Isaiah 23 Cross References - Thomson

¹ The Oracle concerning Tyre. Raise the mournful cry, ships of Carthage, for Tyre is destroyed and there are no arrivals from the land of the Kitians. She is carried away captive. ² Who could be compared with the dwellers in this island; these merchants of Phoenicia, who traversed the ocean; ³ this offspring of merchants on many a water, who made a traffick of nations as of an ingathered harvest? ⁴ Be ashamed, Sidon, said the sea; even the strength of the sea said, "I did not travail nor did I bring her forth; nor did I nourish her youths, nor educate her virgins; ⁵ yet when the news shall reach Egypt, sorrow for Tyre will take hold on them." ⁶ Away to Carthage! Raise the mournful cry, ye who inhabit that isle! ⁷ Was not she your boast of old, before she was delivered up?" ⁸ Who hath taken this counsel against the Tyrians? Is she inferior? Or hath she not power? Her merchants are glorious chiefs of the earth." ⁹ The Lord of Hosts hath determined to destroy all the haughtiness of the glorious; and to bring to contempt every thing glorious on the earth. ¹⁰ work thy land: for ships no more arrive from Carthage, ¹¹ nor is thy hand which vexed kings, any more powerful by sea. The Lord of Hosts hath given a command, concerning Chanaan, to destroy its power: ¹² and shall it be said, You must not proceed to insult and distress the daughter of Sidon? Nay though thou shouldst go to the Kitians; yet even there thou shalt not have rest. ¹³ Away to the land of the Chaldeans, though it hath been wasted by the Assyrians; because its walls had fallen. ¹⁴ Raise the mournful cry, ships of Carthage, because your strong hold is destroyed. ¹⁵ And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forsaken seventy years, according to the days of a king, according to the time of a man. And it shall come to pass after seventy years, that Tyre shall be as the song of a harlot. ¹⁶ Take a kithara, stroll about, city, O harlot long forgotten! Play skilfully; sing many songs, that thou mayst be remembered. ¹⁷ And it shall come to pass after seventy years, that God will take account of Tyre, and she shall be restored to her former state, and be a mart for all the kingdoms of the World; which are on the face of the earth. ¹⁸ And her traffick and gain shall be holy to the Lord. All her gain shall not be treasured up for themselves, but for them who dwell before the Lord, that they may eat and drink and be filled, and for contributions to be kept in remembrance before the Lord.

⁴ And the children of Jovan, Elisa, and the Tharsians, Ketians, Rhodians.

²⁴ For bands of Kitians will issue forth, And afflict Assur, and afflict Hebrews: And they themselves shall likewise be destroyed.

²⁹ Then the boundary is to turn up to Rama, and to the fountain Masphasset, and the Tyrians; Then the boundary is to turn up to Jasiph; and the termination of it is to be the sea, including Apoleb, and Echozob,

¹ When Chiram king of Tyre sent his servants to anoint Solomon in the room of his father David, because Chiram continued to love David all his days,

²² For the king had at sea a Tharsian fleet with the fleets of Chiram. One came every three years to the king from Tharsis, with gold and silver and stones wrought in a lathe or hewn with a chisel. This was an arrangement which king Solomon had made to provide for building the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and the wall of Jerusalem, and the citadel; and to fortify the city of David and Assur and Magdol and Gazer and upper Baithoron and Jethermath and all the chariot cities and all the cities for the cavalry, and for all the works which he purposed to construct in Jerusalem and in all the country, in order to keep in subjection all the remains of the Chettites and the Amorites and the Pherezites and the Chananites and the Evites and the Jebusites and the Gergasites, who were not of the children of Israel; The children of them who had been left with him in the land, whom the Israelites could not wholly extirpate, these Solomon subjected to a tribute which continueth to this day. But from the children of Israel he exacted nothing; because they were his warriors and his servants, his chiefs and his nobles, his charioteers and his horsemen.

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²¹ For a fleet went for the king to Tharsis with the servants of Chiram. And once every three years, ships came from Tharsis for the king, laden with gold and silver and elephants teeth and apes.

⁷ With a tempestuous blast thou wilt dash to pieces the ships of Tarsish.

¹⁶ and against every ship of the sea; and against every ensign of beauteous ships:

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

⁸ For the cry of war touched the border of Moab at Agaleim, and the scream thereof reacheth even to the well of Aileim.

¹² and shall it be said, You must not proceed to insult and distress the daughter of Sidon? Nay though thou shouldst go to the Kitians; yet even there thou shalt not have rest.

¹⁰ Every city is desolated: the houses will be shut up that none may enter.

⁹ [J] For me the islands waited, and among the first the ships of Tarsis to bring thy children from afar and their silver and their gold with them. And because of the holy name of the Lord, and because the Holy One of Israel is glorious;

¹⁰ For go to the isles of Chettim and see; and send to Kedar and make strict inquiry; and see if such things have ever happened:

¹⁰ And I will destroy from among them the sound of joy and the sound of gladness; the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride; the odour of myrrh and the light of the lamp. ¹¹ And the whole country shall be a desolation. And they shall be slaves among the nations seventy years.

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.

²² and the kings of Tyre and the kings of Sidon; and the kings on the border of the sea;

⁴ In the day which is coming to destroy all the Philistines I will destroy also Tyre and Sidon and all the residue of their help. [p] Because the Lord will utterly destroy the remnants in the isles,

¹ Again it came to pass in the eleventh year on the first of the month, a word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² Son of man, Because Sor hath said against Jerusalem, Aha! She is trodden down; the nations have destroyed her; she is turned over to me; she that was full is laid waste, ³ therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold I am against thee, Sor, and I will bring up many nations against thee, as the sea cometh up with its waves. ⁴ And they shall demolish the walls of Sor and break down thy towers; and I will brush away the loose earth from it and make it a bare rock. ⁵ It shall be a place to dry nets in the midst of the sea. As I have spoken, saith the Lord, It shall indeed be a prey for the nations; ⁶ and its daughters on the continent shall be slain with the sword: and they shall know that I am the Lord. ⁷ For thus saith the Lord, Behold against thee, Sor, I will bring from the North, Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon, a king of kings, with horses and chariots and horsemen, and a great assembly of many nations. ⁸ Thy daughters on the main land he will slay with the sword; and he will lay siege to thee and surround thee with works, and make a rampart against thee round about, with places for engines; and arrange his lances over against thee, ⁹ and with his battle axes demolish thy walls and thy towers. ¹⁰ By reason of the multitude of his horses their dust shall cover thee; and with the neighing of his horses and the rumbling of his chariot wheels thy walls shall shake when he entereth thy gates like one entering a city from the plain. ¹¹ With the hoofs of his horses all thy streets shall be trampled. He will slay thy people with the sword; and level to the ground the confidence of ¹² thy strength; and make a prey of thine army, and a spoil of thy wealth; and break down thy walls and demolish thy lovely houses; and thy stones and thy timbers and thy rubbish he will throw into the midst of the sea. ¹³ And he will put an end to the multitude of thy musicians; and the sound of thy psalteries shall no more be heard. ¹⁴ I will indeed make thee a bare rock. Thou shalt be a place for drying nets, thou shalt never be rebuilded any more; for I the Lord have spoken, saith the Lord. ¹⁵ For thus saith the Lord, Lord, to Sor: At the sound of thy fall; at the groans of thy wounded, when the sword is drawn in the midst of thee, shall not the islands quake? ¹⁶ Yes, from their thrones will come down all the chiefs of the maritime nations, and they will take their crowns from their heads, and strip off their embroidered robes. They will be struck with consternation and sit on the ground, and be in dread of their own destruction and groan for thee. ¹⁷ And they will take up a lamentation for thee and say to thee, "How art thou destroyed from the sea, renowned city! which didst impress the terror of thee on all who inhabit its shores! ¹⁸ The isles also will be terrified at the day of thy fall. ¹⁹ For thus saith the Lord, Lord, When I make thee a desolate city, like cities never to be rebuilded, when I bring up the abyss against thee; much water shall cover thee. ²⁰ And I will press thee down to them who go down to the pit, to the people of old; and make thee dwell in the depths of the earth; in an everlasting desert, with them who go down to the pit; that thou mayst never be rebuilt nor rise again in the land of life. ²¹ I will make thee a desolation; and thou shalt never come into existence again, saith the Lord, Lord.

¹ Then a word of the Lord came to me saying, ² Therefore, son of man, take up a lamentation for Sor ³ and thou shalt say to Sor, which is situate at the entrance of the sea, the mart of nations from many isles, thus saith the Lord to Sor, thou saidst, "I have clothed myself with beauty." ⁴ In the heart of the sea thy sons clothed thee with beauty for Beelim. ⁵ The cedars from Senir cut into planks have been built into ships for thee; they took cypresses from Lebanon to make for thee tapering masts: ⁶ from the groves of Bashan they made thy oars. Thy temples they built of ivory and thy roomy houses from the isles of the Chetians: 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. ⁸ The inhabitants of Sidon were thy captains; and the Aradians were thy mariners; thine own wise men, Sor, who were in thee, were thy pilots. ⁹ The elders of Biblii, even their wise men who were in thee, invigorated thy counsel. And all the ships of the sea and all the mariners of the western world were in thy service. ¹⁰ Persians and Lydians and Libyans were in thine army. Thy warriors hung up in thee shields and helmets. They increased thy glory. ¹¹ The Aradians, the army on thy walls, were guards in thy towers; they hung up their quivers on thy shoulders round about. They made thy beauty perfect. ¹² The Karchadians purchased of thee for exportation, from thy vast stock of all kinds of merchandize; and paid thee for their purchases silver and gold and iron and tin and lead. ¹³ Hellas, even that whole country and those stretching beyond it, traded with thee in the souls of men and supplied thy market with vessels of brass. ¹⁴ From the house of Thogarma thy market was supplied with horses and horsemen. ¹⁵ The sons of the Rhodians were thy merchants: from the isles they plentifully supplied thy market with ivory; ¹⁶ and in exchange thou didst supply them with thy merchandise, with slaves a part of thy exports from thy vast stock of wares, with stacte and embroideries from Tharsis and Ramoth and Chorchor. ¹⁷ Juda also and the children of Israel traded with thee in the sale of wheat and myrrh and cassia; and for thy merchandises supplied thee chiefly with honey and oil and frankincense. ¹⁸ Damascus was thy customer for thine abundant wares of all kinds, they had wine from Chelbon, so they paid for their purchases with wool from Miletus and with wine. ¹⁹ From Asel thou wast supplied with manufactured iron, which was a part of thy merchandise by a circuitous trade. ²⁰ Daidan was a dealer with thee and supplied thee with choice cattle for carriages. ²¹ Arabia and all the chiefs of Kedar dealt with thee, and paid thee camels and lambs and rams for what they purchased of thee. ²² The merchants of Saba and Ramma traded with thee with the choicest spiceries and precious stones; they gave gold also for thy merchandise. ²³ Charra and Chana also were thy customers and so were Assur and Charman: ²⁴ they supplied thy market with blue cloth and choice merchandise bound up in bales.

¹ Again a word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² and thou son of man say to the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord, Because thy heart is elated, and thou hast said, "I am a God."" I inhabit the dwelling of a god in the heart of the sea." Now as for thee thou art a man and not a God; though thou hast set thy heart as the heart of a God. ³ Art thou wiser than Daniel? Have not wise men taught thee with their knowledge? ⁴ Didst thou by thy knowledge, or thine own understanding, procure for thyself power and gold and silver in thy treasuries? ⁵ By thy great skill and thy traffic thou hast increased thy wealth; and with thy wealth thy heart is elated; ⁶ therefore, Thus saith the Lord, Since thou hast set thy heart as the heart of a God; ⁷ for this, behold I will bring against thee strange ravagers from the nations, and they shall unsheath their swords against thee and against the beauty of thy wisdom; ⁸ and they shall bring down thy beauty to destruction and trample thee down; and thou shalt die the death of wounded men in the heart of the sea ⁹ Wilt thou say, "I am a God," in the presence of them who are slaying thee? Thou indeed art but a man and not a God. ¹⁰ Among a multitude of uncircumcised thou shalt die by the hand of strangers, for I have spoken, saith the Lord. ¹¹ Then a word of the Lord came to me, saying, ¹² Son of man, take up a lamentation for the prince of Tyre and say to him, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, thou wast an impression of resemblance and a crown of beauty. ¹³ In the delightful paradise of God thou wast born, Thou hast been adorned with every precious stone, the sardis and topaz and emerald and carbuncle and sapphire and jasper, and with silver and gold and the ligure and agate, and amethyst and chrysolite and beryl and onyx; and hast filled thy treasuries and thy stores with gold. ¹⁴ From the day thou wast created thou wast with the cherub. On the holy mountain of God I placed thee, thou wast born in the midst of sparkling stones. ¹⁵ Thou in thy days wast spotless from the day thou wast created, until iniquities were found in thee. ¹⁶ By reason of thine abundant traffic thou didst fill thy stores with iniquity and commit sins; therefore thou art cast out slain from the mountain of God; and from amidst the sparkling stones the cherub hath dragged thee. ¹⁷ Thy heart was elated because of thy beauty; with thy beauty thine understanding was perverted. For the multitude of thy sins I have dashed thee on the ground; in the presence of kings I have made thee a public example. ¹⁸ For the multitude of thy sins and the iniquities of thy traffic I have denied thy sanctuaries; and from the midst of thee I will bring out a fire which shall devour thee. And I will make thee like ashes on the ground, in the sight of all them who behold thee. ¹⁹ And all that knew thee among the nations shall lament over thee. Thou art utterly destroyed and never to be any more. ²⁰ Then a word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²¹ Son of man, set thy face against Sidon, and prophesy against it and say, ²² Thus saith the Lord, Behold I am against thee, Sidon, and I shall be glorified by thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. When I execute judgments on thee, then shall I be hallowed by thee. ²³ There shall be blood and death in thy streets, and the victims of the sword shall fall in and around thee: and they shall know that I am the Lord. ²⁴ And there shall no more be in the house of Israel a pricking briar nor a grieving thorn, by reason of those around them, who despised them: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

³⁰ for the Kitians who set out at the same time will arrive, and he will be humbled. Then he will return and will be inflamed with wrath against the holy covenant. And he will act and return and keep up an intelligence with them who have forsaken the holy covenant.

⁴ Now what have you, Tyre and Sidon and all Galilee of foreign tribes, to do with me? Are you rendering me a retribution? Or are you venting your spite against me? On your heads I will severely and speedily return your retribution. ⁵ Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and carried my choicest goods into your temples, ⁶ and sold the sons of Juda and the sons of Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might remove them far from their borders; ⁷ therefore behold I will raise them up from the places whither you sold them, and return your retribution on your heads. ⁸ And I will deliver your sons and your daughters into the hands of the sons of Juda; that they may sell them as captives to a far distant nation. Because the Lord hath spoken,

⁹ Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of Tyre, and for four shall I not be averse from it? Because they delivered up the captives of the Salamonites to Idumea, and did not remember the covenant of brothers; ¹⁰ therefore I will send a fire against the walls of Tyre, and it shall devour the foundation thereof.

² in Hemath also; in the borders thereof. As for Tyre and Sidon, because they were very prudent, ³ therefore Tyre built for herself bulwarks, and treasured up silver like dust, and collected gold like dirt in the highways; ⁴ but on account of this the Lord will take possession of them, and he will smite her power into the sea; and she shall be consumed by fire.

¹⁷ for in one hour what a mass of wealth is laid waste! And every one sailing to the place, both mariners and traffickers by sea stood afar off ¹⁸ and screamed when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city was like this great city? ¹⁹ and they put dust on their heads and cried weeping and wailing and saying, Alas! Alas! the great city by which all who have ships at sea were enriched by means of her wealth; for in one hour she is desolated.

²² And the sound of harpers and of musicians and of pipers and of trumpeters shall no more be heard in thee. And no artist of any kind shall ever be found in thee again. And the sound of a millstone shall never be heard in thee again; ²³ nor shall the light of a lamp ever shine in thee any more, nor the voice of a bridegroom and bride ever be heard in thee; for thy merchants were the nobles of the earth; for by thy bewitching arts all the nations were led astray.

¹⁰ Be still and know that I am God: let me be exalted among the nations, let me be exalted in the earth.

¹ [J] Dedicate yourselves to me, Islands, for the Arehons will gather new strength. Let them draw near and confer together, then let them announce judgment.

⁵ Sit in compunction: enter into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans! thou shalt no more be called the strength of a kingdom.

³ and thou shalt say to Sor, which is situate at the entrance of the sea, the mart of nations from many isles, thus saith the Lord to Sor, thou saidst, "I have clothed myself with beauty." ⁴ In the heart of the sea thy sons clothed thee with beauty for Beelim.

⁸ The inhabitants of Sidon were thy captains; and the Aradians were thy mariners; thine own wise men, Sor, who were in thee, were thy pilots. ⁹ The elders of Biblii, even their wise men who were in thee, invigorated thy counsel. And all the ships of the sea and all the mariners of the western world were in thy service. ¹⁰ Persians and Lydians and Libyans were in thine army. Thy warriors hung up in thee shields and helmets. They increased thy glory. ¹¹ The Aradians, the army on thy walls, were guards in thy towers; they hung up their quivers on thy shoulders round about. They made thy beauty perfect. ¹² The Karchadians purchased of thee for exportation, from thy vast stock of all kinds of merchandize; and paid thee for their purchases silver and gold and iron and tin and lead. ¹³ Hellas, even that whole country and those stretching beyond it, traded with thee in the souls of men and supplied thy market with vessels of brass. ¹⁴ From the house of Thogarma thy market was supplied with horses and horsemen. ¹⁵ The sons of the Rhodians were thy merchants: from the isles they plentifully supplied thy market with ivory; ¹⁶ and in exchange thou didst supply them with thy merchandise, with slaves a part of thy exports from thy vast stock of wares, with stacte and embroideries from Tharsis and Ramoth and Chorchor. ¹⁷ Juda also and the children of Israel traded with thee in the sale of wheat and myrrh and cassia; and for thy merchandises supplied thee chiefly with honey and oil and frankincense. ¹⁸ Damascus was thy customer for thine abundant wares of all kinds, they had wine from Chelbon, so they paid for their purchases with wool from Miletus and with wine. ¹⁹ From Asel thou wast supplied with manufactured iron, which was a part of thy merchandise by a circuitous trade. ²⁰ Daidan was a dealer with thee and supplied thee with choice cattle for carriages. ²¹ Arabia and all the chiefs of Kedar dealt with thee, and paid thee camels and lambs and rams for what they purchased of thee. ²² The merchants of Saba and Ramma traded with thee with the choicest spiceries and precious stones; they gave gold also for thy merchandise. ²³ Charra and Chana also were thy customers and so were Assur and Charman: ²⁴ they supplied thy market with blue cloth and choice merchandise bound up in bales. ²⁵ Fleets of cypress ships were employed in thy trade. So with this multitude and with thy merchandise thou wast filled and deeply laden in the heart of the sea. ²⁶ Into deep water thy mariners steered thee. In the midst of the sea the south wind hath wrecked thee. ²⁷ Thine armies, and the gains of thee and of thy factors, with thy mariners, and thy pilots, and thy counsellors, and thy factors and all thy warriors were on board of thee: and all this assemblage of thine which are in thee shall sink in the heart of the sea on the day of thy ruin. ²⁸ At the scream of thy voice thy pilots will be astounded. ²⁹ They who handle the oar and they on board ships will quit their vessels; and they who frequent the sea will stand on the land, ³⁰ and with their voice raise a mournful cry for thee, and scream bitterly and put earth on their heads and strew themselves with ashes, ³¹ [Omitted] ³² and their children will take up a lamentation for thee a peculiar song of Woe for Sor" ³³ what immense wealth didst thou acquire from the sea! with thine abundance thou didst fill nations; and with thy traffic enrich all the kings of the earth. ³⁴ Now thou art overwhelmed in the sea; in deep water, thy merchandise, with all thy crew in thee. All thy mariners are fallen. ³⁵ For thee all the inhabitants of the isles are in distress, and their kings are struck with amaze, and tears bedew their countenance. ³⁶ For thee the merchants of the nations express pity; thou art utterly destroyed and never to be any more."

² and thou son of man say to the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord, Because thy heart is elated, and thou hast said, "I am a God."" I inhabit the dwelling of a god in the heart of the sea." Now as for thee thou art a man and not a God; though thou hast set thy heart as the heart of a God.

²⁰ But the Lord is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be awed at his presence.

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.

⁵ Accordingly, David assembled all Israel from the border of Egypt to the bay of Emath, to bring the ark of God from the city Iarim,

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 Who hath taken this counsel against the Tyrians? Is she inferior? Or hath she not power? Her merchants are glorious chiefs of the earth."

¹⁸ Now therefore what hast thou to do with the way to Egypt? Is it to drink the water of Geon? Or what hast thou to do in the way to the Assyrians? Is it to drink the water of rivers?

³ and thou shalt say to Sor, which is situate at the entrance of the sea, the mart of nations from many isles, thus saith the Lord to Sor, thou saidst, "I have clothed myself with beauty." ⁴ In the heart of the sea thy sons clothed thee with beauty for Beelim. ⁵ The cedars from Senir cut into planks have been built into ships for thee; they took cypresses from Lebanon to make for thee tapering masts: ⁶ from the groves of Bashan they made thy oars. Thy temples they built of ivory and thy roomy houses from the isles of the Chetians: 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. ⁸ The inhabitants of Sidon were thy captains; and the Aradians were thy mariners; thine own wise men, Sor, who were in thee, were thy pilots. ⁹ The elders of Biblii, even their wise men who were in thee, invigorated thy counsel. And all the ships of the sea and all the mariners of the western world were in thy service. ¹⁰ Persians and Lydians and Libyans were in thine army. Thy warriors hung up in thee shields and helmets. They increased thy glory. ¹¹ The Aradians, the army on thy walls, were guards in thy towers; they hung up their quivers on thy shoulders round about. They made thy beauty perfect. ¹² The Karchadians purchased of thee for exportation, from thy vast stock of all kinds of merchandize; and paid thee for their purchases silver and gold and iron and tin and lead. ¹³ Hellas, even that whole country and those stretching beyond it, traded with thee in the souls of men and supplied thy market with vessels of brass. ¹⁴ From the house of Thogarma thy market was supplied with horses and horsemen. ¹⁵ The sons of the Rhodians were thy merchants: from the isles they plentifully supplied thy market with ivory; ¹⁶ and in exchange thou didst supply them with thy merchandise, with slaves a part of thy exports from thy vast stock of wares, with stacte and embroideries from Tharsis and Ramoth and Chorchor. ¹⁷ Juda also and the children of Israel traded with thee in the sale of wheat and myrrh and cassia; and for thy merchandises supplied thee chiefly with honey and oil and frankincense. ¹⁸ Damascus was thy customer for thine abundant wares of all kinds, they had wine from Chelbon, so they paid for their purchases with wool from Miletus and with wine. ¹⁹ From Asel thou wast supplied with manufactured iron, which was a part of thy merchandise by a circuitous trade. ²⁰ Daidan was a dealer with thee and supplied thee with choice cattle for carriages. ²¹ Arabia and all the chiefs of Kedar dealt with thee, and paid thee camels and lambs and rams for what they purchased of thee. ²² The merchants of Saba and Ramma traded with thee with the choicest spiceries and precious stones; they gave gold also for thy merchandise. ²³ Charra and Chana also were thy customers and so were Assur and Charman:

³³ what immense wealth didst thou acquire from the sea! with thine abundance thou didst fill nations; and with thy traffic enrich all the kings of the earth.

⁴ Didst thou by thy knowledge, or thine own understanding, procure for thyself power and gold and silver in thy treasuries?

⁵ Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and carried my choicest goods into your temples,

¹¹ The merchants of the earth also will weep and mourn for her; because no one any more buyeth their merchandize ¹² the merchandize of gold and silver and precious stones and pearls; and of cotton and purple and silk and scarlet; and every sort of odoriferous wood and the various wares of ivory and of most precious wood and of brass and iron and marble, ¹³ and cinnamon and frankincense and myrrh and incense and wine and oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep and horses and chariots and the bodies and souls of men.

¹⁵ And Chanaan begot Sidon his first born, and Chettaius,

¹⁹ And the boundaries of the Chananites were from Sidon extending to Gerara and Gaza, thence extending to Sodom and Gomorra, Adama and Seboin even to Dasa.

³ At the sound of his impetuous onset; at the armour of his infantry; at the rushing of his chariots; the rumbling of his wheels; fathers looked not back on their children, by reason of the feebleness of their hands. ⁴ In the day which is coming to destroy all the Philistines I will destroy also Tyre and Sidon and all the residue of their help. [p] Because the Lord will utterly destroy the remnants in the isles,

³ therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold I am against thee, Sor, and I will bring up many nations against thee, as the sea cometh up with its waves. ⁴ And they shall demolish the walls of Sor and break down thy towers; and I will brush away the loose earth from it and make it a bare rock. ⁵ It shall be a place to dry nets in the midst of the sea. As I have spoken, saith the Lord, It shall indeed be a prey for the nations; ⁶ and its daughters on the continent shall be slain with the sword: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

¹¹ Ephraim is flown like a bird; their glories from parentage, births and conceptions are gone. ¹² For though they bring up their children, they shall be bereaved of them from among men: for [and alas for them! my flesh is of them] ¹³ Ephraim, as I have seen, have roused their children for a hunt; even Ephraim hath, that he may lead out his children to a fatal conflict. ¹⁴ Give them: [p] [O Lord what wilt thou give them?] [J]; A womb incapable of bearing children and dry breasts.

²³ nor shall the light of a lamp ever shine in thee any more, nor the voice of a bridegroom and bride ever be heard in thee; for thy merchants were the nobles of the earth; for by thy bewitching arts all the nations were led astray.

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.

⁹ and said to them, I know that the Lord hath given you this land; for the dread of you is fallen upon us: ¹⁰ for we have heard that the Lord God dried up the Bed sea on your account, when you came out of Egypt, and all that he hath done to the two kings of the Amorites who were on the borders of the Jordan, to Seon and Og, whom you have utterly destroyed: 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,

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.

¹⁵ For thus saith the Lord, Lord, to Sor: At the sound of thy fall; at the groans of thy wounded, when the sword is drawn in the midst of thee, shall not the islands quake? ¹⁶ Yes, from their thrones will come down all the chiefs of the maritime nations, and they will take their crowns from their heads, and strip off their embroidered robes. They will be struck with consternation and sit on the ground, and be in dread of their own destruction and groan for thee. ¹⁷ And they will take up a lamentation for thee and say to thee, "How art thou destroyed from the sea, renowned city! which didst impress the terror of thee on all who inhabit its shores! ¹⁸ The isles also will be terrified at the day of thy fall. ¹⁹ For thus saith the Lord, Lord, When I make thee a desolate city, like cities never to be rebuilded, when I bring up the abyss against thee; much water shall cover thee. ²⁰ And I will press thee down to them who go down to the pit, to the people of old; and make thee dwell in the depths of the earth; in an everlasting desert, with them who go down to the pit; that thou mayst never be rebuilt nor rise again in the land of life. ²¹ I will make thee a desolation; and thou shalt never come into existence again, saith the Lord, Lord.

¹⁹ And all that knew thee among the nations shall lament over thee. Thou art utterly destroyed and never to be any more.

⁷ Moab shall raise the mournful cry, for in the country of Moab they shall all utter the cry of Woe, but to them who dwell in the habitations of Seth thou shalt extend care and shalt not be ashamed."

¹⁵ meet with bread them who are fleeing, because of the multitude of the slain; and because of the multitude of dispersed: and because of the multitude of swords; and because of the multitude of bended bows; and because of the multitude of them who have fallen in battle.

¹ The Oracle concerning Tyre. Raise the mournful cry, ships of Carthage, for Tyre is destroyed and there are no arrivals from the land of the Kitians. She is carried away captive. ² Who could be compared with the dwellers in this island; these merchants of Phoenicia, who traversed the ocean;

¹⁰ work thy land: for ships no more arrive from Carthage,

⁷ I have seen slaves on horseback and princes walking like slaves on the ground.

² This vain city is full of people shouting. Thy slain are not slain with the sword; nor have thy dead died in battle.

¹³ In this land of my people shall spring up the thorn and the briar, and joy shall be taken from every dwelling.

¹ Come down, sit on the ground, Virgin daughter of Babylon! Sit on the ground, daughter of the Chaldeans! for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate! ² Take a millstone and grind corn. Doff thy veil; uncover thy grey locks. Make bare thy leg: wade through rivers.

²⁴ When all the nations shall say, Why hath the Lord dealt thus with this land? What hath occasioned this great fierceness of indignation? ²⁵ Then they will say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, ²⁶ and went and served strange gods, which they did not know, and which he had not arranged for them, ²⁷ therefore the Lord was provoked to wrath against this land, to bring upon it all the curses which are written in the book of the law; ²⁸ and the Lord rooted them out from their land, with wrath, and anger, and very great indignation, and cast them out into another land, as at this day.

⁸ Even though they should say to him, Thou alone art chief.

⁹ How then can you revolt and affect to be petty princes. Those are reduced to slavery who have trusted in the Egyptians for charioteers and cavalry.

⁴⁴ Behold he will be like the lion which must go up from the swelling of Jordan to Gaitham, for I will speedily drive men from her, and set every youth against her: for who is like me and who can withstand me? And who is the shepherd who can stand before me? ⁴⁵ Therefore hear the counsel which the Lord hath taken against Babylon; and the determination he is come to against the Chaldean inhabitants, let all but the lambs of the flock to destroyed; let all but a pasture for them be made a desolation.

² and thou son of man say to the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord, Because thy heart is elated, and thou hast said, "I am a God."" I inhabit the dwelling of a god in the heart of the sea." Now as for thee thou art a man and not a God; though thou hast set thy heart as the heart of a God. ³ Art thou wiser than Daniel? Have not wise men taught thee with their knowledge? ⁴ Didst thou by thy knowledge, or thine own understanding, procure for thyself power and gold and silver in thy treasuries? ⁵ By thy great skill and thy traffic thou hast increased thy wealth; and with thy wealth thy heart is elated; ⁶ therefore, Thus saith the Lord, Since thou hast set thy heart as the heart of a God;

¹² Son of man, take up a lamentation for the prince of Tyre and say to him, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, thou wast an impression of resemblance and a crown of beauty. ¹³ In the delightful paradise of God thou wast born, Thou hast been adorned with every precious stone, the sardis and topaz and emerald and carbuncle and sapphire and jasper, and with silver and gold and the ligure and agate, and amethyst and chrysolite and beryl and onyx; and hast filled thy treasuries and thy stores with gold. ¹⁴ From the day thou wast created thou wast with the cherub. On the holy mountain of God I placed thee, thou wast born in the midst of sparkling stones. ¹⁵ Thou in thy days wast spotless from the day thou wast created, until iniquities were found in thee. ¹⁶ By reason of thine abundant traffic thou didst fill thy stores with iniquity and commit sins; therefore thou art cast out slain from the mountain of God; and from amidst the sparkling stones the cherub hath dragged thee. ¹⁷ Thy heart was elated because of thy beauty; with thy beauty thine understanding was perverted. For the multitude of thy sins I have dashed thee on the ground; in the presence of kings I have made thee a public example. ¹⁸ For the multitude of thy sins and the iniquities of thy traffic I have denied thy sanctuaries; and from the midst of thee I will bring out a fire which shall devour thee. And I will make thee like ashes on the ground, in the sight of all them who behold thee.

⁸ therefore in one day these calamities shall come upon her, pestilence and sorrow and famine; and she shall be consumed with fire; for the Lord God who judgeth her is mighty.

²¹ who poureth contempt on princes and hath healed them who were low;

¹¹ and send forth angels in wrath, and humble everyone who is insolent. ¹² Extinguish also the haughty, and turn the wicked into instant corruption.

⁴⁰ Contempt hath been poured on their princes: and he hath caused them to wander in a trackless desert.

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.

¹⁷ [[J] Jehovah] and every man shall be humbled; and the haughtiness of these men shall fall; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

¹³ Therefore my people are become captives, because they did not know the Lord; and multitudes have died of famine and thirst;

¹⁵ The commoner shall be humbled; and the noble dishonoured; and the lofty eyes shall be brought down; ¹⁶ and the Lord of Hosts shall be exalted in judgment; and God, the Holy One, shall be glorified by righteousness;

¹⁵ the aged and the honourable, this was the head; and the prophet who teacheth falsehood, he is the tail.

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;

¹¹ [[J] Jehovah, [p] the prophet.} [J] I will indeed order evils for the whole empire, and on the wicked their transgressions; and destroy the arrogance of the wicked; and humble the haughtiness of the proud;

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

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

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.

⁶ [c] How long wilt thou hew down, sword of the Lord? How long will it be ere thou wilt rest? Return into thy scabbard, rest and be removed. ⁷ [p] How can it rest when the Lord hath given it a charge against Ascalon and the cities on the sea coast and to be lifted up against them whom remain?

⁶² then thou shalt say, "O Lord, Lord, thou hast spoken against this place, that thou wilt destroy it utterly, so that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor beast; for it shall be a desolation forever."

³⁷ Now therefore I Nabuchodonosar praise and extol and glorify the king of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are judgments and all them who walk in pride he can abase.

¹ For behold a day is coming, heated like an oven, which shall set them on fire. And all aliens and all workers of iniquity shall be like stubble. The day which is coming shall blaze upon them, saith the Lord Almighty, and of them neither root nor branch shall be left.

²⁸ to do what thy hand and thy council had determinately marked out beforehand to be brought to pass.

²⁶ For observe, brethren, this call of you, that there are not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many of illustrious birth; ²⁷ but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise; and the weak things of the world God hath made choice of to put to shame the strong ²⁸ and the ignoble of this world, and those of no account, God hath chosen; nay, the very nothings, to put a stop to the operation of the things which are, ²⁹ that no flesh might boast in his presence.

¹¹ by whom we, [having been previously marked out in a determinate manner, according to the purpose of him who effecteth all things according to the counsel of his will] were made his inheritance,

¹¹ according to the predisposition of the ages which he made by Christ Jesus our Lord;

⁶ It granteth indeed a greater favour, therefore it saith, "God resisteth the proud, and granteth favour to the humble."

²⁰ At this Saul shuddered, and fell at his full length on the ground, and was struck with horror at the words of Samuel, and there was no more any strength in him, fur he had not eaten bread that whole day, and that whole night.

³² It is thou, God, who girdest me with strength, and hast made my way spotless;

¹⁴ Raise the mournful cry, ships of Carthage, because your strong hold is destroyed.

⁶ From the daughter of Sion all her comeliness is taken away. Her chiefs were like rams which could find no pasture; and they came without strength in view of the pursuer.

²² and I will overthrow the thrones of kings and destroy the power of the kings of the nations: and I will overthrow the chariots and the charioteers; and horses and their riders shall come down every one with a sword against his brother.

⁶ For while we were yet without strength, Christ In due time died for the ungodly:

²⁵ And when Noe recovered from the wine and knew what his younger son had done to him,

¹⁵ And Chanaan begot Sidon his first born, and Chettaius, ¹⁶ and Jebousaius and Amoraius and Gergasaius ¹⁷ and Evaius and Aroukaius and Asennaius ¹⁸ and Aradius and Samaraius and Amathius. And after this the tribes of the Chananites were dispersed. ¹⁹ And the boundaries of the Chananites were from Sidon extending to Gerara and Gaza, thence extending to Sodom and Gomorra, Adama and Seboin even to Dasa.

²¹ And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the Lord restrained the sea that whole night with a strong south easterly wind and made the sea dry ground; and the water was cleft asunder.

⁸ At the blast of thy wrath the water parted; The waters were compacted like a wall; The waves were condensed in the midst of the sea. ⁹ The enemy said, I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the spoil; I will glut my vengeance: My sword shall slay; my hand shall prevail. ¹⁰ Thou didst send forth thy blast, the sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty water.

⁶ The nations were troubled, kingdoms tottered; he uttered his voice, the earth was shaken.

³ Be thou to me a protecting God, and a place of strength to save me: for thou art my fortress and my refuge.

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.

⁶ I will send this anger of mine to a lawless nation; and I will order this people of mine to gather spoil and take the prey, and to trample down cities and lay them in the dust.

¹⁶ They who see thee will express their amazement at thee and say, Is this the man who troubled the earth? who shook kings? ¹⁷ who made the World a desert? who, when he destroyed cities, never dismissed his captives?

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

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]

⁷ [p] How can it rest when the Lord hath given it a charge against Ascalon and the cities on the sea coast and to be lifted up against them whom remain?

¹⁰ By reason of the multitude of his horses their dust shall cover thee; and with the neighing of his horses and the rumbling of his chariot wheels thy walls shall shake when he entereth thy gates like one entering a city from the plain.

¹⁵ For thus saith the Lord, Lord, to Sor: At the sound of thy fall; at the groans of thy wounded, when the sword is drawn in the midst of thee, shall not the islands quake? ¹⁶ Yes, from their thrones will come down all the chiefs of the maritime nations, and they will take their crowns from their heads, and strip off their embroidered robes. They will be struck with consternation and sit on the ground, and be in dread of their own destruction and groan for thee. ¹⁷ And they will take up a lamentation for thee and say to thee, "How art thou destroyed from the sea, renowned city! which didst impress the terror of thee on all who inhabit its shores! ¹⁸ The isles also will be terrified at the day of thy fall. ¹⁹ For thus saith the Lord, Lord, When I make thee a desolate city, like cities never to be rebuilded, when I bring up the abyss against thee; much water shall cover thee.

³⁴ Now thou art overwhelmed in the sea; in deep water, thy merchandise, with all thy crew in thee. All thy mariners are fallen. ³⁵ For thee all the inhabitants of the isles are in distress, and their kings are struck with amaze, and tears bedew their countenance.

¹⁶ At the sound of his fall the nations were shaken. When he was pressed down to the mansion of the dead, with them who go down into the pit; all the trees of the garden comforted him in the earth; even the choice trees of Libanus, all that drink water;

⁷ As for Chanaan, in his hand is a deceitful balance. He loved to tyrannise. ⁸ Ephraim indeed said, "But I am rich, I have found a rest for myself." Because of the iniquities which he hath committed, none of his labours shall turn to account.

¹⁴ Concerning thee the Lord will command, let none of thy name be sown any more. From the house of thy God I will root out the graven and molten images;" I will make it a sepulchre for thee."

⁷ and I will convulse all the nations; and the choice things of all the nations will come, and I will fill this very house with glory, saith the Lord Almighty.

²¹ And every kettle in Jerusalem and in Juda shall be holy to the Lord Almighty. And all that sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in them. And there shall no more be a Chananite in the house of the Lord Almighty in that day.

¹⁷ And he taught, saying, Is it not written, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations;" but you have made it a den of robbers.

¹⁶ and said to them who sold doves, Take these things hence. Make not the house of my father a house of merchandize.

¹³ Zabulon shall dwell by the sea; And he will be near the haven of ships, And will extend as far as Sidon.

⁶⁴ And the Lord thy God will scatter thee among all the nations, from one extremity of the earth to the other; and thou shalt there serve other gods; stocks and stones, which neither thou, nor thy fathers have known. ⁶⁵ But even among these nations he will not give thee rest, nor shall there be any rest for the sole of thy foot. Indeed the Lord will give thee there a strange trembling heart, and failing eyes, and a desponding soul, ⁶⁶ and thy life shall hang in suspence before thine eyes, and thou shalt be in terror, day and night, and have no assurance of thy life. ⁶⁷ In the morning thou wilt say; How will it be with me in the evening! And in the evening thou wilt say, How may it be with me in the morning! on account of the terror of thy heart with which thou shalt be affrighted, and on account of the sights of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

⁸ and the Lord delivered them into the hands of Israel, and they pursued them with slaughter, to great Sidon, and to Maseron, and to the plains of Massoch, eastward, and hewed them down till there was none of them left alive.

⁷ Was not she your boast of old, before she was delivered up?"

²² This is the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning him, "The virgin daughter of Sion hath despised thee and mocked thee; at thee the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head;

¹ Come down, sit on the ground, Virgin daughter of Babylon! Sit on the ground, daughter of the Chaldeans! for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate!

¹⁷ Therefore thou shalt deliver to them this word: Collect tears for your eyes day and night and let them not fail; for with a bruise the daughter of My people is bruised, and the wound is exceedingly painful.

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.

³ Judea is forced to emigrate. On account of her humiliation and because of her great servitude, she sat down among the nations; she found no rest. All her persecutors found her among them who were afflicting her.

¹⁵ From amidst me the Lord hath moved all my mighty men. He hath brought upon me the time for crushing my chosen bands. The Lord trod out a vat for the virgin daughter of Juda.

¹⁵ "Stand off from the unclean." Call to them "Stand off! Stand off! touch not" because they had been touched they shuddered.] Say among the nations, Let them no longer sojourn there.

¹³ And he will put an end to the multitude of thy musicians; and the sound of thy psalteries shall no more be heard. ¹⁴ I will indeed make thee a bare rock. Thou shalt be a place for drying nets, thou shalt never be rebuilded any more; for I the Lord have spoken, saith the Lord.

⁶ from the groves of Bashan they made thy oars. Thy temples they built of ivory and thy roomy houses from the isles of the Chetians:

²² And the sound of harpers and of musicians and of pipers and of trumpeters shall no more be heard in thee. And no artist of any kind shall ever be found in thee again. And the sound of a millstone shall never be heard in thee again;

¹⁴ And the third river is Tigris. This is that which floweth down over against the Assyrians. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

¹⁰ And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon and Orech and Archad and Chalane in the land of Senaar. ¹¹ From this land Assour went out and builded Ninive and the city Rooboth and Chalach

⁹ For this cause the name of it was called CONFUSION, because there the Lord confounded the lips of the whole earth, and dispersed them thence over the face of the whole earth.

²⁸ And Arran died in the presence of his father Tharra in the land in which he was born in the country of the Chaldees.

³¹ And Tharra took Abram his son and Lot the son of Arran, his grand son, and Sara his daughter in law, the wife of his son Abram, and led them out of the country of the Chaldees to go to the land of Chanaan. But when they came to Charran he took up his abode there.

²⁴ the king of the Assyrians brought people from Babylon and from Chutha and from Aia and from Aimath and Seppharuim, and planted them in the cities of Samaria, in stead of the children of Israel. And they took possession of Samaria and dwelt in the cities thereof.

¹² On that occasion Marodoch Baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon, sent a letter and presents to Ezekias, because he heard that Ezekias had been sick.

¹¹ the Lord brought against them the chiefs of the army of the king of Asur, and they took Manasses, and having bound him with chains and fetters they carried him to Babylon.

⁹ This hath been agreed on by Reum Baltam, and Sampsa the secretary, and the rest of our fellow servants, the Deinaians, Apharsathachaians, Tarphalaians, Apharsaians, Archuaians, Babylonians, Susanachaians, Davaians, ¹⁰ and the rest of the nations, whom the great and the honourable Assenaphar transplanted, and settled in the cities of Somoron, and the rest of the country on this side the river.

¹⁷ While this one was still speaking, another messenger came and said to Job, The horsemen, having formed three bands against us, surrounded the camels and have carried them off, and slain thy servants with the sword; and I, alone having escaped, am come to tell thee.

⁹ Let the Ethiopeans bow down before him; and let his enemies lick the dust.

⁵ Ho! Assyrians! The rod of my wrath, even mine anger is in their hands,

⁷ But he did not harbour such thoughts; nor did he reason thus in his mind; but his mind will prompt him to destroy nations not a few.

¹⁹ And Babylon, which is stiled Glorious, by the king of the Chaldeans, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorra.

⁷ For thus saith the Lord, Behold against thee, Sor, I will bring from the North, Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon, a king of kings, with horses and chariots and horsemen, and a great assembly of many nations. ⁸ Thy daughters on the main land he will slay with the sword; and he will lay siege to thee and surround thee with works, and make a rampart against thee round about, with places for engines; and arrange his lances over against thee, ⁹ and with his battle axes demolish thy walls and thy towers. ¹⁰ By reason of the multitude of his horses their dust shall cover thee; and with the neighing of his horses and the rumbling of his chariot wheels thy walls shall shake when he entereth thy gates like one entering a city from the plain. ¹¹ With the hoofs of his horses all thy streets shall be trampled. He will slay thy people with the sword; and level to the ground the confidence of ¹² thy strength; and make a prey of thine army, and a spoil of thy wealth; and break down thy walls and demolish thy lovely houses; and thy stones and thy timbers and thy rubbish he will throw into the midst of the sea. ¹³ And he will put an end to the multitude of thy musicians; and the sound of thy psalteries shall no more be heard. ¹⁴ I will indeed make thee a bare rock. Thou shalt be a place for drying nets, thou shalt never be rebuilded any more; for I the Lord have spoken, saith the Lord.

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.

³⁰ he spake, saying, Is not this the great Babylon which I have built for the house of a kingdom, by the might of my power, for the display of my glory?

⁶ For lo! I am raising up the Chaldeans that bitter and hasty nation, which marcheth over the breadth of the earth, to possess dwellings which belong not to them.

⁴ Thereupon he went from the land of the Chaldees, and dwelt in Charran; and thence after his father died, God removed him to this land in which you now dwell,

¹ The Oracle concerning Tyre. Raise the mournful cry, ships of Carthage, for Tyre is destroyed and there are no arrivals from the land of the Kitians. She is carried away captive.

⁶ Away to Carthage! Raise the mournful cry, ye who inhabit that isle!

²⁵ Fleets of cypress ships were employed in thy trade. So with this multitude and with thy merchandise thou wast filled and deeply laden in the heart of the sea. ²⁶ Into deep water thy mariners steered thee. In the midst of the sea the south wind hath wrecked thee. ²⁷ Thine armies, and the gains of thee and of thy factors, with thy mariners, and thy pilots, and thy counsellors, and thy factors and all thy warriors were on board of thee: and all this assemblage of thine which are in thee shall sink in the heart of the sea on the day of thy ruin. ²⁸ At the scream of thy voice thy pilots will be astounded. ²⁹ They who handle the oar and they on board ships will quit their vessels; and they who frequent the sea will stand on the land, ³⁰ and with their voice raise a mournful cry for thee, and scream bitterly and put earth on their heads and strew themselves with ashes,

¹¹ The merchants of the earth also will weep and mourn for her; because no one any more buyeth their merchandize ¹² the merchandize of gold and silver and precious stones and pearls; and of cotton and purple and silk and scarlet; and every sort of odoriferous wood and the various wares of ivory and of most precious wood and of brass and iron and marble, ¹³ and cinnamon and frankincense and myrrh and incense and wine and oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep and horses and chariots and the bodies and souls of men. ¹⁴ Even the autumnal fruits, thy soul's desire are gone from thee; and all these delicious and all those splendid things are gone from thee and thou shalt find them no more. ¹⁵ The venders of these things who have been enriched by her will stand far off for fear of her torment, weeping and wailing ¹⁶ and saying, Alas! Alas! the great city! she that was clothed with cotton and purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls!

⁹ behold I am sending, and I will take a family from the north and bring them against this land and against the inhabitants thereof and against all the nations around it. And I will lay them waste and make them a desolation and an object of pity and an everlasting reproach.

³ and thou shalt send them to the king of Idumea and to the king of Moab and to the king of the Ammonites and to the king of Tyre and to the king of Sidon by the hands of their ambassadors, who are coming to meet those sent to Jerusalem to Sedekias king of Juda: ⁴ and thou shalt charge them to say to their masters, Thus said the Lord, the God of Israel, Thus shall you say to your masters, ⁵ As I have made the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm, I can give it to whom it seemeth good in mine eyes. ⁶ I have given this land to Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon to serve him, and the beasts of the field to work for him. ⁷ [Omitted]

¹⁰ For thus said the Lord, When seventy years shall be accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you and establish my words for you by bringing back your people to this place.

²⁵ Fleets of cypress ships were employed in thy trade. So with this multitude and with thy merchandise thou wast filled and deeply laden in the heart of the sea.

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.

¹⁴ And to him was given the government and the honour and the kingdom; and all the peoples, tribes and languages are to serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall never pass away, and his kingdom shall not be destroyed.

²¹ The goat of the goats, is the king of the Grecians; and the great horn which was between his eyes is the first king.

¹⁵ And thence I will give her for her possessions, even the valley of Achor to open her understanding: and she shall be humbled there as in the days of her youth, even as in the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁰ and they are seven kings. Five have fallen, and one is and the other is not yet come; and when he hath come he must continue but a little while;

¹⁰ then this woman, who maketh the hearts of young men flutter, meeteth him, in the attire of a harlot. ¹¹ Indeed she is ever on the wing and insatiable, and her feet abide not at home. ¹² For sometimes she roveth abroad: and sometimes lieth in wait in the streets, at every corner.

¹⁴ all thy friends forgot thee; they would make no inquiry for thee; because I inflicted on thee the wound of an enemy, a severe chastisement for all thine iniquity; thy sins had multiplied:

¹⁸ There shall not be a prostitute among the daughters of Israel, nor shall any of the Israelites be a votary of prostitution. Thou shalt not bring the hire of an harlot, nor the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord, for any vow, for both are an abomination to the Lord thy God.

²⁶ When thou hadst committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours and lustful paramours; and hadst done this frequently to provoke me to wrath,

³¹ Having built a brothel at the head of every way, and erected a place of prostitution in every street, wast thou like a harlot collecting hire?

¹³ Now when I lay my hand on thee to destroy thee, for what thou hast done and for the blood which hath been shed in thee;

⁶ from the groves of Bashan they made thy oars. Thy temples they built of ivory and thy roomy houses from the isles of the Chetians: 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.

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;

¹¹ [J] Her rulers have judged for rewards; and her priests have given answers for hire; and her prophets have prophesied for silver, without waiting for the Lord, saying, "Is not the Lord among us? No evils shall come upon us:"

⁴ by reason of great fornication. fair harlot and bewitching mistress of sorceries, who sellest nations by thy whoredom, and peoples by thy sorceries!

⁷ and the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Juda. They shall feed upon them. In the houses of Ascalon they will lie clown in the evening for fear of the children of Juda. Because the Lord their God hath visited them; therefore he will bring back their captivity.

¹⁴ Simeon hath related how God first looked down on the Gentiles, to take from among them a people for his name.

³ not addicted to wine, no striker, not attached to sordid gain, but of a gentle disposition, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money,

⁸ Almoners in like manner should be grave, not double tongued, not addicted to much wine, not attached to sordid gain,

² Tend the flock of God which is among you, watching over it, not by constraint, but willingly; not with a view to sordid gain, but with a ready mind;

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, ² with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. ³ And he carried me away in spirit to a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast full of blasphemous names, which had seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ And the woman was clad in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls; and she had in her hand a golden cup full of the abominations and impurity of her fornication; ⁵ and on her forehead there was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, the mother of the harlots and the abominations of the earth.

⁹ And the kings of the earth who have committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her will wail and beat their breasts for her, when they see the smoke of her burning ¹⁰ standing afar off for fear of her torment, saying, Alas! Alas! that great city Babylon! that 'mighty city! for in one hour thy judgment is come. ¹¹ The merchants of the earth also will weep and mourn for her; because no one any more buyeth their merchandize ¹² the merchandize of gold and silver and precious stones and pearls; and of cotton and purple and silk and scarlet; and every sort of odoriferous wood and the various wares of ivory and of most precious wood and of brass and iron and marble, ¹³ and cinnamon and frankincense and myrrh and incense and wine and oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep and horses and chariots and the bodies and souls of men. ¹⁴ Even the autumnal fruits, thy soul's desire are gone from thee; and all these delicious and all those splendid things are gone from thee and thou shalt find them no more.

² for true and righteous are his judgments; for he hath passed sentence on the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication; and hath avenged the blood of his servants, at her hand.

³⁶ And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it with the engraving of a seal, Holiness to the Lord,

¹⁸ These thou shalt eat no where but before the Lord, in the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse for himself; thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man servant, and thy maid servant, and the stranger who is in thy cities. And when thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, for all thy possessions and all the labours of thy hand, ¹⁹ take heed to thyself, that thou neglect not the Levite, as long as thou livest in the land.

¹² And when thou hast finished tything the tenth of all thy produce in the third year, thou shalt give another tenth to the Levite, and the proselyte, and the orphan, and the widow; that they may eat in thy cities, and be regaled. ¹³ Then thou shalt say before the Lord thy God, I have removed the hallowed things clean out of my house, and have given them to the Levite, and the proselyte, and the orphan, and the widow, according to all the commands which thou hast commanded me. I have not transgressed thy command, nor forgot it. ¹⁴ I have not, in my mourning, eaten any of them, nor offered any of them in homage to an unclean thing, nor given any of them to the dead. I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God. I have done as thou hast commanded me.

⁷ Now therefore send me a man wise and skilled in working up gold and silver, and brass and iron, and purple and scarlet and blue, and who can engrave skilfully with the skilful men who are with me in Jerusalem, those materials which my father hath provided. ⁸ Send me also cedar and cypress and pine timber, from Libanus. As I know how expert thy servants are in cutting timber from Libanus, let thy servants therefore go with my servants, ⁹ to provide me timber in plenty: for the house which I am going to build, is to be great and glorious.

¹¹ To this Chiram king of Tyre replied in writing, and sent to Solomon, saying, Because the Lord loved his people, he hath made thee king over them. ¹² Moreover Chiram said, Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who made the heaven and the earth, who hath given king David, a wise son endued with knowledge and understanding, to build a house for the Lord and a house for his kingdom. ¹³ Now therefore I have sent thee a man of wisdom and understanding, named after my father Chiram. ¹⁴ His mother was one of the daughters of Dan, but his father was a Tyrian. He is skilled in working up gold and silver, and brass and iron, and stones and wood; and in weaving purple and blue yarn, and cotton, and with scarlet; and engraving and executing every device to which thou shalt put him with thy artists, and the artists of my lord David, thy father. ¹⁵ And with regard to the wheat and the barley and the oil and the wine, which my lord hath mentioned, let him send them to his servants, ¹⁶ and we will cut timber from Libanus, as much as thou shalt want, and send it in floats by water to Joppa, that thou mayst convey it to Jerusalem.

¹² when the daughters of Tyre bow down to him with gifts, the richest people of the land will supplicate thy favour.

¹⁰ Let the kings of Tharsis and the isles bring gifts; the kings of the Arabs and Saba offer presents.

⁹ Honour the Lord with some of thy righteous labours: and set apart for him some of thy fruits of righteousness: ¹⁰ that thy barns may be plenteously filled with corn; and that thy vats may overflow with wine.

²² A good man shall leave an inheritance to his children; but the wealth of the wicked is treasured up for the righteous.

⁸ He who increaseth his wealth by usury and unjust gain; gathereth it for him who will pity the poor.

²⁶ For to the man who is good in his sight he hath given wisdom and knowledge and joy; and to the sinner he hath given the trouble of gathering and heaping up to give to him who is good in the sight of God. So that this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

⁵ Then thou wilt look and be filled with awe and astonished at heart; because the riches of the sea and of nations and peoples will pour in upon thee. ⁶ And for thee will come herds of camels and those of Madiam and Gaipha will cover thee, and those of Saba will come bringing gold and will also bring frankincense, and with joy proclaim the salvation of the Lord. ⁷ And all the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together; and the rams of Nabaioth will come; and acceptable offerings will be made on mine altar, and my house of prayer will be glorified. ⁸ [c] Who are those? They are flying like clouds, and like doves with their young towards me! ⁹ [J] For me the islands waited, and among the first the ships of Tarsis to bring thy children from afar and their silver and their gold with them. And because of the holy name of the Lord, and because the Holy One of Israel is glorious;

¹³ arise daughter of Sion and tread them out. Because I will make thy horns iron and thy hoofs I will make brass; therefore thou shalt break many peoples in pieces, and devote the multitude of them to the Lord, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.

²⁰ In that day there shall be on the bridle of the horse, "Holy to the Lord Almighty." And the kettles in the house of the Lord shall be like the bowls before the altar. ²¹ And every kettle in Jerusalem and in Juda shall be holy to the Lord Almighty. And all that sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in them. And there shall no more be a Chananite in the house of the Lord Almighty in that day.

¹⁰ Now let that which hath been plundered from him be in his house. Turn now in this respect, saith the Lord Almighty: [see] if I will not open for you the flood gates of heaven and pour my blessing upon you, until there is enough;

¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; ²⁰ but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumeth; and where thieves do not break through and steal. ²¹ For where your treasure is, there will your heart also be.

³⁵ for I was hungry, and you gave me food; I was thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you lodged me; ³⁶ naked, and you clothed me; sick, and you took care of me; I was in prison, and you visited me. ³⁷ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungry, and feed thee; or thirsty, and give thee drink? ³⁸ When saw we thee a stranger, and lodged thee; or naked, and clothed thee? ³⁹ Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came to thee? ⁴⁰ And the king in reply will say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as you have done this to one of these my brethren, even the least, you have done it to me.

⁸ and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and from the banks of the Jordan. They also around Tyre and Sidon, having heard what he did, flocked to him in crowds.

³ and Joanna the wife of Chusa, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who ministered to him out of their possessions.

¹⁸ Then he said, I will do this. I will pull down my store houses and build larger, and there lay up all my produce and my good things. ¹⁹ And I will say to my soul; Soul, thou hast many good things laid up in store for many years: take thine ease; eat; drink; and be joyful. ²⁰ Whereupon God said to him; Fool, this very night this soul of thine will be demanded of thee. Whose then will those things be which thou hast provided?

³³ sell your possessions and give alms: provide for yourselves purses which do not wear out; a treasure in the heavens, which will never fail; where no thief approacheth, nor moth spoileth:

⁹ therefore I say to you, From the worldly prudence of this unrighteousness, make ye friends for yourselves, that when you fail, ye may be received into the everlasting abodes. ¹⁰ He who is faithful in very little, is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in very little, is unjust also in much. ¹¹ If you then were not faithful with this unjust worldly prudence who will entrust to you the true? ¹² And if you were not faithful with that which is another's, will any one give you that to be your own? ¹³ No servant can serve two masters; for he will either hate one, and love the other; or he will attach himself to one, and despise the other: you cannot serve God and worldly prudence.

³⁹ Accordingly Peter arose and went with them. And when he came they took him up to the upper room. And all the widows stood by him, weeping and shewing the tunicks and mantles which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

³ And coming in sight of Cyprus, and leaving it on the left, we sailed for Syria and arrived at Tyre; for the ship was to land her cargo there. ⁴ And having by diligent inquiry found out the disciples, we staid there seven days. Some of these told Paul by the spirit not to go up to Jerusalem. ⁵ But when these days were ended, we set out on our departure, they, with women and children, all attending us out of the city, and kneeling down on the sea shore, we prayed;

²⁵ But now I am going to Jerusalem as an almoner to the saints. ²⁶ For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make a contribution for the poor saints in Jerusalem. 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.

⁶ Let him who is taught the word make him who teacheth a partaker in all good things.

¹⁷ Not that I desire a gift, but I wish for the fruit which aboundeth to your account. ¹⁸ Now I have all things and abound. I am fully supplied, having received your presents by Epaphroditus, a fragrant odour, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God.