21 8 12 + Gr. glean oak of Basan, 14 and upon every high raiment: I will not be the ruler of mountain, and upon every high hill, this people. For Jerusalem is ' ruined, 15 and upon every high tower, and and Judea has fallen, and +Or, forsaken, upon every high wall, 16 and upon their tongues have spoken or, let go. every ship of the sea, and upon every with iniquity, disobedient as they are display of fine ships. 17 And every towards the Lord. 9 Wherefore now man shall be brought low, and the their glory has been brought low, pride of men shall fall: and the Lord and the shame of their countenance alone shall be exalted in that day. has withstood them, and they have 18 And they shall hide all idols made proclaimed their sin as Sodom, and with hands, 19 having carried them made it manifest. 10 Woe to their into the caves, and into the clefts of soul, for they have devised an evil the rocks, and into the caverns of the counsel against themselves, saying earth, for fear of the Lord, and by against themselves, Let us bind the + See v. 10. reason of the glory of his just, for he is burdensome to us: theremight, when he shall arise to strike fore shall they eat the fruits of their terribly the earth. 20 For in that day works. 11 Woe to the transgressor! a man shall cast forth his silver and evils shall happen to him according to gold abominations, which they made the works of his hands. O my in order to worship vanities and bats; people, your exactors strip you, and to enter into the caverns of the solid extortioners rule over you. rock, and into the clefts of the rocks, O my people, they that you. for fear of the Lord, and by reason of pronounce you blessed lead you astray, the glory of his might, when he shall and pervert the path of your feet. arise to strike terribly the earth. 13 But now the Lord will stand up for judgment, and will enter into judg3. Behold now, the Lord, the Lord ment with his people. 14 The Lord of hosts, will take away from Jerusa-himself shall enter into judgment with lem and from Judea the mighty man the elders of the people, and with their and mighty woman, the strength of rulers: but why have ye set my vinebread, and strength of water, 2 the yard on fire, and why is the spoil of great and mighty man, and warrior the poor in your houses? 15 Why do and the judge, and the prophet, and ye wrong my people, and shame the the counsellor, and the elder, 3 the face of the poor? captain of fifty also, and the honourable councillor, and the wise artificer, and the intelligent hearer. And I will make youths their princes, and mockers shall have dominion over them. 5 And the people shall fall, man upon man, and every man upon his neighbour: the child shall insult the elder man, and the base the honourable. For a man shall lay hold of his brother, as one of his father's household, saying, Thou hast raiment, be thou our ruler, and let my meat be proba- under thee. 7And he shall answer in that day, and say, I will not be thy ruler; for I have no bread in my house, nor bly read for מכשלה + 16 Thus says the Lord, Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and have walked with an outstretched neck, and with winking of the eyes, and motion of the feet, at the same time drawing their garments in trains, and at the same time sporting with their feet: 17 therefore the Lord will humble the chief daughters of Sion, and the Lord will expose their form in that day; 18 and the Lord will take away the glory of their raiment, the curls and the fringes, and the crescents, 19 and the chains, and the ornaments of their faces, 20 and the array of glorious ornaments, and the armlets, and the bracelets, and the wreathed work, and the finger-rings, and the ornaments for the right hand, 21 and the ear-rings, and the garments with scarlet borders, and the garments with purple grounds, and the shawls to be worn in the house, and the Spartan transparent dresses, and those made of fine linen, and the purple ones, and the scarlet ones, and the fine linen, interwoven with gold and purple, and the light coverings for couches. 24 And there shall be instead of a sweet smell, dust; and instead of a girdle, thou shalt gird thyself with a rope; and instead of a golden ornament for the head, thou shalt have baldness on account of thy works; and instead of a tunic with a scarlet ground, thou shalt gird thyself with sackcloth. + Gr. cases, or, + 5 3 5. Now I will sing to my beloved a song of my beloved concerning my vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a high hill in a + Gr. horn, so fertile place. And I made Heb. a hedge round it, and dug a trench, and planted a choice vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and dug a place for the wine-vat in it: and I waited for it to bring forth grapes, and it brought forth thorns. And now, ye dwellers in Jerusalem, and every man of Juda, judge between me and 4 25 And thy most my vineyard. What shall I do any beautiful son whom thou lovest shall more to my vineyard, that I have fall by the sword; and your mighty not done to it? Whereas I expected men shall fall by the sword, and shall be it to bring forth grapes, but it has brought low. 25 And the stores of your brought forth thorns. And now I ornaments shall mourn, and will tell you what I will do to my repositories. thou shalt be left alone, and vineyard: I will take away its hedge, shalt be levelled with the ground. and it shall be for a spoil; and I will pull down its walls, and it shall be left 4. And seven women shall take hold to be trodden down. And I will forof one man, saying, We will eat our sake my vineyard; and it shall not be own bread, and wear our own raiment: pruned, nor dug, and thorns shall come only let thy name be called upon us, up upon it as on barren land; and I and take away our reproach. And in will command the clouds to rain no that day God shall shine gloriously in rain upon it. For the vineyard of the counsel on the earth, to exalt and Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, glorify the remnant of Israel. 3 And and the men of Juda his + Gr. a man. it shall be, that the remnant left beloved plant: I expected it to bring in Sion, and the remnant left in Jeru- forth judgment, and it brought forth salem, even all that are appointed iniquity; and not righteousness, but a Gr. written to life in Jerusalem, shall cry. Woe to them that join house to for life. be called holy. For the house, and add field to field, that they Lord shall wash away the filth of the may take away something of their sons and daughters of Sion, and shall neighbour's: will ye dwell alone upon purge out the blood from the midst of the land? 9 For these things have them, with the spirit of judgment, and the spirit of burning. 5 And he shall come, and it shall be with regard to every place of Mount Sion, yea, all the region round about it shall a cloud overshadow by day, and there shall be as it were the smoke and light of fire burning by night: and upon all + + 8 reached the cars of the Lord of hosts: for though many houses should be built, many and fair houses shall be desolate, and there shall be no inhabitants in them. 10 For where ten yoke of oxen plough, the land shall yield one jar-full, and he that Gr. artabas. sows six 'homers shall produce three 25 There measures. "Woe to them that rise of the Holy One of Israel. up in the morning, and follow strong fore the Lord of hosts was greatly drink; who wait at it till the even- angered against his people, and he ing: for the wine shall inflame them. reached forth his hand upon them, and 12 For they drink wine with harp, and smote them: and the mountains were psaltery, and drums, and pipes: but troubled, and their carcases were as dung they regard not the works of the Lord, in the midst of the way: yet for all this and consider not the works of his his anger has not been turned Gr. high. hands. 13 Therefore my people have away, but his hand is yet raised. been taken captive, because they know 26 Therefore shall he lift up a signal not the Lord: and there has been a to the nations that are afar, and shall multitude of dead bodies, because of hiss for them from the end of the earth: hunger and of thirst for water. 14There- and, behold, they are soon coming fore hell has enlarged its desire and quickly. 27 They shall not hunger nor opened its mouth without ceasing: be weary, neither shall they slumber and her glorious and her great, and her nor sleep; neither shall they loose their rich and her pestilent men shall go girdles from their loins, neither shall down into it. 15 And the mean man their shoe-latchets be broken. 28 Whose shall be brought low, and the great arrows are sharp, and their bows bent; man shall be disgraced, and the lofty their horses' hoofs are counted as solid eyes shall be brought low. 16 But the rock: their chariot-wheels are as a Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judg-storm. 29 They rage as lions, and draw ment, and the holy God shall be glorified in righteousness. 17 And they that were spoiled shall be fed as bulls, and lambs shall feed on the waste places of them that are taken away. 18 Woe to them that draw sins to them as with a long rope, and iniquities as with a thong of a heifer's yoke: 19 who say, Let him speedily hasten what he will do, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it. 20 Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; who make darkness light, and light darkness; who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter. 21 Woe to them that are wise in their own conceit, and knowing in their own sight. 22 Woe to the strong ones of you that drink wine, and the mighty ones that mingle strong drink: 23 who justify the ungodly for rewards, and take away the righteousness of the righteous. 24Therefore as stubble shall be burnt by a coal of fire, and shall be consumed by a violent flame, their root shall be as chaff, and their flower shall go up as dust for they rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and insulted the word nigh as a lion's whelps: and he shall seize, and roar as a wild beast, and he shall cast them forth, and there shall be none to deliver them. 30 And he shall roar on account of them in that day, as the sound of the swelling sea; and they shall look to the land, and, behold, there shall be thick darkness in their perplexity. 3 6. And it came to pass in the year in which king Ozias died, that I saw the Lord sitting on a high and exalted throne, and the house was full of his glory. 2 And seraphs stood round about him: each one had six wings: and with two they covered their face, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. And one cried to the other, and they said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the lintel 'shook at the voice +Gr.was lifted. they uttered, and the house was filled with smoke. And I said, Woe is me, for I am pricked to the heart; for being a man, and having unclean lips, I dwell in the midst of a people having unclean lips; and I have seen with mine eyes send? me. 9 + 5 3 And the Lord said to Esaias, Go forth to meet Achaz, thou, and thy son Jasub who is left, to the pool of the upper way of the fuller's field. And thou shalt say to him, Take care to be quiet, and fear not, neither let thy soul be disheartened because of these two smoking firebrands: for when my fierce anger is over, I will heal again. And as for the son of Aram, and the son of Romelias, forasmuch as they have devised an evil counsel, saying, "We will go up against Judea, and having conferred with them we will turn them away to our side, and we will make the son of Tabeel king of it; thus says the Lord of hosts, This counsel shall not abide, nor come to pass. But the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus, Rasim; and yet within sixty and five years the kingdom of Ephraim shall cease from being a people. And the head of Ephraim is Somoron, and the head of Somoron the son of Romelias: but if ye believe Comp. Heb. not, neither will ye at all understand. the king, the Lord of hosts. And by the wind. of 40. (33) 10, 12; of its husk. 8 10 And the Lord again spoke to Achaz, saying, "Ask for thyself a sign of the Lord thy God, in the depth or in the height. 12 And Achaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord. 13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; is it a little thing for you to contend against? and how do ye contend against the Lord? 14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; behold, a vir- + Mat. 1. 23. gin shall conceive in the womb, and 7. And it came to pass in the days shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt of Achaz the son of Joatham, the son call his name Emmanuel. 15 Butter of Ozias, king of Juda, there came up and honey shall he eat, before he Rasin king of Aram, and Phakee son knows either to prefer evil, or choose of Romelias, king of Israel, against the good. 16 For before the child Jerusalem to war against it, but they shall know good or evil, he refuses Lit. besiege. could not + take it. 2 And evil, to choose the good; + Gr. disobeys. See Heb. a message was brought to and the land shall be forsaken which the house of David, saying, Aram thou art afraid of because of the two has conspired with Ephraim. And his kings. 17 But God shall bring upon soul was amazed, and the soul of his thee, and upon thy people, and upon people, as in a wood a tree is moved the house of thy father, days which + part of the ene rule over the to Alex. the text is the right one. + 5 6 have never come, from the day that his father or his mother, one shall take Ephraim took away from Juda the the power of Damascus and the spoils king of the Assyrians. 18 And it shall of Samaria before the king of the come to pass in that day that the Lord Assyrians. And the Lord spoke to + Or, which shall hiss for the flies, me yet again, saying, Because this my, &c. shall which insect shall rule over people chooses not the water of Siloam river of Egypt; a part of the river of Egypt, that goes softly, but wills to have but according and for the bee which is in Rassin, and the son of Romelias to be reading in the the land of the Assyrians. king over you; therefore, behold, the 19 And they all shall enter Lord brings up upon you the water of into the clefts of the land, and into the river, strong and abundant, even the holes of the rocks, and into the the king of the Assyrians, and his caves, and into every ravine. 20 In glory: and he shall come up over every that day the Lord shall shave with the valley of yours, and shall walk over hired razor of the king of Assyria be- every wall of yours: and he shall take yond the river the head, and the hairs away from Juda every man who shall of the feet, and will remove the beard. be able to lift up his head, and every 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, one able to accomplish anything; and that a man shall rear a heifer, and two his camp shall fill the breadth of thy sheep. 22 And it shall come to pass land, O God with us. + Heb. ImAler. Tour, from their drinking an "Know, ye Gentiles, and be manuel. 'giving.' abundance of milk, that conquered; hearken, ye, even to the every one that is left on the land shall extremity of the earth: be conquered, eat butter and honey. 23 And it shall after ye have strengthened yourselves; come to pass in that day, for every for even if ye should again strengthen place where there shall be a thousand yourselves, ye shall again be conquered. vines at a thousand shekels, they shall 10 And whatsoever counsel ye shall + Gr. for land become barren land and take, the Lord shall bring it to nought; andfor a thorn. thorns. 24 Men shall enter and whatsoever word ye shall speak, it thither with arrow and bow; for all shall not stand among you: for God is the land shall be barren ground and with us. 11 Thus says the Lord, With thorns. 25 And every mountain shall a strong hand they revolt + Gr. disobey. be certainly ploughed: there shall no from the course of the way of this fear come thither: for there shall be people, saying, 12 Let them not say, It from among the barren ground and is hard, for whatsoever this people says, thorns that whereon cattle shall feed is hard: but fear not ye their fear, and oxen shall tread. neither be dismayed. 13 Sanctify ye 2 + the Lord himself; and the +or, let him be. 8. And the Lord said to me, Take shall be thy fear. 14 And if thou shalt to thyself a volume of a great new trust in him, he shall be to thee for + Alex. paper, book, and write in it with a sanctuary; and ye shall not come or, parchment. a man's pen concerning the against him as against a Rom. 9. 33. making a rapid plunder of spoils; for stumbling-stone, neither as against the it is near at hand. And make me falling of a rock: but the houses of witnesses of faithful men, Urias, and Jacob are in a snare, and the dwellers Zacharias the son of Barachias. And in Jerusalem in a pit. 15 Therefore I went in to the prophetess; and she many among them shall be weak, conceived, and bore a son. And the and fall, and be crushed; and they Lord said to me, Call his name, Spoil shall draw nigh, and men shall be quickly, plunder speedily. For be- taken securely. 16 Then shall those fore the child shall know how to call who seal themselves that they may 3 |