The Bible, King James version, Book 23: Isaiah

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23:030:006 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of
trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion,
the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their
riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures
upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit
them.

23:030:007 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose:
therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to
sit still.

23:030:008 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a
book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

23:030:009 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children
that will not hear the law of the LORD:

23:030:010 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy
not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things,
prophesy deceits:

23:030:011 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the
Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

23:030:012 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye
despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness,
and stay thereon:

23:030:013 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to
fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh
suddenly at an instant.

23:030:014 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel
that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there
shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire
from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.

23:030:015 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In
returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in
confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

23:030:016 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall
ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall
they that pursue you be swift.

23:030:017 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of
five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top
of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.

23:030:018 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto
you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy
upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all
they that wait for him.

23:030:019 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt
weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice
of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.

23:030:020 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the
water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed
into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:

23:030:021 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is
the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and
when ye turn to the left.

23:030:022 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of
silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou
shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say
unto it, Get thee hence.

23:030:023 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow
the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and
it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle
feed in large pastures.

23:030:024 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground
shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the
shovel and with the fan.

23:030:025 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every
high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the
great slaughter, when the towers fall.

23:030:026 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the
sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light
of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach
of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

23:030:027 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his
anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of
indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

23:030:028 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the
midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of
vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people,
causing them to err.

23:030:029 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is
kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to
come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of
Israel.

23:030:030 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and
shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation
of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with
scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.

23:030:031 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten
down, which smote with a rod.

23:030:032 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which
the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and
harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.

23:030:033 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is
prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is
fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of
brimstone, doth kindle it.

23:031:001 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on
horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in
horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto
the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!

23:031:002 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call
back his words: but will arise against the house of the
evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

23:031:003 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses
flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his
hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen
shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.

23:031:004 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and
the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of
shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid
of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so
shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and
for the hill thereof.

23:031:005 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;
defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will
preserve it.

23:031:006 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply
revolted.

23:031:007 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver,
and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you
for a sin.

23:031:008 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty
man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but
he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be
discomfited.

23:031:009 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his
princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose
fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

23:032:001 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall
rule in judgment.

23:032:002 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a
covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as
the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

23:032:003 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears
of them that hear shall hearken.

23:032:004 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the
tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

23:032:005 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl
said to be bountiful.

23:032:006 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will
work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error
against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he
will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

23:032:007 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked
devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the
needy speaketh right.

23:032:008 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things
shall he stand.

23:032:009 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless
daughters; give ear unto my speech.

23:032:010 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women:
for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.

23:032:011 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless
ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon
your loins.

23:032:012 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for
the fruitful vine.

23:032:013 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers;
yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

23:032:014 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the
city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for
ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

23:032:015 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the
wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be
counted for a forest.

23:032:016 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness
remain in the fruitful field.

23:032:017 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect
of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

23:032:018 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in
sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

23:032:019 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city
shall be low in a low place.

23:032:020 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth
thither the feet of the ox and the ass.

23:033:001 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and
dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with
thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled;
and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they
shall deal treacherously with thee.

23:033:002 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou
their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of
trouble.

23:033:003 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up
of thyself the nations were scattered.

23:033:004 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the
caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run
upon them.

23:033:005 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled
Zion with judgment and righteousness.

23:033:006 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times,
and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his
treasure.

23:033:007 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors
of peace shall weep bitterly.

23:033:008 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath
broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth
no man.

23:033:009 The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and
hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel
shake off their fruits.

23:033:010 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now
will I lift up myself.

23:033:011 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your
breath, as fire, shall devour you.

23:033:012 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut
up shall they be burned in the fire.

23:033:013 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are
near, acknowledge my might.

23:033:014 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the
hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire?
who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

23:033:015 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that
despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from
holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of
blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

23:033:016 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the
munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall
be sure.

23:033:017 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold
the land that is very far off.

23:033:018 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where
is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?

23:033:019 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper
speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that
thou canst not understand.

23:033:020 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall
see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not
be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be
removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.

23:033:021 But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad
rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars,
neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.

23:033:022 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD
is our king; he will save us.

23:033:023 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their
mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a
great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.

23:033:024 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that
dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.

23:034:001 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let
the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all
things that come forth of it.

23:034:002 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his
fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he
hath delivered them to the slaughter.

23:034:003 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come
up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted
with their blood.

23:034:004 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens
shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall
fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a
falling fig from the fig tree.

23:034:005 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come
down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to
judgment.

23:034:006 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat
with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the
fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in
Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.

23:034:007 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks
with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and
their dust made fat with fatness.

23:034:008 For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of
recompences for the controversy of Zion.

23:034:009 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the
dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become
burning pitch.

23:034:010 It shall not be quenched night nor day; 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.

23:034:011 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl
also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out
upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

23:034:012 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none
shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.

23:034:013 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles
in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of
dragons, and a court for owls.

23:034:014 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild
beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow;
the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a
place of rest.

23:034:015 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch,
and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be
gathered, every one with her mate.

23:034:016 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these
shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath
commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

23:034:017 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided
it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from
generation to generation shall they dwell therein.

23:035:001 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them;
and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

23:035:002 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and
singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the
excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of
the LORD, and the excellency of our God.

23:035:003 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

23:035:004 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not:
behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a
recompence; he will come and save you.

23:035:005 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of
the deaf shall be unstopped.

23:035:006 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the
dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and
streams in the desert.

23:035:007 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty
land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where
each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

23:035:008 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be
called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over
it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though
fools, shall not err therein.

23:035:009 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up
thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall
walk there:

23:035:010 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion
with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall
obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee
away.

23:036:001 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah,
that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the
defenced cities of Judah, and took them.

23:036:002 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to
Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood
by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the
fuller's field.

23:036:003 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was
over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son,
the recorder.

23:036:004 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus
saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is
this wherein thou trustest?

23:036:005 I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have
counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust,
that thou rebellest against me?

23:036:006 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt;
whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce
it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.

23:036:007 But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not
he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken
away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship
before this altar?

23:036:008 Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king
of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou
be able on thy part to set riders upon them.

23:036:009 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the
least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for
chariots and for horsemen?

23:036:010 And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to
destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land,
and destroy it.

23:036:011 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I
pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we
understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in
the ears of the people that are on the wall.

23:036:012 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and
to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men
that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and
drink their own piss with you?

23:036:013 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews'
language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the
king of Assyria.

23:036:014 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he
shall not be able to deliver you.

23:036:015 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The
LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered
into the hand of the king of Assyria.

23:036:016 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria,
Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me:
and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig
tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;

23:036:017 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a
land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

23:036:018 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, the LORD will
deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his
land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

23:036:019 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of
Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

23:036:020 Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have
delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should
deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

23:036:021 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for
the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

23:036:022 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph,
the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told
him the words of Rabshakeh.

23:037:001 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent
his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into
the house of the LORD.

23:037:002 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna
the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with
sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

23:037:003 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day
of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children
are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring
forth.

23:037:004 It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh,
whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the
living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God
hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that
is left.

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