Isaiah 21 Cross References - Rotherham

¹ The oracle on the desert of the sea: As storm–winds in the South which, with a rush from the desert, do come from a terrible land, ² [So] hath, a grievous vision, been told me:––The deceiver, is deceiving, And, the spoiler, is spoiling, Go up, O Elam, Besiege, O Media, All the sighing she hath caused, have I made to cease. ³ For this cause, are my loins filled, with anguish, Pangs, have seized me, as the pangs of her that is giving birth,––I writhe, so that I cannot hear, I tremble, so that I cannot see: ⁴ My heart fluttereth, A horror, terrifieth me,––My twilight of pleasure, hath he turned for me into a time of trembling. ⁵ [Ye thought] to prepare the table––spread the mat––eat––drink! . . . Arise, ye chieftains, anoint the shield! ⁶ For, thus, hath My Lord said, unto me,––Go, set the watchman, What he seeth, let him tell! ⁷ When he seeth, A train of horsemen in double rank, A train of asses, A train of camels, Then shall he hearken attentively, with diligent heed. ⁸ Then cried he, A lion! On the watch, O My Lord, had I, been standing continually, by day, And, at my post, had I, been stationed whole nights; –– ⁹ When lo! here was a train of men coming, With horsemen in double rank,––And one began and said, Fallen! fallen! is Babylon, And, all the images of her gods, are smashed to the ground! ¹⁰ O thou My threshing! And the grain of my corn–floor! That which I have heard from Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, Have I declared, unto you.
¹¹ The oracle on Dumah: Unto me, is one crying––out of Seir, Watchman! how far gone is the night? Watchman! how far gone is the night? ¹² Said the watchman, There cometh a morning, But also, a night,––If ye will enquire, enquire, ye––Come, again!
¹³ The oracle on Arabia,––Among the shrubs in Arabia, must ye lodge, Ye caravans of Dedanites. ¹⁴ To meet the thirsty, bring ye water,––Ye dwellers in the land of Tema; With bread for him, get in advance of him that is in flight! ¹⁵ For, before swords, have they fled: Before a sword that is drawn, Before a bow that is bent, And before the stress of war. ¹⁶ For, thus, hath My Lord said unto me,––Within a year according to the yearn of a hireling, shall fail all the glory of Kedar; ¹⁷ And, the remnant of the record of bowmen, The heroes of the sons of Kedar, Shall become few; For, Yahweh, God of Israel, hath spoken.

⁹ Out of a chamber cometh a storm–wind, and, out of the north, cold.

¹ The oracle on Babylon,––of which Isaiah, son of Amoz, had vision:––

⁴ The noise of a multitude in the mountains, A resemblance of many people,––The noise of a tumult of kingdoms, Nations gathered together, Yahweh of hosts, mustering a host for battle! ⁵ They are coming in, From a land far away, From the utmost bound of the heavens,––Yahweh––with his weapons of indignation, To destroy the land.

¹⁷ Behold me! stirring up against them, the Medes,––Who, of silver, shall take no account, And, as for gold, they shall not delight in it; ¹⁸ And, bows, shall dash the young to pieces,––And, on the fruit of the womb, will they have no pity, Over children, will, their eye, throw no shield.

²⁰ It shall not be dwelt, in for ever, Neither shall it be inhabited, from generation to generation,––Neither shall encamp there, an Arab, Nor, shepherds, fold their flocks there. ²¹ Then shall lie down, there, wild beasts, And filled, shall be their houses, with, owls,––Then shall inhabit there, the ostrich, And, shaggy creatures, shall dance there. ²² And jackals, shall answer, in their citadels, And, wild dogs, in their voluptuous palaces,––And near to come, is, her time, And, her days, shall not be delayed.

²³ And will make her a possession for the bittern, And marshes of water,––And will sweep it with the besom of destruction, Declareth Yahweh of hosts.

¹ The oracle on Damascus,––Lo! Damascus, is to be removed from being a city, And shall become a heap of ruins:

⁴² The sea, hath gone up over Babylon,––With the multitude of its rolling waves, is she covered.

¹¹ He, and his people with him, the terrible ones of the nations, are about to be brought in to destroy the land,––Therefore shall they unsheathe their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain;

¹² Therefore have foreigners, the terrible of the nations, cut him down, And abandoned him,––Upon the mountains, and in all valleys, have fallen his waving branches, And broken, have been his boughs in all the river–beds of the land, And all the peoples of the earth, have come down out of his shade, And abandoned him:

⁴⁰ And, in the time of the end, will the king of the south, push at him, and the king of the north, will rush against him, with chariots and with horsemen, and with many ships,––and he will enter the lands, and overwhelm and pass over;

¹⁴ But, Yahweh, over them, will appear, and forth shall go, as lightning, his arrow,––Yea, My Lord Yahweh, with a horn, will blow, and will move along in the whirlwinds of the south.

¹³ As saith the proverb of the ancients, From the lawless, proceedeth lawlessness,––mine own hand, therefore shall not be upon thee.

⁵ Because of violence done to the poor, because of the crying of the needy, Now, will I arise! O may Yahweh say,––I will place [him] in safety––let him puff at him!

³ Thou hast suffered thy people to see hardship, Thou hast let them drink the wine of confusion.

¹¹ Let the groaning of the prisoner, come in before thee,––According to the greatness of thine arm, Set free them who are appointed to death.

¹ By the rivers of Babylon, there, we sat down, yea we wept––when we remembered Zion: ² Upon the willows––in the midst thereof, hanged we our lyres: ³ For, there, our captors asked of us words of song, and our plunderers––gladness,––Sing us of the songs of Zion!

¹⁵ Sound discretion, yieldeth favour, but, the way of the treacherous, is rugged.

² Upon a bare mountain, lift ye up a standard, Raise high the voice, to them, Wave the hand, That they may enter the doors of nobles. ³ I myself, have given charge to my hallowed ones,––Yea I have called, My heroes in showing mine anger, My proudly, exulting ones. ⁴ The noise of a multitude in the mountains, A resemblance of many people,––The noise of a tumult of kingdoms, Nations gathered together, Yahweh of hosts, mustering a host for battle!

¹ For Yahweh, will have compassion, on Jacob, And will yet, choose Israel, And will give them rest upon their own soil,––And the sojourner, shall join himself, unto them, And they shall attach themselves unto the house of Jacob; ² And peoples, shall take them, and bring them into their own place, And the house of Israel shall possess themselves of them, upon the soil of Yahweh, for servants and for handmaids,––Thus shall they be taking captive their captors, And shall tread down their oppressors. ³ And it shall come to pass, in the day when Yahweh, shall give thee rest, from thy toil, and from thy disquiet,––and from the hard service which had been laid upon thee,

⁶ Yea, Elam, beareth the quiver, With trains of men, [and] horsemen,––And, Kir, hath uncovered the shield.

¹⁶ From the uttermost part of the earth, melodies, have we heard––Beauty, to the righteous one! But I had said––Ruin to me! Ruin to me! Woe to me! Traitors, have betrayed, Yea, traitorously, have traitors betrayed!

¹ Alas! thou plunderer, when, thou, hadst not been plundered, And thou traitor, when they had not betrayed thee: When thou hast ceased plundering, thou shalt be plundered, When thou hast left off betraying, they shall betray thee.

¹⁰ And, the ransomed of Yahweh, shall return, And shall enter Zion with shouting, With gladness age–abiding, upon their head, Joy and gladness, shall overtake [them], And sorrow, and sighing, shall flee away.

⁶ I had been provoked with my people, Had profaned mine inheritance, And given them into thy hand, . . . Thou shewedst them no compassion, Upon the elder, madest thou very heavy, thy yoke.

¹¹ For Yahweh hath ransomed, Jacob,––And redeemed him from the hand of one stronger than he. ¹² Then shall they come in, and shall shout in triumph on the height of Zion, And shall stream unto the goodness of Yahweh, To the wheat, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flocks and of the herds,––So shall their soul become like a garden well watered, And they shall not again, languish, any more.

²⁰ Was Ephraim, a very precious son to me? Was he a most delightful, child? For, as often as I have spoken against him, I have, remembered, him, again! For this cause, have my affections been deeply moved for him, I must have, compassion, upon him, Declareth Yahweh.

²⁵ For I have satiated the weary soul,––And, every languishing soul, have I filled.

³ Thou didst say, Surely woe to me! For Yahweh hath added, sorrow unto my pain,––I am weary with my moaning, And, rest, have I not found!

³⁴ So much of the word of Yahweh as came unto Jeremiah the prophet, Against Elam,––in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying:––

¹⁴ Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, All ye who tread the bow, Shoot at her, do not spare so much as an arrow,––For, against Yahweh, hath she sinned.

³⁴ Their Redeemer, can hold fast, Yahweh of hosts, is his name, He will, thoroughly plead, their plea,––That he may quiet the earth, And disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

³ Let not the archer tread his bow, Nor lift himself up in his coat of mail,––And do not spare her young men, Devote to destruction all her host. ⁴ So shall they fall wounded, in the land of Chaldea,––Yea thrust through, in her streets,

¹¹ Polish the arrows, Lay hold of the shields,––Yahweh hath roused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, For, against Babylon, his purpose is, to destroy her,––For it is, The avenging of Yahweh, The avenging of his temple.

²⁷ Set ye up an ensign in the earth, Blow ye a horn among the nations, Hallow against her––nations, Summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz,––Set in charge against her a marshal, Bring up cavalry like hairy locusts: ²⁸ Hallow against her––nations, With the kings of Media, With her governors and all her deputies,––And with all the land of his dominion:

⁴⁴ So will I bring punishment upon Bel in Babylon, And will bring forth what he hath swallowed, out of his mouth, And the nations, shall stream unto him no more,––Even the wall of Babylon, hath fallen!

⁴⁸ Then shall shout over Babylon––heavens and earth, and all who are therein,––For, out of the North, shall come to her the spoilers, Declareth Yahweh. ⁴⁹ Not only, hath, Babylon, caused the fall of the slain of Israel,––By Babylon, also, have fallen the slain of, all the earth.

⁵³ Though Babylon should mount, the heavens, And though she should fortify her strong high–place, From me, should come spoilers unto her, Declareth Yahweh.

²² Let all their wickedness, come in, before thee, and deal thou severely with them, according as thou hast dealt severely with me, for all my transgressions; for many are my sighs, and, my heart, is sick.

²⁸ P’res[=" Snatched–away"], ––snatched away is thy kingdom, and given to the Medes and Persians.

²⁰ The ram which thou sawest, having the two horns, representeth the kings of Media and Persia;

⁸ Do not rejoice, O mine enemy, against me, Though I fall, I shall rise again! Though I sit in darkness, Yahweh, is a light to me. ⁹ The indignation of Yahweh, will I bear, for I have sinned against him,––until he take up my controversy, then will he do me justice, he will bring me forth to the light, I shall behold his righteousness. ¹⁰ So shall she who had been mine enemy fear, and shame, shall cover her, who used to say unto me––Where is Yahweh thy God? Mine own eyes, shall look upon her, Now, shall she become one to he trodden down, like the mire of the lanes.

¹⁵ And, with a great displeasure, am I displeased with the careless nations,––in that, when, I, was displeased (for) a little, then, they, helped forward the calamity, ¹⁶ Wherefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, I have returned to Jerusalem, with compassions,, My house, shall be built therein, declareth Yahweh of hosts, and, a line, shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem.

¹⁰ If anyone [carrieth] into captivity, into captivity, he goeth away. If anyone, with a sword, doth slay, he must, with a sword, be slain. Here, is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

⁶⁷ In the morning, thou wilt say––Oh that it were evening! and, in the evening, thou wilt say––Oh that it were morning! because of the dread of thy heart, which thou wilt dread, and because of the sight of thine eyes, which thou wilt see.

⁶ Trembling, seized them, there, Pangs, like hers who is in travail.

⁸ And they shall be in distress––Writhings and pains, shall lay hold, As a woman in childbirth, shall they be in pangs,––Every one, at his neighbour, shall look in amazement, Faces of flames, their faces!

⁵ Mine own heart, for Moab continueth to make outcry, Her fugitive, as far as Zoar, is like a heifer of three years; For, the accent of Luhith, with weeping, they ascend, For, by the way of Horonaim––an outcry of destruction, they excite;

⁹ For this cause, will I bewail, in the wailing of Jazer, The vine of Sibmah, I will drench thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh,––For, upon thy fruit–harvest, and upon thy grain–harvest, the battle–shout, hath fallen.

¹¹ For this cause, mine inward parts––for Moab, like a lyre, shall make a plaintive sound,––Yea, what is within me, for Kir–heres.

¹⁷ Like as a woman with child––Draweth near to giving birth, Is in pain, Crieth out in her pangs, So, were we before thee, O Yahweh; ––

⁴¹ Captured, is Kerioth, And, the fortresses, are seized,––Then shall the heart of the heroes of Moab become in that, day, As the heart of a woman in her pains.

²² Lo! as an eagle, he shall mount and dart, and spread his wings over Bozrah,––So shall the heart of the heroes of Edom, in that day, become as the heart of a woman in her pain.

⁴³ The king of Babylon hath heard, the report of them, And unnerved, are his hands,––Anguish, hath seized him, Writhing pain, as a woman in child–birth.

⁵ Immediately, came forth the fingers of the hand of a man, and wrote,, over against the chandelier, upon the plaster of the wall of the palace of the king,––and, the king, saw the part of the hand which was writing, ⁶ Then, as for the king, his bright looks, changed in him, and, his thoughts, terrified him,––and, the joints of his loins, were loosed, and, his knees, smote, one against another.

⁹ Meanwhile, wherefore shouldst thou cry out aloud? King, is there none within thee? or hath, thy counselor, perished? for labour, hath seized thee, as a woman in child–birth:–– ¹⁰ Be in labour, and bear, O daughter of Zion, as a woman in child–birth,––for, meanwhile, shalt thou go forth out of the city, and dwell in the field, and shalt come as far as Babylon, there, shalt thou be delivered, there, will Yahweh, redeem thee, out of the grasp of thine enemies.

¹⁶ I heard, and I trembled within me, at the voice, my lips, quivered, decay, entered, my bones, and, in my limbs, I trembled,––though I am to find rest, in the day of distress, when their invader, cometh up against the people.

³ As soon as they begin to say––Peace! and safety! then, suddenly, upon them, cometh destruction,––just as the birth–throe unto her that is with child,––and in nowise shall they escape.

³⁶ And, when Abigail came unto Nabal, lo! he, had a banquet in his house, like the banquet of a king, and, the heart of Nabal, was glad accordingly, he having drunk deeply,––so she told him nothing––less or more, until the light of the morning. ³⁷ And it came to pass, in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, and his wife told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became like a stone. ³⁸ And it came to pass, in about ten days, that Yahweh smote Nabal, that he died.

²⁸ Now Absolom had commanded his young men, saying––Mark, I pray you, when the heart of Amnon is merry with wine, and I say unto you––Smite ye Amnon, then shall ye put him to death, do not fear,––have not, I myself, commanded you? Be bold, and show yourselves to be sons of valour. ²⁹ So Absolom’s young men did to Amnon as Absolom had commanded. Then arose all the king’s sons, and rode away––each man on his mule, and fled.

¹² And Haman said, Moreover Esther the queen did bring in no one with the king into the banquet which she had prepared, saving myself,––yea moreover, even for tomorrow, I, am invited unto her, with the king.

⁶ And Esther said, A man who is an adversary and enemy, this wicked Haman. And, Haman, was terrified, before the king and the queen.
⁷ Now, the king, arising in his wrath from the banquet of wine, and going into the palace garden, Haman, stood to make request for his life from Esther the queen, for he saw that ruin, was determined against him, by the king. ⁸ When, the king, returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine, Haman, was lying prostrate upon the couch whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he, even dare to force the queen, while I am in the house? No sooner had the word gone forth out of the mouth of the king, than, the face of Haman, they had covered. ⁹ Then said Harbonah––one of the eunuchs before the king––Yea lo! the gallows that Haman made ready for Mordecai, who had spoken well for the king, is standing in Haman’s house, of a height of fifty cubits. Then said the king, Hang him thereon. ¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai,––and, the wrath of the king, was appeased.

¹¹ They send forth––like a flock––their young ones, and, their children, skip about for joy; ¹² They rejoice aloud as [with] timbrel and lyre, and make merry to the sound of the pipe; ¹³ They complete, in prosperity, their days, and, in a moment to hades, they sink down.

¹¹ Alas, for them who rise early in the morning that, strong drink, they may pursue,––Who follow on in the evening cool, [until], with wine, they are heated; ¹² And it cometh to pass––that lyre and harp, timbrel and flute, and wine, are in their banquets,––But, the doing of Yahweh, they do not discern, And, the work of his hands, have they not seen. ¹³ Therefore, are my people taken away captive, before they know it,––And, their honourable men, are famished with hunger, And, their multitude, do gape for thirst. ¹⁴ Therefore, hath hades enlarged, her desire, And opened her mouth to its widest,––And their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that is uproarious, shall descend, thereinto.

³⁹ When they are heated, I will spread their banquets, And let them drink that they may become uproarious, So shall they sleep an age–abiding sleep and not wake,––Declareth Yahweh.

⁵⁷ Then will I make drunk––Her princes and her wise men, Her governors, and her deputies, and her heroes, And they shall sleep an age–abiding sleep, and not wake,––Declareth the King, Yahweh of hosts, is his name.

¹ Belshazzar the king, made a great feast, to a thousand of his nobles,––and, before the thousand, was drinking, wine.

⁵ Immediately, came forth the fingers of the hand of a man, and wrote,, over against the chandelier, upon the plaster of the wall of the palace of the king,––and, the king, saw the part of the hand which was writing,

³⁰ In that night, was slain––Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans.

¹⁰ Though they were like thorns intertwined, and as drunkards drenched with their drink, yet have they been devoured, like stubble fully dry.

³⁴ But be taking heed unto yourselves, lest once your hearts be made heavy––with debauch and drunkenness and anxieties about livelihood, and that day come upon you suddenly, ³⁵ as a snare,––For it will come in by surprise, upon all them that are dwelling on the face of all the earth. ³⁶ But be watching in every season, making supplication, that ye may gain full vigour, to escape all these things that are about to be coming to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.

² Upon a bare mountain, lift ye up a standard, Raise high the voice, to them, Wave the hand, That they may enter the doors of nobles.

¹³ Then lo! joy and rejoicing, killing oxen, and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine,––Let us eat and drink, For, tomorrow, we may die! ¹⁴ Therefore did Yahweh reveal himself in mine ears, Surely there shall be no propitiatory–covering put over this iniquity for you, until ye die, Saith My Lord, Yahweh, of hosts.

¹ Thus, saith Yahweh, to his Anointed, to Cyrus––Whose right hand I have firmly grasped, To subdue, before him, nations, And, the loins of kings, will I ungird,––To open, before him, the two–leaved doors, And, the gates, shall not be shut: ² I, before thee, will go, And, the hills, will I level––The doors of bronze, will I break in pieces, And, the bars of iron, will I cut asunder; ³ Then will I give thee, The treasures of darkness, Even the hoards of hidden places,––That thou mayest get to know, That, I––Yahweh, who am calling thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.

¹ Belshazzar the king, made a great feast, to a thousand of his nobles,––and, before the thousand, was drinking, wine. ² Belshazzar, gave word, at the flavour of the wine, to bring the vessels of gold and silver, which Nebuchadnezzar his father, had brought forth, out of the temple which was in Jerusalem,––that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines, might drink therein. ³ Then brought they the vessels of gold which had been taken out of the temple of the house of God, which was in Jerusalem,––and the king and his nobles, his wives and, his concubines, drank therein: ⁴ they drank wine,––and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone. ⁵ Immediately, came forth the fingers of the hand of a man, and wrote,, over against the chandelier, upon the plaster of the wall of the palace of the king,––and, the king, saw the part of the hand which was writing,

³² If, after the manner of men, I have fought with wild–beasts at Ephesus, what, to me, the profit? If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for, tomorrow, we die.

¹⁷ Now, the watchman, was standing upon the tower, in Jezreel, so he saw the great company of Jehu, when he came, and said––A great company, can I see! Then said Jehoram––Take a horseman and send to meet them, that he may say––Is it peace? ¹⁸ So the horseman went to meet him, and said––Thus, saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said––What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came up to them, but hath not turned back. ¹⁹ Then sent he a second horseman, and he came up to them and said, Thus, saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said––What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. ²⁰ And the watchman told, saying, He came up to them, but hath not turned back,––and, the driving, is like the driving of Jehu son of Nimshi; for, with mad haste, doth he drive.

⁶ Upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, have I appointed watchmen, All the day and all the night through, let them not hold their peace,––O ye that put Yahweh in mind, Do not take rest, to yourselves,

¹² Against the walls of Babylon, Lift ye up a standard, Strengthen ye the watch, Station the watchmen, Make ready the ambuscades,––For Yahweh hath both planned, and also performed, that which he had spoken against the inhabitants of Babylon. ¹³ O thou who dwellest upon many waters, Who aboundest in treasures,––Come, hath thine end! The measure of thine unrighteous gain!

¹⁷ Son of man, A watchman, have I appointed thee, to the house of Israel,––and thou shalt hear, at my mouth, a message, and shalt warn them, from me.

² Son of man, Speak unto the sons of thy people, and thou shalt say unto them, A land,––when I bring upon it a sword, And the people of the land shall take, one man out of their whole number, and appoint him for them, as watchman; ³ And he shall see the sword coming upon the land,––and shall blow with the horn, and warn the people, ⁴ Then, as for him who, really heard, the sound of the horn, and took not warning, The sword indeed, hath come, and taken him away,––His blood, upon his own head, shall remain:–– ⁵ The sound of the horn, he heard, but took not warning, His blood, upon himself, shall remain,––Whereas, had, he, taken warning, his own soul, he should have delivered. ⁶ But, as for the watchman––When he seeth the sword coming, And hath not blown with the horn, And, the people, have not been warned, And the sword, hath come, and taken away from among them any person, He, for his iniquity, hath been taken away, But, his blood, at the hand of the watchman, will I require. ⁷ Thou, therefore, Son of man, A watchman, have I appointed thee, to the house of Israel, So then thou shalt hear, at my mouth, a message, and shalt warn them, from me.

¹ Upon my watch–tower, will I stand, and will station myself upon the bulwark,––so will I keep outlook, to see––what he will speak with me, and what I shall reply, when I am reproved. ² Then Yahweh answered me, and said, Write the vision, Yea, make it plain on tablets, that one may swiftly read it;

⁹ When lo! here was a train of men coming, With horsemen in double rank,––And one began and said, Fallen! fallen! is Babylon, And, all the images of her gods, are smashed to the ground!

²⁴ Through thy servants, thou hast reproached My Lord, and hast said,––With my multitude of chariots, have I, ascended, The height of the mountains, The recesses of Lebanon, That I may cut down, Its tallest cedars, Its choicest firs, That I may enter, Its highest summit, Its thick garden forest:

¹ For this cause, it behoveth us, with unwonted firmness, to be holding fast unto the things that have been heard, lest, at any time, we drift away.

⁶ Should I call thee to mind upon my couch, In the watches of the night, would I breathe soft speech of thee.

¹ [A Song of Ascents. Solomon’s.]
If, Yahweh, build not the house, in vain, have the builders of it toiled thereon, If, Yahweh, watch not the city, in vain, hath the watchman kept awake:

²⁹ A roar, hath he, like a lioness,––He will roar like wild lions––And will growl, and lay hold on prey, and carry into safety, and there be none, to deliver.

¹⁰ His watchmen, are blind, None of them, know, All of them, are dumb dogs, they cannot bark,––Dreaming, sleeping, loving to slumber.

⁷ There hath come up a lion, out of his thicket, Yea, a destroyer of nations––hath set forward, hath come forth out of his place,––To make thy land, a desolation, Thy cities, shall fall in ruins, so as to have no, inhabitant.

³⁸ He hath, left as a lion, his covert, For their land hath become a horror, Because of the fierceness of oppression, and, Because of the fierceness of his anger.

¹⁹ Lo! like a lion, will he come up from the majesty of the Jordan, unto the pasture perennial, But I will wink––I will make him run away therefrom, Who, then shall be the Chosen One whom, over it, I may set in charge? For who, shall be like unto, me? And who, shall appoint, me, a time? And who, is, the Shepherd, that shall stand before, me?

⁴⁴ Lo! as a lion, shall he come up from the majesty of the Jordan, Unto the pasture perennial, But I will wink––I will make them run away therefrom, Who, then shall be the Chosen One whom, against it, I may set in charge? For who, shall be like unto, me? And who, shall appoint, me, a, time? And who, is, the Shepherd that shall stand before, me?

⁸ Be sober! be watchful! Your slanderous adversary, as a roaring lion, is walking about––seeking to devour:

¹⁹ Thus shall Babylon––The most lovely of kingdoms, The majestic beauty of the Chaldees––Become, as in the divine overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah.

⁴ that thou shalt take up this taunt over the king of Babylon, and shalt say:––How, hath ceased, the oppressor! Ceased, the exactress!

¹ Bel, hath crouched, Nebo, is cowering, Their images, are, [delivered up] to beast, and to cattle,––The things ye carried about, are become a load, A burden, to the weary! ² They have cowered, they have crouched, at once, And they cannot rescue the burden,––But, their own soul, into captivity, hath departed.

² Tell ye among the nations, And let it be heard, And lift ye up a standard, Let it be heard, do not conceal: Say ye––Captured, is Babylon, Confounded, is Bel, Broken in pieces, is Merodach, Confounded, are her images, Broken down, her manufactured gods; ³ For there hath come up against her––a nation out of the North, The same, shall make her land an astonishment, And there shall be none to dwell therein,––Both man and beast, have removed––have gone!

⁹ For lo! I, am rousing and bringing up against Babylon, a gathered host of great nations, out of the land of the North, And they shall array themselves against her, From thence, shall she be captured,––His arrows, are as of a hero making childless, None shall return, empty.

²⁹ Publish against Babylon, ye chiefs of all who tread the bow––Encamp against her round about, Let there be none to escape, Recompense to her according to her work, According to all which she did, do ye to her,––For, Against Yahweh, hath she acted presumptuously, Against the Holy One of Israel.

³⁸ A drought, is against her waters, And they shall be dried up,––For, a land of images, it is, And, with their shocking things, they act as men who are mad:

⁴² Bow and javelin, shall they grasp, Cruel, are they, and will not have compassion, Their voice, like the sea, will roar, And, on horses, will they ride,––Set in array, as one man, for battle, Against thee, O daughter of Babylon!

⁸ Suddenly, hath Babylon fallen, and been broken,––Howl ye over her, Fetch balsam for her pain, Peradventure, she shall be healed!

²⁷ Set ye up an ensign in the earth, Blow ye a horn among the nations, Hallow against her––nations, Summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz,––Set in charge against her a marshal, Bring up cavalry like hairy locusts:

⁴⁷ Therefore, lo! days coming, when I will bring punishment upon the images of Babylon, And, all her land, shall turn pale,––Yea, all her wounded, shall fall in her midst.

⁵² Therefore, lo! days are coming, Declareth Yahweh, When I will bring punishment upon her images; And, throughout all her land, shall the pierced, one, groan.

⁶⁴ Then shalt thou say,––In like manner, shall Babylon sink and not rise, Because of the calamity which I, am about to bring thereupon: So shall they perish. Thus far, are, the words of Jeremiah.

⁸ And, another, a second [messenger] followed, saying––Fallen! fallen! is Babylon the great, who, of the wine of the wrath of her lewdness, hath caused all the nations to drink.

² And he cried out, with a mighty voice, saying––Fallen! fallen! is Babylon the Great, and hath become a habitation of demons, and a prison of every impure spirit, and a prison of every impure and hated bird;

²¹ And one mighty messenger lifted a stone, as it were a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying––Thus, with main force, shall be cast down, Babylon the great city,––and in nowise be found any more;

¹⁴ And Micaiah said,––By the life of Yahweh, what Yahweh saith unto me, that, will I, speak.

⁷ For he had not left remaining unto Jehoahaz a people, save only fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen,––for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like dust in threshing.

¹⁵ Lo! I have made of thee a new pointed threshing sledge, owning teeth,––Thou shalt thresh mountains, and crush them, And, hills––like chaff, shalt thou make: ¹⁶ Thou shalt fan them, and, a wind, shall carry them away, And, a whirlwind, scatter, them,––But, thou, shalt exult in Yahweh, And, in the Holy One of Israel, shalt thou boast thyself.

³³ For, thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, The daughter of Babylon, is like a threshing–floor, at the time of treading her: Yet a little, and the time of harvest shall overtake her.

¹⁷ Son of man, A watchman, have I appointed thee, to the house of Israel,––and thou shalt hear, at my mouth, a message, and shalt warn them, from me. ¹⁸ When I say to the lawless man––Thou shalt, surely die, and thou hast not given him warning, neither hast spoken to warn the lawless man from his lawless, way, to save himself alive, the same lawless man, in his iniquity, shall die, but, his blood, at thy hand, will I require. ¹⁹ Whereas, when, thou, hast warned a lawless man, and he hath not turned from his lawlessness, and from his lawless way, he, in his iniquity, shall die, but, thou, hast delivered, thine own soul.

¹³ Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for, thy horn, will I make to be iron, and, thy hoofs, will I make to he bronze, so shalt thou beat in pieces many peoples,––and shalt devote to Yahweh their unrighteous gain, and their substance, to the Lord of all the earth.

¹² In wrath, dost thou stride through the land,––in anger, dost thou thresh the nations.

¹² Whose fan is in his hand, and he will clear out his threshing–floor,––and will gather his wheat into the granary, but, the chaff, will he burn up with fire unquenchable.

²⁶ Wherefore I take you to witness, on this very day, that, pure am I from the blood of all; ²⁷ for I have not shrunk from announcing all the counsel of God unto you.

¹⁴ and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa;

³ Then did Jacob send messengers before him, unto Esau his brother,––to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

¹⁸ So Edom hath become a possession, Yea a possession is Seir to his foes,––But, Israel, is doing valiantly;

⁵ do not engage in strife with them, for I will not give you of their land, so much as place for the tread of a foot–sole,––for, as a possession to Esau, have I given Mount Seir.

³⁰ Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema;

⁷ Remember, O Yahweh, against the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem,––how they continued to say––Overthrow! Overthrow! unto the foundation within it.

⁶ For, thus, hath My Lord said, unto me,––Go, set the watchman, What he seeth, let him tell!

¹ Come near, ye nations, to hear, And, ye races, attend,––Let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof, The world, and all things produced therefrom: ² That Yahweh, hath wrath against all the nations, and indignation against all their host,––He hath devoted them to destruction, He hath delivered them to slaughter; ³ And, their slain, shall be cast out, And, their carcases, the stench of them, shall ascend,––And, the mountains, shall melt away, with their blood. ⁴ Then shall be dissolved, all the host of the heavens, And the heavens, shall roll up as a scroll,––Yea, all their host, shall fade––Like the fading and falling of a leaf from a vine, and, Like what fadeth and falleth from a fig–tree. ⁵ For my sword, hath been sated in the heavens,––Lo! upon Edom, shall it descend, Even on the people whom I have devoted to justice. ⁶ A sword, hath Yahweh––Glutted with blood, Sated with fat,––With the blood of well–fed lambs, and he–goats, With the fat of the kidneys of rams,––For, a sacrifice, hath Yahweh, in Bozrah, Yea a great slaughter, in the land of Edom; ⁷ Then shall buffaloes come down with them, And bullocks with bulls,––So shall their land be soaked with blood, And, their dust, with fat, shall be enriched. ⁸ For, a day of avenging, hath Yahweh,––A year of requitals, for the quarrel of Zion.
⁹ Then shall, the torrents thereof, be turned, into pitch, And, the dust thereof, into brimstone,––So shall her land become burning pitch: ¹⁰ Neither, night nor day, shall it be quenched, To times age–abiding, shall ascend the smoke thereof,––From generation to generation, shall it be waste, Never, never, shall any pass through it: ¹¹ That the vomiting pelican and the bittern, may possess it: And, the great owl and the raven, dwell therein; Then will he stretch out over it, The line of desolation, and, The plummet of emptiness. ¹² Her nobles (but none are, there!) unto royalty, will call,––All, all her princes, shall become nought. ¹³ Then shall come up, in her palaces, thorns, Nettles and thistles, in her fortresses,––And she shall become, A home for wild dogs, An enclosure for ostriches; ¹⁴ Then shall criers meet with howlers, And, the shaggy creature, unto his fellow, shall call,––Only, there, shall, the night–spectre, Make her settlement, And find for herself a place of rest: ¹⁵ There, shall, the arrow–snake, Make her nest and lay, And hatch, and gather under her shadow,––Only, there, shall be gathered the falcons, every one with her mate. ¹⁶ Seek ye out of the scroll of Yahweh, and read, Not, one from among them, is lacking, None, hath missed, her mate,––For, a mouth, hath, itself, commanded, And, his spirit, hath, itself, gathered them: ¹⁷ Yea, he himself, hath cast for them a lot, And, his own hand, hath given to them a portion, by line,––Unto times age–abiding, shall they possess it, To generation after generation, shall they dwell therein.

¹ Who, is this, coming in from Edom, With bright–red garments, from Bozrah? This, made splendid in his raiment, Marching on in the greatness of his strength? I, speaking in righteousness, Mighty to save. ² Wherefore, is there red, on thy raiment,––And thy garments, as of one treading in a wine–trough? ³ A winepress, have I trodden, alone, And, of the peoples, there was no, man with me. So I trod them down, in mine anger, And trampled upon them, in mine indignation,––And their life–blood besprinkled my garments, And, all mine apparel, I defiled; ⁴ For, a day of avenging, was in my heart, And, the year of my redeemed, had come. ⁵ Therefore looked I around, and there was none to help,––And I was astonished, that there was none to uphold,––So, mine own arm, brought me salvation, And, mine indignation, the same, upheld me; ⁶ Then trod I down peoples, in mine anger, And make them drunk, with mine indignation, And brought down to the earth their life–blood.

¹⁷ then sent King Zedekiah––and fetched him, and the king, asked him, in his own house, secretly, and said,––Is, there a word from Yahweh? And Jeremiah said,––There is, for (said he), Into the hand of the king of Babylon, shalt thou be delivered!

⁷ Of Edom––Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Is there, no longer, wisdom in Teman? Hath counsel perished from the discerning? Is, their wisdom, corrupt? ⁸ Flee ye, turn, go down deep to dwell, O inhabitant of Dedan,––For, the doom of Esau, have I brought in upon him, The time of his visitation. ⁹ If, grape–gatherers, came to thee, Would they not leave, gleanings? If, thieves in the night, Would they not have taken away what sufficed them? ¹⁰ But, I, have stripped Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, And, to conceal himself, shall he not be able! Spoiled, are his seed, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is, not. ¹¹ Leave thy fatherless children, I, will preserve them alive,––And, thy widows, In me, let them trust. ¹² For, thus, saith Yahweh––Lo! they who had not been adjudged to drink the cup, shall surely drink, And art, thou, the one to go, unpunished? Thou shalt not go unpunished, but, shalt surely drink. ¹³ For, by myself, have I sworn, Declareth Yahweh, That, Bozrah, shall become, an astonishment, a reproach, and a desolation, and a contempt,––And, all her cities, shall become age–abiding desolations. ¹⁴ A report, have I heard from Yahweh, Yea, an envoy, throughout the nations, hath been sent,––Gather yourselves together, and come against her, And arise to the battle. ¹⁵ For lo! Small, have I made thee among the nations,––Despised among men! ¹⁶ Thy monstrous thing, hath deceived thee, The insolence of thy heart, O thou that inhabitest the hidden recesses of the cliff, That holdest fast the height of the hill,––Though thou set high, as an eagle, thy nest, From thence, will I bring thee down, Declareth Yahweh; ¹⁷ So shall, Edom, become, an astonishment,––Every one passing by her, will be astonished and hiss, over all her plagues: ¹⁸ Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and her neighbours, Saith Yahweh,––There shall not dwell there––a man, Nor sojourn therein––any son of the earth–born. ¹⁹ Lo! like a lion, will he come up from the majesty of the Jordan, unto the pasture perennial, But I will wink––I will make him run away therefrom, Who, then shall be the Chosen One whom, over it, I may set in charge? For who, shall be like unto, me? And who, shall appoint, me, a time? And who, is, the Shepherd, that shall stand before, me? ²⁰ Wherefore, hear ye, The counsel of Yahweh, which he hath counseled against Edom, And his devices which he hath devised against the inhabitants of Teman,––Surely the little ones of the flock, shall drag them away, Surely he will cause their fold to be astounded over them. ²¹ At the noise of their fall, hath trembled the earth, At the outcry, in the Red Sea, was heard its noise. ²² Lo! as an eagle, he shall mount and dart, and spread his wings over Bozrah,––So shall the heart of the heroes of Edom, in that day, become as the heart of a woman in her pain.

¹ And the word of Yahweh came, unto me, saying, ² Son of man, Set thy face against Mount Seir,––and prophesy against it; ³ and thou shalt say to it, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Behold me! against thee, Mount Seir,––Therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, And I will make thee a desolation and an astonishment: ⁴ Thy cities, will I lay waste, And, thou––a desolation, shalt become,––So shalt thou know, that, I, am Yahweh. ⁵ Because thou hast had an age–abiding enmity, And hast delivered up the sons of Israel unto the hands of the sword,––In the time of their misfortune, In the time of the final punishment for iniquity, ⁶ Therefore, as I live, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, Surely, regarding blood, will I deal with thee, Blood, therefore, shall pursue thee,––Since, blood, thou hast not hated, Therefore, blood, shall pursue thee, ⁷ So then I will deliver up Mount Seir, to desolation after desolation,––And will cut off therefrom, him that passeth by and him that returneth, ⁸ And I will fill his mountains with his slain,––As for thy hills and thy hollows and all thy channels, they who are thrust through by the sword, shall fall therein: ⁹ Desolations age–abiding, will I make thee, And, thy cities, shall not be inhabited,––So shall ye know, that, I, am Yahweh.
¹⁰ Because thou hast said, the two nations, and the two lands, mine, shall become, that we may possess it, Whereas, Yahweh, had been, there, ¹¹ Therefore, as I live, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, I will even deal according to thine anger, and according to thine envy, wherewith thou hast dealt, out of thy hatred, with them,––So will I make myself known among them, as soon as I shall judge thee! ¹² And thou shalt know, that, I Yahweh, have heard all thy revilings, which thou hast uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, They have become desolate,––To us, have they been given for food; ¹³ And so ye have magnified yourselves against me, with your mouth, And have caused to abound against me, your words,––I, have heard! ¹⁴ Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh,––When all the earth is rejoicing, a desolation, will I make thee: ¹⁵ As thou didst rejoice over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it had become a desolation, so, will I do unto thee,––A desolation, shalt thou become, O Mount Seir, And all Edom, all of it, So shall they know, that, I, am Yahweh.

¹⁹ Egypt, to a desolation, shall be turned, and, Edom, to a desert most desolate, shall be changed,––because of the violence done to the sons of Judah, in that they shed innocent blood in their land.

⁶ Thus, saith Yahweh, Because of three transgressions of Gaza, and because of four, will I not turn it back,––Because of their taking into exile the whole body of exiles, to deliver to Edom,

¹¹ Thus, saith Yahweh, Because of three transgressions of Edom, and because of four, will I not turn it back,––Because he pursued, with the sword, his brother, and stifled his compassions, and his anger tare in pieces evermore, and, his indignation, kept watch perpetually, ¹² Therefore will I send a fire into Teman,––which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.

¹ The vision of Obadiah,––Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, concerning Edom––A rumour, have we heard from Yahweh, and, a herald, throughout the nations, hath been sent, Up! and let us rise against her to war. ² Lo! small, have I made thee, among the nations––Despised art thou exceedingly! ³ The insolence of thy heart, hath deceived thee, O thou that inhabitest the retreats of the crag, the height of his habitation,––that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? ⁴ Though thou build high like an eagle, and though, among the stars, thou set thy nest, from thence, will I bring thee down, Declareth Yahweh. ⁵ If, thieves, had come to thee, if robbers by night––how ruined thou art! Would they not have stolen what sufficed them? If, grape–gatherers, had come to thee, Would they not have left gleanings? ⁶ How have the things of Esau been searched out! his treasures been sought up! ⁷ Up to the boundary, have they sent thee––All thy covenant men, they have deceived thee, prevailed against thee––the men thou wast wont to salute,––The partakers of thy bread, have put a net under thee––No understanding in him! ⁸ Shall it not be, in that day, Demandeth Yahweh,––That I will destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau? ⁹ So shall thy mighty men, O Teman, be dismayed,––to the intent that every man, may be cut off, out of Mount Esau, by slaughter.
¹⁰ For thy violence against thy brother Jacob, shall shame, cover thee,––so shalt thou be cut off, to times age–abiding. ¹¹ In the day when thou didst take thy stand over against him, in the day when foreigners took captive his forces,––and, aliens, entered his gates, and, over Jerusalem, cast lots, even thou, wast like one of them! ¹² Do not, then, look with satisfaction upon the day of thy brother, upon the day of his calamity, Neither rejoice over the sons of Judah––in the day of their ruin,––nor enlarge thy mouth––in the day of distress: ¹³ Do not enter into the gate of my people––in the day of their misfortune, Do not, thou also, look with satisfaction on his misery––in the day of his misfortune; neither do thou thrust [thy hands] on his substance––in the day of his misfortune; ¹⁴ Neither do thou stand at the parting of the way, to cut off his fugitives,––neither do thou deliver up his survivors––in the day of distress. ¹⁵ For, near, is the day of Yahweh, upon all the nations,––Just as thou hast done, shall it be done to thee, Thy dealing, shall come back upon thine own head. ¹⁶ For, as ye have drunk on my holy mountain, all the nations shall drink continually,––Yea they shall drink and swallow down, and shall be, as though they had not been.

² I have loved you, saith Yahweh, and yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Is not Esau, brother, to Jacob? enquireth Yahweh, Yet have I loved Jacob, ³ And, Esau, have I hated,–– and made his mountains a desolation, and his inheritance [a dwelling] for the jackals of the wilderness. ⁴ Whereas Edom, may say, We are laid waste, but we will again build the desolate places, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, They, may build, but, I, will pull down,–– and men shall call them, The Boundary of Lawlessness, and, The people with whom Yahweh hath indignation unto times age–abiding;

¹⁴ At eventide, lo! terror, Before morning, he is, not! This, is the portion of them who plunder us, And the lot of them who make of us a prey.

⁷ Let the lawless forsake, his way, And the man of iniquity, his thoughts,––And let him return unto Yahweh, That he may have compassion upon him, And unto our God, For he will abundantly pardon.

¹⁹ Yahweh hath spoken concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah, Do not enter into Egypt: Know certainly, that I have taken you to witness today. ²⁰ For ye have deceived yourselves at the cost of your lives, for, ye yourselves, sent me unto Yahweh your God, saying,––Pray thou in our behalf, unto Yahweh our God,––and, according to all that Yahweh our God shall say, so, tell us, and we will do it. ²¹ Therefore have I told you today,––and yet ye have not hearkened unto the voice of Yahweh your God, even in any thing for which he hath sent me unto you. ²² Now, therefore, know ye certainly, that, by sword, by famine, or by pestilence, shall ye die,––in the place whither ye have desired to go, to sojourn.

²⁷ Cut up all her bullocks, Let them go down to the slaughter,––Alas for them! For their day, hath come, Their time for punishment.

⁵ Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh: A calamity, a sole calamity, lo! it hath come. ⁶ An end, hath come, Come, hath the end, It hath roused itself up against thee,––Lo! it hath come. ⁷ The circle, hath come round, unto thee, O inhabitant of the land,––The time, hath come, The day of consternation, hath drawn near, And not the joyful shout of the mountains.

¹⁰ Lo! the day, Lo! it hath come,––The circle, hath gone forth, The sceptre, hath blossomed, Insolence, hath sprouted:

¹² The time, hath come, The day, hath arrived, The buyer, let him not rejoice, and, The seller, let him not mourn,––For, indignation, is against all her multitude.

¹ Then came there unto me, men, of the elders of Israel,––and sat before me. ² And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying: ³ Son of man, These men, have brought up their manufactured gods, upon their hear, And, their stumbling–block of iniquity, have they set straight before their face,––Shall I be, at all enquired of, by them? ⁴ Therefore, speak unto them and say unto them, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Any man whatsoever of the house of Israel, Who shall bring up his manufactured gods upon his heart, And set, his stumbling–block of iniquity, straight before his face, And then come in unto the prophet, I, Yahweh, have myself answered him, thereby, By the multitude of his manufactured gods: ⁵ To the end the house of Israel may be taken by their own hearts,––in that they have estranged themselves from me, through their manufactured gods––all of them! ⁶ Therefore, say thou unto the house of Israel, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Turn ye––and make good your return––from your manufactured gods; And, from all your abominations, make good the turning away of your faces.

³⁰ Therefore, Every man according to his own ways, will I judge you, O house of Israel, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, Return ye––and make good your return––from all your transgressions, That they become not unto you a stumbling–block of iniquity. ³¹ Cast off from you, all your transgressions which ye have committed against me, And make you a new heart; And a new spirit,––For why, should ye die, O house of Israel? ³² For I cannot take delight in the death of him that dieth, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, Make good your return then, and, live!

³⁷ And, when they heard this, they were pricked to the heart, and said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles––What are we to do, brethren? ³⁸ And Peter [said] unto them––Repent ye, and let each one of you be immersed, in the name of Jesus Christ, into the remission of your sins,––and ye shall receive the free–gift of the Holy Spirit;

¹⁹ And so, laying hold of him, they brought him up, to the Hill of Mars, saying––Can we get to know what this new teaching is, which, by thee, is being spoken. ²⁰ For, certain foreign things, art thou bringing into our hearing: We are minded to get to know, therefore, what these things please to be!

³⁰ The times of ignorance, therefore, overlooking, God, as things now are, is charging all men everywhere to repent, ³¹ inasmuch as he hath appointed a day, in which he is about to be judging the habitable earth in righteousness, by a man whom he hath pointed out,––offering faith unto all, by raising him from among the dead?
³² Now, when they heard of raising the dead, some, indeed, began to mock, while, others, said––We will hear thee, concerning this, even again.

³ And, Yokshan, begat Sheba and Dedan,––and, the sons of Dedan, were Asshurim and Letushim, and Leummim.

¹⁵ besides the tribute of the subjugated, and of the travelling merchants,––and of all the kings of Arabia, and the pashas of the land.

⁹ And, the sons of Cush, Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. And, the sons of Raamah, Sheba, and Dedan.

³² And, the sons of Keturah, the concubine of Abraham, she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah,––and, the sons of Jokshan, Sheba, and Dedan;

²⁰ It shall not be dwelt, in for ever, Neither shall it be inhabited, from generation to generation,––Neither shall encamp there, an Arab, Nor, shepherds, fold their flocks there.

²³ Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all the clipt–beards; ²⁴ And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the Bedawin who dwell in the desert;

²⁸ Of Kedar, And of the kingdoms of Hazor, Which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote––Thus, saith Yahweh,––Arise ye, go up against Kedar, So shall they spoil the sons of the East: ²⁹ Their tents and their flocks, shall they take, And, their curtains, and all their baggage, and their camels, shall they carry off for themselves,––And shall cry out unto them, Terror round about! ³⁰ Flee, remove far away, go deep to dwell, Ye inhabitants of Hazor, Urgeth Yahweh; For Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon––hath counseled against you, a counsel, And devised against you a device. ³¹ Arise ye, go up against a nation at ease––dwelling securely, Commandeth Yahweh,––Having neither doors nor bars, Alone, do they dwell: ³² So shall, their camels, become, a prey, And, the throng of their cattle, a spoil, Then will I scatter them to every wind, even the clipt–beards,––And, from all sides of him, will I bring in their doom, Declareth Yahweh. ³³ So shall Hazor become, A habitation of jackals, An astonishment, unto times age–abiding: There shall not dwell there––a man, Nor sojourn therein––a son of the earth–born.

¹⁵ The sons of Dedan, were merchants of thine, Many isles, took the merchandise of thy hand,––Horns of ivory and ebony, gave they back to thee, in exchange:

²⁰ Dedan, was a merchant of thine,––With spreading wraps, for riding: ²¹ Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, They, were traders at thy service,––With lambs and rams and he–goats, With these, were they traders of thine:

²⁵ And, the Hagar, is Mount Sinai, in Arabia,––she answereth, however, unto the present Jerusalem, for she is in bondage with her children;

¹⁵ Hadad, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:

⁴ And Gideon came towards the Jordan, being about to pass over––he, and the three hundred men who were with him, faint yet pursuing. ⁵ So he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread to the people that are following me; for, faint, they are, and, I, am in pursuit of Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian. ⁶ And the princes of Succoth said, Are the palms of the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in thy power,––that we should give to thine army bread? ⁷ And Gideon said, Therefore, when Yahweh hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my power, then will I tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness, and with the nettles. ⁸ So he went up from thence, to Penuel, and spake unto them in like manner,––and the men of Penuel answered him, as had answered the men of Succoth.

¹⁹ The caravans of Tema looked about, the travelling companies of Sheba, hoped for them:

²¹ If he that hateth thee hunger, give him bread to eat, and, if he be thirsty, give him water to drink;

³ Bring thou in counsel, Execute thou judgment, Make, as the night, thy shadow, in the midst of high noon,––Hide thou the outcasts, The wanderer, do not thou reveal. ⁴ Let mine own outcasts, sojourn with thee, O Moab, become thou a covert to them, from the face of the spoiler,––For vanished, is the oppressor, At an end, is extortion, They who tread down have ceased, out of the land.

²⁰ But––if thine enemy hunger, be feeding him, if he thirst, be giving him drink; for, this doing, coals of fire, shalt thou heap upon his head.

⁹ Showing hospitality one to another without murmuring,––

¹⁹ The caravans of Tema looked about, the travelling companies of Sheba, hoped for them: ²⁰ They are ashamed that they had trusted, They have come up to one of them, and are confounded.

¹⁴ And it shall be––Like a gazelle that is chased, And like a sheep with none, to lift it up,––Each, to his own people, will they turn, And, each, to his own land, will they flee:

¹³ and, these, are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, after their generations,––the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, and Kedar and Adbeel, and Mibsam;

²⁹ These, are their generations,––the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam;

¹ Is there not a warfare to a mortal, upon earth? And, as the days of a hireling, are not his days?

⁵ Woe is me, That I sojourn in Meshek,––That I abide near the tents of Kedar!

⁵ [SHE] Swarthy, I am but comely, ye daughters of Jerusalem. [THEY] Like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

¹⁴ But now, hath Yahweh spoken, saying, In three years,––as the years of a hireling, shall the glory of Moab be diminished, with all the great multitude,––even a very small remnant, of no account.

¹¹ Let the wilderness, shout, and the cities thereof, The villages, wherein dwelleth Kedar,––Let the inhabitants of the crag, raise shouts of triumph, From the top of the mountains, let them cry aloud:

⁷ All the flocks of Kedar, shall be gathered unto thee, The rams of Nebaioth, shall wait upon thee,––They shall come up, with acceptance, on mine altar, And, my beautiful, house, will I adorn.

²⁸ Of Kedar, And of the kingdoms of Hazor, Which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote––Thus, saith Yahweh,––Arise ye, go up against Kedar, So shall they spoil the sons of the East:

²¹ Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, They, were traders at thy service,––With lambs and rams and he–goats, With these, were they traders of thine:

¹⁹ GOD is, not a man, that he should lie, Nor, a son of Adam, that he should repent,––Hath, he, said, and will not perform? Yea spoken, and will not make it stand fast?

³⁹ So have they become few and been brought low, By oppression, misfortune, and sorrow;

²⁰ But, if ye refuse and rebel, With the sword, shall ye be devoured, For, the mouth of Yahweh, hath spoken it.

¹⁸ And, the glory of his forest and of his garden land, both soul and body, shall it bring to an end,––And it shall be like the wasting away of a consumptive. ¹⁹ And, the remnant of his forest–trees, few in number, shall become,––yea, a child, might describe them!

⁴ And it shall come to pass, in that day, That the glory of Jacob, shall be diminished, And, the fatness of his flesh, shall be wasted; ⁵ And it shall come to pass––That, as the harvestman gathereth, standing corn, And, with his arm––the ears, he reapeth, Yea it shall come to pass––That, so, shall he be who gleaneth ears, in the vale of Rephaim;

²⁹ And, this, to you, shall be the sign, Declareth Yahweh, that I, am about to bring punishment upon you in this place,––that ye may know that my words shall, certainly stand, against you, for calamity:

⁶ Howbeit, as for my words and my statutes with which I charged my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? and so they returned and said, Just as Yahweh of hosts planned to do unto us, according to our ways and according to our practices, So hath he dealt with us?

³⁵ The heaven and the earth, shall pass away, but, my words, shall, in nowise, pass away.