Isaiah 17 Cross References - Thomson

¹ The Oracle against Damascus. Behold Damascus shall be removed from among cities, and shall be for desolation; ² left for ever for the folding of flocks, and for a resting place where none will scare them. ³ And it shall no more be a fortress for Ephraim to flee to; nor [s] [S=Sion.] shall there be again a regal government in Damascus; ever hereafter, of the Syrians. For thou art not better than the children of Israel; than that which was their glory. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, ⁴ there shall be in that day a diminution of the glory of Jacob; and the fatness of his glory shall be shaken; ⁵ and it shall be as when one gathereth the standing harvest and reapeth the ears of stalks; nay, it shall be as when one gathereth stalks in a sterile vale, ⁶ still a stalk may be left in it: or like the unripe berries of an olive tree, two or three may be left on the topmost bough, or four or five among the branches. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, ⁷ in that day let man trust in his maker, and his eyes look to the Holy One of Israel: ⁸ and let him no more put confidence in altars, nor in the works of their hands which their fingers have made, nor look to the groves nor to their abominations. ⁹ In that day thy cities shall be forsaken, as the Amorites and Evites forsook theirs because of the sons of Israel: and they shall become a desolation. ¹⁰ Because thou hast forsaken God thy Saviour, and hast not been mindful of the Lord thy helper, therefore thou shalt plant a faithless plant and a faithless seed. ¹¹ On the day thou plantest thou shalt be deceived. Though thou sowest in the morning, shall it bloom for harvest? or on the day when thou shalt take possession, shalt thou as the father of man take possession for thy sons? ¹² Alas! the multitude of many nations! Like the billowy sea so shall you be tossed, and the back of many nations shall sound like water. ¹³ The multitude of nations being like a great flood, their flight shall be like that of a mighty torrent rolling on impetuously. For he will repulse them with scorn, and pursue them to a great distance, like chaff before the wind when men winnow, or as a tempest driveth the dust of a wheel. ¹⁴ Toward evening there will be grief; before morning they shall be no more. This is the portion of them who have plundered you; and this the inheritance of them, who have taken possession of you.

¹⁵ And in the night he and his servants fell upon them and smote them, and pursued them even to Choba, on the left of Damascus.

² Whereupon Abram said, sovereign Lord, what wilt thou give me, seeing I die childless, and the son of Masek my servant, this Damascus Eliezer;

²⁴ [Omitted]

⁹ Whereupon the king of the Assyrians hearkened to him and came up against Damascus and took it, and having removed the inhabitants thereof he put king Raasson to death.

⁵ And when the Syrians of Damascus came to assist Adraazar king of Suba, David smote of the Syrians twenty two thousand men.

⁵ So the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria, who smote him, and took many of them captives, and carried them to Damascus. He delivered him also into the hands of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.

²³ I will seek the gods of Damascus who smite me. Because, said he, the gods of the king of Syria strengthen them, therefore I will sacrifice to them and they will help me. But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel.

⁸ But the head of Aram shall be Damascus, and the head of Damascus, Rasin; but further, in three score and five years, the kingdom of Ephraim shall cease from being a people,

⁴ for before this child shall know to pronounce father or mother, the van of the king of Assyria will take the army of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria.

⁹ He indeed will say, "Have I not taken the whole country above Babylon and Chalene, where the tower had been builded? Nay have I not taken Arabia and Damascus and Samaria?

¹ A vision which Esaias son of Amos saw respecting Babylon.

¹ The Oracle against Moab. In the night Moab is destroyed; for by night is destroyed the bulwark of Moab.

¹ A vision concerning Egypt. Behold the Lord is seated on a swift cloud; and he will come into Egypt; and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence; and the heart of the people shall melt within them.

² Because thou hast reduced cities to a heap of ruins; cities made strong, that their foundations might not fall; [a city of wicked men cannot be built to last forever]

²⁶ "Hast thou not heard those things of old which I have done? From ancient times I gave command and have now pointed out to lay waste nations in strong places and them Who dwell in fortified cities.

² For this cause behold the days are coming, saith the Lord, when I will cause the tumult of battles against Rabbath to be heard; and they shall be for desolation and destruction; and her altars shall be consumed with fire; and Israel shall assume his government.

²³ Respecting Damascus. EMATH and Arphath are overwhelmed in shame. Because they heard bad news they were confounded; they boiled with rage; they cannot take rest. ²⁴ Damascus is enervated. She turned to flee: terror seized her. ²⁵ How can it be otherwise? She forsook my city. Did they regard a single village? ²⁶ Therefore thy young men shall fall in thy streets; and all thy valiant warriors shall fall, saith the Lord. ²⁷ And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus and it shall consume the palaces of Son of Ader.

³ And the Lord said, "For the three transgressions of Damascus, and for four shall I not be averse from it? Because with iron saws they sawed asunder the pregnant wives of the men of Galaad; ⁴ therefore I will send a fire into the house of Azael, and it shall devour the foundations of BenAder. ⁵ And I will break the bars of Damascus, and utterly destroy the inhabitants out of the plain of On, and I will cut off a tribe from the men of Charran, and the chosen people of Syria shall be made captives, saith the Lord. ⁶ Therefore I will make Samaria like a hut of a field and like a plant of a vineyard, and I will drag the stones thereof into a ditch and lay her foundations bare.

¹² therefore because of you, Sion shall be ploughed like a field; and Jerusalem shall be like a temporary building for summer fruits; and the mountain of the house shall be for a grove of a forest.

¹ A Burden of the word of the Lord. In the land of Sedrach and Damascus is his sacrifice, because the Lord hath an eye over men, particularly over all the tribes of Israel: ² he asked letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus, that if he should find any of this way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

³⁴ And the Gadites rebuilt Daibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

³⁶ From Aroer, which is on the banks of the brook Arnon, including the city in the vale, even to mount Galaad, there was not a city which escaped us. The Lord our God delivered them all into our hands.

¹² And we took possession of this land, at that time, from Aroer, which is on the bank of the brook Arnon, and the half of mount Galaad; and I gave all the cities thereof to Reuben, and Gad.

¹⁶ and these were their borders; from Aroer, which is in front of the vale of Arnon, including the city in the vale of Arnon, all the Misor to

¹⁷ and they who have been plundered shall be fed like bulls, and lambs shall graze the waste places of them who have been removed.

²¹ And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man will keep a young cow and two sheep;

²³ And it shall come to pass in that day every where, though there may be a thousand vineyards, each valued at a thousand shekels income: they shall be for briars and thorns. ²⁴ With bows and arrows men will resort thither. Because the whole country shall be a waste of briars and thorns, ²⁵ therefore every mountain which hath been ploughed will be ploughed, wherever terror could not come; for by reason of the country's being a waste of briars and thorns, it shall be a pasture for sheep and a range for the ox.

³³ And the carcasses of this people shall be for food for the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to scare them away.

¹⁹ inhabitant of Aroer! ask him who is fleeing and making escape, and say, What is the news?

⁵ And I will make the city of Ammon feeding places for camels; and the land of the Ammonites a pasture for sheep; and you shall know that I am the Lord.

⁴ But they shall rest every man under his own vine, and every man under his own fig tree; and there shall be none to make them afraid. [p] Because the mouth of the Lord Almighty hath spoken these things:

⁶ And Crete shall be a pasture for flocks and a fold for sheep;

⁶ In the ninth year of Osea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and transplanted Israel among the Assyrians, and caused them to dwell on the Alae and the Abor, rivers of Gosan, and on the mountains of the Medes.

¹⁶ because previous to its knowing good or evil it disobeyeth evil to make choice of good? The land indeed which thou fearest on account of these two kings shall be relinquished;

¹⁴ And now I say, within three years of the years of an hireling the glory of Moab shall be debased with all his abundant wealth; and he shall be left few in number and of no estimation.

⁴ there shall be in that day a diminution of the glory of Jacob; and the fatness of his glory shall be shaken;

¹ [p] AH! the crown of haughtiness! The mercenaries of Ephraim! That flower which hath fallen from the glory on the top of the fertile mountain! Ye who are drunk without wine! ² Behold the wrath of the Lord is a harsh and terrible thing. Like a tempest of hail furiously driven when there is no shelter, like a mighty deluge sweeping a country. In this land it will put a stop to the labour of hands; ³ and with the feet shall be trampled down the crown of your pride, mercenaries of Ephraim. ⁴ And the flower which hath dropped from the hope of the Glory, on the top of the lofty mountain, shall be like the early fruit of a fig tree, which he who seeth it will wish to devour, before he can get it into his hand.

⁴ the Lord said to him, "Call his name Jezrael; for yet a little while and I will avenge the blood of Jezrael on the house of Jehu, and cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.

⁶ And when she conceived again and bore a daughter, he said to him, "Call her name, Not compassionated; for I will no longer continue to have compassion on the house of Israel, but will set myself against them.

⁴ for the children of Israel shall continue many days without a king and without a chief, and without a sacrifice and without an altar and without a priesthood, and without manifestations;

¹³ When Ephraim saw his disorder and Juda felt his pain, though Ephraim went to the Assyrians, and sent ambassadors to king Iarim; yet he could not heal you, nor could your pain be assuaged; ¹⁴ for I am like a panther to Ephraim, and like a lion to the house of Juda. When I tear, I will go and take and there shall be no deliverer.

⁸ Israel is swallowed up; he is now among the nations like an useless vessel,

¹¹ Ephraim is flown like a bird; their glories from parentage, births and conceptions are gone.

¹⁶ Ephraim is in distress. His roots are withered. He shall no more produce fruit. For though they bring forth, I will slay the beloved fruit of the womb. ¹⁷ God will cast them off because they hearkened not to him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

¹⁴ therefore destruction shall be raised up among thy people; and all thy fortifications shall be swept away, as chief Salamin was out of the house of Jeroboam. In the days of battle a mother was dashed to pieces upon her children.

⁷ Therefore I will be to them as a tiger, even as a tigress in the way to the Assyrians. ⁸ I will meet them as a bear bereaved of her cubs, and rend the covering of their heart; and the young lions of the forest shall there devour them; and the beasts of the field shall tear them to pieces.

¹⁵ Since he will make a distinction among brethren; let the Lord bring upon him a blasting wind from the desert, and let it dry up his veins and lay waste his fountains; let it parch up his land and all his precious stores. ¹⁶ [J] Samaria shall be utterly destroyed: because she rebelled against her God, they shall fall by the sword; and their infants shall be dashed to pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

⁶ Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of Israel, and for four, shall I not be averse from him? Because they sold a righteous one for silver and a needy one for a pair of sandals; ⁷ and dashed their sandals against the heads of the poor; and turned aside the way of the meek; and a son and a father went in unto the same handmaid. That they might profane the name of their God, ⁸ having bound their garments with cords of rushes, they pitched their tents near the altar, and drank, in the house of their God, wine got by extortion. ⁹ As for me, I removed from before them the Amorite whose stature was like that of a cedar. Though he was strong as an oak, I withered his fruit above and his roots underneath.

⁹ Make proclamation in the provinces of Assyria, and in the regions of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see many wonderful things in the midst thereof, and the cruel oppression which is in it. ¹⁰ Now did she not know things which will be before her? Saith the Lord. They are treasuring up injustice and misery in their countries. ¹¹ Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, "Tyre is all around. Thy land shall be wasted." He will break thy power and thy regions shall be ravaged. ¹² Thus saith the Lord, "As when a shepherd snatcheth from the mouth of a lion two legs or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be snatched, who dwell in Samaria over against that tribe and in Damascus." ¹³ Hear ye priests, and testify to the house of Israel, saith the Lord Almighty, ¹⁴ That on the day when I punish Israel for his impieties, I will execute vengeance also on the altars of Bethel; and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground. ¹⁵ I will confound and smite the turretted house over the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish; and many other houses shall perish with them, saith the Lord.

²⁵ Did you, house of Israel offer to me burnt offerings and sacrifices, forty years in the wilderness? ²⁶ You have indeed taken up the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Raiphan; those types of them which you have made for yourselves. Therefore I will remove you beyond Damascus; saith the Lord, the God whose name is the Almighty.

⁷ Now for this cause, from being a government of mighties they shall be captives, and the neighing of horses shall be taken away from Ephraim. ⁸ For the Lord hath sworn by himself, As I abhor all this haughtiness of Jacob and have hated all his regions, therefore I will destroy cities with their inhabitants. ⁹ And it shall come to pass that if ten head men be left in one family, they shall die ¹⁰ and the residue shall be left and their domestics shall succeed them. And when they are pressed to bring their bones out of the house, one will say to them who are over the family, Are there any more yet with thee? And when one will say, There is no more: then will one say, Forbear to mention the name of the Lord on this account; ¹¹ for behold the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches and the small house with fractures.

¹⁴ They who swear by the atonement of Samaria, and they who say, Thy God, Dan, liveth: thy God, Bersabee, liveth, shall indeed fall and shall never rise any more.

⁴ and under him the mountains will tremble, and the vallies shall melt like wax before fire, and be like water rolling down a precipice. ⁵ [J] All this is on account of the impiety of Jacob, and for the sin of the house of Israel. What is the impiety of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the sin of the house of Juda? Is it not Jerusalem? ⁶ Therefore I will make Samaria like a hut of a field and like a plant of a vineyard, and I will drag the stones thereof into a ditch and lay her foundations bare. ⁷ And all her graven images shall be hacked to pieces; and all her earnings shall be burned with fire; and all her idols I will utterly destroy. Because from the earnings of fornication she collected, and from the earnings of fornication, amassed; ⁸ therefore she shall wail and utter lamentations: she shall walk barefoot and naked; she shall utter a wailing like that of jackals; and moanings like the daughters of the ostrich. ⁹ Because her wound is large; because it hath come even to Juda and reached the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem;

¹⁵ When Jacob had eaten and was filled, Then he who was beloved began to kick; He grew fat, waxed thick, and became corpulent, Then he forsook the God who made him; And apostatised from God his saviour. ¹⁶ They exasperated me with strange gods, With their abominations they provoked me, ¹⁷ They sacrificed to demons, and not to God; To gods, which they had never known, Which had started up, new and fictitious, Of which their fathers had no knowledge, ¹⁸ The God who begot thee, thou hast forsaken, And hast forgot the God who nourished thee; ¹⁹ And the Lord saw, and was provoked to jealousy; He was provoked at the temper of his sons and daughters, ²⁰ and said, I will turn away my face from them, And shew what shall befal them in the latter days. Because they are a perverse generation; Children, who have no faith in them; ²¹ They have provoked me by what is not God; Have exasperated me with their idols; I therefore will provoke them by what is not a nation, By a foolish nation I will vex them. ²² Since a fire is kindled because of my wrath, It shall burn down to the lowest Hades; It shall consume the land, and the products thereof; It shall set on fire the foundations of mountains: ²³ I will assemble evils against them, And hurl my bolts at them. ²⁴ While they are wasting by famine, and voracious birds; The burning carbuncle also shall be incurable; I will send against them the teeth of wild beasts, With the venom of serpents, trailing on the ground. ²⁵ Abroad the sword shall bereave them of children, And in their chambers terror shall destroy. The youth shall perish with the young virgin, The sucking infant with the venerable sage. ²⁶ I had determined to disperse them, And cause the remembrance of them to cease among men; ²⁷ Had it not been for the temper of enemies; That the adversaries might not out live them; That they might not fall upon them at once; Lest they should say, Our own high hand, And not the Lord, hath done all this.

⁸ THE LORD hath sent death against Jacob; and it hath come upon Israel.

²¹ for Manasses is devouring Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasses; for they will both together besiege Juda. For all this his anger is not turned away; but still his hand is lifted high.

⁴ that you may not fall into the captive band? For all this his anger is not turned away, but still his hand is lifted high.

¹⁶ indeed the Lord of hosts will send disgrace on thy honour, and on thy glory a burning fire shall be kindled:

¹³ All this shall come to pass in this land, in the midst of the nations. As when one shall shake an olive tree, so shall they be shaken: and when the vintage is over

¹⁶ [c] "Lord the God of Israel! from the outskirts of the earth we have heard of thy wonders: there is hope for the righteous." [p] Let them say also, "Woe to the rebels who reject the law!"

²⁰ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Lord, Behold I will judge between the strong sheep and the weak.

¹¹ The Lord will display himself illustriously against them, and will root out all the gods of the nations of the earth, and all the isles of the nations shall worship him, every one from his place;

⁸ thence the boundary goeth up to the valley of Ennom, on the south side of Jebus, which is Jerusalem; then the boundary turneth off to the top of the mountain which is to the west, in front of the valley of Ennom, which is the northern part of the land of Raphain;

¹⁶ Naphtho; thence the boundary was to run down part of the way, that is, in front of the forest Sonnam, which is the northern part of Emek-raphain; thence down to Gehenna, back of Jebusi, south of it, down to the fountain Rogel;

¹⁸ And the Philistines came, and made an irruption into the valley of the Titans.

²² Again the Philistines proceeded to come up, and made another irruption into the valley of the Titans.

¹¹ On the day thou plantest thou shalt be deceived. Though thou sowest in the morning, shall it bloom for harvest? or on the day when thou shalt take possession, shalt thou as the father of man take possession for thy sons?

²² and the carcasses of the men shall be for a spectacle on the open field throughout your land, like grass after a mower and there will be none to gather.

¹¹ Now Juda begin an ingathering for thyself. When I bring back the captivity of my people.

¹³ Put to the sickles, for the harvest is come; go in and tread for the vat is full. Cause the wine lakes to overflow; for their wicked deeds have been multiplied.

³⁰ Let them both grow together till the harvest. And at the season for reaping I will say to the reapers, Gather the darnel first and bind it in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.

³⁹ The enemy who sowed it is the devil. The harvest is the conclusion of the age, and angels are the reapers. ⁴⁰ As the darnel therefore is gathered and burned with fire, so shall it be at the conclusion of this age. ⁴¹ The son of man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all the stumbling blocks, and the workers of iniquity, ⁴² and cast them into the fiery furnace. Weeping and gnashing of teeth will be there.

¹⁵ And another angel came out of the temple crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, "Put forth thy sickle and reap, for the time for thee to reap is come; for the harvest of the earth is ripe:" ¹⁶ and he who was sitting on the cloud put forth his sickle on the earth and the earth was reaped. ¹⁷ And another angel came out of the temple in the heaven and he also had a sharp sickle. ¹⁸ And another angel came out from the altar, having power over the fire and he cried with a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle saying, Put forth that sharp sickle of thine and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for its grapes are ripe: ¹⁹ and the angel put forth his sickle on the earth and gathered the grapes of the vine of the earth and cast them into the great wine press of the wrath of God; ²⁰ and the wine press was trodden without the city; and blood flowed out of the wine press up to the bridles of the horses for a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

²⁷ And the Lord will scatter you among all the nations, and you shall be left few in number, among all the nations, to which the Lord will bring you.

² But he said o to them, What have I now done in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

¹⁸ But thou shalt leave in Israel seven thousand men, all the knees which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which hath not worshipped him.

⁹ Had not the Lord of Hosts left us a seed, we should have been as Sodom and made like Gomorra.

²² Yes: though the people of Israel be as the sand of the sea, this remnant of them shall be saved.

¹² [J] But it shall come to pass in that day, that God will hedge them about from the channel of the river even to Rinocorouron.

⁸ but your grapes and your fruits, mountains of Israel, shall be eaten by my people. Because they have confident hopes of coming; ⁹ because, lo! I am over you, and I will watch over you; therefore you shall be cultivated and sown: ¹⁰ and upon you I will multiply men even the whole house of Israel; and the cities shall be rebuilt and the wastes inhabited: ¹¹ and upon you I will multiply men and cattle, and cause you to be inhabited as in your former state. And I will deal kindly with you as I did in times of old; and you shall know that I am the Lord. ¹² And I will cause men, my people Israel, to increase upon you; and they shall inherit you, and you shall be a possession for them, and shall no more be without a succession of children from them. ¹³ Thus saith the Lord, Lord, For as much as they said of thee, "Thou art a devourer of men, and art bereft of thy nation, ¹⁴ "Therefore thou shalt no more devour men nor make thy nation childless, saith the Lord, Lord. ¹⁵ And the revile of nations shall no more be heard against you, nor shall you any more bear the reproaches of peoples, saith the Lord, Lord.

¹⁹ Then thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord, Behold I will take the tribe of Joseph which is administered by Ephraim and the tribes of Israel which adhere to him, and add them to the tribe of Juda, and they shall be one sceptre in the hand of Juda. ²⁰ And while the staves on which thou hast written shall be in thy hand before them, ²¹ thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, Behold I will take the whole house of Israel from among the nations, whither they went; and I will gather them from all those around them, and bring them to the land of Israel, ²² and make them a nation in my land even on the mountains of Israel. And there shall be one chief over them. And they shall no more be two nations; nor shall they any more be split into two kingdoms, ²³ that they may no more be polluted with their idols. And I will deliver them from all their iniquities and purify them from all their sins which they have committed. And they shall be my people, and I the Lord will be their God. ²⁴ And my servant David shall be chief among them. He shall be singly the shepherd of all. Because they will walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and practise them, ²⁵ therefore they shall dwell in that land of theirs which I gave to my servant Jacob. Where their fathers dwelt there they shall dwell and my servant David shall be the only chief forever.

²⁹ And I will no more turn away my face from them, for as much as I have poured out my wrath on the house of Israel, saith the Lord, Lord.

⁵ If thieves come to thee, or robbers by night; in what place soever thou mayst be cast; would they not steal what would satisfy them? And if grape gatherers came to thee, would they leave no gleaning?

¹ [p] Woe is me! for I am like one picking up stalks in harvest, and like one gathering a gleaning at the vintage? Not a bunch of the first fruits is left for me to eat. Ah Woe is my life,

²⁷ Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, "Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, this remnant shall be saved."

⁴ What doth the divine oracle say to him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed a knee to Baal." ⁵ In like manner, therefore, at this present time there is a remnant according to a choice of favour. ⁶ Now if it be by favour, it is no more in consideration of works, since in this case the favour be no favour: but if it be in consideration of works it is no more of favour, otherwise the work is no work.

²⁶ and then at length all Israel shall be saved. As it is written "For the sake of Sion the Deliverer will come And turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

¹⁵ And the children of Israel said to the Lord, We have sinned. Do thou thyself to us, whatever seemeth good in thine eyes, but deliver us this time. ¹⁶ And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the Lord alone. Whereupon his heart relented at the distress of Israel.

¹⁰ But while the expresses were passing from city to city, through mount Ephraim, and Manasses, till they came to Zabulon, they were treated as deriders and mockers. ¹¹ But the men of Aser, and some of Manasses and Zabulon were humbled, and came to Jerusalem, and to Juda.

¹⁸ And because most of the people from Ephraim, and Manasses, and Issachar, and Zabulon, had not purified themselves, but ate the passover contrary to the scripture, therefore Ezekias prayed for them on this account and said, The good Lord make atonement for every heart ¹⁹ which hath directed its course to seek the Lord the God of their fathers, although not according to the purification of the sanctuary. ²⁰ And the Lord hearkened to Ezekias, and healed the people.

¹ And when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out through the cities of Juda, and broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the arbours, and demolished the high places, and the mounts, throughout all Judea and Benjamin, and out of all Ephraim and Manasses, till they were utterly destroyed. Then all Israel returned, every one to his possession and to their cities.

¹⁷ all the Israelites who were present kept the passover, at that time, and the festival of unleavened bread, seven days. ¹⁸ There had not been such a passover as this in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet. They had not, under any king of Israel, kept such a passover as that kept by Josias and the priests, and the Levites, and all Juda and Israel who were present, and by all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to the Lord.

²⁰ And it shall come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel shall no more join, nor shall those of Jacob who have escaped, any more lean on them who have injured them; but they will place their confidence in God the Holy One of Israel, in truth ²¹ This remnant of Jacob shall indeed be for the Mighty God.

²² Thus will the Lord smite the Egyptians and heal them, and they shall be turned to the Lord, and he will hearken to them and heal them.

¹¹ You have indeed provided water for yourselves, between the two walls nearer than the old pool, and have not looked to him who formed it of old, nor regarded him who created it.

¹⁴ a shout will be raised. But they who are left in the land shall be gladdened with the glory of the Lord. The water of the sea will be troubled: ¹⁵ for this cause the glory of the Lord will be in the isles of the sea. In the isles of the sea the name of the Lord will be glorious.

¹⁸ And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and they in darkness, even they in thick darkness; the eyes even of the blind shall see; ¹⁹ and the distressed shall exult with joy because of the Lord; and the disconsolate among men shall be filled with joy.

²⁴ And they who have erred in spirit will gain knowledge, and the murmurers shall be taught obedience, and the trifling tongues will learn to speak peace."

¹² go and proclaim these words to the north and thou shalt say, Return to me, house of Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not set my face against you. For I am merciful, saith the Lord and will not be angry with you forever. ¹³ Nevertheless acknowledge thine iniquity; that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and opened thy ways for strangers under every shady tree; and hast not hearkened to my voice, saith the Lord. ¹⁴ Return, O apostate children, saith the Lord: for I will exercise dominion over you, and take one of a city and two of a family and bring you to Sion:

¹⁸ In those days the house of Juda shall unite with the house of Israel, and they shall come together from the land of the north and from all those countries, to the land which I put in possession of their fathers. ¹⁹ [p] [Whereupon I said, so be it, Lord.] [J] Because I am to rank thee among children and give thee a choice land; the heritage of God the Supreme Ruler of nations; therefore I said, "Call me Father, and, From me you shall not turn away." ²⁰ But as a wife dealeth treacherously with her husband, so the house of Israel dealt treacherously with me, saith the Lord. ²¹ A sound from the lips was heard, of the wailing and supplication of the children of Israel; because they had transgressed in their ways; had forgotten God their Holy One. ²² Return, return, O children, and I will heal your bruises. [c] Behold we will be thy servants for thou art the Lord our God. ²³ False indeed have been the hills and the strength of the mountains, but from the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel. This shame consumed the labours of our fathers from our youth; Their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

⁴ For I will rebuild thee, and thou shalt be rebuilt. virgin of Israel, again thou shalt take thy timbrel, and go forth with a congregation of rejoicers. ⁵ As you have planted vineyards on the mountains of Samaria, plant and sing praises; ⁶ for there shall be a day of invitation to them who make apologies on the mountains of Ephraim, "Arise and go up to Sion to the Lord your God." ⁷ For thus said the Lord to Jacob, Rejoice and shout at the head of nations; issue proclamations and sing praises; say, "The Lord hath saved his people, the remnant of Israel." ⁸ Behold I will bring them from the north and gather them from the extremity of the earth. At the festival of Phasek he shall have a multitude of children who shall return hither. ⁹ They set out with weeping; but I will bring them up with consolation, causing them to rest at fountains of water in a straight road; and in it they shall not be led astray, for I am become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first born. ¹⁰ Hear the words of the Lord, ye nations! and proclaim them to the far distant isles. Say, He, who scattered Israel, will gather them, and guard them as a shepherd doth his flock.

⁵ and afterwards the children of Israel will return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and will be amazed at the Lord and at his goodness in the last days.

¹ In their affliction they will seek me early, saying, "Come, let us return to the Lord our God, for it is he who hath torn and he can heal us. He can smite, and into our wounds he can pour balm;

¹ [p] Israel, return to the Lord thy God. Seeing they have been weakened for thine iniquities, ² take words with you and return to the Lord your God, and, that you may not receive the punishment of iniquity but may receive good things, say to him, "We will render to thee the fruit of our lips. ³ Assur cannot save us. We will no more mount horses; we will no more say to the works of our hand, "You are our gods." He who is in thee will compassionate the fatherless.

⁷ [c] But as for me I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God who is my saviour; he who is my God will hearken to me. [[c] The chorus, or Sion.]

¹³ Their altars you shall demolish: their pillars you shall break to pieces; and their groves you shall cut down; and the graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire.

⁵ And having removed out of all the cities of Juda the altars and the idols, he gave peace

⁴ And having caused to be torn down in his presence, the altars of the Baalims, and the high things which were on them, he cut down the bowers, and broke in pieces the graven and the molten images. And having beaten them to dust, he strewed it over the graves of them who had sacrificed to them,

⁶ he proceeded on through the cities of Manasses, and Ephraim, and Symeon, and Nephthaleim, and the places around them, ⁷ and tore down the altars, and the bowers, and chopped to pieces the idols. And having demolished all the high places in all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

²⁹ for they shall be exposed to shame for the idols on which they doted; as they have been for the gardens which they desired.

⁸ and the land was filled with abominations, the workmanship of their own hands; and they worshipped the things which their fingers had made,

¹⁸ Then will they hide all these handiworks, ¹⁹ carrying them into caverns and clefts of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, from the tremendous presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to crush the lands. ²⁰ For on that day men will cast to the bats their abominations both of silver and gold, which they made to worship vanities; ²¹ that they may go into holes of the flinty rock: nay into the very clefts of the rock, from the tremendous presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to crush the land.

⁹ [J] By means of this the iniquity of Jacob will be removed: and this will be to him a subject of thanksgiving, when I take away his sin: when they grind to powder all the hewn stones of their altars, and their groves no longer remain, and their idols hacked to pieces like a forest are far away.

²² therefore thou wilt defile thine idols plated with silver, and cut to pieces those overlaid with gold, and scatter them like polluted water and cast them out as dirt.

⁶ Therefore turn to him, O children of Israel, who are taking deep and wicked counsel. ⁷ Because men will in that day reject the works of their hands; their idols of silver and gold which their hands have made;

¹⁵ that it might be fuel for the use of man: and having taken some of it he warmed himself; and with other pieces they made a fire and baked cakes, and of the residue they made gods and worshipped them.

¹⁹ nor did any reason in his mind, nor by his understanding recollect, that he had burned half of it in the fire, and on the coals thereof baked cakes, and had roasted flesh and eaten, and of the residue had made an abomination; so they bow themselves down to it. ²⁰ Know thou that their heart is ashes, and they are led astray and none can deliver his soul. Take a view of it, will you not say, "There is indeed a lie in my right hand?"

²⁵ then I will sprinkle upon you pure water, and you shall be cleansed from all your impurities and from all your idols; and when I have cleansed you,

⁴ They made kings for themselves but not by me; they set up a government and did not consult me; of their silver and gold they made idols for themselves that they might be utterly cut off. ⁵ Away with thy calf, Samaria! my wrath is kindled against them. ⁶ How long shall things which cannot be made clean be in Israel? A carpenter made it; it is no God. Because thy calf, Samaria, was an imposture;

¹ Israel was a vine with beautiful branches: the fruit thereof was abundant. In proportion to the abundance of his fruit he multiplied altars: in proportion to the good things of his land he erected pillars. ² They divided their hearts; they shall now be destroyed. He will demolish their altars. Their pillars shall be in extreme distress.

¹ According to Ephraim's own account he received rules of rectitude by Israel, but he attributed them to Baal and incurred death. ² And now they have proceeded on to greater acts of sin; and of their silver have made themselves a molten image, according to the image of idols. The handiworks of craftsmen being consecrated for them, They say, Sacrifice men, for young bulls have failed.

⁸ As for Ephraim, what hath he any more to do with idols? I humbled him and I will strengthen him. I am like a fruitful juniper; from me thou shalt find fruit.

¹³ And I will cut off thy graven images and thy pillars from the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the works of thy hands. ¹⁴ And I will cut down the groves from amidst thee and utterly destroy thy cities;

³ Let man and beast perish. Let the birds of the air and the fishes of the sea perish. As for the wicked, they shall be without strength; and I will remove transgressions from the face of this land, saith the Lord.

² And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land; and there shall no more be a remembrance of them. And I will remove the false prophets and the unclean spirit out of the land.

¹¹ Whereupon I said, For how long? Lord! And he said, Until cities be wasted so as not to be habitable; and houses, so that there be no men; and the land be left utterly desolate: ¹² And after this God will remove the men far away. They indeed who are left in the land shall be multiplied; ¹³ for still about the tenth is in it; and shall again be for a prey, and be like the ilex and like the oak when it hath fallen from its station.

¹⁶ because previous to its knowing good or evil it disobeyeth evil to make choice of good? The land indeed which thou fearest on account of these two kings shall be relinquished; ¹⁷ but God will bring upon thee and upon thy people and upon the house of thy father days which have not yet come. From the day he hath taken Ephraim from Juda [he will bring] the king of the Assyrians. ¹⁸ It shall come to pass that at that time the Lord will utter a call to the flies; to that part of them which rule over the river of Egypt; and to the bee which is in the country of the Assyrians; ¹⁹ and they shall all come into the vallies of this country; and into the holes of the rocks; and into the caves and into every cleft. ²⁰ On that day the Lord will shave with that razor; with that which was hired on the bank of the river; with that of the king of the Assyrians, the head and the hair of the feet: and take off the beard.

⁹ And all the people of Ephraim shall know it, and all the inhabitants of Samaria, who with haughtiness and a lofty heart say, ¹⁰ "The bricks are fallen; but come, let us hew stones and let us cut down sycamines and cedars and build for ourselves a tower." ¹¹ Though God will dash down them, who rise up against him on mount Sion; and disperse his enemies ¹² Syria in the east, and the Greeks in the west, who are devouring Israel with open mouth; for all this his anger is not turned away, but still his hand is lifted high.

⁴ there shall be in that day a diminution of the glory of Jacob; and the fatness of his glory shall be shaken; ⁵ and it shall be as when one gathereth the standing harvest and reapeth the ears of stalks; nay, it shall be as when one gathereth stalks in a sterile vale,

¹ Behold the Lord is about to destroy this inhabited land! He will lay it waste and uncover the face thereof and scatter abroad them who dwell therein. ² And it shall be as with the people so with the priest; as with the servant, so with the master; as with the maid, so with the mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller, as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the debtor, so with the creditor. ³ With destruction the land will be destroyed, and with spoiling this land will be ransacked: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken this. ⁴ The land mourned and this empire is destroyed; the lofty people of the land mourned. ⁵ As for the land, it transgressed by means of its inhabitants. Because they transgressed the law, and changed the institutions; the everlasting covenant, ⁶ therefore a curse devoureth the land. Because they who dwell therein have sinned, therefore the inhabitants of the land shall be distressed, and few are the men who shall be left. ⁷ The wine will mourn, the vineyard will mourn, and all that were merry hearted will sigh. ⁸ The mirth of the tabrets hath ceased, the sound of the kithara is no more. ⁹ They are confounded: they have drunk no wine. The palm wine was bitter to them who drank it. ¹⁰ Every city is desolated: the houses will be shut up that none may enter. ¹¹ Raise the mournful cry every where for the wine. A stop is put to all the joy of the land; all the joy of the land is gone. ¹² The cities will be left desolate, and the houses being forsaken will be destroyed.

¹⁰ The folded flock shall be disconsolate, like a flock which hath been forsaken; and for a long time the country shall be for a pasture, and flocks shall there take their rest.

⁹ Ridiculous altars shall indeed be utterly destroyed and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with a sword.

¹¹ and I will root out the cities of thy land and demolish thy fortifications.

¹⁶ As thou hast kept the statutes of Zambri, and all the works of the house of Achab; and you have walked in their ways, that I might deliver thee up to desolation, and the inhabitants of this city to hissing; therefore you shall bear the reproaches of peoples.

¹³ And the land shall be for desolation with them who inhabit it, for the fruits of their devices.

¹⁶ I will deal with you in this manner; I will send against you distress, and the scab, and the gangrene to eat out your eyes; and wasting consumption; and you shall sow your seed in vain; for your enemies shall eat it:

²⁰ and your strength shall be spent in vain. The earth shall not yield you its seed, nor shall the trees of the field yield you their fruit.

¹² take heed to thyself, that thou forget not the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt; out of the house of bondage.

¹¹ Take heed to thyself, that thou forget not the Lord thy God, so as not to keep his commandments, and his judgments, and his rules of rectitude, which I this day command thee.

¹⁴ be not elated in heart, nor forget the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

¹⁹ Indeed if thou forget the Lord thy God, and go after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you, that you shall surely perish.

³⁰ Thou wilt take a wife, and another man shall have her. Thou wilt build a house, but shall not dwell therein. Thou wilt plant a vineyard, but shalt not gather the grapes thereof.

³⁸ There thou shalt carry out much seed into the field, and shalt bring little home, for the locust shall devour it; ³⁹ thou shalt plant a vineyard and dress it; but shalt not press out wine, nor regale thyself from it; for worms shall eat it up. ⁴⁰ Thou shalt have plantations of olive trees, in all thy borders, but shalt not be anointed with oil, for thine olive tree shall cast its fruit: ⁴¹ thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but shalt not have them with thee; for they shall go into captivity. ⁴² All thy trees and the products of thy land, shall be consumed with blasting.

⁴ He is God, his works are perfect; All his ways are acts of judgment; A faithful God; he doth no injustice; Righteous and holy is the Lord.

¹⁵ When Jacob had eaten and was filled, Then he who was beloved began to kick; He grew fat, waxed thick, and became corpulent, Then he forsook the God who made him; And apostatised from God his saviour.

¹⁸ The God who begot thee, thou hast forsaken, And hast forgot the God who nourished thee;

³¹ For their gods are not like our God; And our enemies are without understanding.

³⁵ And say, Save us, God of our salvation! Gather us and deliver us from our enemies; That we may praise thy holy name, And in thy praises make our boast.

¹⁷ [17-20 A responsive Ode.] Let the sinners be turned back to the mansion of the dead; all the nations who forget God.

² The Lord is my support, my refuge and my deliverer. My God is my helper, in him I will trust: my protector, the horn of my salvation and my defender.

² Incline thine ear to me! haste to deliver me. Be thou to me a protecting God; a house of refuge to save me.

⁵ Thou art wonderful for righteousness: hear us O God, our Saviour. Thou art the hope of all the ends of the earth: and of them at sea far off.

¹⁹ Blessed be the Lord God! Blessed be the Lord. Day by day let the God of our salvation prosper us! ²⁰ Our God is the God to save; and to the Lord belong the out goings of death.

⁹ help us, God, our saviour: for thy glory of thy name deliver us; and pardon our sins for thy name's sake.

⁴ Turn us, God of our salvation, and turn away thy wrath from us.

¹³ they soon forgot his works, they waited not for his counsel.

²¹ They forgot God their saviour, who had done great things in Egypt;

² Behold! my God is my Saviour, I will trust in him and not be afraid. Because the Lord is my glory and my praise; and hath become unto me salvation;

⁴ who art to everlasting, the Mighty, the Eternal God,

¹³ and forgot test the God who made thee; him who made the heaven and founded the earth; and wast every day in continual dread of the furious countenance of thine oppressor. For how did he consult to carry thee away! But where now is the fury of thine oppressor?

²¹ And they shall build houses and dwell therein: and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruits thereof. ²² They shall not build, and others inhabit: nor shall they plant and others eat: for according to the days of the tree of that life, shall be the days of this my people: for they shall wear out the works of their toils.

³² Will a bride forget her attire; or a virgin, the ornaments that deck her bosom? Yet my people have forgotten me, days without number.

¹³ Sow wheat and reap brambles. Their portions shall not profit them. Be ashamed of your boasting, of reproaches against the Lord.

¹³ Thou, O Lord art the hope of Israel. Let all who forsake Thee be ashamed; let them who have apostatised be enrolled in the dust, because they have forsaken the Lord the fountain of lie.

¹³ And I will punish her for the days of the baleims in which she sacrificed to them. when she had put on her ear rings and her jewels, she went after her lovers and forgot me, saith the Lord; ¹⁴ therefore behold I will cause her to wander, and order her to a wilderness and speak to her heart.

⁶ my people is like one that hath not knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, therefore I will reject thee from being my priest: as thou hast forgotten the law of thy God; I also will forget thy children.

¹⁴ Israel indeed forgot his Maker and built fanes, and Juda multiplied fenced cities; but into these cities of his I will send a fire, and it shall devour those buildings of theirs.

⁶ When in their pastures they were fed to the full; then were their hearts lifted up. For this cause they forgot me. ⁷ Therefore I will be to them as a tiger, even as a tigress in the way to the Assyrians.

¹¹ therefore because they have beaten the poor with their fists, though you had received from them choice gifts; you have built houses of hewn stone; but in them you shall not dwell; you have planted lovely vineyards, but you shall not drink the wine thereof.

¹⁸ As for me, I will rejoice in the Lord; I shall have joy for God my saviour.

¹³ their wealth shall be for plunder; and their houses, for desolation. Though they build houses, they shall not inhabit them; and though they plant vineyards; they shall not drink the wine thereof;

⁸ As I have seen men ploughing improper grounds: they who sow such places shall reap sorrows.

⁶ Should it in the morning bloom and pass away? In the evening it would have fallen, withered and become dry.

⁵ Before the vintage, when the blossom is perfect, and the young grape is swelling in the blossom; the diminutive bunches are to be cut off with pruning hooks, and the small shoots, to be nipped off and cut away, ⁶ and left together for the birds of the air, and for the wild beasts of the earth. And against them will be gathered all the birds of the air; and all the wild beasts of the earth will come upon it.

¹³ therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold my servants shall eat; but you shall be hungry: behold my servants shall drink; but you shall be thirsty: behold my servants shall rejoice; but you shall be ashamed: ¹⁴ behold my servants shall triumph with joy: But you shall scream for sorrow of heart, and howl for anguish of spirit.

³¹ land. The prophets prophesy falsehoods, and the priests clapped with their hands, and my people loved to have it so. Now what will you do in regard to the consequences?

⁷ because they sowed blasted seed, therefore the catastrophe was correspondent; there is not a handful capable of yielding meal. And had it succeeded, strangers would have devoured it.

¹ Rejoice not, Israel; nor be elated like the tribes, because thou hast gone a whoring from thy God. Thou didst love gifts on every corn floor; ² floor and press have disowned them, and the wine hath disappointed them. ³ They did not dwell in the land of the Lord: Ephraim became an inhabitant of Egypt; therefore among the Assyrians they shall eat unclean things. ⁴ They did not pour out wine to the Lord nor offer him sweet incense; their sacrifices shall be to them like the bread of affliction; all that eat thereof shall be polluted. Seeing their funeral loaves cannot come into the house of the Lord,

¹⁶ Ephraim is in distress. His roots are withered. He shall no more produce fruit. For though they bring forth, I will slay the beloved fruit of the womb.

¹² [p] Sow for yourselves for righteousness; gather in the fruit of life. Light up for yourselves the light of knowledge. Seek the Lord until the fruits of righteousness come for you. ¹³ Why have you concealed impiety and gathered in the iniquities thereof? You have eaten false fruit. [J] Because thou hast trusted in thy sins, and in the multitude of thine army, ¹⁴ therefore destruction shall be raised up among thy people; and all thy fortifications shall be swept away, as chief Salamin was out of the house of Jeroboam. In the days of battle a mother was dashed to pieces upon her children. ¹⁵ In this manner I will deal with you, house of Israel, because of the perverseness of your iniquities.

⁵ Awake ye drunkard, from your wine and weep. Sing a mournful song all ye who drink wine to drunkenness; for joy and gladness are gone from your mouth. ⁶ For against my land a nation is come up, strong and innumerable. Their teeth are the teeth of lions; and their grinders, those of a young lion. ⁷ They have made my vineyard a desolation; and my fig orchards, a waste. They have searched it thoroughly and it is gone to wreck; they have made the branches thereof white. ⁸ Let thy song of Woe before me be more plaintive than that of a bride clothed with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. ⁹ Sacrifice and libation are taken away from the house of the Lord. Mourn ye priests, who minister at the Lord's altar, ¹⁰ because the fields are wasted. Let the land mourn: because the corn hath suffered grievously: wine is dried away; oil is diminished; ¹¹ husbandmen are parched up: Mourn, ye farms, for the wheat and barley, because the harvester is perished from the field. ¹² The vines are withered and the fig trees are diminished; peach and palm and citron trees and all the trees of the field are withered. Because the children of men are ashamed of joy,

¹¹ Now I say to you that many will come from the east and west, and will be placed at table with Abraham and Isaak and Jacob, in the kingdom of the heavens, ¹² and the children of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness. Weeping and gnashing of teeth will be there.

⁵ Indeed according to this obduracy, and impenitent heart of thine thou art treasuring up for thyself wrath against a day of the wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

⁸ but for them who are contentious and disobedient to the truth and in subjection to unrighteousness, there will be indignation and wrath, ⁹ tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man who doth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;

⁷ Be not deceived. God is not to be imposed on; for whatever a man soweth, that he shall reap. ⁸ Because he who soweth for his flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption; but he who soweth for the spirit shall from the spirit reap life everlasting;

⁴ The pangs of death encompassed me; and floods of iniquity startled me.

³ The voice of the Lord on the waters! The God of the glory thundered! The Lord is over many waters.

¹ At the conclusion. For the sons of Kora. A Psalm concerning hidden things. GOD is our refuge and strength; our helper in the troubles which often befal us. ² Therefore we will not be dismayed, though the earth be shaken, and mountains be hurled to the midst of seas. ³ Their waters roared and were troubled. By his power the mountains were convulsed.

⁶ Thou establishest the mountains by thy power: thou art begirt with majesty. ⁷ Thou causest the cavity of the sea to rage; the billows thereof to roar.

³ The rivers, Lord, lifted up; the rivers lifted up their voices. ⁴ By reason of the roaring of many waters; the mountainous billows of the sea are wonderful. The Lord on high is wonderful;

²⁶ Therefore he will erect a standard among the nations far off, and summon them from the extremity of the earth; and behold! with speed they are coming swiftly. ²⁷ They will not hunger, nor will they be weary: they will not slumber, nor lie down to sleep; nor shall their girdles be loosed from their loins, nor the latchets of their sandals broken. ²⁸ Their arrows are sharp; and their bows are bent: the hoofs of their horses have been accounted as flint, and the wheels of their chariots are like a whirlwind. ²⁹ They growl like lions, and are at hand like young lions. He will seize and roar like a wild beast and drive out the people, and there shall be none to deliver them. ³⁰ On that day he will roar against them like the roaring of the billowy sea; and they will look upwards to the heaven and down on the earth; and lo! distressful darkness in their tribulation.

⁷ therefore behold the Lord will bring upon you the water of the river which is strong and abundant; even the king of Assyria and his glory; and he will rise over all your channels, and over flow all your banks; ⁸ and sweep away from Judea every man who can raise his head, or is capable of executing any thing. And the circuit of his camp shall be such as to fill the breadth of thy country, Emmanuel.

⁵ for, with a renewal of friendship, they shall make compensation for every robe collected by deceit, and for every garment; and shall be willing to do so, if they were burned with fire:

¹⁷ And I will establish judgment for hope, and my mercy shall be for scales. But as for you who have vainly trusted in falsehood, that the tempest would not reach you;

²³ they will grasp the bow and the spear: they are haughty and will show no mercy: their voice is like the roaring sea: on horses and in chariots they will draw up in array like fire, for battle against thee, O daughter of Sion.

² and lo! the glory of the God of Israel was coming by the way of the east; and the sound of his march was like the sound of redoubling multitudes and the earth glared with the splendour of the glory around.

²⁵ There will indeed be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth, anguish of desponding nations, while the sea is roaring and the billows thereof;

¹ Then one of the seven angels who had the seven vials came to me and talked with me, saying to me, Come let me shew thee the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth on the many waters,

¹⁵ Then he saith to me, The waters which thou sawest where the harlot sitteth are peoples, and multitudes and nations and tongues:

¹⁸ and they be like chaff driven by the wind, or like dust swept away by a whirlwind?

¹¹ and said to it, Thus far thou shalt come and no farther: but in thyself thy waves shall be spent.

⁴ Not so the wicked; not so. They are like the chaff, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.

⁵ thou hast rebuked nations, and the wicked one is destroyed. Thou hast blotted out their Name forever and ever.

⁵ who are devising evils against me. Let them be like dust before the wind, when the angel of the Lord is afflicting them.

⁵ God is in the midst of it; it cannot be shaken; God by his presence will support it. ⁶ The nations were troubled, kingdoms tottered; he uttered his voice, the earth was shaken. ⁷ The Lord of armies is with us; our helper is the God of Jacob. ⁸ Come and see the works of the Lord: The wonders which he hath done on the earth: ⁹ he is making wars to cease to the ends of the earth. He will break the bow and shiver the lance, and shields he will utterly consume with fire. ¹⁰ Be still and know that I am God: let me be exalted among the nations, let me be exalted in the earth. ¹¹ The Lord of armies is with us, our helper is the God of Jacob.

¹³ My God make them like a whirl; like stubble opposed to wind. ¹⁴ As fire blazeth through a forest; as a spark can set mountains on fire: ¹⁵ so thou with thy tempest wilt pursue them, and trouble them with thy wrath.

¹⁵ Shall an axe boast without him who cutteth with it; or a saw lift itself up, without him who draweth it; as one could lift up a staff or a piece of wood? No; this shall not be permitted: ¹⁶ indeed the Lord of hosts will send disgrace on thy honour, and on thy glory a burning fire shall be kindled:

³³ behold the sovereign Lord of hosts, with majesty confoundeth the glorious. They who are elated with arrogance shall be crushed; and the lofty shall be brought low; ³⁴ yes, the lofty shall fall by the sword; and Libanus shall fall with the lofty.

²⁵ I will destroy the Assyrians on this land of mine; and on these mountains of mine they shall be trodden down; and their yoke shall be removed from my people; and their reproach shall be taken from their shoulders.

⁴ for thou hast been the support of every humble city and the defence of them who were dispirited; by reason of their weakness. From wicked men thou will deliver them. Thou art the support of the thirsty and the breath of men in distress. ⁵ [p] When dispirited men shall be thirsting in Sion on account of wicked men to whom thou hast delivered us up;

¹ In that day God will bring his holy sword, even his great and powerful sword, upon the dragon, the flying serpent; Upon the dragon, the crooked serpent; he will slay the dragon.

⁵ then shall the riches of the wicked be as the dust of a wheel, and the multitude of thine oppressors as chaff blown away: and this shall be as in a moment, suddenly.

³⁰ When the Lord shall cause the glory of his voice to be heard; when, to display the fury of his arm with wrath and indignation and consuming fire, he shall utter tremendous thunder, accompanied with a furious tempest of rain and hail. ³¹ For by the voice of the Lord the Assyrians shall be beaten down by the stroke with which he will smite them. ³² This indeed he shall have from all around him; from every place whence they had a hope of that assistance on which he relied, they will with timbrels and the kithara fight against him, after his rout. ³³ Of thee he will previously demand [and hast thou not provided for his reign] a deep valley and wood laid up in piles; the wrath of the Lord will be fire and wood in abundance like a valley burning with brimstone.

⁸ therefore Assur shall fall; not by the sword of a man of valour, nor shall the sword of a mortal devour him; and he shall flee; [not from the face of the sword] and the young men shall be for destruction. ⁹ For with a rock they shall be enclosed as with a rampart, and shall be subdued; and he who fleeth shall be taken. Thus saith the Lord; Happy he who hath a seed in Sion and a family in Jerusalem!

¹ [p] Woe to them who miserably afflict you; but none can make you miserable. Even the deceiver doth not deceive you. The deceivers shall be taken and delivered up and like a moth on a garment they shall be crushed. ² [c] O Lord, have mercy upon us! for in thee we have placed our trust. The seed of the rebellious were for destruction: but thou wast our safety in the time of trouble. ³ At the terror of thy voice peoples were confounded; for fear of thee the nations were dispersed.

⁹ The land mourned; Lebanon was ashamed; Saron was become fens; Galilee and Channel were bare. ¹⁰ Now will I arise, saith the Lord, now shall I be glorified; ¹¹ now shall I be exalted; now you shall see: now you shall feel. The strength of your spirit shall be vain; a fire shall utterly devour you; ¹² and nations shall be burned up, as thorns in a field are rejected and burned.

²⁹ and thy bitterness are come up to me; I will therefore put a hook in thy nose and a bridle in thy jaws; and turn thee back by the way in which thou camest." ³⁰ Now this shall be a sign to thee. Eat this year what thou hast sown, and in the second year what is left; but in the third year sow ye and reap; plant vineyards and eat the fruit thereof; ³¹ for they who are left shall continue in Judea. They shall strike root downwards and bear fruit upwards. ³² For they of Jerusalem shall be left and they of mount Sion shall be saved. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will do this. ³³ Therefore thus saith the Lord, With regard to the king of the Assyrians, he shall not enter this city; nor shoot an arrow against it; nor present against it a shield; nor enclose it with a rampire ³⁴ But by the way which he came, by the same he shall return; and into this city he shall not come. Thus saith the Lord, ³⁵ I will cover this city with my shield to save it for mine own sake and the sake of my servant David. So an angel of the Lord went forth and slew of the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty five thousand. And when they arose in the morning they found all these dead bodies. ³⁶ Thereupon Sennacherim king of the Assyrians retreated and went and dwelt in Ninive. ³⁷ And as he was Worshipping, in his house, Nasarach his ancestor; Adramelech and Sarousar his sons smote him with their swords; and, they having made their escape to Armenia, Asardan his son reigned in his stead.

¹⁵ Behold I have made thee like the wheels of a wain bruising to pieces a brood of pigeons: thou indeed shalt grind mountains and reduce hills to small pieces, and make them like dust: ¹⁶ and thou shalt winnow them; and a wind shall take them up, and a whirlwind shall sweep them away; but thou shalt be gladdened in the sanctuaries of Israel;

³⁵ Then were broken to pieces at once, the clay, the iron, the brass, the silver, the gold. And they became like the dust of a threshing floor in summer: and a great wind swept them away, and there was no place found for them. And the stone which smote the image became a great mountain and filled all the earth.

³ For this cause they shall be like a morning cloud, and like a transient dew of the morning; like chaff blown from a winnowing floor and like a vapour from tears.

³⁹ Thereupon he arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. ⁴⁰ Then he said to them, Why are you so much afraid. How is it that you have not faith? ⁴¹ And they were exceedingly terrified, and said one to another, Who in reality is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?

³¹ So perish all thine enemies, Lord, But let them who love thee be like The going forth of the Sun in his might. So the land had rest forty years.

³ that they should say to him, Thus saith Ezekias, This is a day of affliction and rebuke. This is indeed a day of fierce indignation; for children are come to the birth and there is not strength to bring forth.

³⁵ Accordingly in the night an angel of the Lord went forth and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty five thousand. And when they rose early in the morning, behold all these were dead corpses.

²⁹ This is the portion of a wicked man from the Lord, and this his possession, from the superintending Being.

³⁶ Again I passed by, and lo! he was gone. Though I sought him, his place could not be found.

²³ For the Lord will judge his cause; and thou shouldst preserve thy life safe and secure.

²⁸ For he will come to the city Aggai, and pass on to Mageddo; and at Machmas he will deposit his baggage: ²⁹ then he will pass the valley and come to Aggai. Terror will seize Rama the city of Saul; ³⁰ the daughter of Galleim will flee: he will be heard of at Laisa; he will be heard of at Anathoth. ³¹ When Madebena hath fainted; then, inhabitants of Gibbeir, ³² comfort with the news of his halting a day on his march with the hand comfort the mount, the daughter of Sion. And as for you, hills, which are in Jerusalem,

¹ [p] Woe to them who miserably afflict you; but none can make you miserable. Even the deceiver doth not deceive you. The deceivers shall be taken and delivered up and like a moth on a garment they shall be crushed.

³ that thou mightest follow the Holy Israel, saith the Lord. The Holy Israel is to the Lord the chief of his productions, all that devour him shall be guilty of trespass: evils shall come upon them, saith the Lord.

²⁵ this, then, shall be thy lot and portion for your disobeying me, saith the Lord. As thou hast forgotten Me and trusted in lies;

¹⁰ so that they shall not have occasion to take wood from the plains, nor to cut timber from the forests; but shall burn the arms only. And they shall plunder their plunderers; and spoil those who spoiled them, saith the Lord.

¹⁶ Because of thy glory drink thou also a full draught of dishonour, and be confounded at heart and shaken. The cup of the right hand of the Lord is come round to thee and dishonour is heaped upon thy glory. ¹⁷ For the impiety at Libanus shall cover thee and the sufferings of wild beasts shall terrify thee, on the account of the blood of mankind, and for the wickedness of a land and a city and of all them who inhabit it.

⁹ therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorra; and Damascus shall be left like the heap of a winnowing floor, and shall be desolate forever, that the remnant of my people may spoil them: and the remains of my nation shall inherit them. ¹⁰ This they shall have for their haughtiness, and their reproaches and for magnifying themselves against the Lord Almighty.