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1:1 The vision of Yesha'yahu the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Yehudah and Yerushalayim in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Yehudah.
1:2 Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth! For Yehovah has spoken: I have enlarged and brought up sons, but they have rebelled against Me.
1:3 The ox knows his owner, the donkey his master's manger, but Yisrael does not know; My people have not understood.
1:4 Woe, sinful nation, a people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons who corrupt! They have forsaken Yehovah; they have scorned the set apart One of Yisrael. They are estranged backward.
1:5 Why will you be beaten any more? Will you continue the revolt? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart is faint.
1:6 From the sole of the foot even to the head, no soundness is in it; only a wound and a stripe and a fresh blow; they have not been closed, nor bound up; nor softened with oil.
1:7 Your land is a desolation; your cities burned with fire. Foreigners devour your land before you; and look, ruin, as overthrown by foreigners.
1:8 And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.
1:9 Except Yehovah of Hosts had not left us a seed, a few, we would be as Sodom; we would be as Gomorrah1.
1:10 Hear the Word of Yehovah, rulers of Sodom. Listen to the Torah of our Elohim, people of Gomorrah.
1:11 What good to Me are your many sacrifices, says Yehovah? I am full with burnt offerings of rams, the fat of fattened cattle, and the blood of bulls; nor do I delight in the blood of lambs and he-goats.
1:12 When you come to see My face, who has required this at your hand, to trample My courts?
1:13 Do not add to bringing vain sacrifice; its incense is an abomination to Me. The new moon and Sabbath, the going to meeting, I cannot endure the evil assembly.
1:14 My soul hates your new moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to Me. I am disgusted of bearing them.
1:15 And when you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you. Yea, when you multiply prayer, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
1:16 Wash yourselves, purify yourselves. Put away the evil of your doings from My sight; stop doing evil.
1:17 Learn to do good, seek justice, make straight the violent one, judge the orphan, contend for the widow.
1:18 Come now and let us reason together, says Yehovah: Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they are red as the crimson, they shall be like wool.
1:19 If you are willing and hear, you shall eat the good of the land.
1:20 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yehovah has spoken.
1:21 Oh how the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in it. But now, murderers!
1:22 Your silver has become dross; your wine is diluted with water.
1:23 Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe, and is pursuing rewards. They do not judge the orphan, nor does the cause of the widow come to them,
1:24 and says the Master, Yehovah of Hosts, the mighty One of Yisrael, Alas! I will be eased of My foes, and avenge Myself of My enemies.
1:25 And I will return My hand on you, and refine your dross, as with lye, and turn aside all your alloy.
1:26 And I will return your judges as at the first; and your advisers, as at the beginning; then you shall be called the city of righteousness, a faithful city2.
1:27 Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her returning ones with righteousness.
1:28 And the ruin of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together. And those who forsake Yehovah shall be consumed.
1:29 For they shall be ashamed of the trees which you lusted after; and you shall be ashamed of the gardens that you have chosen.
1:30 For you shall be like a tree whose leaf fades, and like a garden that has no water in it.
1:31 And the strong shall be for tow, and his work for a spark; and they shall burn both together and no one shall quench them.
2:1 The Word that Yesha'yahu the son of Amoz saw concerning Yehudah and Yerushalayim:
2:2 And it shall be in the last days, the mountain3 of the house of Yehovah shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow into it.
2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come and let us go up to the mount of Yehovah, to the house of the Elohim of Ya'akov. And He will teach from His ways, and we will walk in His paths. For out of Zion the Torah will go forth, and the Word of Yehovah from Yerushalayim4.
2:4 And He shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many people. And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nor shall they learn war any more.
2:5 Oh house of Ya'akov, come and let us walk in the light of Yehovah.
2:6 For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Ya'akov, because they are filled from the east, and are fortunetellers like the Philistines. And they clap hands with children of foreigners.
2:7 And his land is filled with silver and gold. There is no end of his treasures. And his land is full of horses; his chariots also do not have an end.
2:8 And his land is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.
2:9 And man bowed down; and man was humbled, but You do not lift them up.
2:10 Enter into the rock and hide in the dust from fear of Yehovah, and from the glory of His majesty.
2:11 The lofty eyes of the proud man shall be humbled, and the pride of men shall be bowed down; but Yehovah, He alone, will be exalted in that day.
2:12 For the day of Yehovah of Hosts shall be on all the proud and lofty ones, and on all that is lifted up; and it will be abased;
2:13 and against all Lebanon's cedars, high and lifted up; and against all the oaks of Bashan5;
2:14 and against all the high mountains; and against all the lifted up hills;
2:15 and against every tall tower; and against every fortified wall;
2:16 and against all the ships of Tarshish6; and on all desirable craft.
2:17 And the pride of man shall be humbled; and the loftiness of men shall be abased; and Yehovah alone will be exalted in that day.
2:18 And the idols shall completely vanish.
2:19 And they shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, for dread of Yehovah, and from the glory of His majesty; when He rises up to make the earth quake.
2:20 In that day a man shall throw his silver and his golden idols which they made for him to worship to the hole of the burrower and to bats;
2:21 To go into the crevices of the rocks, and into the clefts of the cliffs, from the dread of Yehovah, and from the glory of His majesty, when He rises up to make the earth quake.
2:22 Cease yourself from man, whose breath is in his nostril; for in what is he to be esteemed?
3:1 For, look, the Master, Yehovah of Hosts, takes away the stay and the staff from Yerushalayim and from Yehudah; the whole stay of bread and the whole stay of water;
3:2 the mighty man and the man of war; the judge, the prophet and the one divining and the elder;
3:3 the commander of fifty and the exalted of face; the counselor and the skilled craftsman; and the expert enchanter.
3:4 And I will give young boys to be their rulers, and a tyrant shall rule over them.
3:5 And the people shall be crushed, man against man, and a man on his neighbor. The boy will be insolent against the elder, and the despised against the honorable.
3:6 When a man shall take hold of his brother, at his father's house, saying, A cloak! Come, you be a ruler for us; let this ruin be under your hand.
3:7 In that day he shall swear, saying, I will not be one who binds up; for there is no bread nor a cloak in my house; you shall not make me a ruler of the people.
3:8 For Yerushalayim has stumbled, and Yehudah has fallen; because their tongue and their doings toward Yehovah are to rebel against the eyes of His glory.
3:9 The expression of their faces witnesses against them; they have declared their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have dealt evil to themselves.
3:10 Say to the righteous that it is well; for they shall eat of the fruit of their doings.
3:11 Woe to the wicked! For the evil, the doing of his hand will be done to him.
3:12 As for My people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over him7. Oh My people, those leading you cause you to go astray, and they swallow the way of your paths.
3:13 Yehovah stands up to plead His cause, and stands up to judge the peoples.
3:14 Yehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of His people and their kings. For you have eaten up the vineyard, the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
3:15 What do you mean that you crush My people, and grind the faces of the poor, says Adonai Yehovah of Hosts?
3:16 And Yehovah says, Because the daughters of Zion are proud, and walk with stretched out necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and make a tinkling with their feet;
3:17 So Yehovah will make the crown of the daughter of Zion scabby; and Yehovah will lay their secret parts bare.
3:18 In that day Yehovah will take away the beauty of the ankle bracelets, the headbands, and the crescents,
3:19 the pendants, the bracelets and the veils;
3:20 the turbans, the leg ornaments, the sashes and the houses of the soul, and the amulets;
3:21 the rings and nose jewels;
3:22 the festal apparel and the outer garments; and the mantles, and the purses8;
3:23 the mirrors and the fine linen; and the turbans and the veils.
3:24 And it shall be, instead of a smell of perfume, there shall be an odor of decay. And instead of a sash, a rope. And instead of well set hair, baldness. And instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth; a scar instead of beauty.
3:25 Your men shall fall by the sword and your mighty in the war.
3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall sit bare on the ground.
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 clothing, only let your name be called on us9; collect our shame.
4:2 In that day the Branch of Yehovah will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth for pride and for glory for the survivors of Yisrael.
4:3 And it shall be, he remaining in Zion, and he who is left in Yerushalayim, shall be called set apart, every one who is written among the living in Yerushalayim;
4:4 When Yehovah shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and the blood of Yerushalayim shall have been rinsed away from its midst by a ruach of judgment, and by a ruach of burning10.
4:5 Then Yehovah will create a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, over all the site of Mount Zion, and over her assemblies; for over all the glory will be a canopy.
4:6 And there shall be a booth for a shade from the heat, and for a refuge, and for a hiding place from storm and rain11.
5:1 Now I will sing to my Beloved a song of my Beloved concerning His vineyard: My Beloved has a vineyard in a fruitful horn12. (Is 27:2)
5:2 And He dug it, and cleared it of stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in its midst, and also hewed out a wine vat in it. And He waited for it to produce grapes, but it produced rotten grapes.
5:3 And now, O people of Yerushalayim and men of Yehudah, I ask you, judge between Me and My vineyard.
5:4 What more could have been done to My vineyard that I have not done in it? Who knows? I waited for it to yield grapes, but it yielded rotten grapes13.
5:5 And now I will make known to you what I will do then to My vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be burned. I will breach its wall, and it will become a trampling ground.
5:6 And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but briers and thorns shall come up. And I will command the clouds from raining rain on it.
5:7 For the vineyard of Yehovah of Hosts is the house of Yisrael, and the man of Yehudah is His delightful plant. And He waited for justice, but look, bloodshed; for righteousness, but look, a cry!
5:8 Woe to those touching house to house, bringing near field to field until the end of space, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land14!
5:9 Yehovah of Hosts has sworn in my ears, If not, many houses shall be a waste, large and beautiful ones without one living in them.
5:10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.
5:11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning to pursue fermented drink, tarrying in the twilight while wine inflames them!
5:12 And the lyre and the harp, the timbrel and flute, and wine are at their feasts; but they do not regard the work of Yehovah; yea, they do not see the work of His hands.
5:13 For this My people go into exile without knowledge, and his men of glory into famine; and his multitude is parched with thirst.
5:14 So Sheol has enlarged its appetite, and opened its mouth without measure, and her glory and her multitude, and her uproar, he who exults in her, shall come down in it.
5:15 And man is bowed down, and man is humbled, and the eyes of the proud are humbled.
5:16 But Yehovah of Hosts is exalted in judgment, and Elohim the set apart One is proven set apart in righteousness.
5:17 Then the lambs shall feed as in their pasture, and strangers shall eat the waste places of the fatlings.
5:18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as with ropes of a cart;
5:19 who say, Let Him hurry and hasten His work, so that we may see; and let the purpose of the set apart One of Yisrael draw near and come, so that we may know15!
5:20 Woe to those who say to evil, good; and to good, evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
5:21 Woe to those wise in their own eyes, and discerning in their own sight!
5:22 Woe to those mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mix fermented drink;
5:23 who justify the wicked for a bribe, and turn aside the righteousness of the righteous from him!
5:24 So, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and the flame burns up the chaff; their root shall be like rottenness, and their blossoms shall go up like dust, because they have rejected the Torah of Yehovah of Hosts; and despised the Word of the set apart One of Yisrael.
5:25 On account of this the anger of Yehovah is kindled on His people, and He has stretched out His hand against them, and has struck them; and the mountains quaked, and their dead bodies were as filth in the midst of the streets. In all this His anger does not turn away, but His hand is stretched out still.
5:26 And He will lift up a banner to distant nations, and will hiss to them from the ends of the earth; and, look, it shall come with swift speed!
5:27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none will slumber nor sleep; nor shall the waist cloth of their loins be opened, nor the thong of their sandals broken;
5:28 whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses' hooves shall appear as flint, and their wheels like a hurricane.
5:29 Their roaring shall be like a lion; they shall roar like young lions. Yea, they roar and seize the prey and carry it away; and no one shall deliver.
5:30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea; when one looks to the land, and lo, darkness! Distress! And light shall be darkened by its clouds.
6:1 In the year that King Uzziah died, then I saw Yehovah sitting on a throne, high and lifted up. And His train filled the temple.
6:2 Above it stood the seraphim16. Each one had six wings; with two he covered his face; and with two he covered his feet; and with two he flew.
6:3 And one cried to the other and said, set apart, set apart, set apart is Yehovah of Hosts; all the earth is full of His glory!
6:4 And the doorposts shook from the voice of the one who cried; and the house was filled with smoke.
6:5 Then I said, Woe is me! For I am cut off; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live amongst a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, Yehovah of Hosts.
6:6 Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, snatched with tongs from the altar.
6:7 And he touched it on my mouth, and said, See, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin is covered17.
6:8 And I heard the voice of Yehovah, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us? Then I said, Here I am. Send me!
6:9 And He said, Go and say to this people, Hearing you hear, but do not understand; and seeing you see, but do not know.
6:10For the heart of this people has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
6:11 Then I said, Until when, O Yehovah? And He said, Until cities lie desolate without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land is laid waste, a desolation;
6:12 and until Yehovah has sent mankind far away, and the desolation in the midst of the land is great.
6:13 But yet a tenth18 shall be in it, and it shall return and be burned like the terebinth and like the oak that in being felled yet has its stump, the set apart seed is its stump.
7:1 And it happened in the days of Ahaz: the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Yehudah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Yisrael, went up to Yerushalayim to war against it, but were not able to do battle against it.
7:2 And the house of David was told, saying, Syria is allied with Ephraim, and his heart and the heart of his people shook, as the trees of the forest shake from the wind.
7:3 And Yehovah said to Yesha'yahu, Go out to meet Ahaz, you and your son Shear-Jashub, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, to the highway of the Fuller's Field.
7:4 And say to him, Be on guard and be calm. Do not fear nor be timid of heart because of the two tails of these smoking firebrands, because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
7:5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have plotted evil against you, saying,
7:6 Let us go up against Yehudah and make her to dread, and break her for ourselves, and set a king in her midst, the son of Tabeal19.
7:7 So says Adonai Yehovah, It shall not rise, nor shall it happen.
7:8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty five years Ephraim shall be broken from being a people.
7:9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you will not believe, surely you will not be established.
7:10 And Yehovah spoke again to Ahaz, saying,
7:11 Ask a sign from Yehovah your Elohim; make deep the request, or make it high above.
7:12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, nor will I tempt Yehovah.
7:13 And He said, Hear now, O house of David, is it too little that you weary men, but will you also weary my Elohim?
7:14 So, Yehovah Himself will give you a sign: Look20! The virgin21 will conceive and will bring forth a son; and she shall call His name ImmanuEl22.
7:15 He shall eat curds and honey until He knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.
7:16 For before the boy shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you hate will be forsaken before both her kings23.
7:17 Yehovah shall bring the king of Assyria on you, and on your people, and on your father's house, days which have not come since the days Ephraim turned aside from Yehudah.
7:18 And it shall be in that day Yehovah shall hiss for the fly that is in the end of the rivers of Mitsrayim and for the bee in the land of Assyria.
7:19 And they shall come, and they shall all rest in the steep ravines, and in the clefts of the rocks, and in all the thorn bushes, and in all the pastures.
7:20 In that day Yehovah will shave with a razor that is hired, beyond the River, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet, and also it shall sweep away the beard.
7:21 And it shall be in that day, a man shall keep alive a heifer of the herd, and two sheep.
7:22 And it shall be, he shall eat curds from the plenty of milk making; for everyone who is left in the land shall eat curds and honey.
7:23 And it shall be in that day, every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand pieces of silver, it shall be for briers and thorns.
7:24 With arrows and with the bow, he shall come there; because all the land shall be briers and thorns.
7:25 And all the hills which were hoed with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of the ox, and for trampling of sheep.
8:1 And Yehovah said to me, Take a big tablet and write in it with a man's pen: Make haste to plunder! Hurry to the spoil24!
8:2 And I took faithful witnesses to record for me, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
8:3 Then I made love to the prophetess. And she conceived, and bore a son. Then Yehovah said to me, Call his name, Make haste to plunder! Hurry to the spoil25!
8:4 For before the boy knows to cry, My father, or, My mother, the riches of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria shall be lifted up before the king of Assyria.
8:5 Yehovah also spoke to me again, saying,
8:6 Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that flow softly, and rejoices in Rezin and Remaliah's son,
8:7 Look, therefore Yehovah also brings on them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And he shall come up over all its channels and go over all its banks.
8:8 And he shall pass through Yehudah. He shall overflow and go over. He shall reach to the neck; and his wings will be stretching out, filling the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.
8:9 O peoples, suffer evil, and be broken! And listen, all from the far places of the earth; gird yourselves, and be broken. Gird yourselves and be broken!
8:10 Counsel a plan, and it is frustrated; speak a word, and it shall not rise; for El is with us (ImmanuEl).
8:11 For so Yehovah spoke to me with a strong hand, and taught me against walking in the way of this people, saying,
8:12 Do not say, A conspiracy, to everything of which this people says, A conspiracy! And do not fear its fear, and do not dread.
8:13 Sanctify Yehovah of Hosts Himself, and let Him be your fear; and let Him be your dread.
8:14 And He shall be for a sanctuary, and for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of falling to the two houses of Yisrael; for a trap and for a snare to the ones living in Yerushalayim.
8:15 And many among them shall stumble and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
8:16 Bind up the Testimony and seal the Torah among My talmidim26.
8:17 And I will wait on Yehovah, who hides His face from the house of Ya'akov; and I will trust in Him.
8:18 Look, I and the children whom Yehovah has given to me are for signs and wonders in Yisrael from Yehovah of Hosts, who dwells in Mount Zion.
8:19 And when they say to you, Seek to the mediums, and to fortunetellers who peep and mutter; should not a people seek to its Elohim, rather than for the living to seek to the dead?
8:20 To the Torah and to the Testimony! If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because there is no light to them27!
8:21 And they shall pass through it, hard pressed and hungry. And it shall be, they shall be hungry; he will rave and curse his king and his Elohim, and face upward.
8:22 And they shall look to the land. And, look, distress and darkness and gloom of anguish; and they are driven to darkness.
9:1 Yet there shall not be gloom for which anguish is to her; as in the former time when He degraded the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali, so afterwards He will glorify the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Gelilah of the nations.
9:2 The people who walk in darkness have seen a great light. The ones who dwell in the land of the shadow of death, light has shone on them28.
9:3 You have not multiplied the nation; You have not increased the joy. They rejoice before You as in the joy of harvest, as men shout when they divide the plunder.
9:4 For You have broken his burdensome yoke and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his taskmaster, as in the day of Midian.
9:5 For every boot of the trampler is with shaking, and a coat rolled in blood shall be burning fuel for the fire.
9:6 For a child has been born to us, a son given to us, and the authority is upon his shoulder, and the wondrous adviser, the mighty El, the everlasting Father, called his name, "the prince of shalom."29.
9:7 There is no end to the increase of His government and of shalom on the throne of David, and on His kingdom, to order it, and to sustain it with justice and with righteousness, from now and forever30. The zeal of Yehovah of Hosts will do this.
9:8 Yehovah sent a Word into Ya'akov, and it has fallen into Yisrael.
9:9 And all the people shall know, Ephraim and the ones living in Samaria, who say in pride and greatness of heart,
9:10 Bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will substitute with cedars instead31.
9:11 And Yehovah will set up Rezin's foes against him, and join together his enemies;
9:12 Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Yisrael with all the mouth. In all this His anger does not turn away, but His hand is still stretched out.
9:13 For the people do not turn to Him who strikes them, and they do not seek Yehovah of Hosts.
9:14 And Yehovah will cut off from Yisrael head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
9:15 The elder and the exalted of face; he is the head. And the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.
9:16 For this people's leaders led them astray, and its guided ones are swallowed up.
9:17 For this, Yehovah shall not rejoice over their young men, nor have pity on their orphans and widows; for everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer; and every mouth speaks foolishness. In all this His anger does not turn away, but His hand is still stretched out.
9:18 For wickedness burns like a fire; it shall devour the briers and thorns and shall kindle the thickets of the forest; and they shall roll upward, like the going up of smoke.
9:19 The land is scorched by the wrath of Yehovah of Hosts, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire; no man shall spare his brother.
9:20 And he shall cut off on the right hand, yet be hungry. And he shall eat on the left, but not be satisfied. Each man shall eat the flesh of his own arm;
9:21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; together they are against Yehudah. In all this His anger does not turn away, but His hand is still stretched out.
10:1 Woe to those who decree decrees of injustice, and writers who write toil;
10:2 to turn aside the poor from judgment, and to steal justice from the poor of My people; that widows may be their prey; that they may rob orphans.
10:3 And what will you do in the day of visitation and of destruction? It comes from far away. To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your glory?
10:4 Surely, he will grovel under the prisoners, and they will fall under the slain. In all this His anger does not turn away, but His hand is still stretched out.
10:5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger! And My fury is the staff in their hand.
10:6 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of My wrath. I will command him to plunder, and to strip off spoil, and to trample them like the mud of the streets.
10:7 Yet he does not purpose this, nor does his heart think so. For it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
10:8 For he says, Are not my commanders all like kings?
10:9 Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is Hamath not like Arpad? Is Samaria not like Damascus?
10:10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols (for their carved images excelled those of Yerushalayim and Samaria);
10:11 shall I not do to Yerushalayim and her idols as I have done to Samaria and her idols?
10:12 And it will be, when Yehovah has broken off all His work on Mount Zion and on Yerushalayim, I will visit on the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his lofty eyes.
10:13 For he says, I have worked by the strength of my hand and by my wisdom; for I am wise. And I take away the borders of peoples, and have robbed their treasures. And like a mighty one, I have subdued the inhabitants.
10:14 And my hand has found the riches of the people. Like a nest, I also have gathered all the earth, as forsaken eggs are gathered. And there was not one moving a wing, or opening a mouth, or one chirping.
10:15 Shall the axe glorify itself over him chopping with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself over him moving it? As if a rod could wave those who lift it. As if a staff could raise what is not wood!
10:16 Therefore the Master, Yehovah of Hosts shall send leanness among his fat ones. And under His glory will kindle a burning like the burning of fire.
10:17 And the Light of Yisrael shall be for a fire, and his set apart One for a flame; and it shall burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.
10:18 And He shall consume the glory of his forest and his fruitful field, even from soul to flesh; and it shall be as a sick man melts away.
10:19 And the rest of the trees of the forest shall be few, so that a boy might write them.
10:20 And it shall be in that day, the remnant of Yisrael, and the escaped ones from the house of Ya'akov, shall not any more lean on him who struck him. But they will truly lean on Yehovah, the set apart One of Yisrael.
10:21 The remnant shall return, the remnant of Ya'akov, to the mighty El.
10:22 For though Your people Yisrael is like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them shall be saved.32
10:23 For Adonai Yehovah of Hosts is making a full end, even ordained, in the midst of all the land.
10:24 So Adonai Yehovah of Hosts says this: Oh My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear Assyria. He shall strike you with the rod, and he shall lift up his staff against you in the way of Mitsrayim.
10:25 But yet a little while, and the fury is finished; and My anger shall be over their destruction.
10:26 And Yehovah of Hosts shall stir up a whip on him, according to the striking of Midian at the rock Oreb; and as His rod was on the sea, and He lifted it up in the way of Mitsrayim.
10:27 And it shall be in that day, his burden shall turn away from on your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
10:28 He has come to Aiath; he has passed to Migron; he has left his baggage at Michmash.
10:29 They have crossed the ford; they have bedded down at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul has fled.
10:30 Shriek with your voice, daughter of ruins; bow, Laish, afflicted of Anathoth.
10:31 Madmenah wanders; those living in Gebim take refuge.
10:32 Yet he remains in Nob today; he will shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Yerushalayim.
10:33 Look, the Master, Yehovah of Hosts, shall lop the bough of terror! And the lofty ones shall be cut down, and the proud shall be humbled.
10:34 And He shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
11:1 And a Shoot goes out from the stump of Jesse33, and a Branch34 will bear fruit out of his roots.
11:2 And the ruach of Yehovah shall rest on Him; He will have the ruach of wisdom and understanding, the ruach of counsel and power, the ruach of knowledge and of the fear of Yehovah35.
11:3 And He is made to breathe in the fear of Yehovah. But He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears.
11:4 But He shall judge the poor in righteousness, and shall decide rightly for the meek of the earth. And He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, and He shall cause the wicked to die with the breath of His lip.
11:5 And righteousness shall be the encircler of His loins, and faithfulness the encircler of His loins.
11:6 And the wolf shall live with the lamb; and the leopard shall lie with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little boy shall lead them.
11:7 The cow and the bear shall feed, their young shall lie together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
11:8 And the infant shall play on the hole of the asp; yea, the weaned child shall put his hand on the viper's den36.
11:9 They shall not do evil, nor destroy in all My set apart mountain37. For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Yehovah, as the waters cover the sea.
11:10 And in that day there shall be a Root of Jesse and He that shall arise to rule over the Gentiles38 in Him shall the Gentiles trust, and His rest shall be glorious.
11:11 And it shall be in that day, Yehovah shall again set His hand, the second time, to recover the remnant of His people that remains39, from Assyria, and from Mitsrayim, and from Pathros, and from Ethiopia, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the coasts of the sea40.
11:12 And He shall lift up a banner for the nations, and shall gather the outcasts of Yisrael, and gather those dispersed from Yehudah, from the four wings of the earth41.
11:13 And the envy of Ephraim shall turn off; and Yehudah's foes shall be cut off. Ephraim shall not envy Yehudah, and Yehudah shall not trouble Ephraim42.
11:14 But they shall fly onto the shoulder of the Philistines to the west; together they shall plunder the sons of the east, the stretching of the hand on Edom and Moab and the sons of Ammon; they will obey them.
11:15 And Yehovah shall utterly destroy the tongue of the sea of Mitsrayim; and with His scorching wind He shall wave His hand over the River, and shall strike it into seven torrents, and make one tread it with shoes43.
11:16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of His people, those left from Assyria, as it was to Yisrael in the day when he came up out of the land of Mitsrayim.
12:1 And in that day you shall say, O Yehovah, I will thank You. Though You were angry with me, turn away Your anger and You shall comfort me.
12:2 Look, El is Y’shua44* ! I will trust and not be afraid, for my strength and song is Yah Yehovah45; yea, He has become to me salvation46*.
12:3 And you shall draw waters out of the wells of salvation with joy47.
12:4 And in that day you shall say, Praise Yehovah! Call on His name; declare His doings among the peoples; make mention that His name is exalted48.
12:5 Sing to Yehovah49, for He has done majestically; this is known in all the earth.
12:6 Cry and shout, O dweller of Zion! For great is the set apart One of Yisrael in your midst.
13:1 The burden of Babylon which Yesha'yahu the son of Amoz saw:
13:2 Lift up a banner50 on a bare mountain; make the voice rise to them; wave the hand that they may enter the gates of nobles.
13:3 I have commanded My set apart ones; I have also called My warriors for My anger, those who rejoice in My Majesty.
13:4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people! A noise of tumult of the kingdoms of nations gathered together; Yehovah of Hosts is calling up an army for the battle.
13:5 They come from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, Yehovah and the weapons of His wrath, to destroy all the land.
13:6 Howl! For the day of Yehovah is at hand. It shall come as a destruction from the Almighty51.
13:7 On account of this all hands shall droop, and every heart of man shall melt;
13:8 and they shall be afraid. Pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain like one giving birth; they shall be amazed, each man to his neighbor; faces of flames shall be their faces.
13:9 Look, the day of Yehovah comes, cruel and with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land waste. And He shall destroy its sinners out of it.
13:10 For the stars of the heavens and their constellations shall not give light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not reflect its light. (Yoel 2:10)
13:11 And I will visit evil on the world, and their iniquity on the wicked. And I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease; and I will humble the pride of tyrants.
13:12 I will make a man more rare than fine gold; even a man more than the carvings of Ophir.
13:13 So I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall move out of its place, in the wrath of Yehovah of Hosts, and in the day of His fierce anger. (Is 24:1-6)
13:14 And it shall be as a gazelle driven away, and as a sheep no one gathers; each man shall look to his own people, and each one shall flee to his land.
13:15 Everyone who is found shall be pierced through; yea, everyone who is swept away shall fall by the sword.
13:16 And their children shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be robbed, and their wives raped.
13:17 Look! I stir up the Medes52 against them, who shall not value silver. And they shall not delight in gold.
13:18 And bows shall also smash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare sons.
13:19 And Babylon, the glory of the kingdoms, the beauty of the pride of the Chaldeans, shall be as when Elohim overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. (Yer 50:40)
13:20 It shall not be lived in forever, nor shall it be lived in from generation to generation. And the dessert wanderer shall not pitch a tent there, nor shall the shepherds make flocks lie down there53.
13:21 But the desert creatures shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of howling creatures; and daughters of ostriches shall dwell there; and he-goats shall skip there.
13:22 And hyenas shall cry along with his widows; and jackals in palaces of delight. Yea, her time to come is near, and her days shall not be prolonged.
14:1 For Yehovah will have pity on Ya'akov, and will yet choose among Yisrael, and set them in their own land. And the foreigner shall be joined to them; and they shall cling to the house of Ya'akov.
14:2 And the peoples shall take them and bring them to their own place. And the house of Yisrael shall possess them in the land of Yehovah for slaves and slave girls. And they shall be captives of their captors; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
14:3 And it shall be, in the day that Yehovah shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard bondage which was pressed on you,
14:4 you shall lift up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say: How the oppressor, the gold gatherer, has ceased!
14:5 Yehovah has broken the rod of the wicked, the staff of rulers,
14:6 who struck the peoples in wrath, a blow without turning away, ruling the nations in anger, dealing out persecution without restraint.
14:7 All the earth is at rest, quiet; they break forth into singing.
14:8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice over you; the cedars of Lebanon say, Since you have lain down, no wood cutter will come up against us.
14:9 Sheol from below is stirred for you, to meet you at your coming; it stirs up the departed spirits for you, all the leaders of the people of the earth. It has raised all the kings of the nations from their thrones.
14:10 All of them shall answer and say to you, Are you also made as weak as we? Are you likened to us?
14:11 Your majesty is lowered into Sheol; the noise of your harps. The maggot is spread under you; yea, the worms cover you.
14:12 Oh Lucifer, son of the morning, how you have fallen from the heavens54! You weakening the nations, you are cut down to the ground.
14:13 For you have said In your heart, I will go up to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of El, and I will sit in the mountain of appointment, in the sides of the north55.
14:14 I will rise over the heights of the clouds; I will be compared to Elyone (The Most High)56.
14:15 Yet you shall go down to Sheol, to the sides of the Pit.
14:16 They that see you shall stare and closely watch you, saying, Is this the man who made the earth tremble, shaking kingdoms57,
14:17 making the world like a wilderness, and who tore down its cities; he did not open a house for his prisoners?
14:18 All kings of nations, all of them lie in glory, each man in his house.
14:19 But you are thrown from your grave like a despised branch58, like the covering of the slain, those pierced by the sword, those who go down into the stones of the Pit, like a dead body trampled under foot.
14:20 You shall not be united with them in burial, because you ruined your land; you have slain your people; the seed of evildoers shall never be named.
14:21 Prepare for the slaughter of his sons, for the iniquity of their fathers; that they may not rise and possess the land and fill the face of the earth with cities.
14:22 For I will rise against them, says Yehovah of Hosts, and I will cut off the name and remnant, the son and grandson, from Babylon, declares Yehovah.
14:23 Also I will make it a possession of the hedgehog and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the broom of ruin, says Yehovah of Hosts.
14:24 Yehovah of Hosts has sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so it shall be; and as I have purposed, it shall rise up;
14:25 to break Assyria in My land, and trample him on My mountains. Then his yoke shall depart from them, and his burden shall depart from his shoulders.
14:26 This is the purpose that is purposed on all the earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out on all the nations.
14:27 For Yehovah of Hosts has purposed. And who shall reverse it? And His hand is stretched out. Who shall turn it back?
14:28 This burden was in the year King Ahaz died:
14:29 Do not rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, for the rod of your striking is broken, because a viper comes forth from the root of a snake, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
14:30 And the first-born of the poor shall eat; and the needy shall lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine; and it shall kill your remnant.
14:31 Howl, O gate! Cry, O city! Philistia is melted away, all of you. For a smoke comes from the north, and not one is alone in his ranks.
14:32 What then shall one answer to the messengers of the nation? That Yehovah has founded Zion, and the poor of His people shall trust in it.
15:1 The burden of Moab: Because in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste; it is cut off; because in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste; it is cut off.
15:2 One goes up to the house, even to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab shall howl over Nebo and over Medeba; all its heads shall be bald, every beard shorn.
15:3 They shall put on sackcloth in the streets; everyone shall howl on their housetops and in their plazas, melting in tears.
15:4 And Heshbon and Elealeh shall cry; their voice shall be heard as far as Jahaz; so the warriors of Moab shall shout; his life is broken to him.
15:5 My heart shall cry to Moab; her fugitives to Zoar, a heifer of three years; he goes up the ascent of Luhith with weeping, for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of ruin.
15:6 For Nimrim's waters are desolations; for the hay is dried up; the grass fails; there is not a green thing.
15:7 On account of this one made up the remainder, and their store; they shall carry them over the torrent of the willows.
15:8 For the cry has gone around Moab's borders; his howling even to Eglaim; and his howling even to the Well of Elim.
15:9 For Dimon's waters are full of blood; for I will put more on Dimon, a lion on him who escapes from Moab, and for the remnant of the land.
16:1 Send a lamb to the ruler of the land, from the rock of the desert59 (Sela) to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.
16:2 For it is as a fleeing bird cast out of the nest; the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
16:3 Take counsel; do judgment; make your shadow as the night in midday; hide the outcasts; do not uncover the fugitive!
16:4 Let My outcasts from Moab stay with you60. Be a hiding place to them from the face of the destroyer. For the exacter has ceased, destruction has failed; the trampler is ended out of the land.
16:5 And in mercy the throne shall be founded; and he shall sit on it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging and seeking justice, and swift in righteousness.
16:6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, very proud; of his pride, his arrogance, and his rage; not so are his babblings.
16:7 So Moab shall howl for Moab; everyone shall howl; all of it shall howl for the foundations of Kir-Hareseth; surely they are stricken.
16:8 For the fields of Heshbon droop, the vine of Sibmah. The masters of the nations have crushed its choice plants. They have come to Jazer; they wander in the desert; her branches are spread out; they have crossed the sea.
16:9 On account of this I will weep with the weeping of Jazer, the vine of Sibmah; I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; for shouting has fallen on your fruit and on your harvest.
16:10 And gladness and joy is gathered up from the fruitful field; and there is no singing and no shouting in the vineyards; the one treading shall not tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shout to cease.
16:11 For this reason my belly shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir-Haresh.
16:12 And it shall be, when it is seen that Moab shall be wearied on the high place, then he shall come to his shrine to pray, and he shall not be able.
16:13 This is the Word that Yehovah had spoken to Moab from that time.
16:14 But now Yehovah has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, then the glory of Moab will be abased, with all the great host; and the remnant shall be few; small, not mighty.
17:1 The burden of Damascus: Look, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruined heap.
17:2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken; now they are for flocks; they lie down and no one terrifies them.
17:3 And the fortress shall cease from Ephraim; and the kingdom from Damascus and the rest of Syria. They shall be as the glory of the sons of Yisrael, declares Yehovah of Hosts.
17:4 And it shall be in that day, Ya'akov's glory shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall be made lean.
17:5 And it shall be as the reaping of the harvest grain, and his arm reaps the ears. And it shall be as he who gathers ears in the Valley of the Giants.
17:6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree; two or three ripe olives in the top of the uppermost branch; four or five in the fruit tree branches, declares Yehovah Elohim of Yisrael.
17:7 In that day a man shall gaze to his Maker; and his eyes shall look to the set apart One of Yisrael.
17:8 And he shall not gaze to the altars, the work of his hands; and he will not see what his fingers have made, even the Asherahs, and the sun pillars.
17:9 In that day his fortified cities shall be as a thing left in the forest, or the branch that they leave, from before the sons of Yisrael. And it will become a desolation.
17:10 Because you have forgotten the Elohim of your salvation (Y’shua*), and you did not remember the Rock of your strength. On account of this you shall plant pleasing plants, and shall sow it with profane shoots.
17:11 In the day of your planting you fence it in; in the morning you make your seed sprout; the harvest is a heap in the day of sickness and incurable pain.
17:12 Woe to the multitude of many peoples; they roar like the roar of seas; and the crash of nations, they crash like the crash of mighty waters!
17:13 The nations shall crash like the crashing of many waters, but He rebukes it, and it flees far away; yea, it is driven like the chaff of mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before a tempest.
17:14 At the time of evening, look, terror! Before it is morning, it shall not be. This is the portion of those robbing us, and the lot of those plundering us.
18:1 Woe to the land of whirring of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
18:2 which sends ambassadors by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the face of the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a dreadful people from it and onwards; and a nation mighty and trampling down, whose land the rivers have divided!
18:3 All you inhabitants of the world and those living on the earth, as one lifts a banner on the peaks, you will see. And you will hear as the blowing of a ram's horn.
18:4 For so Yehovah said to me, I will rest, and I will watch My dwelling place; as the glowing heat on light; as the cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
18:5 For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, then He will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and cut down and take away the branches.
18:6 They shall be left together to the birds of the hills, and to the beasts of the earth. And the birds shall summer on them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter on them.
18:7 Then shall be brought in that time to Yehovah of Hosts a present from a tall and smooth people, and a terrifying people, from it and onward; a mighty and trampling nation whose land the rivers have divided, to the place of the name of Yehovah of Hosts: Mount Zion.
19:1 The burden of Mitsrayim: Look!Yehovah rides on a light cloud and comes into Mitsrayim. And the idols of Mitsrayim shall tremble from before Him; and the heart of Mitsrayim shall melt in its midst.
19:2 And I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians; and they each man shall fight against his brother; and each against his neighbor; city against city, kingdom against kingdom.
19:3 And the ruach of the Egyptians shall be empty in its midst; and I will swallow its counsel. And they shall seek to idols, and to the enchanters, and to the mediums, and to the fortune tellers.
19:4 And I will shut up the Egyptians into the hand of cruel masters (Adonim); and a fierce king shall rule them, declares Adonai Yehovah of Hosts.
19:5 And the waters shall dry up from the sea, and the river shall fail and dry up.
19:6 And rivers shall be fouled; and the Nile of Mitsrayim will languish and dry up; the reed and the rush shall decay.
19:7 Bare places shall be at the Nile, by the mouth of the Nile, and everything sown by the Nile shall dry up, driven away, and be no more.
19:8 The fishermen shall mourn; and all who cast a hook into the Nile shall wail; and those who spread nets on the surface of the waters shall droop.
19:9 And the workers in fine flax, and the weavers of white cloth are ashamed.
19:10 And her supports shall be crushed; and all who make wages shall be sad of soul.
19:11 Surely the rulers of Zoan are fools; the advice of Pharaoh's wise counselor has become stupid. How can you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of wise ones, the son of kings of old?
19:12 Where are your wise ones now? Yea, let them tell you now, that they may know what Yehovah of Hosts has planned against Mitsrayim.
19:13 The rulers of Zoan are fools; the rulers of Noph are deceived; they also have led Mitsrayim astray, the cornerstone of her tribes.
19:14 Yehovah has mixed a perverse ruach in her midst; and they led astray Mitsrayim in all his work; as a drunkard strays in his vomit.
19:15 And Mitsrayim shall have no work that the head or the tail, the branch or rush, may do.
19:16 In that day Mitsrayim shall be like women; and it will tremble and dread from before the shaking of the hand of Yehovah of Hosts, which He shakes over it.
19:17 And the land of Yehudah shall be a terror to Mitsrayim; everyone who mentions it shall dread to it, from before the counsel of Yehovah of Hosts, which He counsels against it.
19:18 In that day five cities in the land of Mitsrayim shall speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yehovah of Hosts. One shall be called, City of Ruin.
19:19 Then an altar to Yehovah shall be in the midst of the land of Mitsrayim, and a pillar to Yehovah at its border.
19:20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to Yehovah of Hosts in the land of Mitsrayim. For they shall cry to Yehovah because of the oppressors; and He shall send them a savior, even a great one, and will deliver them.
19:21 And Yehovah shall be known to Mitsrayim. Mitsrayim shall know Yehovah in that day. And they shall offer sacrifice and offering, and vow a vow to Yehovah, and repay it.
19:22 And Yehovah shall strike Mitsrayim. He shall strike and heal. Then they shall return to Yehovah, and He shall hear them and will heal them.
19:23 In that day there shall be a highway out of Mitsrayim to Assyria. And Assyria shall come into Mitsrayim; and Mitsrayim into Assyria; and Mitsrayim shall serve with Assyria61.
19:24 In that day Yisrael shall be the third with Mitsrayim and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth62,
19:25 whom Yehovah of Hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be My people Mitsrayim, and Assyria, the work of My hands, and Yisrael My inheritance.
20:1 In the year Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
20:2 at that time Yehovah spoke by Yesha'yahu the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loosen the sackcloth from your loins, and take your shoe off from your foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
20:3 And Yehovah said, Just as My servant Yesha'yahu has walked naked and barefoot three years (a sign and a wonder on Mitsrayim and on Ethiopia)
20:4 so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Mitsrayim and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old; naked and barefoot, and with uncovered buttocks; to the nakedness of Mitsrayim.
20:5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of their hope Ethiopia, and of their glory Mitsrayim.
20:6 And he who lives in this coast shall say in that day, Look, this has become our hope to which we fled for help there, to be delivered from before the king of Assyria; and, How shall we escape?
21:1 The burden of the desert of the sea: As storms in the Negev pass, it comes from the desert from a terrifying land.
21:2 A harsh vision is revealed to me; the deceiver betrays, and the plunderer plunders. Go up, O Elam! Besiege, O Media! I have caused all her sighing to cease.
21:3 Because of this my loins are filled with pain; pangs have taken hold on me like the pangs of a travailing woman. I am bowed from hearing; I am troubled from seeing.
21:4 My heart wanders; terror overwhelms me; He has made the twilight of my pleasure into a fear.
21:5 Arrange the table; watch in the watchtower; eat, drink; rise up, rulers, and anoint the shield.
21:6 For so Yehovah has said to me: Go, set a watchman; he will declare what he sees.
21:7 And he sees a chariot, a couple of horsemen; a chariot of a donkey ; a chariot of a camel; and let him give ear attentively, very attentively.
21:8 And he cried, A lion! Yehovah, I always stand on my watchtower by day; and I am stationed at my post all the nights.
21:9 And, look, here comes a chariot of a man, a pair of horses. And he answered and said, Babylon has fallen, has fallen! And He has smashed the graven images of her gods to the earth.
21:10 Oh my threshing, and the grain of my floor! That which I have heard of Yehovah of Hosts, the Elohim of Yisrael, I have told to you.
21:11 The burden of Dumah: He calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
21:12 The watchman says, The morning comes, and also night. If you would inquire, inquire. Come! Return!
21:13 The burden of Arabia: You shall stay in the forest of Arabia, travelers of Dedanites.
21:14 The people of the land of Tema bring water to him who is thirsty; they went to meet the fugitive with his bread.
21:15 For they fled from before swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the press of battle.
21:16 For so Yehovah has said to me, Within a year, as the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall be ended,
21:17 and the rest of the number of the archers, the warriors of the sons of Kedar, shall be few. For Yehovah Elohim of Yisrael has spoken.
22:1 The burden of the valley of vision: What ails you now, that you have gone up to the housetops?
22:2 Crashings fill the noisy city, the joyous city. Your slain ones are not slain by the sword, nor died in battle.
22:3 All your rulers fled together; they were bound without the bow; all found in you were bound together; they have fled from afar.
22:4 On account of this I said, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly; do not hurry to comfort me over the ruin of the daughter of my people.
22:5 for it is a day of trouble, and of trampling down, and confusion, by Adonai Yehovah of Hosts, in the valley of vision; digging down a wall, and crying to the mountain.
22:6 And Persia lifted the quiver with a chariot of a man and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.
22:7 And it happened; your choicest valleys were full of chariots; and the horsemen surely set in order at the gate.
22:8 And he removed Yehudah's covering; and you looked in that day to the armor of the house of the forest.
22:9 You have also seen the breaks in the city of David, that they are many; and you gathered the waters of the lower pool.
22:10 And you have counted the houses of Yerushalayim; and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.
22:11 And you made a reservoir between the walls, for the water of the old pool. But you have not looked to its Maker, nor did you see its Former from long ago.
22:12 And in that day Adonai Yehovah of Hosts called to weeping and mourning; and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth.
22:13 Then, lo, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and slaughtering sheep; eating flesh and drinking wine, saying, Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!
22:14 And Yehovah of Hosts revealed in my ears, Surely this iniquity shall not be atoned for you until you die, says Adonai Yehovah of Hosts.
22:15 So says Adonai Yehovah of Hosts, Go! Go to this treasurer, to Shebna who is over the house.
22:16 What is to you here? And who is here to you, that you have carved a tomb for yourself here, as one having cut out his tomb on high, having carved out a home for himself in the rock?
22:17 Look, Yehovah hurls you with a hurling, O man, and grasps you with a grasping.
22:18 Surely, He will violently whirl you like a ball, into a land wide of hands. You shall die there, and there are the chariots of your glory, the shame of your master's house.
22:19 And I will drive you from your position, and he will pull you from your station.
22:20 And in that day it shall be, even I will call to My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah.
22:21 And I will clothe him with your robe and will fasten your sash on him. And I will give your authority into his hand. And he shall be a father to the ones living in Yerushalayim and to the house of Yehudah.
22:22 And the key of the house of David I will lay on his shoulder, so that he opens, and no one shuts; and he shuts, and no one opens. (Rev 3:7)
22:23 And I will drive him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a throne of glory to his father's house.
22:24 And they shall hang on him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the offshoots, all small vessels, from vessels of cups even to all vessels of jars.
22:25 In that day, says Yehovah of Hosts, the nail that is driven in the sure place shall be removed, and be cut down, and fall. And the burden that was on it shall be cut off. Yehovah has spoken.
23:1 The burden of Tyre: Howl, ships of Tarshish! For it is ruined, without house, without entrance. It is revealed to them from the land of Kittim63 .
23:2 Be silent, ones living in the coast, trader of Sidon crossing the sea; they have filled you.
23:3 And by great waters, the seed of Sihor and the harvest of the river Nile was her revenue; and she was the mart of nations.
23:4 Be ashamed, Sidon, for the sea has spoken, the strength of the sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, I have not nourished young men nor raised up virgins.
23:5 As the report comes to Mitsrayim, so they shall be grieved at the report of Tyre.
23:6 Pass over Tarshish; howl, people of the coast!
23:7 Is this your exulting city from days of her old age? Her own feet carry it far away to stay.
23:8 Who has counseled this against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are rulers, whose traders are the weighty of the earth?
23:9 Yehovah of Hosts has counseled it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring all the honored of the earth into contempt.
23:10 Pass through your land as the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no more strength.
23:11 He stretched His hand over the sea; He shook kingdoms. Yehovah has made a decree against the merchant city, to destroy its forts.
23:12 And He said, You shall rejoice no more, oppressed one, virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, cross over to Cyprus, even there is no rest to you.
23:13 Look, the land of the Chaldeans! This people did not exist! Assyria founded it for those who live in the desert. They set up their siege towers; they lay bare its palaces; they appointed it to be a ruin.
23:14 Howl, ships of Tarshish! For your fortress is ruined.
23:15 And it shall be in that day that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will be as the song of a prostitute to Tyre.
23:16 Take a harp; go about the city, O forgotten prostitute. Do well to play; make many songs, that you may be remembered.
23:17 And it will be, after the end of seventy years, Yehovah will visit Tyre; and she shall return to her hire, and will prostitute with all the kingdoms of the earth on the face of the earth.
23:18 And her goods and her wages shall be set-apartness to Yehovah; it shall not be hoarded nor stored; for her goods shall be for those who dwell before Yehovah, to eat enough, and for a choice covering.
24:1 Lo, Yehovah empties the earth and makes it bare, and distorts its face, and scatters those living in it64.
24:2 And as it is with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with the master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor65.
24:3 The earth shall completely be emptied and utterly stripped, for Yehovah has spoken this Word.
24:4 The earth mourns and languishes; the world droops and languishes; the proud people of the earth droop.
24:5 And the earth is profaned under those living in it, because they transgress Torah and violate a statute, and break the everlasting covenant66.
24:6 On account of this a curse has devoured the earth; and they who live in it are held guilty. For this those living in the earth are consumed, and few men are left67.
24:7 The new wine has failed; the vine droops; all the merry-hearted sigh68.
24:8 The exultation of timbrels ceases; the noise of those who revel ends; the exultation of the harp ceases.
24:9 They shall not drink wine with a song; fermented drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.
24:10 The city of shame is broken down; every house is shut, that no one may enter.
24:11 A crying over the wine is in the streets; all joy is darkened; the gladness in the land is exiled.
24:12 Desolation is remaining in the city, and a ruin; the gate is battered.
24:13 For it is thus in the midst of the earth, among the peoples, it shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as gleanings when the grape harvest is completed.
24:14 They lift up their voice; they sing for the majesty of Yehovah; they cry aloud from the sea.
24:15 On account of this, glorify Yehovah in the flames, the name of Yehovah Elohim of Yisrael, in the coasts of the sea.
24:16 We have heard songs from the end of the earth, Honor to the Righteous. But I said, Leanness to me! Leanness to me! Woe to me! Traitors betray, even with treachery; traitors betray!
24:17 Dread, and the pit, and a snare are upon you, one living in the earth.
24:18 And it shall be, he who flees from the sound of dread shall fall into the pit. And he who comes up out of the middle of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For the windows from on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth quake.
24:19 The earth is breaking, breaking! The earth is crashing, crashing! The earth is tottering, tottering.
24:20 Like a drunkard, the earth is staggering, staggering! And it rocks to and fro like a hut69. And its trespass is heavy on it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
24:21 And it shall be in that day, Yehovah shall punish the army of the high place on high, and on the kings of the land on the land.
24:22 And they will be gathered, a gathering of prisoners in a dungeon. And they shall be shut up in a prison; and after many days they will be visited.
24:23 Then the moon shall blush, and the sun shall be ashamed, when Yehovah of Hosts shall reign in Mount Zion and in Yerushalayim; and before His elders is His glory. (Yoel 2:31)
25:1 O Yehovah, You are my Elohim. I will exalt You; I will thank Your name; for You have done a wonderful thing: counsels from afar; faithful faithfulness.
25:2 Because You have made a heap from a city, a fortified city into a ruin; a citadel of foreigners not to be a city, not to be built, to forever.
25:3 For this the mighty people glorify You, the city of the ruthless nations shall fear You.
25:4 For You are a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from storm, a shadow from heat; because the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall.
25:5 You shall lay low the noise of foreigners, like the heat in a dry place, the heat with the shadow of cloud; the shouting of the terrifying ones shall be laid low.
25:6 And Yehovah of Hosts shall make a feast of fat things for all the peoples in this mountain; a feast of wine on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, refined wine on the lees.
25:7 And He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering which covers all people, and the veil that is woven over all nations.
25:8 He will swallow up death in victory70! And Adonai Yehovah will wipe away tears from all faces71. And He shall reprove the reproach of His people from all the earth; for Yehovah has spoken.
25:9 And one shall say in that day, Look, this is our Elohim; we have waited for Him, and He will save us. This is Yehovah; we have waited for Him; we will be glad and rejoice in His Y’shua*.
25:10 For the hand of Yehovah shall rest in this mountain; and Moab shall be trampled under Him, even as straw is trampled in the water of a dung pit.
25:11 And He shall spread His hands in his midst, as he who swims strokes to swim. And He shall lay low his pride with the skill of His hands.
25:12 And He shall bow down the fortress of the height of your walls; He will lay low, touch to the earth, even to the dust.
26:1 In that day this song shall be sung in the land of Yehudah: Y’shua* is a strong city to us; He sets up our walls and rampart.
26:2 Open the gates so the righteous nation may come in, keeping faithfulness.
26:3 You will keep in perfect shalom the mind stayed on You, for he trusts in You.
26:4 Trust in Yehovah forever, for in Yah Yehovah72 is an everlasting rock.
26:5 For He bows the dwellers on high; He lays low the lofty city; He lays it low to the ground; He makes it touch even to the dust.
26:6 The foot shall trample it, the feet of the poor, steps of the weak.
26:7 The path for the just is uprightness. Upright One, level the track of the just.
26:8 Yea, Yehovah, in the path of Your judgments we awaited You; for Your name and for Your memory is the desire of our soul.
26:9 With my soul I desire You in the night; yea, with my ruach within me I diligently seek You. For when Your judgments are in the earth, those living in the world learn righteousness.
26:10 The wicked finds favor; he does not learn righteousness; he deals perversely in the land of honesty, and does not see the majesty of Yehovah.
26:11 Yehovah, Your hand is high; they do not see; they see and are ashamed of the zeal of the people. Yea, the fire of Your foes devours them.
26:12 Yehovah, You will ordain shalom for us; for also You have worked all our works for us.
26:13 Yehovah our Elohim, masters beside You have governed us; only in You we will mention Your name.
26:14 Dead ones do not live; departed spirits do not rise; because of this You visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.
26:15 You have added to the nation, Yehovah; You have added to the nation, You are glorified; You have extended it to the ends of the earth.
26:16 Yehovah, they visited You in distress; they poured out a whisper; Your chastening was to them.
26:17 As a woman with child draws near to bear, she writhes and cries out in her pangs. So are we before You, Yehovah.
26:18 We conceived; we writhe; as it were, we gave birth to wind. We have not worked salvation for the earth; and those living in the world have not fallen.
26:19 Your dead ones shall live, my dead body, they shall rise up. Awake and sing, those that dwell in the dust73; for the dew of lights is your dew; and the earth shall cast out departed spirits.
26:20 Come, My people, go in your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide for a little moment, until the fury passes74.
26:21 For, look, Yehovah comes out of His place to visit his iniquity on those dwelling on the earth. The earth shall also reveal her blood, and shall no more cover over her slain ones.
27:1 In that day Yehovah shall visit the sea monster, the fleeing serpent, with His great and fierce and strong sword; even on the sea monster, the twisting serpent; and He shall slay the monster that is in the sea.
27:2 In that day sing to it, A vineyard of desire;
27:3 I, Yehovah, keep it; I will water it every moment, that no one punish it; I will guard it night and day.
27:4 Fury is not in Me. Who will give Me briers and thorns in the battle? I will step through it; I would burn it at once.
27:5 Or will he lay hold of My strength that he may make shalom with Me? Let him make shalom with Me.
27:6 Those coming in shall take root; Ya'akov shall blossom and Yisrael shall bud, and they will fill the face of the world with fruit.
27:7 As the striking of His striker, did He strike him? Or as the slaying of His slain, is he slain?
27:8 You will contend with her by driving her away, by sending her away. He shall take away by His harsh wind, in the day of the east wind.
27:9 Therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be taken away; and this is his blessing, when I have taken away his sin; when they have broken to pieces all the stones of the altars as fine dust, and their trees shall not remain, and their idols shall be cut off, as a thicket afar off.
27:10 For the fortified city shall be lonely, a forsaken pasture, and left like a wilderness. The calf shall feed there, and he shall lie there, and eat up its branches.
27:11 When its boughs dry up, they are broken off. Women shall come and kindle them, for it is a people with no understanding. On account of this His Maker shall not pity him, and His Former will not show him grace.
27:12 And it shall be in that day, Yehovah shall thresh from the channel of the River to the torrent of Mitsrayim; and you shall be gathered one by one, sons of Yisrael.
27:13 And it shall be in that day, the great ram's horn shall be blown; and those perishing in the land of Assyria and the outcasts in the land of Mitsrayim shall come and shall worship Yehovah in the set apart mountain in Yerushalayim.
28:1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower on the head of the fat valley of those who are overcome with wine!
28:2 Look, might and strength are to Yehovah; like a hailstorm, a destroying storm; like a storm of mighty waters overflowing; He sets down to the earth with His hand.
28:3 The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trampled down by His feet.
28:4 And the glorious beauty which is on the head of the fat valley shall be a fading flower, like the first ripe fig before summer which the seeing one sees; while it is yet in his hand, he swallows it.
28:5 In that day Yehovah of Hosts shall become a crown of splendor and a crown of beauty to the rest of His people,
28:6 and a ruach of justice to him who sits on the judgment seat; and for might to those turning back the battle toward the gate.
28:7 But they also have gone astray by wine, and have erred through liquor; priest and prophet have erred through fermented drink; they have been swallowed by wine; they strayed from liquor; they err in vision; they stumble in judgment;
28:8 for all tables are full of vomit and filth, without a clean place.
28:9 To whom shall He teach knowledge? And to whom shall He explain the message? Those weaned from milk, those moving from breasts?
28:10 For precept must be on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little75.
28:11 For with stammering lip and another language, He will speak to this people76;
28:12 to whom He said, This is the rest; cause the weary to rest. Also, This is the repose. But they willed not to hear.
28:13 Yet the Word of Yehovah was to them, precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they might go, and stumble, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
28:14 Therefore hear the Word of Yehovah, scornful men, rulers of this people in Yerushalayim.
28:15 Because you have said, We have cut a covenant with death; and, We have made a vision with Sheol, when the overwhelming rod passes through it will not come to us for we have made the lie our refuge, and we have hidden in falsehood.
28:16 So, Adonai Yehovah says this: Look, I place in Zion a Stone for a foundation, a tried Stone, a precious Cornerstone, a sure Foundation; and he that believes on Him shall by no means be ashamed.77.
28:17 And I will lay justice for a line, and righteousness for a plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of the lie; and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
28:18 And your covenant with death shall be atoned for; and your vision with Sheol shall not rise up. When the overwhelming whip passes through, then you shall be for a trampling to it.
28:19 As often as it passes, it shall take you; for morning by morning it shall pass; and by day and by night, it shall only be a terror to understand the message.
28:20 For the bed is shorter than one can stretch himself on; and the cover is narrower than one can wrap himself in.
28:21 For Yehovah shall rise up, as at Mount Perazim; He shall be stirred as in the Gibeon Valley; to do His work, His strange work; and to perform His task, His foreign task.
28:22 So, then, do not be mockers, that your bonds not be made strong. For I have heard from Adonai Yehovah of Hosts that a full end is decreed on all the earth78.
28:23 Listen and hear My voice; pay attention and hear My Word:
28:24 Does the plowman plow all day to sow? Does he open and break the clods of his ground?
28:25 When he has leveled its surface, does he not strew black cummin, and scatter cummin, and place wheat in rows, and barley in its place, and spelt in its border?
28:26 And He instructs him for the right; his Elohim teaches him.
28:27 For black cummin is not threshed with the sledge; nor is a cartwheel turned on cummin. But black cummin is beaten out with the staff, and cummin with the rod.
28:28 Bread is crushed, but not always does one thresh it with threshing; and he drives the wheel of his cart; and his horses do not beat it small79.
28:29 This also comes from Yehovah of Hosts, doing wonders in counsel, making sound wisdom great.
29:1 Woe to Ariel80, to Ariel, the city where David camped. Add year on year; let the feasts run their circle81.
29:2 Then I will compress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and sorrow; and it shall be to Me as Ariel.
29:3 And I will camp as a circle on you, and will lay siege work on you82; and I will raise up ramparts on you.
29:4 And you shall be brought low; you shall speak from the ground; and your speech shall be bowed down; and your voice shall be from the ground, like a fortuneteller; and your speech shall chirp out of the dust.
29:5 And the host of your strangers shall be as fine powder, and as chaff passing, the host of terrifying ones; and it will be suddenly, instantly;
29:6 you shall be visited from Yehovah of Hosts; with thunder and earthquake, and great noise, tempest and storm, and flame of devouring fire.
29:7 And the multitude of all the nations who fight against Ariel83, even all battling her and compressing her and her stronghold, shall be like a dream of a night vision.
29:8 It shall even be as when a hungry one dreams; and, look, he is eating; but when he awakes, his soul is empty. Or it shall be as when a thirsty one dreams; and, look, he is drinking, but when he awakes, he is faint, and his soul is longing. So shall be the multitude of all the nations who fight against Mount Zion.
29:9 Wait and wonder! Blind yourselves, and be blind! They are drunk, but not with wine! They stagger, but not with liquor!
29:10 For Yehovah has poured out on you the ruach of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes. He has covered the prophets and your heads, the seers84.
29:11 And the whole vision to you is like the words of a sealed scroll which they give to one knowing scrolls, saying, Please read this. Then he says, I am not able, for it is sealed. (Dan 12:4)
29:12 And the scroll is given to one who does not know scrolls, saying, Please read this. Then he says, I do not know scrolls85.
29:13 And Yehovah says, This people draw near to Me with their mouth, and they honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me; and in vain do they worship Me, teaching the commandments and doctrines of men.
29:14 Therefore look, I will proceed to remove this people, and I will remove them; and I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will hide the understanding of the prudent.
29:15 Woe to those who go deep to hide their purposes from Yehovah; yea, their works are in the dark; and they say, Who sees us? And, Who knows us?
29:16 Oh your perversity! Shall the former be counted as the clay? For shall the work of its maker say, He did not make me? Or shall the thing formed say to him who formed it, He does not understand?
29:17 Is it not yet a little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field; and the fruitful field shall be counted for the forest?
29:18 And in that day86 the deaf shall hear the words of a scroll; and the eyes of the blind shall see out of their gloom and out of darkness. (Is 35:5)
29:19 And the humble ones shall increase joy in Yehovah, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the set apart One of Yisrael.
29:20 For the terrible one is brought to nothing; and the scorner is ended; and all that watch for iniquity are cut off;
29:21 those who make a man sin by a word, even laying a trap for the reprover in the gate, and turn aside the just for a worthless thing.
29:22 So Yehovah says this: He who redeemed (Aleph/Tav) Abraham, as to the house of Ya'akov: Ya'akov shall not be ashamed now, nor shall his face become pale now.
29:23 But when he sees his children in his midst, the work of My hands, they shall sanctify My name. They shall sanctify the set apart One of Ya'akov, and shall fear the Elohim of Yisrael.
29:24 Those who erred in ruach shall come to understanding, and those who murmured shall learn the teaching.
30:1 Woe to rebellious sons, declares Yehovah, to make counsel, but not from Me; and to weave a covering web, but not of My ruach, in order to add sin on sin;
30:2 who are walking to go down to Mitsrayim, but have not asked at My mouth, to take refuge in the stronghold of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Mitsrayim87.
30:3 And the stronghold of Pharaoh shall become a shame to you; and relying on the shadow of Mitsrayim shall be a disgrace.
30:4 For his rulers were in Zoan, and his ambassadors reached to Hanes.
30:5 Every one is ashamed over a people who do not profit them; they are not for a help, and not for profiting, but for a shame; yea, also for a reproach88.
30:6 The burden of the beasts of the south: Into the land of trouble and constraint. The lioness and the lion are from them; the viper and fiery flying serpent. They carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people who cannot profit them.
30:7 And Mitsrayim; vainly and emptily they help. So I have called to this: Their strength is to sit still.
30:8 Now come, write it before them on a tablet, and note it on a scroll, so that it may be for the latter day, until forever89;
30:9 that this is a rebellious people, lying sons; sons who are not willing to hear the Torah of Yehovah;
30:10 who say to the seers, Do not see; and to the prophets, Do not have a vision for right things to us; speak smooth things to us; have a vision of delusions.
30:11 Turn aside from the way; stretch from the path; cause the set apart One of Yisrael to cease from before us.
30:12 For this reason, so says the set apart One of Yisrael, Because of your rejection of this Word, and your trust in oppression and perversity, even resting on it;
30:13 So this iniquity shall be to you as a broken section falling, like the bulging out of a high wall, the breaking of which comes suddenly, in an instant.
30:14 And its smashing is as the smashing of a potter's vessel; when broken in pieces, he has no pity; for in its breaking there is not found a shard to carry fire from the hearth, nor to skim water from a marsh.
30:15 For so says Adonai Yehovah, the set apart One of Yisrael, In returning and rest you shall be saved; and in quietness and hope shall be your strength. But you were not willing.
30:16 For you said, No! For we will flee on horseback. On account of this you shall flee. Also, you say, We will ride on swift ones. On account of this, those who pursue you shall be swift.
30:17 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one. You shall flee from the rebuke of five, until you are left like a pole on the top of the mountain, and like a sign on a hill.
30:18 And so Yehovah waits to be gracious to you. And for this He is exalted to have mercy on you; for Yehovah is a Elohim of justice. Blessed are all who wait for Him.
30:19 For the people shall live in Zion90, at Yerushalayim; you shall surely cry no more. He surely will be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. When He hears, He will answer you.
30:20 And Yehovah gives you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction; but your teachers shall not be hidden any more; but your eyes shall be able to see your teachers.
30:21 And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk in it, when you go right, or when you go left.
30:22 And you shall defile the covering of your carved images of silver; and the covering of your molten images of gold. You shall strew them as a menstruous cloth; you shall say to it, Go out!
30:23 Then He shall give rain for your seed, with which you sow the ground. And the bread of the produce of the earth also shall be fat and plentiful. In that day your livestock shall feed in a pasture made wide.
30:24 Also, the oxen and the young donkeys that till the ground shall eat seasoned fodder which one winnows with the shovel and with the fork91.
30:25 And on every high mountain, and on every high hill, shall be rivulets lifted up, streams of water, in a day of great slaying, when towers fall.
30:26 And the moonlight shall be like the light of the sun. And the sun's light shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day of binding up, Yehovah binding the break of His people, and healing the wound of His blow.
30:27 Look, the name of Yehovah comes from afar; His anger burns; and is heavy as the uplifting of smoke; His lips are full of fury, and His tongue like a devouring fire.
30:28 And like an overflowing torrent, His breath shall divide to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity, and a misleading bridle on the jaws of the peoples.
30:29 The song shall be to you, as the night when the feast is sanctified, and gladness of heart, as one going with the flute, to come into the mount of Yehovah, to the Rock of Yisrael.
30:30 And Yehovah shall make the majesty of His voice heard; and He causes His arm to be seen coming down with raging anger and a flame of consuming fire, cloudburst and storm, and hailstones.
30:31 For through the voice of Yehovah, Assyria shall be crushed, the rod with which He strikes.
30:32 And every passage of the appointed staff that Yehovah causes to rest on him will be with timbrels and with harps. And in brandishing battles He fights with her.
30:33 For Topheth92 is ordained from yesterday. Also, it is prepared for the king; He deepened; He widened its pyre; He makes great with fire and wood. The breath of Yehovah burns in it like a torrent of brimstone.
31:1 Woe to those who go down to Mitsrayim for help, and lean on horses, and trust on chariots, because they are great; and in horsemen because they are very strong! But they do not look to the set apart One of Yisrael, nor seek Yehovah93.
31:2 And He also is wise, and brings evil, and will not turn aside His Words, but will rise against the house of evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.
31:3 And Mitsrayim is a man, and not El. And their horses are flesh, and not ruach. And Yehovah stretches out His hand, and both he who helps shall fall, and he who is helped shall fall; and they shall all cease together.
31:4 For so Yehovah has said to me: As the lion roars, even the young lion on his prey when the multitude of shepherds are gathered against him, he will not fear their voice, nor fret himself because of their noise. So Yehovah of Hosts shall go down to fight on Mount Zion, and on its hill94.
31:5 As birds that fly, so Yehovah of Hosts will shield over Yerushalayim; shielding and delivering, and passing over, He will save it.
31:6 Turn back to Him against whom you have made a deep revolt, sons of Yisrael.
31:7 For in that day each shall despise his silver idols and his golden idols, which your hands have made for you; a sin.
31:8 Then Assyria shall fall by a sword, not of man; yea, a sword, not of man, shall devour him. For he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become forced labor.
31:9 And his rock will pass away from fear; and his commanders shall tremble at the banner95, declares Yehovah, whose fire is in Zion, and His furnace in Yerushalayim96.
32:1 Look, a king shall reign in righteousness, and rulers shall rule in judgment97.
32:2 And a man shall be a hiding place from the wind, a shelter from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place; like the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
32:3 And the eyes of those that see shall not be dim, and the ears of those who hear shall listen.
32:4 And the heart of the rash one shall discern knowledge; and the tongue of those that stutter shall hurry to speak clear things.
32:5 The fool shall no more be called noble, and a miser will not be said to be generous.
32:6 For the fool speaks foolishness, and his heart works iniquity, to do wickedness; and to speak error against Yehovah, to make the hungry soul empty; and he causes the drink of the thirsty to fail.
32:7 And the weapons of the miser are evil; he devises wicked plots to destroy the poor with lying words, even the needy when he speaks right.
32:8 But the noble one devises noble things; and he shall rise by noble things.
32:9 O women who are at ease, rise up. Hear my voice; confident daughters, listen to my word.
32:10 You will shake for days on a year, confident women; for the vintage fails; the gathering will not come.
32:11 Tremble, women at ease; shake, confident women; strip and make yourselves bare, and bind on sackcloth on your loins;
32:12 be wailing over breasts, over pleasant fields, over the fruitful vine.
32:13 Thorns and briers shall spring up on the land of My people; even over all the houses of joy in the jubilant city,
32:14 because the palace is forsaken; the crowd of the city is forsaken; mound and tower are instead caves, until forever; a joy of wild donkeys ; pasture for flocks;
32:15 until is poured out on us the ruach from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field; and the fruitful field is reckoned as a forest.
32:16 Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness shall dwell in the fruitful field.
32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be shalom; and the service of righteousness shall be quietness and hope forever.
32:18 And My people shall live in a peaceful home, and in safe dwellings, and in secure resting places.
32:19 Though it hails when the forest is going down, and the city is laid low,
32:20 blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the foot of the ox and the donkey98 .