THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH. 1 THE vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD hatli spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against 3 me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not 4 consider. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that deal corruptly: they have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged and gone backward. 52 Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? 3 the whole head is sick, and the whole heart 6 faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and 4festering sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mol7 lified with oil. Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as over8 thrown by strangers. And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, 9 as a besieged city. Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah. 10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye Grulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Go11 morrah. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of 12 he-goats. When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; in cense is an abomination unto me; new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies,-10I cannot away with in14 iquity and the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a 11 trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before 17 mine eyes; cease to do evil: learn to do well; seek judgement, 12 relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they 19 shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the 20 land: but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. 21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! she that was full of judgement! righteousness lodged in her, 22 but now murderers. Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with 23 water. Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. 24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, 25 and avenge me of mine enemies: and I will 18 turn my hand upon thee, and 14 throughly purge away thy dross, 26 and will take away all thy 15 tin: and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called The city of righteousness, the 27 faithful city. Zion shall be redeemed with judgement, and 16 her converts 28 with righteousness. But the 17destruction of the transgressors and the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be con29 sumed. For they shall be ashamed of the 18 oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the 30 gardens that ye have chosen. For ye shall be as 19 an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. 31 And the strong shall be as tow, and his work as a spark; and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them. 2 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 1And it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall 3 flow unto it. And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the 4 LORD from Jerusalem. And he shall judge between the nations, and shall reprove many peoples: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us 6 walk in the light of the LORD. For thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be filled with customs from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of strangers. 7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land also is full of horses, neither is there any end of their 8 chariots. Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers 9 have made. And the mean man 6is bowed down, and the great man is brought low: therefore forgive them 10 not. Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his 11 majesty. The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. 12 For 8 there shall be a day of the LORD of hosts upon all that is proud_and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up; 13 and it shall be brought low: and upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the 14 oaks of Bashan; and upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that 15 are lifted up; and upon every lofty tower, and upon every fenced wall; 16 and upon all the ships of Tarshish, 17 and upon all pleasant imagery. And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. 18 And the idols shall utterly pass away. 19 And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the 10 earth, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake 20 mightily the earth. In that day a man Sept. omits this verse. elder charmer 14 Or, with childishness shall they rule shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made for him to worship, to the moles and to 21 the bats; to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake 22 mightily the earth. 11 Cease ye from The man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of? 3 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of 2 water; the mighty man, and the man of war; the judge, and the prophet, and 3 the diviner, and the 12 ancient; the capt-12 Or, ain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning 13 artificer, and the skilful enchanter. 13 Or, 4 And I will give children to be their princes, and 14 babes shall rule over 5 them. And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the 12 ancient, and the base against the 6 honourable. When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our 15 ruler, and let this ruin be 7 under thy hand: in that day shall he lift up his voice, saying, I will not be 16 an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: ye shall not make 8 me ruler of the people. For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the 9 eyes of his glory. 17 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have 18 rewarded 18 Or, 10 evil unto themselves. Say ye of the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of 11 their doings. Woe unto the wicked! Oper them 15 Or, judge 16 Heb. a binder up. 17Or, respect Their ing of persons doth &c. done doing 19 Or, 20 Heb. done to him. it shall be ill with him: for the 19 reward 12 of his hands shall be 20 given him. As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and 21 destroy the 2 Heb. 13 way of thy paths. The LORD standeth swallow up. people up to plead, and standeth to judge the 14 22 peoples. The LORD will enter into 22 Or, judgement with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof: It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard; the 15 spoil of the poor is in your houses: what mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts. 16 Moreover the LORD said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and 1 Or. net works 2 Or, 3 Heh. 5 Or, shoot Or, sprout 6 Or, earth 7 Or. majestic 8 Or, unto life 9 Or. blast 10 Or. every dwelling place 11 Or, of 12 Heb. a horn, the son of oil. 13 Or, digged it 14 Or, winefat mincing as they go, and making a tink17 ling with their feet: therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will lay bare their secret parts. 18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their anklets, and the 1 cauls, 19 and the crescents; the pendants, and 20 the bracelets, and the mufflers; the headtires, and the ankle chains, and the sashes, and the perfume boxes, and the 21 amulets; the rings, and the nose jewels; 22 the festival robes, and the mantles, and 23 the shawls, and the satchels; the hand mirrors, and the fine linen, and the 24 turbans, and the veils. And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle a rope; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth: 25 branding instead of beauty. Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy 3 mighty 26 in the war. And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate 4 and sit upon the ground. And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach. 2 In that day shall the 5 branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be excellent and comely for them that are 3 escaped of Israel. And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written 8 among the living in 4 Jerusalem: when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof, by the spirit of judgement, 5 and by the spirit of burning. And the LORD will create over 10 the whole habitation of mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for over all the glory shall be 6 spread a canopy. And there shall be a pavilion for a shadow in the day-time from the heat, and for a refuge and for a covert from storm and from rain. 5 Let me sing 11 for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard 2 in 12 a very fruitful hill: and he 13 made a trench about it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a 14 winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it 3 brought forth wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt burnt 4 me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild 5 grapes? And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be 15 eaten up; I will break Or. down the fence thereof, and it shall 6 be trodden down: and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon 7 it. For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah 16 his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgement, but behold 17 oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry. 8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell 9 alone in the midst of the land! In mine ears saith the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabit10 ant. For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a 18homer of seed shall yield but an ephah. 11 Woe unto them that rise up early in Heb. the plant g 17 Or. shedding bined 18 See Ezek. xlv. IL 10 Heb their men of famine the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that tarry late into the 12 night, till wine inflame them! And the harp and the lute, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither have they considered 13 the operation of his hands. Therefore my people are gone into captivity, for lack of knowledge: and 19 their honourable men are famished, and glory are their multitude are parched with thirst. 14 Therefore 20 hell hath enlarged her or, the desire, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their 21pomp, and he that rejoiceth among them, descend 15 into it. And the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is humbled, and the eyes of the lofty are humbled: 16 but the LORD of hosts is exalted in judgement, and God the Holy One is 17 sanctified in righteousness. Then shall 18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity ers with cords of vanity, and sin as it 19 were with a cart rope: that say, Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw 20 Woe unto them that call evil good, nigh and come, that we may know it! and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 1 Or, teaching 2 Heb. hiin. 3 Heb. he, and in the following verses. 4 Or. over 5 Acconi- Gor. 7 Heb. the Julness of the whole earth is his glory. Or, hot stone 21 Woe unto them that are wise in 9 Or. expiated 19 Or, tinually mouth with it, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. 8 And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am 91; send me. And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye 10 indeed, but understand not; and see ye 10 indeed, 10 but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and 11 understand with their 11 Or. heart, and turn again, and be healed. 11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly 12 waste, and the LORD have removed men far away, and the forsaken places 13 be many in the midst of the land. 12And if there be yet a tenth in it, it shall again be 13 eaten up: as a terebinth, and as an oak, 14 whose 15 stock remaineth, when they 16 are felled; so the holy seed is the 15 stock thereof. 22 Woe unto them that are mighty to sharp, and all their bows bent; their And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it; but could 2 not prevail against it. And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria 17 is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest are moved with the wind. their heart should stand under But yet 13Or, a tenth, shall and shall be eaten up burnt Or, whose 13 Or. substance is in them 15 Or, Rich stance cast their leaves 16 Or, 17 Heb. resteth on Eph is, A remnant shall return. 3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Goraim. 10 And the LORD spake again unto 1 Ac- make it unto Sheol. 2 Or, the That is, 6 Or, 7 Or. that he may know 8 Or, 9 Or, 10 Or, where never came the fear of briers and the fear... but it shall be &c. 11 Or, in common charac 12 That is, The oil speed-th, the prey 11 Ahaz, saying, Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; 1ask it either in the 12 depth, or in the height above. But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will 13 I tempt the LORD. And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; is it a small thing for you to weary men, that ye 14 will weary my God also? Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; behold, 2a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call 15 his name "Immanuel. 6 Butter and honey shall he eat, 7when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose 16 the good. For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings 17 thou abhorrest shall be forsaken. The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria. 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that 19 is in the land of Assyria. And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all pastures. 20 In that day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, which is in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young 22 cow, and two sheep; and it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the midst of the land. 23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, shall even be for briers and 24 thorns. With arrows and with bow shall one come thither; because all the 25 land shall be briers and thorns. And all the hills that were digged with the mattock, 10 thou shalt not come thither for fear of briers and thorns, but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep. 8 And the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it 11 with the pen of a man, For 12 Maher2 shalal-hash-baz; and I will take unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of 3 Jeberechiah. And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD unto me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash4 baz. For before the child shall have eern knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria. 5 And the LORD spake unto me yet 6 again, saying, Forasmuch as this people hath refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, 13 and rejoice 14 in Rezin 13r. 7 and Remaliah's son; now therefore, be-them hold, the Lord bringeth up upon them t rejoice the waters of the River, strong and Or, many, even the king of Assyria and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his 8 banks and he shall sweep onward into Judah; he shall overflow and pass through; he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, 150 Immanuel. with 15 See ch vii. 14 18 От Break Accord in to SOLE ancient authorties. 48 Rocheste yoursei res. IMA # EL 18 Heb. with See Ezek 9 16 Make an uproar, O ye peoples, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall 10 be broken in pieces. Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall 11 not stand: for 17 God is with us. For Heb the LORD spake thus to me 13 with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this peo12 ple, saying, Say ye not, A conspiracy, concerning all whereof this people 14 shall say, A conspiracy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be in dread thereof. 13 The LORD of hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let 14 him be your dread. And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of 15 Jerusalem. And 19 many shall stumble 10. thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. 16 Bind thou up the testimony, seal the 17 20 law among my disciples. And I will wait for the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will 18 look for him. Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. 19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits and unto the wizards, that chirp and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? on behalf of the living should they seek unto the dead? 20 To the 20law and to the testimony! 21 if they speak not according to this word, 21 And they shall pass through it, hardly surely there is no morning for them. bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and 22 curse by their king and by their God, and turn many ameng them shaft stainide, and fall &c. Or. teaching n or, surely ing to accord this word the speak, for whom there is non ing 22 Or, curse their king and their flod |