rotherham - Isaiah:15-19

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:

rotherham@Isaiah:17:2 @ Forsaken, are the desolate cities, For flocks, shall they serve, Which shall lie down and have none to make them afraid.

rotherham@Isaiah:17:3 @ Then shall the fortress cease from Ephraim, And the kingdom from Damascus and the remnant of Syria, Like the glory of the sons of Israel, shall they be, Declareth Yahweh of hosts.

rotherham@Isaiah:17:4 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, That the glory of Jacob, shall be diminished, And, the fatness of his flesh, shall be wasted;

rotherham@Isaiah:17:5 @ And it shall come to pass That, as the harvestman gathereth standing corn, And with his armthe ears, he reapeth, Yea it shall come to pass That, so, shall he be who gleaneth ears, in the vale of Rephaim;

rotherham@Isaiah:17:6 @ Yet shall there be left therein, a gleaning. As in the beating of an olive-tree, Two-three berries in the head of the tree-top, Fourfive, among her fruitful boughs, Declareth Yahweh God of Israel.

rotherham@Isaiah:17:7 @ In that day, shall the son of earth look to him that made him, And his eyes unto the Holy One of Israel, be turned;

rotherham@Isaiah:17:8 @ And he shall not look unto the altars the work of his own hands, Nor to what his own fingers have made, shall his eye be turned, Whether Sacred Stems or Sun-pillars.

rotherham@Isaiah:17:9 @ In that day, shall his fortified cities become Like a neglected bough and a topmost branch, Which they neglected because of the sons of Israel, So shall there be desolation.

rotherham@Isaiah:17:10 @ Because thou didst forget the God of thy salvation, And thy Rock of refuge, thou didst not remember, For this cause, shalt thou plant very pleasant plants, And, the slip of a stranger, shalt thou set:

rotherham@Isaiah:17:11 @ In the day when thou plantest, fence thou in, And in the morning, cause thou, they slip, to blossom, A harvest will have waved in the day of destiny, and mortal pain.

rotherham@Isaiah:17:12 @ Alas! the booming of many peoples, Like the booming of the seas, shall they boom, And the rushing of nations! Like the rushing of mighty waters, shall they rush.

rotherham@Isaiah:17:13 @ Though nations like the rushing of many waters, shall rush, Yet shall one rebuke him, And he shall flee far away, And be chased As the chaff of the mountains before a wind, And as whirling stubble before a storm!

rotherham@Isaiah:17:14 @ At eventide, lo! terror, Before morning, he is not! This, is the portion of them who plunder us, And the lot of them who make of us a prey.

rotherham@Isaiah:18:1 @ Ho! thou land of the buzzing of wings, Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:

rotherham@Isaiah:18:2 @ That sendeth by the sea, ambassadors Even in vessels of paper-reed, upon the face of the waters, Go ye swift messengers Unto a nation drawn out and polished, Unto a people terrible from their beginning and onwards, A nation most mighty and subduing, Whose land rivers have cut through.

rotherham@Isaiah:18:3 @ All ye inhabitants of the world And ye, that dwell in the earth, When there is lifted up an ensign on the mountains, Ye shall look, And when there is blown a horn, Ye shall hearken.

rotherham@Isaiah:18:4 @ For, thus, said Yahweh unto me, I must be quiet I must look on in my fixed place of abode, Like a bright heat on the light, Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

rotherham@Isaiah:18:5 @ For before harvest, when the bud is perfect, And, the blossom, becometh a ripening grape, Then will one cut down the twigs with pruning-hooks, And the tendrils, will he remove cast down:

rotherham@Isaiah:18:6 @ They shall be left together. To the ravenous birds, of the mountains, And to the beast of the earth, Then shall the ravenous bird, summer upon them, And, every beast of the earth, upon them, shall winter.

rotherham@Isaiah:18:7 @ In that time, shall there be borne along. As a present unto Yahweh of hosts A people drawn out and polished, Even from a people terrible from their beginning and onwards, nation most mighty and subduing Whose land rivers, have cut through, Unto the place of the Name of Yahweh of hosts. Mount Zion.

rotherham@Isaiah:19:1 @ The oracle on Egypt: Lo! Yahweh, riding upon a swift cloud, and he will enter Egypt, And the idols of Egypt shall shake at his presence, And, the heart of Egypt, shall melt within him;

rotherham@Isaiah:19:2 @ And I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians, And they shall fight Every one against his brother and Every one against his neighbour, City against city, and Kingdom against kingdom.

rotherham@Isaiah:19:3 @ And the spirit of Egypt, shall vanish, within them, Yea the sagacity thereof, will I swallow up, And they will seek Unto the idols and Unto them that mutter, and Unto them that have familiar spirits, and Unto the wizards;

rotherham@Isaiah:19:4 @ And I will deliver the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord, And a fierce king shall rule over them, Declareth the Lord, Yahweh of hosts.

rotherham@Isaiah:19:5 @ And the waters shall be dried up from the great stream, And the River, shall waste and be dry;

rotherham@Isaiah:19:6 @ And rivers, shall stink, The canals of Egypt be shallow and waste, Reed and rush, he withered;

rotherham@Isaiah:19:7 @ The meadows by the Nile, by the mouth of the Nile. And all that is sown in the Nile, Shall be dry, driven away, and not be!

rotherham@Isaiah:19:8 @ Then shall the fishers, lament, And all shall mourn who cast in the Nile a hook, And they who spread nets on the face of the waters shall languish;

rotherham@Isaiah:19:9 @ Then shall turn pale The workers in combed flax, and The weavers of white linen;

rotherham@Isaiah:19:10 @ Then shall her pillars be crushed, All who make wages, be bowed down in soul.

rotherham@Isaiah:19:11 @ Surely, foolish, are the princes of Zoan, the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh, in counsel are brutish, How can ye say unto Pharaoh, Son of the wise, am I Son of the kings of olden time?

rotherham@Isaiah:19:12 @ Where then are thy wise men? Pray let them tell thee! And let them know what Yahweh of hosts hath purposed on Egypt!

rotherham@Isaiah:19:13 @ Doting are the princes of Zoan, Deceived are the princes of Noph: They who are the corner-stone of her tribes, have led Egypt astray.

rotherham@Isaiah:19:14 @ Yahweh, hath infused in her midst, a spirit of perverseness, And they have led Egypt astray into all his own doings, As a drunken man staggereth into his own vomit;

rotherham@Isaiah:19:15 @ And Egypt shall have nothing which can be don Which head or tail palm-top or rush, can do!

rotherham@Isaiah:19:16 @ In that day, shall Egypt be like unto women, And shall start and tremble because of the brandishing of the hand of Yahweh of hosts, which he is about to brandish over it.

rotherham@Isaiah:19:17 @ Then shall the soil of Judah become, to Egypt, a terror; Every one to whom it is mentioned, will tremble, Because of the purpose of Yahweh of hosts, which he is purposing against it.

rotherham@Isaiah:19:18 @ In that day, shall there be five cities in the land of Egypt Speaking the language of Canaan, And swearing unto Yahweh of hosts, The city of destruction, shall be the name of one!

rotherham@Isaiah:19:19 @ In that day, shall there be An altar unto Yahweh, in the midst of the land of Egypt, And a pillar near the boundary thereof unto Yahweh;

rotherham@Isaiah:19:20 @ And it shall become a sign and a witness unto Yahweh of hosts in the land of Egypt, For they will make outcry unto Yahweh, because of oppressors, That he would send them a saviourand a great one Then will he deliver them.

rotherham@Isaiah:19:21 @ Then will, Yahweh, make himself known, to the Egyptians, So shall the Egyptians know, Yahweh, in that day, And they will offer a sacrifice and a present And will vow a vow unto Yahweh and will perform.

rotherham@Isaiah:19:22 @ And Yahweh, will plague Egypt, plague and heal, And they will turn unto Yahweh And he will be entreated of them and will heal them.

rotherham@Isaiah:19:23 @ In that day, shall there be a highway. from Egypt to Assyria, And, the Assyrians, shall come into Egypt, And, the Egyptians, into Assyria; And, the Egyptians shall serve, with the Assyrians.

rotherham@Isaiah:19:24 @ In that day, shall, Israel, be, a third, with Egypt and with Assyria, A blessing in the midst of the earth:

rotherham@Isaiah:19:25 @ Whom Yahweh of hosts bath blessed saying, Blessed, be My peoplethe Egyptians, And the work of my handsthe Assyrians, And mine own inheritance Israel.

rotherham@Isaiah:20:1 @ In the year that Tartan entered Ashdod, when Sargon king of Assyria, sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and captured it,