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2:1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2:2 And it shall come to pass in the last 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 flow unto it.
2:3 And many people 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 LORD from Jerusalem.
2:4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people:  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.
2:5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
2:6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they
 be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines,
 and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
2:7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end
 of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there
 any end of their chariots:
2:8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own
 hands, that which their own fingers have made:
2:9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: 
 therefore forgive them not.
2:10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD,
 and for the glory of his majesty.
2:11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men
 shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
2:12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is
 proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be
 brought low:
2:13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and
 upon all the oaks of Bashan,
2:14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
2:15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
2:16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
2:17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
2:18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
2:19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
2:20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
2:21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
2:22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

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3:1 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem
 and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the
 whole stay of water.
3:2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the
 prudent, and the ancient,
3:3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and
 the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule
 over them.
3:5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one
 by his neighbour:  the child shall behave himself proudly against the
 ancient, and the base against the honourable.
3:6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father,
 saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be
 under thy hand:
3:7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my
 house is neither bread nor clothing:  make me not a ruler of the people.
3:8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen:  because their tongue and
 their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
3:9 The show 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 rewarded evil unto themselves.
3:10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him:  for they
 shall eat the fruit of their doings.
3:11 Woe unto the wicked!  it shall be ill with him:  for the reward of
 his hands shall be given him.
3:12 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
 destroy the way of thy paths.
3:13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
3:14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and
 the princes thereof:  for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the
 poor is in your houses.
3:15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of
 the poor?  saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
3:16 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:
3:17 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.
3:18 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,
3:19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
3:20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the
 tablets, and the earrings,
3:21 The rings, and nose jewels,
3:22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and
 the crisping pins,
3:23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the veils.
3:24 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.
3:25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall
 sit upon the ground.

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4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will
 eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel:  only let us be called by thy
 name, to take away our reproach.
4:2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and
 the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are
 escaped of Israel.
4:3 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 among the living in Jerusalem:
4:4 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 judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
4:5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and
 upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming
 fire by night:  for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
4:6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the
 heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.

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5:1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his
 vineyard.  My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
5:2 And he fenced 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 made
 a winepress therein:  and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and
 it brought forth wild grapes.
5:3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray
 you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
5:4 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 grapes?
5:5 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 eaten up; and break down the
 wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
5:6 And I will lay it waste:  it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there
 shall come up briers and thorns:  I will also command the clouds that they
 rain no rain upon it.
5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the
 men of Judah his pleasant plant:  and he looked for judgment, but behold
 oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
5:8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till
 there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the
 earth!
5:9 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be
 desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
5:10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an
 homer shall yield an ephah.
5:11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow
 strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
5:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in
 their feasts:  but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider
 the operation of his hands.
5:13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no
 knowledge:  and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude
 dried up with thirst.
5:14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without
 measure:  and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that
 rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
5:15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be
 humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
5:16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is
 holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
5:17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of
 the fat ones shall strangers eat.
5:18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it
 were with a cart rope:
5:19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see
 it:  and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come,
 that we may know it!
5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for
 light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for
 bitter!
5:21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their
 own sight!
5:22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to
 mingle strong drink:
5:23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of
 the righteous from him!
5:24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth
 the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall
 go up as dust:  because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts,
 and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
5:25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he
 hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them:  and the
 hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the
 streets.  For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is
 stretched out still.
5:26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss
 unto them from the end of the earth:  and, behold, they shall come with
 speed swiftly:
5:27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor
 sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet
 of their shoes be broken:
5:28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs
 shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.
5:29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions:
  yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away
 safe, and none shall deliver it.
5:30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the
 sea:  and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and
 the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

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6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a
 throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
6:2 Above it stood the seraphims:  each one had six wings; with twain he
 covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did
 fly.
6:3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of
 hosts:  the whole earth is full of his glory.
6:4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the
 house was filled with smoke.
6:5 Then said I, Woe is me!  for I am undone; because I am a man of
 unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips:  for
 mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
6:6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand,
 which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
6:7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy
 lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
6:8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who
 will go for us?  Then said I, Here am I; send me.
6:9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand
 not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
6:10 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
 understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
6:11 Then said I, Lord, how long?  And he answered, Until the cities be
 wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be
 utterly desolate,
6:12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great
 forsaking in the midst of the land.
6:13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be
 eaten:  as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when
 they cast their leaves:  so the holy seed shall be the substance
 thereof.

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7:1 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 toward Jerusalem to war against it, but
 could not prevail against it.
7:2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with
 Ephraim.  And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the
 trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
7:3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and
 Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the
 highway of the fuller's field;
7:4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be
 fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce
 anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
7:5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel
 against thee, saying,
7:6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein
 for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:
7:7 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to
 pass.
7:8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is
 Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that
 it be not a people.
7:9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is
 Remaliah's son.  If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be
 established.
7:10 Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
7:11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in
 the height above.
7:12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
7:13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for
 you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin
 shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
7:15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and
 choose the good.
7:16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the
 good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
7:17 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.
7:18 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 is in the land of Assyria.
7:19 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
 bushes.
7:20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired,
 namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and
 the hair of the feet:  and it shall also consume the beard.
7:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a
 young cow, and two sheep;
7:22 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 land.
7:23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be,
 where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall
 even be for briers and thorns.
7:24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the
 land shall become briers and thorns.
7:25 And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall
 not come thither the fear of briers and thorns:  but it shall be for the
 sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

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8:1 Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it
 with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
8:2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and
 Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
8:3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son.  Then
 said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.
8:4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my
 mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away
 before the king of Assyria.
8:5 The LORD spake also unto me again, saying,
8:6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly,
 and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
8:7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the
 river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory:  and
 he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
8:8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall
 reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill
 the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
8:9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, 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 be broken in pieces.
8:10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and
 it shall not stand:  for God is with us.
8:11 For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me
 that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
8:12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say,
 A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
8:13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and
 let him be your dread.
8:14 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 Jerusalem.
8:15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be
 snared, and be taken.
8:16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
8:17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of
 Jacob, and I will look for him.
8:18 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.
8:19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar
 spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter:  should not a people
 seek unto their God?  for the living to the dead?
8:20 To the law and to the testimony:  if they speak not according to this
 word, it is because there is no light in them.
8:21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry:  and it
 shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret
 themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
8:22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness,
 dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

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9:1 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation,
 when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of
 Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the
 sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
9:2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light:  they that
 dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
9:3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy:  they joy
 before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when
 they divide the spoil.
9:4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his
 shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
9:5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments
 rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:  and the government
 shall be upon his shoulder:  and his name shall be called Wonderful,
 Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
9:7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end,
 upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to
 establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. 
 The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
9:8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
9:9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of
 Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
9:10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones:  the
 sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
9:11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him,
 and join his enemies together;
9:12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour
 Israel with open mouth.  For all this his anger is not turned away, but his
 hand is stretched out still.
9:13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they
 seek the LORD of hosts.
9:14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and
 rush, in one day.
9:15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that
 teacheth lies, he is the tail.
9:16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are
 led of them are destroyed.
9:17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall
 have mercy on their fatherless and widows:  for every one is an hypocrite
 and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly.  For all this his anger is
 not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
9:18 For wickedness burneth as the fire:  it shall devour the briers and
 thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall
 mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
9:19 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the
 people shall be as the fuel of the fire:  no man shall spare his brother.
9:20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat
 on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied:  they shall eat every
 man the flesh of his own arm:
9:21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh:  and they together shall
 be against Judah.  For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand
 is stretched out still.

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10:1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write
 grievousness which they have prescribed;
10:2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from
 the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may
 rob the fatherless!
10:3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation
 which shall come from far?  to whom will ye flee for help?  and where
 will ye leave your glory?
10:4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall
 under the slain.  For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand
 is stretched out still.
10:5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine
 indignation.
10:6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people
 of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the
 prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
10:7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is
 in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
10:8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
10:9 Is not Calno as Carchemish?  is not Hamath as Arpad? is not
 Samaria as Damascus?
10:10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven
 images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria:
10:11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to
 Jerusalem and her idols?
10:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed
 his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of
 the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
10:13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my
 wisdom; for I am prudent:  and I have removed the bounds of the people, and
 have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a
 valiant man:
10:14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people:  and as one
 gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there
 was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
10:15 Shall the ax boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or
 shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod
 should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff
 should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
10:16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones
 leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of
 a fire.
10:17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a
 flame:  and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
10:18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field,
 both soul and body:  and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.
10:19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may
 write them.
10:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel,
 and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay
 upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of
 Israel, in truth.
10:21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty
 God.
10:22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a
 remnant of them shall return:  the consumption decreed shall overflow with
 righteousness.
10:23 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined,
 in the midst of all the land.
10:24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest
 in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian:  he shall smite thee with a rod,
 and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
10:25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine
 anger in their destruction.
10:26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the
 slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb:  and as his rod was upon the
 sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
10:27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be
 taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the
 yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
10:28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid
 up his carriages:
10:29 They are gone over the passage:  they have taken up their lodging at
 Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
10:30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim:  cause it to be heard unto
 Laish, O poor Anathoth.
10:31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to
 flee.
10:32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day:  he shall shake his hand
 against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
10:33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: 
 and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be
 humbled.
10:34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and
 Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

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11:1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch
 shall grow out of his roots:
11:2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom
 and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge
 and of the fear of the LORD;
11:3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD:  and
 he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the
 hearing of his ears:
11:4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity
 for the meek of the earth:  and he shall smite the earth with the rod of
 his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
11:5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness
 the girdle of his reins.
11:6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down
 with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and
 a little child shall lead them.
11:7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down
 together:  and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
11:8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned
 child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain:  for the earth
 shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
11:10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for
 an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek:  and his rest shall
 be glorious.
11:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his
 hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which
 shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from
 Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands
 of the sea.
11:12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the
 outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the
 four corners of the earth.
11:13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah
 shall be cut off:  Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex
 Ephraim.
11:14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the
 west; they shall spoil them of the east together:  they shall lay their
 hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
11:15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and
 with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall
 smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
11:16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which
 shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he
 came up out of the land of Egypt.

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12:1 And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee:  though
 thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst
 me.
12:2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid:  for
 the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my
 salvation.
12:3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
12:4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name,
 declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.
12:5 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things:  this is known
 in all the earth.
12:6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion:  for great is the Holy
 One of Israel in the midst of thee.

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13:1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
13:2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them,
 shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
13:3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones
 for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
13:4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a
 tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together:  the LORD of
 hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
13:5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD,
 and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
13:6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a
 destruction from the Almighty.
13:7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
13:8 And they shall be afraid:  pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them;
 they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth:  they shall be amazed one
 at another; their faces shall be as flames.
13:9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce
 anger, to lay the land desolate:  and he shall destroy the sinners thereof
 out of it.
13:10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give
 their light:  the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon
 shall not cause her light to shine.
13:11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their
 iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will
 lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
13:12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the
 golden wedge of Ophir.
13:13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of
 her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce
 anger.
13:14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh
 up:  they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into
 his own land.
13:15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is
 joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
13:16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their
 houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
13:17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard
 silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
13:18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall
 have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees'
 excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
13:20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from
 generation to generation:  neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there;
 neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
13:21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall
 be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall
 dance there.
13:22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses,
 and dragons in their pleasant palaces:  and her time is near to come,
 and her days shall not be prolonged.