rotherham - Isaiah:14-16

rotherham@Isaiah:14:1 @ For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, And will yet choose Israel, And will give them rest upon their own soil, And the sojourner, shall join himself, unto them, And they shall attach themselves unto the house of Jacob;

rotherham@Isaiah:14:2 @ And peoples shall take them, and bring them into their own place, And the house of Israel shall possess themselves of them upon the soil of Yahweh for servants and for handmaids, Thus shall they be taking captive their captors, And shall tread down their oppressors.

rotherham@Isaiah:14:3 @ And it shall come to pass, in the day when Yahweh shall give thee rest flora thy toil, and from thy disquiet, and from the hard service which had been laid upon thee,

rotherham@Isaiah:14:4 @ that thou shalt take up this taunt over the king of Babylon, and shalt say: How hath ceased the oppressor! Ceased the exactress!

rotherham@Isaiah:14:5 @ Broke hath Yahweh the staff of the lawless, The sceptre of despots;

rotherham@Isaiah:14:6 @ Smiting peoples in passion With stroke unremitting, Trampling, in anger, on nations, Persecution unhindered.

rotherham@Isaiah:14:7 @ Quiet, at rest, the whole earth, Men have burst into shouting!

rotherham@Isaiah:14:8 @ Yea the pine-trees, make mirth at thee, Cedars of Lebanon, Since thou wast laid low, No feller hath come up against us!

rotherham@Isaiah:14:9 @ Hades beneath, is excited about thee To meet thine arrival, Rousing up, for thee Shades, All the he-goats of earth! Maketh rise from their thrones, All the kings of the nations.

rotherham@Isaiah:14:10 @ All of them, answer, and say to thee, Thou too, made strengthless, as we! Unto us, art thou like!

rotherham@Isaiah:14:11 @ Brought down to Hades, thy pride. The hum of thy harps, Beneath thee, is spread out corruption, And, thy coverletworms!

rotherham@Isaiah:14:12 @ How hast thou fallen from heaven, O Shining One Son of the Dawn! Hewn down to the earth, O crusher of nations!

rotherham@Isaiah:14:13 @ Yet, thou, didst say in thy heart The heavens, will I ascend, Above the stars of GOD, will I lift up my throne, That I may sit in the Mount of Assembly In the Recesses of the North:

rotherham@Isaiah:14:14 @ I will mount on the hills of the clouds, I will match the Most High!

rotherham@Isaiah:14:15 @ Howbeit, to Hades, shalt thou be brought down, To the Recesses of the Pit!

rotherham@Isaiah:14:16 @ They who see thee, upon thee, will gaze, Upon thee, will thoughtfully muse, Is this the man who startled the earth? Who terrified kingdoms?

rotherham@Isaiah:14:17 @ Who made the world like a desert And its cities, brake down? Its prisoners, he loosed not. Bach one to his home.

rotherham@Isaiah:14:18 @ All the kings of the nationsthey all, are lying in state Each one in his crypt;

rotherham@Isaiah:14:19 @ But, thou, art flung out from thy grave, Like a scion detested, Beshrouded with slain, the pierced of the sword, Like a carcase trod underfoot:

rotherham@Isaiah:14:20 @ As for them who go down to the stones of the Pit, Thou shalt not be united with them in burial; For thy land, thou didst ruin Thy people, didst slay, Unnamed to times ago-abiding, Be the seed of the wicked!

rotherham@Isaiah:14:21 @ Preparefor his sonsshambles. For the iniquity of their fathers, They shall not rise nor possess the earth, Nor fill the face of the world with cities.

rotherham@Isaiah:14:22 @ I will rise. Then. against them, Declareth Yahweh of hosts, And will cut off from Babylon Record and remnant And scion and seed, Declareth Yahweh.

rotherham@Isaiah:14:23 @ And will make her a possession for the bittern, And marshes of water, And will sweep it with the besom of destruction, Declareth Yahweh of hosts.

rotherham@Isaiah:14:24 @ Yahweh of hosts, hath sworn, saying, Surely as I intended, so, hath it come to pass, And as I purposed, the same, shall stand:

rotherham@Isaiah:14:25 @ That I will break in pieces the Assyrian in my land, Yea upon my mountains, will I tread him underfoot, So shall be removed from off them his yoke, And his burden, from off their shoulder shall be removed.

rotherham@Isaiah:14:26 @ This, is the purpose that is purposed upon all the earth, And, this, the hand outstretched over all the nations;

rotherham@Isaiah:14:27 @ For, Yahweh of hosts, hath purposed, And who shall frustrate? And, his, is the hand outstretched, And who shall turn it back?

rotherham@Isaiah:14:28 @ In the year that King Ahaz died, came this oracle:

rotherham@Isaiah:14:29 @ Do not rejoice, Philistia, any of thee, In that the rod of him that smote thee, is broken, For, out of the root of the serpent, shall come forth, a viper, And his fruit be a fiery dragon that flieth.

rotherham@Isaiah:14:30 @ Then shall feed the firstborn of the poor, And the needy, in confidence lie down, And I will kill with famine thy root, And thy residue, shall be slain.

rotherham@Isaiah:14:31 @ Howl O gate, Make outcry O city, Dispersed art thou Philistia, all of thee, For out of the north, a smoke cometh in, With no straggler in his ranks.

rotherham@Isaiah:14:32 @ What, then, shall one answer the messengers of a nation? That Yahweh, hath founded Zion, And in her, shall seek refuge the oppressed of his people.

rotherham@Isaiah:15:1 @ The oracle on Moab: Because, in a night, was laid waste Ar of Moabdestroyed! Because, in a night, was laid waste Kir of Moabdestroyed,

rotherham@Isaiah:15:2 @ He hath gone up to Bayith and Dibon, to the high places, to weep, On Nebo and on Medeba, Moab is howling, On all their heads, a baldness, Every beard, clipped.

rotherham@Isaiah:15:3 @ In their streets, have they girded them with sackcloth, On their housetops, and in their broadways, every one is howlingmelting in tears;

rotherham@Isaiah:15:4 @ And Heshbon, hath made outcry, and Elealeh, Unto Jahaz, hath been heard their voice, For this cause, do the armed men of Moab roar, Every mans soul, quivereth to him.

rotherham@Isaiah:15:5 @ Mine own heart, for Moab continueth to make outcry, Her fugitive, as far as Zoar, is like a heifer of three years; For the accent of Luhith, with weeping, they ascend, For by the way of Horonaiman outcry of destruction, they excite;

rotherham@Isaiah:15:6 @ For, the waters of Nimrim, shall become desolation, For grass, hath dried up, Herbage hath failed, Green thing, hath not sprung up!

rotherham@Isaiah:15:7 @ For this cause, the savings they had made and that which they had stored, Over the torrent-bed of the willows, shall they bear them.

rotherham@Isaiah:15:8 @ For the outcry hath gone round the boundary of Moab, As far as Eglaim, the howling thereof, And to Beer-elim, the howling thereof.

rotherham@Isaiah:15:9 @ For the waters of Dimon, are full of blood, For I will lay upon Dimon new troubles, To the escaped of Moab, the lions, Even to the survivors on the soil.

rotherham@Isaiah:16:1 @ Send ye the lamb due to the ruler of the land, From Sela towards the desert, Unto the mount of the daughter of Zion;

rotherham@Isaiah:16:2 @ Yet shall it be that Like wandering birds from a nest cast forth, Shall be the daughters of Moab, at the fords of Amen.

rotherham@Isaiah:16:3 @ Bring thou, in counsel, Execute thou judgment, Make as the night, thy shadow in the midst of high noon, Hide thou the outcasts, The wanderer, do not thou reveal.

rotherham@Isaiah:16:4 @ Let mine own outcasts, sojourn with thee, O Moab, become thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler, For vanished is the oppressor, At an end is extortion, They who tread down have ceased out of the land.

rotherham@Isaiah:16:5 @ So shall be established, in lovingkindness, a throne, And one shall sit thereon, in truth, in the home of David, Judgingand seeking justice and speeding righteousness.

rotherham@Isaiah:16:6 @ We have heard of the arrogance of Moab, Proud exceedingly! His haughtiness and his arrogance and his passion, Not true, are his boastings.

rotherham@Isaiah:16:7 @ Therefore shall, Moab, howl for, Moab, All that belong to her, shall wail, For the ruins of Kir-hareseth, shall they moan out Utterly stricken!

rotherham@Isaiah:16:8 @ For, the fields of Heshbon are withered The vine of Sibmah, the owners of nations, have broken off ruddy branches, Unto Jazer, had they reached, They had spread abroad to the desert, Her boughs, had stretched forth, had gone over to the sea.

rotherham@Isaiah:16:9 @ For this cause, will I bewail, in the wailing of Jazer, The vine of Sibmah, I will drench thee with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh, For, upon thy fruit-harvest, and upon thy grain-harvest, the battle-shout, hath fallen.

rotherham@Isaiah:16:10 @ Now shall be withdrawn rejoicing and exultation out of the garden-land, And, in the vineyards, shall be neither singing nor shouting, Wine in the winepress, the treader, shall not tread, The vintage-shout, have I made to cease.

rotherham@Isaiah:16:11 @ For this cause, mine inward partsfor Moab, like a lyre, shall make a plaintive sound, Yea what is within me, for Kir-heres.

rotherham@Isaiah:16:12 @ And it shall be When it is seen that Moab hath laboured in vain on the high place, He shall enter into his holy place to pray, and shall not prevail,

rotherham@Isaiah:16:13 @ This, is the word which Yahweh spake concerning Moab in, time past;

rotherham@Isaiah:16:14 @ But now, hath Yahweh spoken saying, In three years, as the years of a hireling, shall the glory of Moab be diminished, with all the great multitude, even a very small remnant, of no account.

rotherham@Isaiah:17:1 @ The oracle on Damascus, Lo! Damascus, is to be removed from being a city, And shall become a heap of ruins: