, and increased the joy. They will rejoice before you as they rejoice in the harvest, as they rejoice when they distribute the spoils.
4 For you have broken his heavy yoke, and the rod from his shoulder, and the scepter of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
5 For every shoe that a warrior wears in the tumult of battle, and every cloak rolled in blood, will be burned, food for the fire.
6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government is on his shoulder; and his name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
7 There will be no limit to the increase of his dominion and his peace, on the throne of David and on his kingdom, establishing it and confirming it in judgment and in righteousness from now on and forever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will do this.
8 The Lord sent a word to Jacob, and it fell on Israel.
9 And all the people will know it, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who with pride and haughtiness of heart say:
10 The bricks fell, but we will build with stone; They cut down the fig trees, but in their place we will put cedars.
11 But the LORD will raise up the enemies of Rezin against him, and will gather together his enemies;
12 from the east the Syrians, and the Philistines from the west; and mouths full they will devour Israel. Notwithstanding all this, his anger has not ceased, but his hand is still stretched out.
13 But the people did not turn to him who punished them, nor did they seek the Lord of hosts.
14 And the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and reed in one day.
15 The ancient and venerable of countenance is his head; The prophet who teaches lies is the tail.
16 For the rulers of this people are deceivers, and those who are governed are lost.
17 Therefore the Lord will not take pleasure in his young men, nor will he have mercy on his orphans and widows; because they are all false and evil, and every mouth speaks nonsense. Not even with all this has his anger ceased, but his hand is still stretched out.
18 For wickedness is kindled like fire, it will devour thistles and thorns; and it will be kindled in the thick of the forest, and they will rise up like whirlpools of smoke.
19 By the wrath of the LORD of hosts the earth is darkened, and the people will be as fodder for the fire; The man will not have mercy on his brother.
20 Each one will steal from the right hand, and will be hungry, and will eat from the left, and will not be satisfied; each one will eat the flesh of his arm;
21 Manasseh against Ephraim, and Ephraim against Manasseh, and both against Judah. Not even with all this has his anger ceased, but his hand is still stretched out.
1 Woe to those who make unjust laws, and prescribe tyranny,
2 to keep the poor from justice, and to take away the rights of the afflicted of my people; to plunder the widows, and rob the orphans!
3 And what will you do on the day of punishment? Who will you turn to to help you, when desolation comes from afar? Where will you leave your glory?
4 Without me they will bow down among the prisoners, and fall among the dead. Not even with all this has his fury ceased, but his hand is still stretched out
5 O Assyria, rod and staff of my fury, in his hand I have put my wrath.
6 I will command him against a treacherous nation, and I will send him against the people of my wrath, to take away spoil, and to snatch prey, and to lay it down to be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
7 Although he will not think so, nor will his heart imagine it in this way, but his mind will be to uproot and cut off nations not a few.
8 For he says, My princes, are they not all kings?
9 Is not Calno like Carchemish, Hamath like Arpad, and Samaria like Damascus?
10 As my hand found the kingdoms of idols, their images being more than those of Jerusalem and Samaria;
11 As I did to Samaria and its idols, shall I not also do so to Jerusalem and its idols?
12 But it will come to pass, after the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, that he will punish the fruit of the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of the haughtiness of his eyes.
13 For he said, By the power of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, because I have been prudent; I took away the territories of the people, and I plundered their treasures, and I struck down those who sat like mighty men;
14 and he found my hand as a nest for the riches of the people; and as abandoned eggs are collected, so I took possession of the whole earth; and there was no one who moved his wing, nor opened his mouth and squawked.
15 Will the ax glory against him who cuts with it? Will the saw be arrogant against him who moves it? As if the staff lifted up the one who lifts it; as if he lifted the rod to him who is not wood!
16 For this reason the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, will send weakness on his mighty people, and under his glory he will kindle a bonfire like a burning fire.
17 And the light of Israel will be by fire, and its Holy One by flame, to burn and consume in one day its thistles and its thorns.
18 The glory of his forest and of his fertile field will completely consume soul and body, and he will become like a standard bearer in defeat.
19 And the trees that remain in his forest will be so many that a child can count them.
20 It will come to pass at that time that those who are left of Israel and those who are left of the house of Jacob will no longer rely on him who smote them, but will rely in truth on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
21 The remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob will return to the mighty God.
22 For if your people, O Israel, are like the sands of the sea, their remnant will return; The agreed destruction will overflow with justice.
3 For the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, will make a consummation already determined in the midst of the earth.
24 Therefore thus says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts: My people, inhabitants of Zion, do not fear Assyria. He will strike you with a rod, and lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt;
25 But in a very short time my fury and my wrath will end, to their destruction.
26 And the LORD of hosts will raise up a scourge against him like the massacre of Midian at the rock of Oreb, and he will lift up his staff over the sea as he did by the way of Egypt.
27 It will come to pass at that time that his burden will be taken from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will rot because of the anointing.
28 He came to Ahat, he passed to Migron; in Michmash he will count his army.
29 They crossed the ford; They stayed in Geba; Ramah trembled; Gibeah fled from Saul.
30 Cry aloud, daughter of Galim; make it heard towards Laish, poor Anathot.
31 Madmena was in an uproar; The inhabitants of Gebim flee.
32 There will yet come a day when she will rest in Nob; she will lift up her hand to the mountain of the daughter of Zion, to the hill of Jerusalem.
33 Behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, will break off the branches with violence, and the tall trees will be cut down, and the high ones will be humbled.
34 And he will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall with a roar.
1 A rod will grow from the stump of Jesse, and a branch will sprout from its roots.
2 And the Spirit of the Lord will rest on him; spirit of wisdom and understanding, spirit of counsel and power, spirit of knowledge and fear of the Lord.
3 And he will make him understand to be diligent in the fear of the Lord. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, nor will he argue by the hearing of his ears;
4 But he will judge the poor with justice, and will argue with equity for the meek of the land; and he will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the spirit of his lips he will kill the wicked.
5 And righteousness will be his waistband, and faithfulness will be his waistband.
6 The wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; The calf and the lion and the tame beast will walk together, and a child will shepherd them.
7 The cow and the bear will graze, their young will lie down together; and the lion like the ox will eat straw.
8 And the suckling child will play in the hole of the asp, and the weaned child will stretch out his hand in the hole of the viper.
9 They will do no harm or harm in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
10 It will come to pass in that time that the root of Jesse, which will be set up as a banner for the people, will be sought by the nations; and his habitation will be glorious.
11 Likewise it will come to pass at that time, that the LORD will lift up his hand again to recover the remnant of his people that remain in Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Ethiopia, Elam, Shinar, and Hamath, and on the coasts of the sea.
12 And he will raise up an ensign to the nations, and will gather the outcasts of Israel, and will gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
13 And the envy of Ephraim will be dissipated, and the enemies of Judah will be destroyed. Ephraim will not envy Judah, nor will Judah grieve Ephraim;
14 But they will fly on the shoulders of the Philistines to the west, they will also plunder those in the east; Edom and Moab will serve them, and the children of Ammon will obey them.
15 And the LORD will dry up the tongue of the sea of Egypt; and he will lift up his hand by the power of his spirit over the river, and will strike it in its seven branches, and cause them to pass through it with sandals.
16 And there will be a way for the remnant of his people, who are left of Assyria, just as there was for Israel in the day they came up from the land of Egypt.
1 In that day you will say: I will sing to you, O Lord; For although you were angry with me, your indignation turned away, and you have comforted me.
2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will be sure and will not fear; for my strength and my song is JAH Jehovah, who has been salvation for me.
3 You will joyfully draw water from the fountains of salvation.
4 And you will say in that day: Sing to the Lord, praise his name, make his works famous among the people, remember that his name is magnified.
5 Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done magnificent things; let this be known throughout the earth.
6 Rejoice and sing, O inhabitant of Zion; for great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst.
1 Prophecy about Babylon, revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz.
2 Raise a flag on a high mountain; Raise your voice to them, raise your hand, so that they may enter through the gates of princes. I have commanded my consecrated ones, I have also called my mighty men to my wrath, those who rejoice in my glory.
4 The noise of a multitude on the mountains, like that of many people; roar of noise of kingdoms, of nations gathered together; Jehovah of hosts reviews the troops for battle.
5 Jehovah and the instruments of his wrath are coming from a far country, from the end of the heavens, to destroy the whole earth.
6 Howl, for the day of the Lord is near; It will come as desolation from the Almighty.
7 Therefore every hand will weaken, and every heart of man will fail,
8 and they will be filled with terror; anguish and pain will take hold of them; They will have pain like a woman in labor; Each one will be amazed when he looks at his companion; her faces, faces of flames.
9 Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, terrible, with indignation and fierce anger, to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners from it.
10 Therefore the stars of heaven and their stars will not give their light; and the sun will be darkened at its birth, and the moon will not give its light.
11 And I will punish the world for its iniquity, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and I will bring down the haughtiness of the strong.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold, and a man more precious than the gold of Ophir.
13 For I will shake the heavens, and the earth will be shaken from its place, in the indignation of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
14 And like a persecuted gazelle, and like a sheep without a shepherd, each one will look toward his people, and each one will flee to his land.
15 Anyone found will be speared; and whoever is taken by them will fall by the sword.
16 His children will be dashed before them; Their houses will be looted, and their women raped.
17 Behold, I raise up the Medes against them, that they will not care for silver, nor covet gold.
18 They will shoot the children with a bow, and they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb, nor will their eye spare the children.
19 And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms and the ornament of the greatness of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah, which God overthrew.
20 It will never again be inhabited, nor will it be inhabited from generation to generation; Nor will the Arab pitch a tent there, nor will shepherds have a sheepfold there;
21 But the wild beasts of the desert will sleep there, and their houses will be filled with Hurons; Ostriches will live there, and wild goats will jump there.
22 Hyenas will howl in their palaces, and jackals in their houses of pleasure; and his time is near, and his days will not be lengthened.
1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will still choose Israel, and make him rest in his land; and foreigners will join them, and they will join the family of Jacob.
2 And the people will take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel will possess them as servants and maids in the land of the Lord; and they will captivate those who captivated them, and they will rule over those who oppressed them.
3 And in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your work and from your fear, and from the hard slavery in which you were made to serve,
4 you will pronounce this proverb against the king of Babylon, and you will say: How did the oppressor stop, how did he end? the city greedy for gold!
5 The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the lords;
6 who smote the people with fury, with a permanent wound, who ruled over the nations in wrath, and persecuted them with cruelty.
7 The whole earth is at rest and at peace; praises were sung.
8 Even the cypresses rejoiced because of you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since you perished, no cutter has come up against us.
9 Sheol below was afraid of you; He awakened the dead to come out to welcome you at your coming, he made all the princes of the earth, all the kings of the nations, rise from their seats.
10 They will all cry out and say to you: Have you also become weak like us, and become like us?
11 Your pride went down to Sheol, and the sound of your harps; Worms will be your bed, and worms will cover you.
12 How you fell from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! You were cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations.
13 You who said in your heart: I will ascend to heaven; I will set up my throne on high above the stars of God, and I will sit on the mountain of the testimony on the sides of the north;
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, and I will be like the Most High.
15 But you are brought down to Sheol, to the sides of the deep.
16 Those who see you will bow down to you and look at you, saying: Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who overturned kingdoms?
17 that he made the world like a desert, that he laid waste his cities, that he never opened the prison for his prisoners?
18 All the kings of the nations, all of them lie in honor each one in his dwelling;
19 But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable offspring, like the clothing of dead men put to the sword, who went down to the bottom of the grave; like a dead body trampled underfoot.
twentyYou will not be numbered with them in the grave; because you destroyed your land, you killed your people. The offspring of evil ones will not be named forever.
21 Prepare their children for the slaughter, because of the wickedness of their fathers; Do not rise up, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
22 For I will rise against them, says the LORD of hosts, and will wipe out Babylon’s name and remnant, son and grandson, says the LORD.
23 And I will make it a possession of hedgehogs, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with brooms of destruction, says the Lord of hosts.
24 The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying: It will surely be done as I have planned, and it will be confirmed as I have determined;
25 I will destroy the Assyrian in my land, and I will trample him on my mountains; and his yoke will be removed from them, and his burden will be lifted from his shoulder.
26 This is the counsel that is agreed upon over all the earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all nations.
27 For the Lord of hosts has determined it, and who can prevent it? And his hand stretched out from him, who can turn it back?
28 In the year that King Ahaz died this prophecy was made:
29 Do not rejoice, all Philistine, because the rod of him who struck you is broken; For from the root of the snake will come forth an asp, and its fruit a flying serpent.
30 And the firstborn of the poor will be fed, and the needy will lie down in safety; But I will starve your roots and destroy what is left of you.
31 Howl, O door; cry out, oh city; You are all dissolved, Philistia; because smoke will come from the north, there will not be one left in their assemblies.
32 And what will be answered to the messengers of the nations? That Jehovah founded Zion, and that the afflicted of his people will take refuge there.
1 Prophecy about Moab. True, at night Ar of Moab was destroyed, put into silence. True, at night Kir of Moab was destroyed, reduced to silence.
2 He went up to Bayit and Dibon, high places, to weep; Moab will howl over Nebo and over Medeba; Every head of hers will be shaved, and every beard shaved off.
3 They will gird themselves with sackcloth in their streets; On their rooftops and in their squares everyone will howl, breaking down in tears.
4 Heshbon and Eleale will shout, her voice will be heard even as far as Jahaz; for the warriors of Moab will howl, every man’s soul will mourn within him.
5 My heart will cry out for Moab; The fugitives from him will flee to Zoar, like a three-year-old heifer. They will go up the hill of Luhit weeping, and they will raise a cry of destruction on the way to Horonaim.
6 The waters of Nimrim will be consumed, and the grass will wither, the shoots will wither, all greenery will perish.
7 Therefore, the riches that they will have acquired, and those that they will have reserved, they will carry to the torrent of the willows.
8 For crying surrounded the borders of Moab; His shout came to Eglaim, and his cry to Beer-elim.
9 And the waters of Dimon will be filled with blood; for I will bring greater evils upon Dimon, lions on those who escape from Moab, and on the survivors of the land.
1 Send a lamb to the lord of the land, from Shelah of the wilderness to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.
2 And like a frightened bird that flees from its nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of Arnon.
3 Gather counsel, make judgment; put your shadow in the middle of the day like the night; Hide the exiles, do not hand over those who wander.
4 Let my exiles dwell with you, O Moab; be for them a hiding place from the presence of the destroyer; for the tormentor will perish, the ravager will end, the trampler will be consumed from the earth.
5 And the throne will be prepared in mercy; and upon him shall sit firmly, in the tabernacle of David, he who judges and seeks judgment, and hastens justice.
6 We have heard the pride of Moab; Very great are his pride, his arrogance and his haughtiness; but his lies will not be firm.
7 Therefore Moab will howl, all of him will howl; You will groan greatly, dejected, for the grape cakes of Kir-hareset.
8 For the fields of Heshbon were cut down, and the vines of Sibma; Lords of nations trampled his generous branches; They had reached Jazer, and had spread out into the desert; Their plants spread, they crossed the sea.
9 Therefore I will mourn with the weeping of Jazer for the vineyard of Sibma; I will water you with my tears, oh Heshbon and Eleale; because the war cry will fall on your crops and on your harvest.
10 The joy and gladness of the fertile field is taken away; In the vineyards they will not sing, nor rejoice; The treader will not tread wine in the winepresses; I have made the cry of the winemaker cease.
11 Therefore my bowels will vibrate like a harp for Moab, and my heart for Kir-hareseth.
12 And when Moab appears weary on the high places, when he comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will be of no use to him.
13 This is the word that the Lord spoke against Moab from that time;
14 But now the LORD has spoken, saying: Within three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought low, with all its great multitude; and the survivors will be few, small and weak.
1 Prophecy about Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city, and will become a heap of ruins.
2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken, they will become sheepfolds; They will sleep there, and there will be no one to scare them away.
3 And the relief of Ephraim will cease, and the kingdom of Damascus; and what is left of Syria will be like the glory of the children of Israel, says the Lord of hosts.
4 At that time Jacob’s glory will fade, and the fatness of his flesh will become thin.
5 And it will be as when the reaper gathers the harvest, and with his arm he reaps the ears; He will also be like the one who gathers grain in the valley of Rephaim.
6 And gleanings will remain in it, as when they shake the olive tree; two or three fruits on the tip of the branch, four or five on its most fruitful branches, says the Lord God of Israel.
7 In that day man will look upon his Maker, and his eyes will look upon the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he will not look at the altars that his hands have made, nor will he look at what his fingers have made, nor at the Asherah symbols, nor at the images of the sun.
9 In that day his fortified cities will be like the fruits left on the shoots and branches, which were left because of the children of Israel; and there will be desolation.
10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your refuge; therefore you will sow beautiful plants, and you will plant strange branches.
11 On the day you plant them, you will make them grow, and cause their seed to sprout in the morning; but the harvest will be taken away in the day of trouble, and desperate pain.
12 Oh! a multitude of many peoples that will make a noise like the roar of the sea, and a murmur of nations that will make an uproar like the roar of many waters.
13 The people will make a noise like the noise of many waters; but God will rebuke them, and they will flee far away; They will be driven away like chaff from the mountains before the wind, and like dust before the whirlwind.
14 At evening time, there is trouble, but before morning the enemy is no more. This is the part of those who crush us, and the fate of those who plunder us.
1 Woe to the land that shadows with its wings, which is behind the rivers of Ethiopia;
2 who sends messengers by sea, and in reed ships on the waters! Go, swift messengers, to the nation of tall stature and brilliant complexion, to the people feared from its beginning and afterwards, strong and conquering people, whose land is furrowed by rivers.
3 You, all the inhabitants of the world and inhabitants of the earth, when the flag is raised on the mountains, look; and when the trumpet is blown, listen.
4 For thus said the LORD to me: I will stand still, and look upon them from my dwelling, as a clear sun after the rain, as a cloud of dew in the heat of the harvest.
5 For before the harvest, when the fruit is perfect, and after the blossom the fruits are ripe, then he will prune the twigs with pruning shears, and he will cut off and remove the branches.
6 And they will all be left to the birds of the mountains and to the beasts of the earth; The birds will have summer on them, and all the beasts of the earth will winter.
7 At that time an offering will be brought to the Lord of hosts, from the people of tall stature and bright complexion, from the people feared from the beginning and later, a strong and conquering people, whose land is furrowed by rivers, to the place of the name of the Lord of the armies, to Mount Zion.
1 Prophecy about Egypt. Behold, the Lord rides on a light cloud, and will enter Egypt; and the idols of Egypt will tremble before him, and the hearts of the Egyptians will fail within them.
2 I will raise up Egyptians against Egyptians, and each will fight against his brother, each against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt will vanish from its midst, and I will destroy its counsel; and they will ask the images of him, his sorcerers, his evokers and his diviners.
4 And I will give Egypt into the hand of a harsh lord, and a violent king will rule over them, says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
5 And the waters of the sea will fail, and the river will fail and dry up.
6 And the rivers will recede, the streams of the ditches will dry up and dry up; the reed and the reed will be cut down.
7 The meadow by the river, by the river bank, and all the fields by the river, will dry up and be lost, and will be no more.
8 The fishermen will also be sad; All those who cast a hook in the river will mourn, and those who spread a net over the waters will faint.
9 Those who weave fine linen and those who weave nets will be confounded,
10 because all their nets will be torn; and all those who make fish nurseries will be sad.
11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools; The counsel of Pharaoh’s wise counselors has vanished. How will you say to Pharaoh: I am the son of the wise, and the son of ancient kings?
12 Where are your wise men now? Let them tell you now, or let you know what Jehovah of hosts has determined regarding Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan have vanished, the princes of Memphis have been deceived; Those who are the cornerstone of their families deceived Egypt.
14 The Lord mixed a spirit of dizziness in his midst; and they caused Egypt to err in all his work, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
15 And he will not profit Egypt anything that makes the head or the tail, the branch or the reed.
16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women; for they will be amazed and afraid at the presence of the high hand of the Lord of hosts, which he will raise against them.
17 And the land of Judah will be a terror to Egypt; Every man who remembers her will fear because of the counsel that Jehovah of hosts agreed upon him.
18 At that time there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and that swear by the Lord of hosts; one will be called the city of Herez.
19 In that time there will be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a monument to the Lord by its border.
20 And it will be a sign and a testimony to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt; For they will cry to the Lord because of their oppressors, and he will send them a savior and a prince to deliver them.
21 And the LORD will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know the LORD on that day, and they will make sacrifice and oblation; and they will make vows to the Lord, and they will fulfill them.
22 And the LORD will strike down Egypt; He will strike and heal, and they will turn to the Lord, and he will be gracious to them and heal them.
23 At that time there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyrians will enter Egypt, and Egyptians into Assyria; and the Egyptians will serve the Lord with the Assyrians.
24 At that time Israel will be third with Egypt and with Assyria for blessing in the midst of the land;
25 For the LORD of hosts will bless them, saying, Blessed is my people Egypt, and the work of my hands is the Assyrian, and Israel is my inheritance.
1 In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;
2 At that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and remove the sackcloth from your loins, and take off the sandals from your feet. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
3 And the LORD said: Just as my servant Isaiah walked naked and barefoot for three years, as a sign and a prediction for Egypt and Ethiopia,
4 so the king of Assyria will lead the captives of Egypt and the deportees from Ethiopia, young men and women. old men, naked and barefoot, and their buttocks bare to the shame of Egypt.
5 And they will be troubled and ashamed of Ethiopia for his hope, and for Egypt for his glory.
6 And on that day the inhabitant of this coast will say: See what was our hope, whither we sought help to be delivered from the presence of the king of Assyria; and how will we escape?
