rwbs - Isaiah:25-28

rwbs@Isaiah:25:1 @ O LORD, thou my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful counsels of old faithfulness truth.

rwbs@Isaiah:25:2 @ For thou hast made of a city an heap; a fortified city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

rwbs@Isaiah:25:3 @ Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.

rwbs@Isaiah:25:4 @ For thou hast been a defence to the poor, a defence to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones as a storm the wall.

rwbs@Isaiah:25:5 @ Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

rwbs@Isaiah:25:6 @ And on this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make to all people a feast of rich things, a feast of wines on the lees, of rich things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.

rwbs@Isaiah:25:7 @ And he will destroy on this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations. (note:)destroy: Hebrews. swallow up(:note)cast: Heb. covered

rwbs@Isaiah:25:8 @ He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he remove from all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken.

rwbs@Isaiah:25:9 @ And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

rwbs@Isaiah:25:10 @ For on this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. (note:)trodden down under: or, threshed, etc(:note)trodden down for…: or, threshed in Madmenah

rwbs@Isaiah:25:11 @ And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

rwbs@Isaiah:25:12 @ And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, bring to the ground, to the dust.

rwbs@Isaiah:26:1 @ In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will appoint walls and bulwarks.

rwbs@Isaiah:26:2 @ Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. (note:)truth: Hebrews. truths(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:26:3 @ Thou wilt keep in perfect peace, mind stayed: because he trusteth in thee. (note:)perfect…: Hebrews. peace, peace(:note)mind: or, thought, or, imagination

rwbs@Isaiah:26:4 @ Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH everlasting strength: (note:)everlasting…: Hebrews. the rock of ages(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:26:5 @ For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, to the ground; he bringeth it to the dust.

rwbs@Isaiah:26:6 @ The foot shall tread it down, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.

rwbs@Isaiah:26:7 @ The way of the just uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.

rwbs@Isaiah:26:8 @ Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of soul to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

rwbs@Isaiah:26:9 @ With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

rwbs@Isaiah:26:10 @ Let favour be shown to the wicked, he will not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.

rwbs@Isaiah:26:11 @ LORD, thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: they shall see, and be ashamed for envy at the people; yea, the fire of thy enemies shall devour them. (note:)at…: or, toward thy people(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:26:12 @ LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us. (note:)in us: or, for us(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:26:13 @ O LORD our God, lords beside thee have had dominion over us: by thee only will we make mention of thy name.

rwbs@Isaiah:26:14 @ dead, they shall not live; deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

rwbs@Isaiah:26:15 @ Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed far all the ends of the earth.

rwbs@Isaiah:26:16 @ LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer thy chastening upon them. (note:)prayer: Hebrews. secret speech(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:26:17 @ As a woman with child, draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.

rwbs@Isaiah:26:18 @ We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance on the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

rwbs@Isaiah:26:19 @ Thy dead shall live, my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

rwbs@Isaiah:26:20 @ Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation shall be past.

rwbs@Isaiah:26:21 @ For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. (note:)blood: Hebrews. bloods(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:27:1 @ In that day the LORD with his fierce and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that in the sea. (note:)piercing: or, crossing like a bar(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:27:2 @ In that day sing ye to her, A vineyard of red wine.

rwbs@Isaiah:27:3 @ I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

rwbs@Isaiah:27:4 @ Fury not in me: who would set the briers thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together. (note:)go…: or, march against(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:27:5 @ Or let him take hold of my strength, he may make peace with me; he shall make peace with me.

rwbs@Isaiah:27:6 @ He shall cause them that descend from Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

rwbs@Isaiah:27:7 @ Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him? (note:)as…: Hebrews. according to the stroke of(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:27:8 @ In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. (note:)it shooteth…: or, thou sendest it forth(:note)he…: or, when he removeth it with

rwbs@Isaiah:27:9 @ By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten asunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. (note:)images: or, sun images(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:27:10 @ Yet the fortified city desolate, the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume its branches.

rwbs@Isaiah:27:11 @ When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, set them on fire: for it a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favour.

rwbs@Isaiah:27:12 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, the LORD shall gather from the channel of the river to the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

rwbs@Isaiah:27:13 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD on the holy mount at Jerusalem.

rwbs@Isaiah:28:1 @ Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty a fading flower, who on the head of the rich valleys of them that are overcome with wine! (note:)overcome: Hebrews. broken(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:28:2 @ Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, as a tempest of hail a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

rwbs@Isaiah:28:3 @ The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet: (note:)under…: Hebrews. with feet(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:28:4 @ And the glorious beauty, which on the head of the rich valley, shall be a fading flower, as the early fruit before the summer; which he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up. (note:)eateth: Hebrews. swalloweth(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:28:5 @ In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people,

rwbs@Isaiah:28:6 @ And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

rwbs@Isaiah:28:7 @ But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are overwhelmed with wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble judgment.

rwbs@Isaiah:28:8 @ For all tables are full of vomit filthiness, no place.

rwbs@Isaiah:28:9 @ Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? weaned from the milk, drawn from the breasts. (note:)doctrine: Hebrews. the hearing?(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:28:10 @ For precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little: (note:)must be: or, hath been(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:28:11 @ For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. (note:)stammering…: Hebrews. stammerings of lip(:note)will…: or, he hath spoken

rwbs@Isaiah:28:12 @ To whom he said, This the rest ye may cause the weary to rest; and this the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

rwbs@Isaiah:28:13 @ But the word of the LORD was to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

rwbs@Isaiah:28:14 @ Therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people who in Jerusalem.

rwbs@Isaiah:28:15 @ Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we in agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not reach us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

rwbs@Isaiah:28:16 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

rwbs@Isaiah:28:17 @ Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

rwbs@Isaiah:28:18 @ And your covenant with death shall be broken, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. (note:)trodden…: Hebrews. a treading down to it(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:28:19 @ From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only understand the report. (note:)to…: or, when he shall make you to understand doctrine(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:28:20 @ For the bed is shorter than that can stretch himself: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself.

rwbs@Isaiah:28:21 @ For the LORD shall rise as mount Perazim, he shall be angry as the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

rwbs@Isaiah:28:22 @ Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a destruction, even determined upon the whole earth.

rwbs@Isaiah:28:23 @ Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

rwbs@Isaiah:28:24 @ Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

rwbs@Isaiah:28:25 @ When he hath made even the face of it, doth he not cast abroad the black cummin, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the wheat in rows and the appointed barley and the rye in their place? (note:)the principal…: or, the wheat in the principal place, and barley in the appointed place(:note)rie: or, speltplace: Hebrews. border?

rwbs@Isaiah:28:26 @ For his God doth instruct him to discretion, doth teach him. (note:)For…: or, And he bindeth it in such sort as his God doth teach him(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:28:27 @ For the black cummin are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the black cummin are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

rwbs@Isaiah:28:28 @ Bread is ground; because he will not always be threshing it, nor break the wheel of his cart, nor grind it his horsemen.

rwbs@Isaiah:28:29 @ This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, is wonderful in counsel, excellent in wisdom.

rwbs@Isaiah:29:1 @ Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices. (note:)Woe…: or, O Ariel, that is, the lion of God(:note)the city: or, of the citykill: Hebrews. cut off the heads of