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The
Book of the Prophet Isaias,
Chapter 1
1 THE vision of Isaias the son of Amos I which he saw
concerning Juda and Jerusalem in the days of Ozias,
Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda
2 Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord
hath spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them:
but they have despised me.
3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib:
but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not
understood.
4 Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a
wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the
Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they
are gone away backwards.
5 For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase
transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart
is sad.
6 From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there
is no soundness therein: wounds and bruises and swelling
sores: they are not bound up, nor dressed, nor fomented
with oil.
7 Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire:
your country strangers devour before your face, and it
shall be desolate as when wasted by enemies.
8 And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a covert in a
vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and as
a city that is laid waste.
9 Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as
Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrha.
10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to
the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.
11 To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your
victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not
holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of
calves, and lambs, and buck goats.
12 When you came to appear before me, who required these
things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts?
13 Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination
tome. The new moons, and the sabbaths, and other festivals
I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked.
14 My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they
are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them.
15 And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my
eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not
hear: for your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your
devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely,
17 Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed,
judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.
18 And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins
be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if
they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.
19 if you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat
the good things of the land.
20 But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the
sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath
spoken it.
21 How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment,
become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers.
22 Thy silver is turned into dress: thy wine is mingled with
water.
23 Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all
love bribes, the run after rewards. They judge not for the
fatherless: and the widow's cometh not in to them.
24 Therefore saith the Lord the God of hosts, the mighty one
of Israel: Ah! I will comfort myself over my adversaries:
and I will be revenged of my enemies.
25 And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge
away thy dress, and I will take away all thy tin.
26 And I will restore thy judges se they were before, and thy
counsellors as of old. After this thou shalt be called the
city of the just, a faithful city.
27 Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and they shall bring
her back in justice.
28 And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together:
and they that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed.
29 For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they
have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens
which you have chosen.
30 When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling off,
and as a garden without water.
31 And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your
work as a spark: and both shall burn together, and there
shall be none to quench it.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 2
1 THE word that Isaias the son of Amos saw, concerning Juda
and Jerusalem.
2 And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be
exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto
it.
3 And many people shall go, and say: Come and let us go up
to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God
of Jacob, and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk
in his paths: for the law shall come forth from Sion, and
the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge the Gentiles, and rebuke many people:
and they shall turn their swords into ploughshares, and
their spears into sickles: nation shall not lift up sword
against nation, neither shall they be exercised any more
to war.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of
the Lord.
6 For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob:
because they are filled as in times past, and have had
soothsayers as the Philistines, and have adhered to
strange children.
7 Their land is filled with silver and gold: and there is no
end of their treasures.
8 And their land is filled with horses: and their chariots
are innumerable. Their land also is full of idols: they
have adored the work of their own hands, which their own
fingers have made.
9 And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been
debased: therefore forgive them not.
10 Enter thou into the rock, and hide thee in the pit from
the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of
his majesty.
11 The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of
men shall be made to stoop: and the Lord alone shall be
exalted in that day.
12 Because the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every
one that is proud and highminded, and upon every one that
is arrogant, and he shall be humbled.
13 And upon all the tall and lofty cedars of Libanus, and
upon all the oaks of Basan.
14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the elevated
hills.
15 And upon every high tower, and every fenced wall.
16 And upon all the ships of Tharsis, and upon all that is
fair to behold.
17 And the loftiness of men shall be bowed down, and the
haughtiness of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone
shall be exalted in that day.
18 And idols shall be utterly destroyed.
19 And they shall go into the holes of rocks, and into the
caves of the earth from the face of the fear of the Lord,
and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up
to strike the earth.
20 In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and
his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore,
moles and bats.
21 And he shall go into the clefts of rocks, and into the
holes of stones from the face of the fear of the Lord, and
from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up to
strike the earth.
22 Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his
nostrils, for he is reputed high.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 3
1 FOR behold the sovereign the Lord of hosts shall take away
from Jerusalem, and from Juda the valiant and the strong,
the whole strength of bread, and the whole strength of
water.
2 The strong man, and the man of war, the judge, and the
prophet, and the cunning man, and the ancient.
3 The captain over fifty, and the honourable in countenance,
and the counsellor, and the architect, and the skilful in
eloquent speech.
4 And I will give children to be their princes, and the
effeminate shall rule over them.
5 And the people shall rush one upon another, and every man
against his neighbour: the child shall make it tumult
against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
6 For a man shall take hold or his brother, one of the house
of his father, saying: Thou hast a garment, be thou our
ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand.
7 In that day he shall answer, saying: I am no healer, and
in my house there is no bread, nor clothing: make me not
ruler of the people.
8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Juda is fallen: because their
tongue, and their devices are against the Lord, to provoke
the eyes of his majesty.
9 The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they
have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have
not hid it: woe to their souls, for evils are rendered to
them.
10 Say to the just man that it is well, for he shall eat the
fruit of his doings.
11 Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands
shall be given him.
12 As for my people, their oppressors have stripped them, and
women have ruled over them. O my people, they that call
thee blessed, the same deceive thee, and destroy the way
of thy steps.
13 The Lord standeth up to judge, and he standeth to judge
the people.
14 The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his
people, and its princes: for you have devoured the
vineyard, and the spoil of the poor is in your house.
15 Why do you consume my people, and grind the faces of the
poor? saith the Lord the God of hosts.
16 And the Lord said: Because the daughters of Sion are
haughty, and have walked with stretched out necks, and
wanton glances of their eyes, and made a noise as they
walked with their feet and moved in a set pace:
17 The Lord will make bald the crown of the head of the
daughters of Sion, and the Lord will discover their hair.
18 In that day the Lord will take away the ornaments of
shoes, end little moons,
19 And chains and necklaces, and bracelets, and bonnets,
20 And bodkins, and ornaments of the legs, and tablets, and
sweet balls, and earrings,
21 And rings, and jewels hanging on the forehead,
22 And changes of apparel, and short cloaks, and fine linen,
and crisping pins,
23 And looking-glasses, and lawns, and headbands, and fine
veils.
24 And instead of a sweet smell there shall be stench, and
instead of a girdle, a cord, and instead of curled hair,
baldness, and instead of a stomacher, haircloth.
25 Thy fairest men also shall fall by the sword, and thy
valiant ones in battle.
26 And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit
desolate on the ground.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 4
1 AND in that day seven women shall take hold of one man,
saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own
apparel: only let us be called by thy name, take away our
reproach.
2 In that day the bud of the Lord shall be in magnificence
and glory, and the fruit of the earth shall be high, and
a great joy to them that shall have escaped of Israel.
3 And it shall come to pass, that every one that shall be
left in Sion, and that shall remain in Jerusalem, shall be
called holy, every one that is written in life in
Jerusalem.
4 If the Lord shall wash away the filth of the daughters of
Sion, and shall wash away the blood of Jerusalem out of
the midst thereof, by the spirit of judgment, and by the
spirit of burning.
5 And the Lord will create upon every place of mount Sion,
and where he is called upon, a cloud by day, and a smoke
and the brightness of a flaming fire in the night: for
over all the glory shall be a protection.
6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shade in the daytime
from the heat, and for a security and covert from the
whirlwind, and from rain.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 5
1 I WILL sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin
concerning his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a
hill in a fruitful place.
2 And he fenced it in, and picked the stones out of it, and
planted it with the choicest vines, and built a tower in
the midst thereof, and set up a winepress therein: and he
looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought
forth wild grapes.
3 And now, O ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and ye men of
Juda, judge between me and my vineyard.
4 What is there that I ought to do more to my vineyard, that
I have not done to it? was it that I looked that it should
bring forth grapes, and it hath brought forth wild grapes?
5 And now I will shew you what I will do to my vineyard. I
will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted:
I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be
trodden down.
6 And I will make it desolate: it shall not be pruned, and
it shall not be digged: but briers and thorns shall come
up: and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.
7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of
Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I
looked that he should do judgment, and behold iniquity:
and do justice, and behold a cry.
8 Woe to you that join house to house and lay field to
field, even to the end of the place: shall you alone dwell
in the midst of the earth?
9 These things are in my ears, saith the Lord of hosts:
Unless many great and fair houses shall become desolate,
without an inhabitant.
10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one little measure,
and thirty bushels of seed shall yield three bushels.
11 Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow
drunkenness, and to drink till the evening, to be inflamed
with wine.
12 The harp, and the lyre, and the timbrel, and the pipe, and
wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you
regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands.
13 Therefore is my people led away captive, because they had
not knowledge, and their nobles have perished with famine,
and their multitude were dried up with thirst.
14 Therefore hath hell enlarged her soul, and opened her
mouth without any bounds, and their strong ones, and their
people, and their high and glorious ones shall go down
into it.
15 And man shall be brought down, and man shall be humbled,
and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low.
16 And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and
the holy God shall be sanctified in justice.
17 And the lambs shall feed according to their order, and
strangers shall eat the deserts turned into fruitfulness.
18 Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and
sin as the rope of a cart.
19 That say: Let him make haste, and let his work come
quickly, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the
Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it.
20 Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put
darkness far light, and light for darkness: that put
bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.
21 Woe to you that rue wise in your own eyes, and prudent in
your own conceits.
22 Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at
drunkenness.
23 That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the
justice of the just from him.
24 Therefore as the tongue of the fire devoureth the stubble,
and the heat of the dame consumeth it: so shall their root
be as ashes, and their bud shall go up se dust: for they
have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and have
blasphemed the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled against his
people, and he hath stretched out his hand upon them, and
struck them: and the mountains were troubled, and their
carcasses became as dung in the midst of the streets. For
all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is
stretched out still.
26 And he will lift up a sign to the nations afar off, and
will whistle to them from the ends of the earth: and
behold they shall come with speed swiftly.
27 There is none that shall faint, nor labour among them:
they shall not slumber nor sleep, neither shall the girdle
of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes
be broken.
28 Their arrows are sharp, and all their bows are bent. The
hoofs of their horses shall be like the hint, and their
wheels like the violence of a tempest.
29 Their roaring like that of a lion, they shall roar like
young lions: yea they shall roar, and take hold of the
prey, and they shall keep fast hold of it, and there shall
be none to deliver it.
30 And they shall make a noise against them that day, like
the roaring of the sea; we shall look towards the land,
and behold darkness of tribulation, and the light is
darkened with the mist thereof.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 6
1 IN the year that king Ozias died, I saw the Lord sitting
upon a throne high and elevated: and his train filled the
temple.
2 Upon it stood the seraphims: the one had six wings, and
the other had six wings: with two they covered his face,
and with two they covered his feet, and with two they hew.
3 And they cried one to another, and said: Holy, holy, holy,
the Lord God of hosts, all the earth is full of his glory.
4 And the lintels of the doors were moved at the voice of
him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
5 And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace;
because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the
midst of a people that hath unclean lips, and I have seen
with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts.
6 And one of the seraphims flew to me, and in his hand was
a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs off the
altar.
7 And he touched my mouth, and said: Behold this hath
touched thy lips, and thy iniquities shall be taken away,
and thy sin shall be cleansed.
8 And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I
send? and who shall go for us? And I said: Lo, here am I,
send me.
9 And he said: Go, and thou shalt say to this people:
Hearing, hear, and understand not: and see the vision, and
know it not.
10 Blind the heart of this people, and make their ears heavy,
and shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, and
hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and
be converted and I heal them.
11 And I said: How long, O Lord? And he said: Until the
cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses
without man, and the land shall be left desolate.
12 And the Lord shall remove men far away, and she shall be
multiplied that was left in the midst of the earth.
13 And there shall be still a tithing therein, and she shall
turn, and shall be made a show as a turpentine tree, and
as an oak that spreadeth its branches: that which shall
stand therein, shall be a holy seed.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 7
1 AND it came to pass in the days of Achaz the son of
Joathan, the son of Ozias, king of Juda, that Basin king
of Syria, and Phacee the son of Romelia king of Israel,
came up to Jerusalem, to fight against it: but they could
not prevail over it.
2 And they told the house of David, saying: Syria hath
rested upon Ephraim, and his heart was moved, and the
heart of his people, as the trees of the woods are moved
with the wind.
3 And the Lord said to Isaias: Go forth to meet Achaz, thou
and Jasub thy son that is left, to the conduit of the
upper pool, a in the way of the fuller's held.
4 And thou shalt say to him: See thou be quiet: fear not,
and let not thy heart be afraid of the two tails of these
fire brands, smoking with the wrath of the fury of Rasin
king of Syria, end of the son of Romelia.
5 Because Syria hath taken counsel against thee, unto the
evil of Ephraim and the son of Romelia, saying:
6 Let us go up to Juda, and rouse it up, and draw it away to
us, and make the son of Tabeel king in the midst thereof.
7 Thus saith the Lord God: It shall not stand, and this
shall not be.
8 But the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of
Damascus is Basin: and within threescore and five years,
Ephraim shall cease to be a people:
9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria and the head of Samaria
the son of Romelia. If you will not believe, you shall not
continue.
10 And the Lord spoke again to Achaz, saying:
11 Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God either unto the depth
of hell, or unto the height above.
12 And Achaz said: I will not ask, and I will not tempt the
Lord.
13 And he said: Hear ye therefore, O house of David: Is it a
small thing for you to be grievous to men, that you are
grievous to my God also?
14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold
a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and his name
shall be called Emmanuel.
15 He shall eat butter and honey, that he may know to refuse
the evil, and to choose the good.
16 For before the child know to refuse the evil, and to
choose the good, the land which thou abhorrest shall be
forsaken of the face of her two kings.
17 The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and
upon the house of thy father, days that have not come
since the time of the separation of Ephraim from Juda with
the king of the Assyrians.
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall
hiss for the fly, that is in the uttermost parts of the
rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of
Assyria.
19 And they shall come, and shall all of them rest in the
torrents of the valleys, and in the holes of the rocks,
and upon all places set with shrubs, and in all hollow
places.
20 In that day the Lord shall shave with a razor that is
hired by them that are beyond the river, by the king of
the Assyrians, the head and the hairs of the feet, and the
whole beard.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall
nourish a young cow, and two sheep.
22 And for the abundance of milk he shall eat butter: for
butter and honey shall every one eat that shall be left in
the midst of the land.
23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place
where there were a thousand vines, at a thousand pieces of
silver, shall become thorns and briers.
24 With arrows and with bows they shall go in thither: for
briars and thorns shall be in all the land.
25 And as for all the hills that shall be raked with a rake,
the fear of thorns and briers shall not come thither, but
they shall be for the ox to feed on, and the lesser cattle
to tread upon.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 8
1 AND the Lord said to me: Take thee a great book, and write
in it with a man's pen. Take sway the spoils with speed,
quickly take the prey.
2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses, Urias the priest,
and Zacharias the son of Barachias.
3 And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore
a son. And the Lord said to me: Call his name, Hasten to
take away the spoils: Make haste to take away the prey.
4 For before the child know to call his father and his
mother, the strength of Damascus, and the spoils of
Samaria shall be taken away before the king of the
Assyrians.
5 And the Lord spoke to me again, saying:
6 Forasmuch as this people hath cast away the waters of
Siloe, that go with silence, and hath rather taken Basin,
and the son of Romelia:
7 Therefore behold the Lord will bring upon them the waters
of the river strong and many, the king of the Assyrians,
and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his
channels, and shall overflow all his banks,
8 And shall pass through Juda, overflowing, and going over
shall reach even to the neck. And the stretching out of
his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Emmanuel.
9 Gather yourselves together, O ye people, and be overcome,
and give ear, all ye lands afar off: strengthen
yourselves, end be overcome, gird yourselves, and be
overcome.
10 Take counsel together, and it shall be defeated: speak a
word, and it shall not be done: because God is with us.
11 For thus saith the Lord to me: As he hath taught me, with
a strong arm, that I should not walk in the way of this
people, saying:
12 Say ye not: A conspiracy: for all that this people
speaketh, is a conspiracy: neither fear ye their fear, nor
be afraid.
13 Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself: and let him be your
fear, and let him be your dread.
14 And he shall be a sanctification to you. But for a stone
or stumbling, and for a rock of offence to the two houses
of Israel, for a snare and a ruin to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem.
15 And very many of them shall stumble and fall, and shall be
broken in pieces, and shall be snared, and taken.
16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
17 And I will wait for the Lord, who hath hid his face from
the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
18 Behold I and my children, whom the Lord hath given me for
a sign, and for a wonder in Israel from the Lord of hosts,
who dwelleth in mount Sion.
19 And when they shall say to you: Seek of pythons, and of
diviners, who mutter in their enchantments: should not the
people seek of their God, for the living of the dead?
20 To the law rather, and to the testimony. And if they speak
not according to this word, they shall not have the
morning light.
21 And they shall pass by it, they shall fall, and be hungry:
and when they shall be hungry, they will be angry, and
curse their king, and their God, and look upwards.
22 And they shall look to the earth, and behold trouble and
darkness, weakness and distress, and a mist following
them, and they cannot fly away from their distress.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 9
1 AT the first time the land of Zabulon, and the land of
Nephtali was lightly touched: and at the last the way of
the sea beyond the Jordan of the Galilee of the Gentiles
was heavily loaded.
2 The people that walked in darkness, have seen a great
light: to them that dwelt in the region of the shadow of
death, light is risen.
3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and hast not increased
the joy. They shall rejoice before thee, as they that
rejoice in the harvest, as conquerors rejoice after taking
a prey, when they divide the spoils.
4 For the yoke of their burden, and the rod of their
shoulder, and the sceptre of their oppressor thou best
overcome, as in the day of Median.
5 For every violent taking of spoils, with tumult, and
garment mingled with blood, shall be burnt, and be fuel
for the fire.
6 For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and
the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be
called, Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father
of the world to come, the Prince of Peace.
7 His empire shall be multiplied, and there shall be no end
of peace: he shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon
his kingdom; to establish it and strengthen it with
judgment and with justice, from henceforth and for ever:
the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon
Israel.
9 And all the people of Ephraim shall know, and the
inhabitants of Samaria that say in the pride and
haughtiness of their heart:
10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with square
stones: they have cut down the sycamores, but we will
change them for cedars.
11 And the Lord shall set up the enemies of Rasin over him,
and shall bring on his enemies in a crowd:
12 The Syrians from the east, and the Philistines from the
west: and they shall devour Israel with open mouth, For
all this his indignation is not turned away, but his hand
is stretched out still.
13 And the people are not returned to him who hath struck
them, and have not sought after the Lord of hosts.
14 And the Lord shall destroy out of Israel the head and the
tail, him that bendeth down, and him that holdeth back, in
one day.
15 The aged and honourable, he is the head: and the prophet
that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
16 And they that call this people blessed, shall cause them
to err: and they that are called blessed, shall be thrown
down headlong.
17 Therefore the Lord shell have no joy in their young men:
neither shall he have mercy on their fatherless, and
widows: for every one is a hypocrite and wicked, and every
mouth hath spoken folly. For all this his indignation is
not turned away, but his bend is stretched out still.
18 For wickedness is kindled as a fire, it shall devour the
brier and the thorn: and shall kindle in the thicket of
the forest, and it shall be wrapped up in smoke ascending
on high.
19 By the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land is troubled,
and the people shall be as fuel for the fire: no man shall
spare his brother.
20 And he shall turn to the right hand, and shall be hungry:
and shall eat on the left hand, and shall not be filled:
every one shell eat the flesh of his own arm: Manasses
Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasses, and they together shall be
against Juda.
21 After all these things his indignation is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 10
1 WOE to them that make wicked laws: and when they write,
write injustice:
2 To oppress the poor in judgment, and do violence to the
cause of the humble of my people: that widows might be
their prey, and that they might rob the fatherless.
3 What will you do in the day of visitation, and of the
calamity which cometh from afar? to whom will ye flee for
help? and where will ye leave your glory?
4 That you be not bowed down under the bond, and fall with
the slain? In all these things his anger is not turned
away, but his hand is stretched out still.
5 Woe to the Assyrian, he is the rod and the staff of my
anger, and my indignation is in their hands.
6 I will send him to a deceitful nation, and I will give him
a charge against the people of my wrath, to take away the
spoils, and to lay hold on the prey, and to tread them
down like the mire of the streets.
7 But he shall not take it so, and his heart shall not think
so: but his heart shall be set to destroy, and to cut off
nations not a few.
8 For he shall say:
9 Are not my princes as so many kings ? is not Calano as
Charcamis: and Emath as Arphad? is not Samaria as
Damascus?
10 As my hand hath found the king- dome of the idol, so also
their idols of Jerusalem, and of Samaria.
11 Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so
do to Jerusalem and her idols?
12 And it shall come to pass, that when the Lord shall have
performed all his works in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem,
I will visit the fruit of the proud heart of the king of
Assyria, and the glory of the haughtiness of his eyes.
13 For he hath said: By the strength of my own hand I have
done it, and by my own wisdom I have understood: and I
have removed the bounds of the people, and have taken the
spoils of the princes, and as a mighty man hath pulled
down them that sat on high.
14 And my hand hath found the strength of the people as a
nest; and as eggs are gathered, that are left, so have I
gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the
wing, or opened the mouth, or made the least noise.
15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that cutteth with
it? or shall the saw exalt itself against him by whom it
is drawn? as if a rod should lift itself up against him
that lifteth it up, and a staff exalt itself, which is but
wood.
16 Therefore the sovereign Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall
send leanness among his fat ones: and under his glory
shall be kindled a burning, as it were the burning of a
fire.
17 And the light of Israel shall be as a fire, and the Holy
One thereof as a flame: and his thorns and his briers
shall be set on fire, and shall be devoured in one day.
18 And the glory of his forest, and of his beautiful hill,
shall be consumed from the soul even to the flesh, and he
shall run away through fear.
19 And they that remain of the trees of his forest shall be
so few, that they shall easily be numbered, and a child
shall write them down.
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of
Israel, and they that shall escape of the house of Jacob,
shall lean no more upon him that striketh them: but they
shall lean upon the Lord the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 The remnant shall be converted, the remnant, I say, of
Jacob, to the mighty God.
22 For if thy people, O Israel, shall be as the sand of the
sea, a remnant of them shall be converted, the consumption
abridged shall overflow with justice.
23 For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, and an
abridgment in the midst of all the land.
24 Therefore, thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: O my
people that dwellest in Sion, be not afraid of the
Assyrian: he shall strike thee with his rod, and he shall
lift up his staff over thee in the way of Egypt.
25 For yet a little and a very little while, and my
indignation shall cease, and my wrath shall be upon their
wickedness.
26 And the Lord of hosts shall raise up a scourge against
him, according to the slaughter of Madian in the rock of
Oreb, and his rod over the sea, and he shall lift it up in
the way of Egypt.
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden
shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke
from off thy neck, and the yoke shall putrify at the
presence of the oil.
28 He shall come into Aiath, he shall pass into Magron: at
Machmas he shall lay up his carriages.
29 They have passed in haste, Gaba is our lodging: Rama was
astonished, Gabaath of Saul fled away.
30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim, attend, O Laisa,
poor Anathoth.
31 Medemena is removed: ye inhabitants of Gabim, take
courage.
32 It is yet day enough, to remain in Nobe: he shall shake
his hand against the mountain of the daughter of Sion, the
hill of Jerusalem.
33 Behold the sovereign Lord of hosts shall break the earthen
vessel with terror, and the tall of stature shall be cut
down, and the lofty shall be humbled.
34 And the thickets of the forest shall be cut down with
iron, and Libanus with its high ones shall fall.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 11
1 AND there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse,
and a flower shall rise up out of his root.
2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: the spirit
of wisdom, and of understanding, the spirit of counsel,
and of fortitude, the spirit of knowledge, and of
godliness.
3 And he shall be filled with the spirit of the fear of the
Lord. He shall not judge according to the sight of the
eyes, nor reprove according to the hearing of the ears.
4 But he shall judge the poor with justice, and shall
reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: land he
shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with
the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.
5 And justice shall be the girdle of his loins: and faith
the girdle of his reins.
6 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb: and the leopard shall
lie down with the kid: the calf and the lion, and the
sheep shall abide together, and a little child shall lead
them.
7 The calf and the bear shall feed: their young ones shall
rest together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp:
and the weaned child shall thrust his hand into the den of
the basilisk.
9 They shall not hurt, nor shall they kill in all my holy
mountain, for the earth is filled with the knowledge of
the Lord, as the covering waters of the sea.
10 In that day the root of Jesse, who standeth for an ensign
of the people, him the Gentiles shall beseech, and his
sepulchre shall be glorious.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall
set his hand the second time to possess the remnant of his
people, which shall be left from the Assyrians, and from
Egypt, and from Phetros, and from Ethiopia, and from Elam,
and from Sennaar, and from Emath, and from the islands of
the sea.
12 And he shall set up a standard unto the nations, and shall
assemble the fugitives of Israel, and shall gather
together the dispersed of Juda from the four quarters of
the earth.
13 And the envy of Ephraim shall be taken away, and the
enemies of Juda shall perish: Ephraim shall not envy Juda,
and Juda shall not fight against Ephraim.
14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines
by the sea, they together shall spoil the children of the
east: Edom, and Moab shall be under the rule of their
hand, and the children of Ammon shall be obedient.
15 And the Lord shall lay waste the tongue of the sea of
Egypt, and shall lift up his hand over the river in the
strength of his spirit: and he shall strike it in the
seven streams, so that men may pass through it in their
shoes.
16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of my people,
which shall be left from the Assyrians: as there was for
Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of
Egypt.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 12
1 AND thou shalt say in that day: I will give thanks to
thee, O Lord, for thou wast angry with me: thy wrath is
turned away, and thou hast comforted me.
2 Behold, God is my saviour, I will deal confidently, and
will not fear: O because the Lord is my strength, and my
praise, and he is become my salvation.
3 You shall draw waters with joy out of the saviour's
fountains:
4 And you shall say in that day: Praise ye the Lord, and
call upon his name: make his works known among the people:
remember that his name is high.
5 Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath done great things: shew
this forth in all the earth.
6 Rejoice, and praise, O thou habitation of Sion: for great
is he that is in the midst of thee, the Holy One of
Israel.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 13
1 THE burden of Babylon, which Isaias the son of Amos saw.
2 Upon the dark mountain lift ye up a banner, exalt the
voice, lift up the hand, and let the rulers go into the
gates.
3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, and have called my
strong ones in my wrath, them that rejoice in my glory.
4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as it were of
many people, the noise of the sound of kings, of nations
gathered together: the Lord of hosts hath given charge to
the troops of war.
5 To them that come from a country afar off, from the end of
heaven: tile Lord and the instruments of his wrath, to
destroy the whole land.
6 Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near: it shall come as
a destruction from the Lord.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every heart of man
shall melt,
8 And shall be broken. Gripings and pains shall take hold of
them, they shall be in pain as a woman in labour. Every
one shall be amazed at his neighbour, their countenances
shall be as faces burnt.
9 Behold, the day of the Lord shall come, a cruel day, and
full of indignation, and of wrath, and fury, to lay the
land desolate, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of
it.
10 For the stars of heaven, and their brightness shall not
display their light: the sun shall be darkened in his
rising, and the moon shall not shine with her light.
11 And I will visit the evils of the world, and against the
wicked for their iniquity: and I will make the pride of
infidels to cease, and will bring down the arrogancy of
the mighty.
12 A man shall be more precious than gold, yea a man than the
finest of gold.
13 For this I will trouble the heaven: and the earth shall be
moved out of her place, for the indignation of the Lord of
hosts, and for the day of his tierce wrath.
14 And they shall be as a doe fleeing away, and as a sheep:
and there shall be none to gather them together: every man
shall turn to his own people, and every one shall flee to
his own land.
15 Every one that shall be found, shall be slain: and every
one that shall come to their aid, shall fall by the sword.
16 Their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes:
their houses shall be pillaged, and their wives shall be
ravished.
17 Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall
not seek silver, nor desire gold:
18 But with their arrows they shall kill the children, and
shall have no pity upon the sucklings of the womb, and
their eye shall not spare their sons.
19 And that Babylon, glorious among kingdoms, the famous
pride of the Chaldeans, shall be even as the Lord
destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha.
20 It shall no more be inhabited for ever, and it shall not
be founded unto generation and generation: neither shall
the Arabian pitch his tents there, nor shall shepherds
rest there.
21 But wild beasts shall rest there, and their houses shall
be filled with serpents, and ostriches shall dwell there,
and the hairy ones shall dance there:
22 And owls shall answer one another there, in the houses
thereof, and sirens in the temples of pleasure.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 14
1 HER time is near at hand, and her days shall not be
prolonged. For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will
yet choose out of Israel, and will make them rest upon
their own ground: and the stranger shall be joined with
them, and shall adhere to the house of Jacob.
2 And the people shall take them, and bring them into their
place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the
land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they
shall make them captives that had taken them, and shall
subdue their oppressors.
3 And it shall come to pass in that day, that when God shall
give thee rest from thy labour, and from thy vexation, and
from the hard bondage, wherewith thou didst serve before,
4 Thou shalt take up this parable against the king of
Babylon, and shalt say: How is the oppressor come to
nothing, the tribute hath ceased?
5 The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, the rod of
the rulers,
6 That struck the people in wrath with an incurable wound,
that brought nations under in fury, that persecuted in a
cruel manner.
7 The whole earth is quiet and still, it is glad and hath
rejoiced.
8 The fir trees also have rejoiced over thee, and the cedars
of Libanus, saying: Since thou hast slept, there hath none
come up to cut us down.
9 Hell below was in an uproar to meet thee at thy coming, it
stirred up the giants for thee. All the princes of the
earth are risen up from their thrones, all the princes of
nations.
10 All shall answer, and say to thee: Thou also art wounded
as well as we, thou art become like unto us.
11 Thy pride is brought down to hell, thy carcass is fallen
down: under thee shall the moth be strewed, and worms
shall be thy covering.
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who didst rise
in the morning? how art thou fallen to the earth, that
didst wound the nations?
13 And thou saidst in thy heart: I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit
in the mountain of the covenant, in the sides of the
north.
14 I will ascend above the height of the clouds, I will be
like the most High.
15 But yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, into the depth
of the pit.
16 They that shall see thee, shall turn toward thee, and
behold thee. Is this the man that troubled the earth, that
shook kingdoms,
17 That made the world a wilderness, and destroyed the cities
thereof, that opened not the prison to his prisoners?
18 All the kings of the nations have all of them slept in
glory, every one in his own house.
19 But thou art cast out of thy grave, as an unprofitable
branch defiled, and wrapped up among them that were slain
by the sword, and art gone down to the bottom of the pit,
as a rotten carcass.
20 Thou shalt not keep company with them, even in burial: for
thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people:
the seed of the wicked shall not be named for ever.
21 Prepare his children for slaughter for the iniquity of
their fathers: they shall not rise up, nor inherit the
land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
22 And I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts:
and I will destroy the name of Babylon, and the remains,
and the bud, and the offspring, saith the Lord.
23 And I will make it a possession for the ericius and pools
of waters, and I will sweep it and wear it out with a
besom, saith the Lord of hosts.
24 The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying: Surely as I have
thought, so shall it be: and as I have purposed,
25 So shall it fall out: That I will destroy the Assyrian in
my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: and
his yoke shall be taken away from them, and his burden
shall be taken off their shoulder.
26 This is the counsel, that I have purposed upon all the
earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all
nations.
27 For the Lord of hosts hath decreed, and who can disannul
it? and his hand is stretched out: and who shall turn it
away?
28 In the year that king Achaz died, was this burden:
29 Rejoice not thou, whole Philistia, that the rod of him
that struck thee is broken in pieces: for out of the root
of the serpent shall come forth a basilisk, and his seed
shall swallow the bird.
30 And the firstborn of the poor shall be fed, and the poor
shall rest with confidence: and I will make thy root
perish with famine, and I will kill thy remnant.
31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city: all Philistia is thrown down:
for a smoke shall come from the north, and there is none
that shall escape his troop.
32 And what shall be answered to the messengers of the
nations? That the Lord hath founded Sion, and the poor of
his people shall hope in him.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 15
1 THE burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is
laid waste, it is silent: because the wall of Moab is
destroyed in the night, it is silent.
2 The house is gone up, and Dibon to the high places to
mourn over Nabo, and over Medaba, Moab hath howled: ton
all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard shall
be shaven.
3 In their streets they are girded with sackcloth: on the
tops of their houses, and in their streets all shall howl
and come down weeping.
4 Hesebon shall cry, and Eleale, their voice is heard even
to Jasa. For this shall the well appointed men of Moab
howl, his soul shall howl to itself.
5 My heart shall cry to Moab, the bars thereof shall flee
unto Segor a heifer of three years old: for by the ascent
of Luith they shall go up weeping: and in the way of
Oronaim they shall lift up a cry of destruction.
6 For the waters of Nemrim shall be desolate, for the grass
is withered away, the spring is faded, all the greenness
is perished.
7 According to the greatness of their work, is their
visitation also: they shall lead them to the torrent of
the willows.
8 For the cry is gone round about the border of Moab: the
howling thereof unto Gallim, and unto the well of Elim the
cry thereof.
9 For the waters of Dibon are filled with blood: for I will
bring more upon Dibon: the lion upon them that shall flee
of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 16
1 SEND forth, O Lord, the lamb, the ruler of the earth, from
Petra of the desert, to the mount of the daughter of Sion.
2 And it shall come to pass, that as a bird fleeing away,
and as young ones flying out of the nest, so shall the
daughters of Moab be in the passage of Arnon.
3 Take counsel, gather a council: make thy shadow as the
night in the midday: hide them that flee, and betray not
them that wander about.
4 My fugitives shall dwell with thee: O Moab, be thou a
covert to them from the face of the destroyer: for the
dust is at an end, the wretch is consumed: he hath failed,
that trod the earth under foot.
5 And a throne shall be prepared in mercy, and one shall sit
upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging and
seeking judgment and quickly rendering that which is just.
6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, he is exceeding proud:
his pride and his arrogancy, and his indignation is more
than his strength.
7 Therefore shall Moab howl to Moab, every one shall howl:
to them that rejoice upon the brick walls, tell ye their
stripes.
8 For the suburbs of Hesebon are desolate, and the lords of
the nations have destroyed the vineyard of Sabama: the
branches thereof have reached even to Jazer: they have
wandered in the wilderness, the branches thereof are left,
they are gone over the sea.
9 Therefore I will lament with the weeping of Jazer the
vineyard of Sabama: I will water thee with my tears, O
Hesebon, and Eleale: for the voice of the treaders hath
rushed in upon thy vintage, and upon thy harvest.
10 And gladness and joy shall be taken away from Carmel, and
there shall be no rejoicing nor shouting in the vineyards.
He shall not tread out wine in the press that was wont to
tread it out: the voice of the treaders I have taken away.
11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and
my inward parts for the brick wall.
12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is
wearied on his high places, that he shall go in to his
sanctuaries to pray, and shall not prevail.
13 This is the word, that the Lord spoke to Moab from that
time:
14 And now the Lord hath spoken, saying: In three years, as
the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be taken
away for all the multitude of the people, and it shall be
left small and feeble, not many.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 17
1 THE burden of Damascus. Behold Damascus shall cease to be
a city, and shall be as a ruinous heap of stones.
2 The cities of Aroer shall be left for flocks, and they
shall rest there, and there shall be none to make them
afraid.
3 And aid shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from
Damascus: and the remnant of Syria shall be as the glory
of the children of Israel: saith the Lord of hosts.
4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of
Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh
shall grow lean.
5 And it shall be as when one gathereth in the harvest that
which remaineth, and his arm shall gather the ears of
corn: and it shall be as he that seeketh ears in the vale
of Raphaim.
6 And the fruit thereof that shall be left upon it, shall be
as one cluster of grapes, and as the shaking of the olive
tree, two or three berries in the top of a bough, or four
or five upon the top of the tree, saith the Lord the God
of Israel.
7 In that day man shall bow down himself to his Maker, and
his eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars which his hands made:
and he shall not have respect to the things that his
fingers wrought, such as groves and temples.
9 In that day his strong cities shall be forsaken, as the
ploughs, and the corn that were left before the face of
the children of Israel, and thou shalt be desolate.
10 Because thou hast forgotten God thy saviour, and hast not
remembered thy strong helper: therefore shalt thou plant
good plants, and shalt sow strange seed.
11 In the day of thy planting shall be the wild grape, and in
the morning thy seed shall flourish: the harvest is taken
away in the day of inheritance, and shall grieve thee
much.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, like the multitude of
the roaring sea: and the tumult of crowds, like the noise
of many waters.
13 Nations shall make a noise like the noise of waters
overflowing, but he shall rebuke him, and he shall flee
far off: and he shall be carried away as the dust of the
mountains before the wind, and as a whirlwind before a
tempest.
14 In the time of the evening, behold there shall be trouble:
the morning shall come, and he shall not be: this is the
portion of them that have wasted us, and the lot of them
that spoiled us.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 18
1 WOE to the land, the winged cymbal, which is beyond the
rivers of Ethiopia,
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, and in vessels of
bulrushes upon the waters. Go, ye swift angels, to a
nation rent and torn in pieces: to a terrible people,
after which there is no other: to a nation expecting and
trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled.
3 All ye inhabitants of the world, who dwell on the earth,
when the sign shall be lifted up on the mountains, you
shall see, and you shall hear the sound of the trumpet.
4 For thus saith the Lord to me: I will take my rest, and
consider in my place, as the noon light is clear, and as
a cloud of dew in the day of harvest.
5 For before the harvest it was all flourishing, and it
shall bud without perfect ripeness, and the sprigs thereof
shall be cut off with pruning hooks: and what is left
shall be cut away and shaken out.
6 And they shall be left together to the birds of the
mountains, and the beasts of the earth: and the fowls
shall be upon them all the summer, and all the beasts of
the earth shall winter upon them.
7 At that time shall a present be brought to the Lord of
hosts, from a people rent and torn in pieces: from a
terrible people, after which there hath been no other:
from a nation expecting, expecting and trodden under foot,
whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the
name of the Lord of hosts, to mount Sion.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 19
1 THE burden of Egypt. Behold the Lord will ascend upon a
swift cloud, and will enter into Egypt, and the idols of
Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of
Egypt shall melt in the midst thereof.
2 And I will set the Egyptians to fight against the
Egyptians: and they shall fight brother against brother,
and friend against friend, city against city, kingdom
against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall be broken in the bowels
thereof, and I will cast down their counsel: and they
shall consult their idols, and their diviners, and their
wizards, and soothsayers.
4 And I will deliver Egypt into the hand of cruel masters,
and a strong king shall rule over them, saith the Lord the
God of hosts.
5 And the water of the sea shall be dried up, and the river
shall be wasted and dry.
6 And the rivers shall fail: the streams of the banks shall
be diminished, and be dried up. The reed and the bulrush
shall wither away.
7 The channel of the river shall be laid bare from its
fountain, and every thing sown by the water shall be dried
up, it shall wither away, and shall be no more.
8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all that cast a hook
into the river shall lament, and they that spread nets
upon the waters shall languish away.
9 They shall be confounded that wrought in flax, combing and
weaving fine linen.
10 And its watery places shall be dry, all they shall mourn
that made pools to take fishes.
11 The princes of Tanis are become fools, the wise
counsellors of Pharao have given foolish counsel: how will
you say to Pharao: I am the son of the wise, the son of
ancient kings?
12 Where are now thy wise men? let them tell thee, and shew
what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
13 The princes of Tanis are become fools, the princes of
Memphis are gone astray, they have deceived Egypt, the
stay of the people thereof.
14 The Lord hath mingled in the midst thereof the spirit of
giddiness: and they have caused Egypt to err in all its
works, as a drunken man staggereth and vomiteth.
15 And there shall be no work for Egypt, to make head or
tail, him that bendeth down, or that holdeth back.
16 In that day Egypt shall be like unto women, and they shall
be amazed, and afraid, because of the moving of the hand
of the Lord of hosts, which he shall move over it.
17 And the land of Juda shall be a terror to Egypt: every one
that shall remember it shall tremble because of the
counsel of the Lord of hosts, which he hath determined
concerning it.
18 In that day there shall be five cities in the land of
Egypt, speaking the language of Chanaan, and swearing by
the Lord of hosts: one shall be called the city of the
sun.
19 In that day there shall be an altar of the Lord in the
midst of the land of Egypt, and a monument of the Lord at
the borders thereof:
20 It shall be for a sign, and for a testimony to the Lord of
hosts in the land of Egypt. For they shall cry to the Lord
because of the oppressor, and he shall send them a Saviour
and a defender to deliver them.
21 And the Lord shall be known by Egypt, and the Egyptians
shall know the Lord in that day, and shall worship him
with sacrifices and offerings: and they shall make vows to
the Lord, and per- form them.
22 And the Lord shall strike Egypt with a scourge, and shall
heal it, and they shall return to the Lord, and he shall
be pacified towards them, and heal them.
23 In that day there shall be a way from Egypt to the
Assyrians, and the Assyrian shall enter into Egypt, and
the Egyptian to the Assyrians, and the Egyptians shall
serve the Assyrian.
24 In that day shall Israel be the third to the Egyptian and
the Assyrian: a blessing in the midst of the land,
25 Which the Lord of hosts hath blessed, saying: Blessed be
my people of Egypt, and the work of my hands to the
Assyrian: but Israel is my inheritance.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 20
1 IN the year that Tharthan entered into Azotus, when Sargon
the king of the Assyrians had sent him, and he had fought
against Azotus, and had taken it:
2 At that same time the Lord spoke by the hand of Isaias the
son of Amos, saying: Go, and loose the sackcloth from off
thy loins, and take off thy shoes from thy feet. And he
did so, and went naked, and barefoot.
3 And the Lord said: As my servant Isaias hath walked, naked
and barefoot, it shall be a sign and a wonder of three
years upon Egypt, and upon Ethiopia,
4 So shall the king of the Assyrians lead away the prisoners
of Egypt, and the captivity of Ethiopia, young and old.
naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered to the
shame of Egypt.
5 And they shall be afraid, and ashamed of Ethiopia their
hope, and of Egypt their glory.
6 And the inhabitants of this isle shall say in that day: Lo
this was our hope, to whom we fled for help, to deliver up
from the face of the king of the Assyrians: and how shall
we be able to escape?
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 21
1 THE burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come
from the south, it cometh from the desert from a terrible
land.
2 A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful
dealeth unfaithfully : and he that is a spoiler, spoileth.
Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Mede: I have made all the
mourning thereof to cease.
3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain, anguish hath
taken hold of me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I
fell down at the hearing of it, I was troubled at the
seeing of it.
4 My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is
become a wonder to me.
5 Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat
and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.
6 For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman:
and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell.
7 And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a rider upon an
ass, and a rider upon a camel: and he beheld them
diligently with much heed.
8 And a lion cried out: I am upon the watchtower of the
Lord, standing continually by day: and I am upon my ward,
standing whole nights.
9 Behold this man cometh, the rider upon the chariot with
two horsemen, and he answered, and said: Babylon is
fallen, she is fallen, and all the graven gods thereof are
broken unto the ground.
10 O my thrashing and the children of my door, that which I
have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have
declared unto you.
11 The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman,
what of the eight? watchman, what of the night?
12 The watchman said: The morning cometh, also the night: if
you seek, seek: return, come.
13 The burden in Arabia. In the forest at evening you shall
sleep, in the paths of Dedanim.
14 Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you that inhabit the
land of the south, meet with bread him that fleeth.
15 For they are fled from before the swords, from the sword
that hung over them, from the bent bow, from the face of
a grievous battle.
16 For thus saith the Lord to me: Within a year, according to
the years of a hireling, all the glory of Cedar shall be
taken away.
17 And the residue of the number of strong archers of the
children of Cedar shall be diminished: for the Lord the
God of Israel hath spoken it.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 22
1 THE burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee also,
that thou too art wholly gone up to the housetops?
2 Full of clamour, a populous city, a joyous city: thy slain
are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle.
3 All the princes are fled together, and are bound hard: all
that were found, are bound together, they are fled far
off.
4 Therefore have I said: Depart from me, I will weep
bitterly: labour not to comfort me, for the devastation of
the daughter of my people.
5 For it is a day of slaughter and of treading down, and of
weeping to the Lord the God of hosts in the valley of
vision, searching the wall, and magnificent upon the
mountain.
6 And Elam took the quiver, the chariot of the horseman, and
the shield was taken down from the wall.
7 And thy choice valleys shall be full of chariots, and the
horseman shall place themselves in the gate.
8 And the covering of Juda shall be discovered, and thou
shalt see in that day the armoury of the house of the
forest.
9 And you shall see the breaches of the city of David, that
they are many: and you have gathered together the waters
of the lower pool,
10 And have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and broken down
houses to fortify the wall.
11 And you made a ditch between the two walls for the water
of the old pool: and you have not looked up to the maker
thereof, nor regarded him even at a distance, that wrought
it long ago.
12 And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to
weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with
sackcloth:
13 And behold joy and gladness, killing calves, and slaying
rams, eating flesh, and drinking wine: Let us eat and
drink; for to morrow we shall die.
14 And the voice of the Lord of hosts was revealed in my
ears: Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till
you die, saith the Lord God of hosts.
15 Thus saith the Lord God of hosts: Go, get thee in to him
that dwelleth in the tabernacle, to Sobna who is over the
temple: and thou shalt say to him:
16 What dost thou here, or as if thou wert somebody here? for
thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, thou hast hewed
out a monument carefully in a high place, a dwelling for
thyself in a rock.
17 Behold the Lord will cause thee to be carried away, as a
cock is carried away, and he will lift thee up as a
garment.
18 He will crown thee with a crown of tribulation, he will
toss thee like a ball into a large and spacious country:
there shalt thou die, and there shall the chariot of thy
glory be, the shame of the house of thy Lord.
19 And I will drive thee out From thy station, and depose
thee from thy ministry.
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my
servant Eliacim the son of Helcias,
21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and will strengthen
him with thy girdle, and will give thy power into his
hand: and he shall be as a father to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and to the house of Juda.
22 And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his
shoulder: and he shall open, and none shall shut: and he
shall shut, and none shall open.
23 And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place, and he
shall be for a throne of glory to the house of his father.
24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's
house, divers kinds of vessels, every little vessel, from
the vessels of cups even to every instrument of music.
26 In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the peg be
removed, that was fastened in the sure place: and it shall
be broken and shall fall: and that which hung thereon,
shall perish, because the Lord hath spoken it.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 23
1 THE burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of the sea, for the
house is destroyed, from whence they were wont to come:
from the land of Cethim it is revealed to them.
2 Be silent, you that dwell in the island: the merchants of
Sidon passing over the sea, have filled thee.
3 The seed of the Nile in many waters, the harvest of the
river is her revenue: and she is become the mart of the
nations.
4 Be thou ashamed, O Sidon: for the sea speaketh, even the
strength of the sea, saying: I have not been in labour,
nor have I brought forth, nor have I nourished up young
men, nor brought up virgins.
5 When it shall be heard in Egypt, they will be sorry when
they shall hear of Tyre:
6 Pass over the seas, howl, ye inhabitants of the island.
7 Is not this your city, which gloried from of old in her
antiquity? her feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, that was
formerly crowned, whose merchants were princes, and her
traders the nobles of the earth?
9 The Lord of hosts hath designed it, to pull down the pride
of all glory, and bring to disgrace all the glorious ones
of the earth.
10 Pass thy land as a river, O daughter of the sea, thou hast
a girdle no more.
11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he troubled
kingdoms: the Lord hath given a charge against Chanaan, to
destroy the strong ones thereof.
12 And he said: Thou shalt glory no more, O virgin daughter
of Sidon, who art oppressed: arise and sail over to
Cethim, there also thou shalt have no, rest.
13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans, there was not such a
people, the Assyrian founded it: they have led away the
strong ones thereof into captivity, they have destroyed
the houses thereof, they have brought it to ruin.
14 Howl, O ye ships of the sea, for your strength is laid
waste.
15 And it shall come to pass in that day that thou, O Tyre,
shalt be forgotten, seventy years, according to the days
of one king: but after seventy years, there shall be unto
Tyre as the song of a harlot.
16 Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been
forgotten: sing well, sing many a song, that thou mayst be
remembered.
17 And it shall come to pass after seventy years, that the
Lord will visit Tyre, and will bring her back again to her
traffic: and she shall commit fornication again with all
the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be sanctified to
the Lord: they shall not be kept in store, nor laid up:
for her merchandise shall be for them that shall dwell
before the Lord, that they may eat unto fulness, and be
clothed for a continuance.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 24
1 BEHOLD the Lord shall lay waste the earth, and shall strip
it, and shall afflict the face thereof, and scatter abroad
the inhabitants thereof.
2 And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest:
and as with the servant, so with his master: as with the
handmaid, so with her mistress: as with the buyer, so with
the seller: as with the lender, so with the borrower: as
with him that calleth for his money, so with him that
oweth.
3 With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it
shall be utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this
word.
4 The earth mourned, and faded away, and is weakened: the
world faded away, the height of the people of the earth is
weakened.
5 And the earth is infected by the in- habitants thereof:
because they have transgressed the laws, they have changed
the ordinance, they have broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore shall a curse devour the earth, and the
inhabitants thereof shall sin: and therefore they that
dwell therein shall be mad, and few men shall be left.
7 The vintage hath mourned, the vine hath languished away,
all the merryhearted have sighed.
8 The mirth of timbrels hath ceased, the noise of them that
rejoice is ended, the melody of the harp is silent.
9 They shall not drink wine with a song: the drink shall be
bitter to them that drink it.
10 The city of vanity is broken down, every house is shut up,
no man cometh in.
11 There shall be a crying for wine in the streets: all mirth
is forsaken: the joy of the earth is gone away.
12 Desolation is left in the city, and calamity shall oppress
the gates.
13 For it shall be thus in the midst of the earth, in the
midst of the people, as if a few olives, that remain,
should be shaken out of the olive tree: or grapes, when
the vintage is ended.
14 These shall lift up their voice, and shall give praise:
when the Lord shall be glorified, they shall make a joyful
noise from the sea.
15 Therefore glorify ye the Lord in instruction: the name of
the Lord God of Israel in the islands of the sea.
16 From the ends of the earth we have heard praises, the
glory of the just one. And I said: My secret to myself, my
secret to myself, woe is me: the prevaricators have
prevaricated, and with the prevarication of transgressors
they have prevaricated.
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee, O thou
inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he that shall flee from
the noise of the fear, shall fall into the pit: and he
that shall rid himself out of the pit, shall be taken in
the snare: for the flood-gates from on high are opened,
and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken.
19 With breaking shall the earth be broken, with crushing
shall the earth be crushed, with trembling shall the earth
be moved.
20 With shaking shall the earth be shaken as a drunken man,
and shall be removed as the tent of one night: and the
iniquity thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall
fell, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord shall
visit upon the host of heaven on high, and upon the kings
of the earth, on the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together as in the gathering of
one bundle into the pit, and they shall be shut up there
in prison: and after many days they shall be visited.
23 fend the moon shall blush, and the sun shall be ashamed,
when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Sion, and in
Jerusalem, and shall be glorified in the sight of his
ancients.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 25
1 O LORD, thou art my God, I will exalt thee, and give glory
to thy name: for thou hast done wonderful things, thy
designs of old faithful, amen.
2 For thou hast reduced the city to a heap, the strong city
to ruin, the house of strangers, to be no city, and to be
no more built up for ever.
3 Therefore shall a strong people praise thee, the city of
mighty nations shall fear thee.
4 Because thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength
to the needy in his distress: a refuge from the whirlwind,
a shadow from the heat. For the blast of the mighty is
like a whirlwind beating against a wall.
5 Thou shalt bring down the tumult of strangers, as heat in
thirst: and as with heat under a burning cloud, thou shalt
make the branch of the mighty to wither away.
6 And the Lord of hosts shall make unto all people in this
mountain, a feast of fat things, a feast of wine, of fat
things full of marrow, of wine purified from the lees.
7 And he shall destroy in this mountain the face of the bond
with which all pie were tied, and the web that he over all
nations.
8 He shall cast death down headlong forever: and the Lord
God shall wipe away tears from every face, and the
reproach of his people he shall take away from off the
whole earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.
9 And they shall say in that day: Lo, this is our God, we
have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the
Lord, we have patiently waited for him, we shall rejoice
and be joyful in his salvation.
10 For the hand of the Lord shall rest in this mountain: and
Moab shall be trodden down under him, as straw is broken
in pieces with the wain.
11 And he shall stretch forth his hands under him, as he that
swimmeth stretcheth forth his hands to swim: and he shall
bring down his glory with the dashing of his hands.
12 And the bulwarks of thy high walls shall fall, and be
brought low, and shall be pulled down to the ground, even
to the dust.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 26
1 IN that day shall this canticle be sung the land of Juda.
Sion the city of our strength a saviour, a wall and a
bulwark shall be set therein.
2 Open ye the gates, and let the just nation, that keepeth
the truth, enter in.
3 The old error is passed away: thou wilt keep peace: peace,
because we have hoped in thee.
4 You have hoped in the Lord for evermore, in the Lord God
mighty for ever.
5 For he shall bring down them that dwell on high, the high
city he shall lay low. He shall bring it down even to the
ground, he shall pull it down even to the dust.
6 The foot shall tread it down, the feet of the poor, the
steps of the needy.
7 The way of the just is right, the path of the just is
right to walk in.
8 And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we have patiently
waited for thee: thy name, and thy remembrance are the
desire of the soul.
9 My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my
spirit within me in the morning early I will watch to
thee. When thou shalt do thy judgments on the earth, the
inhabitants of the world shall learn justice.
10 Let us have pity on the wicked, but he will not learn
justice: in the land of the saints he hath done wicked
things, and he shall not see the glory of the Lord.
11 Lord, let thy hand be exalted, and let them not see: let
the envious people see, and be confounded: and let fire
devour thy enemies.
12 Lord, thou wilt give us peace: for thou hast wrought all
our works for us.
13 O Lord our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion
over us, only in thee let us remember thy name.
14 Let not the dead live, let not the giants rise again:
therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and best
destroyed all their memory.
15 Thou hast been favourable to the nation, O Lord, thou hast
been favourable to the nation: art thou glorified? thou
hast removed all the ends of the earth far off.
16 Lord, they have sought after thee in distress, in the
tribulation of murmuring thy instruction was with them.
17 As a woman with child, when she draweth near the time of
her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs: so
are we become in thy presence, O Lord.
18 We have conceived, and been as it were in labour, and have
brought forth wind: we have not wrought salvation on the
earth, therefore the inhabitants of the earth have not
fallen.
19 Thy dead men shall live, my slain shall rise again: awake,
and give praise, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is
the dew of the light: and the land of the giants thou
shalt pull down into ruin.
20 Go, my people, enter into thy chambers, shut thy doors
upon thee, hide thyself a little for a moment, until the
indignation pass away.
21 For behold the Lord will come out of his place, to visit
the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against him:
and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall cover
her slain no more.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 27
1 IN that day the Lord with his hard, and great, and strong
sword shall visit leviathan the bar serpent, and leviathan
the crooked serpent, and shall slay the whale that is in
the see.
2 In that day there shall be singing to the vineyard of pure
wine.
3 I am the Lord that keep it, I will suddenly give it drink:
lest any hurt come to it, I keep it night and day.
4 There is no indignation in m: who shall make me a thorn
and a brier in battle: shall march against it, shall I set
it on fire together?
5 Or rather shall it take hold of my strength, shall it make
peace with me, shall it make peace with me?
6 When they shall rush in unto Jacob, Israel shall blossom
and bud, and they shall fill the face of the world with
seed.
7 Hath he struck him according to the stroke of him that
struck him? or is he slain, as he killed them that were
slain by him?
8 In measure against measure, when it shall be cast off,
thou shalt judge it. He hath meditated with his severe
spirit in the day of heat.
9 Therefore upon this shall the iniquity of the house of
Jacob be forgiven: and this is all the fruit, that the sin
thereof should be taken away, when he shall have made all
the stones of the altar, as burnt stones broken in pieces,
the groves and temples shall not stand.
10 For the strong city shall be desolate, the beautiful city
shall be forsaken, and shall be left as a wilderness :
there the calf shall feed, and there shall he lie down,
and shall consume its branches.
11 Its harvest shall be destroyed with drought, women shall
come and teach it: for it is not a wise people, therefore
he that made it, shall not have mercy on it: and he that
formed it, shall not spare it.
12 And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord will
strike from the channel of the river even to the torrent
of Egypt, and you shall be gathered together one by one,
O ye children of Israel.
13 And it shall come to pass, that in that day a noise shall
be made with a great trumpet, and they that were lost,
shall come from the land of the Assyrians, and they that
were outcasts in the land of Egypt, and they shall adore
the Lord in the holy mount in Jerusalem.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 28
1 WOE to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim,
and to the fading flower the glory of his joy, who were on
the head of the fat valley, staggering with wine.
2 Behold the Lord is mighty and strong, as a storm of hail:
a destroying whirlwind, as the violence of many waters
overflowing, and sent forth upon a spacious land.
3 The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be
trodden under feet.
4 And the fading flower the glory of his joy, who is on the
head of the fat valley, shall be as a hasty fruit before
the ripeness of autumn: which when he that seeth it shall
behold, as soon as he taketh it in his hand, he will eat
it up.
5 In that day the Lord of hosts shall be a crown of glory,
and a garland of joy to the residue of his people:
6 And a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment,
and strength to them that return out of the battle to the
gate.
7 But these also have been ignorant through wine, and
through drunkenness have erred: the priest and the prophet
have been ignorant through drunkenness, they are swallowed
up with wine, they have gone astray in drunkenness, they
have not known him that seeth, they have been ignorant of
judgment.
8 For all tables were full of vomit and filth, so that there
was no more place.
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to
understand the hearing? them that are weaned from the
milk, that are drawn away from the breasts.
10 For command, command again; command, command again;
expect, expect again; expect, expect again: a little
there, a little there.
11 For with the speech of lips, and with another tongue he
will speak to this people.
12 To whom he said: This is my rest, refresh the weary, and
this is my refreshing: and they would not hear.
13 And the word of the Lord shall be to them: Command,
command again; command, command again: expect, expect
again; expect, expect again: a little there, a little
there: that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken,
and snared, and taken.
14 Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, who
rule over my people that is in Jerusalem.
15 For you have said : We have entered into a league with
death, and we have made a covenant with hell. When the
overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come
upon us: for we have placed our hope in lies, and by
falsehood we are protected.
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will lay a
stone in the foundations of Sion, a tried stone, a corner
stone, a precious stone, founded in the foundation. He
that believeth, let him not hasten.
17 And I will set judgment in weight, and justice in measure:
and hail shall overturn the hope of falsehood: and waters
shall overflow its protection.
18 And Sour league with death shall be abolished, and your
covenant with hell shall not stand: when the overflowing
scourge shall pass, you shall be trodden down by it.
19 Whensoever it shall pass through, it shall take you away:
because in the morning early it shall pass through, in the
day and in the night, and vexation alone shall make you
understand what you hear.
20 For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and
a short covering can- not cover both.
21 For the Lord shall stand up as in the mountain of
divisions: he shall be angry as in the valley which is in
Gabaon: that he may do his work, his strange work: that he
may perform his work, his work is strange to him.
22 And now do not mock, lest your bonds be tied strait. For
I have heard of the Lord the God of hosts a consumption
and a cutting short upon all the earth.
23 Give ear, and hear my voice, hearken, and hear my speech.
24 Shall the ploughman plough all the day to sow, shall he
open and harrow his ground?
25 Will he not, when he hath made plain the surface thereof,
sow gith, and scatter cummin, and put wheat in order, and
barley, and millet, and vetches in their bounds?
26 For he will instruct him in judgment : his God will teach
him.
27 For gith shall not be thrashed with saws, neither shall
the cart wheel turn about upon cummin: but gith shall be
beaten out with a rod, and cummin with a staff.
28 But bread corn shall be broken small: but the thrasher
shall not thrash it for ever, neither shall the cart wheel
hurt it, nor break it with its teeth.
29 This also is come forth from the Lord God of hosts, to
make his counsel wonderful, and magnify justice.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 29
1 WOE to Ariel, to Ariel the city which David took: year is
added to year: the solemnities are at an end.
2 And I will make a trench about Ariel, and it shall be in
sorrow and mourning, and it shall be to me as Ariel.
3 And I will make a circle round about thee, and will cast
up a rampart against thee, and raise up bulwarks to
besiege thee.
4 Thou shalt be brought down, thou shalt speak out of the
earth, and thy speech shall be heard out of the ground:
and thy voice shall be from the earth like that of the
python, and out of the ground thy speech shall mutter.
5 And the multitude of them that fan thee, shall be like
small dust: and as ashes passing away, the multitude of
them that have prevailed against thee.
6 And it shall be at an instant suddenly. A visitation shall
come from the Lord of hosts in thunder, and with
earthquake, and with a great noise of whirlwind and
tempest, and with the flame of devouring fire.
7 And the multitude of all nations that have fought against
Ariel, shall be as the dream of a vision by night, and all
that have fought, and besieged and prevailed against it.
8 And as he that is hungry dreameth, and eateth, but when he
is awake, his soul is empty: and as he that is thirsty
dreameth, and drinketh, and after he is awake, is yet
faint with thirst, and his soul is empty: so shall be the
multitude of all the Gentiles, that have fought against
mount Sion.
9 Be astonished, and wander, waver, and stagger: be drunk,
and not with wine: stagger, and not with drunkenness.
10 For the Lord hath mingled for you the spirit of a deep
sleep, he will shut up your eyes, he will cover your
prophets and princes, that see visions.
11 And the vision of all shall be unto you as the words of a
book that is sealed, which when they shall deliver to one
that is learned, they shall say: Read this: and he shall
answer: I cannot, for it is sealed.
12 And the book shall be given to one that knoweth no
letters, and it shall be said to him: Read: and he shall
answer: I know no letters.
13 And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near me
with their mouth, and with their lips glorify me, but
their heart is far from me, and they have feared me with
the commandment and doctrines of men:
14 Therefore behold I will proceed to cause an admiration in
this people, by a great and wonderful miracle: for wisdom
shall perish from their wise men, and the understanding of
their prudent men shall be hid.
15 Woe to you that are deep of heart, to hide your counsel
from the Lord: and their works are in the dark, and they
say: Who seeth us, and who knoweth us?
16 This thought of yours is perverse: as if the clay should
think against the potter, and the work should say to the
maker thereof: Thou madest me not: or the thing framed
should say to him that fashioned it: Thou understandest
not.
17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Libanus shall be
turned into charmel, and charmel shall be esteemed as a
forest?
18 And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book,
and out of darkness and obscurity the eyes of the blind
shall see.
19 And the meek shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the
poor men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For he that did prevail hath failed, the scorner is
consumed, and they are all cut off that watched for
iniquity:
21 That made men sin by word, and supplanted him that
reproved them in the gate, and declined in vain from the
just.
22 Therefore thus saith the Lord to the house of Jacob, he
that redeemed Abraham: Jacob shall not now be confounded,
neither shall his countenance now be ashamed:
23 But when he shall see his children, the work of my hands
in the midst of him sanctifying my name, and they shall
sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall glorify the God
of Israel:
24 And they that erred in spirit, shall know understanding,
and they that murmured, shall learn the law.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 30
1 WOE to you, apostate children, saith the Lord, that you
would take counsel, and not of me: and would begin a web,
and not by my spirit, that you might add sin upon sill:
2 Who walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my
mouth, hoping for help in the strength of Pharao, and
trusting in the shadow of Egypt.
3 And the- strength of Pharao shall be to your confusion,
and the confidence of the shadow of Egypt to your shame.
4 For thy princes were in Tanis, and thy messengers came
even to Hanes.
5 They were all confounded at a people that could not profit
them: they were no help, nor to any profit, but to
confusion and to reproach.
6 The burden of the beasts of the south. In a land of
trouble and distress, from whence come the lioness, and
the lion, the viper and the flying basilisk, they carry
their riches upon the shoulders of beasts, and their
treasures upon the bunches of camels to a people that
shall not be able to profit them.
7 For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore
have I cried concerning this: It is pride only, sit still.
8 Now therefore go in and write for them upon box, and note
it diligently in a book, and it shall be in the latter
days for a testimony for ever.
9 For it is a people that provoketh to wrath, and lying
children, children that will not hear the law of God.
10 Who say to the seers: See not: and to them that behold:
Behold not for us those things that are right: speak unto
us pleasant things, see errors for us.
11 Take away from me the way, turn away the path from me, let
the Holy One of Israel cease from before us.
12 Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because you
have rejected this word, and have trusted in oppression
and tumult, and have leaned upon it:
13 Therefore shall this iniquity be to you as a breach that
falleth, and is found wanting in a high wall, for the
destruction thereof shall come on a sudden, when it is not
looked for.
14 And it shall be broken small, as the potter's vessel is
broken all to pieces with mighty breaking, and there shall
not a sherd be found of the pieces thereof, wherein a
little fire may be carried from the hearth, or a, little
water be drawn out of the pit.
15 For thus saith the Lord God the Holy One of Israel: If you
return and be quiet, you shall be saved: in silence and in
hope shall your strength be. And you would not:
16 But have said: No, but we will flee to horses: therefore
shall you flee. And we will mount upon swift ones:
therefore shall they be swifter that shall pursue after
you.
17 A thousand men shall flee for fear of one: and for fear of
five shall you flee, till you be left as the mast of a
ship on the top of a mountain, and as an ensign upon a
hill.
18 Therefore the Lord waiteth that be may have mercy on you:
and therefore shall he be exalted sparing you: because the
Lord is the God of judgment: blessed are all they that
wait for him.
19 For the people of Sion shall dwell in Jerusalem: weeping
thou shalt not weep, he will surely have pity on thee: at
the voice of thy cry, se soon as he shell hear, he will
answer thee.
20 And the Lord will give you spare bread, and short water:
and will not cause thy teacher to flee away from thee any
more, and thy eyes shall see thy teacher.
21 And thy ears shall hear the word of one admonishing thee
behind thy back: This is the way, walk ye in it: and go
not aside neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
22 And thou shalt defile the plates of thy graven things of
silver, and the garment of thy molten things of gold, and
shalt cast them away as the uncleanness of a menstruous
woman. Thou shalt say to it: Get thee hence.
23 And rain shall be given to thy seed, wheresoever thou
shalt sow in the land: and the bread of the corn of the
land shall be most plentiful, and fat. The lamb in that
day shall feed at large in thy possession:
24 And thy oxen, and the ass colts that till the ground,
shall eat mingled pro vender as it was winnowed in the
floor.
25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon
every elevated hill rivers of running waters in the day of
the slaughter of many, when the tower shall fall.
26 And the light of the moon shall be se the light of the
sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the
light of seven days: in the day when the Lord shall bind
up the wound of his people, and shall heal the stroke of
their wound.
27 Behold the name of the Lord cometh from afar, his wrath
burneth, and is heavy to bear: his lips are filled with
indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire.
28 His breath as a torrent overflowing even to the midst of
the neck, to destroy the nations unto nothing, and the
bridle of error that was in the jaws of the people.
29 You shall have a song as in the night of the sanctified
solemnity, and joy of heart, as when one goeth with a
pipe, to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the Mighty
One of Israel.
30 And the Lord shall make the glory of his voice to be
heard, and shall shew the terror of his arm, in the
threatening of wrath, and the dame of devouring fire: he
shall crush to pieces with whirlwind, and hailstones.
31 For at the voice of the Lord the Assyrian shall fear being
struck with the rod.
32 And the passage of the rod shall be strongly grounded,
which the Lord shall make to rest upon him with timbrels
and harps, and in great battles he shall over throw them.
33 For Topheth is prepared from yesterday, prepared by the
king, deep, and wide. The nourishment thereof is fire and
much wood: the breath of the Lord as a torrent of
brimstone kindling it.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 31
1 WOE to them that go down to Egypt for help, trusting in
horses, and putting their confidence in chariots, because
they me many: and in horsemen, because they me very
strong: and have not trusted in the Holy One of Israel,
and have not sought after the Lord.
2 But he that is the wise one hath brought evil, and hath
not removed his words: and he will rise up against the
house of the wicked, and against the aid of them that work
iniquity.
3 Egypt is man, and not God: and their horses, flesh, and
not spirit: and the Lord shall put down his hand, and the
helper shall fall, and he that is helped shall fall, and
they shall al be confounded together.
4 For thus saith the Lord to me: Like as the lion roareth,
and the lion's whelp upon his prey, and when a multitude
of shepherds shall come against him, he will not fear at
their voice, nor be afraid of their multitude: so shall
the Lord of hosts come down to fight upon mount Sion, and
upon the hill thereof.
5 As birds dying, so will the Lord of hosts protect
Jerusalem, protecting and delivering, passing over and
saving.
6 Return as you had deeply revolted, O children of Israel.
7 For in that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver,
and his idols of gold, which your hands have made for you
to sin.
8 And the Assyrian shall fall by the sword not of a man, and
the sword not of a man shall devour him, and he shall flee
not at the face of the sword: and his young men shall be
tributaries.
9 And his strength shall pass away with dread, and his
princes fleeing shall be afraid: the Lord hath said it,
whose die is in Sion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 32
1 BEHOLD a king shall reign in justice, and princes shell
rule in judgment.
2 And a man shall be as when one is hid from the wind, and
hideth himself from a storm, as rivers of waters in
drought, and the shadow of a rock that standeth out in a
desert land.
3 The eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears
of them that hear shall hearken diligently.
4 And the heart of fools shall understand knowledge, and the
tongue of stammerers shall speak readily and plain.
5 The fool shall no more be called prince: neither shall the
deceitful be called great:
6 For the fool will speak foolish things, and his heart will
work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and speak to the
Lord deceitfully, and to make empty the soul of the
hungry, and take away drink from the thirsty.
7 The vessels of the deceitful are most wicked: for he hath
framed devices to destroy the meek, with lying words, when
the poor man speaketh judgment.
8 But the prince will devise such things as are worthy of a
prince, and he shah stand above the rulers.
9 Rise up, ye rich women, and hear my voice: ye confident
daughters, give ear to my speech.
10 For after days and a year, you that are confident shall be
troubled: for the vintage is at an end, the gathering
shall come no more.
11 Be astonished, ye rich women, be troubled, ye confident
ones: strip yen, and be confounded, gird your loins.
12 Mourn for your breasts, for the delightful country, for
the fruitful vineyard.
13 Upon the land of my people shall thorns and briers come
up: how much more upon all the houses of joy, of the city
that rejoiced?
14 For the house is forsaken, the multitude of the city is
left, darkness and obscurity are come upon its dens for
ever. A joy of wild asses, the pastures of docks,
15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high: and the
desert shall be se a charmel, and charmel shall be counted
for a forest.
16 And judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and justice
shall sit in charmel.
17 And the work of justice shall be peace, and the service of
justice quietness, and security for ever.
18 And my people shall sit in the beauty of peace, and in the
tabernacles of confidence, and in wealthy rest.
19 But hail shall be in the descent of the forest, and the
city shall be made very low.
20 Blessed are ye that sow upon all waters, sending thither
the foot of the ox and the ass.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 33
1 WOE to thee that spoilest, shalt not thou thyself also be
spoiled? and thou that despisest, shalt not thyself also
be despised? when thou shalt have made an end of spoiling,
thou shalt be spoiled: when being wearied thou shalt cease
to despise, thou shalt be despised.
2 O Lord, have mercy on us: for we have waited for thee: be
thou our arm in the morning, and our salvation in the time
of trouble.
3 At the voice of the angel the people fled, and at the
lifting up thyself the nations are scattered.
4 And your spoils shall be gathered together as the locusts
are gathered, as when the ditches are full of them.
5 The Lord is magnified, for he hath dwelt on high: he hath
filled Sion with judgment and justice.
6 And there shall be faith in thy times: riches of
salvation, wisdom and knowledge: the fear of the Lord is
his treasure.
7 Behold they that see shall cry without, the angels of
peace shall weep bitterly.
8 The ways are made desolate, no one passeth by the road,
the covenant is made void, he hath rejected the cities, he
hath not regarded the men.
9 The land hath mourned, and languished: Libanus is
confounded and become foul, and Saron is become as a
desert: and Basan and Carmel are shaken.
10 Now will I rise up, saith the Lord: now will I be exalted,
now will I lift up myself.
11 You shall conceive heat, you shall bring forth stubble:
your breath as fire shall devour you.
12 And the people shall be as ashes after a fire, as a bundle
of thorns they shall be burnt with fire.
13 Hear, you that are far off, what I have done, and you that
are near know my strength.
14 The sinners in Sion are afraid, trembling hath seized upon
the hypocrites. Which of you can dwell with devouring
fire? which of you shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
15 He that walketh in justices, and speaketh truth, that
casteth away avarice by oppression, and shaketh his hands
from all bribes, that stoppeth his ears lest he hear
blood, and shutteth his eyes that he may see no evil.
16 He shall dwell on high, the fortifications of rocks shall
be his highness: bread is given him, his waters are sure.
17 His eyes shall see the king in his beauty, they shall see
the land far off.
18 Thy heart shall meditate fear: where is the learned? where
is he that pondereth the words of the law? where is the
teacher of little ones?
19 The shameless people thou shalt not see, the people of
profound speech: so that thou canst not understand the
eloquence of his tongue, in whom there is no wisdom.
20 Look upon Sion the city of our solemnity: thy eyes shall
see Jerusalem, a rich habitation, a tabernacle that cannot
be removed: neither shall the nails thereof be taken away
for ever, neither shall any of the cords thereof be
broken:
21 Because only there our Lord is magnificent: it place of
rivers, very broad and spacious streams: no ship with oars
shall pass by it, neither shall the great galley pass
through it.
22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the
Lord is our king: he will save us.
23 Thy tacklings are loosed, and they shall be of no
strength: thy mast shall be in such condition, that thou
shalt not be able to spread the flag. Then shall the
spoils of much prey be divided: the lame shall take the
spoil.
24 Neither shall he that is near, say: I am feeble. The
people that dwell therein, shall have their iniquity taken
away from them.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 34
1 COME near, ye Gentiles, and hear, and hearken, ye people:
let the earth hear, and all that is therein, the world,
and every thing that cometh forth of it.
2 For the indignation of the Lord if upon all nations, and
his fury upon all their armies: he hath killed them, and
delivered them to slaughter.
3 Their slain shall be cast forth, and out of their
carcasses shall rise a slink: the mountains shall be
melted with their blood.
4 And all the host of the heavens shall pine away, and the
heavens shall be folded together as a book: and all their
host shall fall down as the leaf falleth from the vine,
and from the fig tree.
5 For my sword is inebriated in heaven: behold it shall come
down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my slaughter unto
judgment.
6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made
thick with the blood of lambs and buck goats, with the
blood of rams full of marrow: for there is a victim of the
Lord in Bosra and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 And the unicorns shall go down with them, and the bulls
with the mighty: their land shall be soaked with blood,
and their ground with the fat of fat ones.
8 For it is the day of the vengeance of the Lord, the year
of recompenses of the judgment of Sion.
9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and
the ground thereof into brimstone: and the land thereof
shall become burning pitch.
10 Night and day it shall not be quenched, the smoke thereof
shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it
shall lie waste, none shall pass through it for ever and
ever.
11 The bittern and ericius shall possess it: and the ibis and
the raven shall dwell in it: and a line shall be stretched
out upon it, to bring it to nothing, and a plummet, unto
desolation.
12 The nobles thereof shall not be there: they shall call
rather upon the king, and all the princes thereof shall be
nothing.
13 And thorns and nettles shall grow up in its houses, and
the thistle in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be the
habitation of dragons, and the pasture of ostriches.
14 And demons and monsters shall meet, and the hairy ones
shall cry out one to another, there hath the lamia lain
down, and found rest for herself.
15 There hath the ericius had its hole, and brought up its
young ones, and hath dug round about, and cherished them
in the shadow thereof: thither are the kites gathered
together one to another.
16 Search ye diligently in the book of the Lord, and read:
not one of them was wanting, one hath not sought for the
other: for that which proceedeth out of my mouth, he hath
commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath
divided it to them by line: they shall possess it for
ever, from generation to generation they shall dwell
therein.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 35
1 THE land that was desolate and impassable shall be glad,
and the wilderness shall rejoice, and shall flourish like
the lily.
2 It shall bud forth and blossom, and shall rejoice with joy
and praise: the glory of Libanus is given to it: the
beauty of Carmel, and Saron, they shall see the glory of
the Lord, and the beauty of our God.
3 Strengthen ye the feeble hands, and confirm the weak
knees.
4 Say to the fainthearted: Take courage, and fear not:
behold your God will bring the revenge of recompense: God
himself will come and will save you.
5 Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears
of the deaf shall be unstopped.
6 Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of
the dumb shall be free: for waters are broken out in the
desert, and streams in the wilderness.
7 And that which was dry land, shall become a pool, and the
thirsty land springs of water. In the dens where dragons
dwell before, shall rise up the verdure of the reed and
the bulrush.
8 And a path and a way shall be there, and it shall be
called the holy way: the unclean shall not pass over it,
and this shall be unto you a straight way, so that fools
shall not err therein.
9 No lion shall be there, nor shall any mischievous beast go
up by it, nor be found there: but they shall walk there
that shall be delivered.
10 And the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and shall come
into Sion with praise, and everlasting joy shall be upon
their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and
sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 36
1 AND it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king
Ezechias, that Sennacherib king of the Assyrians came up
against all the fenced cities of Juda, and took them.
2 And the king of the Assyrians sent Rabsaces from Lachis to
Jerusalem, to king Ezechias with a great army, and he
stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the way of the
fuller's held.
3 And there went out to him Eliacim the son of Helcias, who
was over the house, and Sobna the scribe, and Joahe the
son of Asaph the recorder.
4 And Rabsaces said to them: Tell Ezechias: Thus saith the
great king, the king of the Assyrians: What is this
confidence wherein thou trustest?
5 Or with what counsel or strength dost thou prepare for
war? on whom dost thou trust, that thou art revolted from
me?
6 Lo thou trustest upon this broken staff of a reed, upon
Egypt: upon which if a man lean, it will go into |