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of the Holy One of Israel. fore the Lord of hosts was greatly angered against his people, and he reached forth his hand upon them, and smote them: and the mountains were troubled, and their carcases were as dung in the midst of the way: yet for all this his anger has not been turned + Gr. high. away, but his hand is yet raised.

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26 Therefore shall he lift up a signal to the nations that are afar, and shall hiss for them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they are soon coming quickly. 27 They shall not hunger nor be weary, neither shall they slumber nor sleep; neither shall they loose their girdles from their loins, neither shall their shoe-latchets be broken. 28 Whose arrows are sharp, and their bows bent; their horses' hoofs are counted as solid rock: their chariot-wheels are as a storm. 29 They rage as lions, and draw nigh as a lion's whelps: and he shall seize, and roar as a wild beast, and he shall cast them forth, and there shall be none to deliver them. 30 And he shall roar on account of them in that day, as the sound of the swelling sea; and they shall look to the land, and, behold, there shall be thick darkness in their perplexity.

measures. 11 Woe to them that rise up in the morning, and follow strong drink; who wait at it till the evening: for the wine shall inflame them. 12 For they drink wine with harp, and psaltery, and drums, and pipes: but they regard not the works of the Lord, and consider not the works of his hands. 13 Therefore my people have been taken captive, because they know not the Lord: and there has been a multitude of dead bodies, because of hunger and of thirst for water. 14Therefore hell has enlarged its desire and opened its mouth without ceasing: and her glorious and her great, and her rich and her pestilent men shall go down into it. 15 And the mean man shall be brought low, and the great man shall be disgraced, and the lofty eyes shall be brought low. 16 But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be glorified in righteousness. 17 And they that were spoiled shall be fed as bulls, and lambs shall feed on the waste places of them that are taken away. 18 Woe to them that draw sins to them as with a long rope, and iniquities as with a thong of a heifer's yoke: 19 who say, Let him speedily hasten what he will do, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it. 20 Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; who make darkness light, and light darkness; who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter. 21 Woe to them that are wise in their own conceit, and knowing in their own sight. 22 Woe to the strong ones of you that drink wine, and the mighty ones that mingle strong drink: 23 who justify the ungodly for rewards, and take away the righteousness of the righteous. 24Therefore as stubble shall be burnt by a coal of fire, and shall be consumed by a violent flame, their root shall be as chaff, and their flower shall go up as dust for they rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and insulted the word

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6. And it came to in the pass year which king Ozias died, that I saw the Lord sitting on a high and exalted throne, and the house was full of his glory. 2 And seraphs stood round about him: each one had six wings: and with two they covered their face, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. 3 And one cried to the other, and they said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the lintel 'shook at the voice Gr.was lifted. they uttered, and the house was filled with smoke. And I said, Woe is me, for I am pricked to the heart; for being a man, and having unclean lips, I dwell in the midst of a people having unclean lips; and I have seen with mine eyes

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the king, the Lord of hosts. And by the wind. And the Lord said to there was sent to me one of the seraphs, Esaias, Go forth to meet Achaz, thou, and he had in his hand a coal, which and thy son Jasub who is left, to the he had taken off the altar with the pool of the upper way of the fuller's tongs: and he touched my mouth, field. And thou shalt say to him, and said, Behold, this has touched thy Take care to be quiet, and fear not, lips, and will take away thine iniqui- neither let thy soul be disheartened ties, and will purge off thy sins. And because of these two smoking fireI heard the voice of the Lord, saying, brands: for when my fierce anger is + Or, should I Whom shall I send, and over, I will heal again. And as for who will go to this people? the son of Aram, and the son of RoAnd I said, Behold, I am here, send melias, forasmuch as they have devised me. And he said, Go, and say to this an evil counsel, saying, "We will go up people, Ye shall hear indeed, but ye against Judea, and having conferred shall not understand; and ye shall see with them we will turn them away to indeed, but ye shall not perceive. our side, and we will make the son of 10+ For the heart of this Tabeel king of it; thus says the people has become gross, Lord of hosts, This counsel shall not and their ears are dull of hearing, and abide, nor come to pass. 8 But the head their eyes have they closed; lest they of Aram is Damascus, and the head of should see with their eyes, and hear Damascus, Rasim; and yet within sixty with their ears, and understand with and five years the kingdom of Ephraim their heart, and be converted, and I shall cease from being a people. should heal them. "And I said, How the head of Ephraim is Somoron, and long, O Lord? and he said, Until the the head of Somoron the son of Ro+Compare use cities be deserted by rea- melias: but if ye believe +Comp. Heb. son of their not being in- not, neither will ye at all understand. also Lam. 1.43 habited, and the houses by 1 Cor. 12. 15,16. reason of there being no men, and the land shall be left desolate. 12 And after this God shall remove the men far off, and they that are left upon the land shall be multiplied. 13 And yet there shall be a + Gr. is tenth upon it, and again it shall be for a spoil, as a turpentine tree, and as an acorn when it falls out

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7. And it came to pass in the days of Achaz the son of Joatham, the son of Ozias, king of Juda, there came up Rasin king of Aram, and Phakee son of Romelias, king of Israel, against Jerusalem to war against it, but they Lit. besiege. could not take it. 2 And See Heb. a message was brought to the house of David, saying, Aram has conspired with Ephraim. And his soul was amazed, and the soul of his people, as in a wood a tree is moved

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10 And the Lord again spoke to Achaz, saying, "Ask for thyself a sign of the Lord thy God, in the depth or in the height. 12 And Achaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord. 13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; is it a little thing for you to contend against? and how do ye contend against the Lord? 14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; behold, a vir- + Mat. 1. 23. gin shall conceive in the womb, and shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Emmanuel. 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, before he knows either to prefer evil, or choose the good. 16 For before the child shall know good or evil, he * refuses evil, to choose the good; + Gr. disobeys. and the land shall be forsaken which thou art afraid of because of the two kings. But God shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon the house of thy father, days which

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have never come, from the day that his father or his mother, one shall take Ephraim took away from Juda the the power of Damascus and the spoils king of the Assyrians. 18 And it shall of Samaria before the king of the come to pass in that day that the Lord Assyrians. And the Lord spoke to Or, which shall hiss for the flies, me yet again, saying, Because this my, &c. shall which insect shall rule over people chooses not the water of Siloam river of Egypt; a part of the river of Egypt, that goes softly, but wills to have but according and for the bee which is in Rassin, and the son of Romelias to be reading in the the land of the Assyrians. king over you; 'therefore, behold, the 19 And they all shall enter Lord brings up upon you the water of into the clefts of the land, and into the river, strong and abundant, even the holes of the rocks, and into the the king of the Assyrians, and his caves, and into every ravine. 20 In glory: and he shall come up over every that day the Lord shall shave with the valley of yours, and shall walk over hired razor of the king of Assyria be- every wall of yours: and he shall take yond the river the head, and the hairs away from Juda every man who shall of the feet, and will remove the beard. be able to lift his head, up and every "And it shall come to pass in that day, one able to accomplish anything; and that a man shall rear a heifer, and two his camp shall fill the breadth of thy sheep. 22 And it shall come to pass land, O God with us. + Heb. Im+Alex. motiv, from their drinking an 'Know, ye Gentiles, and be manuel. 'giving.' abundance of milk, that conquered; hearken, ye, even to the every one that is left on the land shall extremity of the earth: be conquered, eat butter and honey. 23 And it shall after ye have strengthened yourselves; come to pass in that day, for every for even if ye should again strengthen place where there shall be a thousand yourselves, ye shall again be conquered. vines at a thousand shekels, they shall 10 And whatsoever counsel ye shall + Gr. for land become barren land and take, the Lord shall bring it to nought; andfor a thorn. thorns. 24 Men shall enter and whatsoever word ye shall speak, it thither with arrow and bow; for all shall not stand among you: for God is the land shall be barren ground and with us. 11 Thus says the Lord, With thorns. 25 And every mountain shall a strong hand they revolt + Gr. disobey. be certainly ploughed: there shall no from the course of the way of this fear come thither: for there shall be people, saying, 12 Let them not say, It from among the barren ground and is hard, for whatsoever this people says, thorns that whereon cattle shall feed is hard: but fear not ye their fear, and oxen shall tread. neither be dismayed. 13 Sanctify ye the Lord himself; and the +Or, let him be. 8. And the Lord said to me, Take shall be thy fear. 14 And if thou shalt to thyself a volume of a great new trust in him, he shall be to thee for * Alex. paper, *book, and write in it with a sanctuary; and ye shall not come or, parchment. a man's pen concerning the against him as against a Rom. 9. 33. *a + making a rapid plunder of spoils; for stumbling-stone, neither as against the it is near at hand. And make me falling of a rock: but the houses of witnesses of faithful men, Urias, and Jacob are in a snare, and the dwellers Zacharias the son of Barachias. And in Jerusalem in a 3 pit. 15 Therefore pit. I went in to the prophetess; and she many among them shall be weak, conceived, and bore a son. And the and fall, and be crushed; and they Lord said to me, Call his name, Spoil shall draw nigh, and men shall be quickly, plunder speedily. For be- taken securely. 16 Then shall those fore the child shall know how to call who seal themselves that they may

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17 And one shall say, I will wait for God, who has turned away his face from the house of Jacob, + Heb. 2. 13. and I will trust in him. 18+ Behold I and the children which God has given me and they shall be for signs and wonders in the house of Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells in Mount Sion.

19 And if they should say to you, +Gr. ventrilo- Seek those who have in quists. them a divining spirit, and them that speak out of the earth, them that speak vain words, who speak out of their belly: shall not a nation diligently seek to their God? why do they seek to the dead concerning the living? 20 For he has given the law for a help, that they should not speak according to this word, concerning which there +See Hebrew. are no gifts to give for it. 21 And famine shall come sorely upon you, and it shall come to pass, that when ye shall be hungry, ye shall be grieved, and ye shall speak ill of the prince and your fathers' ordinances: and they shall look up to heaven above, 22 and they shall look on the earth below, and behold severe distress, and darkness, affliction, and + Or, a strait. *anguish, and darkness so that one cannot see; and he that is in anguish shall not be distressed only for a time.

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and the rod that was on their neck: for he has broken the rod of the exactors, as in the day of Madiam. For they shall compensate for every garment that has been acquired by deceit, and all raiment with 'resti- + Gr. recontution; and they shall be clangor, willing, even if they were burnt with fire. For a child is born to us, and a son is given to us, whose government is upon his shoulder: and his name is called the Messenger of great counsel: for I will bring peace Alex. +Wonupon the princes, and health derful, Coun to him. His government One, Potentshall be great, and of his Peace, Father peace there is no end: it of the age to shall be upon the throne pare Heb. 2. 2. of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to support it with judgment and with righteousness, from henceforth and for ever. zeal of the Lord of hosts shall perform this.

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8 The Lord has sent death upon Jacob, and it has come upon Heb. 7 Israel. And all the ambiguous. ple of Ephraim, and they that dwelt in Samaria shall know, who say in their pride and lofty heart, 10 The bricks are fallen down, but come, let us hew stones, and cut down sycamores and cedars, and let us build for ourselves a tower. "And God shall dash down them that rise up against him on Mount Sion, and shall for, against scatter his enemies; 12even Syria from the rising of the sun, and the Greeks from the setting of the sun, who devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but still his hand is exalted. 13But the people turned not until they were smitten, and they sought not the Lord. 14 So the Lord took away from Israel the head and tail, great and small, in one day: 15 the old man, and them that respect persons, this is the head; and the prophet teaching unlawful things, he is the tail.

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that pronounce this people blessed shall mislead them; and they mislead them that they may devour them. 17 Therefore the Lord shall not take pleasure in their young men, neither shall he have pity on their orphans or on their widows: for they are all transgressors and wicked, and every mouth speaks unjustly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is yet exalted. 18 And iniquity shall burn as fire, and shall be devoured by fire as dry grass and it shall burn in the thickets of the wood, and shall devour all that is round about the hills. 19 The whole earth is set on fire because of the fierce anger of the Lord, and the people shall be as men burnt by fire: no man shall pity his brother. 20 But one shall turn aside to the right hand, for he shall be hungry; and shall eat on the left, and a man shall by no means be satisfied with eating the flesh of his own arm. 21 For Manasses shall eat the flesh of Ephraim, and Ephraim the flesh of Manasses; for they shall besiege Juda together. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is yet exalted.

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and to trample the cities, and to make them dust. 7 But he meant not thus, neither did he devise thus in his soul: but his mind shall change, and that to destroy nations not a few. And if they should say to him, Thou alone art ruler; 9 then shall he say, Have I not taken the country above Babylon and Chalanes, where the tower was built? and have I not taken Arabia, and Damascus, and Samaria? 10 As I have taken them, I will also take all the kingdoms: howl, ye idols in Jerusalem, and in Samaria. 11 For as I did to Samaria and her idols, so will I do also to Jerusalem and her idols. 12 And it shall come to pass, when the Lord shall have finished doing all things on Mount Sion and Jerusalem, that I will visit upon the proud heart, even upon the ruler of the + Gr. great Assyrians, and upon the mind. boastful haughtiness of his eyes. 13 For he said, I will act in strength, and in the wisdom of my understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and will spoil their strength. 14 And I will shake inhabited cities: and I will take with my hand all the world as a nest: and I will even take them as eggs that 10. Woe to them that write wicked- have been left; and there is none that ness; for when they write they do shall escape me, or contradict me. write wickedness, perverting the cause 15 Shall the axe glorify itself without 2 of the poor, violently wresting the him that hews with it? or shall the judgment of the needy ones of my saw lift up itself without him that uses people, that the widow may be a prey it, as if one should lift a rod or staff? to them, and the orphan a spoil. but it shall not be so, 16 but the Lord of And what will they do in the day hosts shall send dishonour upon thine of visitation? for affliction shall come honour; and burning fire shall be to you from afar: and to whom will kindled upon thy glory. "And the ye flee for help? and where will ye light of Israel shall be for a fire, and Heb. & Alex. leave your glory, that ye he shall sanctify him with burning shall fall under may not fall into cap-fire, and it shall devour the wood as the slain.' tivity? For all this his grass. 18 In that day the mountains. wrath is not turned away, but his shall be consumed, and the hills, and hand is yet exalted. the forests, and fire shall devour both soul and body: and he that flees shall be as one fleeing from burning flame. 19 And they that are left of them shall be a small number, and a child shall write them. 20 And it shall come to

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