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15:1 The burden of Moab.  Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste,
 and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste,
 and brought to silence;
15:2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep:  Moab
 shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba:  on all their heads shall be
 baldness, and every beard cut off.
15:3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth:  on the
 tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping
 abundantly.
15:4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh:  their voice shall be heard even
 unto Jahaz:  therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life
 shall be grievous unto him.
15:5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar,
 an heifer of three years old:  for by the mounting up of Luhith with
 weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up
 a cry of destruction.
15:6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate:  for the hay is withered
 away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
15:7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid
 up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
15:8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling
 thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.
15:9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood:  for I will bring more
 upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of
 the land.

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16:1 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness,
 unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
16:2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so
 the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
16:3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the
 midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
16:4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from
 the face of the spoiler:  for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler
 ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
16:5 And in mercy shall the throne be established:  and he shall sit upon it
 in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and
 hasting righteousness.
16:6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud:  even of his
 haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath:  but his lies shall not be
 so.
16:7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl:  for the
 foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.
16:8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah:  the
 lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they
 are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness:  her
 branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
16:9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: 
 I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh:  for the shouting
 for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.
16:10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in
 the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: 
 the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their
 vintage shouting to cease.
16:11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward
 parts for Kirharesh.
16:12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the
 high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not
 prevail.
16:13 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since
 that time.
16:14 But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years
 of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that
 great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

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17:1 The burden of Damascus.  Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a
 city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
17:2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken:  they shall be for flocks, which
 shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
17:3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from
 Damascus, and the remnant of Syria:  they shall be as the glory of the
 children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
17:4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall
 be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
17:5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth
 the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the
 valley of Rephaim.
17:6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive
 tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or
 five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of
 Israel.
17:7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have
 respect to the Holy One of Israel.
17:8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither
 shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the
 images.
17:9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an
 uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel:  and
 there shall be desolation.
17:10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not
 been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant
 pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
17:11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt
 thou make thy seed to flourish:  but the harvest shall be a heap in the
 day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
17:12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the
 noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing
 like the rushing of mighty waters!
17:13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters:  but God
 shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the
 chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the
 whirlwind.
17:14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is
 not.  This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that
 rob us.

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18:1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of
 Ethiopia:
18:2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon
 the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and
 peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted
 out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
18:3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye,
 when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a
 trumpet, hear ye.
18:4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider
 in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of
 dew in the heat of harvest.
18:5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is
 ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning
 hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
18:6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the
 beasts of the earth:  and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the
 beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
18:7 In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a
 people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their
 beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land
 the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the
 mount Zion.

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19:1 The burden of Egypt.  Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and
 shall come into Egypt:  and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his
 presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
19:2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians:  and they shall
 fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour;
 city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will
 destroy the counsel thereof:  and they shall seek to the idols, and to the
 charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
19:4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a
 fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
19:5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted
 and dried up.
19:6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence
 shall be emptied and dried up:  the reeds and flags shall wither.
19:7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every
 thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
19:8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the
 brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall
 languish.
19:9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks,
 shall be confounded.
19:10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make
 sluices and ponds for fish.
19:11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise
 counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish:  how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am
 the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
19:12 Where are they?  where are thy wise men?  and let them tell thee
 now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
19:13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are
 deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of
 the tribes thereof.
19:14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof:  and
 they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man
 staggereth in his vomit.
19:15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail,
 branch or rush, may do.
19:16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women:  and it shall be afraid
 and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he
 shaketh over it.
19:17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that
 maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel
 of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.
19:18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language
 of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of
 destruction.
19:19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the
 land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.
19:20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in
 the land of Egypt:  for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the
 oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall
 deliver them.
19:21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the
 LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow
 a vow unto the LORD, and perform it.
19:22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt:  he shall smite and heal it:  and
 they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be entreated of them,
 and shall heal them.
19:23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the
 Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the
 Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
19:24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria,
 even a blessing in the midst of the land:
19:25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my
 people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.

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20:1 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod (when Sargon the king of
 Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
20:2 At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go
 and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy
 foot.  And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
20:3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and
 barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
20:4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the
 Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their
 buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
20:5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and
 of Egypt their glory.
20:6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such
 is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the
 king of Assyria:  and how shall we escape?

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21:1 The burden of the desert of the sea.  As whirlwinds in the south pass
 through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
21:2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth
 treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth.  Go up, O Elam:  besiege, O Media;
 all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
21:3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain:  pangs have taken hold upon
 me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth:  I was bowed down at the
 hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
21:4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me:  the night of my pleasure
 hath he turned into fear unto me.
21:5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink:  arise, ye
 princes, and anoint the shield.
21:6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him
 declare what he seeth.
21:7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses,
 and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:
21:8 And he cried, A lion:  My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower
 in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
21:9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen.
  And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven
 images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
21:10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor:  that which I have heard of
 the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
21:11 The burden of Dumah.  He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of
 the night?  Watchman, what of the night?
21:12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night:  if ye will
 inquire, inquire ye:  return, come.
21:13 The burden upon Arabia.  In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye
 travelling companies of Dedanim.
21:14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was
 thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
21:15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent
 bow, and from the grievousness of war.
21:16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the
 years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:
21:17 And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the
 children of Kedar, shall be diminished:  for the LORD God of Israel hath
 spoken it.

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22:1 The burden of the valley of vision.  What aileth thee now, that thou
 art wholly gone up to the housetops?
22:2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city:  thy
 slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
22:3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers:  all
 that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.
22:4 Therefore said I, Look away from me:  I will weep bitterly, labour not
 to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
22:5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity
 by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls,
 and of crying to the mountains.
22:6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir
 uncovered the shield.
22:7 And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of
 chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
22:8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that
 day to the armour of the house of the forest.
22:9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are
 many:  and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
22:10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye
 broken down to fortify the wall.
22:11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old
 pool:  but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect
 unto him that fashioned it long ago.
22:12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to
 mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
22:13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating
 flesh, and drinking wine:  let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall
 die.
22:14 And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this
 iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of
 hosts.
22:15 Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer,
 even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,
22:16 What hast thou here?  and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed
 thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high,
 and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?
22:17 Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and
 will surely cover thee.
22:18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large
 country:  there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall
 be the shame of thy lord's house.
22:19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he
 pull thee down.
22:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant
 Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
22:21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy
 girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand:  and he shall be a
 father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
22:22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he
 shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
22:23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for
 a glorious throne to his father's house.
22:24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the
 offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of
 cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
22:25 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened
 in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden
 that was upon it shall be cut off:  for the LORD hath spoken it.

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23:1 The burden of Tyre.  Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste,
 so that there is no house, no entering in:  from the land of Chittim it is
 revealed to them.
23:2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon,
 that pass over the sea, have replenished.
23:3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is
 her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
23:4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon:  for the sea hath spoken, even the strength
 of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I
 nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.
23:5 As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at
 the report of Tyre.
23:6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
23:7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? 
 her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
23:8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose
 merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the
 earth?
23:9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory,
 and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
23:10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish:  there is
 no more strength.
23:11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms:  the
 LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the
 strong holds thereof.
23:12 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin,
 daughter of Zidon:  arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have
 no rest.
23:13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the
 Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness:  they set up the
 towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to
 ruin.
23:14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish:  for your strength is laid waste.
23:15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten
 seventy years, according to the days of one king:  after the end of seventy
 years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
23:16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten;
 make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
23:17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the
 LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit
 fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
23:18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD:  it
 shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them
 that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

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24:1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and
 turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
24:2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the
 servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as
 with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the
 borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
24:3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled:  for the LORD
 hath spoken this word.
24:4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and
 fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they
 have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting
 covenant.
24:6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell
 therein are desolate:  therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned,
 and few men left.
24:7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do
 sigh.
24:8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth,
 the joy of the harp ceaseth.
24:9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to
 them that drink it.
24:10 The city of confusion is broken down:  every house is shut up, that no
 man may come in.
24:11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the
 mirth of the land is gone.
24:12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with
 destruction.
24:13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people,
 there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning
 grapes when the vintage is done.
24:14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the
 LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
24:15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the
 LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
24:16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory
 to the righteous.  But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me!  the
 treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers
 have dealt very treacherously.
24:17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the
 earth.
24:18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the
 fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the
 pit shall be taken in the snare:  for the windows from on high are open,
 and the foundations of the earth do shake.
24:19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the
 earth is moved exceedingly.
24:20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed
 like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and
 it shall fall, and not rise again.
24:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish
 the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth
 upon the earth.
24:22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in
 the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they
 be visited.
24:23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD
 of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his
 ancients gloriously.

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25:1 O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name;
 for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are
 faithfulness and truth.
25:2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin:  a
 palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
25:3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the
 terrible nations shall fear thee.
25:4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in
 his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the
 blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
25:5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry
 place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud:  the branch of the
 terrible ones shall be brought low.
25:6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a
 feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of
 marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
25:7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over
 all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
25:8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away
 tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away
 from off all the earth:  for the LORD hath spoken it.
25:9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited
 for him, and he will save us:  this is the LORD; we have waited for him,
 we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
25:10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall
 be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
25:11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that
 swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim:  and he shall bring down
 their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
25:12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down,
 lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

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26:1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a
 strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
26:2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth
 may enter in.
26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on
 thee:  because he trusteth in thee.
26:4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever:  for in the LORD JEHOVAH is
 everlasting strength:
26:5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth
 it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to
 the dust.
26:6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the
 steps of the needy.
26:7 The way of the just is uprightness:  thou, most upright, dost weigh
 the path of the just.
26:8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the
 desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
26:9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit
 within me will I seek thee early:  for when thy judgments are in the
 earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
26:10 Let favour be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn
 righteousness:  in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will
 not behold the majesty of the LORD.
26:11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see:  but they
 shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of
 thine enemies shall devour them.
26:12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us:  for thou also hast wrought all
 our works in us.
26:13 O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: 
 but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
26:14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall
 not rise:  therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all
 their memory to perish.
26:15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the
 nation:  thou art glorified:  thou hadst removed it far unto all the
 ends of the earth.
26:16 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer
 when thy chastening was upon them.
26:17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her
 delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy
 sight, O LORD.
26:18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were
 brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth;
 neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
26:19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they
 arise.  Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust:  for thy dew is as the dew
 of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
26:20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors
 about thee:  hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the
 indignation be overpast.
26:21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the
 inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:  the earth also shall disclose
 her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

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27:1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall
 punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent;
 and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
27:2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
27:3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment:  lest any hurt
 it, I will keep it night and day.
27:4 Fury is not in me:  who would set the briers and thorns against me
 in battle?  I would go through them, I would burn them together.
27:5 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me;
 and he shall make peace with me.
27:6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root:  Israel shall
 blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
27:7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him?  or is he
 slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
27:8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it:  he
 stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
27:9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is
 all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the
 altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall
 not stand up.
27:10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation
 forsaken, and left like a wilderness:  there shall the calf feed, and there
 shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
27:11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off:  the
 women come, and set them on fire:  for it is a people of no
 understanding:  therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them,
 and he that formed them will show them no favour.
27:12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off
 from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be
 gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
27:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall
 be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of
 Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD
 in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

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28:1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious
 beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of
 them that are overcome with wine!
28:2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of
 hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing,
 shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
28:3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under
 feet:
28:4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley,
 shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which
 when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth
 it up.
28:5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a
 diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
28:6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for
 strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
28:7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out
 of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink,
 they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong
 drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
28:8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is
 no place clean.
28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge?  and whom shall he make to understand
 doctrine?  them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the
 breasts.
28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon
 line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this
 people.
28:12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary
 to rest; and this is the refreshing:  yet they would not hear.
28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept
 upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a
 little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared,
 and taken.
28:14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this
 people which is in Jerusalem.
28:15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with
 hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through,
 it shall not come unto us:  for we have made lies our refuge, and under
 falsehood have we hid ourselves:
28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a
 foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure
 foundation:  he that believeth shall not make haste.
28:17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the
 plummet:  and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters
 shall overflow the hiding place.
28:18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement
 with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through,
 then ye shall be trodden down by it.
28:19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you:  for morning by
 morning shall it pass over, by day and by night:  and it shall be a
 vexation only to understand the report.
28:20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: 
 and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
28:21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as
 in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and
 bring to pass his act, his strange act.
28:22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong:  for
 I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon
 the whole earth.
28:23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
28:24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow?  doth he open and break the
 clods of his ground?
28:25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the
 fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the
 appointed barley and the rie in their place?
28:26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
28:27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither
 is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten
 out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
28:28 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor
 break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
28:29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in
 counsel, and excellent in working.