rwbs - Isaiah:16-20

rwbs@Isaiah:16:1 @ Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, to the mount of the daughter of Zion. (note:)Sela: or, Petra: Hebrews. A rock(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:16:2 @ For it shall be,, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon. (note:)cast…: or, a nest forsaken(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:16:3 @ Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; discover not him that wandereth. (note:)Take: Hebrews. Bring(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:16:4 @ Let my outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land. (note:)extortioner: Hebrews. wringer(:note)the oppressors: Heb. the treaders down

rwbs@Isaiah:16:5 @ And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and swiftly executing righteousness. (note:)established: or, prepared(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:16:6 @ We have heard of the pride of Moab; very proud: of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: his lies not so.

rwbs@Isaiah:16:7 @ Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely stricken. (note:)mourn: or, mutter(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:16:8 @ For the fields of Heshbon languish, the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down its principal plants, they have come to Jazer, they wandered the wilderness: her branches are extended, they have gone over the sea. (note:)stretched…: or, plucked up(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:16:9 @ Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen. (note:)the shouting…: or, the alarm is fallen upon, etc(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:16:10 @ And gladness is taken away, and joy from the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in presses; I have made shouting to cease.

rwbs@Isaiah:16:11 @ Therefore my heart shall sound like an harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kirharesh.

rwbs@Isaiah:16:12 @ And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.

rwbs@Isaiah:16:13 @ This the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.

rwbs@Isaiah:16:14 @ But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be despised, with all that great multitude; and the remnant very small feeble. (note:)feeble: or, not many(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:17:1 @ The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

rwbs@Isaiah:17:2 @ The cities of Aroer forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make afraid.

rwbs@Isaiah:17:3 @ The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.

rwbs@Isaiah:17:4 @ And in that day it shall come to pass, the glory of Jacob shall be diminished, and the fatness of his flesh shall become lean.

rwbs@Isaiah:17:5 @ And it shall be as when the reaper gathereth the grain, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

rwbs@Isaiah:17:6 @ Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four five in the outmost fruitful branches of it, saith the LORD God of Israel.

rwbs@Isaiah:17:7 @ At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

rwbs@Isaiah:17:8 @ And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images. (note:)images: or, sun images(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:17:9 @ In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

rwbs@Isaiah:17:10 @ Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:

rwbs@Isaiah:17:11 @ In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: the harvest a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. (note:)a heap…: or, removed in the day of inheritance, and there shall be deadly sorrow(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:17:12 @ Woe to the multitude of many people, make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! (note:)multitude: or, noise(:note)mighty: or, many

rwbs@Isaiah:17:13 @ The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. (note:)a rolling…: or, thistledown(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:17:14 @ And behold at the time of evening trouble; before the morning he not. This the portion of them that plunder us, and the lot of them that rob us.

rwbs@Isaiah:18:1 @ Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which beyond the rivers of Cush:

rwbs@Isaiah:18:2 @ That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters,, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and stripped, to a people terrible from their beginning to this time; a nation powerful and oppressive, whose land the rivers have spoiled! (note:)scattered…: or, outspread and polished(:note)meted…: or, that meteth out and treadeth down: Hebrews. of line, line, and treading under foothave…: or, despise

rwbs@Isaiah:18:3 @ All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.

rwbs@Isaiah:18:4 @ For so the LORD said to me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. (note:)consider…: or, regard my set dwelling(:note)upon…: or, after rain

rwbs@Isaiah:18:5 @ For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away cut down the branches.

rwbs@Isaiah:18:6 @ They shall be left together to the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

rwbs@Isaiah:18:7 @ In that time shall the present be brought to the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and stripped, and from a people terrible from their beginning to this time; a nation powerful and oppressive, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion. (note:)scattered…: or, outspread and polished(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:19:1 @ The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

rwbs@Isaiah:19:2 @ And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, kingdom against kingdom. (note:)set: Hebrews. mingle(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:19:3 @ And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of her; and I will destroy its counsel: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to the mediums, and to the wizards. (note:)fail: Hebrews. be emptied(:note)destroy: Heb. swallow up

rwbs@Isaiah:19:4 @ And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts. (note:)give…: or, shut up(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:19:5 @ And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the rivers shall be wasted and dried up.

rwbs@Isaiah:19:6 @ And they shall turn the rivers far away; the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

rwbs@Isaiah:19:7 @ The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no. (note:)and be…: Hebrews. and shall not be(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:19:8 @ The fishermen also shall mourn, and all they that cast a line into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

rwbs@Isaiah:19:9 @ Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave fine cloths, shall be confounded. (note:)networks: or, white works(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:19:10 @ And they shall be broken in its purposes, all that make sluices ponds for fish. (note:)purposes: Hebrews. foundations(:note)for fish: Heb. of living things

rwbs@Isaiah:19:11 @ Surely the princes of Zoan fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become stupid: how say ye to Pharaoh, I the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

rwbs@Isaiah:19:12 @ Where they? where thy wise? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.

rwbs@Isaiah:19:13 @ The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, the support of its tribes. (note:)they that…: or, governors: Hebrews. corners(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:19:14 @ The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst of it: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work of it, as a drunken staggereth in his vomit. (note:)a perverse…: Hebrews. a spirit of perversities(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:19:15 @ Neither shall there be work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may perform.

rwbs@Isaiah:19:16 @ In that day shall Egypt be like women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.

rwbs@Isaiah:19:17 @ And the land of Judah shall be a terror to Egypt, every one that maketh mention of it shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.

rwbs@Isaiah:19:18 @ In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction. (note:)the language: Hebrews. the lip(:note)of destruction: or, of Heres, or, of the sun

rwbs@Isaiah:19:19 @ In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at its border to the LORD.

rwbs@Isaiah:19:20 @ And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry to the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.

rwbs@Isaiah:19:21 @ And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall offer sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow to the LORD, and perform.

rwbs@Isaiah:19:22 @ And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal: and they shall return to the LORD, and he shall be entreated by them, and shall heal them.

rwbs@Isaiah:19:23 @ In that day shall there be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.

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

rwbs@Isaiah:19:25 @ Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.

rwbs@Isaiah:20:1 @ In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;

rwbs@Isaiah:20:2 @ At the same time spoke the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. (note:)by: Hebrews. by the hand of(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:20:3 @ And the LORD said, As my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Cush;

rwbs@Isaiah:20:4 @ So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Cushites captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with hind parts uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. (note:)the Egyptians…: Hebrews. the captivity of Egypt(:note)shame: Heb. nakedness

rwbs@Isaiah:20:5 @ And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Cush their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

rwbs@Isaiah:20:6 @ And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape? (note:)isle: or, country(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:21:1 @ The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.