Isaiah 19 Cross References - Thomson

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 And they shall be stirred up, Egyptians against Egyptians, and shall fight; brother against brother and neighbour against neighbour, city against city, and nome against nome. ³ And the spirit of the Egyptians shall be troubled within them: and I will dissipate their counsel; and they will consult their gods and their idols; and them who cause a voice to proceed from the ground, namely the belly speakers. ⁴ And I will deliver Egypt into the hands of men: cruel lords; and fierce kings shall have dominion over them. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, ⁵ The Egyptians drink water even that near the sea, but the river shall fail and be dried up; ⁶ both the streams and the canals of the river shall fail; and every collection of water shall be dried up, even every fen, where reeds and papyrus grow. ⁷ And all the quick springing herbage which is around the river, and every thing which is sown by the river shall be dried up and withered by the wind. ⁸ And the fisher men shall mourn; all who cast drags in the river shall mourn; and they who spread nets and they who are anglers shall grieve: ⁹ and shame shall seize them who work the split flax, and them who work up the cotton. ¹⁰ They who are employed in such works shall be in sorrow; and they who brew beer shall mourn and be grieved in soul. ¹¹ The princes of Tanis shall be fools, those wise counsellors of the king, their counsel shall be turned into folly. How can you say to the king, We are sons of wise men, sons of ancient kings? ¹² Where now are these wise men of thine? Let them tell thee publickly and declare what the Lord of hosts hath determined against Egypt. ¹³ The princes of Tanis have failed; and the princes of Memphis are exalted, and they will lead Egypt astray, tribe by tribe. ¹⁴ For the Lord hath mingled for them a spirit of error, and they with all their works have made Egypt reel, as a drunkard doth, when he is vomiting. ¹⁵ So that there shall be no work among the Egyptians, of which one can make head or tail, beginning or end. ¹⁶ And in that day the Egyptians shall be like women in fear and trembling because of the hand of the Lord of Hosts which he will lay upon them. ¹⁷ And the country of the Jews will be a terror to the Egyptians: when any one shall mention it to them, they will be in terror, because of the counsel which the Lord of Hosts hath determined against it. ¹⁸ In that day there shall be five cities in Egypt which shall speak the language of Chanaan. And swear by the name of the Lord of Hosts: and one of them shall be called the city of Asedek. ¹⁹ And in that day there shall be an altar for the Lord in the country of the Egyptians, and at its boundary a pillar for the Lord, ²⁰ and it shall be an everlasting sign for the Lord, in the country of Egypt. Because they will cry to the Lord on account of their oppressors, therefore he will send them a man who will save them: he will vindicate their cause and deliver them. ²¹ And the Lord will be made known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians will acknowledge the Lord in that day, and offer sacrifices and make vows to the Lord and perform them. 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. ²³ In that day this will be the highway from Egypt to Assyria; and Assyrians will come to Egypt and Egyptians to Assyria; and the Egyptians shall serve the Assyrians. ²⁴ In that day Israel shall be a third, among the Egyptians and among the Assyrians, blessed in the land which the Lord of Hosts hath blessed ²⁵ saying, "Blessed is my people which is in Egypt, and which is in Assyria and Israel which is mine inheritance."

¹² For in that night I will pass through the land of Egypt, and smite all the first born in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast. And upon all the gods of the Egyptians I will execute vengeance. I am the Lord.

¹⁴ Nations have heard and are troubled: Pangs have taken hold of the inhabitants of Phylisteim; ¹⁵ The Emirs of Edom are already in commotion; And as for the chiefs of Moab, horror hath seized them: All the inhabitants of Chanaan are appalled. ¹⁶ On them let dread and terror fall. By the greatness of thine arm may they be petrified, till thy people pass through, Lord; till this thy people pass by, whom thou hast purchased.

²⁶ There is none like the God of the Beloved. He who rideth on the heaven is thy helper, And be is mighty to give support.

⁹ and said to them, I know that the Lord hath given you this land; for the dread of you is fallen upon us:

¹¹ and, upon hearing these things, we became faint hearted, and there was no spirit in any of us because of you. Since, then, the Lord your God is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath,

²⁴ And they said to him, Because the Lord hath delivered up all that land into our hands, therefore all the inhabitants of the land are in the utmost consternation because of us.

² And the Philistines took the Ark of the Lord, and carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside Dagon. ³ But when the Azotians arose in the morning, and went into the temple of Dagon, they looked, and lo! Dagon had fallen on its face before the ark of God. Thereupon they raised up Dagon, and set him in his place. But the hand of the Lord was heavy on the Azotians; and he afflicted them, and smote them in the hinder parts, throughout Azotus and its territories. ⁴ And when they arose early next morning, behold Dagon was fallen prostrate before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; and the head of Dagon, and both his hands, had been hurled away in front of the Amapheth, and the palms of both his hands had fallen on the threshold, so that nothing but the trunk of Dagon was left.

¹⁰ He mounted on cherubs and flew; he flew on the wings of winds. ¹¹ But he made darkness his covering, His tent around him was dark water in clouds of air. ¹² At the flash of the lightning before him, the clouds burst. Hail stones and coals of fire!

⁴ Sing to God; celebrate his name in songs: make way for him who is riding westward. His name is the Lord, rejoice before him.

³³ who rode on the eastern heaven of heaven. Behold with his voice he will utter a voice of power. ³⁴ Ascribe ye glory to God. His excellency is over Israel; and his power is in the clouds.

³ Thou art he who covereth his chambers with waters who maketh clouds his chariot; who walketh on the wings of winds;

³⁴ Let my meditation be acceptable to him, and I will rejoice in the Lord.

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

⁷ therefore every hand shall be enfeebled; and every man's heart shall be dismayed.

¹⁶ And in that day the Egyptians shall be like women in fear and trembling because of the hand of the Lord of Hosts which he will lay upon them.

⁹ and behold here cometh a man riding in a chariot, and addressing me he said, "It is fallen! Babylon is fallen! and all her images, and all the works of her hands are dashed on the ground."

¹ Bel is fallen; Nabo is broken to pieces, Their graven images were a load for wild beasts and cattle, You are carrying them bound like a burden on the weary, fainty, and hungry, who are all without strength ² and unable to escape from battle; and as for them, they are carried away captives!

¹⁹ also Pharao king of Egypt and his servants and his nobles and all his people;

⁸ a word of the Lord came to Jeremias at Taphnas, saying, ⁹ Take thee large stones and bury them at the entrance of the gate of Pharao's house at Taphnas, in the presence of the men of Juda ¹⁰ and thou shalt say, Thus said the Lord, Behold I send and I will bring Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon and he shall place his throne over these stones, which thou hast hidden, and pile his arms over them. ¹¹ And when he is come he will smite the land of Egypt, sentencing to death them who are for death; and to banishment such as are for banishment; and to the sword such as are for the sword. ¹² And he will kindle a fire in the houses of their gods, and burn the houses and carry away the god's captives: and he will search the land of Egypt, as a shepherd doth his garment, and shall go thence in peace. ¹³ And he will break in pieces the pillars of Heliopolis, even those of On, and burn their houses with fire.

²⁹ Now this shall be a sign to you, that I will visit you for evil: ³⁰ thus said the Lord, Behold I deliver up Onaphre king of Egypt, into the hands of his enemy, and into the hands of him who seeketh his life, as I delivered Sedekias king of Juda into the hands of Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon, his enemy, and who sought his life.

¹ [Omitted] ² To Egypt, respecting the army of Pharao Nechao, king of Egypt, who was by the river Euphrates, at Charmis, whom Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon defeated, in the fourth year of Joakim king of Juda. ³ Arm with buckler and shields, and advance to battle. ⁴ Harness the horses. Horsemen mount! and stand firm in your helmets. Having put on your breast plates, charge with your lances. ⁵ Why are they daunted, and falling back? Because their mighty men will be cut down, they fled amain; they rallied not, being hemmed in on all sides, saith the Lord. ⁶ Let not the swift flee, nor the mighty escape to the north. The forces at the river Euphrates are weak and have fallen. ⁷ Who is this that will rush forth like the river, and whose stream will billow like a flood? ⁸ The waters of Egypt will rush forth like a river: for he said, "I will issue forth and overwhelm the earth, and destroy the inhabitants thereof. ⁹ Mount your horses, prepare your chariots: march forth ye warriors of Ethiopia! and ye Libyans well clad in armour! go up also ye Lydians who bend the bow." ¹⁰ [p] This is indeed a day for the Lord our God: a day of vengeance, to execute vengeance on his enemies. And the sword of the Lord shall devour and be filled; it shall indeed be glutted with their blood; for there is a sacrifice for the Lord in the land of the north at the river Euphrates. ¹¹ Go up, Galaad, and take balm for the virgin daughter of Egypt. In vain hast thou multiplied thy medicines; there is no cure for thee. ¹² The nations heard thy voice and with thy screams the land was filled: because warrior added to warrior were weak, they both fell together. ¹³ The words which the Lord spoke by the ministry of Jeremias, that the King of Babylon would come and smite the land of Egypt. ¹⁴ Despatch messengers to Magdolus; send also to Memphis. Say, to arms! and be ready! for a sword hath laid waste thy grove. ¹⁵ Why did Apis flee from thee? Thy chosen bull, why did he not stand? ¹⁶ because the Lord made him weak and thy multitude was weak and fell. Therefore every one said to his fellow, Let us arise and return to our people, to our native land, from the face of the Grecian sword. ¹⁷ Call the name of Pharao Nechao king of Egypt, "Saon-Esbie-Moed." [Meaning an Empty sound] ¹⁸ As I live, saith the Lord God, like Itaburion among the mountains, and like Channel which is by the sea he shall come. Get ready utensils for thy removal, ¹⁹ well housed daughter of Egypt! for Memphis shall be a waste and shall be called, "Alas" because in it there are no inhabitants. ²⁰ Egypt was a beautiful heifer; a detachment from the north came against her. ²¹ And the mercenaries, which she had with her, were like fatted bulls which she had fed. For they turned and fled with one consent: they made no stand, because the day of destruction came upon them and the time of their visitation. ²² Their sound is that of a hissing serpent; for they march in dust. With axes they will come against her; ²³ like fellers of timber they will cut down her groves, saith the Lord. Because she would not be assimilated. Because she increaseth more than locusts which are innumerable; ²⁴ the daughter of Egypt is put to shame: she is delivered into the hands of a people from the north. ²⁵ Behold I will punish her son Ammon in the person of Pharao, and in the persons of them who trusted in him. ²⁶ [Omitted] ²⁷ But thou Jacob my servant be not afraid; and thou Israel be not dismayed. For behold I will save thee from afar and thy seed from their captivity. And Jacob shall return and enjoy rest and sleep; and there shall be none to discompose him. ²⁸ Fear not, my servant Jacob, saith the Lord, since I am with thee. This fearless and luxurious one is delivered up, for I will make an end of every nation to which I have driven thee; But of thee I will not make an entire end. But I will correct thee for judgment and not suffer thee to go unpunished.

² Proclaim among the nations, publish and conceal not; say, Babylon is taken; Bel is confounded; the fearless, the luxurious Mairodach is delivered up.

⁴⁴ [J] I will indeed punish Babylon and bring forth out of her mouth what she hath swallowed. And the nations shall no more be gathered together to her; nor shall the victims of the whole earth fall by Babylon.

¹ In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, a word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² Son of man, set thy face against Pharao king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt; ³ and say, Thus saith the Lord, Behold I am against Pharao; that great dragon which walloweth in the midst of his rivers, and saith, "These rivers are mine and I made them." ⁴ And I will put grapples in thy jaws, and cause the fishes of thy river to stick close to thy fins; ⁵ and I will drag thee out of the river, and give thee and all the fishes of thy river a sudden cast. On the face of the plain thou shalt fall and shalt not be gathered nor composed. To the beasts of the earth and the birds of the air I have given thee for food. ⁶ And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord. Because thou hast been a staff of reed to the house of Israel; ⁷ when they took hold of thee with their hand thou didst break: even when every hand was clapping against them, and when they leaned on thee thou didst break and disjoint all their loin; ⁸ therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold I will bring a sword against thee and destroy out of thee man and beast. ⁹ And the land of Egypt shall be a destruction and a desolation; and they shall know that I am the Lord. Because thou saidst, "These rivers are mine; I made them;" ¹⁰ therefore behold I am against thee and against all thy rivers; and I will deliver up the land of Egypt to desolation and sword and destruction. From Magdolus and Syene even to the borders of Ethiopia, ¹¹ no foot of man shall pass across it, nor shall a foot of beast traverse it; and for forty years it shall not be inhabited. ¹² I will indeed make its land a desolation in the midst of a desolated land, and its cities, in the midst of desolated cities, forty years. And I will scatter Egypt among the nations, and disperse them through the countries. ¹³ Thus saith the Lord, After forty years, I will gather the Egyptians from the nations where they were scattered; ¹⁴ and I will bring back the Egyptian captives, and settle them in the land of Pathora; in the land from which they were taken. ¹⁵ And it shall be the basest of all governments; it shall no more be exalted against the nations. For I will make them few and of little account, that they may not be great among the nations. ¹⁶ And they shall no more be the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity into remembrance by their going after them; and they shall know that I am the Lord. ¹⁷ Again it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year on the first day of the first month, that a word of the Lord came to me, saying, ¹⁸ Son of man, Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon hath caused his army to undergo hard service at Tyre. Every head is bald and every shoulder peeled; and he and his army employed against Tyre, have received no wages; though they have undergone hard service against it. ¹⁹ Thus saith the Lord, Behold I will give to Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon the land of Egypt. And he shall make a prey of its prey, and a spoil of its spoil. And it shall be wages for his army. ²⁰ For his service which he hath performed against Tyre, 1 have given him the land of Egypt. Thus saith the Lord, Lord; ²¹ In that day there shall spring up a horn for the whole house of Israel, and I will give thee an open mouth in the midst of them, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

¹³ For thus saith the Lord, Lord, When I have destroyed the nobles from Memphis, and the chiefs of Memphis out of the land of Egypt, and they shall be no more;

¹⁹ Egypt shall be a desolation, and Idumea a scene of destruction, for the injuries done to the children of Juda; for their having shed innocent blood in their land:

¹¹ And they shall cross over a narrow sea and lash waves at sea; and all the depths of rivers shall be dried up, and all the haughtiness of the Assyrians shall be removed; and the sceptre of Egypt shall be taken quite away.

¹⁸ But if the tribe of Egypt go not up nor come; upon them shall be the plague with which the Lord will smite all the nations which come not up to celebrate the festival of tabernacles.

⁶⁴ Jesus saith to him, It is as thou hast spoken. Moreover I say to you, Hereafter you shall see the son of man sitting at the right hand of that Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven. ⁶⁵ Upon this the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath blasphemed. What further need have we of witnesses? Behold you have now heard his blasphemy.

⁷ Behold he is coming with clouds, and every eye shall see him, even they who pierced him; and for him all the tribes of the earth shall mourn. Yes, be it so.

²² they sounded the three hundred horns; and the Lord set every man's sword against his fellow throughout the whole camp. And when the host had fled as far as Bethseed, Tagaratha Abelmeoula near Tabath,

²³ God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the Sychemites, and the Sychemites dealt treacherously with the house of Abimelech,

¹⁶ And the watchmen of Saul, at Gabaa of Benjamin, looked, and behold the camp was in confusion from one side to the other.

²⁰ And Saul went up, and all the people with him, and came to the battle, and behold every man's sword was against his fellow, and the confusion was very great.

²² And when they began the song of thanksgiving and praise, the Lord set a fighting the Ammonites against Moab and Mount Seir, who were going out against Juda; And when they were repelled, ²³ the Ammonites and Moab rose upon the inhabitants of Seir to exterminate and destroy them. And when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they rose up one against the other till they were utterly destroyed.

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.

¹³ The princes of Tanis have failed; and the princes of Memphis are exalted, and they will lead Egypt astray, tribe by tribe. ¹⁴ For the Lord hath mingled for them a spirit of error, and they with all their works have made Egypt reel, as a drunkard doth, when he is vomiting.

²¹ And for all this indeed I will call up terror saith the Lord: every man's sword shall be against his brother.

²¹ Now brother will deliver up brother to death; and a father, a son; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

³⁶ Even the man's own domestics will be his enemies.

²⁵ Thereupon Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. And no city or family divided against itself can subsist.

¹² and the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but are about to take authority as kings one short period of time with the beast. ¹³ These have one mind and will transfer their power and authority to the beast. ¹⁴ These will make war against the lamb, and the lamb will overcome them; for he is Lord of lords and King of kings; and they who are with him are called and chosen and faithful. ¹⁵ Then he saith to me, The waters which thou sawest where the harlot sitteth are peoples, and multitudes and nations and tongues: ¹⁶ and with regard to the ten horns which thou sawest on the beast, these will hate the harlot and will make her desolate and naked and devour her flesh, and burn her with fire. ¹⁷ For God hath put it into their hearts to execute his sentence and to execute one design and to give their kingdom to the beast until the words of God are accomplished.

³⁷ But in the morning when Nabal had recovered from his wine, his wife told him all these things. and his heart was confounded, and he became like a stone.

³¹ And when it was told David that Achitophel was among the conspirators with Abessalom, David said, Confound, I beseech thee, Lord my God, the counsel of Achitophel.

¹⁴ And Abessalom, and all Israel, said, The counsel of Chousi the Arachite is better than the counsel of Achitophel. For the Lord had determined to defeat the counsel of Achitophel, which was good, that the Lord might bring upon Abessalom all the consequent evils.

²³ was not one left, who had not crossed the Jordan. Now when Achitophel saw that his advice was not taken, he saddled his ass, and arose, and went to his house to his own city, and having given orders to his household he strangled himself, and died, and was buried in his father's tomb.

¹³ Thus died Saul, for his transgressions, which he had committed against God, according to the word of the Lord. Because he did not keep watch; because Saul sought to consult by a belly speaker, therefore Samuel the prophet answered him,

¹⁶ But while the prophet was speaking to him lie said to him, Have I made thee a counsellor of the king? Forbear, lest thou be scourged. Thereupon the prophet held his peace, for I know, said he, that he hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened to my counsel. ¹⁷ Then Amasias king of Juda took counsel and sent to Joas, son of Joachaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come and let us look each other in the face. ¹⁸ Upon which Joas king of Israel sent to Amasias king of Juda saying, The thistle on Libanus sent to the cedar on Libanus saying, Give thy daughter to my son for a wife. But lo! the wild beasts on Libanus will come; nay the wild beasts on Libanus did come and trample down the thistle. ¹⁹ Thou hast said, Behold I have smitten Idumea, therefore thy stupid heart lifteth thee up. Abide now at home: why dost thou take counsel to thy hurt, that thou mayest fall and Juda with thee? ²⁰ But Amasias would not hearken, for the Lord had determined to deliver him up, because he sought the gods of the Idumeans.

¹² Who changeth the counsels of the crafty, so that their hands can perform no enterprise. ¹³ Who entangleth the wise in their wisdom, and defeateth the counsel of the artful.

¹² to him who taketh away the spirits of chiefs: to him who is terrible to the kings of the earth.

²⁷ they reel and stagger like one drunk, and all their skill is swallowed up.

³⁰ There is no wisdom, there is no fortitude, no counsel in the wicked.

¹⁹ if they should say to you, "Apply to the belly speakers, and to them who cause a voice to proceed from the ground. Those vain babblers who speak from the belly: should not a nation apply to their God? Why consult they the dead concerning the living?

²⁷ For who can disannul what the holy God hath decreed? and his hand which is lifted high, who can turn aside?

² Be in bitterness for yourselves; for Debon also is destroyed. Where your altar is, thither you will go up to weep for Nabau of Moab, Raise the mournful cry. On every head be baldness; let all your arms be gashed with Wounds.

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.

¹¹ The princes of Tanis shall be fools, those wise counsellors of the king, their counsel shall be turned into folly. How can you say to the king, We are sons of wise men, sons of ancient kings? ¹² Where now are these wise men of thine? Let them tell thee publickly and declare what the Lord of hosts hath determined against Egypt. ¹³ The princes of Tanis have failed; and the princes of Memphis are exalted, and they will lead Egypt astray, tribe by tribe.

²⁵ Who else can dispel from the heart the signs of belly speakers and divinations? I am he who turneth sages backwards and maketh their counsel foolish;

¹² Persist now in thine incantations and in thy manifold sorcery, which thou hast learned from thy youth: if thou canst be benefited by them.

¹⁶ I will not contend with you forever, nor will I be continually angry with you, for from me spirit is to proceed and I have made every breathing soul.

¹⁵ Why did Apis flee from thee? Thy chosen bull, why did he not stand?

⁷ And if they say to thee, Why art thou groaning? Then thou shalt say, Because of the news: for it is coming: and every heart shall be broken, and all hands enfeebled; and all flesh and every spirit shall faint; and all thighs shall be polluted with filth. Behold it is coming! saith the Lord."

¹⁴ will thy heart endure? Will thy hands be strong in the day I deal with thee? I the Lord have spoken and I will perform.

² And the king gave orders to call the soothsayers and the magians and the chymists and the Chaldees that they might tell the king his dream.

⁶ Therefore I issued a decree to bring before me all the wise men of Babylon, that they might explain to me the meaning of this dream. ⁷ And when the soothsayers, the magians, the gazarenes, the Chaldees came in, I told my dream before them; but they did not explain to me the meaning of it until

⁷ And the king cried aloud to bring in the magians, Chaldees, gazarenes. And he said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing and explain to me the meaning, he shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold for his neck and shall be a chief, third in rank, in my kingdom.

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God: for it is written, He entangleth the wise in their craft." ²⁰ And again, "The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise that they are vain."

⁷ And when Saul was told that David was come to Keila, Saul said, God hath sold him into my hands; for he is shut up by coming into a city with gates and bars.

⁸ hast not shut me up into an enemy's hand; hast set my feet in a roomy place.

² And they shall be stirred up, Egyptians against Egyptians, and shall fight; brother against brother and neighbour against neighbour, city against city, and nome against nome.

⁴ that in this manner the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, exposing to view the shame of Egypt.

²⁶ [Omitted]

¹⁹ Thus saith the Lord, Behold I will give to Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon the land of Egypt. And he shall make a prey of its prey, and a spoil of its spoil. And it shall be wages for his army.

³⁶ [J] For this cause, thus saith the Lord, Behold I will judge thine adversary and avenge thy cause; and I will drain off her sea and make her fountain dry,

¹² And I will dry up their rivers and destroy the land, and the fulness thereof by the hands of strangers, I the Lord have spoken.

³ But when they could not conceal him any longer, his mother provided for him a wicker basket and plaistered it with bitumenous pitch and put the child into it and placed it in the stagnant water by the side of the river.

¹⁸ And the fishes which are in the river shall die. And the river shall stink. And the Egyptians shall not be able to drink the water of the river.

²⁴ I have refreshed myself and drunk strange waters, and with the soles of my feet dried up all the streams of the siege."

¹¹ Can the papyrus grow without water?

⁶ The water of Nemereim will be dried up; and its grass will fail; there will be no green grass.

² thou who art sending pledges by sea, and paper messages on the water; for swift messengers will go to a lofty nation, and to a strange and fierce people. There is one far transcending it. With regard to the nation without hope and trodden down,

²⁵ I have laid bridges and dried up waters and every collection of water

³ this offspring of merchants on many a water, who made a traffick of nations as of an ingathered harvest?

⁴ A stop was put to the works of the field because there was no rain. The husbandmen were confounded; they covered their heads.

¹³ And now when they had planted it in a desert, in a land without water,

¹⁷ The heifers startled at their stalls. Stores are exhausted; wine lakes are gone to ruin, as the corn is blasted, ¹⁸ what shall we substitute for ourselves? The herds of cattle uttered mournful lowings, because there was no pasture for them; and the flocks of sheep are utterly destroyed.

²¹ And the fishes which were in the river died. And the river stunk so that the Egyptians could not drink the water of the river. And there was blood in all the land of Egypt.

⁵ We recollect the fish which we ate in Egypt for nothing; and the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the cloves of garlick;

¹⁰ And fishermen shall there take a stand, from Engadin to Enagallim. There shall be a place for drying nets. The nets shall be of a peculiar kind; and the fishes thereof shall be like the fishes of the great sea; a very great multitude.

¹⁵ He hath drawn up destruction with a hook, and hath dragged out one with a dredge, and enclosed another with his sweep net. For this cause he will rejoice and his heart will be glad;

²⁸ Now Solomon's horses came from Egypt and from Thekoua. The king's merchants got them from Thekoua by barter,

¹⁶ I have found thee. With cords I have stretched my bed, and decked it with tapestry from Egypt.

⁷ cotton with embroidery from Egypt was the covering of thy bed. To add to thy glory, and that thou mightest clothe thyself with blue and purple, thy clothing came from the isles of Elisa.

¹⁹ Moreover the Lord said to Moses, Say to thy brother Aaron, Take thy staff in thy hand and stretch forth thy hand against the waters of Egypt, against the rivers and against the canals and against their ponds and against all their reservoirs of water; and they shall become blood, and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt both in the cisterns of wood and in those of stone.

⁵ And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron thy brother, Stretch forth the staff with thy hand over the rivers and over the canals and over the lakes and bring up the frogs.

¹⁰ For the land to which you are going, to take possession of it, is not like the land of Egypt, from which you came out, where, when they have sown the seed, they can water it with their feet, like a garden of herbs.

³⁸ And Pharao said to all his servants, Can we find such a man as this who hath in him the spirit of God? ³⁹ Then Pharao said to Joseph, Seeing God hath shewn thee all these things, there is none more prudent and wise than thou thyself.

²² Then they went up, on a course parallel with the front of the desart; then turned down to Chebron, where were the Achimans and the Sessians, and the Thelamins, descendants of Enach. Now Chebron was built seven years before Tanis in Egypt.

³⁰ so that Solomon far excelled the wisdom of all the ancients and all the wise men of Egypt.

¹⁷ He hath led counsellors away captive. And confounded the judges of the earth.

¹⁰ The Lord dissipateth the counsels of nations, and disannulleth the devices of peoples. He disannulleth also the counsels of chiefs.

²² I indeed was despicable for my want of knowledge; I was brutish as a beast before thee.

¹² wonders which he did in the sight of their fathers: in the land of Egypt, in the plain of Tanis.

⁴³ how he had displayed his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the plain of Tanis;

⁶ A senseless man cannot know; nor can the foolish comprehend them.

² For I am the most foolish of all men. And I have not the understanding of man in me.

³ And the spirit of the Egyptians shall be troubled within them: and I will dissipate their counsel; and they will consult their gods and their idols; and them who cause a voice to proceed from the ground, namely the belly speakers.

¹³ The princes of Tanis have failed; and the princes of Memphis are exalted, and they will lead Egypt astray, tribe by tribe.

¹⁴ therefore, behold, I will proceed to the removal of this people and I will remove them; and destroy the wisdom of the wise, and darken the understanding of the prudent."

⁴ Because generals are unwelcome messengers at Tanis,

¹⁴ Every man on account of knowledge became foolish. Every melter of gold was put to shame for his graven images, because he cast falsities and there is no breath in them.

²¹ [J] Because the shepherds were foolish and sought not the Lord, therefore the whole flock was thoughtless and they are scattered.

⁷ Respecting Idumea. THUS said the Lord, There is no more any wisdom in Thaiman. Counsel is perished from the prudent. Wisdom is fled from them.

²⁶ Woe shall succeed woe; and news be followed by news; and a vision shall be sought from a prophet: and law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders;

¹⁴ then I will destroy the land of Pathora, and send a fire against Tanis and execute vengeance on Diospolis.

²² So Moses was instructed in all the wisdom .of the Egyptians, and became mighty in council and in actions.

¹⁹ For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and abolish the understanding of the prudent." ²⁰ Where is the wise? Where the scribe? Where the disputer of this age? Hath not God shewn the wisdom of this world to be folly?

³⁸ Then Zebul said to him, Where is now thy mouth with which thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? Is not this the people whom thou didst despise? Go out now, I pray thee, and fight them.

⁶ Indeed were he to unfold to thee the power of wisdom; because it must needs be double to what are with thee: then thou wouldst know that what have come upon thee from the Lord are answerable to the sins which thou hast committed. ⁷ Canst thou trace the footsteps of the Lord? Or hast thou reached the extent of what the Almighty hath done?

²¹ Woe to them who are wise in their own conceit, and in their own eyes prudent.

²⁴ Thus saith the Lord of hosts, as I have spoken so it shall be; and as I have determined, so it shall stand.

¹³ Who hath known the mind of the Lord? and who hath been of his counsel to teach him? ¹⁴ or whom hath he consulted that he might instruct him? or who hath pointed out judgment to him? or who hath shewn him the way of knowledge?

²² let them draw near and tell you what will happen, or such things as these before they come to pass. Tell us that we may apply our understanding, and that we may know the final issue, and the train of events leading to it. ²³ Tell us, announce to us the things in successive train to the issue; and we will acknowledge that you are gods. Confer favours and inflict punishments, and we will pay respect and see at once,

⁷ Who is like me? Let him stand up and call and announce, and make ready for me: In as much as I have made a man for this age, let them now tell you the train of events before they come to pass.

¹⁰ Confiding in thy wickedness thou indeed saidst; "I am and there is none else." Know thou, the consciousness of these things and thy whoredom shall be thy shame. Thou indeed saidst in thy heart, "I am and there is none else;" ¹¹ but upon thee shall come destruction, and thou shalt not know; a pit; and into it thou shalt fall. Yes, upon thee shall come misery, of which thou shalt not be able to rid thyself: and destruction shall come upon thee suddenly of which thou wilt have no apprehension. ¹² Persist now in thine incantations and in thy manifold sorcery, which thou hast learned from thy youth: if thou canst be benefited by them. ¹³ Thou hast wearied thyself with thy counsels: let the astrologers now stand up and save thee; let them who gaze on the stars tell thee what is instantly coming upon thee.

²⁸ Where now are thy gods which thou hast made for thyself? Will they arise and save in the time of thy trouble? Since according to the number of thy cities were thy gods Juda; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem they burned incense to Baal;

¹⁷ For the scripture saith to Pharaoh, "I have raised thee up for this purpose that by thee I may display my power; and that my name may be celebrated throughout all the earth."

³³ O the depth of the riches, and of the wisdom, and of the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways not to be traced out! ³⁴ For who hath known the mind of the Lord"? Or who hath been his counsellor?

²⁰ Where is the wise? Where the scribe? Where the disputer of this age? Hath not God shewn the wisdom of this world to be folly?

¹⁷ I can point to him, though he is not now; I hail him happy tho" he is not near. A star will arise out of Jacob; There shall rise up a man out of Israel, And he will smite the princes of Moab, And plunder all the sons of Seth:

³⁸ Then Saul said, Present here all the chiefs of Israel, and know and see by whom this sin hath been done this day;

¹¹ The princes of Tanis shall be fools, those wise counsellors of the king, their counsel shall be turned into folly. How can you say to the king, We are sons of wise men, sons of ancient kings?

¹⁶ Even the sons of Memphis and Taphnas have known and derided thee.

¹⁴ Despatch messengers to Magdolus; send also to Memphis. Say, to arms! and be ready! for a sword hath laid waste thy grove.

¹⁹ well housed daughter of Egypt! for Memphis shall be a waste and shall be called, "Alas" because in it there are no inhabitants.

¹⁶ and I will send a fire against Egypt, and Syene shall be confounded; and at Diospolis there shall be a breach; and water shall gush out.

⁴ When from him he hath looked, and from him drawn up in array; then from him shall issue forth the wrathful bow, from him every one who sallieth out at the same time.

²² pretending to be wise, they became fools,

⁷ this honour then being for you who believe: but to the disbelieving, "the stone, which the builders rejected that which was for the head of the corner,"

²⁰ And the Lord said, Who will deceive Achab king of Israel that he may go up and fall at Remmath Galaad? And when one spoke in this manner and another in that, ²¹ there came forth a spirit and stood before the Lord, and said, I will deceive him. ²² And the Lord said to him, How? And he said, I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt deceive him and actually prevail. Go and do so. ²³ Now therefore behold the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these prophets of thine; but the Lord hath spoken evils against thee.

¹⁶ With him is strength and power; with him knowledge and understanding.

²⁵ That they might grope in darkness without light; and that they might stagger like a drunken man.

⁷ For by wine these were made transgressors; they were led astray by strong drink. Priest and prophet were stupefied with strong drink; they were gorged with wine; they were agitated by drunkenness; they reeled to8 and fro. This is oracling! ⁸ A curse shall devour their counsel; for their counsel is for the sake of gain.

⁹ [p] Be sunk in dejection and stand astonished; be drunk and reel, not with wine nor strong drink; ¹⁰ for the Lord hath drenched you with a spirit of stupefaction, and will close up the eyes of them and of their prophets and their rulers. As for your seers of hidden things,

¹⁰ Confiding in thy wickedness thou indeed saidst; "I am and there is none else." Know thou, the consciousness of these things and thy whoredom shall be thy shame. Thou indeed saidst in thy heart, "I am and there is none else;" ¹¹ but upon thee shall come destruction, and thou shalt not know; a pit; and into it thou shalt fall. Yes, upon thee shall come misery, of which thou shalt not be able to rid thyself: and destruction shall come upon thee suddenly of which thou wilt have no apprehension.

¹⁵ in the manner the Lord, the God of Israel said, "Take this cup of wine; this strong wine from my hand, and thou shalt make all the nations, to which I send thee, drink it. ¹⁶ And they shall drink and vomit and rave, because of the sword which I send among them.

²⁷ And thou shalt say to them, Thus said the Lord Almighty, Drink and be drunk, and you shall vomit, and fall and rise no more because of the sword which I send among you.

²⁶ Make him drunk. Because he magnified himself against the Lord, he will therefore clap with his hand at Moab that he may be an object of derision;

⁷ For be the man who he may of the house of Israel, or of the proselytes who have sojourned with Israel, who shall separate himself from me, and give his desires the rule over his understanding when he hath set before his eyes the punishment of his iniquity and shall come to the prophet that he may inquire of me; I the Lord will answer him by that with which he is entangled; ⁸ and I will set my face against that man, and give him up to desolation and destruction; and remove him from among my people; and ye shall know that I am the Lord. ⁹ And with respect to that prophet when he shall have wandered and spoken; I the Lord have caused that prophet to wander, and I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from among my people Israel.

¹⁷ And Jesus answering, said, O faithless and perverse generation! How long shall I be with you"? How long shall I endure you? Bring him hither to me.

¹¹ for this cause therefore God will send them the energy of delusion, that they may believe this falsehood;

² Thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands; thou art happy and it shall be well with thee.

²³ With all who are careful there is abundance; but he who is delicate and taketh no trouble shall be in want.

¹⁴ therefore the Lord cut off from Israel, head and tail, great and little in one day; ¹⁵ the aged and the honourable, this was the head; and the prophet who teacheth falsehood, he is the tail.

¹⁷ Since the fig tree will not flourish, nor will there be fruit on the vines; the product of the olive will fail and the fields will supply no food; For want of food the flocks have failed, and there are no kine in the stalls;

¹¹ and I will bring a sword on this land and on the mountains, and on the corn, and on the wine, and on the oil even on all that the earth produceth, and on the men and on the cattle and on all the labours of their hands.

¹¹ and to make it your ambition to live quietly, and to mind your own business, and work with your own hands, as we charged you; ¹² that your walk may appear orderly to the world, and that you may be in want of nothing.

⁶ a trembling seized them: pangs were there as of a woman in travail.

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,

¹⁵ And the Lord will dry up the sea of Egypt, and lay his hand on the river with a vehement wind; and smite the seven channels, so that they may be crossed dry shod.

¹⁷ A thousand shall flee at the voice of one; and at the voice of five, many thousands shall flee: until you be left like a beacon on a mountain, and like a flag staff upon a hill.

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.

⁵ Thus said the Lord, You shall hear the sound of terror. It is terror and not peace. ⁶ Inquire and see! Hath a male ever brought forth? Now with respect to the terror, in which they will hold their loins, it is indeed for a deliverance. [p] Why then have I seen every man with his hands on his loins? Their faces are turned to paleness. ⁷ [J] It is because that great day is come which is unparalleled. It is indeed a distressful time to Jacob, but by this he shall be saved.

³⁷ a sword against their horses and against their chariots; a sword against their warriors and the mixed multitude in the midst of her and they shall be like women; a sword against her treasures; and they shall be rifled;

³⁰ The warriors of Babylon declined to fight. They will sit still there during a siege. Their mighty power is broken.

¹³ Behold thy people in thee are like women; the gates of thy land shall be opened wide to thine enemies; a fire shall utterly devour thy bars.

⁹ For behold I am bringing my hand upon them; and they shall be spoils for them who were their vassals: and you shall know that the Lord Almighty hath sent me.

³¹ It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

²⁶ [p] This is the counsel which the Lord hath taken against the whole empire, and this is the hand which is lifted high against all the nations. ²⁷ For who can disannul what the holy God hath decreed? and his hand which is lifted high, who can turn aside?

² at that time the Lord spoke to Esaias son of Amos saying, "Go and take the sackcloth from thy loins and loose thy sandals from thy feet; and having done so walk stripped and bare foot." ³ And the Lord said, "As my servant Esaias hath walked stripped and bare foot, three years; three years he shall be for signs and wonders to the Egyptians, and Ethiopians, ⁴ that in this manner the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, exposing to view the shame of Egypt. ⁵ And they being subdued shall be ashamed of the Ethiopians in whom the Egyptians had placed confidence; for they were their glory.

¹ In the fourteenth year of the reign of Ezekias, Sennacherim king of the Assyrians came up against the fortified cities of Judea, and took them.

¹⁰ who can declare events before they happen, as if they were already accomplished. When I have spoken, all my counsel shall stand; and all that I have determined, I will effect. ¹¹ Calling from the east a winged fowl, even from a far distant land, for purposes which I have resolved on, I have spoken and brought, I have created and made, I have brought it and made its way prosperous.

²⁷ And thou shalt say to them, Thus said the Lord Almighty, Drink and be drunk, and you shall vomit, and fall and rise no more because of the sword which I send among you. ²⁸ And if they refuse to take the cup out of thy hand to drink, then thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, You shall drink it: ²⁹ for in the city which is called by my name I am beginning to inflict calamity and with purification you shall not be purified; for I am calling for a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth. ³⁰ Therefore thou shalt prophesy against them all these words and say; The Lord from on high will solemnly pronounce sentence from his sanctuary; he will utter his voice; in his place he will utter a triumphant shout and some like the treaders of grapes will answer. When destruction hath come on the inhabitants of this land; ³¹ upon a part of the earth; because the Lord hath a controversy with the nations, he will come to judgment with all flesh; and the wicked shall be given up to the sword, saith the Lord.

²⁸ They indeed who have escaped from the sword being few in number, shall return to the land of Juda; but the remnant of Juda, who have staid in the land of Egypt to settle there, shall know whose word shall stand.

⁶ And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord. Because thou hast been a staff of reed to the house of Israel; ⁷ when they took hold of thee with their hand thou didst break: even when every hand was clapping against them, and when they leaned on thee thou didst break and disjoint all their loin;

³⁵ and all the inhabitants of the earth are reckoned as nothing; and he doth according to his pleasure in the army of heaven and in the habitations of the earth; and there is none who can stay his hand, or say to him, What hast thou done.

¹ Now when the whole earth was of one lip and all had one voice,

²⁰ Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and cleave to him, and swear by his name.

²⁹ were urgent with their brethren, and bound themselves with an oath, entering into a curse and an oath;] that we will walk in the law of God, which was given by the ministry of Moses the servant of God, to keep and to do all the commandments of the Lord and his judgments and his statutes;

³¹ Ambassadors shall come from Egypt; Ethiopia shall stretch out her hands to God.

¹¹ "For the eyes of the Lord are lofty; but man is low; and the loftiness of these men shall be humbled; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

¹¹ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord will proceed to shew his hand to provoke to jealousy the remnant of his people; that residue which is left from the Assyrians and from Egypt and from Babylonia, and from Ethiopia and the Elamites, and from the risings of the sun and Arabia.

¹⁹ And in that day there shall be an altar for the Lord in the country of the Egyptians, and at its boundary a pillar for the Lord,

²¹ And the Lord will be made known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians will acknowledge the Lord in that day, and offer sacrifices and make vows to the Lord and perform them.

¹³ Therefore gather ye the sons of Israel together one by one. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be sounded and those shall come who are perishing in the land of Assyria, and they who are perishing in Egypt; and shall bow themselves down before the Lord, on this holy mountain in Jerusalem.

²³ By myself I swear [righteousness shall proceed from my mouth; my words shall not be reversed] that to me every knee shall bow and every tongue shall swear, with respect to God, ²⁴ saying, Righteousness and glory shall come to him, and all that make distinctions among them shall be ashamed.

¹⁶ And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the way of my people to swear by my name, "As the Lord liveth" as they taught my people to swear by Baal;

⁹ that I may then bring back upon peoples a tongue for its generation, that they may all invoke the name of the Lord; that they may serve him under one yoke.

¹¹ and many nations will flee to the Lord in that day, and be his people and dwell in the midst of thee; and thou shalt know that the Lord Almighty hath sent me to thee.

⁷ And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, "To thy seed I will give this land." So Abram built there an altar to the Lord who appeared to him.

¹⁸ So when Jacob arose in the morning he took the stone which he had there put at his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on the top of it;

⁴ Then Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. And rising early next morning Moses built an altar at the foot of the mount with twelve stones for the twelve tribes of Israel;

¹⁰ and were come to Galaad of the Jordan, which is in the land of Chanaan, the Reubenites and the Gadites, and the half of the tribe of Manasses built there an altar by the Jordan; an altar great and conspicuous.

²⁶ we therefore determined to act in this manner; to build this altar, not for the purpose of homage offerings, nor for sacrifices;

²³ And it shall be, that month after month and sabbath after sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, in Jerusalem, said the Lord.

¹⁵ And they who are far from them shall come and dwell in the house of the Lord; and you shall know, [since the Lord Almighty hath sent me to you,] that this indeed will come to pass, if you will hearken diligently to the voice of the Lord your God.

¹⁰ We have an altar from which they who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat.

²³ And after those many years the king of Egypt died and the Israelites groaned under their labours and raised a loud outcry; and their cry on account of their labours ascended up to God.

⁷ And the Lord said to Moses, I have indeed seen the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their cry on the account of their task masters; for I know their sorrow,

²⁰ and Joshua set up at Galgala, the twelve stones which he had taken out of the Jordan, ²¹ and said, When your children ask you, saying, What stones are these?

²⁷ but that it may be a witness between us and you, and our posterity after us, of our right to perform the service of the Lord before him, with our homage offerings, and our incense offerings, and our sacrifices of thanksgiving; so that your children may not say to our children, You have no portion in the Lord. ²⁸ For we said, If it should ever happen that they should speak so to us, or to our posterity hereafter, they may say, Behold the similitude of the altar of the Lord which our fathers made, not for the purpose of homage offerings, nor for sacrifices, but to be a witness between you and us, and our children after us.

³⁴ and Joshua gave a name to the altar of Reuben, and Gad, and the half of the tribe of Manasses, and said, It is a witness for them that the Lord is their God.

²⁶ And when he had written these words in the book of the laws of God, he took a great stone, and set it up under a fir tree which was over against the Lord, ²⁷ and Joshua said to the people, Behold this stone shall be among you for a witness, that it hath heard all that were said by the Lord, for he hath this day spoken to you; and this shall be among you for a witness in the latter days, whenever you prove false to the Lord my God.

⁴ But Joachaz intreated the favour of the Lord, and the Lord hearkened to him; for he saw the affliction of Israel because the king of Syria oppressed them, ⁵ and the Lord gave deliverance to Israel, so that they got from under the hand of Syria, and the Israelites dwelt in their habitations as in former times.

¹⁵ Then call on me in the day of trouble; and I will deliver thee and thou shalt praise me."

⁴ And I will deliver Egypt into the hands of men: cruel lords; and fierce kings shall have dominion over them. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts,

³⁶ Thereupon Sennacherim king of the Assyrians retreated and went and dwelt in Ninive.

²¹ If they will proclaim, let them draw near and know at once, who hath published these things from the beginning: then let them be announced to you. I am God and there is no other besides me; a just God and a saviour be sides me there is none. ²² Turn to me and ye shall be saved, ye from the farthest part of the earth, I am God and there is none else.

²⁵ For thus saith the Lord, When one captivateth a giant he shall take spoils. [a] But can one take from a mighty man and be safe? [b] But it is I who vindicateth thy cause, and I will deliver thy children. ²⁶ And they who afflicted thee shall eat their own flesh, and drink like new wine their own blood and be made drunk; and all flesh shall know that it is I the Lord who delivered thee. And who uphold the strength of Israel.

⁵ Now therefore why are you here? Thus saith the Lord, Because my people were taken away for nought, [express your amaze; and raise the mournful cry! Thus saith the Lord, On your account my name is continually reviled among the nations.

¹³ And instead of the briar, shall spring up the cypress; and instead of the thistle, shall come up the myrtle. And the Lord shall be for a name, and for an everlasting sign which shall not fail.

¹¹ That to you there is born this day in the city of David, a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord.

¹³ waiting for the blessed hope and the bright display of the glory of the great God, and saviour of us Jesus Christ,

⁴ Behold the wages of the labourers who have reaped your fields, which you have withholden, raise a cry; and the outcries of these reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

⁴⁶ And the Lord will deliver thee this day into my hand, and I will kill thee, and cut off thy head, and give thy carcass, and the carcasses of the army of the Philistines this day, to the birds of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel;

⁴³ thou indeed wilt hearken from heaven; from thy settled habitation, and do according to all, for which the stranger may call upon thee, that all nations may know thy name and fear thee as thy people Israel do, and that they may know that this house which I have built, is called by thy name.

² Because of knowing thy way on the earth, thy salvation among all nations;

² The Lord hath made known his salvation: he hath displayed his forgiving mercy before the nations. ³ He remembered his mercy for Jacob; and his truth to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

⁴ when thou vowest a vow to God delay not the performance of it. For in fools there is no fixed will. Pay thou therefore what thou vowest.

⁹ And they shall not hurt nor have power to destroy any one on the mountain which is my sanctuary. Because the whole earth is filled with the knowledge of the Lord as abundant water covereth depths of seas;

²⁰ therefore they destroyed them. But now, Lord, our God, save us out of their hands that every kingdom of the earth may know, that thou alone art God."

⁵ One will say, "I belong to God;" and another will call himself by the name of Jacob; and another will write on his hand, "I belong to God;" and will surname himself by the name of Israel.

⁵ Nations which knew thee not will fly to thee, for the sake of the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.

⁷ them I will bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings, and their sacrifices shall be acceptable on mine altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations.

¹⁶ And the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows.

¹⁴ that the earth may be filled with a knowledge of the glory of God. Like water it will cover them.

¹⁰ From the ends of the rivers of Ethiopia I will expect them; among my dispersed they shall bring sacrifices for me.

¹⁶ And it shall come to pass that all who are left of the nations which came against Jerusalem shall come up every year to worship the Lord Almighty and to celebrate the festival of tabernacles. ¹⁷ And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall not come up to Jerusalem from all the tribes of this land, to worship the king, the Lord Almighty, even they shall be added to those. ¹⁸ But if the tribe of Egypt go not up nor come; upon them shall be the plague with which the Lord will smite all the nations which come not up to celebrate the festival of tabernacles.

¹¹ Since from the risings of the sun to its goings down my name hath been glorified among the nations; and in every place incense is offered to my name, and a pure sacrifice; since my name is great among the nations, saith the Lord Almighty,

²¹ Jesus saith to her, Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father, neither on this mountain, nor at Jerusalem. ²² You worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know: for salvation is of the Jews. ²³ But the hour is coming; indeed is now come, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. For such worshippers of him the Father seeketh. ²⁴ God is Spirit; and they who worship him ought to worship him in spirit and truth.

³ Now this is the life everlasting that they may know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

²⁷ For they have been pleased! Indeed they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have partaken of their spiritual things, they ought to minister to them with temporal things. ²⁸ Having therefore performed this business, and secured to them this contribution, I will come to you in my way to Spain.

⁸ At the time indeed [a] An objection. [b] The answer. when you knew not God, you as slaves served things which are in reality.no gods; ⁹ but now when you know God, or rather when God hath owned you, how turn ye again to those weak and beggarly elements to which you degradingly desire again to be in bondage as before.

⁵ and you yourselves as living stones are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ;

⁹ but you being a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people peculiarly set apart that you may publish the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light

³⁹ See! See! that I am the Self existent, And that there is no Clod besides me; I kill, and I can cause to live, I can smite and I can heal, And none can rescue out of my hand:

¹⁸ For He causeth pain and again removeth it: and him whom he smote, his hands have healed.

¹⁰ for the heart of this people is stupefied; and their ears are dull of hearing; and they have shut their eyes, that for a while they may not see with their eyes; and hear with their ears; and understand with their hearts; and return that I may heal them.

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 And they shall be stirred up, Egyptians against Egyptians, and shall fight; brother against brother and neighbour against neighbour, city against city, and nome against nome. ³ And the spirit of the Egyptians shall be troubled within them: and I will dissipate their counsel; and they will consult their gods and their idols; and them who cause a voice to proceed from the ground, namely the belly speakers. ⁴ And I will deliver Egypt into the hands of men: cruel lords; and fierce kings shall have dominion over them. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, ⁵ The Egyptians drink water even that near the sea, but the river shall fail and be dried up; ⁶ both the streams and the canals of the river shall fail; and every collection of water shall be dried up, even every fen, where reeds and papyrus grow. ⁷ And all the quick springing herbage which is around the river, and every thing which is sown by the river shall be dried up and withered by the wind. ⁸ And the fisher men shall mourn; all who cast drags in the river shall mourn; and they who spread nets and they who are anglers shall grieve: ⁹ and shame shall seize them who work the split flax, and them who work up the cotton. ¹⁰ They who are employed in such works shall be in sorrow; and they who brew beer shall mourn and be grieved in soul. ¹¹ The princes of Tanis shall be fools, those wise counsellors of the king, their counsel shall be turned into folly. How can you say to the king, We are sons of wise men, sons of ancient kings? ¹² Where now are these wise men of thine? Let them tell thee publickly and declare what the Lord of hosts hath determined against Egypt. ¹³ The princes of Tanis have failed; and the princes of Memphis are exalted, and they will lead Egypt astray, tribe by tribe. ¹⁴ For the Lord hath mingled for them a spirit of error, and they with all their works have made Egypt reel, as a drunkard doth, when he is vomiting. ¹⁵ So that there shall be no work among the Egyptians, of which one can make head or tail, beginning or end.

¹⁴ Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, That for which Egypt laboured and the traffick of the Ethiopians, and the Sabeans men of tall stature shall come over to thee; and they shall be thy vassals and shall follow thee bound with chains. They will come over to thee and pay thee homage and pray to thee because God is in thee. [c] There is indeed no God besides thee.

⁷ let the wicked man forsake his ways, and the unrighteous man his counsels, and turn to the Lord and he shall find mercy; for he will abundantly pardon your sins.

¹⁵ I will sally forth and return to my place until they are made desolate, then they will seek my face.

² in two days he can restore us to health; on the third day we shall be raised up and live before him.

¹ [p] Israel, return to the Lord thy God. Seeing they have been weakened for thine iniquities,

⁶ But as for me, I will give you gnashing of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places. When you returned not to me, saith the Lord, ⁷ I withheld from you the rain three months before harvest; with an intent to rain on one city and on another city not to rain. One part was to be watered, and the part on which I did not rain, to be dried up; ⁸ so that two or three cities should crowd to one city for drink and not be satisfied. And when you turned not to me, saith the Lord, ⁹ I smote you with blasting and mildew: you multiplied your gardens; the caterpillar devoured your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive orchards. When even for this you turned not to me, saith the Lord, ¹⁰ I sent death among you by the way of Egypt, and slew your young men with the sword and gave up your horses to capture: and by your rage I involved your camps in fire. And when even for this you turned not to me, saith the Lord, ¹¹ I overthrew you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorra; and you became like a brand plucked out of fire. Now as even for this you have not turned to me, saith the Lord, ¹² therefore in this manner will I deal with thee, Israel. But because I will deal thus with thee, prepare, Israel, to invoke thy God:

¹⁷ delivering thee from the people and the nations to which I now send thee ¹⁸ to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of satan to God, that they may receive a remission of sins and an inheritance among them who are sanctified by the belief in me. ¹⁹ From that time, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, ²⁰ but made proclamation first to them at Damascus, then at Jerusalem and throughout all the country of Judea, and to the nations, to reform and turn to God, performing works worthy of the change of mind.

²⁶ saying, "Go and say to the people, Hearing you shall hear, though you may not understand; and seeing you shall see, though you may not perceive; ²⁷ for the heart of this people is callous, and their ears are dull of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, that for a while they may not see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn that I may heal them."

¹¹ Now all correction seemeth, for the present, not to be matter of joy, but of grief; yet afterwards it produceth the peaceful fruit of righteousness to them who are exercised therewith.

¹⁶ And there shall be a passage for my people left in Egypt. It shall be for Israel as on the day when they came up out of the land of Egypt.

⁸ There will be there a pure highway, which shall be called The Holy way. And the unclean shall not come there; nor shall there be there an unclean way. But as for the dispersed, they shall travel it, and shall not be led astray. ⁹ No lion shall be there; nor shall any ravenous beast come up thither, nor ever be found there; but in it the redeemed will walk, and they who have been collected for the Lord. ¹⁰ They indeed shall return and come to Sion with joy, and everlasting joy shall crown their head: for on their heads will be praise and rapture; and gladness shall have full possession of them. Pain and sorrow and sighing are fled.

³ A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight the roads for our God. ⁴ Let every valley be filled up, and every mountain and hill be levelled: and let all the crooked be made a straight road, and the rough way, smooth plains: ⁵ and the glory of the Lord will appear: And all flesh shall see the salvation of God. For the Lord hath spoken."

¹⁸ Because through him we both have access to the father by one spirit, ¹⁹ you therefore are no longer strangers, and pilgrims, but fellow citizens of the saints, and of the household of God, ²⁰ built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner stone, ²¹ by whom the whole building being united in symmetry is to grow up to a holy temple in the Lord; ²² by whom you also are builded up together with them by the spirit, for an habitation of God.

⁶ That the nations are coheirs, and a joint body, and joint partakers of that promise of his in the Christ by means of the gospel, ⁷ of which I was made a minister according to the free gift of God's favour which was granted to me; according to the energy of his power. ⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this favour was granted to proclaim among the nations the unsearchable riches of the Christ,

² and I will make thee a great nation; and I will bless thee and make thy name great, and thou shalt be blessed;

⁴³ Rejoice, heavens, with him, And let all the angels of God worship him: Rejoice, nations, with his people, And let all the children of God rely on him: For he avengeth the blood of his children, And will judge, and execute vengeance on his enemies, To them who hate him he will render retribution, And the Lord will purify the land of his people.

¹ An Alleluia. O Praise the Lord, all ye nations! Praise him all ye peoples! ² For his kindness is exerted for us, And the truth of the Lord will endure forever.

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.

⁶ Moreover he said to me, Is it a great thing for thee to be called my servant to reestablish the tribes of Jacob and bring back the dispersion of Israel? Behold I have given thee for the covenant of a race; for the light of nations; that thou mayst be for salvation to the farthest part of the earth.

²² Thus saith the Lord, Lord, Behold I will lift up my hand to the nations, and I will erect my standard for the isles. And they shall bring thy sons in their bosoms and carry thy daughters on their shoulders:

⁸ Thus saith the Lord, as when a good grape is found in the cluster, they will say, "Destroy it not; for there is a blessing in it, " so will I do for the sake of him who serveth me; for his sake I will not destroy them all.

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.

¹² For thus saith the Lord, Behold I will glide to them like a peaceful stream, and like a torrent deluging the glory of nations. Their children shall be carried on shoulders, and shall be dandled on knees.

¹⁹ And I will leave among them a sign, and those of them who escape I will send to the nations; to Tharsis and Phud and Lud and Mosach and to Thobel and Greece and to the far distant isles. They who have not heard my name nor seen my glory; even they shall proclaim my glory among the nations; ²⁰ and they shall bring your brethren from all the nations, as a gift for the Lord with horses and chariots, in litters borne by mules with umbrellas over them, to the holy city Jerusalem, said the Lord; as the children of Israel brought up their sacrifices for me with songs of praise to the house of the Lord. ²¹ And of them I will take priests and Levites, said the Lord.

²⁶ And I will place them around my mountain, and give them the rain the rain of blessing:

¹⁰ Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Sion! for lo! I am coming; and I will dwell amidst thee, saith the Lord; ¹¹ and many nations will flee to the Lord in that day, and be his people and dwell in the midst of thee; and thou shalt know that the Lord Almighty hath sent me to thee.

¹³ And it shall come to pass, that as you, the house of Juda and the house of Israel, were for a curse among the nations; so I will save you, and you shall be for a blessing. Be of good courage and let your hands be strong,

²⁰ Thus saith the Lord Almighty, There shall yet come many peoples; and the inhabitants of many cities; ²¹ even the inhabitants of five cities shall come together to one city, saying, Let us go to pray before the Lord and to seek the face of the Lord Almighty. ²² I am going. So many peoples and many nations will come to seek the face of the Lord Almighty at Jerusalem, and to conciliate the favour of the Lord. ²³ Thus saith the Lord Almighty, If in those days ten men of all the tongues of the nations take hold, they must take hold of the skirt of a Jew, saying, We will go with thee, for we have heard that God is with you.

³² a light to illuminate the nations; the glory of thy people Israel.

¹¹ For the scripture saith, "Whosoever believeth in him shall not be shamed." ¹² For there is no distinction of Jew and Greek; for he is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call upon him; ¹³ "For whosoever will call on the name of the Lord shall be saved."

⁹ and that the Gentiles are to glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "For this cause I will praise thee among the nations and sing to thy name." ¹⁰ And again it is said, "Rejoice, O nations, with his people." ¹¹ And again, Praise the Lord, all ye nations: Praise him, all ye people, ¹² also, And again Esaias saith, "There shall be the root of Jesse, even he who riseth up to rule nations; in him nations will put their trust.

²⁷ For they have been pleased! Indeed they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have partaken of their spiritual things, they ought to minister to them with temporal things.

¹⁴ that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the nations by Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the spirit by means of this belief.

²⁴ The Lord bless thee and keep thee;

²⁷ So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I the Lord will bless them.

¹ Balaam, seeing that it was good in the sight of the Lord to bless Israel, did not go, as was customary with him, to look for omens; but turned his face towards the wilderness.

⁹ And the Lord's portion was his people Jacob; Israel was his lot of inheritance.

⁶ The earth hath yielded its increase: may God, our God, bless us! ⁷ May God bless us! And let all the ends of the earth fear him.

³ Know that the Lord is very God: he made us and not we ourselves: we are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

¹⁵ May you be blessed by the Lord: who made the heaven and the earth.

⁸ Thou, Lord wilt retribute for me. Lord, thy mercy endureth forever; overlook not the works of thy hands.

²³ but when his children shall see my works, because of me they will hallow my name. They will hallow the Holy One of Jacob, and tremble before the God of Israel.

¹¹ Wherefore thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, even he who made the train of events; Do you question me concerning my children; and concerning the works of my hands give me directions!

²¹ And thy people shall be all righteous, they shall inherit the land forever, preserving the plant, the works of their hands, for glory.

⁹ and their seed shall be distinguished among the nations? and their offspring in the midst of peoples. Every one who seeth them will know them, that they are a seed whom God hath blessed.

⁸ But now, Lord, thou art our father. Though we are clay, we are all the works of thy hands:

²³ My chosen ones shall not labour in vain, nor shall they bring forth children for a curse. Because they are a seed blessed of God, both they and their offspring:

²³ and I will plant her for myself in the land, and love her who was not beloved; and to them who were not my people I will say, "Thou art my people:" and they will say, "Thou the Lord art my God."

²⁹ Is God the God of Jews only? Is he not also [the God] of the Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles also:

²⁴ even us whom he hath called not only from among the Jews, but also from among the Gentiles. ²⁵ As he actually saith by Hosea, "I will call them my people who are not my people; and I will call her beloved, who was not beloved."

¹⁵ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision availeth any thing; but a new creation.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing; with the heavenly things in Christ;

¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, fitted by Christ Jesus for good works, for which God had before prepared us that we might walk therein.

⁶ the same confidence, that he who hath begun a good work in you will continue completing it until the day of Jesus Christ;

¹⁰ and put on the new man, which is renewed for knowledge after the image of him who created it, ¹¹ where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, scythian, bondman, freeman, but the all, and in all, Christ;

¹⁰ you who formerly were not a people but are now the people of God who were uncompassionated, but are now compassionated