lesserot - Isaiah:28-30

lesserot@Isaiah:28:1 @ Woe to the crown of pride, of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious ornament, which is on the eminence of the fat valley of those who are struck down by wine!

lesserot@Isaiah:28:2 @ Behold, mighty and strong from the Lord, as a tempest of hail, a storm of destruction; as a tempest of mighty overflowing waters, will he cast it down to the earth with force.

lesserot@Isaiah:28:3 @ Under feet shall be trodden the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim:

lesserot@Isaiah:28:4 @ And the fading flower of his glorious ornament, which is on the eminence of the fat valley, shall be as its early ripe fruit before the summer; which one, when he just seeth it, while it is scarcely in his hand, hastily devoureth.

lesserot@Isaiah:28:5 @ On that day will the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,

lesserot@Isaiah:28:6 @ And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to those that drive back the battle to the gate.

lesserot@Isaiah:28:7 @ But these also are now stumbling through wine, and reeling through strong drink: priest and prophet are stumbling through strong drink, they are overpowered with wine, they reel through strong drink; they stumble in vision, they are unsteady in giving judgment.

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

lesserot@Isaiah:28:9 @ Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he give to understand doctrine? those that are weaned from the milk, those that are taken from the breasts.

lesserot@Isaiah:28:10 @ For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.

lesserot@Isaiah:28:11 @ For with stammering lips and a foreign tongue will he speak to this people;

lesserot@Isaiah:28:12 @ When he said unto them, This is the rest, cause ye the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing; but they would not hear.

lesserot@Isaiah:28:13 @ Therefore shall be unto them the word of the Lord, precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; in order that they may go, and stumble backward, and be broken, and snared, and caught.

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

lesserot@Isaiah:28:15 @ Because ye have said, "We have entered into a covenant with death, and with the nether world have we made an agreement; the overflowing scourge, when it passeth by, shall not come at us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we sought a hidingplace."

lesserot@Isaiah:28:16 @ Therefore thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Behold, I have laid in Zion as a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a costly cornerstone, well founded: he that believeth will not make haste.

lesserot@Isaiah:28:17 @ And I will make of justice a measuring line, and of righteousness a plummet: and the hail shall sweep off the refuge of lies, and the hidingplace against the waters shall these flood away.

lesserot@Isaiah:28:18 @ And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with the nether world shall not have permanence; the overflowing scourge, when it passeth bythen shall ye be trodden down by it.

lesserot@Isaiah:28:19 @ As often as it passeth by shall it take you; for morning by morning shall it pass by, by day and by night; and the mere understanding of the report shall cause terror.

lesserot@Isaiah:28:20 @ For the bed shall be too short for to stretch himself out: and the covering too narrow to wrap himself in.

lesserot@Isaiah:28:21 @ For as on mount Perazim will the Lord rise up, as in the valley of Gibon will he be wroth, that he may do his work, his singular work; and to accomplish his labor, his strange labor.

lesserot@Isaiah:28:22 @ And now be ye no longer scornful, lest your bonds be made strong; for as completed and fully decreed have I heard it from the Lord Eternal of hosts over all the earth.

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

lesserot@Isaiah:28:24 @ Doth the ploughman plough all the time to sow? doth he open and harrow his ground?

lesserot@Isaiah:28:25 @ Is it not so? that, when he hath made level its surface he scattereth fennel, and streweth about cumin, and planteth the wheat in rows, and barley on its assigned, and millet on its proper spot?

lesserot@Isaiah:28:26 @ For his God instructed him rightly, taught him.

lesserot@Isaiah:28:27 @ Truly not with a threshing instrument is fennel threshed, and a wagonwheel is not turned about upon cumin; but fennel is beaten out with a staff, and cumin with a stick.

lesserot@Isaiah:28:28 @ Breadcorn is crushed; but not for ever doth keep threshing it; and though he drive over it the wheel of his wagon and his horses, he will not crush it.

lesserot@Isaiah:28:29 @ This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts; wonderful is he in counsel, and excellent in wise deeds.

lesserot@Isaiah:29:1 @ Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the town where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let the festivals come round in order;

lesserot@Isaiah:29:2 @ Yet will I distress Ariel, and there shall be groaning and wailing: and it shall be unto me like Ariel.

lesserot@Isaiah:29:3 @ And I will encamp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with hostile posts, and I will raise up entrenchments against thee.

lesserot@Isaiah:29:4 @ And brought down low, shalt thou speak out of the earth, and out of the dust shall come forth thy speech; and like one of a familiar spirit out of the earth shall be thy voice, and out of the dust shalt thou whisper forth thy speech.

lesserot@Isaiah:29:5 @ And like the small dust shall be the multitude of thy barbarian enemies, and like the passing chaff the multitude of tyrants; and shall be at unawares, suddenly.

lesserot@Isaiah:29:6 @ From the Lord of hosts shall the visitation come with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the devouring flame of fire.

lesserot@Isaiah:29:7 @ And as a dream of a nightvision shall be the multitude of all the nations that go to war against Ariel, even all that fight against her and raise towers against her, and that distress her.

lesserot@Isaiah:29:8 @ And it shall even be as when a hungry man dreameth, that, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty; or as when a thirsty man dreameth, that, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul yet longeth: so shall it be with the multitude of all the nations, that go to war against mount Zion.

lesserot@Isaiah:29:9 @ Stay but still and wonder; turn your eyes away, and be blinded; they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

lesserot@Isaiah:29:10 @ For the Lord hath poured out over you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets, and your chiefs, the seers, hath he cast a vail.

lesserot@Isaiah:29:11 @ And the vision of every thing is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that can read, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:

lesserot@Isaiah:29:12 @ And the book is then delivered to one that cannot read, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot read.

lesserot@Isaiah:29:13 @ And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is but the acquired precept of men;

lesserot@Isaiah:29:14 @ Therefore, behold, I will do yet farther a marvelous work with this people, doing wonder on wonder; so that the wisdom of their wise men shall be lost, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.

lesserot@Isaiah:29:15 @ Woe unto those that seek to hide deeply their counsel from the Lord, so that their works may be in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

lesserot@Isaiah:29:16 @ Oh your perverseness! shall the potter be esteemed as the clay? that the work shall say of its maker, He hath not made me? or shall the thing framed say of its framer, He had no understanding?

lesserot@Isaiah:29:17 @ Lo! but yet a very little while more, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest!

lesserot@Isaiah:29:18 @ And on that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and out of obscurity, and out of darkness, shall the eyes of the blind see.

lesserot@Isaiah:29:19 @ And the sufferers shall have abundant joy in the Lord, and the needy among men shall be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

lesserot@Isaiah:29:20 @ For the tyrant is no more, and consumed is the scorner, and cut off are all that watch for injustice;

lesserot@Isaiah:29:21 @ That cause mankind to sin by word; and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate; and pervert through fraud the cause of the just.

lesserot@Isaiah:29:22 @ Therefore thus hath said the Lord unto the house of Jacob, he who hath redeemed Abraham, Not now shall Jacob be ashamed, and not now shall his face be made pale.

lesserot@Isaiah:29:23 @ For when he seeth his children, the work of my hands in the midst of him, how they sanctify my name: then will they sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and the God of Israel will they reverence.

lesserot@Isaiah:29:24 @ They also that were erring in spirit shall acquire understanding, and they that murmured shall obtain instruction.

lesserot@Isaiah:30:1 @ Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not from me; and that set themselves a ruler, but not by my spirit, in order that they may add sin to sin:

lesserot@Isaiah:30:2 @ That travel to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my will; to strengthen themselves through the strength of Pharaoh, and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!

lesserot@Isaiah:30:3 @ Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh become your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt your disgrace.

lesserot@Isaiah:30:4 @ For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors had reached Chanes.

lesserot@Isaiah:30:5 @ They all are ashamed because of a people that cannot profit them, neither be a help nor give profit; but shame, and also a reproach.

lesserot@Isaiah:30:6 @ The doom of the beasts of the south: Through the land of trouble and anguish, whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and flying dragons, they will carry upon the shoulders of young asses their riches, and upon the humps of camels their treasures, to a people that cannot profit.

lesserot@Isaiah:30:7 @ And the Egyptians will help in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called this, Boasters they are in sitting still.

lesserot@Isaiah:30:8 @ Now go, write it before them on a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the latest time to come, for ever, and to eternity:

lesserot@Isaiah:30:9 @ For this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord:

lesserot@Isaiah:30:10 @ Who have said to the seers, Ye shall not see; and to the prophets, Reveal not unto us true things, speak unto us smooth things, reveal deceits;

lesserot@Isaiah:30:11 @ Depart you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, remove from before us the Holy One of Israel.

lesserot@Isaiah:30:12 @ Therefore thus hath said the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and lean thereon for aid:

lesserot@Isaiah:30:13 @ Therefore shall this iniquity be to you as a threatening breach, swelling out in a hightowering wall, the fall of which will come unawares, suddenly.

lesserot@Isaiah:30:14 @ And he will break it, as one breaketh a potters vessel, dashing it in pieces without sparing it; so that there cannot be found among its fragments a sherd to rake fire from a hearth and to draw water from a pit.

lesserot@Isaiah:30:15 @ For thus hath said the Lord Eternal, the Holy One of Israel, In repose and rest shall ye be helped; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength; and ye would not.

lesserot@Isaiah:30:16 @ And ye said, "No; for upon horses will we flee;" therefore shall ye flee: and, "Upon swift beasts will we ride;" therefore shall your pursuers be swift.

lesserot@Isaiah:30:17 @ One thousand at the threatening of one; at the threatening of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a pole upon a mountaintop, and as an ensign on a hill.

lesserot@Isaiah:30:18 @ And therefore will the Lord wait, to be gracious unto you, and therefore will he exalt himself, to have mercy upon you; for a God of justice is the Lord: happy are all those that wait for him.

lesserot@Isaiah:30:19 @ For O people of Zion that shall dwell at Jerusalem! thou shalt indeed not weep: he will be surely gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; so soon as he heareth it, he answereth thee.

lesserot@Isaiah:30:20 @ And the Lord will give you bread adversity, and water oppression; and thy teachers shall not have to hide themselves in a corner any more, but thy eyes shall see thy teachers:

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

lesserot@Isaiah:30:22 @ And ye will regard as unclean the covering of thy graven idols of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou wilt cast them away as a filthy thing; "Get thee hence," wilt thou say unto them.

lesserot@Isaiah:30:23 @ Then will he give the rain for thy seed, that thou mayest sow in the ground; and breadthe produce of the groundthis shall be fat and nutritious: thy cattle shall feed on that day in extensive pastures.

lesserot@Isaiah:30:24 @ The oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat salted provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

lesserot@Isaiah:30:25 @ And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every prominent hill, rivulets, streams of waters on the day of the great slaughter, when towers fall.

lesserot@Isaiah:30:26 @ And 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 the seven days, on the day that the Lord bindeth up the broken of his people, and healeth the bruise of their wound.

lesserot@Isaiah:30:27 @ Behold, the name of the Lord cometh from afar, burning is his anger, and heavy the smoke; his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is like a devouring fire;

lesserot@Isaiah:30:28 @ And his breath, like an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to toss the nations with the van of falsehood: and a deceiving bridle on the jaws of the people.

lesserot@Isaiah:30:29 @ shall ye have a song, as in the night when a festival is ushered in, and joy of heart, as when one goeth with the flute to come unto the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.

lesserot@Isaiah:30:30 @ And the Lord will cause his majestic voice to be heard, and will show the stretching down of his arm, in the indignation of anger, and in the flame of a devouring fire, in flood, and tempest, and stones of hail.

lesserot@Isaiah:30:31 @ For because of the voice of the Lord shall be terrified Asshur, that smote with the rod.

lesserot@Isaiah:30:32 @ And at every passage of the appointed staff which the Lord will let fall on him, there shall be on tambourine and harp; and in the tumult of battles will he fight with them.

lesserot@Isaiah:30:33 @ For already of old is Topheth made ready; also this is prepared for the kingdeep and wide; its pile hath fire and wood in plenty, the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, will kindle it into a flame.

lesserot@Isaiah:31:1 @ Woe to those that go down to Egypt for help; and depend for support on horses, and trust on chariots, because they are many; and on horsemen, because they are very strong; but who turn not unto the Holy One of Israel, and seek not the Lord!