Isaiah:26-29

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* In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah ; We have a strong city ; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks . * Open ye the gates , that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in . * Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace , whose mind is stayed on thee : because he trusteth in thee . * Trust ye in the LORD for ever : for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength : * For he bringeth down them that dwell on high ; the lofty city , he layeth it low ; he layeth it low , even to the ground ; he bringeth it even to the dust . * The foot shall tread it down , even the feet of the poor , and the steps of the needy . * The way of the just is uprightness : thou , most upright , dost weigh the path of the just . * Yea , in the way of thy judgments , O LORD , have we waited for thee ; the desire of our soul is to thy name , and to the remembrance of thee . * 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 are in the earth , the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness . * Let favour be shewed to the wicked , yet will he not learn righteousness : in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly , and will not behold the majesty of the LORD . * LORD , when thy hand is lifted up , they will not see : but they shall see , and be ashamed for their envy at the people ; yea , the fire of thine enemies shall devour them . * LORD , thou wilt ordain peace for us : for thou also hast wrought all our works in us . * O LORD our God , other lords beside thee have had dominion over us : but by thee only will we make mention of thy name . * They are dead , they shall not live ; they are deceased , they shall not rise : therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them , and made all their memory to perish . * Thou hast increased the nation , O LORD , thou hast increased the nation : thou art glorified : thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth . * LORD , in trouble have they visited thee , they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them . * Like as a woman with child , that draweth near the time of her delivery , is in pain , and crieth out in her pangs ; so have we been in thy sight , O LORD . * We have been with child , we have been in pain , we have as it were brought forth wind ; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth ; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen . * Thy dead men shall live , together with my dead body shall they arise . Awake and sing , ye that dwell in dust : for thy dew is as the dew of herbs , and the earth shall cast out the dead . * 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 be overpast . * 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 . * In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent , even leviathan that crooked serpent ; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea . * In that day sing ye unto her , A vineyard of red wine . * I the LORD do keep it ; I will water it every moment : lest any hurt it , I will keep it night and day . * Fury is not in me : who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle ? I would go through them , I would burn them together . * Or let him take hold of my strength , that he may make peace with me ; and he shall make peace with me . * He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root : Israel shall blossom and bud , and fill the face of the world with fruit . * Hath he smitten him , as he smote those that smote him ? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him ? * In measure , when it shooteth forth , thou wilt debate with it : he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind . * By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged ; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin ; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder , the groves and images shall not stand up . * Yet the defenced city shall be desolate , and the habitation forsaken , and left like a wilderness : there shall the calf feed , and there shall he lie down , and consume the branches thereof . * When the boughs thereof are withered , they shall be broken off : the women come , and set them on fire : for it is a people of no understanding : therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them , and he that formed them will shew them no favour . * And it shall come to pass in that day , that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt , and ye shall be gathered one by one , O ye children of Israel . * And it shall come to pass in that day , that the great trumpet shall be blown , and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria , and the outcasts in the land of Egypt , and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem . * Woe to the crown of pride , to the drunkards of Ephraim , whose glorious beauty is a fading flower , which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine ! * Behold , the Lord hath a mighty and strong one , which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm , as a flood of mighty waters overflowing , shall cast down to the earth with the hand . * The crown of pride , the drunkards of Ephraim , shall be trodden under feet : * And the glorious beauty , which is on the head of the fat valley , shall be a fading flower , and as the hasty fruit before the summer ; which when he that looketh upon it seeth , while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up . * In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory , and for a diadem of beauty , unto the residue of his people , * And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment , and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate . * 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 swallowed up of wine , they are out of the way through strong drink ; they err in vision , they stumble in judgment . * For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness , so that there is no place clean . * Whom shall he teach knowledge ? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine ? them that are weaned from the milk , and drawn from the breasts . * For precept must be upon precept , precept upon precept ; line upon line , line upon line ; here a little , and there a little : * For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people . * To whom he said , This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest ; and this is the refreshing : yet they would not hear . * But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept , precept upon precept ; line upon line , line upon line ; here a little , and there a little ; that they might go , and fall backward , and be broken , and snared , and taken . * Wherefore hear the word of the LORD , ye scornful men , that rule this people which is in Jerusalem . * Because ye have said , We have made a covenant with death , and with hell are we at agreement ; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through , it shall not come unto us : for we have made lies our refuge , and under falsehood have we hid ourselves : * Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD , Behold , I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone , a tried stone , a precious corner stone , a sure foundation : he that believeth shall not make haste . * 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 . * And your covenant with death shall be disannulled , and your agreement with hell shall not stand ; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through , then ye shall be trodden down by it . * 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 to understand the report . * For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it : and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it . * For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim , he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon , that he may do his work , his strange work ; and bring to pass his act , his strange act . * Now therefore be ye not mockers , lest your bands be made strong : for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption , even determined upon the whole earth . * Give ye ear , and hear my voice ; hearken , and hear my speech . * Doth the plowman plow all day to sow ? doth he open and break the clods of his ground ? * When he hath made plain the face thereof , doth he not cast abroad the fitches , and scatter the cummin , and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place ? * For his God doth instruct him to discretion , and doth teach him . * For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument , neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin ; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff , and the cummin with a rod . * Bread corn is bruised ; because he will not ever be threshing it , nor break it with the wheel of his cart , nor bruise it with his horsemen . * This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts , which is wonderful in counsel , and excellent in working . * Woe to Ariel , to Ariel , the city where David dwelt ! add ye year to year ; let them kill sacrifices . * Yet I will distress Ariel , and there shall be heaviness and sorrow : and it shall be unto me as Ariel . * And I will camp against thee round about , and will lay siege against thee with a mount , and I will raise forts against thee . * And thou shalt be brought down , and shalt speak out of the ground , and thy speech shall be low out of the dust , and thy voice shall be , as of one that hath a familiar spirit , out of the ground , and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust . * Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust , and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away : yea , it shall be at an instant suddenly . * Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder , and with earthquake , and great noise , with storm and tempest , and the flame of devouring fire . * And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel , even all that fight against her and her munition , and that distress her , shall be as a dream of a night vision . * It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth , and , behold , he eateth ; but he awaketh , and his soul is empty : or as when a thirsty man dreameth , and , behold , he drinketh ; but he awaketh , and , behold , he is faint , and his soul hath appetite : so shall the multitude of all the nations be , that fight against mount Zion . * Stay yourselves , and wonder ; cry ye out , and cry : they are drunken , but not with wine ; they stagger , but not with strong drink . * For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep , and hath closed your eyes : the prophets and your rulers , the seers hath he covered . * And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed , which men deliver to one that is learned , saying , Read this , I pray thee : and he saith , I cannot ; for it is sealed : * And the book is delivered to him that is not learned , saying , Read this , I pray thee : and he saith , I am not learned . * Wherefore the Lord said , Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth , and with their lips do honour me , but have removed their heart far from me , and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men : * Therefore , behold , I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people , even a marvellous work and a wonder : for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish , and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid . * Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD , and their works are in the dark , and they say , Who seeth us ? and who knoweth us ? * Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter 's clay : for shall the work say of him that made it , He made me not ? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it , He had no understanding ? * Is it not yet a very little while , and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field , and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest ? * And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book , and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity , and out of darkness . * The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD , and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel . * For the terrible one is brought to nought , and the scorner is consumed , and all that watch for iniquity are cut off : * That make a man an offender for a word , and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate , and turn aside the just for a thing of nought . * Therefore thus saith the LORD , who redeemed Abraham , concerning the house of Jacob , Jacob shall not now be ashamed , neither shall his face now wax pale . * But when he seeth his children , the work of mine hands , in the midst of him , they shall sanctify my name , and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob , and shall fear the God of Israel . * They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding , and they that murmured shall learn doctrine . * Woe to the rebellious children , saith the LORD , that take counsel , but not of me ; and that cover with a covering , but not of my spirit , that they may add sin to sin :

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