Isaiah:3:16-4
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Moreover the LORD saith ,
Because the daughters of Zion are haughty ,
and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes ,
walking and mincing as they go ,
and making a tinkling with their feet :
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Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion ,
and the LORD will discover their secret parts .
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In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet ,
and their cauls ,
and their round tires like the moon ,
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The chains ,
and the bracelets ,
and the mufflers ra #
alah #,
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The bonnets p @#
er #,
and the ornaments of the legs ts @#
adah #,
and the headbands ,
and the tablets nephesh #,
and the earrings ,
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The rings tabba #
ath #,
and nose jewels ,
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The changeable suits of apparel ,
and the mantles ma #
ataphah #,
and the wimples ,
and the crisping pins ,
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The glasses ,
and the fine linen ,
and the hoods ,
and the vails .
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And it shall come to pass ,
that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink ;
and instead of a girdle a rent ;
and instead of well set hair baldness ;
and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth ;
and burning instead of beauty .
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Thy men shall fall by the sword ,
and thy mighty in the war .
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And her gates shall lament and mourn ;
and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground .
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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 chatta #
ah #:
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That walk to go down into Egypt ,
and have not asked at my mouth ;
to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh Par #
oh #,
and to trust in the shadow of Egypt !
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Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame ,
and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion .
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For his princes were at Zoan Tso #
an #,
and his ambassadors came to Hanes .
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They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them ,
nor be an help nor profit ,
but a shame ,
and also a reproach .
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The burden of the beasts of the south :
into the land of trouble and anguish ,
from whence come the young and old lion ,
the viper #
eph #
eh #
and fiery #
flying serpent ,
they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses ,
and their treasures upon the bunches of camels ,
to a people that shall not profit them .
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For the Egyptians shall help in vain ,
and to no purpose :
therefore have I cried concerning this zo #
th #,
Their strength is to sit still .
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Now go ,
write it before them in a table ,
and note it in a book ,
that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever :
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That this is a rebellious people ,
lying children ,
children that will not hear the law of the LORD :
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Which say to the seers ,
See not ;
and to the prophets ,
Prophesy not unto us right things ,
speak unto us smooth things ,
prophesy deceits :
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Get you out of the way ,
turn aside out of the path ,
cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us .
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Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel Yisra #
el #,
Because ye despise this word ,
and trust in oppression and perverseness ,
and stay thereon :
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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 .
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And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters vessel that is broken in pieces ;
he shall not spare :
so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth ,
or to take water withal out of the pit .
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For thus saith the Lord GOD ,
the Holy One of Israel Yisra #
el #;
In returning and rest shall ye be saved ;
in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength :
and ye would not .
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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 .
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One thousand shall flee 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 gib #
ah #.
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And therefore will the LORD wait ,
that he may be gracious unto you ,
and therefore will he be exalted ,
that he may have mercy upon you :
for the LORD is a God of judgment :
blessed are all they that wait for him .
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For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem :
thou shalt weep no more :
he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry ;
when he shall hear it ,
he will answer thee .
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And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity ,
and the water of affliction ,
yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more ,
but thine eyes shall see thy teachers :
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And thine ears shall hear a 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 .
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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 menstruous cloth ;
thou shalt say unto it ,
Get thee hence .
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Then shall he give the rain of thy seed ,
that thou shalt sow the ground withal ;
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 .
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The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender ,
which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan .
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And there shall be upon every high mountain ,
and upon every high hill gib #
ah #,
rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter ,
when the towers fall .
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Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun ,
and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold shib #
athayim #,
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 .
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Behold ,
the name of the LORD cometh from far ,
burning with his anger ,
and the burden thereof is heavy :
his lips are full of indignation za #
am #,
and his tongue as a devouring fire :
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And his breath ,
as an overflowing stream ,
shall reach to the midst of the neck tsavva #
r #,
to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity :
and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people ,
causing them to err .
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Ye shall have a song ,
as in the night when a holy #
solemnity is kept ;
and gladness of heart ,
as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD ,
to the mighty One of Israel Yisra #
el #.
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And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard ,
and shall shew the lighting down of his arm ,
with the indignation of his anger ,
and with the flame of a devouring fire ,
with scattering ,
and tempest ,
and hailstones #
H1259 .
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For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down ,
which smote with a rod .
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And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass ma #
abar #,
which the LORD shall lay upon him ,
it shall be with tabrets and harps :
and in battles of shaking will he fight with it .
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For Tophet is ordained of old ;
yea ,
for the king it is prepared ;
he hath made it deep and large :
the pile thereof is fire and much wood ;
the breath of the LORD ,
like a stream of brimstone ,
doth kindle it .
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Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help ;
and stay on horses ,
and trust in chariots ,
because they are many ;
and in horsemen ,
because they are very strong ;
but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel Yisra #
el #,
neither seek the LORD !
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Yet he also is wise ,
and will bring evil ,
and will not call back his words :
but will arise against the house of the evildoers ,
and against the help of them that work iniquity .
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Now the Egyptians are men ,
and not God ;
and their horses flesh ,
and not spirit .
When the LORD shall stretch out his hand ,
both he that helpeth shall fall ,
and he that is holpen shall fall down ,
and they all shall fail together .
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For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me ,
Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey ,
when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him ,
he will not be afraid of their voice ,
nor abase himself for the noise of them :
so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion ,
and for the hill thereof .
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As birds flying ,
so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem ;
defending also he will deliver it ;
and passing over he will preserve it .
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Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted .
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For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver ,
and his idols of gold ,
which your own hands have made unto you for a sin .
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Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword ,
not of a mighty man ;
and the sword ,
not of a mean man ,
shall devour him :
but he shall flee from the sword ,
and his young men shall be discomfited .
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And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear ,
and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign ,
saith the LORD ,
whose fire is in Zion ,
and his furnace in Jerusalem .
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Behold ,
a king shall reign in righteousness ,
and princes shall rule in judgment .
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And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind ,
and a covert from the tempest ;
as rivers of water in a dry place ,
as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land .
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And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim ,
and the ears of them that hear shall hearken .
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The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge da #
ath #,
and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly .
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The vile person shall be no more called liberal ,
nor the churl said to be bountiful .
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For the vile person will speak villany ,
and his heart will work iniquity ,
to practise hypocrisy ,
and to utter error against the LORD ,
to make empty the soul of the hungry ra #
eb #,
and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail .
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The instruments also of the churl are evil :
he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor #
with lying words ,
even when the needy speaketh right .
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But the liberal deviseth liberal things ;
and by liberal things shall he stand .
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Rise up ,
ye women that are at ease sha #
anan #;
hear my voice ,
ye careless daughters ;
give ear unto my speech .
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Many days and years shall ye be troubled ,
ye careless women :
for the vintage shall fail ,
the gathering shall not come .
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Tremble ,
ye women that are at ease sha #
anan #;
be troubled ,
ye careless ones :
strip you ,
and make you bare ,
and gird sackcloth upon your loins .
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They shall lament for the teats ,
for the pleasant fields ,
for the fruitful vine .
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Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers ;
yea ,
upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city :
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Because the palaces shall be forsaken ;
the multitude of the city shall be left ;
the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever ,
a joy of wild asses ,
a pasture of flocks ;
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Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high ,
and the wilderness be a fruitful field ,
and the fruitful field be counted for a forest ya #
ar #.
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Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness ,
and righteousness remain in the fruitful field .
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And the work of righteousness shall be peace ;
and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever .
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And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation ,
and in sure dwellings ,
and in quiet resting places ;
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When it shall hail ,
coming down on the forest ya #
ar #;
and the city shall be low in a low place .
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Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters ,
that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass .
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Woe to thee that spoilest ,
and thou wast not spoiled ;
and dealest treacherously ,
and they dealt not treacherously with thee !
when thou shalt cease to spoil ,
thou shalt be spoiled ;
and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously ,
they shall deal treacherously with thee .
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O LORD ,
be gracious unto us ;
we have waited for thee :
be thou their arm every morning ,
our salvation also in the time of trouble .
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At the noise of the tumult the people fled ;
at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered .
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And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller :
as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them .
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The LORD is exalted ;
for he dwelleth on high :
he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness .
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And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times ,
and strength of salvation y @
shuw #
ah #:
the fear of the LORD is his treasure .
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Behold ,
their valiant ones #
er #
el #
shall cry without :
the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly .
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The highways lie waste ,
the wayfaring man #
ceaseth :
he hath broken the covenant ,
he hath despised the cities ,
he regardeth no man .
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The earth mourneth and languisheth :
Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down :
Sharon is like a wilderness ;
and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits .
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Now will I rise ,
saith the LORD ;
now will I be exalted ;
now will I lift up myself .
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Ye shall conceive chaff ,
ye shall bring forth stubble :
your breath ,
as fire ,
shall devour you .
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And the people shall be as the burnings of lime :
as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire .
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Hear ,
ye that are far off ,
what I have done ;
and ,
ye that are near ,
acknowledge my might .
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The sinners in Zion are afraid ;
fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites .
Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire ?
who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings ?
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He that walketh righteously ,
and speaketh uprightly ;
he that despiseth the gain of oppressions ma #
ashaqqah #,
that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes ,
that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood ,
and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil ;
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He shall dwell on high :
his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks :
bread shall be given him ;
his waters shall be sure .
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Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty :
they shall behold the land that is very far off .
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Thine heart shall meditate terror .
Where is the scribe ?
where is the receiver ?
where is he that counted the towers ?
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Thou shalt not see a fierce people ,
a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive ;
of a stammering tongue ,
that thou canst not understand .
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Look upon Zion ,
the city of our solemnities mow #
ed #:
thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation ,
a tabernacle that shall not be taken down ;
not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed ,
neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken .
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But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rachab #
rivers and streams y @#
or #;
wherein shall go no galley with oars ,
neither shall gallant ship pass thereby .
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For the LORD is our judge ,
the LORD is our lawgiver ,
the LORD is our king ;
he will save us .
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Thy tacklings are loosed ;
they could not well strengthen their mast ,
they could not spread the sail :
then is the prey of a great spoil divided ;
the lame take the prey .
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And the inhabitant shall not say ,
I am sick :
the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity .
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Come near ,
ye nations ,
to hear ;
and hearken ,
ye people :
let the earth hear ,
and all that is therein ;
the world ,
and all things that come forth of it .
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For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations ,
and his fury upon all their armies :
he hath utterly destroyed them ,
he hath delivered them to the slaughter .
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Their slain also shall be cast out ,
and their stink shall come up out of their carcases ,
and the mountains shall be melted with their blood .
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And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved ,
and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll :
and all their host shall fall down ,
as the leaf falleth off from the vine ,
and as a falling fig from the fig tree t @#
en #.
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For my sword shall be bathed in heaven :
behold ,
it shall come down upon Idumea ,
and upon the people of my curse ,
to judgment .
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The sword of the LORD is filled with blood ,
it is made fat with fatness ,
and with the blood of lambs and goats ,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams :
for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah ,
and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea .
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And the unicorns shall come down with them ,
and the bullocks with the bulls ;
and their land shall be soaked with blood ,
and their dust made fat with fatness .
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For it is the day of the LORDS vengeance ,
and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion .
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And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch ,
and the dust thereof into brimstone ,
and the land thereof shall become burning pitch .
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It shall not be quenched night nor day ;
the smoke thereof shall go up for ever :
from generation to generation it shall lie waste ;
none shall pass through it for ever and ever .
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But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ;
the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it :
and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion ,
and the stones of emptiness .
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They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom ,
but none shall be there ,
and all her princes shall be nothing .
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And thorns shall come up in her palaces ,
nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof :
and it shall be an habitation of dragons ,
and a court for owls bath #
ya #
anah #.
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The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island ,
and the satyr shall cry to his fellow ;
the screech owl also shall rest there ,
and find for herself a place of rest .
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There shall the great owl make her nest ,
and lay ,
and hatch ,
and gather under her shadow :
there shall the vultures also be gathered ,
every one with her mate r @#
uwth #.
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Seek ye out of the book of the LORD ,
and read :
no one of these shall fail ,
none shall want her mate r @#
uwth #:
for my mouth it hath commanded ,
and his spirit it hath gathered them .
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And he hath cast the lot for them ,
and his hand hath divided it unto them by line :
they shall possess it for ever ,
from generation to generation shall they dwell therein .
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The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them ;
and the desert shall rejoice ,
and blossom as the rose .
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It shall blossom abundantly ,
and rejoice even with joy and singing :
the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it ,
the excellency of Carmel and Sharon ,
they shall see the glory of the LORD ,
and the excellency of our God .
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Strengthen ye the weak hands ,
and confirm the feeble knees .
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Say to them that are of a fearful heart ,
Be strong ,
fear not :
behold ,
your God will come with vengeance ,
even God with a recompence ;
he will come and save you .
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Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened ,
and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped .
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Then shall the lame man leap as an hart ,
and the tongue of the dumb sing :
for in the wilderness shall waters break out ,
and streams in the desert .
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And the parched ground shall become a pool ,
and the thirsty land springs of water :
in the habitation of dragons ,
where each lay ,
shall be grass with reeds and rushes .
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And an highway shall be there ,
and a way ,
and it shall be called The way of holiness ;
the unclean shall not pass over it ;
but it shall be for those :
the wayfaring men ,
though fools ,
shall not err therein .
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No lion shall be there ,
nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon ,
it shall not be found there ;
but the redeemed shall walk there :
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And the ransomed of the LORD shall return ,
and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads ro #
sh #:
they shall obtain joy and gladness ,
and sorrow and sighing shall flee away .
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Now it came to pass in the fourteenth #
H6240year of king Hezekiah ,
that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah ,
and took them .
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And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army .
And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fullers field .
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Then came forth unto him Eliakim ,
Hilkiahs son ,
which was over the house ,
and Shebna the scribe ,
and Joah Yow #
ach #,
Asaphs son ,
the recorder .
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And Rabshakeh said unto them ,
Say ye now to Hezekiah ,
Thus saith the great king ,
the king of Assyria ,
What confidence is this wherein thou trustest ?
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I say ,
sayest thou , (
but they are but vain words dabar #)
I have counsel and strength for war :
now on whom dost thou trust ,
that thou rebellest against me ?
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Lo ,
thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed ,
on Egypt ;
whereon if a man lean ,
it will go into his hand ,
and pierce it :
so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him .
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But if thou say to me ,
We trust in the LORD our God :
is it not he ,
whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away ,
and said to Judah and to Jerusalem ,
Ye shall worship before this altar ?
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Now therefore give pledges ,
I pray thee ,
to my master the king of Assyria ,
and I will give thee two thousand horses ,
if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them .
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How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my masters servants ,
and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen ?
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And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it ?
the LORD said unto me ,
Go up against this land ,
and destroy it .
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Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh ,
Speak ,
I pray thee ,
unto thy servants in the Syrian language ;
for we understand it :
and speak not to us in the Jews language ,
in the ears of the people that are on the wall .
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But Rabshakeh said ,
Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words ?
hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall ,
that they may eat their own dung tsow #
ah #,
and drink their own piss mayim #
with you ?
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Then Rabshakeh stood ,
and cried with a loud voice in the Jews language ,
and said ,
Hear ye the words of the great king ,
the king of Assyria .
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Thus saith the king ,
Let not Hezekiah deceive you :
for he shall not be able to deliver you .
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Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD ,
saying ,
The LORD will surely deliver us :
this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria .
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Hearken not to Hezekiah :
for thus saith the king of Assyria ,
Make an agreement with me by a present ,
and come out to me :
and eat ye every one of his vine ,
and every one of his fig tree t @#
en #,
and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern ;
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Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land ,
a land of corn and wine ,
a land of bread and vineyards .
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Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you ,
saying ,
The LORD will deliver us .
Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria ?
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Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad ?
where are the gods of Sepharvaim ?
and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand ?
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Who are they among all the gods of these lands ,
that have delivered their land out of my hand ,
that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand ?
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But they held their peace ,
and answered him not a word :
for the kings commandment was ,
saying ,
Answer him not .
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Then came Eliakim ,
the son of Hilkiah ,
that was over the household ,
and Shebna the scribe ,
and Joah Yow #
ach #,
the son of Asaph ,
the recorder ,
to Hezekiah with their clothes rent ,
and told him the words of Rabshakeh .
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And it came to pass ,
when king Hezekiah heard it ,
that he rent his clothes ,
and covered himself with sackcloth ,
and went into the house of the LORD .
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And he sent Eliakim ,
who was over the household ,
and Shebna the scribe ,
and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth ,
unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz .
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And they said unto him ,
Thus saith Hezekiah ,
This day is a day of trouble ,
and of rebuke ,
and of blasphemy n @#
atsah #:
for the children are come to the birth ,
and there is not strength to bring forth .
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It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh ,
whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God ,
and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard :
wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left .
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So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah Y @
sha #
yah #.
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And Isaiah said unto them ,
Thus shall ye say unto your master ,
Thus saith the LORD ,
Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard ,
wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me .
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Behold ,
I will send a blast upon him ,
and he shall hear a rumour sh @
muw #
ah #,
and return to his own land ;
and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land .
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So Rabshakeh returned ,
and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah :
for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish .
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And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia ,
He is come forth to make war with thee .
And when he heard it ,
he sent messengers to Hezekiah ,
saying ,
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Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah ,
saying ,
Let not thy God ,
in whom thou trustest ,
deceive thee ,
saying ,
Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria .
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Behold ,
thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly ;
and shalt thou be delivered ?
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Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed ,
as Gozan ,
and Haran ,
and Rezeph ,
and the children of Eden which were in Telassar T @
la #
ssar #?
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Where is the king of Hamath ,
and the king of Arphad ,
and the king of the city of Sepharvaim ,
Hena ,
and Ivah ?
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And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers mal #
ak #,
and read it :
and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD ,
and spread it before the LORD .
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And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD ,
saying ,
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O LORD of hosts ,
God of Israel Yisra #
el #,
that dwellest between the cherubims ,
thou art the God ,
even thou alone ,
of all the kingdoms of the earth :
thou hast made heaven and earth .
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Incline thine ear ,
O LORD ,
and hear ;
open thine eyes ,
O LORD ,
and see :
and hear all the words of Sennacherib ,
which hath sent to reproach the living God .
*
Of a truth ,
LORD ,
the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations ,
and their countries ,
*
And have cast their gods into the fire :
for they were no gods ,
but the work of mens hands ,
wood and stone :
therefore they have destroyed them .
*
Now therefore ,
O LORD our God ,
save us from his hand ,
that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD ,
even thou only .
*
Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah ,
saying ,
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel Yisra #
el #,
Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria :
*
This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him ;
The virgin ,
the daughter of Zion ,
hath despised thee ,
and laughed thee to scorn ;
the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee .
*
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed ?
and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice ,
and lifted up thine eyes on high ?
even against the Holy One of Israel Yisra #
el #.
*
By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord ,
and hast said ,
By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains ,
to the sides of Lebanon ;
and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof ,
and the choice fir trees thereof :
and I will enter into the height of his border ,
and the forest of his Carmel .
*
I have digged ,
and drunk water ;
and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places .
*
Hast thou not heard long ago ,
how I have done it ;
and of ancient times ,
that I have formed it ?
now have I brought it to pass ,
that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps .
*
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power ,
they were dismayed and confounded :
they were as the grass of the field ,
and as the green herb ,
as the grass on the housetops ,
and as corn blasted before it be grown up .
*
But I know thy abode ,
and thy going out ,
and thy coming in ,
and thy rage against me .
*
Because thy rage against me ,
and thy tumult sha #
anan #,
is come up into mine ears ,
therefore will I put my hook in thy nose ,
and my bridle in thy lips ,
and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest .
*
And this shall be a sign unto thee ,
Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself ;
and the second year that which springeth of the same :
and in the third year sow ye ,
and reap ,
and plant vineyards ,
and eat the fruit thereof .
*
And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward ,
and bear fruit upward ma #
al #:
*
For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant sh @#
eriyth #,
and they that escape out of mount Zion :
the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this .
*
Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria ,
He shall not come into this city ,
nor shoot an arrow there ,
nor come before it with shields ,
nor cast a bank against it .
*
By the way that he came ,
by the same shall he return ,
and shall not come into this city ,
saith the LORD .
*
For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake ,
and for my servant Davids sake .
*
Then the angel of the LORD went forth ,
and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand :
and when they arose early in the morning ,
behold ,
they were all dead corpses .
*
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed ,
and went and returned ,
and dwelt at Nineveh .
*
And it came to pass ,
as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god ,
that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword ;
and they escaped into the land of Armenia :
and Esarhaddon #
Ecar-Chaddown #
his son reigned in his stead .
*
In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death .
And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him ,
and said unto him ,
Thus saith the LORD ,
Set thine house in order :
for thou shalt die ,
and not live .
*
Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall ,
and prayed unto the LORD ,
*
And said ,
Remember now ,
O LORD ,
I beseech thee ,
how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart ,
and have done that which is good in thy sight .
And Hezekiah wept sore .
*
Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah Y @
sha #
yah #,
saying ,
*
Go ,
and say to Hezekiah ,
Thus saith the LORD ,
the God of David thy father ,
I have heard thy prayer ,
I have seen thy tears dim #
ah #:
behold ,
I will add unto thy days fifteen chamesh #
years .
*
And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria :
and I will defend this city .
*
And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD ,
that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken ;
*
Behold ,
I will bring again the shadow of the degrees ma #
alah #,
which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz ,
ten degrees backward .
So the sun returned ten degrees ma #
alah #,
by which degrees it was gone down .
*
The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah ,
when he had been sick ,
and was recovered of his sickness :
*
I said in the cutting off of my days ,
I shall go to the gates of the grave sh @#
owl #:
I am deprived of the residue of my years .
*
I said ,
I shall not see the LORD ,
even the LORD ,
in the land of the living :
I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world .
*
Mine age is departed ,
and is removed from me as a shepherds tent :
I have cut off like a weaver my life :
he will cut me off with pining sickness :
from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me .
*
I reckoned till morning ,
that ,
as a lion ,
so will he break all my bones :
from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me .
*
Like a crane or a swallow ,
so did I chatter :
I did mourn as a dove :
mine eyes fail with looking upward :
O LORD ,
I am oppressed ;
undertake for me .
*
What shall I say ?
he hath both spoken unto me ,
and himself hath done it :
I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul .
*
O Lord ,
by these things men live ,
and in all these things is the life of my spirit :
so wilt thou recover me ,
and make me to live .
*
Behold ,
for peace I had great bitterness mar #:
but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption :
for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back .
*
For the grave cannot praise thee ,
death can not celebrate thee :
they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth .
*
The living ,
the living ,
he shall praise thee ,
as I do this day :
the father to the children shall make known thy truth .
*
The LORD was ready to save me :
therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD .
*
For Isaiah had said ,
Let them take a lump of figs t @#
en #,
and lay it for a plaister upon the boil ,
and he shall recover .
*
Hezekiah also had said ,
What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD ?
*
At that time Merodachbaladan M @
ro #
dak Bal #
adan #,
the son of Baladan Bal #
adan #,
king of Babylon ,
sent letters and a present to Hezekiah :
for he had heard that he had been sick ,
and was recovered .
*
And Hezekiah was glad of them ,
and shewed them the house of his precious things ,
the silver ,
and the gold ,
and the spices ,
and the precious ointment ,
and all the house of his armour ,
and all that was found in his treasures :
there was nothing in his house ,
nor in all his dominion ,
that Hezekiah shewed them not .
*
Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah ,
and said unto him ,
What said these men ?
and from whence came they unto thee ?
And Hezekiah said ,
They are come from a far country unto me ,
even from Babylon .
*
Then said he ,
What have they seen in thine house ?
And Hezekiah answered ,
All that is in mine house have they seen :
there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them .
*
Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah ,
Hear the word of the LORD of hosts :
*
Behold ,
the days come ,
that all that is in thine house ,
and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day ,
shall be carried to Babylon :
nothing shall be left ,
saith the LORD .
*
And of thy sons that shall issue from thee ,
which thou shalt beget ,
shall they take away ;
and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon .
*
Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah Y @
sha #
yah #,
Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken .
He said moreover ,
For there shall be peace and truth in my days .
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