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ISAIAH CHAPTER 12
- Isaiah 12:1 And thou hast said in that day: 'I thank thee, O YHWH, Though Thou hast been angry with me, Turn back doth Thine anger, And Thou dost comfort me.
- 12:2 Lo, God [is] my salvation, I trust, and fear not, For my strength and song [is] Jah YHWH, And He is to me for salvation.
- 12:3 And ye have drawn waters with joy Out of the fountains of salvation,
- 12:4 And ye have said in that day, Give ye praise to YHWH, call in His name. Make known among the peoples His acts. Make mention that set on high is His name.
- 12:5 Praise ye YHWH, for excellence He hath done, Known is this in all the earth.
- 12:6 Cry aloud, and sing, O inhabitant of Zion, For great in thy midst [is] the Holy One of Israel!'
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ISAIAH CHAPTER 13
- Isaiah 13:1 The burden of Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz hath seen:
- 13:2 'On a high mountain lift ye up an ensign, Raise the voice to them, wave the hand, And they go in to the openings of nobles.
- 13:3 I have given charge to My sanctified ones, Also I have called My mighty ones for Mine anger, Those rejoicing at Mine excellency.'
- 13:4 A voice of a multitude in the mountains, A likeness of a numerous people, A voice of noise from the kingdoms of nations who are gathered, YHWH of Hosts inspecting a host of battle!
- 13:5 They are coming in from a land afar off, From the end of the heavens, YHWH and the instruments of His indignation, To destroy all the land.
- 13:6 Howl ye, for near [is] the day of YHWH, As destruction from the Mighty it cometh.
- 13:7 Therefore, all hands do fail, And every heart of man doth melt.
- 13:8 And they have been troubled, Pains and pangs they take, As a travailing woman they are pained, A man at his friend they marvel, The appearance of flames -- their faces!
- 13:9 Lo, the day of YHWH doth come, Fierce, with wrath, and heat of anger, To make the land become a desolation, Yea, its sinning ones He destroyeth from it.
- Isaiah 13:10 For the stars of the heavens, and their constellations, Cause not their light to shine, Darkened hath been the sun in its going out, And the moon causeth not its light to come forth.
- 13:11 And I have appointed on the world evil, And on the wicked their iniquity, And have caused to cease the excellency of the proud, And the excellency of the terrible I make low.
- 13:12 I make man more rare than fine gold, And a common man than pure gold of Ophir.
- 13:13 Therefore the heavens I cause to tremble, And the earth doth shake from its place, In the wrath of YHWH of Hosts, And in a day of the heat of his anger.
- 13:14 And it hath been, as a roe driven away, And as a flock that hath no gatherer, Each unto his people -- they turn, And each unto his land -- they flee.
- 13:15 Every one who is found is thrust through, And every one who is added falleth by sword.
- 13:16 And their sucklings are dashed to pieces before their eyes, Spoiled are their houses, and their wives lain with.
- 13:17 Lo, I am stirring up against them the Medes, Who silver esteem not, And gold -- they delight not in it.
- 13:18 And bows dash young men to pieces, And the fruit of the womb they pity not, On sons their eye hath no pity.
- 13:19 And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, The glory, the excellency of the Chaldeans, Hath been as overthrown by God, With Sodom and with Gomorrah.
- Isaiah 13:20 She doth not sit for ever, Nor continueth unto many generations, Nor doth Arab pitch tent there, And shepherds lie not down there.
- 13:21 And Ziim have lain down there, And full have been their houses of howlings, And dwelt there have daughters of an ostrich, And goats do skip there.
- 13:22 And Aiim have responded in his forsaken habitations, And dragons in palaces of delight, And near to come [is] her time, And her days are not drawn out!
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ISAIAH CHAPTER 14
- Isaiah 14:1 Because YHWH loveth Jacob, And hath fixed again on Israel, And given them rest on their own land, And joined hath been the sojourner to them, And they have been admitted to the house of Jacob.
- 14:2 And peoples have taken them, And have brought them in unto their place, And the house of Israel have inherited them, On the land of YHWH, For men-servants and for maid-servants, And they have been captors of their captors, And have ruled over their exactors.
- 14:3 And it hath come to pass, In the day of YHWH's giving rest to thee, From thy grief, and from thy trouble, And from the sharp bondage, That hath been served upon thee,
- 14:4 That thou hast taken up this simile Concerning the king of Babylon, and said, How hath the exactor ceased,
- 14:5 Ceased hath the golden one. Broken hath YHWH the staff of the wicked, The sceptre of rulers.
- 14:6 He who is smiting peoples in wrath, A smiting without intermission, He who is ruling in anger nations, Pursuing without restraint!
- 14:7 At rest -- quiet hath been all the earth, They have broken forth [into] singing.
- 14:8 Even firs have rejoiced over thee, Cedars of Lebanon -- [saying]: Since thou hast lain down, The hewer cometh not up against us.
- 14:9 Sheol beneath hath been troubled at thee, To meet thy coming in, It is waking up for thee Rephaim, All chiefs ones of earth, It hath raised up from their thrones All kings of nations.
- Isaiah 14:10 All of them answer and say unto thee, Even thou hast become weak like us! Unto us thou hast become like!
- 14:11 Brought down to Sheol hath been thine excellency, The noise of thy psaltery, Under thee spread out hath been the worm, Yea, covering thee is the worm.
- 14:12 How hast thou fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son of the dawn! Thou hast been cut down to earth, O weakener of nations.
- 14:13 And thou saidst in thy heart: the heavens I go up, Above stars of God I raise my throne, And I sit in the mount of meeting in the sides of the north.
- 14:14 I go up above the heights of a thick cloud, I am like to the Most High.
- 14:15 Only -- unto Sheol thou art brought down, Unto the sides of the pit.
- 14:16 Thy beholders look to thee, to thee they attend, Is this the man causing the earth to tremble, Shaking kingdoms?
- 14:17 He hath made the world as a wilderness, And his cities he hath broken down, Of his bound ones he opened not the house.
- 14:18 All kings of nations -- all of them, Have lain down in honour, each in his house,
- 14:19 And -- thou hast been cast out of thy grave, As an abominable branch, raiment of the slain, Thrust through ones of the sword, Going down unto the sons of the pit, As a carcase trodden down.
- Isaiah 14:20 Thou art not united with them in burial, For thy land thou hast destroyed, Thy people thou hast slain, Not named to the age is the seed of evil doers.
- 14:21 Prepare ye for his sons slaughter; Because of the iniquity of their fathers, They rise not, nor have possessed the land, Nor filled the face of the world [with] cities.
- 14:22 And I have risen up against them, (The affirmation of YHWH of Hosts,) And have cut off, in reference to Babylon, Name and remnant, and continuator and successor, The affirmation of YHWH.
- 14:23 And have made it for a possession of a bittern, And ponds of waters, And daubed it with the mire of destruction, The affirmation of YHWH of Hosts!
- 14:24 Sworn hath YHWH of Hosts, saying, 'As I thought -- so hath it not been? And as I counselled -- it standeth;
- 14:25 To break Asshur in My land, And on My mountains I tread him down, And turned from off them hath his yoke, Yea, his burden from off their shoulder turneth aside.
- 14:26 This [is] the counsel that is counselled for all the earth, And this [is] the hand that is stretched out for all the nations.
- 14:27 For YHWH of Hosts hath purposed, And who doth make void? And His hand that is stretched out, Who doth turn it back?'
- 14:28 In the year of the death of king Ahaz was this burden:
- 14:29 Rejoice not thou, Philistia, all of thee, That broken hath been the rod of thy smiter, For from the root of a serpent cometh out a viper, And its fruit [is] a flying saraph.
- Isaiah 14:30 And delighted have the first-born of the poor, And the needy in confidence lie down, And I have put to death with famine thy root, And thy remnant it slayeth.
- 14:31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city, Melted art thou, Philistia, all of thee, For from the north smoke hath come, And there is none alone in his set places.
- 14:32 And what doth one answer the messengers of a nation? 'That YHWH hath founded Zion, And in it do the poor of His people trust!'
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ISAIAH CHAPTER 15
- Isaiah 15:1 The burden of Moab. Because in a night destroyed was Ar of Moab -- It hath been cut off, Because in a night destroyed was Kir of Moab -- It hath been cut off.
- 15:2 He hath gone up to Bajith and Dibon, The high places -- to weep, On Nebo and on Medeba Moab howleth, On all its heads [is] baldness, every beard cut off.
- 15:3 In its out-places they girded on sackcloth, On its pinnacles, and in its broad places, Every one howleth -- going down with weeping.
- 15:4 And cry doth Heshbon and Elealeh, Unto Jahaz heard hath been their voice, Therefore the armed ones of Moab do shout, His life hath been grievous to him.
- 15:5 My heart [is] toward Moab, Cry do her fugitives unto Zoar, a heifer of the third [year], For -- the ascent of Luhith -- With weeping he goeth up in it, For, in the way of Horonaim, A cry of destruction they wake up.
- 15:6 For, the waters of Nimrim are desolations, For, withered hath been the hay, Finished hath been the tender grass, A green thing there hath not been.
- 15:7 Therefore the abundance he made, and their store, Unto the brook of the willows they carry.
- 15:8 For gone round hath the cry the border of Moab, Unto Eglaim [is] its howling, And to Beer-Elim [is] its howling.
- 15:9 For the waters of Dimon have been full of blood, For I set on Dimon additions, For the escaped of Moab a lion, And for the remnant of Adamah!
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ISAIAH CHAPTER 16
- Isaiah 16:1 Send ye a lamb [to] the ruler of the land, From Selah in the wilderness, Unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
- 16:2 And it hath come to pass, As a wandering bird, a nest cast out, Are daughters of Moab, [at] fords of Arnon.
- 16:3 Bring ye in counsel, do judgment, Make as night thy shadow in the midst of noon, Hide outcasts, the wanderer reveal not.
- 16:4 Sojourn in thee do My outcasts, O Moab, Be a secret hiding-place to them, From the face of a destroyer, For ceased hath the extortioner, Finished hath been a destroyer, Consumed the treaders down out of the land.
- 16:5 And established in kindness is the throne, And [one] hath sat on it in truth, in the tent of David, Judging and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
- 16:6 We have heard of the pride of Moab -- very proud, His pride, and his arrogance, and his wrath, Not right [are] his devices.
- 16:7 Therefore howl doth Moab for Moab, all of it doth howl, For the grape-cakes of Kir-Hareseth it meditateth, Surely they are smitten.
- 16:8 Because fields of Heshbon languish, The vine of Sibmah, Lords of nations did beat her choice vines, Unto Jazer they have come, They have wandered in a wilderness, Her plants have spread themselves, They have passed over a sea.
- 16:9 Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer, The vine of Sibmah, I water thee [with] my tear, O Heshbon and Elealeh, For -- for thy summer fruits, and for thy harvest, The shouting hath fallen.
- Isaiah 16:10 And removed have been gladness and joy from the fruitful field, And in vineyards they sing not, nor shout, Wine in the presses treadeth not the treader, Shouting I have caused to cease.
- 16:11 Therefore my bowels for Moab as a harp do sound, And mine inward parts for Kir-Haresh.
- 16:12 And it hath come to pass, when it hath been seen, That weary hath been Moab on the high place, And he hath come unto his sanctuary to pray, And is not able.
- 16:13 This [is] the word that YHWH hath spoken unto Moab from that time,
- 16:14 And now hath YHWH spoken, saying, 'In three years, as years of an hireling, Lightly esteemed is the honour of Moab, With all the great multitude, And the remnant [is] little, small, not mighty!'
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ISAIAH CHAPTER 17
- Isaiah 17:1 The burden of Damascus. Lo, Damascus is taken away from [being] a city, And it hath been a heap -- a ruin.
- 17:2 Forsaken are the cities of Aroer, For droves they are, and they have lain down, And there is none troubling.
- 17:3 And ceased hath the fortress from Ephraim, And the kingdom from Damascus, And the remnant of Aram are as the honour of the sons of Israel, The affirmation of YHWH of Hosts!
- 17:4 And it hath come to pass, in that day, Wax poor doth the honour of Jacob, And the fatness of his flesh doth wax lean.
- 17:5 And it hath come to pass, As the gathering by the reaper of the standing corn, And his arm the ears reapeth, And it hath come to pass, As the gathering of the ears in the valley of Rephaim,
- 17:6 And left in him have been gleanings, As the compassing of an olive, Two -- three berries on the top of a branch, Four -- five on the fruitful boughs, The affirmation of YHWH, God of Israel!
- 17:7 In that day doth man look to His Maker, Yea, his eyes to the Holy One of Israel look,
- 17:8 And he looketh not unto the altars. The work of his own hands, And that which his own fingers made He seeth not -- the shrines and the images.
- 17:9 In that day are the cities of his strength As the forsaken thing of the forest, And the branch that they have left, Because of the sons of Israel, It also hath been a desolation.
- Isaiah 17:10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, And the rock of thy strength hast not remembered, Therefore thou plantest plants of pleasantness, And with a strange slip sowest it,
- 17:11 In the day thy plant thou causest to become great, And in the morning thy seed makest to flourish, A heap [is] the harvest in a day of overflowing, And of mortal pain.
- 17:12 Wo [to] the multitude of many peoples, As the sounding of seas they sound; And [to] the wasting of nations, As the wasting of mighty waters they are wasted.
- 17:13 Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane.
- 17:14 At even-time, lo, terror, before morning it is not, This [is] the portion of our spoilers, And the lot of our plunderers!
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ISAIAH CHAPTER 18
- Isaiah 18:1 Ho, land shadowed [with] wings, That [is] beyond the rivers of Cush,
- 18:2 That is sending by sea ambassadors, Even with implements of reed on the face of the waters, -- Go, ye light messengers, Unto a nation drawn out and peeled, Unto a people fearful from its beginning and onwards, A nation meeting out by line, and treading down, Whose land floods have spoiled.
- 18:3 All ye inhabitants of the world, And ye dwellers of earth, At the lifting up of an ensign on hills ye look, And at the blowing of a trumpet ye hear.
- 18:4 For thus said YHWH unto me, 'I rest, and I look on My settled place, As a clear heat on an herb. As a thick cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
- 18:5 For before harvest, when the flower is perfect, And the blossom is producing unripe fruit, Then hath [one] cut the sprigs with pruning hooks, And the branches he hath turned aside, cut down.
- 18:6 They are left together to the ravenous fowl of the mountains, And to the beast of the earth, And summered on them hath the ravenous fowl, And every beast of the earth wintereth on them.
- 18:7 At that time brought is a present to YHWH of Hosts, A nation drawn out and peeled. Even of a people fearful from the beginning hitherto, A nation meting out by line, and treading down, Whose land floods have spoiled, Unto the place of the name of YHWH of Hosts -- mount Zion!'
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ISAIAH CHAPTER 19
- Isaiah 19:1 The burden of Egypt. Lo, YHWH is riding on a swift thick cloud, And He hath entered Egypt, And moved have been the idols of Egypt at His presence, And the heart of Egypt melteth in its midst.
- 19:2 And I armed Egyptians against Egyptians, And they fought, each against his brother, And each against his neighbour, City against city, kingdom against kingdom.
- 19:3 And emptied out hath been in its midst the spirit of Egypt. And its counsel I swallow up, And they have sought unto the idols, And unto the charmers, And unto those having familiar spirits, And unto the wizards.
- 19:4 And I have delivered the Egyptians Into the hand of a hard lord, And a strong king doth rule over them, An affirmation of the Lord, YHWH of Hosts.
- 19:5 And failed have waters from the sea, And a river is wasted and dried up.
- 19:6 And they have turned away the flowings, Weak and dried up have been brooks of the bulwark, Reed and flag have withered.
- 19:7 Exposed things by the brook, by the edge of the brook, And every sown thing of the brook, hath withered, It hath been driven away, and is not.
- 19:8 And lamented have the fishers, And mourned have all casting angle into a brook, And those spreading nets on the face of the waters have languished.
- 19:9 And ashamed have been makers of fine flax, And weavers of net-works.
- Isaiah 19:10 And its foundations have been smitten, All making wages [are] afflicted in soul.
- 19:11 Only, fools [are] the princes of Zoan, The counsel of the wise ones of the counsellors of Pharaoh hath become brutish. How say ye unto Pharaoh, 'A son of the wise am I, a son of kings of antiquity?'
- 19:12 Where [are] they now, thy wise ones? Yea, let them tell to thee, I pray thee, And they know what YHWH of Hosts hath counselled against Egypt!
- 19:13 Foolish have been princes of Zoan, Lifted up have been princes of Noph, And they have caused Egypt to err, The chief of her tribes.
- 19:14 YHWH hath mingled in her midst A spirit of perverseness, And they have caused Egypt to err in all its work, As a drunkard erreth in his vomit.
- 19:15 And there is no work to Egypt, That head or tail, branch or reed, may do.
- 19:16 In that day is Egypt like women, And it hath mourned, and been afraid, Because of the waving of the hand of YHWH of Hosts, That He is waving over it.
- 19:17 And the land of Judah hath been to Egypt for a cause of staggering, Every one who doth mention it, for himself feareth, Because of the counsel of YHWH of Hosts, That He is counselling against it.
- 19:18 In that day there are five cities in the land of Egypt, Speaking the lip of Canaan, And swearing to YHWH of Hosts, 'The city of destruction,' is said of one.
- 19:19 In that day there is an altar to YHWH In the midst of the land of Egypt, And a standing pillar near its border to YHWH,
- Isaiah 19:20 And it hath been for a sign and for a testimony, To YHWH of Hosts in the land of Egypt, For they cry unto YHWH from the face of oppressors, And He sendeth to them a saviour, Even a great one, and hath delivered them.
- 19:21 And known hath been YHWH to Egypt, And the Egyptians have known YHWH in that day, And done sacrifice and present, And vowed a vow to YHWH, and completed [it].
- 19:22 And YHWH hath smitten Egypt, smiting and healing, And they have turned back unto YHWH, And He hath been entreated of them, And hath healed them.
- 19:23 In that day is a highway out of Egypt to Asshur, And come in have the Assyrians to Egypt, And the Egyptians into Asshur, And the Egyptians have served with the Assyrians.
- 19:24 In that day is Israel third, After Egypt, and after Asshur, A blessing in the heart of the earth.
- 19:25 In that YHWH of Hosts did bless it, saying, 'Blessed [is] My people -- Egypt, And the work of My hands -- Asshur, And Mine inheritance -- Israel!'
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