pass in that day that the remnant of crushed, and the lofty shall be brought Israel shall no more join themselves low: 34 and the lofty ones shall fall by Or, repeat with, and the saved of Jacob the sword, and Libanus shall fall with their offence. shall no more trust in, them his lofty ones. that injured them; but they shall trust in the Holy God of Israel, in truth. 21 And the remnant of Jacob shall trust the mighty God. + Rom.9.27,28. 22 And though the people of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them shall be saved. 23 He will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because the Lord will make a short work in all the world. enemies. + 24 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, Be not afraid, my people who dwell in Sion, of the Assyrians, because he shall smite thee with a rod: for I am bringing a stroke upon thee, that thou mayest see the way of Egypt. 25 For yet a little while, and the indignation shall cease: but my wrath shall + se. of their be against their council. 26 And God will stir up enemies against them, according to the stroke of Madiam in the place of affliction: and his wrath shall be by the way of the sea, even to the way that leads to Egypt. 27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his yoke shall be taken from thy shoulder, and away his fear from thee, and the yoke shall be destroyed from off your shoulders. 28 For he shall arrive at the city of Angai, and shall pass on to Maggedo, and shall lay up his stores in Machmas. 29 And he shall pass by the valley, and shall arrive at Angai: fear shall seize upon Rama, the city of Saul. 30 The daughter of Gallim shall flee; Laisa shall hear; one shall hear in Anathoth. 31 Madebena also is amazed, and the inhabitants of Gibbir. 32 Exhort ye them to-day to remain in the way: exhort ye beckoning with the hand the mountain, the daughter of Sion, even ye hills that are in Jerusalem. 33 Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts will mightily confound the glorious ones, and the haughty in pride shall be 11. And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, Rom. 15. 12. and a blossom shall come up from his root: 2 and the Spirit of God shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and godliness shall fill him; 3the spirit of the fear of God: he shall not judge according to appearance, nor reprove according to report: but he shall judge the cause of the lowly, and shall reprove the lowly of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the word of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he destroy the ungodly one. 5 And he shall have his loins girt with righteousness, and his sides clothed with truth. 6 And the wolf shall feed with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the young calf and bull and lion shall feed together; and a little child shall lead them. 7 And the ox and bear shall feed together; and their young shall be together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 And an infant shall put his hand on the holes of asps, and on the nest of young asps. And they shall not hurt, nor shall they at all be able to destroy any one on my holy mountain: for the whole world is filled with ver. the knowledge of the Lord, as much water covers the seas. J 9 + Gr. may co + τιμή. 10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, and he that Rom. 15. 12. shall arise to rule over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust: and his rest shall be glorious. Gr. T. "And it shall be in that See 1 Pet. 2.7. day, that the Lord shall again show his hand, to be zealous for the remnant that is left of the people, which shall be left by the Assyrians, and that from Egypt, and + read for קנא + q. smiting. + + CONCERNING BABYLON. 6 μένοι εἰσι. with armour from the country of Babylon, and from | 13. THE VISION WHICH ESAIAS Ethiopia, and from the Elamites, and SON OF AMOS SAW + Lit. against. from the rising of the sun, and out of Arabia. 12 And he shall lift up a standard for the nations, and he shall 2 Lift up a standard on the moungather the lost ones of Israel, and he tain of the plain, exalt the voice to shall gather the dispersed of Juda from them, beckon with the hand, open the the four corners of the earth. 13 And gates, ye rulers. I give command,* the envy of Ephraim shall be taken and I bring them: giants Aleraaway, and the enemies of Juda shall are coming to fulfil my perish: Ephraim shall not envy Juda, wrath, rejoicing at the same time and and Juda shall not afflict Ephraim. insulting. A voice of many nations 14 And they shall fly on the ships of on the mountains, even like to that the Philistines: they shall at the same of many nations; a voice of kings and +se. the west. time spoil the sea, and nations gathered together: the Lord them that come from the east, and of hosts has given command to a * warIdumea; and they shall lay their hands like nation, to come from Lit.fighting on Moab first; but the children of a land afar off, from the or weapons. Ammon shall first obey them. 15 And utmost foundation of heaven; the the Lord shall make desolate the sea Lord and his warriors are coming to of Egypt; and he shall lay his hand destroy all the world. Howl ye, for on the river with a strong wind, and the day of the Lord is near, and d. form by he shall smite the seven destruction from God shall arrive. 7 channels, so that men shall Therefore every hand shall become pass through it dry-shod. 16 And there powerless, and every soul of man shall shall be a passage for my people that be dismayed. The elders shall be is left in Egypt: and it shall be to troubled, and pangs shall seize them, Israel as the day when he came forth as of a woman in travail: and they out of the land of Egypt. shall mourn one to another, and shall be amazed, and shall change their countenance as a flame. 9 For behold! the day of the Lord is coming which cannot be escaped, a day + Gr. healed. of wrath and anger, to make the world desolate, and to destroy sinners out of it. 10 For the stars of heaven, and Orion, and all the host of heaven, shall not give their light; and it shall be dark at sunrise, and the moon shall not give her light. And not give her light. "And I will command evils for the whole world, and will visit their sins on the ungodly: and I will destroy the pride of transgressors, and will bring low the pride of the haughty. 12 And they that are left shall be more precious than gold tried in the fire; and a man shall be more precious than the stone that is in Suphir. 13 For the heaven shall be enraged, and the earth shall be shaken from her foundation, because 12. And in that day thou shalt say, I will bless thee, O Lord; for thou wast angry with me, but thou hast turned aside thy wrath, and hast pitied me. 2 Behold, my God is my Saviour; I will trust in him, and not be afraid: for the Lord is my glory and my praise, and is become my salvation. Draw ye therefore water with joy out of the wells of salvation. And in that day thou shalt say, Sing to the Lord, call aloud upon his name, proclaim his glorious deeds among the Gentiles, make mention that his name is exalted. Sing praise to the name of the Lord; for he has done great things: declare this in all the earth. + Heb. & Alex. Exalt and rejoice, ye that dwell in Sion: for the Holy One of Israel is exalted in the midst * of her. 'of thee.' 6 5 + of the fierce anger of the Lord of hosts, in the day in which his wrath shall come on. 14 And they that are left shall be as a fleeing fawn, and as a stray sheep, and there shall be none to gather them: so that a man shall turn back to his people, and a man shall flee to his own land. 15 For whosoever shall be taken shall be overcome; and they that are gathered together shall fall by the sword. 16 And they shall dash their children before their eyes; and they shall spoil their houses, and shall take their wives. 17 Behold, I will stir up against you the Medes, who do not regard silver, neither have they need of gold. 18 They shall break the bows of the young men; and they shall have no mercy on your children; nor shall their eyes spare thy children. 19 And Babylon, which is called glorious by the king of the Chaldeans, shall be as when God overthrew Sodoma and 4 Gr. εἰς τὸν Gomorrha. 20 It shall never aira xpórov. be inhabited, neither shall any enter into it for many generations: neither shall the Arabians pass through it; nor shall shepherds at all rest in it. 21 But wild beasts shall rest there; and the houses shall be filled with howling; + See Job 30. and monsters shall rest 29; Isa. 34. 13. there, and devils shall dance + Gr. Ovokév- there. 22 And 'satyrs shall dwell there; and hedge37; also Hab. hogs shall make their nests in their houses. *He will come soon, and will not tarry. &c. ταυροι. + See Heb. 10. 2.3. + + captives to them; and they that had lordship over them shall be under their rule. 3 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow and vexation, and from thy hard servitude Gr. Ovμoù. wherein thou didst serve thou shalt say them. 4 And thou shalt in that day.' take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon." *Alex. and How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased! 5 The Lord has broken the yoke of sinners, the yoke of princes. Having smitten a nation in wrath, with an incurable plague, smiting a nation with a wrathful plague, which spared them not, he rested in quiet. All the earth cries aloud with joy: the trees also of Libanus rejoice against thee, and the cedar of Libanus, saying, From the time that thou hast been laid low, no one has come up to cut us down. Hell from beneath is provoked to meet thee: all the great ones that have ruled over the earth have risen up together against thee, they that have raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. 10All shall answer and say to thee, Thou also hast been taken, even as we; and thou art numbered amongst us. Thy glory has come down to Hades, and thy great mirth: under thee they shall spread corruption, and the worm shall be thy covering. 12 How has Lucifer, that rose in Gr.wapópos. the morning, fallen from heaven! He that sent orders to all the nations is crushed to the earth. 13 But thou saidst in thine heart, I will go up to heaven, I will set my throne above the stars of heaven: I will sit on a lofty mount, on the lofty mountains towards the north: 14 I will go up above the clouds; I will be like the Most High. 15 But now thou shalt go down to hell, even to the foundations of the earth. 16 They that see thee shall wonder at thee, and say, This is the+See chap. 5. man that troubled the earth, 25. that made kings to shake; 17 that 11 cry, even all the Philistines: for smoke is coming from the north, and there is no possibility of living. Gr. of being. 32 And what shall the kings of the nations answer? That the Lord has founded Sion, and by him the poor of the people shall be saved. 15. THE Word against the Land OF MOAB. made the whole world desolate, and seed with hunger, and shall destroy ti. e. of the destroyed its cities; he thy remnant. 31 Howl, ye gates of world. loosed not those who were cities; let the cities be troubled and in captivity. 18 All the kings of the nations lie in honour, every man in his house. 19 But thou shalt be cast forth on the mountains, as a loathed carcase, with many dead who have been pierced with swords, going down to the grave. 20 As a garment defiled with blood shall not be pure, so neither shalt thou be pure; because thou hast destroyed my land, and hast slain my people: thou shalt not endure for ever, -thou an evil seed. 21 Prepare thy children to be slain for the sins of their father; that they arise not, and inherit the earth, nor fill the earth with cities. 22 And I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts, and I will destroy their name, and remnant, and seed: thus the Lord. 23 And I will make says the region of Babylon desert, so that hedgehogs shall dwell there, and it shall come to nothing: and I will make it a pit of clay for destruction. 5 4 By night the land of Moab shall be destroyed; for by night the wall of the land of Moab shall be destroyed. 2 Grieve for yourselves; for even Debon, where your altar is shall be destroyed: thither shall ye go up to weep, over Nabau of the land of Moab: howl ye: baldness shall be on every head, and all arms shall be wounded. 3 Gird yourselves with sack-Gr. cut to cloth in her streets: and pieces. lament upon her roofs, and in her streets, and in her ways; howl all of 24 Thus says the Lord of hosts, As you with weeping. For Esebon and I have said, so it shall be: and as I Eleale have cried: their voice was have purposed, so the matter shall re-heard to Jassa: therefore the loins of main: 25 even to destroy the Assyrians the region of Moab cry aloud; her upon my land, and upon my moun- soul shall know. The heart of the tains: and they shall be for tramplings; region of Moab cries within her to and their yoke shall be taken away Segor; for it is as a heifer of three from them, and their glory shall be years old: and on the ascent of Luith taken away from their shoulders. 26This they shall go up to thee weeping by is the purpose which the Lord has the way of Aroniim: she cries, Depurposed upon the whole earth: and struction, and trembling. The water this the hand that is uplifted against of Nemerim shall be desolate, and the all the nations. 27 For what the Holy grass thereof shall fail: for there shall God has purposed, who shall frustrate? be no green grass. Shall Moab even and who shall turn back his uplifted thus be delivered? for I will bring the hand? 28 In the year in which king Arabians upon the valley, and they Achaz died this word came. 29 Rejoice shall take it. For the cry has reached not, all ye Philistines, because the yoke the border of the region of Moab, even of him that smote you is broken of Agalim; and her howling has gone + Gr. for. *because out of the seed of the as far as the well of Elim. And the serpent shall come forth the young of water of Dimon shall be filled with asps, and their young shall come forth blood: for I will bring Arabians upon flying serpents. 30 And the poor shall Dimon, and I will take Heb. the be fed by him, and poor men shall away the seed of Moab, and land. rest in peace: but he shall destroy thy Ariel, and the remnant of Adama.* 8 9 13 This is the word which the Lord spoke against Moab, when he spoke. 14 And now I say, In three years, of the years of an hireling, the glory of Moab shall be dishonoured with all his great wealth; and he shall be left few in number, and not honoured. 16. I will send as it were reptiles on | Moab is wearied at the altars,) that he the land is not the mount of the shall go in to the idols thereof to pray, daughter of Sion a desolate rock? 2For but they shall not be at all able to dethou shalt be as a young bird taken liver him. away from a bird that has flown: even thou shalt be so, daughter of Moab: and then do thou, O Årnon, take farther counsel, and continually make thou a shelter from grief: they flee in darkness at mid-day; they are amazed; be not thou led captive. The fugitives of Moab shall sojourn with thee; they shall be to you a shelter from the + Common face of the pursuer: * for punctuation thine alliance has been taken away, and the oppressing ruler has perished from off the earth. 5 And a throne shall be established with mercy; and one shall sit upon it with truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and earnestly seeking judgments, and hastrighteousness. perhaps wrong. ing we A 7 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud, I have cut off his pride, thy prophecy shall not be thus, no not thus. Moab shall howl; for all shall howl in the land of Moab: but thou shalt care for them that dwell in Seth, and thou shalt not be ashamed. The plains of Esebon shall mourn, the vine of Sebama: swallowing up the nations, trample ye her vines, even to Jazer: ye shall not come together; wander ye in the desert: they that were sent are deserted, for they have gone over to the sea. 9 There fore will I weep as with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sebama; Esebon and Eleale have cast down thy trees; for I will trample on thy harvest and on thy vintages, and all thy plants shall fall. 10And gladness and rejoicing shall be taken away from the vineyards; and they shall not rejoice at all in thy vineyards; and they shall not at all tread wine into the vats; for the vintage has ceased. 11 Therefore my belly shall sound as a harp for + Comp. Heb. Moab, and thou hast repaired my inward parts as a wall. And it shall be to thy shame, (for 17. THE WORD AGAINST DAMASCUS. 2 4 Behold, Damascus shall be taken away from among cities, and shall become a ruin. Abandoned for ever, to be a fold and resting-place for flocks, and there shall be none to go after them. 3And she shall no longer be a strong place for Ephraim to flee to, and there shall no longer be a kingdom in Damascus, or a remnant of Syrians; for thou art no better than the children of Israel, even than their glory; thus says the Lord of hosts. There shall be in that day a failure of the glory of Jacob, and the riches of his glory shall be shaken. 5And it shall be as if one should gather standing corn, and reap the grain of the ears; and it shall be as if one should gather ears in a rich valley; and as if there should be left stubble therein, or as it were the berries of an olive tree, two or three on the topmost bough, or as if four or five should be left on their branches; thus says the Lord, the God of Israel. 7 In that day a man shall trust in him that made him, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. And they shall not at all trust in their altars, nor in the works of their hands, which their fingers made; and they shall not look to the trees, nor to their abominations. In that day thy cities shall be deserted, as the Amorites and the Evæans deserted theirs, because of the children of Israel; and they shall be desolate. 10 Because thou hast forsaken God thy Saviour, and hast not been mindful of the Lord thy helper; 9 |