1 Prophecy about the desert of the sea. As a whirlwind from the Negev, so it comes from the desert, from the horrendous land.
2 Hard vision has been shown to me. The prevaricator prevaricates, and the destroyer destroys. Come up, O Elam; lay siege, oh Media. I made all his moaning cease.
3 Therefore my loins are filled with pain; Anxiety took hold of me, like the anguish of a woman in labor; I was overwhelmed by hearing, and by seeing I was frightened.
4 My heart is amazed, horror has intimidated me; The night of my desire turned into fear.
5 They set the table, they spread tapestries; they eat, they drink. Arise, O princes, anoint the shield!
6 For the Lord said to me: Go, set a watchman to let people know what she sees.
7 And he saw men mounted, riders two by two, riding on donkeys, riding on camels; and he looked more attentively,
8 and cried out like a lion: Lord, I am on the watchtower continually by day, and all nights on my guard;
9 and behold, mounted men come, riders two by two. Then he spoke and said: Babylon is fallen, fallen; and all the idols of their gods he broke to the ground.
10 O my people, threshed and winnowed, I have told you what I heard from the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel.
11 Prophecy about Duma. They give me voices from Seir: Guard, what of the night? Guard, what about the night?
12 The guard answered, The morning comes, and then the night; ask if you want, ask; come back, come
13 Prophecy about Arabia. In the forest you will spend the night in Arabia, O travelers of Dedan.
14 Go out to meet the thirsty; Bring him water, inhabitants of the land of Tema, help him who flees with bread.
15 For he flees before the sword, before the naked sword, before the bent bow, before the weight of the battle.
16 For thus says the Lord to me: Within a year, like the years of a hired servant, all the glory of Kedar will be destroyed;
17 And the survivors of the number of the mighty archers, the sons of Kedar, will be reduced; for the Lord God of Israel has said so.
1 Prophecy about the valley of vision. What do you have now, that with all your people you have climbed onto the roofs?
2 You, full of tumult, a turbulent city, a joyful city; Your dead are not killed by the sword, nor killed in war.
3 All your princes together fled from the bow, they were bound; All who were found in you were bound together, although they had fled far away.
4 Therefore I said: Leave me, I will weep bitterly; Do not worry to console me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
5 For it is a day of uproar, of distress, and of confusion, from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the valley of vision, to break down the wall, and to cry out to the mountain.
6 And Elam took quiver, with chariots and with horsemen, and Kir took out the shield.
7 Your beautiful valleys were filled with chariots, and those on horseback camped at the gate.
8 And he stripped the covering of Judah; and you looked on that day towards the gun house in the forest.
9 You saw the breaches of the city of David, which multiplied; and you collected the waters of the pool below.
10 And you numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you tore down houses to fortify the wall.
11 You made a moat between the two walls for the waters of the old pool; and you had no respect for him who made it, nor did you look afar at him who worked it.
12 Therefore the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, called on this day to weeping and mourning, to shave one’s hair, and to put on sackcloth;
13 And behold, joy and gladness, killing cows and slaughtering sheep, eating meat and drinking wine, saying, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.
14 This was revealed in my ears from the Lord of hosts: That this sin will not be forgiven you until you die, says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
15 Thus says the LORD of hosts: Go, go in to this treasurer, to Shebna the steward, and say to him:
16 What do you have here, or who do you have here, that you have hewn a grave for yourself here, like one who carves his grave in a high place? grave, or he who carves for himself a dwelling on a rock?
17 Behold, the Lord will carry you away into hard captivity, and will surely cover your face.
18 He will make you roll like a ball across a vast land; There you will die, and there will be the chariots of your glory, O shame of your master’s house.
19 And I will drive you from your place, and I will push you from your position.
20 On that day I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,
21 and I will clothe him with your garments, and I will gird him with your belt, and I will give your authority into his hands; and he will be a father to the inhabitant of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
22 And I will put the key of the house of David on his shoulder; and it will open, and no one will shut; It will close, and no one will open.
23 And I will drive it like a nail into a firm place; and he will be a seat of honor in his father’s house.
24 They will hang on it all the honor of the house of his father, his sons and his grandsons, all the minor vessels, from the cups to all kinds of jugs.
25 On that day, says the Lord of hosts, the nail driven into a firm place will be removed; It will be broken and fall, and the burden that was placed on it will be ruined; because the Lord spoke.
1 Prophecy about Tyre. Howl, ships of Tarshish, for Tire is destroyed until there is no house left, nor where to enter; from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
2 Be silent, inhabitants of the coast, merchants of Sidon, who supplied you across the sea.
3 Their provision came from the crops that grow with the many waters of the Nile, from the harvest of the river. He was also an emporium of nations.
4 Be ashamed, Sidon, for the sea, the strength of the sea, has spoken, saying: I have never travailed, nor given birth, nor raised young men, nor raised up virgins.
5 When the news reaches Egypt, they will be sad at the news from Tyre.
6 Go over to Tarshish; Howl, inhabitants of the coast.
7 Was not this your joyful city, many days old? Her feet will carry her to dwell far away.
8 Who decreed this about Tyre, which distributed crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose merchants were the nobles of the land?
9 The Lord of hosts decreed it, to debase the pride of all glory, and to bring down all the illustrious of the earth.
10 Pass away like a river from your land, O daughter of Tarshish, for you will have no more power.
11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms; Jehovah commanded regarding Canaan, that its strongholds be destroyed.
12 And he said, Thou shalt rejoice no more, O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise to go over to Chittim, and even there you will have no rest.
13 Look at the land of the Chaldeans. This town did not exist; Assyria founded it for the inhabitants of the desert. They raised their fortresses, they built their palaces; he turned it into ruins.
14 Howl, ships of Tarshish, for your fortress is destroyed.
15 It will come to pass in that day that Tire will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of a king. After he is seventy years old, Tire will sing a song like that of a harlot.
16 Take the harp, and surround the city, O forgotten harlot; make a good melody, reiterate the song, so that you are remembered.
17 And it will come to pass that at the end of the seventy years the Lord will visit Tyre; and he will trade again, and again he will commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.
18 But his business and profits will be consecrated to the Lord; They will not be saved or hoarded, for their gains will be for those who stand before the Lord, so that they may eat their fill and dress splendidly.
1 Behold, the Lord empties the earth and makes it bare, and turns its face upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.
2 And it will happen as well as to the people, also to the priest; As to his servant, so to his master; like his maid, his mistress; as to the one he buys, to the one he sells; as to the one who lends, to the one who borrows; As to the one who gives achievement, so to the one who receives it.
3 The land will be completely emptied, and completely plundered; for the Lord has spoken this word.
4 It was destroyed, the earth fell; fell ill, the world fell; the high peoples of the land became ill.
5 And the land became defiled under its inhabitants; because they transgressed the laws, falsified the law, they broke the everlasting covenant.
6 For this reason the curse consumed the land, and its inhabitants were devastated; For this reason the inhabitants of the earth were consumed, and men decreased.
7 The wine was lost, the vine became sick, all who were joyful in heart groaned.
8 The rejoicing of the timbrels has ceased, the noise of those who rejoice is ended, the joy of the harp has ceased.
9 They will not drink wine with singing; The cider will be bitter to those who drink it.
10 The city is broken by vanity; Every house has been closed, so that no one can enter.
11 There is clamoring for lack of wine in the streets; all joy was darkened, joy was banished from the earth.
12 The city was left desolate, and the gate was broken down in ruin.
13 For so it will be in the midst of the land, among the people, like an olive tree shaken, like gleanings after the grape harvest.
14 These will lift up their voices, they will sing for joy because of the greatness of the Lord; From the sea they will shout.
15 Glorify Jehovah for this in the valleys; On the shores of the sea may Jehovah God of Israel be named.
16 From the ends of the earth we hear songs: Glory to the righteous. And I said: My misfortune, my misfortune, woe is me! Prevaricators have prevaricated; and they have transgressed with the transgression of faithless people.
17 Terror, a pit and a net are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it will come to pass that whoever flees from the voice of terror will fall into the pit; and whoever comes out from the middle of the pit will be caught in the net; For windows will open from above, and the foundations of the earth will shake.
19 The earth will be completely broken, the earth will be completely broken in pieces, the earth will be greatly shaken.
20 The earth will shake like a drunken man, and will be shaken like a hut; and her sin shall be heavy upon her, and she shall fall, and shall rise no more.
21 It will come to pass in that day, that the LORD will punish the host of heaven on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they will be gathered together as those who are imprisoned are gathered in a dungeon, and they will be shut up in prison, and they will be punished after many days.
23 The moon will be ashamed, and the sun will be confounded, when the Lord of hosts reigns on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and is glorious before his elders.
1 Jehovah, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name, because you have done wonders; Your ancient advice is true and firm.
2 For you have turned the city into a heap, the fortified city into a ruin; the castle of strangers so that it will not be a city, nor will it ever be rebuilt.
3 For this reason the strong people will give you glory, the city of strong people will fear you.
4 For you were a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in their affliction, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat; because the impetus of the violent is like a storm against the wall.
5 As heat in a dry place, so you will humble the pride of strangers; and like heat under a cloud you will make the branches of the strong wither.
6 And the Lord of hosts will make on this mountain for all people a banquet of succulent delicacies, a banquet of refined wines, of thick marrow and of purified wines.
7 And he will destroy on this mountain the covering with which all people are covered, and the veil that covers all nations.
8 He will destroy death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away every tear from every face; and he will take away the disgrace of his people from all the earth; because the Lord has said so.
9 And it will be said in that day: Behold, this is our God, we have waited for him, and he will save us; This is Jehovah for whom we have waited, we will rejoice and be glad in his salvation.
10 For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain; But Moab will be trampled in its own place, as straw is trampled in the dunghill.
11 And he will stretch out his hand through the middle of it, as a swimmer stretches out his hand to swim; and he will bring down the pride of him and the skill of his hands;
12 And he will break down the strength of your high walls; He will humble her and cast her to the ground, even to the dust.
1 On that day they will sing this song in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; God put salvation for walls and ramparts.
2 Open the doors, and the righteous people, keepers of truths, will enter.
3 You will keep him in complete peace whose mind is stayed on you; because he has trusted in you.
4 Trust in the Lord forever, for in the Lord God is the strength of the ages.
5 For he brought down those who dwelt in a high place; he humbled the exalted city, he humbled it to the ground, he brought it down to the dust.
6 He will trample her foot, the feet of the afflicted, the steps of the needy.
7 The path of the righteous is righteous; You, who are upright, weigh the path of the righteous.
8 Also in the way of your judgments, O Lord, we have waited for you; Your name and your memory are the desire of our soul.
9 With my soul I have desired you in the night, and as long as the spirit lasts within me, I will get up early to look for you; because after your judgments are on earth, the inhabitants of the world learn justice.
10 Pity will be shown to the wicked, and he will not learn righteousness; In a land of righteousness he will do iniquity, and will not regard the majesty of the Lord.
11 Jehovah, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see; Those who envy your people will see at last and be ashamed; Fire will consume your enemies.
12 Jehovah, you will give us peace, because you also did all our works for us.
13 Lord our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us; but in you we will only remember your name.
14 They are dead, they will not live; They have died, they will not be resurrected; because you punished them, and destroyed and destroyed all their memory.
15 You have increased the people, O Lord, you have increased the people; you became glorious; you widened all the ends of the earth.
16 Jehovah, in tribulation they sought you; They poured out prayer when you punished them.
17 As a pregnant woman groans and cries out in pain when she is about to give birth, so have we been before you, O Lord.
18 We conceived, we travailed, we gave birth to wind; We made no deliverance on earth, nor did the inhabitants of the world fall.
19 Your dead will live; Their corpses will rise again. Awake and sing, dwellers of the dust! because your dew is like the dew of vegetables, and the earth will give up its dead.
20 Go, my people, enter your chambers, close your doors behind you; hide a little, for a moment, while the indignation passes.
21 For, behold, the Lord is coming out of his place to punish the inhabitant of the land for his iniquity against him; and the earth will reveal the blood shed on it, and will no longer cover its dead.
1 In that day the Lord will punish with his hard sword, great and strong, the swift serpent leviathan, and the crooked serpent leviathan; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
2 On that day sing about the vineyard of red wine.
3 I, the Lord, keep it, I will water it every moment; I will guard it night and day, so that no one harms it.
4 There is no anger in me. Who will set thorns and thistles against me in battle? I will trample them, I will burn them together.
5 Or will anyone force my strength? May he make peace with me; yes, make peace with me.
6 Days will come when Jacob will take root, Israel will flourish and put forth shoots, and the face of the world will be filled with fruit.
7 Has he been wounded like those who wounded him, or has he been killed like those who killed him?
8 You will punish him with measure on his offspring. He stirs them with his mighty wind on the day of the sunny air.
9 In this way, then, Jacob’s iniquity will be forgiven, and this will be all the fruit, the removal of his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar like crushed lime stones, and the Asherah symbols and the images of the sun are not set up.
10 For the fortified city will be desolate, the inhabited city will be abandoned and left as a desert; There the calf will graze, there it will have its fold, and it will finish its branches.
11 When its branches wither, they will be broken; women will come to light them; because that is not a people of understanding; therefore the Maker of him will have no mercy on him, nor will he who formed him have compassion on him.
12 It will come to pass in that day, that the Lord will thresh from the river Euphrates to the torrent of Egypt, and you, children of Israel, will be gathered one by one.
13 It will also come to pass on that day, that a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were scattered in the land of Assyria, and those who were exiled to Egypt, will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of the beauty of his glory, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those stunned by wine!
2 Behold, the Lord has one who is strong and powerful; like a storm of hail and like a disturbing whirlwind, like the impetus of strong waters that flood, with force it overthrows the earth.
3 With his feet the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trampled.
4 And the deciduous flower of the beauty of his glory that is on the head of the fertile valley will be like the early fruit, the first of summer, which, as soon as he who looks at it sees it, swallows it as soon as he has it. by hand.
5 In that day the Lord of hosts will be a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty to the remnant of his people;
6 and by a spirit of judgment to him who sits in judgment, and by strength to those who reject the battle at the gate.
7 But these also erred with wine, and became foolish with strong drink; The priest and the prophet erred with strong drink, they were deranged by wine; They were stunned by strong drink, they erred in vision, they stumbled in judgment.
8 For every table is full of vomit and filth, until there is no clean place.
9 Who will be taught science, or who will be made to understand doctrine? To the weaned? to those torn from their breasts?
10 For commandment after commandment, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, a little there, a little there;
11 For in the tongue of stutterers, and in a strange tongue he will speak to this people,
12 to whom he said, This is the rest; give rest to the weary; and this is the refreshment; but they did not want to hear.
13 Therefore the word of the Lord will be to them commandment after commandment, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, a little there, a little there; until they go and fall on their backs, and are broken, bound, and taken prisoner.
14 Therefore, you scoffing men who govern this people who are in Jerusalem, hear the word of the Lord.
15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and we have made a covenant with Sheol; When the storm of scourge passes, it will not reach us, because we have put our refuge in lies, and we will hide in falsehood;
16 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I have laid in Zion a stone for a foundation, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a stable foundation; He who believes, let him not be hasty.
17 And I will adjust judgment to the line, and justice to the level; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death will be annulled, and your covenant with Sheol will not be firm; When the storm of scourge passes, you will be trampled by it.
19 As soon as he begins to pass away, he will snatch you away; for from morning to morning it will pass, day and night; and it will certainly be terrifying to understand what has been heard.
20 The bed will be short so that you can stretch out, and the blanket will be narrow so that you can wrap yourself.
21 For the LORD will arise as on Mount Perazim, as in the valley of Gibeon he will be angry; to do his work, his strange work, and to do his operation, his strange operation.
22 Now therefore do not mock, lest your bonds become tighter; for I have heard of destruction already determined upon the whole earth from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
23 Pay attention, and listen to my voice; Take heed, and hear my saying.
24 He who plows to sow, will he plow all day? Will He break and break the clods of the earth?
25 When he has leveled his surface, does he not scatter the dill, sow the cumin, put the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the oats in their proper border?
26 For his God instructs him and teaches him what is right;
27 that dill is not threshed with a threshing wheel, nor is a cart wheel run over cumin; but you shake off the dill with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.
28 The grain is threshed; but he will not thresh it forever, nor does he compress it with the wheel of his cart, nor break it with the teeth of his threshing floor.
29 This also came from the Lord of hosts, to make wonderful counsel and magnify wisdom.
1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! Add one year to another, the holidays continue.
2 But I will put Ariel in trouble, and she will be disconsolate and sad; and she will be to me like Ariel.
3 For I will encamp against you all around, and I will besiege you with camps, and I will build strongholds against you.
4 Then you will be humbled, you will speak from the ground, and your speech will come out of the dust; and your voice will be from the earth like that of a ghost, and your speech will whisper from the dust.
5 And the multitude of your enemies will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the strong like chaff that passes away; and it will be suddenly, in a moment.
6 By the Lord of hosts you will be visited with thunder, with earthquakes and with great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and flame of devouring fire.
7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, and all those who fight against her and her strength, and those who put her in trouble, will be like a dream in a night vision.
8 And it will happen to them like someone who is hungry and dreams, and it seems to him that he is eating, but when he wakes up, his stomach is empty; or like someone who is thirsty and dreams, and it seems to him that he is drinking, but when he wakes up, he is tired and thirsty; so will be the multitude of all nations that will fight against Mount Zion.
9 Stop and marvel; be confused and blinded; get drunk, and not with wine; stagger, and not of cider.
10 For the LORD poured out upon you the spirit of sleep, and closed the eyes of your prophets, and put a veil over the heads of your seers.
11 And every vision will be to you like the words of a sealed book, which if they give to him who knows how to read, and say to him, Read now this; He will say: I cannot, because he is sealed.
12 And if the book be given to him who cannot read, saying, Read this now; He will say: I don’t know how to read.
13 Therefore the Lord says: For this people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is nothing more than a commandment of men given to them. been taught;
14 Therefore, behold, I will again excite the admiration of this people with a great and fearful wonder; for the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the intelligence of their wise men will fade away.
15 Woe to those who hide from the Lord, hiding the counsel, and their works are in darkness, and say, Who sees us, and who knows us?
16 Your perversity will certainly be reputed as the potter’s clay. Will the work say of its maker: He did not make me? Will the vessel of him who formed it say: He did not understand?
17 Will not in a very short time Lebanon become a fruitful field, and the fertile field will be counted as a forest?
18 At that time the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see in the midst of darkness and gloom.
19 Then the humble will grow in joy in the Lord, and even the poorest of men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the violent will be finished, and the scorner will be consumed; All those who are awake to do iniquity will be destroyed,
21 who cause a man to sin by word; those who lay a trap for him who rebuked him at the gate, and pervert the cause of the righteous with vanity.
22 Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, to the house of Jacob: Jacob shall not now be ashamed, nor shall his face be pale;
23 for he will see his sons, the work of my hands, among them, who will sanctify my name; and they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and fear the God of Israel.
24 And those who are lost in spirit will learn understanding, and those who gossip will learn doctrine.
1 Woe to the children who turn aside, says the Lord, to take counsel, and not from me; to take shelter with a covering, and not from my spirit, adding sin to sin!
2 Who turn away to go down to Egypt, and have not asked from my mouth; to strengthen himself with the strength of Pharaoh, and to put his hope in the shadow of Egypt.
3 But the strength of Pharaoh will be turned into shame for you, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt into confusion.
4 When their princes are in Zoan, and their ambassadors come to Hanes,
5 everyone will be ashamed of the people who do not benefit them, nor help them, nor bring them any benefit; but it will be to shame and even disgrace to them.
6 Prophecy about the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of tribulation and anguish, whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and the flying serpent, they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, a town that will be of no use to them.
7 Certainly Egypt will give help in vain and uselessly; Therefore I told her that her strength would be to remain still.
8 Go therefore now, and write this vision on a tablet before them, and record it in a book, that it may remain until the last day, eternally and forever.
9 For this people is rebellious, lying children, children who would not hear the law of the Lord;
10 who say to the seers: Do not see; and to the prophets: Do not prophesy to us what is right, tell us flattering things, prophesy lies;
11 Leave the way, turn from the path, remove the Holy One of Israel from our presence.
12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: Because you have rejected this word, and have trusted in violence and iniquity, and have relied on it;
13 Therefore this sin will be to you like a crack that threatens ruin, spreading in a high wall, the fall of which comes suddenly and suddenly.
14 And it will be broken as a potter’s vessel is broken, for without mercy they break it into pieces; so much so that among the pieces there is no pot to bring fire from the hearth, or to draw water from the well.
15 For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: In rest and quiet you will be saved; In stillness and confidence will be your strength. And you did not want to,
16 but you said, No, rather we will flee on horses; therefore you will flee. On swift steeds we will ride; Therefore, your pursuers will be swift.
17 A thousand will flee at the threat of one; You will all flee from the threat of five, until you remain like a mast on the top of a mountain, and like a flag on a hill.
18 Therefore the LORD will wait to have mercy on you, and therefore will be exalted to have mercy on you; because Jehovah is a just God; blessed are all those who trust in him.
19 Surely the people will dwell in Zion, in Jerusalem; you will never cry again; he who has mercy will have mercy on you; When he hears the voice of your cry he will answer you.
20 Although the Lord will give you bread of affliction and water of anguish, yet your teachers will never again be taken from you, but your eyes will see your teachers.
21 Then your ears will hear a word behind you saying, This is the way, walk in it; and do not cast at the right hand, nor twist at the left hand.
22 Then you will defile the covering of your silver sculptures, and the clothing of your molten images of gold; you will throw them away like a filthy rag; Go out! you will tell them.
23 Then the Lord will give rain to your field, when you sow the land, and he will give bread of the fruit of the land, and it will be abundant and plentiful; Your cattle at that time will be pastured in spacious pastures.
24 Your oxen and your donkeys that work the land will eat clean grain, winnowed with a shovel and a sieve.
25 And on every high mountain, and on every high hill, there will be rivers and streams of water on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers will fall.
26 And the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun seven times greater, like the light of seven days, in the day when the Lord binds up the wound of his people, and heals the wound that he caused. .
27 Behold, the name of the Lord comes from afar; his face aflame, and with flames of devouring fire; His lips were full of wrath, and his tongue was like fire that consumed him.
28 His breath is like a torrent that overflows; He will reach up to the neck, to sift the nations with a sieve of destruction; and the bridle will be in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
29 You will have singing as in the night when the Passover is celebrated, and joy of heart, like one who goes with a flute to come to the mountain of the Lord, to the Stronghold of Israel.
30 And the Lord will make his mighty voice heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with fury of face and flame of devouring fire, with whirlwind, tempest, and hailstone.
31 For Assyria, which he smote with a rod, shall be broken by the voice of the Lord.
32 And every blow of the rod of justice that the Lord sets upon him will be with timbrels and with harps; and in tumultuous battle he will fight against them.
33 For Tophet is ready and prepared for the king in time, deep and wide, whose pyre is of fire, and much wood; The breath of Jehovah, like a torrent of sulfur, kindles it.
1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and trust in horses; and they put their hope in chariots, because they are many, and in horsemen, because they are brave; and they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor do they seek the Lord!
2 But he is also wise, and he will bring evil, and will not take back the words from him. Therefore he will rise against the house of evildoers, and against the help of those who do iniquity.
3 And the Egyptians are men, and not God; and his horses flesh, and not spirit; so that when the Lord stretches out his hand, the helper will fall and the helped will fall, and they will all faint together.
4 For the Lord said to me this way: As a lion and a lion’s cub roars at its prey, and if a band of shepherds gathers against it, it will not be frightened by their voices, nor will it be dismayed by their troop. ; so the Lord of hosts will come down to fight on Mount Zion, and on the hill thereof.
5 Like birds that fly, so will the Lord of hosts protect Jerusalem, protecting, delivering, preserving and saving.
6 Return to him against whom the children of Israel deeply rebelled.
7 For in that day man will cast away his silver idols and his golden idols, which your sinful hands have made for you.
8 Then Assyria will fall by a sword not of a man, and a sword not of a man will consume it; and he will flee from the presence of the sword, and his young men will be tributaries.
9 And his fortress will pass through with fear, and his princes will leave their banners in fear, says the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
1 Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will preside in judgment.
2 And that man will be a hiding place from the wind, and a refuge from the storm; like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in a hot land.
3 Then the eyes of those who see will not be blinded, and the ears of those who hear will listen attentively.
4 And the heart of fools will understand to know, and the tongue of stutterers will speak quickly and clearly.
5 The vile will no longer be called generous, nor will the cheater be called splendid.
6 For the vile man will speak vile things, and his heart will work out iniquity, to commit ungodliness and to speak scorn against the Lord, leaving the hungry soul empty, and taking away drink from the thirsty.
7 The weapons of the trickster are evil; He devises wicked schemes to entangle the simple with lying words, and to speak judgment against the poor.
8 But the generous man will think generous things, and for generous things he will be exalted.
9 Sluggish women, arise, hear my voice; Confident daughters, listen to my reason.
10 A little more than a year from now you will be terrified, oh trusting ones; for the vintage will fail, and the harvest will not come.
11 Tremble, you indolent ones; be troubled, oh trusting ones; take off your clothes, take off your clothes, gird your loins with sackcloth.
12 Beating their chests, they will mourn for the delightful fields, for the fertile vine.
13 Thorns and thistles will rise on the land of my people, and even on all the houses where there is joy in the city of joy.
14 For the palaces will be deserted, the multitude of the city will cease; The towers and fortresses will become caves forever, where wild donkeys rest, and cattle make sheepfolds;
15 until the Spirit from on high is poured out upon us, and the wilderness becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field is counted as a forest.
16 And judgment will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness will dwell in the fertile field.
17 And the effect of justice will be peace; and the work of justice, rest and security forever.
18 And my people will dwell in a dwelling place of peace, in safe habitations, and in recreations of rest.
19 And when hail falls, it will fall on the mountains; and the city will be completely brought low.
20 Blessed are you who sow by all waters, and let the ox and the donkey go free.
1 Woe to you, you who plunder, and were never plundered; that you do disloyalty, well no one did it against you! When you finish plundering, you will be plundered; and when you finish committing disloyalty, it will be done against you.
2 O Lord, have mercy on us, we have waited for you; You, their arm in the morning, also be our salvation in time of tribulation.
3 The people fled at the sound of the noise; The nations were scattered when you arose.
4 Their spoils will be gathered as when they gather caterpillars; They will run over them like locusts run from one place to another.
5 The Lord, who dwells on high, will be exalted; He filled Zion with judgment and justice.
6 And wisdom and knowledge and abundance of salvation will reign in your times; the fear of the Lord will be his treasure.
7 Behold, his ambassadors will shout outside; the messengers of peace will cry bitterly.
8 The roads are broken, the walkers have ceased; He has annulled the covenant, he hated the cities, he regarded men as nothing.
9 He mourned, the earth became sick; Lebanon was ashamed, and was cut off; Sharon has become like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel have been shaken.
10 Now I will arise, says the Lord; now I will be exalted, now I will be magnified.
11 You have conceived stubble, you will give birth to stubble; the breath of your fire will consume you.
12 And the people will be like burnt lime; like cut thorns they will be burned with fire.
13 Hear, you who are far away, what I have done; and you who are near, know my power.
14 The sinners were amazed in Zion, fear fell upon the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us will live with the eternal flames?
15 He who walks in righteousness and speaks what is right; the one who hates the gain of violence, the one who shakes his hands so as not to receive bribes, the one who covers his ears so as not to hear bloody proposals; he who closes his eyes so as not to see bad things;
16 he this one will dwell on high; fortress of rocks will be his place of refuge; He will be given its bread, and its waters will be safe.
17 Your eyes will see the King in his beauty; They will see the land that is far away.
18 Your heart will imagine the fear, and will say: What has become of the scribe? What about the tribute weigher? What about the one who lists the most famous houses?
19 You will not see that proud people, a people with a language that is difficult to understand, with a stammering tongue that you do not understand.
20 Look at Zion, the city of our feasts; Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet place, a tent that will not be dismantled, nor will its stakes be torn down, nor will any of its ropes be broken.
21 For surely there the Lord will be strong for us, a place of rivers, of very wide streams, through which no rowing galley will travel, nor will a large ship pass through it.
22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our King; He himself will save us.
23 Your ropes have loosened; They did not set up their mast, nor lighten their sail; The spoils of many spoils will then be distributed; the lame will snatch the spoils.
24 The inhabitant shall not say, I am sick; The people who live there will have their iniquity forgiven.
1 Draw near, nations, gather together to hear; and you people, listen. Hear the earth and all that is in it, the world and all that it produces.
2 For the Lord is angry with all the nations, and indignant with all their host; he will destroy them and hand them over to the slaughterhouse.
3 And their dead will be thrown away, and a stench will rise from their carcasses; and the mountains will be dissolved because of their blood.
4 And all the host of heaven will be dissolved, and the heavens will be rolled up like a book; and all his army will fall, as the leaf falls from the vine, and as the leaf falls from the fig tree.
5 For my sword will be drunk in heaven; Behold, he will come upon Edom in judgment, and upon the people of my accursed.
6 The sword of the Lord is full of blood, it is greased with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fatness of the kidneys of rams; for the Lord has sacrifices in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 And buffaloes will fall with them, and bulls with calves; and their land will be drunk with blood, and their dust will be greased with fatness.
8 For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance, the year of retribution in the dispute of Zion.
9 And its streams will turn to pitch, and its dust to sulfur, and its land to burning pitch.
10 It will not go out night or day, its smoke will rise forever; From generation to generation it will be devastated, no one will ever pass through it.
11 The pelican and the hedgehog will take possession of it, the owl and the raven will dwell in it; and a line of destruction and levels of desolation will spread over it.
12 They will call her princes, princes without a kingdom; and all her great ones will be nothing.
13 Thorns will grow in its strongholds, and nettles and thistles will grow in its strongholds; and they will be a dwelling place for jackals, and a playground for ostriches’ chicks.
14 The wild beasts of the desert will meet the hyenas, and the wild goat will cry out to its companion; The owl will also have its abode there, and will find rest for itself.
15 There the owl will nest, lay her eggs, and bring out her chicks, and gather them under her wings; Vultures will also gather there, each one with his mate.
16 Search the book of the Lord, and read if any of them are missing; none was missing with his companion; for her mouth commanded, and she gathered them together with her own Spirit.
17 And he cast lots for them, and his hand divided them with a line; They will have it as an inheritance forever; from generation to generation they will dwell there.
1 The desert and the solitude will rejoice; The wasteland will rejoice and bloom like the rose.
2 He will flourish profusely, and he will also rejoice and sing for joy; The glory of Lebanon will be given to him, the beauty of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the Lord, the beauty of our God.
3 Strengthen your weary hands, strengthen your weak knees.
4 Say to those who are faint-hearted: Be strong, do not fear; behold, your God comes with retribution, with payment; God himself will come, and he will save you.
5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be opened.
6 Then the lame will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing; for waters will be dug in the desert, and torrents in the desert.
7 The dry place will become a pond, and the dry place will become springs of water; In the abode of jackals, in their lair, it will be a place of reeds and reeds.
8 And there will be a highway and a road there, and it will be called the Way of Holiness; He will not pass unclean through it, but he himself will be with them; He who walks in this path, no matter how clumsy he may be, will not go astray.
9 There will be no lion there, nor will any wild beast ascend there, nor will it be found there, for the redeemed to walk.
10 And the redeemed of the Lord will return, and they will come to Zion with joy; and everlasting joy will be upon their heads; and they will have joy and gladness, and sadness and groaning will flee away.
1 It came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria went up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.
2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to Jerusalem against king Hezekiah; and he camped by the aqueduct of the upper pool, in the path of the Washer’s field.
3 And there came out to him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, the steward, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the chancellor,
4 to whom Rabshakeh said, Now tell Hezekiah: Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: What confidence is this that you lean on?
5 I say that the advice and power for war, of which you speak, are nothing but empty words. Now, who do you trust to rebel against me?
6 Behold, you trust in this fragile reed staff in Egypt, on which if anyone leans, it will enter his hand and pass through him. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt toward all those who trust in him.
7 And if you say to me, We trust in the Lord our God; Is not this the one whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah caused to be removed, and he said to Judah and Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar?
8 Now therefore, I beg you, give hostages to the king of Assyria my lord, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you can give horsemen to ride on them.
9 How then can you resist a captain, even the least of my lord’s servants, even though you trust in Egypt with its chariots and its horsemen?
10 Have I now come to this land to destroy it without the Lord? The Lord said to me: Go up to this land and destroy it.
11 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to Rabshakeh, We pray you, speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak to us in the language of Judah, for the people on the wall hear it.
12 And Rabshakeh said, Did my lord send me to say these words to you and your lord, and not to the men who are on the wall, exposed to eat their dung and drink their urine with you?
13 Then Rabshakeh stood up and shouted with a loud voice in the language of Judah, saying, Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
14 Thus says the king: Let not Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you.
15 Nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, Surely the Lord will deliver us; This city will not be delivered into the hands of the king of Assyria.
16 Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: Make peace with me, and come out to me; and eat each one from his vineyard, and each one from his fig tree, and each one drink the water from his well,
17 until I come and take you to a land like yours, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread. and of vineyards
18 Take heed lest Hezekiah deceive you, saying, The Lord will deliver us. Did the gods of the nations deliver each of his lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?
19 Where is the god of Hamath and Arpad? Where is the god of Sepharvaim? Did you deliver Samaria out of my hand?
20 What god is there among the gods of these lands that has delivered their land out of my hand, so that the LORD may deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
21 But they were silent, and answered him not a word; for the king had commanded it, saying, Do not answer him.
22 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, the steward, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the chancellor, came to Hezekiah, rent their clothes, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
1 So it came to pass, when King Hezekiah heard this, that he tore his clothes, and covered in sackcloth, came to the house of the Lord.
2 And he sent Eliakim the steward, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, clothed in sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.
3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah: This day is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of blasphemy; because the children have reached the point of being born, and she who gives birth has no strength.
4 Perhaps the Lord your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his lord, sent to blaspheme the living God, and to reproach with the words that the Lord your God heard; Therefore, pray for the remnant that remains.
5 So Hezekiah’s servants came to Isaiah.
6 And Isaiah said to them, Thus shall you say to your master: Thus says the Lord: Do not be afraid because of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he will hear a rumor, and he will return to his land; and I will cause him to perish by the sword in his land.
8 So Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libna; for he had already heard that he had departed from Lachish.
9 But when I heard of Tirhaca king of Ethiopia, Behold, he has come out to make war against you; When he heard it, he sent ambassadors to Hezekiah, saying,
10 Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Let not your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11 Behold, you heard what the kings of Assyria did to all the lands, destroying them; and will you escape?
12 Did their gods deliver the nations that my ancestors destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Resheph, and the children of Eden who lived in Telassar?
13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and of Iva?
14 And Hezekiah took the letters from the hand of the ambassadors, and read them; and he went up to the house of the Lord, and spread them before the Lord.
15 Then Hezekiah prayed to the LORD, saying,
16 “Lord of hosts, God of Israel, who dwells among the cherubim, you alone are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you made the heavens and the earth.
17 Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear; Open your eyes, O Lord, and see; and he hears all the words of Sennacherib, whom he has sent to blaspheme the living God.
18 Indeed, O Jehovah, the kings of Assyria destroyed all the lands and their regions,
19and they handed over their gods to the fire; because they were not gods, but the work of man’s hands, wood and stone; That’s why they destroyed them.
20 Now therefore, Jehovah our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are Jehovah.
21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Concerning what you prayed to me about Sennacherib king of Assyria,
22 these are the words that the Lord spoke against him: The virgin daughter of Zion despises you. , mocks you; The daughter of Jerusalem moves her head behind you.
23 Whom did you revile, and whom did you blaspheme? Against whom have you lifted up your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
24 By the hand of your servants you have reproached the Lord, and said: With the multitude of my chariots I will go up to the heights of the mountains, to the slopes of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars, its choice cypresses; I will reach its highest peaks, the forest of its fertile fields.
25 I dug and drank the waters, and with the tread of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
26 Have you not heard that I have made it since ancient times, that I have devised it since the days of old? And now I have brought him, and you will be to reduce the fortified cities to heaps of rubble.
27 Its inhabitants were of little power; They were cowed and confused, they were like grass in the field and green vegetables, like hay on the roofs, which dries up before its season.
28 I have known your condition, your going out and your coming in, and your anger against me.
29 Because you were angry with me, and your arrogance has risen to my ears; Therefore I will put my hook on your nose, and my bridle on your lips, and I will make you return by the way you came.
30 And this will be a sign to you: You will eat this year what is born of its own, and in the second year what is born of its own; And in the third year you will sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
31 And whatever remains of the house of Judah and whatever escapes will take root again below, and bear fruit above.
32 For a remnant will come out of Jerusalem, and those who are saved will come out of Mount Zion. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will do this.
33 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not enter this city, nor shoot an arrow into it; He will not come before her with a shield, nor set up a bulwark against her.
34 By the way he came he will return, and he will not enter this city, says the Lord.
35 For I will protect this city to save it, for my own sake and for David my servant’s sake.
36 And the angel of the LORD went out and killed one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; and when they arose in the morning, behold, everything was bodies of dead men.
37 Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and made his dwelling in Nineveh.
38 And it came to pass, as he worshiped his god in the temple of Nisroch, that his sons Adramelech and Zarezer killed him with the sword, and fled to the land of Ararat; and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.
1 In those days Hezekiah became deathly ill. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him and said, Thus says the Lord: Put your house in order, for you will die and not live.
2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the LORD,
3 and said, O LORD, remember now, I pray thee, that I have walked before thee in truth and with an upright heart, and that I have done what was pleasant before your eyes. And Hezekiah wept with great tears.
4 Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying,
5 Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord God of David your father: I have heard your prayer, and seen your tears; Behold, I add fifteen years to your days.
6 And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; I will protect this city.
7 And this will be a sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he has said:
8 Behold, I will turn the shadow by the degrees that it has descended with the sun, in the clock of Ahaz, ten degrees back. And the sun returned ten degrees back, by which it had already descended.
9 Scripture of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he was sick and recovered from his illness:
10 I said, In the middle of my days I will go to the gates of Sheol; private I am from the rest of my years.
11 I said, I will not see JAH, JAH in the land of the living; I will no longer see man with the inhabitants of the world.
12 My dwelling place is moved and pierced from me, like a shepherd’s tent. As a weaver I cut my life short; will cut me off with illness; You will consume me between day and night.
13 I was counting until morning. Like a lion he crushed all my bones; From morning to night you will finish me.
14 Like the crane and like the swallow I complained; he moaned like a dove; I raised my eyes high. Jehovah, I suffer violence; strengthen me.
15 What will I say? Whoever told me, he did it himself. I will walk humbly all my years, because of that bitterness of my soul.
16 O Lord, by all these things men will live, and in all of them is the life of my spirit; for you will restore me, and make me live.
17 Behold, great bitterness came upon me in peace, but it pleased you to deliver my life from the pit of corruption; because you put all my sins behind your back.
18 For Sheol will not exalt you, nor will death praise you; Nor will those who go down to the grave wait for your truth.
19 He who lives, he who lives, he will give you praise, as I do today; The father will make your truth known to his children.
20 The Lord will save me; Therefore we will sing our songs in the house of the Lord all the days of our lives.
21 And Isaiah had said, Take fig dough, and put it on the wound, and it will heal.
22 Hezekiah also said: What sign will I have that I will go up to the house of the Lord?
1 At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and gifts to Hezekiah; for he knew that he had been sick, and that he had convalesced.
2 And Hezekiah rejoiced with them, and showed them his treasure house, silver and gold, spices, precious ointments, all his armory, and all that was found in his treasures; There was nothing in his house and in all his dominions that Hezekiah did not show them.
3 Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, What do these men say, and whence have they come to you? And Hezekiah answered, They have come to me from a very far land, from Babylon.
4 He then said: What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said, You have seen everything that is in my house, and there is nothing in my treasures that I have not shown you.
5 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of hosts:
6 Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house and all that your fathers have stored up to this day will be taken to Babylon; nothing will remain, says the Lord.
7 Of your children who will come from you, and whom you have begotten, they will take, and they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
8 And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, The word of the Lord which you have spoken is good. And he added: At least, let there be peace and security in my days.
1 Comfort yourselves, comfort yourselves, my people, says your God.
2 Speak to the heart of Jerusalem; tell him out loud that his time is fulfilled, that his sin is forgiven; which he has received double from the hand of Jehovah for all his sins.
3 A voice crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way for the Lord; make straight a path in the solitude for our God.
4 Let every valley be lifted up, and let every mountain and hill be made low; and the crooked things become straight, and the rough things become smooth.
5 And the glory of the Lord will be revealed, and all flesh will see it together; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
6 Voice that said: Cry out. And I answered: What do I have to say out loud? That all flesh is grass, and all its glory is like a flower of the field.
7 The grass withers, and the flower withers, because the wind of the LORD has blown on it; surely the people are like grass.
8 The grass withers, the flower withers; but the word of our God remains forever.
9 Climb upon a high mountain, shepherding of Zion; lift up your voice loudly, announcer of Jerusalem; lift it up, don’t be afraid; say to the cities of Judah: See here your God!
10 Behold, the Lord God will come with power, and his arm will rule; behold, his reward comes with him, and his reward is before his face.
11 As a shepherd he will feed his flock; in his arm he will carry the lambs, and in his bosom he will carry them; He will gently shepherd the newly born.
12 Who measured the waters with the hollow of his hand and the heavens with his span, gathered together the dust of the earth with three fingers, and weighed the mountains with scales and the hills with weights?
13 Who taught the Spirit of Jehovah, or did he counsel him by teaching him?
14 Who did you ask for advice to be warned? Who taught him the way of judgment, or taught him science, or showed him the path of prudence?
15 Behold, the nations are to him like the drop of water that falls from the bucket, and like little dust on the scales they are counted to him; behold, he makes the islands disappear like dust.
16 Neither Lebanon will be sufficient for the fire, nor all its animals for sacrifice.
17 All nations are as nothing before him; and in their comparison they will be esteemed less than nothing, and that which is not.
18 What then will you make like God, or what image will you make of Him?
19 The craftsman prepares the carved image, the silversmith spreads the gold on it and casts silver chains for it.
20 The poor man chooses, to offer him, wood that does not become moth-eaten; A wise teacher is sought to make a carved image that does not move.
21 Do you not know? Have you not heard? Have they never told you from the beginning? Have you not been taught since the earth was founded?
22 He sits on the circle of the earth, whose inhabitants are like locusts; He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
23 He turns the powerful into nothing, and makes those who rule the earth as a vain thing.
24 As if they had never been planted, as if they had never been sown, as if their trunk had never taken root in the earth; As soon as it blows on them they dry up, and the whirlwind carries them away like stubble.
25 To what then will you make me like or compare me? says the Saint.
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who created these things; he brings out and counts his army; He calls everyone by his name; none will be missing; such is the greatness of his might, and the power of his dominion.
27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you speak, O Israel: My way is hidden from the Lord, and my judgment has passed away from my God?
28 Have you not known, have you not heard, that the eternal God is Jehovah, who created the ends of the earth? He does not faint, nor is he weary with weariness, and no one can understand him.
29 He gives strength to the weary, and he multiplies strength to him who has none.
30 Boys grow weary and weary, young men falter and fall;
31 But those who wait for the Lord will have new strength; They will raise wings like eagles; They will run and not get tired; They will walk and not be weary.
