Yesha`yahu
1:1The vision of Yesha`yahu the son of Amotz, which he saw
concerning Yehudah and Yerushalayim, in the days of `Uzziyah, Yotam,
Achaz, and Chizkiyahu, kings of Yehudah.
1:2Hear, heavens,
And listen, earth; for the LORD has spoken:
I have nourished and brought up children,
And they have rebelled against me.
1:3The ox knows his
owner,
And the donkey his master's crib;
But Yisra'el doesn't know,
My people don't consider.
1:4Ah sinful
nation,
A people loaded with iniquity,
A seed of evil-doers,
Children who deal corruptly!
They have forsaken the LORD.
They have despised the Holy One of Yisra'el.
They are estranged and backward.
1:5Why should you
be beaten more,
That you revolt more and more?
The whole head is sick,
And the whole heart faint.
1:6From the sole of
the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it:
Wounds, welts, and open sores.
They haven't been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with
oil.
1:7Your country is
desolate.
Your cities are burned with fire.
Strangers devour your land in your presence,
And it is desolate,
As overthrown by strangers.
1:8The daughter of
Tziyon is left like a shelter in a vineyard,
Like a hut in a field of melons,
Like a besieged city.
1:9Unless the LORD
of hosts had left to us a very small remnant,
We would have been as Sedom;
We would have been like `Amorah.
1:10Hear the word
of the LORD, you rulers of Sedom!
Listen to the law of our G-d, you people of `Amorah!
1:11"What are the
multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says the LORD.
"I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams,
And the fat of fed animals.
I don't delight in the blood of bulls,
Or of lambs,
Or of male goats.
1:12When you come
to appear before me,
Who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
1:13Bring no more
vain offerings.
Incense is an abomination to me;
New moons, Shabbatot, and convocations:
I can't bear with evil assemblies.
1:14My soul hates
your New Moons and your appointed feasts;
They are a burden to me.
I am weary of bearing them.
1:15When you spread
forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you;
Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear.
Your hands are full of blood.
1:16Wash
yourselves, make yourself clean.
Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes;
Cease to do evil.
1:17Learn to do
well.
Seek justice,
Relieve the oppressed,
Judge the fatherless,
Plead for the widow."
1:18"Come now, and
let us reason together," says the LORD:
"Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.
Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
1:19If you are
willing and obedient,
You shall eat the good of the land;
1:20But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the
sword;
For the mouth of the LORD has spoken it."
1:21How the
faithful city has become a prostitute!
She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her,
But now murderers.
1:22Your silver has
become dross,
Your wine mixed with water.
1:23Your princes
are rebellious, and companions of thieves.
Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards.
They don't judge the fatherless,
Neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
1:24Therefore the
Lord, the LORD of Hosts,
The Mighty One of Yisra'el, says:
"Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries,
And avenge myself of my enemies;
1:25And I will turn
my hand on you,
Thoroughly purge away your dross,
And will take away all your tin.
1:26I will restore
your judges as at the first,
And your counselors as at the beginning.
Afterward you shall be called 'The city of
righteousness,
A faithful town.'
1:27Tziyon shall be
redeemed with justice,
And her converts with righteousness.
1:28But the
destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together,
And those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
1:29For they shall
be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired,
And you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.
1:30For you shall
be as an oak whose leaf fades,
And as a garden that has no water.
1:31The strong will
be like tinder,
And his work like a spark.
They will both burn together,
And no one will quench them."
2:1This is what Yesha`yahu the son of Amotz saw concerning Yehudah
and Yerushalayim.
2:2It shall happen
in the latter days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be
established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be raised above the hills;
And all nations shall flow to it.
2:3Many peoples
shall go and say,
"Come, let's go up to the mountain of the LORD,
To the house of the G-d of Ya`akov;
And he will teach us of his ways,
And we will walk in his paths.
For out of Tziyon the law shall go forth,
And the word of the LORD from Yerushalayim.
2:4He will judge
between the nations,
And will decide concerning many peoples;
And they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
And their spears into pruning-hooks.
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
Neither shall they learn war any more.
2:5House of Ya`akov,
come, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
2:6For you have
forsaken your people, the house of Ya`akov,
Because they are filled from the east,
With those who practice divination like the Pelishtim,
And they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.
2:7Their land is
full of silver and gold,
Neither is there any end of their treasures.
Their land also is full of horses,
Neither is there any end of their chariots.
2:8Their land also
is full of idols.
They worship the work of their own hands,
That which their own fingers have made.
2:9Man is brought
low,
And mankind is humbled;
Therefore don't forgive them.
2:10Enter into the
rock,
And hide in the dust,
From before the terror of the LORD,
And from the glory of his majesty.
2:11The lofty looks
of man will be brought low,
The haughtiness of men will be bowed down,
And the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
2:12For there will
be a day of the LORD of Hosts for all that is proud and haughty,
And for all that is lifted up;
And it shall be brought low:
2:13For all the cedars of Levanon, that are high and lifted up,
For all the oaks of Bashan,
2:14For all the high mountains,
For all the hills that are lifted up,
2:15For every lofty tower,
For every fortified wall,
2:16For all the ships of Tarshish,
And for all pleasant imagery.
2:17The loftiness
of man shall be bowed down,
And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low;
And the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
2:18The idols shall
utterly pass away.
2:19Men shall go
into the caves of the rocks,
And into the holes of the earth,
From before the terror of the LORD,
And from the glory of his majesty,
When he arises to shake the earth mightily.
2:20In that day,
men shall cast away their idols of silver,
And their idols of gold,
Which have been made for themselves to worship,
To the moles and to the bats;
2:21To go into the caverns of the rocks,
And into the clefts of the ragged rocks,
From before the terror of the LORD,
And from the glory of his majesty,
When he arises to shake the earth mightily.
2:22Stop trusting
in man, whose breath is in his nostrils;
For of what account is he?
3:1For, behold, the
Lord, the LORD of Hosts, takes away from Yerushalayim and from Yehudah
supply and support,
The whole supply of bread,
And the whole supply of water;
3:2The mighty man,
The man of war,
The judge,
The prophet,
The diviner,
The elder,
3:3The captain of fifty,
The honorable man,
The counselor,
The skilled craftsman,
And the clever enchanter.
3:4I will give boys
to be their princes,
And children shall rule over them.
3:5The people will
be oppressed,
Everyone by another,
And everyone by his neighbor.
The child will behave himself proudly against the old
man,
And the base against the honorable.
3:6Indeed a man
shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying,
"You have clothing, you be our ruler,
And let this ruin be under your hand."
3:7In that day he
will cry out, saying, I will not be a healer;
For in my house is neither bread nor clothing.
You shall not make me ruler of the people.
3:8For Yerushalayim
is ruined, and Yehudah is fallen;
Because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD,
To provoke the eyes of his glory.
3:9The look of
their faces testify against them.
They parade their sin like Sedom.
They don't hide it.
Woe to their soul!
For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
3:10Tell the
righteous "Good!"
For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
3:11Woe to the
wicked!
Disaster is upon them;
For the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.
3:12As for my
people, children are their oppressors,
And women rule over them.
My people, those who lead you cause you to err,
And destroy the way of your paths.
3:13The LORD stands
up to contend,
And stands to judge the peoples.
3:14The LORD will
enter into judgment with the elders of his people,
And their leaders:
"It is you who have eaten up the vineyard.
The spoil of the poor is in your houses.
3:15What do you mean that you crush my people,
And grind the face of the poor?" says the Lord, the LORD of Hosts.
3:16Moreover the
LORD said, "Because the daughters of Tziyon are haughty,
And walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes,
Walking to trip as they go,
Jingling ornaments on their feet;
3:17Therefore the
Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Tziyon,
And the LORD will make their scalps bald."
3:18In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their
anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces,
3:19the earrings, the bracelets, the veils,
3:20the headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume
bottles, the charms, 3:21the signet
rings, the nose rings, 3:22the fine robes,
the capes, the cloaks, the purses,
3:23the hand-mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras, and the
shawls.
3:24It shall happen
that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness;
Instead of a belt, a rope;
Instead of well set hair, baldness;
Instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth;
And branding instead of beauty.
3:25Your men shall
fall by the sword,
And your mighty in the war.
3:26Her gates shall
lament and mourn;
And she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.
4:1Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, "We
will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: only let us be called
by your name. Take away our reproach."
4:2In that day, the LORD's branch will be beautiful and glorious,
and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors
of Yisra'el.
4:3It will happen, that he who is left
in Tziyon, and he who remains in Yerushalayim, shall be called holy,
even everyone who is written among the living in Yerushalayim;
4:4when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters
of Tziyon, and shall have purged the blood of Yerushalayim from its
midst, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning.
4:5The LORD will create over the whole habitation of Mount Tziyon,
and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a
flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy.
4:6There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the
heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.
5:1Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his
vineyard.
My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
5:2He dug it up,
Gathered out its stones,
Planted it with the choicest vine,
Built a tower in its midst,
And also cut out a winepress therein.
He looked for it to yield grapes,
But it yielded wild grapes.
5:3"Now,
inhabitants of Yerushalayim and men of Yehudah,
Please judge between me and my vineyard.
5:4What could have
been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?
Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild
grapes?
5:5Now I will tell
you what I will do to my vineyard.
I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up.
I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.
5:6I will lay it a
wasteland.
It won't be pruned nor hoed,
But it will grow briers and thorns.
I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."
5:7For the vineyard
of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Yisra'el,
And the men of Yehudah his pleasant plant:
And he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression;
For righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
5:8Woe to those who
join house to house,
Who lay field to field, until there is no room,
And you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!
5:9In my ears, the
LORD of Hosts says: "Surely many houses will be desolate,
Even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
5:10For ten acres
of vineyard shall yield one bath,
And a homer of seed shall yield an efah."
5:11Woe to those
who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink;
Who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
5:12The harp, lyre,
tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts;
But they don't regard the work of the LORD,
Neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
5:13Therefore my
people have go into captivity for lack of knowledge;
Their honorable men are famished,
And their multitudes are parched with thirst.
5:14Therefore
She'ol has enlarged its desire,
And opened its mouth without measure;
And their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices
among them, descend into it.
5:15So man is
brought low,
Mankind is humbled,
And the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;
5:16But the LORD of
Hosts is exalted in justice,
And G-d the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
5:17Then the lambs
will graze as in their pasture,
And strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
5:18Woe to those
who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood,
And wickedness as with cart rope;
5:19Who say, "Let
him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it;
And let the counsel of the Holy One of Yisra'el draw near and
come,
That we may know it!"
5:20Woe to those
who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light,
And light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet,
And sweet for bitter!
5:21Woe to those
who are wise in their own eyes,
And prudent in their own sight!
5:22Woe to those
who are mighty to drink wine,
And champions at mixing strong drink;
5:23Who acquit the
guilty for a bribe,
But deny justice for the innocent!
5:24Therefore as
the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
And as the dry grass sinks down in the flame,
So their root shall be as rottenness,
And their blossom shall go up as dust;
Because they have rejected the LORD's law of Hosts,
And despised the word of the Holy One of Yisra'el.
5:25Therefore the
LORD's anger burns against his people,
And he has stretched out his hand against them, and has struck
them.
The mountains tremble,
And their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets.
For all this, his anger is not turned away,
But his hand is still stretched out.
5:26He will lift up
a banner to the nations from far,
And he will whistle for them from the end of the earth.
Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.
5:27None shall be
weary nor stumble among them;
None shall slumber nor sleep;
Neither shall the belt of their loins be untied,
Nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
5:28Whose arrows
are sharp,
And all their bows bent.
Their horses' hoofs will be like flint,
And their wheels like a whirlwind.
5:29Their roaring
will be like a lioness.
They will roar like young lions.
Yes, they shall roar,
And seize their prey and carry it off,
And there will be no one to deliver.
5:30They will roar
against them in that day like the roaring of the sea.
If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress.
The light is darkened in its clouds.
6:1In the year that king `Uzziyah died, I saw the Lord sitting on
a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
6:2Above him stood the serafim. Each one had six wings. With two
he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew.
6:3One called to another, and said,
"Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of Hosts!
The whole earth is full of his glory!"
6:4The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who
called, and the house was filled with smoke.
6:5Then
I said, "Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips,
and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have
seen the King, the LORD of Hosts!"
6:6Then one of the serafim flew to me, having a live coal in his
hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.
6:7He touched my mouth with it, and said, "Behold, this has
touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin
forgiven."
6:8I heard the Lord's voice, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who
will go for us?"
Then I said, "Here I am. Send me!"
6:9He said, "Go, and tell this people,
'You hear indeed,
But don't understand;
And you see indeed,
But don't perceive.'
6:10Make the heart
of this people fat;
Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes;
Lest they see with their eyes,
And hear with their ears,
And understand with their heart,
And turn again, and be healed."
6:11Then I said, "Lord, how long?"
He answered,
"Until cities are waste without inhabitant,
And houses without man,
And the land becomes utterly waste,
6:12And the LORD has removed men far away,
And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
6:13If there are
yet a tenth in it,
It also shall in turn be eaten up:
As a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains,
when they are felled;
So the holy seed is its stock."
7:1It happened in the days of Achaz the son of Yotam, the son of `Uzziyah,
king of Yehudah, that Retzin the king of Aram, and Pekach the son of
Remalyahu, king of Yisra'el, went up to Yerushalayim to war against it,
but could not prevail against it. 7:2It was told the
house of David, saying, "Aram is allied with Efrayim." His heart
trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest
tremble with the wind. 7:3Then the LORD
said to Yesha`yahu, "Go out now to meet Achaz, you, and She'ar-Yashuv
your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of
the fuller's field. 7:4Tell him, 'Be
careful, and keep calm. Don't be afraid, neither let your heart be faint
because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger
of Retzin and Aram, and of the son of Remalyahu.
7:5Because
Aram, Efrayim, and the son of Remalyahu, have plotted evil against you,
saying, 7:6"Let's go up against Yehudah, and tear it apart, and let's
divide it among ourselves, and set up a king in the midst of it, even
the son of Tav'el." 7:7This is what the
Lord G-d says: "It shall not stand, neither shall it happen."
7:8For the head of Aram is Dammesek, and the head of Dammesek is
Retzin; and within sixty-five years Efrayim shall be broken in pieces,
so that it shall not be a people; 7:9and the head of
Efrayim is Shomron, and the head of Shomron is Remalyahu's son. If you
will not believe, surely you shall not be established.'"
7:10The LORD spoke again to Achaz, saying,
7:11"Ask a sign of the LORD your G-d; ask it either in the depth,
or in the height above."
7:12But Achaz said, "I will not ask, neither will I tempt the
LORD."
7:13He said, "Listen now, house of David: Is it not enough for you
to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my G-d
also? 7:14Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the
virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanu'el.
7:15He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil,
and choose the good. 7:16For before the
child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two
kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
7:17The LORD will bring on you, on your people, and on your
father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Efrayim
departed from Yehudah; even the king of Ashshur.
7:18It will happen in that day that the LORD will whistle for the
fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the
bee that is in the land of Ashshur.
7:19They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in
the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn-hedges, and on all pastures.
7:20In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in
the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Ashshur, the head and
the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.
7:21It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young
cow, and two sheep; 7:22and it shall
happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he
shall eat butter: for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left in
the midst of the land. 7:23It will happen
in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a
thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.
7:24Peopel will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the
land will be briers and thorns. 7:25All the hills
that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of
briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and
for the treading of sheep."
8:1The LORD said to me, "Take a large tablet, and write on it with
a man's pen, 'For Maher-Shalal-Chash-Baz;'
8:2and
I will take to me faithful witnesses to record, Uriyah the
kohen, and Zekharyah the son of Yeverekhyahu.
8:3I
went to the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said the
LORD to me, Call his name Maher-Shalal-Chash-Baz.
8:4For
before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother,
the riches of Dammesek and the spoil of Shomron shall be carried away
before the king of Ashshur. 8:5The LORD spoke
to me yet again, saying, 8:6Because this
people have refused the waters of Shiloach that go softly, and rejoice
in Retzin and Remalyahu's son; 8:7now therefore,
behold, the Lord brings up on them the waters of the River, strong and
many, even the king of Ashshur and all his glory: and it shall
come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks;
8:8and it shall sweep onward into Yehudah; it shall overflow and
pass through; it shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of
its wings shall fill the breadth of your land, Immanu'el.
8:9Make an uproar, O you peoples, and be broken in pieces! And
give ear, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in
pieces! Gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces!
8:10Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nothing;
speak the word, and it shall not stand: for G-d is with us.
8:11For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and
instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
8:12Don't you say, "A conspiracy!" concerning all about which this
people shall say, "A conspiracy!" neither fear their fear, nor be in
dread of it. 8:13The LORD of
hosts, him shall you sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be
your dread.
8:14He shall be for a sanctuary; but for
a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of
Yisra'el, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim.
8:15Many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be
snared, and be taken. 8:16Bind up the
testimony, seal the law among my talmidim.
8:17I will wait for the LORD, who hides his face from the house of
Ya`akov, and I will look for him.
8:18Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for
signs and for wonders in Yisra'el from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells in
Mount Tziyon.
8:19When they shall tell you,
"Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who
chirp and who mutter:" shouldn't a people consult with their G-d? on
behalf of the living should they consult with the dead?
8:20To the law and to the testimony! if they don't speak according
to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
8:21They shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it
shall happen that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves,
and curse by their king and by their G-d, and turn their faces upward:
8:22and they shall look to the earth, and see, distress and
darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness they shall be
driven away.
9:1But there shall be no gloom to her who was in anguish. In the
former time he brought into contempt the land of Zevulun and the land of
Naftali; but in the latter time has he made it glorious, by the way of
the sea, beyond the Yarden, Galil of the nations.
9:2The
people who walked in darkness have seen a great light: those who lived
in the land of the shadow of death, on them has the light shined.
9:3You have multiplied the nation, you have increased their joy:
they joy before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when
they divide the spoil. 9:4For the yoke of
his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you
have broken as in the day of Midyan.
9:5For
all the armor of the armed man in the tumult, and the garments rolled in
blood, shall be for burning, for fuel of fire.
9:6For
to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be
on his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor,
Mighty G-d, Everlasting Father, Prince of Shalom.
9:7Of
the increase of his government and of shalom there shall be no end, on
the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold
it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even forever. The
zeal of the LORD of Hosts will perform this.
9:8The
Lord sent a word into Ya`akov, and it has lighted on Yisra'el.
9:9All the people shall know, even Efrayim and the
inhabitant of Shomron, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,
9:10The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the
sycamores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.
9:11Therefore the LORD will set up on high against him the
adversaries of Retzin, and will stir up his enemies,
9:12the Aram before, and the Pelishtim behind; and they shall
devour Yisra'el with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned
away, but his hand is stretched out still.
9:13Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither
have they sought the LORD of Hosts.
9:14Therefore the LORD will cut off from Yisra'el head and tail,
palm-branch and rush, in one day.
9:15The elder and the honorable man, he is the head; and the
prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.
9:16For those who lead this people cause them to err; and those who
are led of them are destroyed. 9:17Therefore the
Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have
compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and
an evil-doer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is
not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
9:18For wickedness burns as the fire; it devours the briers and
thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll
upward in a column of smoke. 9:19Through the
wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land burnt up; and the people are as
the fuel of fire: no man spares his brother.
9:20One shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall
eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat
every man the flesh of his own arm:
9:21Menashsheh, Efrayim; and Efrayim, Menashsheh; and they together
shall be against Yehudah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but
his hand is stretched out still.
10:1Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers
who write perverseness; 10:2to turn aside
the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right,
that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless
their prey!
10:3What will you do in the day of
visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom
will you flee for help? and where will you leave your glory?
10:4They shall only bow down under the prisoners, and shall fall
under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand
is stretched out still. 10:5Ho Ashshur, the
rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
10:6I will send him against a profane nation, and against the
people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to
take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
10:7However he doesn't mean so, neither does his heart think so;
but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
10:8For he says, Aren't my princes all of them kings?
10:9Isn't Kalno as Karkemish? Isn't Chamat as Arpad? Isn't Shomron
as Dammesek?
10:10As my hand has found the
kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images did excel them of
Yerushalayim and of Shomron; 10:11shall I not,
as I have done to Shomron and her idols, so do to Yerushalayim and her
idols?
10:12Therefore it shall happen that,
when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Tziyon and on
Yerushalayim, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of
Ashshur, and the glory of his high looks.
10:13For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and
by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the bounds of
the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and like a valiant man I
have brought down those who sit on thrones:
10:14and my hand has found as a nest the riches of the peoples; and
as one gathers eggs that are forsaken, have I gathered all the earth:
and there was none that moved the wing, or that opened the mouth, or
chirped.
10:15Shall the axe boast itself against
him who hews therewith? Shall the saw magnify itself against him who
wields it? as if a rod should wield those who lift it up, or as
if a staff should lift up him who is not wood.
10:16Therefore will the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, send among his fat
ones leanness; and under his glory there shall be kindled a burning like
the burning of fire. 10:17The light of
Yisra'el will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will
burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.
10:18He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful
field, both soul and body: and it shall be as when a standard-bearer
faints.
10:19The remnant of the trees of his
forest shall be few, so that a child may write them.
10:20It shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Yisra'el,
and those who are escaped of the house of Ya`akov, shall no more again
lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on the LORD, the Holy One of
Yisra'el, in truth. 10:21A remnant
shall return, even the remnant of Ya`akov, to the mighty G-d.
10:22For though your people, Yisra'el, be as the sand of the sea,
only a remnant of them shall return: a destruction is
determined, overflowing with righteousness.
10:23For a full end, and that determined, will the Lord, the LORD of
Hosts, make in the midst of all the earth.
10:24Therefore thus says the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, my people who
dwell in Tziyon, don't be afraid of the Ashshur, though he strike you
with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, after the manner of
Egypt.
10:25For yet a very little while, and
the indignation against you shall be accomplished, and my anger
shall be directed to his destruction.
10:26The LORD of Hosts will stir up against him a scourge, as in the
slaughter of Midyan at the rock of `Orev: and his rod will be over the
sea, and he will lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
10:27It shall happen in that day, that his burden shall depart from
off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall
be destroyed by reason of fatness.
10:28He is come to `Ayat, he is passed through Migron; at Mikhmash
he lays up his baggage; 10:29they are gone
over the pass; they have taken up their lodging at Geva; Ramah trembles;
Gevah of Sha'ul is fled. 10:30Cry aloud with
your voice, daughter of Gallim! listen, Layshah! You poor `Anatot!
10:31Madmenah is a fugitive; the inhabitants of Gevim flee for
safety.
10:32This very day shall he halt at Nov:
he shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Tziyon, the hill
of Yerushalayim. 10:33Behold, the
Lord, the LORD of Hosts, will lop the boughs with terror: and the high
of stature shall be hewn down, and the lofty shall be brought low.
10:34He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and
Levanon shall fall by a mighty one.
11:1There shall come forth a netzer out of the
stock of Yishai, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit.
11:2The Spirit of the LORD shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom
and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of
knowledge and of the fear of the LORD.
11:3His delight shall be in the fear of the LORD; and he shall not
judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of
his ears;
11:4but with righteousness shall he
judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth; and
he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath
of his lips shall he kill the wicked.
11:5Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness
the belt of his loins. 11:6The wolf shall
dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and
the calf and the young lion and the fattened calf together; and a little
child shall lead them. 11:7The cow and the
bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion
shall eat straw like the ox. 11:8The sucking
child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put
his hand on the adder's den. 11:9They shall not
hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of
the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
11:10It shall happen in that day, that the root of Yishai, who
stands for an ensign of the peoples, to him shall the nations seek; and
his resting-place shall be glorious.
11:11It shall happen in that day, that the Lord will set his hand
again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, who shall
remain, from Ashshur, and from Egypt, and from Patros, and from Kush,
and from `Elam, and from Shin`ar, and from Chamat, and from the islands
of the sea.
11:12He will set up an ensign for
the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Yisra'el, and gather
together the dispersed of Yehudah from the four corners of the earth.
11:13The envy also of Efrayim shall depart, and those who vex
Yehudah shall be cut off: Efrayim shall not envy Yehudah, and Yehudah
shall not vex Efrayim. 11:14They shall fly
down on the shoulder of the Pelishtim on the west; together shall they
despoil the children of the east: they shall put forth their hand on
Edom and Mo'av; and the children of `Ammon shall obey them.
11:15The LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea;
and with his scorching wind will he wave his hand over the River, and
will strike it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in
sandals.
11:16There shall be a highway for the
remnant of his people, who shall remain, from Ashshur; like as there was
for Yisra'el in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
12:1In that day you will say, "I will give thanks to you, the LORD;
for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you
comfort me.
12:2Behold, G-d is my salvation. I will
trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD, the LORD, is my strength
and song; and he has become my yeshu`ah."
12:3Therefore with joy you shall draw water out of the wells of
yeshu`ah. 12:4In that day you
will say, "Give thanks to the LORD! Call on his name. Declare his doings
among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted!
12:5Sing to the LORD, for he has done excellent things! Let this be
known in all the earth! 12:6Cry aloud and
shout, you inhabitant of Tziyon; for great in the midst of you is the
Holy One of Yisra'el!"
13:1The burden of Bavel, which Yesha`yahu the son of Amotz did see.
13:2Set up an ensign on the bare mountain, lift up the voice to
them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
13:3I have commanded my consecrated ones, yes, I have called my
mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
13:4The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great
people! the noise of a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered
together! the LORD of Hosts is mustering the host for the battle.
13:5They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of
heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy
the whole land.
13:6Wail; for the day of the LORD
is at hand; as destruction from Shaddai shall it come.
13:7Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man
shall melt:
13:8and they shall be dismayed; pangs
and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a
woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their
faces shall be faces of flame.
13:9Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce
anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners of it
out of it.
13:10For the stars of the sky and the
constellations of it shall not give their light; the sun shall be
darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to
shine.
13:11I will punish the world for
their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity: and I will cause the
arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the
terrible.
13:12I will make a man more rare than
fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ofir.
13:13Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth
shall be shaken out of its place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and
in the day of his fierce anger. 13:14It shall
happen, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathers, they
shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his
own land.
13:15Everyone who is found shall be
thrust through; and everyone who is taken shall fall by the sword.
13:16Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes;
their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.
13:17Behold, I will stir up the Madai against them, who shall not
regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
13:18Their bows shall dash the young men
in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their
eye shall not spare children. 13:19Bavel, the
glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Kasdim' pride, shall be as when G-d
overthrew Sedom and `Amorah. 13:20It shall never
be inhabited, neither shall it be lived in from generation to
generation: neither shall the `Arivi pitch tent there; neither shall
shepherds make their flocks to lie down there.
13:21But wild animals of the desert shall lie there; and their
houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell
there, and wild goats shall dance there.
13:22Wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant
palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be
prolonged.
14:1For the LORD will have compassion on Ya`akov, and will yet
choose Yisra'el, and set them in their own land: and the foreigner shall
join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Ya`akov.
14:2The peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place; and
the house of Yisra'el shall possess them in the land of the LORD for
servants and for handmaids: and they shall take them captive whose
captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
14:3It shall happen in the day that the LORD shall give you rest
from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard service in
which you were made to serve, 14:4that you shall
take up this parable against the king of Bavel, and say, How has the
oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
14:5The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the
rulers; 14:6who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who
ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.
14:7The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break
forth into singing. 14:8Yes, the fir
trees rejoice at you, and the cedars of Levanon, saying,
Since you are laid low, no lumberjack is come up against us.
14:9She'ol from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your
coming; it stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the
earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
14:10All they shall answer and tell you, Are you also become weak as
we? are you become like us? 14:11Your pomp is
brought down to She'ol, and the noise of your viols: the worm is
spread under you, and worms cover you.
14:12How you are fallen from heaven, Heylel, son
of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations
low! 14:13You said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt
my throne above the stars of G-d; and I will sit on the mountain of
congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north;
14:14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make
myself like Ha`Elyon.
14:15Yet you shall be brought down to She'ol, to the uttermost parts
of the pit.
14:16Those who see you shall gaze
at you, they shall consider you, saying, "Is this the man who
made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;
14:17who made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities of
it; who didn't let loose his prisoners to their home?"
14:18All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory,
everyone in his own house. 14:19But you are
cast forth away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with
the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the
stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.
14:20You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have
destroyed your land, you have killed your people; the seed of evil-doers
shall not be named forever. 14:21Prepare
slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers, that they
not rise up, and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world
with cities.
14:22I will rise up against them,
says the LORD of Hosts, and cut off from Bavel name and remnant, and son
and son's son, says the LORD. 14:23I will also
make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water: and I will
sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the LORD of Hosts.
14:24The LORD of Hosts has sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought,
so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
14:25that I will break the Ashshur in my land, and on my mountains
tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his
burden depart from off their shoulder.
14:26This is the purpose that is purposed on the whole earth; and
this is the hand that is stretched out on all the nations.
14:27For the LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who shall annul it? and
his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
14:28In the year that king Achaz died was this burden.
14:29Don't rejoice, O Peleshet, all of you, because the rod that
struck you is broken; for out of the serpent's root shall come forth an
adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
14:30The firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie
down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant
shall be killed. 14:31Howl, gate;
cry, city; you are melted away, Peleshet, all of you; for there comes a
smoke out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.
14:32What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation? That
the LORD has founded Tziyon, and in her shall the afflicted of his
people take refuge.
15:1The burden of Mo'av. For in a night `Ar of Mo'av is laid waste,
and brought to nothing; for in a night Kir of Mo'av is laid
waste, and brought to nothing.
15:2They are gone up to Bayit, and to Divon, to the high places, to
weep: Mo'av wails over Nevo, and over Medeva; on all their heads is
baldness, every beard is cut off.
15:3In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their
housetops, and in their broad places, everyone wails, weeping
abundantly.
15:4Cheshbon cries out, and El`aleh;
their voice is heard even to Yahatz: therefore the armed men of Mo'av
cry aloud; his soul trembles within him.
15:5My heart cries out for Mo'av; her nobles flee to Tzo`ar,
to Eglat-Shelishi-Yah: for by the ascent of Luchit with weeping they go
up; for in the way of Choronayim they raise up a cry of destruction.
15:6For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is
withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.
15:7Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they
have laid up, shall they carry away over the brook of the willows.
15:8For the cry is gone round about the borders of Mo'av; the
wailing of it to Eglayim, and the wailing of it to Beer-elim.
15:9For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet
more on Dimon, a lion on them of Mo'av that escape, and on the remnant
of the land.
16:1Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the
wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Tziyon.
16:2For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest,
so shall the daughters of Mo'av be at the fords of the Arnon.
16:3Give counsel, execute justice; make your shade as the night in
the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; don't betray the fugitive.
16:4Let my outcasts dwell with you; as for Mo'av, be a covert to
him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to
nothing, destruction ceases, the oppressors are consumed out of the
land. 16:5A throne shall be established in loving kindness; and one shall
sit thereon in truth, in the tent of David, judging, and seeking
justice, and swift to do righteousness.
16:6We have heard of the pride of Mo'av, that he is very
proud; even of his arrogance, and his pride, and his wrath; his
boastings are nothing. 16:7Therefore shall
Mo'av wail for Mo'av, everyone shall wail: for the raisin-cakes of
Kir-Hareset shall you mourn, utterly stricken.
16:8For the fields of Cheshbon languish, and the vine of
Sivmah; the lords of the nations have broken down the choice branches of
it, which reached even to Ya`zer, which wandered into the wilderness;
its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.
16:9Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Ya`zer for the vine
of Sivmah; I will water you with my tears, Cheshbon, and El`aleh: for on
your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout is
fallen.
16:10Gladness is taken away, and joy out
of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing,
neither joyful noise: nobody shall tread out wine in the presses; I have
made the vintage shout to cease.
16:11Why my heart sounds like a harp for Mo'av, and my inward parts
for Kir-Heres.
