rwbs - Isaiah:26-30

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

rwbs@Isaiah:29:2 @ Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be to me as Ariel.

rwbs@Isaiah:29:3 @ And I will encamp against thee all around, and will lay siege against thee with a mound, and I will raise forts against thee.

rwbs@Isaiah:29:4 @ And thou shalt be brought down, shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, like a medium, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust. (note:)whisper: Hebrews. peep, or, chirp(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:29:5 @ Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

rwbs@Isaiah:29:6 @ Thou shalt be visited by the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

rwbs@Isaiah:29:7 @ And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her strong hold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.

rwbs@Isaiah:29:8 @ It shall even be as when an hungry 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, faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.

rwbs@Isaiah:29:9 @ Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunk, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. (note:)cry ye…: or, take your pleasure, and riot(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:29:10 @ 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. (note:)rulers: Hebrews. heads(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:29:11 @ And the vision of all is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it sealed: (note:)book: or, letter(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:29:12 @ And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

rwbs@Isaiah:29:13 @ Therefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near 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:

rwbs@Isaiah:29:14 @ Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent shall be hid. (note:)proceed: Hebrews. add(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:29:15 @ Woe to 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?

rwbs@Isaiah:29:16 @ 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 formed say of him that formed it, He had no understanding?

rwbs@Isaiah:29:17 @ 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?

rwbs@Isaiah:29:18 @ 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.

rwbs@Isaiah:29:19 @ The meek also shall increase joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. (note:)increase: Hebrews. add(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:29:20 @ For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the mocker is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:

rwbs@Isaiah:29:21 @ 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.

rwbs@Isaiah:29:22 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now become pale.

rwbs@Isaiah:29:23 @ But when he seeth his children, the work of my 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.

rwbs@Isaiah:29:24 @ They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine. (note:)come…: Hebrews. know understanding(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:30:1 @ Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not from me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

rwbs@Isaiah:30:2 @ That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

rwbs@Isaiah:30:3 @ Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt confusion.

rwbs@Isaiah:30:4 @ For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

rwbs@Isaiah:30:5 @ They were all ashamed of a people could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

rwbs@Isaiah:30:6 @ The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from which the young and the old lion, the viper and flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people shall not profit.

rwbs@Isaiah:30:7 @ For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength to sit still. (note:)concerning…: or, to her(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:30:8 @ Now go, write it before them in a tablet, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: (note:)the…: Hebrews. the latter day(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:30:9 @ That this a rebellious people, lying children, children will not hear the law of the LORD:

rwbs@Isaiah:30:10 @ Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

rwbs@Isaiah:30:11 @ Withdraw from the way, turn aside from the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

rwbs@Isaiah:30:12 @ Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and relied on them: (note:)oppression: or, fraud(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:30:13 @ Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

rwbs@Isaiah:30:14 @ And he shall break it as the breaking of the potter’s vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a piece to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the pit. (note:)the potters’…: Hebrews. the bottle of potters(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:30:15 @ For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

rwbs@Isaiah:30:16 @ But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

rwbs@Isaiah:30:17 @ One thousand at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill. (note:)a beacon: or, a tree bereft of branches, or, boughs: or, a mast(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:30:18 @ And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious to you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD a God of judgment: blessed all they that wait for him.

rwbs@Isaiah:30:19 @ For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious to thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.

rwbs@Isaiah:30:20 @ And the Lord shall give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thy eyes shall see thy teachers: (note:)affliction: or, oppression(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:30:21 @ And thy ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

rwbs@Isaiah:30:22 @ Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a polluted cloth; thou shalt say to it, Be gone from me. (note:)thy graven…: Hebrews. the graven images of thy silver(:note)cast: Heb. scatter

rwbs@Isaiah:30:23 @ Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, with which thou shalt sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.

rwbs@Isaiah:30:24 @ The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that plow the ground shall eat cured fodder, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. (note:)clean: or, savoury: Hebrews. leavened(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:30:25 @ And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. (note:)high hill: Hebrews. lifted up, etc(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:30:26 @ Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

rwbs@Isaiah:30:27 @ Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning his anger, and the burden heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire: (note:)burden…: or, grievousness of flame(:note)heavy: Hebrews. heaviness

rwbs@Isaiah:30:28 @ And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing to err.

rwbs@Isaiah:30:29 @ Ye shall have a song, as in the night a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come upon the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel. (note:)mighty…: Hebrews. Rock(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:30:30 @ And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, scattering, and tempest, and hailstones. (note:)his glorious…: Hebrews. the glory of his voice(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:30:31 @ For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, smote with a rod.

rwbs@Isaiah:30:32 @ And every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it. (note:)in every…: Hebrews. every passing of the rod founded(:note)lay…: Heb. cause to rest uponwith it: or, against them

rwbs@Isaiah:30:33 @ For Tophet ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made deep large: the pile of it fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it. (note:)of old: Hebrews. from yesterday(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:31:1 @ Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and rely on horses, and trust in chariots, because many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not to the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!